Christies: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, including illustrated books and bindings. FIRST SESSION, 5101,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 20, 1981 - November 20, 1981
Page Size: 635 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
601 WILDE, O. Salome. A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde London, Boston

USD 250.00 - 300.00 320.00
602 WILSON, WOODROW Original rough draft of his contract with Harper & Brothers for the publication of A Short History of the United States, printed document

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,500.00
603 WIMMER, G.A., editor Das pittoreske Oesterreich, oder Album der österreichischen Monarchie Vienna

1840-46

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 750.00
604 WINKLES, B. and R. GARLAND French Cathedrals... from drawings taken on the spot... with an Historical and Descriptive Account London

1837, engraved title: 1836

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 30.00
605 WISE, THOMAS J.; STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS; T.J. WISE FORGERY Ticonderoga Edinburgh

1887

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 320.00
606 WISE, T.J.; OMAR KHAYYAM Rubáiyát... Translated into English Verse London, Paris and Hampstead

January 1887, January 3 & May 1, 1909

 USD 700.00 - 900.00 650.00
607 WISE, T.J.; RUSKIN, JOHN Letters upon Subjects of General Interest... to Various Correspondents London

1893

 USD 600.00 - 700.00 550.00
608 WISTER, OWEN The Virginian New York

1911

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 850.00
609 LENGLET DUFRESNOY, Abbé Traité historique et dogmatique surles apparitions, les visions et les revelations Paris

1751

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 250.00
610 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, The Prelude

1820, 1850

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
611 WORDSWORTH, W. Autograph letter signed to John Taylor, editor of The Sun, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, May 27 n.y.

Spring 1807

 USD 200.00 - 250.00 300.00
612 WRIGHT, JOHN MICHAEL An Account of his Excellence Roger Earl of Castlemaine's Embassy... to His Holiness Innocent XI London

1688

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
613 Aubrey Beardsley and others Yellow Book, The London

1894-97

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 100.00
614 ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W. The Art of Bookbinding London

1880

 USD 80.00 - 100.00 120.00
615 ALEXANDER VII, Pope, owner; LUBIN, AUGUSTINUS Martyrologium Romanum Paris

1661

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 180.00
616 ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup New York

1899

 USD 350.00 - 450.00 320.00
617 ANDREWS, W.L. CLUB BINDERY., A Stray Leaf from the Correspondence of Washington Irving and Charles Dickens New York

1894

 USD 350.00 - 450.00 900.00
618 COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, binder; MORRIS, WILLIAM An Address Delivered at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, Art and the Beauty of the Earth

1894, 1898

 USD 800.00 - 900.00 1,700.00
619 COLBERT FAMILY, owner; MÉZERAY, FRANÇOIS DE Abrégé chronologique... de l'histoire de France. Paris

1667

 USD 350.00 - 450.00 220.00
620 CRETTÉ, GEORGES, binder; MAILLOL, ARISTIDE, illustrator; OVID L'Art d'Aimer Lausanne

1935

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 7,500.00
621 CREUZEVAULT, HENRI, binder; SILVESTRE DE SACY, SAMUEL Dix Legendes en Marge du Livre. Eaux-fortes de Jean Bruller Paris

1930

 USD 400.00 - 500.00 300.00
622 DE SAUTY, ALFRED, binder; GOLDSMITH, O.; HERRICK, ROBERT The Vicar of Wakefield, Chrysomela London

1903, 1880

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 420.00
623 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM The Sonnets... Collected in One Volume, with a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published London

1838

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 2,800.00
624 TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord Maud, and Other Poems London

1855

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 1,800.00
625 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA Goblin Market London

1893

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 1,600.00
626 RUSKIN, JOHN "Unto This Last:" Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy London

1862

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 2,200.00
627 RUSKIN, JOHN Studies in Both Arts Orpington and London

1895

 USD 450.00 - 550.00 1,000.00
628 GOSDEN, THOMAS, binder and illustrator; WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation... with The Lives of the Authors... London

1808

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 15,000.00
629 GRUEL, LEON, binder; LEVIS, H.C. Baziliaologia. A Book of Kings New York

1913

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,500.00
630 LEWIS, CHARLES; MOORE, THOMAS; ZAEHNSDORF, BINDERS; TENNYSON, A.; RINGER, BINDER; SWIFT, J.; IRVING, WASHINGTON AND F.W. FAIRHOLT Lalla Rookh, Lord. Poems London's, New York

1838, 1857, 1882, 1877

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
631 PICQUES, CLAUDE, DE, binder; NESTOR, JEAN Histoire des Hommes Illustres de la Maison de Medici, avec un abbrege des comtes de Boulogne et d'Auvergne Paris

1564

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 8,500.00
632 POMPADOUR, MARQUISE DE, owner; MÉNARD, LÉON Histoire civile, ecclesiastique et litteraire de la ville de Nismes... Tome premier [-cinquieme] Paris

1750-54

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,300.00
633 RIVIERE, binders; GOLDSMITH, OLIVER The Vicar of Wakefield London

1843

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 150.00
634 RIVIERE & SON, binders; DAWE, GEORGE The Life of George Morland London

1904

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 12,000.00
635 ZAEHNSDORF, binders; TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord Vivien n.p.

d. 1913

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 4,200.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.