Sothebys: Continental Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music comprising Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, ASCENSION,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 28, 1992 - May 28, 1992

Page Size: 702 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
501	BRITTEN (BENJAMIN)	FIVE LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED	Aldeburgh	21 January to 1 November 1960	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
502	BRITTEN (BENJAMIN)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED		28 May 1862	GBP 500.00 - 550.00	605.00
503	BRUCH (MAX)	AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION FROM THE FIRST VIOLIN CONCERTO		1885-1899	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
504	BRUCH (MAX)	FINE AUTOGRAPH SKETCH-LEAF FOR THE "SCHWEDISCHE TANZE"	Berlin	c. 1891	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
505	BRUCH (MAX)	FINE EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	Cologne	11 June 1858	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	495.00
506	BuoNANNi (FiLiPPO, Padre)	GABINETTO ARMONICO Pieno d'Istromenti sonori	Rome	1722	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	2,310.00
507	BULOW (HANS von)	FOUR IMPORTANT	Karlsruhe and New York	1857-[1892]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,045.00
508	CARUSO (ENRICO)	POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
509	CARUSO (ENRICO)	LARGE SELF-CARICATURE SIGNED			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
510	CARUSO (ENRICO)	TWO AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS AND ONE TYPED LETTER SIGNED	Buenos Aires	mainly 1925-1940	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
511	CHOPIN (FRYDERYK)	PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED TWICE	Paris	June 1845	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,600.00
512	CHOPIN (FRYDERYK)	MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED	Paris	31 October 1839	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,400.00
513	[CHOPIN (FRYDERYK)]	PORTRAIT OF CHOPIN BY KWIATKOWSKI		17 October 1849	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
514	[CHOPIN (FRYDERYK)]	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE COMPOSER AND PIANIST JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL	Weimar	3 December 1833	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	550.00
515	CHOPIN (FRYDERYK)	COLLECTION OF FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS OF MUSIC BY CHOPIN			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	990.00
516		COMPOSERS. FINE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS AND LETTERS			USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
517	DEBUSSY (ACHILLE-CLAUDE)	PROOF COPY OF ACT II OF "PELLEAS ET MELISANDE"		[1902]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,080.00
518	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	Paris		USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
519	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED		17 November [19]13	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	605.00
520	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED			USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
521	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED		[possibly 1898]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
522	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF "LA DAMOISELLE ELUE''		[probably c. 1893]	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
523	DEBUSSY (CLAUDE)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ClaudeDebussy")	Paris	10 February 1909	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
524	DESMARETS (HENRI)	VENUS ET ADONIS	Paris	1697	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
525	DONIZETTI (GAETANO)	MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE OPERA	probably Milan	September 1833	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,320.00
526	DONIZETTI (GAETANO)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Doniz[ett]i")	Vienna	May 1842	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
527	DVORAK (ANTONIN)	DIMITRIJ	Prague	[1886]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	2,530.00
528	ELGAR (EDWARD Sir)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE SYMPHONIC STUDY "FALSTAFF" Op. 68		[1913]	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,760.00
529	FAURE (GABRIEL)	NINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("GabrielFaure")	Paris	1902-1908	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
530	FORKEL (JOHANN NICOLAUS)	MUSICALISCH-KRITISCHE BIBLIOTHEK	Gotha	1778-1779	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	990.00
531	FOSCARINI (GIOVANNI PAOLO, "Accademico Caliginoso detto il Funoso")	[Li 5 LIBRI DELLA CHITARRA SPAGNUOLA]	Rome	1644	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	9,350.00
532	FRANCK (CESAR)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF "LES BEATITUDES"			GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,200.00
533	FRESCOBALDI (GIROLAMO)	IL SECONDO LIBRO DI TOCCATE	Rome	1637	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	3,520.00
534	GLUCK (CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD von)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("gluck")	Vienna	30 May 1780	GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	9,350.00
535	GOLDMARK (KARL)	AUTOGRAPH DRAFTS AND SKETCHES FOR THE OPERA "GOTZ VON BERLICHINGEN"			USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
536	GOLDMARK (KARL)	COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPTS OF FOUR PIANO WORKS BY GOLDMARK			USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
537	GOLDMARK (KARL)	FINE AND IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF SKETCHES AND DRAFTS FOR THE OPERA "EIN WINTERMARCHEN"		[c.1908]	USD 6,500.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
538	GOLDMARK (KARL)	FINE COLLECTION OF TEN LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED		1885-1904	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
539	GOLDMARK (KARL)	TWO AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS SIGNED OF TWO PIANO PIECES FROM THE "GEORGINEN"	Gmunden	10 and 11 November [1]909	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
540	GOLDMARK (KARL)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE CODA TO THE OVERTURE "SAKUNTALA"			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
541	GOLDMARK (KARL)	COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH DRAFTS AND WORKING MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE OPERA "MERLIN"			USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
542	GOUNOD (CHARLES)	DOCUMENT SIGNED BY GOUNOD	Paris	18 October 1884	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
543	GOUNOD (CHARLES)	FINE AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION		6 November 1879	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	770.00
544	GUITAR---MUSSOLINI (CESARE)	SIX NEW SONGS AND SIX MINUETS	London		USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
545	GRIEG (EDVARD)	Autograph letter signed ("EdvardGrieg")	Semmering	26 December [18]96	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	900.00
546	HAHN (REYNALDO)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS ESSAY ''SUR MOZART''			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	715.00
547	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	ACIS AND GALATEA A SERENADE			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
548	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	ACIS AND GALATEA A MASK		[1743]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	550.00
549	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	SIROE an Opera			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,420.00
550	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	ISRAEL IN EGYPT An Oratorio in Score		1785	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	990.00
551	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SONG-SHEETS OF MUSIC BY HANDEL			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	935.00
552	HANDEL (GEORGE FRIDERIC)	SUITES DE PIECES POUR LE CLAVECIN	Berlin and Amsterdam		GBP 500.00 - 600.00	605.00
553	HAYDN (JOSEPH)	DIE JAHRESZEITEN NACH THOMSON [The Seasons]			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	715.00
554	HAYDN (JOSEPH)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Haydnfparaph]")	London	19 December 1794	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	12,100.00
555	HOWELLS (HERBERT)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THE "MAGNIFICAT AND NUNC DIMITTIS IN B MINOR"	London	25-26 December 1955	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	1,155.00
556	HAYDN (JOSEPH)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Joseph Haydnfmanu proprjia")		3 February [1]784	GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	9,900.00
557	JOACHIM (JOSEPH)	FOUR LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED	Hamburg, Salzburg, St Petersburg		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,650.00
558	KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)	MUSURGIA UNIVERSALIS		1650	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	2,200.00
559	LENZI (CARLO, Italian composer, 1735-1805)	MANUSCRIPT SIGNED			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	935.00
560	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE		24 November [18]39	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,980.00
561	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("F.Liszt")	Probably Pest	early January 1840	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
562	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("F.Liszt")	Manchester	4 December [1840]	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	2,420.00
563	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("FLiszt")	Manchester	5 December [18]40	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
564	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER	Paris	28 March 1841	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
565	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE	Mittau	2 April [1842]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
566	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("FLiszt")	[? Vienna]		USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
567	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("F.Liszt")	Paris	1 August 1842	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
568	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("FLISZT")	Eilsen	22 June 1851	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
569	LISZT (FRANZ)	REMARKABLE AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE THREE "LIEBESTRAUME"		[late 1840s]	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	30,800.00
570	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF LISZT'S TRANSCRIPTION FOR PIANO OF BERLIOZ'S "DANSE DE SYLPHES" FROM "LA DAMNATION DE FAUST"		[c.1860]	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,620.00
571	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	Weimar	11 February [18]61	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
572	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("F. Liszt")	Weimar	27 April [?1861]	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
573	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE "PAPST HYMNUS"		[1863]	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,400.00
574	LISZT (FRANZ)	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("F.Liszt")	Villa d'Este	23 January [18]76	GBP 700.00 - 800.00	660.00
575	LISZT (FRANZ)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TWICE	Weimar	26 May 1886	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
576		LUTE	Bavaria	c. 1625-1655	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	17,600.00
577	MAHLER (GUSTAV)	MAHLER'S COPY OF THE "J.S.BACH WERKE"	Leipzig	1851-99	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	26,400.00
578	MAHLER (GUSTAV)	FINE AUTOGRAPH SKETCH-LEAF FOR PART OF THE "RONDO BURLESKE"		[c. 1909]	GBP 9,000.00 - 10,000.00	8,800.00
579	MALIBRAN (MARIA)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	London	1833	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
580	MARPURG (FRIEDRICH WILHELM)	HISTORISCH-KRITISCHE BEYTRAGE ZUR AUFNAHME DER MUSIK	Berlin	1754-1759	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	550.00
581	MARTINU (BOHUSLAV)	PRINTED SCORE OF THE FIRST CELLO CONCERTO		[1955]	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
582	MASSENET (JULES)	COLLECTION OF SIGNED POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPHS by Massenet (with an autograph musical quotation from the "Meditation" from Thais)			GBP 700.00 - 800.00	1,045.00
583	MASSINE (LEONIDE)---GONCHAROVA (NATALIA)	AUTOGRAPH CHOREOGRAPHICAL MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF MASSINE'S BALLET "LITURGIE"			USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
584	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX and FANNY)	AUTOGRAPH DIARY KEPT BY FELIX MENDELSSOHN IN PARIS			GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	9,900.00
585	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX)	FINE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF THE "SECHS LIEDER"		[between 1839 and 1842]	USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
586	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX)	FINE	Leipzig	12 October 1846	GBP 4,000.00 - 4,500.00	4,400.00
587	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE SONG "WIEGENLIED"		[c. 1839-1840]	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
588	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FANNY CACILIE 1805-1847, sister of Felix)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE SONG "DIE FRUHEN GRABER"			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,530.00
589	MERSENNE [Pere MARIN)	HARMONICORUM LIBRI IN CHJIBUS AGITUR DE SONORUM NATURA	Paris	1636	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	2,200.00
590	MEYERBEER (GIACOMO)	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("MEYERBEER")		15 August [18]42	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	440.00
591	MILLOCKER (CARL)	SIX AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS SIGNED ("CMillocker")		1891-1895	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
592	MONTEVERDI (CLAUDIO)	BASSO CONTINUO DEL QUINTO LIBRO DE LI MADRIGALI A CINQUE	Venice	1606	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,980.00
593	MOZART (LEOPOLD)	VERSUCH EINER GRUNDLICHEN VIOLINSCHULE	Augsburg, in Verlag des Verfassers	1756	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,420.00
594	MOZART (WOLFGANG AMADEUS)	COLLECTION OF EARLY EDITIONS OF THE OPERAS			USD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
595	MOZART (WOLFGANG AMADEUS)	MESSE A 4 Voix ["Coronation" Mass, K.317]			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,045.00
596	MOZART (WOLFGANG AMADEUS)	FINE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE ARRANGEMENT FOR STRING QUARTET OF A FUGUE BY HANDEL		[c. 1782]	USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
597		MUSIC LIBRARY			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,210.00
598		MUSICIANS AND SINGERS			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,200.00
599		MUSICIANS			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	1,980.00
600		OPERA SINGERS		1918-1955	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	990.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.