Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana., 7574,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 20, 1992 - November 20, 1992

Page Size: 330 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA	A printed questionnaire sent to Rossetti in April 1881 requesting information about herself for a German biographical dictionary of contemporary literature (Biographisches Lexikon der zeitgenossischen Litterature) filled out and signed in full by her, one			USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,650.00
102	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Poems.	London	1870	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
103	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Poems ... With a Memoir of the Author by Franz Hüffer.	Leipzig	1873	USD 600.00 - 800.00	495.00
104	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him ... A Collection of Lyrics			USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
105	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. CAINE, T. HALL	Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.			USD 400.00 - 600.00	495.00
106	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL; ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL, editor	Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family Letters. With a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti.	London	1895	USD 400.00 - 600.00	440.00
107	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL; DOUGHTY, OSWALD	A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.	London	1949	USD 250.00 - 350.00	275.00
108	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Drawing, "The Squires bringing to Ivanhoe the arms of the vanquished knights," pen and ink on wove paper, inscribed on verso in pencil in William Michael Rossetti's hand "By Gabriel c. 1839" and titled			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
109	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Autograph letter signed ("D G Rossetti") to Mrs. Aglaia Coronio	London	ca. April 1870	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
110	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Autograph letter signed ("D G Rossetti") TO THE POET PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	990.00
111	RUSKIN, JOHN	Modern Painters ... A New Edition.	London	1873	USD 350.00 - 450.00	440.00
112	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Art of England.	Orpington	1883-1884	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
113	RUSKIN, JOHN	Pre-Raphaelitism, 1851, light blue-green printed wrappers, most of spine worn away, doth slipcase.			USD 500.00 - 700.00	880.00
114	RUSKIN, JOHN	Two autograph letters signed ("J Ruskin") to the poet Roden Noel	Brantwood	15 February 1873 and n.d.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	715.00
115	RUSKIN, JOHN	Autograph manuscript of a fragment of Ariadne Florentina.	N.p.	1876	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
116	RUSKIN, JOHN	Twenty-seven autograph letters signed to Katie Winifred Macdonald Goring in Bedford Park,	Coniston, and London	22 January 1885-16 February 1888	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,400.00
117	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED	Autograph manuscript of a fox-hunting diary kept from 20 September to 24 November 1916 during hunting in country around Peterborough and Ringmer.			USD 400.00 - 600.00	770.00
118	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED	A group of 10 autograph manuscript (9) and typescript (1) notes for poetry lectures and readings in America, c. 1920			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
119	SASSOON, SIEGFRIED	Autograph manuscript of the essay "What Hope for Poetry?", n.p., n.d. [c. 1935]			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	715.00
120	STEPHENS, FREDERIC GEORGE	Autograph manuscript signed of the essay (written in the form of a letter) attacking William Holman Hunt's autobiography	London	1905-1906	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
121	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Poems and Ballads.	London	1866	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
122	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Studies in Song.	London	1880	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
123	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Love's Cross-Currents.	London	1905	USD 500.00 - 700.00	385.00
124	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Autograph letter signed ("AC Swinburne") TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON ("My Dear Watts")			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,650.00
125	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Autograph letter signed ("A C Swinburne") TO OSCAR WILDE ("My dear Sir")	London	23 July 1881	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,100.00
126	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	Autograph letter signed ("AC Swinburne") TO MARC-ANDRÉ RAFFALOVICH, The Pines, Putney	London	4 June 1883	USD 350.00 - 450.00	528.00
127	SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES	One autograph letter signed to Canon Richard Watson Dixon, poet and Pre-Raphaelite associate, and one autograph letter signed (both signed "A C Swinburne") to his widow Mrs. Dixon	London	25 August 1891 and 16 November 1905	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
128	SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON	In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Pieces.	London, New York	1893	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
129	SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON; THEOCRITUS	Bucolicorum Graecorum ... Reliquiae Accedentibus Incertorum Idyllis.	Leipzig	1856	USD 700.00 - 900.00	660.00
130	SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON; LUCRETIUS	De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. With a Translation and Notes.	Cambridge	1864	USD 400.00 - 600.00	330.00
131	SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON	Autograph manuscript of the poem (or translation of a poem) "Kennt Ihr das Land ... No. 60," n.p., n.d., one page, 4to, in ink with two revisions on lined paper			USD 600.00 - 800.00	660.00
132	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	Two autograph letters signed ("A. Tennyson" and "Tennyson") to the poet Roden Noel			USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
133	THOMPSON, FRANCIS	Autograph letter signed ("F. Thompson") to Everard Meynell	London	11/Aug/1905	USD 700.00 - 900.00	605.00
134	THOMSON, JAMES B.V.	The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems.	London	1880	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,045.00
135	THOMSON, JAMES	Autograph manuscript of "Sonnets.	London	1881	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,870.00
136	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	The Small House at Allington.	London	1864	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
137	TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM; illustrator. CAMPBELL, THOMAS	The Poetical Works.	London	1837	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
138	COSTELLO, LOUISA STUART	The Rose Garden of Persia, 1845			USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	880.00
139	HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	A Record of the Black Prince.	London	1849	USD 500.00 - 700.00	825.00
140	HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	The Coinage of the British Empire.	London	1863	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
141	HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	Parables of Our Lord, 1847			USD 700.00 - 900.00	715.00
142	HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing, 1854			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	660.00
143	JONES, OWEN, designer and illuminator	BIBLE, English.	London	1849	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,650.00
144	JONES, OWEN; LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON	Ancient Spanish Ballads, 1841			USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
145	JONES, OWEN; GRAY, THOMAS	Gray's Elegy, 1846, 4to, original publisher's relievo binding of brown leather			USD 700.00 - 900.00	825.00
146	JONES, OWEN; MARY ANN BACON	Winged Thoughts, Longman 1851, 4to, original publisher's repoussé binding of brown leather			USD 500.00 - 700.00	385.00
147	SHAW, HENRY	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries.	London	1843	USD 500.00 - 700.00	440.00
148	WALPOLE, Sir HUGH	Autograph manuscript signed (twice) of the article "Why Write Novels?" [Keswick, May 1934].			USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
149	WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE	Aylwin.	London	1899	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	660.00
150	WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE	Aylwin, 1899, blue cloth, front cover lettered in red, spine gilt-lettered, t.e.g., others uncut, endpaper cracking at front inner hinge, half morocco open-face case, title in red and black			USD 250.00 - 350.00	165.00
151	WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE	Autograph letter signed to the poet Canon Richard Watson Dixon, 11 April 1884	Dixon	11 April 1884	USD 400.00 - 500.00	352.00
152	WAUGH, EVELYN	Rossetti. His Life and Works.			USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	770.00
153	WHISTLER, JAMES A. McNEILL	Whistler v. Ruskin. Art & Art Critics, London [1878]	London	1878	USD 400.00 - 500.00	550.00
154	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	A Letter to a Young Poet.	London	1932	USD 400.00 - 500.00	528.00
155	WOOLNER, THOMAS	My Beautiful Lady, 1863, cloth, cloth slipcase			USD 700.00 - 900.00	935.00
156	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	Letter signed ("Wm Wordsworth"), the text in the hand of his wife Mary, TO THE ARTIST BENJAMIN HAYDON, Rydal Mount, 25 June [postmarked 1838]			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,870.00
157	YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER	Typed letter signed ("W B Yeats") TO LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY, Dublin, 25 May 1924. 1 1/2 pages			USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
158	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	AMERICAN AUTHORS.	Concord	19 November 1856	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	660.00
159	BANISTER, JOHN	The workes of that famous Chyrurgian ... In five Bookes. London: Thomas Harper 1633.	London	1633	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	770.00
160		BIBLE, Latin. [with table of Gabriel Brunus].	Venice	8 May 1498	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
161		BIBLE, German. Biblia das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft Teutsch [translated by Martin Luther].	Frankfurt	1570	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,200.00
162	BIGELOW, JACOB	American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis.	Boston	1817-18-20	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
163	BULLEIN, WILLIAM	Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sickness, Soarenesse, and Woundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde.	London	1579	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	1,980.00
164	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE Mark Twain	Autograph letter signed ("Saml. L. Clemens") TO THE ARTIST, THOMAS NAST	Hartford	17 December 1872	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
165	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Autograph letter signed ("Saml") to his wife Livy Clemens, "Over the Gemmi Pass [in the Bernese Alps]			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,650.00
166	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Autograph manuscript signed ("Mark Twain") of his poem "The Derelict."			USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
167	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Autograph letter to his wife Livy Clemens in Paris	New York	15 December 1893	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,420.00
168	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Cabinet photo inscribed and signed ("S.L. Clemens"), "At Sea," July 1896.			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,420.00
169	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Autograph letter signed ("S.L. Clemens") to Mrs. Anna Goodenough at the Alexandra Hotel	London; Highsmith House, Guildford, England	14 August, 1896	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,090.00
170	COLONNA, FRANCESCO	Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.	Venice	December 1499	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	59,400.00
171	COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE	Autograph letter signed ("J. Fenimore Cooper") to Matthew C. Patterson, "Hall, Cooperstown	New York	6July 1841	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	880.00
172	DARWIN, CHARLES	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.	London	1859	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	9,900.00
173	DEBRET, JEAN BAPTISTE	Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un Artiste Français au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 inclusivement.	Paris	1834-35-39	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	7,700.00
174	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	London	April 1836-November 1837	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
175	DICKINSON, EMILY	Poems, 1890; Poems ... Second Series, 1891, gray-green cloth, 1891 ownership inscription on endpaper; Poems ... Third Series, 1896, gray cloth, wove endpapers			USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	6,050.00
176	DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE, Lewis Carroll	Double-sided drawing signed, consisting of ink drawings in nine panels	n.p. [Guildford?]	n.d. [1871]	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	17,600.00
177	DOVES BINDERY. KELMSCOTT PRESS. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Poems chosen out of the works (edited by F.S. Ellis).		1896	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	5,280.00
178	DOVES PRESS; WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	A Decade of Years. Poems ... 1798-1807			USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,100.00
179	DÜRER, ALBRECHT	Etliche underricht, zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken.	Nuremberg	October 1527	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	6,050.00
180	ELIOT, GEORGE Mary Ann Evans	The Spanish Gypsy.	Edinburgh and London	1868	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	9,350.00
181	EVELYN, JOHN	Fumifugium: or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London dissipated.			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
182	FIELDING, HENRY	Autograph manuscript of legal notes detailing pleas applicable to cases of forcible entry [London, c. 1745?].			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,860.00
183	FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT	Tender Is the Night. New York: Scribner's 1934.			USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	6,600.00
184	GERARD, JOHN	The Herball or Generali Historie of Plants.	London	1597	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
185	HARVEY, WILLIAM	De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitado. Cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani ... et Jacobi Primirosii.	Leiden	1639	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	15,400.00
186	HOOKE, ROBERT	Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses.	London	1665	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,600.00
187	HUNTER, WILLIAM	Anatomia humani gravidi tabulis illustrata .... The Anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures. Birmingham: John Baskerville 1774.			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,750.00
188	JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS	[Epitome in Trogi Pompeii historias, Italian]. Justino vulgarizato.	Venice	[not before 12] September 1477	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	13,200.00
189	KEATS, JOHN	Endymion: A Poetic Romance.	London	1818	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,640.00
190	KELMSCOTT PRESS; KEATS, JOHN	The Poems (edited by F.S. Ellis).			USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,430.00
191		KELMSCOTT PRESS. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,760.00
192	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Typed letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling") to Earl M. Benson, a teacher at the English High School in Boston; Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, 20 February 1922			USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
193	LOCKE, JOHN	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding.	London	1690	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	4,180.00
194	MASEFIELD, JOHN	Salt-Water Ballads	London	1902	USD 500.00 - 700.00	385.00
195	MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT	Renascence and Other Poems.	New York	1917	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
196	MILNE, A. A.	When We Were Very Young, [1924]; Winme-the-Pooh, [1926]; Now We Are Six, [1927], SIGNED BY MILNE on the title-page; The House at Pooh Corner, [1928]; all London: Methuen, together 4 vols., 8vo, original cloth, t.e.g., each in dust jacket, half morocco sli			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	6,600.00
197	MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	Parnassus on Wheels.	Garden City	1917	USD 350.00 - 450.00	440.00
198	NEWTON, ISAAC	Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light.	London	1704	USD 4,500.00 - 6,500.00	8,250.00
199	PUCCINI, GIACOMO	Autograph letter signed ("G Puccini") to Sybil Seligman, Torre del Lago, Toscana, 1 October 1907.	Toscana	1-Oct-07	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,100.00
200	ROESSLIN, EUCHARIUS	The birth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke.	London	(1565) [1572?]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,200.00

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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.

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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.
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.