Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts. From the Estate of JOHN F. FLEMING., 18Nov1988,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 1988 - November 18, 1988

Page Size: 373 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	DE LA MARE, WALTER	Henry Brocken	London	1904	USD 250.00 - 350.00	88.00
102	DE LA MONCE, FERDINAND PIERRE JOSEPH	French School.		1678-1753	USD 400.00 - 600.00	3,300.00
103	DEROME LE JEUNE, binder. BOILEAUX-DESPRÉAUX, NICOLAS	Poésies	Paris	1781	USD 600.00 - 800.00	825.00
104	DEUTSCH, BABETTE	Banners	New York	1919	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	880.00
105	DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL	The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography	London	1817	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,870.00
106	DICKENS, CHARLES	Autograph letter signed ("CD") to his close friend and solicitor Thomas Mitton	n.p.	24 February 1847	USD 350.00 - 450.00	605.00
107	DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE, "Lewis Carroll"	Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Original MS. Book afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 194. Laid in is a copy of The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case	London, Oxford	1886, 1890	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,750.00
108	DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE, "Lewis Carroll"	The Game of Logic	London	1887	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	6,600.00
109	DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE, "Lewis Carroll"	The Game of Logic	London	1887	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,870.00
110	DODYPOLL, Doctor	The Wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll. As it hath bene sundrie times Acted by the Children of Powles	London	1600	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	8,250.00
111	MILLER, LUCILLE V.	DOHENY LIBRARY CATALOGUE., Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Estelle Doheny Collection	Los Angeles	1940-46-55	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,430.00
112	DONNE, JOHN	Juvenilia: or certaine Paradoxes and Problemes	London	1633	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,100.00
113	DONNE, JOHN, owner. VICTORELLI, ANDREA	De Angelorum custodia Lib. II. In quorum altera Angelorum ministeria, ex Sacris Litteris recensenteur	Padua	1605	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,400.00
114	DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.	Travels in Arabia Deserta	Cambridge	1888	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,280.00
115	DRYDEN, JOHN; Mr. Dreyden	The Epilogue., Spoke before His Majesty at Oxford, March 19, 1680	London	1680	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,080.00
116	DU BARTAS, GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE; Joshuah Sylvester	Du Bartas His Divine Weeks and Workes Translated ...	London	1611	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,320.00
117	DU MAURIER, GEORGE	Trilby	London	1894	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,320.00
118	EDWARDS, RICHARD	[The Paradyse of Daynty Devises, (R. Jones for ?) Henry Disle 1578], a22-leaf fragment containing CI-HI and H4 only			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,100.00
119	EDWARDS, RICHARD	The Paradice of Daintie Devises. Contayning many pithy precepts, learned Counsayles and excellent inventions: right pleasant and profitable for all estates	London	1600	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	3,300.00
120	EINSTEIN, ALBERT	Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relitivitäts-theorie [offprint from Annalen der Physik, vol. 49]	Leipzig	1916	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	15,400.00
121	EINSTEIN, ALBERT; MANN, THOMAS	Typed manuscript signed, the text of his Preface furnished for a charity auction to benefit European refugees, Two typed letters signed to Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach	n.p., Princeton, New York	n.d., 1938, 6 November and 1 December 1938, 1938	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,500.00
122	ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS	Ezra Pound: His Metric and His Poetry	New York	1917	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,320.00
123	ELIOT, T. S.	The Waste Land	New York	1922	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	6,930.00
124	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Essays: First Series.	Boston	1847	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,950.00
125	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Essays: Second Series	Boston	1844	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,420.00
126	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Nature; Addresses, and Lectures	Boston	1849	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	3,300.00
127		ENGLISH LANDSCAPES. Views in England and Wales, English School		c. 1830	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
128	EUCLID	The Elements of Geometrie	London	1570	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,750.00
129	EURIPIDES	Greek Title: Tragoediae ... Fragmenta ... Epistolae V... Opera & studio Josuae Barnes	Cambridge	1694	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	990.00
130	FENTON, Sir GEOFFREY	Golden Epistles, contayning varietie of discourse, both Morall, Philosophicall, and Divine: gathered as wel out of the remaynder of Gueuaraes woorkes, as other Authours, Latine, French and Italian	London	1582	USD 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
131	FILLMORE, MILLARD	Constitution of the United States of America ... With the Amendments Thereto: To Which are Added Standing Rules and Orders for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the United States and the Rules of the Senate. Printed for the Use of the	Washington	1852	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	4,180.00
132	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	All the Sad Young Men	New York	1926	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,430.00
133	FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	Madame Bovary. (Moeurs de Province)	Paris	1857	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,650.00
134	ROGERS, SAMUEL	FORE-EDGE PAINTING., Poems	London	1812	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
135	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, printer. ANDERSON, JAMES	The Constitutions of the Free-Masons. Containing the History, Charges, Regulations, etc. of that most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. London Printed; Anno 5723. Reprinted in Philadelphia ... for the Use of the Brethren		1734	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,180.00
136	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, printer	An Act for Granting the Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds to the King's Use; and for Striking Fifty-Five thousand Pounds thereof in Bills of Credit; and to provide a Fund for Sinking the same.	Philadelphia	1755	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,980.00
137		FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR., A Scheme To Drive the French Out of All the Continent of America	London	1754	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,210.00
138	FROST, ROBERT	A Boy's Will	New York	1915	USD 350.00 - 450.00	935.00
139	FROST, ROBERT	North of Boston	London	1914	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,400.00
140	FROST, ROBERT	North of Boston	London	1914	USD 500.00 - 700.00	825.00
141	FROST, ROBERT	Autograph manuscripts of two unpublished poems	Cambridge, Mass.	11 November 1957	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
142	GALILEI, GALILEO	Dialogo ... sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano	Florence, Naples	1710	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,850.00
143	GALSWORTHY, JOHN; John Sinjohn	A Man of Devon.	Edinburgh	1901	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
144	GALSWORTHY, JOHN	A Sheaf	London	1916	USD 600.00 - 800.00	715.00
145	GARNETT, DAVID	Corrected proof sheets for the first edition of Lady into Fox	London	1922	USD 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
146	GARRICK, DAVID. JONSON, BEN	Every Man in His Humour. A Comedy ... With Alterations and Additions.	London	1755	USD 350.00 - 450.00	462.00
147	GEORGE III	King of England. Personal pocket notebook with autograph notations	n.p.	n.d., mid-1760's	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,760.00
148	GEORGIA. STEPHENS, THOMAS	A Brief Account of the Causes That have retarded the Progress of the Colony of Georgia, in America; Attested upon Oath	London	1743	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
149	GEORGIA. WHITEFIELD, GEORGE	A Continuation of the Account of the Orphan-House in Georgia, From January 1740/1, to January 1743/4. To which is prefixed The Preface to the former Account, and A Plan of the Building	London	1743	USD 400.00 - 600.00	990.00
150	GERSON, JOHANNES	Collectorium super Magnificat	Esslingen	1473	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	16,500.00
151	GIDE, ANDRÉ	Paludes	Paris	1895	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,980.00
152	GILBERT, WILLIAM	De Magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de Magno Magnete tellure; physiologia nova, plurimus & argumentis & experimentis demonstrata	London	1600	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	49,500.00
153	GOAD, THOMAS	The Dolefull Even-Song, or a true, particular and impartiall narration of that fearfull and sudden calamity, which befell the Preacher Mr. Drury a Iesuite, and the greater part of his Auditory by the downefall of the floore at an assembly in the Black-Fri	London	1623	USD 250.00 - 350.00	132.00
154	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale	Salisbury	1766	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,420.00
155	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Life of Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke	London	1770	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
156	GOODWIN, GEORGE	Melissa Religionis Pontificiae	London	1620	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,045.00
157	GOUNOD, CHARLES	Autograph manuscript signed ("Ch. Gounod") of his "Hymne à Pie IX," in a reduction for piano four hands	n.p.	n.d.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,400.00
158	GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE	The Leavenworth Case. A Lawyer's Story			Not Available	935.00
159	GRIENDEL VON ACH, JOHANN FRANZ	Micrographia Nova, oder neucurieuse Beschreibung verschiedener kleiner Körper	Nuremberg	1687	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,650.00
160	Robert Barker	GROLIER CLUB. A Decree of Star Chamber concerning Printing. Made July 11, 1637.	New York	1884	USD 300.00 - 400.00	418.00
161		GROLIER CLUB. Grolier 75. A Biographical Retrospective to Celebrate the Seventy-Fifth Anniverary of the Grolier Club in New York	New York	1959	USD 400.00 - 500.00	825.00
162	BIBLE	THE GUTENBERG BIBLE. Latin.	Mainz	1455	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	14,300.00
163	HAMER, WOLFGANG	St. Minus (Schreiber 1632)			USD 700.00 - 900.00	990.00
164	HARDING, WARREN, G., President. HEWLETT, MAURICE	Halfway House, A Comedy of Degrees	New York	1908	USD 300.00 - 500.00	770.00
165	HARDY, THOMAS	Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses	London	1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
166	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Liberty Tree: with the Last Words of Grandfather's Chair	Boston	1841	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,400.00
167	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Celestial Rail-Road	Boston	1843	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,080.00
168	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Autograph manuscript essay entitled "Outside Glimpses of English Poverty,"	n.p.	n.d., before July 1863	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	26,400.00
169	HEDOUIN, EDMOND	Dessins Originaux de Edmund Hedouin pour le Theatre de Molière	Paris	1878-88, 1820-1889	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	5,280.00
170	HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST	A Book of Verses	London	1888	USD 250.00 - 350.00	121.00
171	HERODOTUS	Historiarum Lib[ri] IX, Musarum Nominibus Inscripti Eiusdem Narratio de vita Homeri	Geneva	1592	USD 600.00 - 800.00	825.00
172	HERRICK, ROBERT	Hesperides: or, the Works both Humane & Divine....	London	1648	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,620.00
173	HERRICK, ROBERT	Hesperides	London	1648	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,400.00
174	HEYWOOD, THOMAS	ruvaixeîov: or Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women	London	1624	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,320.00
175	HIEROCLES	In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum	Padua	17 April 1474	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	7,150.00
176	HOBBES, THOMAS, owner. EARLE, JOHN, Bishop	Micro-cosmographie. Or, a peece of the world discovered in Essays and Characters	London	1630	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,300.00
177	HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL; LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH	Songs of Many Seasons., The Estray: a Collection of Poems		1862-1874, 1875, 1847	USD 300.00 - 400.00	715.00
178	HOOD, THOMAS	Two autograph manuscripts and one autograph letter signed, as follows: Autograph Letter signed ("T.Hood"), to the publisher R. Ackermann		n.d.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	880.00
179	HOOPER, WILLIAM	Autograph letter signed to Joseph Hewes ("My dear friend") in Philadelphia	Halifax, North Carolina	17 April 1776	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	17,600.00
180	HOUGHTON SHAHNAMEH. DICKSON, MARTIN BERNARD and STUART CARY WELCH	The Houghton Shahnameh	Cambridge and London	by Harvard University Press, 1981	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
181	HOUSMAN, A. E.	Last Poems	London	1922	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	5,500.00
182	HOUSMAN, A. E.	Autograph manuscript of the poem "A Ballad of a Widower,"	n.p.	n.d., 1884 or slightly later	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,400.00
183	HOUSMAN, A. E.	Autograph manuscript of the poem "Amphisbaena or The Limits of Human Knowledge,"	n.p.	n.d., c. 1906	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,520.00
184	HUCHET DE LA BÉDOYÈRE, NOEL FRANÇOIS HENRI DE, Comte	Journal d'un Voyage en Savoie et dans le Midi de la France en 1804 et 1805	Paris	1849	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,760.00
185	HUNT, LEIGH	The Story of Rimini, a poem	London	1816	USD 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
186	HUNT, LEIGH. BEVAN, EDWARD	The Honey-Bee; Its Natural History, Physiology and Managment	London	1827	USD 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
187	ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER	Mr. Norris Changes Trains, New Edition	London	1937	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,750.00
188	ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER	Lions and Shadows. An Education in the Twenties	London	1938	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,760.00
189	JACOBUS DE VORAGINE	The Golden Legend	Westminster	8 January 1498	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,750.00
190	JAMES I.	King of England. A Publication of His Ma[jes]ties Edict against Private Combats and Combatants	London	1613	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,760.00
191	JAMES I.	King of England. Document granting a baronetcy to Thomas Bishop	Westminster	24 May, 1620	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	440.00
192	JAMES, WILL	Sand	New York	1929	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,430.00
193	JAY, JOHN	Autograph draft of a letter to the Mayor, Aldermen and Community of the City of Albany	n.p.	n.d., 1801	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
194	JAY, JOHN	Ten autograph draft letters or memoranda and one letter signed to various officials of the American Bible Society (S. S. Woodhull, Secretary for Domestic Correspondence and Col. Richard Varick, Vice-President)	New York, Bedford and other places	various dates from 17 December 1821 to 18 March 1826	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	3,520.00
195	JEFFERS, ROBINSON	Flagons and Apples	Los Angeles	1912	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
196	JEFFERSON, THOMAS. TRUMBALL, JOHN	McFingal: A Modern Epic Poem in, Four Cantos	Hartford	1782	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	4,620.00
197	JUVENAL, DECIMUS JUNIUS and PERSIUS FLACCUS	Satyrae	Ferrara	1474	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	715.00
198	KEATS, JOHN	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems	London	1820	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	16,500.00
199	KEATS, JOHN	Endymion: A Poetic Romance	London	1818	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	14,300.00
200	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR; F. S. Ellis	KELMSCOTT PRESS., Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.	Hammersmith	1896	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	6,050.00

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