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
301	RUSKIN, JOHN	Two Letters Concerning "Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds"	London	1890	USD 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
302	SAGAN, FRANÇOIS	Bonjour Tristesse	Paris	1954	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
303	SALOMON, BERNARD, illustrator. OVID	La vita et Metamorphoseo D'Ovidio [translated by Gabrielle Symeoni] ... Con altre Stanze spora gl' effeti della Luna: il Ritrato d'una Fontana d'Ouernia: & un' Apologia generale nella fine del libro	Lyons	1559	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	825.00
304	SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE, binders	A concealed bar-cabinet			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,750.00
305	SCHWERDT, C. F. G. R.	Hunting, Hawking, Shooting Illustrated in a Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings	London	1928-37	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,300.00
306	SCOTT, Sir WALTER. HEBER, REGINALD	Hymns, Written, or Selected for the Weekly Church Service of the Year ...	London	1828	USD 350.00 - 450.00	352.00
307	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	The Tragedie of King Richard the third an expert facsimile of the title-leaf only	London	1598	USD 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
308	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM and JOHN FLETCHER	The Two Noble Kinsmen	London	1634	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	13,200.00
309	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Mrs. Warren's Profession: a Play in Four acts	London	1902	USD 400.00 - 600.00	935.00
310	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Back to Methuselah	London	1921	USD 350.00 - 450.00	495.00
311	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Back to Methuselah	London	1922	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
312	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue	London	1924	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,760.00
313	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. PARTINGTON, WILFRED	Forging Ahead. The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise	New York	1939	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	7,150.00
314	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE	Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes	London	1813	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	12,100.00
315	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE	Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems	London	1816	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	18,700.00
316	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE	The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos	London	1818	USD 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
317	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE	The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem ... Now First Published	London	1832	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,210.00
318	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. PLAUTUS	Comoediae viginti	Lyons	1537	USD 700.00 - 900.00	935.00
319	SHERIDAN	Major General PHILIP. Military carbon dispatch signed ("P.H. Sheridan"), with autograph postscript signed a second time, to Major General Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac, Cav[al]ry Head Quarters	Jetersville	7 o'clock, 4 April 1865	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
320	SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY	The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed	London	1781	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,750.00
321	SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY	The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed	London	1781	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,200.00
322	SHERMAN, HENRY	Slavery in the United States of America; its National Recognition and Relations, from the Establishment of the Confederacy, to the Present Time. A Word to the North and the South, Hartford	Connecticut	1858	USD 400.00 - 600.00	462.00
323	SIMONETA, JOANNES	Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae	Milan	23 January 1482	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,950.00
324	SMOLLETT, TOBIAS	Plays and Poems ... with Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author	London	1777	USD 500.00 - 700.00	198.00
325	SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM	The Chase; a Poem	London	1802	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,210.00
326	STEINBECK, JOHN	Saint Katy the Virgin	New York	1936	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,980.00
327	STEINBECK, JOHN	Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.	Stockholm, New York	December 10, 1962, 1962	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,320.00
328	STEINBECK, JOHN	Autograph letter/essay on the Democratic Party, Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower, to "Dear Richey,"			USD 4,500.00 - 6,500.00	8,800.00
329	STEINBECK, JOHN	A group of three carbon typescripts (two with holograph corrections) and one carbon autograph section, all from his The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)		two dated 16 May and July 1959	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	7,700.00
330	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS; William A. Jackson	Cover title: The Pentland Rising. A Page of History., An Exhibition of Books Published When They Were 21 or Younger by One Hundred Authors Who Later Became Famous	Edinburgh, Cambridge	1866, 1666, 1961	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	3,300.00
331	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	A Sequel to "Kidnapped,"	London	1893	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	7,700.00
332	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Weir of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance	London	1896	USD 250.00 - 350.00	605.00
333	STEVENSON, ROBERTLOUIS; CUNNINGHAM, ALISON	The Master of Ballantrae, (Stevenson's nurse "Cummy" and the dedicatee of A Child's Garden of Verses). Autograph letter signed ("A. Cunningham") to "Dear Mr. Dick,"	London, n.p., Edinburgh	1889, 28 January 1895	USD 500.00 - 700.00	935.00
334	SUCKLING, Sir JOHN	Contemporary manuscript of his essay		c. 1640	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,210.00
335	SWIFT, Dean JONATHAN	Autograph letter signed ("Jonath: Swift") to the Vice-Provost of Trinity College	Dublin	12 December 1734	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	7,150.00
336	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	A Song of Italy	London	1867	USD 500.00 - 700.00	495.00
337	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, September 4th, 1870	London	1870	USD 400.00 - 600.00	220.00
338	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Songs Before Sunrise	London	1871	USD 500.00 - 700.00	715.00
339	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Studies in Song	London	1880	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,850.00
340	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Galley proofs and printed copies of seven poems (five with autograph manuscript corrections and revisions) for his first collected volume of verse, Poems and Ballads		1866	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,300.00
341	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Autograph manuscript, a portion of the poem "Quam Multum Amavit," from Songs Before Sunrise	n.p.	n.d., c. 1871	USD 600.00 - 800.00	495.00
342	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Autograph manuscript, a draft of the poem "An Autumn Vision,"	n.p.	dated 19 and 31 October 1889	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,400.00
343	SYMONS, ARTHUR	The Loom of Dreams	n.p.	1901	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
344	TATE, ALLEN	The Mediterranean and Other Poems	New York	1936	USD 700.00 - 900.00	880.00
345	TAVERNER, JOHN	Certaine Experiments concerning Fish and Fruite	London	1600	USD 600.00 - 700.00	1,870.00
346	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	Poems, MDCCCXXX. MDCCCXXXIII	n.p.	1862	USD 150.00 - 200.00	275.00
347	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	In Memoriam	London	1885	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,750.00
348		THEATRICAL PORTRAITS.		c. 1830	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,430.00
349	THOMAS A KEMPIS	De Imitatione Christi et de Contemptu Mundi in Vulgari sermone	Venice	23 November 1491	USD 400.00 - 500.00	1,045.00
350	THOMAS, EDWARD	Rose Acre Papers. Including Essays from "Horae Solitariae,"	London	1910	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
351	THOMAS, EDWARD	Poems	London	1917	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	3,080.00
352		TURKISH IMPRINT: AMERICANA., Tarih ül-Hind il-GarbI; el musemmá bi-Hadis-i nev [Turkish]	Constantinople	mid Ramazan 1142 H, 1730	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,970.00
353	VILVAIN, ROBERT	Enchiridium Epigrammatum Latino-Anglicum. An epitome of Essais, Englished out of Latin	London	1654	USD 300.00 - 500.00	154.00
354	VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE.	Candide, ou l'Optimisme. Traduit de L'allemand. De Mr. le Docteur Ralph	London	1759	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,320.00
355		The Valiant Scot	London	1637	USD 700.00 - 900.00	462.00
356	WALTON, IZAAK	The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert	London	1670	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,870.00
357	WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President	Autograph manuscript account of his early military career, entitled "Remarks,"	Mount Vernon	n.d., 1786-1789	USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	308,000.00
358	WASHINGTON, GEORGE. MARSHALL, JOHN	The Life of George Washington ... Compiled Under the Inspection of The Honourable Bushrod Washington, From Original Papers ...	Philadelphia	1804-1807	USD 600.00 - 800.00	2,090.00
359	WATTS, ISAAC	Horae Lyricae. Poems chiefly of the Lyric kind ... the third edition	London	1715	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
360	WAYNE. General "MAD", ANTHONY	Original letter books, partly autograph, partly secretarial, signed in many places containing his incoming and outgoing letters relating to his victorious Ohio Valley campaign against the hostile Indians	various places in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan territories	12 April 1792 to 4 October 1794 incoming and 4 June 1792 to 20 September 1794, outgoing	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	36,300.00
361	WESTMACOTT, CM.	Manuscript notebook containing (from ms cover label): "The three Royal Secretaries of George the Fourth....	n.p.	n.d.	USD 700.00 - 900.00	440.00
362	WESTMORLAND, MILDMAY FANE, Second Earl of.	Otia Sacra	London	1648	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,210.00
363	WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies	New York	1890	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,760.00
364	WHITE, GILBERT	A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History	London	1795	USD 250.00 - 350.00	165.00
365	WHITE, GILBERT	The Works, in Natural History ... Comprising The Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations ...	London	1802	USD 350.00 - 450.00	385.00
366	WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass. With Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads ..	Philadelphia	1889	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,430.00
367	WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF	Mogg Megone, a Poem, Poems	Boston, Philadelphia	1836, 1838	USD 250.00 - 350.00	418.00
368	WIDENER, PETER ARRELL BROWN and JOSEPH, collections	Pictures [-Tapestries] in the Collection of P. A. B. Widener [--Joseph Widener] at Lynnewood Hall	Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Philadelphia	1913-15-16-31-32	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,080.00
369	WIDENER, JOSEPH, collection	French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall	London	1923	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	4,400.00
370	WISE, THOMAS J. TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	Morte D'Arthur; Dora; and Other Idyls	London	1842	USD 250.00 - 350.00	935.00
371	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, A Poem	London	1814	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	6,050.00
372	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, With A Description of the Scenery, &c. For the Use of Tourists and Residents. Fifth Edition, With Considerable Additions	Kendal	1835	USD 700.00 - 900.00	3,300.00
373	WORTLEY, Sir FRANCIS	Characters and Elegies	London	1646	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	9,900.00

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