Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts including an important Manuscript Map of Southeastern North America, 1721., 07Apr1978,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 07, 1978 - April 07, 1978
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | BECKER, C. and J. VON HEFNER | Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance | Frankfurt am Main | 1852-57-63 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 330.00 |
| 301 | NORTH, Hon. ROGER | A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds | London | 1832-1835 |
USD 350.00 - 400.00 | 825.00 |
| 302 | BENNETT, GEORGE W. | An Illustrated History of British Guiana | Georgetown | 1866 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 220.00 |
| 303 | COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR, CHARLES LAMB and CHARLES LLOYD | Poems | Bristol and London | 1797 |
USD 900.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 304 | Federaliste, Le... par MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay [sic] | Paris | 1792 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 305 | FUST and SCHOEFFER, printers | Der Mainzer Psalter von 1457 | Zurich | 1969 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 306 | GEISBERG, MAX | Woodcuts from Books of the 16th Century | Olten | 1937 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 307 | GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer | Biblia Latina | Leipzig | 1450-1455, 1913-14 |
USD 3,250.00 - 3,750.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 308 | HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS | [Opera] | Birmingham | 1762 i.e. 1777 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 309 | HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS | Carmina Alcaica | London, Chelsea | 1903 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,080.00 |
| 310 | LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE | Fables Choisies | [Paris:] | 1776 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 311 | LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE | The Fables... Monograph by Frances J. Brewer With a Leaf from the Memorial Edition of the Fables Choisies, illustrated by... Oudry 1755-59 | Los Angeles | 1964 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 312 | LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, FRIEDRICH, Baron de | Dramatische Dichtungen für Deutsche | Berlin | 1813 |
USD 125.00 - 150.00 | 132.00 |
| 313 | SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES | Letters from... to Frederick Locker Lampson and other correspondents | London | 1912 |
USD 65.00 - 90.00 | 88.00 |
| 314 | TSCUDI, JOHANN JAKOB VON | Therologie [i.e. Part I of Untersuchungen über die Fauna Peruana] | n.p. | 1844 |
USD 650.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 315 | WHITMAN, WALT | Leaves of Grass | Brooklyn, New York | 1855 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,640.00 |
| 316 | APOLLONIUS OF TYRE. | London | 1956 |
USD 60.00 - 85.00 | 165.00 | |
| 317 | BEAUMONT, FRANCIS | Salmacis and Hermaphrodite | London | 1951 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | 264.00 |
| 318 | KEATS, JOHN | Endymion | London | 1947 |
USD 100.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 319 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | A Prose Translation with an Introductory Essay by Gwyn Jones | London | 1952 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 396.00 |
| 320 | Paul Turner | XENOPHON. The Ephesian Story. | London | 1957 |
USD 40.00 - 50.00 | 55.00 |
| 321 | POUND EZRA | A Lume Spento | Venice | 1908 |
USD 11,000.00 - 14,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 322 | CATHER, WILLA | April Twilights | Boston | 1903 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 462.00 |
| 323 | CATHER, WILLA | Youth and the Bright Medusa, A Lost Lady, Obsure Destinies, Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira and the Slave Girl | New York | 1920, 1920, 1923, 1932, 1935, 1940 |
USD 100.00 - 120.00 | 99.00 |
| 324 | HEMINGWAY, ERNEST | in our time | Paris | 1924 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | 528.00 |
| 325 | KENNEDY, JOHN F. | As We Remember Joe | Cambridge | 1945 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | 462.00 |
| 326 | ELIOT, T. S. | Prufrock and Other Observations | London | 1917 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 |
| 327 | LAWRENCE, T. E. | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | 1925 |
USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 328 | PALMER, SAMUEL | Samuel Palmer's Sketch-Book. | Paris | 1962 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 329 | C. H. St. John Hornby | ASHENDENE PRESS. A Descriptive Bibliography | Chelsea | 1935 |
USD 550.00 - 650.00 | 770.00 |
| 330 | ASTLE, THOMAS | The Origin and Progress of Writing | London | 1803 |
USD 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 331 | COOK, Capt. JAMES | The Three Voyages | London | 1821 |
USD 80.00 - 100.00 | 396.00 |
| 332 | HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS | Opera | Parma | 1793 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 198.00 |
| 333 | EDWARDS, JOHN | The British Herbal | London | 1770 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 334 | HAYES, WILLIAM | [A Natural History of British Birds], no title or prelims | [London] n.d. | early issue with plates dated 1766-1771 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,850.00 |
| 335 | LEGGE, Capt. W. VINCENT | A History of the Birds of Ceylon | London | 1880 -1881 |
USD 800.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 336 | McIAN, ROBERT RONALD and JAMES LOGAN | The Clans of the Scottish Highlands | London | 1845-1847 |
USD 850.00 - 1,250.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 337 | ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES | La Botanique | Paris | 1822 |
USD 1,400.00 - 1,650.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 338 | HOLBEIN, HANS | Imitations of Original Drawings... in the Collection of His Majesty... Published by John Chamberlaine | London | 1792 |
USD 2,250.00 - 2,750.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 339 | Journal des Dames et des Modes | Paris | 1 January--20 December 1913, nos. 22-57 |
USD 400.00 - 450.00 | 770.00 | |
| 340 | LEVAILLANT, FRANCOIS | Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets | Paris | 1801-1805 |
USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 19,800.00 |
| 341 | MARLET, JEAN HENRI | Tableaux de Paris | Paris, n.d. | USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 5,500.00 | |
| 342 | MILTON, JOHN | Le Paradis Perdu... en Anglais et en Français | Paris | 1792 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 343 | L'Office de la Semaine Sainte | Paris | 1727 |
USD 100.00 - 125.00 | 143.00 | |
| 344 | POGGI, MAURO | Alfabeto Di Lettere Iniziali inventate e delineate da Mauro Poggi Scrittor Fiorentino ed incise dall 'Abate Lorenzo Lorenzi | n.p. | n.d., Florence c. 1730 |
USD 750.00 - 850.00 | 1,045.00 |
| 345 | VRIES, JAN VREDEMAN DE | Perspective Cést a dire, le tresrenommé art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante,... | Leyden | 1604 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 |
| 346 | ALKEN, HENRY | Scraps from The Sketch-Book | London | 1821 |
USD 120.00 - 150.00 | 330.00 |
| 347 | DE GONCOURT, EDMOND and JULES | Renée Mauperin | Paris | 1884 |
USD 120.00 - 150.00 | 550.00 |
| 348 | DODGSON, Rev. C. L. Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Paris | 1930 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | 418.00 |
| 349 | MASSON, FREDERIC | Napoleon et les femmes | Paris | 1906 |
USD 100.00 - 125.00 | 99.00 |
| 350 | NAPOLEON I. | Medallic History of Napoleon... 1796-1815 [with Supplement] | London | 1819-21 |
USD 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 |
| 351 | Victoria History of the County of Suffolk | The, London | 1911-1907 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 33.00 | |
| 352 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES | The Birds of America. A selection of plates facsimile | Leipzig and London | 1972-1973 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 |
| 353 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES | The Birds of America, from drawings made in The United States and their Territories | New York | 1856-1857 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,060.00 |
| 354 | AUDUBON, J.J. and the Rev. J. BACHMAN | The Quadrupeds of North America | New York | 1856-54, n.d. |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 355 | BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIEN | American Ornithology... not given by Wilson | Philadelphia | 1825-1828 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 308.00 |
| 356 | CATESBY, MARK | The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands | London | 1731-1743 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 35,200.00 |
| 357 | EDWARDS, GEORGE | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Gleanings of Natural History | London | 1743-1751, 1758-1764 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 16,500.00 |
| 358 | GOULD, JOHN | The Birds of Europe | London | 1832-1837 |
USD 13,000.00 - 14,000.00 | 20,900.00 |
| 359 | GOULD, JOHN | A Monograph of The Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons | London | 1836-1838 |
USD 2,600.00 - 3,400.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 360 | GOULD, JOHN and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE | A Monograph of The Trochilidae or Family of Humming-Birds, with Supplement | London | 1849-1861, 1880-1887 |
USD 23,000.00 - 27,000.00 | 29,700.00 |
| 361 | GOULD, JOHN | The Birds of Great Britain | London | 1862-1873 |
USD 10,500.00 - 12,000.00 | 17,600.00 |
| 362 | GOULD, JOHN and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE | The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands | London | 1875-1888 |
USD 17,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 30,800.00 |
| 363 | ROWLEY, GEORGE DAWSON | Ornithological Miscellany | London | 1875-1876-1878 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,760.00 |
| 364 | SHAW, GEORGE, F.P., E. and R.P. NODDER | Vivarium Naturae or The Naturalist's Miscellany | London | 1789-1813 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 3,960.00 |
| 365 | SWEET, ROBERT | Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose | London | 1825-1830 |
USD 550.00 - 700.00 | 770.00 |
| 366 | WILSON, ALEXANDER | American Ornithology | New York and Philadelphia | 1828-1829 |
USD 550.00 - 650.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 367 | LEAR, EDWARD | Sketches. | n.p., or d. | USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,520.00 | |
| 368 | MUNNINGS, Sir ALFRED | An Artist's Life 1950; The Second Burst 1951; The Finish 1952 | London | USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | 2,200.00 | |
| 369 | MUNNINGS, Sir ALFRED | Old Brandy and Cherry Bounce. A Ballad of Exmoor | n.d. 1952 |
USD 80.00 - 100.00 | 46.20 | |
| 370 | MUNNINGS, Sir ALFRED | Ballads and Poems | London | 1957 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 176.00 |
| 371 | MUNNINGS, Lady VIOLET | Black Knight. The Diary of a Freeman | London | 1953 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 93.50 |
| 372 | NEILL, JOHN R. | Drinking the Health of Princess Ozma of Oz | Chicago | 1909 |
USD 300.00 - 350.00 | 330.00 |
| 373 | NEILL, JOHN R. | Nine illustrations from L. F. Baum. Tik-Tok of Oz | Chicago | 1914 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 374 | NEILL, JOHN R. | Six illustrations from L. F. Baum. Glenda of Oz | Chicago | 1920 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 374.00 |
| 375 | NEILL, JOHN R. | 48 illustrations from his book The Wonder City of Oz | Chicago | 1940 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,650.00 |
| 376 | MARTIN, DICK | Old Mombi, unpublished illustration from L. F. Baum. | Chicago | 1904 |
USD 50.00 - 100.00 | 33.00 |
| 377 | ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH | The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics | [London:] | 1809-1828 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 10,450.00 |
| 378 | BIRCH, WILLIAM | The Country Seats of the United States of North America | 1808 i.e. 1809 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,750.00 | |
| 379 | BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIEN | American Ornithology... Not given by Wilson | Philadelphia | 1825-1833 |
USD 850.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 380 | Description des Arts et Metiers | Paris | 1763-1779 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 9,900.00 | |
| 381 | WILSON, ALEXANDER | American Ornithology | Philadelphia | 1808-25 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 382 | FAY, THEODORE SEDGWICK | Views in New-York And its Environs | New York | 1831 -1834 |
USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
