Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana, NY7332,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 22, 1999 - June 22, 1999
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 399 | Jarry, Alfred (Miro, illus.) | Ubu Roi. | Paris | 1966. |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 400 | Jarry, Alfred (Matta, illus.) | Ubu Roi: drame en cinq actes. | Paris | 1982 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 401 | Jarry, Alfred | A group of five titles of Ubu Roi | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 402 | Johnson, Samuel | A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. | London | 1755 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 11,500.00 |
| 403 | Körner, Theodor | Various | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 404 | (Kubrick, Stanley) Nikolai M. Gorchakov. | Stanislavsky Directs. | New York | 1954 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 405 | Latham, Simon | Various | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,587.00 | ||
| 406 | Louis XIV, King of France | Autograph letter signed | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 6,325.00 | ||
| 407 | Melville, Herman | Autograph letter signed | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 9,775.00 | ||
| 408 | Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. | New York, London | 1851 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 4,887.00 |
| 409 | Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Felix Autograph letter signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,610.00 | ||
| 410 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 411 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 412 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Two autograph letters signed | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 413 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Winnie the Pooh. Decorations by E. H. Shepard. | New York | 1926 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 4,025.00 |
| 414 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Now We are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. | London | (1927) |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 415 | Milne, Alan Alexander | The House at Pooh Corner. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. | New York | (1928) |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 416 | Milne, Alan Alexander | The House at Pooh Corner. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. | London | (1928) |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,162.00 |
| 417 | Milne, Alan Alexander | Toad of Toad Hall. | London | [1929] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 418 | Mitchell, Margaret | Typed letter signed | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 419 | Monro, Alexander | Observations on the Structure and Function of the Nervous System. | Edinburgh | 1783 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,737.00 |
| 420 | Monroe, Marilyn | Extraordinary autograph letter signed | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 421 | (Morgan, J. Pierpont, collection) | G. C. Williamson. Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan. | London | 1906-08 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 422 | Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia | Signature | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 690.00 | ||
| 423 | [Napoleonic court protocols] | Memoire soumis 1/2 Son Altesse le Prince President sur le Ceremonial du Palais en ce qui touche le Corps diplomatique, les Princes Etrangers voyageant en France, la remise de la Barrette aux Cardinaux, etc. etc. etc. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 424 | Nelson, Horatio Nelson Viscount | /book_records/1116028 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,450.00 | ||
| 425 | Nicholas II, as Czar of Russia | Partly printed document signed | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 426A | Perse, Saint-John | L'Ordre des oiseaux. | Paris | 1962 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 10,350.00 |
| 426 | Nightingale, Florence | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 427 | Philip II, King of Spain | [Letter patent of nobility.] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 428 | (Picasso, Pablo) | Various | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 429 | (Picasso, Pablo, illus.) | Dominguin, Luis Miguel. Toros y toreros. | Paris | (1961) |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 14,950.00 |
| 430 | Picasso, Pablo | 172 dessins en noir et en couleurs. | Paris | 1972 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 431 | [Porter, Cole] James Laver. | Nymph Errant. | London | (1932) |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 432 | Puccini, Giacomo | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 433 | Puccini, Giacomo | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 434 | Puccini, Giacomo | Autograph letter signed | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,300.00 | ||
| 435 | Puccini, Giacomo | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,300.00 | ||
| 436 | Puccini, Giacomo | Autograph letter signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 437 | Ricardo, David | On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation. | London | 1817 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 438 | [Roman law] | Corpus juris civilis romani, in quo Institutiones, Digesta ad Codicem florentinum emendata, Codex item et Novellae, nec non Justiniani Edicta, Leon’set aliorum imperatorum Novellae, Canones apostolorum, Feodorum libri O cum notis integris Dionysii Gothofr | [Basel] | 1781 |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 439 | Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | Autograph manuscript signed | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,887.00 | ||
| 440 | Salinger, J. D. | Extraordinary series of fourteen letters comprising five autograph letters signed | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | 156,500.00 | ||
| 441 | Schedel, Hartmann | Liber cronicarum cum figuris y ymaginibus. | Nuremberg | 12 July 1493 |
USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 | 40,250.00 |
| 442 | Shakespeare, William | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. | London | 1683 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 443 | Shelley, Percy Bysshe | The Poetical Works -- The Prose Works. Edited by Harry Buxton Forman. | London | 1876-1880 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 444 | Shepard, Ernest H. | Various | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 445 | Smith, Adam | The Theory of Moral Sentiments. | London | 1759 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 10,925.00 |
| 446 | Spenser, Edmund | Prothalamion, or A Spousall Verse O in Honour of the Double Mariage of the two Honourable & vertuous Ladies, the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katherine Somerset, Daughters to the Right Honourable the Earle of Worcester. | London | 1596 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 54,625.00 |
| 447 | Stalin, Josef, Soviet Premier as General Secretary of the Party Central Committee | Document signed | USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 448 | Strauss, Johann | Autograph musical quotation signed | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 449 | Struck, Hermann | Amerikanische Reisebilder: Vierundvierzig Lithographien. | Berlin | 1922. |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 450 | Thackeray, William Makepeace | A sketchbook of drawings 39 sheets | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 8,050.00 | ||
| 451 | (Theater) | An attractive group of works on theater (with a few on opera and the musical stage) | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,325.00 | ||
| 452 | Turberville, George | Various | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,162.00 | ||
| 453 | (Twentieth-Century Literature) | Group of works, primarily by British authors | USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 454 | Verlaine, Paul | Autograph verse | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 455 | Victoria, Queen of England | Various | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 456 | Vollard, Ambrose (Georges Rouault, illus.) | Reincarnations du Pere Ubu. | Paris | 1932 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 457 | Wallenstein, Albrecht von, Herzog von Friedland and Mecklenburg | Letter signed | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,840.00 | ||
| 458 | Wellesley, Arthur, first Duke of Wellington | Document signed | USD 550.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 459 | Wilde, Oscar | Ravenna. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. | Oxford | 1878 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 460 | Williams, H. Noel | Five Fair Sisters: An Italian Ep'sode at the Court of Louis XIV. | London | 1907 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 461 | Windsor, Edward, Duke of | Typed document signed | USD 650.00 - 850.00 | 1,150.00 | ||
| 462 | Wright, Frank Lloyd, Architect | A group of four autograph letters signed | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 12,650.00 |
