Sothebys: Continental Manuscripts and Music Sale LN5294 comprising autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books, 5294,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 18, 1995 - May 18, 1995
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ART - THREE LETTERS | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 230.00 | |||
| 2 | BODONI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA, 1740-1813, printer) | IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF PAPERS RELATING TO BODONI AND HIS WORK AT THE REALE STAMPERIA IN PARMA | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 23,000.00 | ||
| 3 | COCTEAU (JEAN) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with initials | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 4 | COLETTE | c. 1906-1910 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 184.00 | ||
| 5 | [COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER]---COLON (DIEGO, 1478 or 79-1526, Admiral, son of Christopher Columbus) | THE WILL OF DIEGO COLON | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 6 | DUMAS (ALEXANDRE, pere) | FOUR AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS | USD 500.00 - 550.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 7 | EINSTEIN (ALBERT) | EINSTEIN'S PIPE | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,495.00 | ||
| 8 | ERNI (HANS, bom 1909, Swiss painter) | Six TYPED LETTERS SIGNED | Lucerne | 28 May 1958 to 15 Junr 1959 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 460.00 |
| 9 | FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO BOSSUET | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 552.00 | ||
| 10 | FRANZ JOSEPH (Emperor) | LETTER SIGNED ("majestatis vestrae bonus Consanguineus et frater Franciscus Josephus") | Vienna | 16 February 1897 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 391.00 |
| 11 | FRANZ JOSEPH (Emperor) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Franz joseph") TO HIS FRIEND AND CONFIDANTE KATHARINA SCHRATT ("Meine liebe gute Freundin") | 5 October 1894 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,322.00 | |
| 12 | FRANZ JOSEPH | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Franz joseph") TO HIS FRIEND AND CONFIDANTE KATHARINA SCHRATT | Vienna | 25 August 1896 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 13 | FRANZ JOSEPH | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Franz joseph") | 18 October 1901 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 | |
| 14 | FRANZ JOSEPH | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Franz joseph") TO HIS FRIEND AND CONFIDANTE KATHARINA SCHRATT | 5 September 1901 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 | |
| 15 | FRANZ JOSEPH | TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("Franz joseph") | 2 July and 22 November 1901 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,242.00 | |
| 16 | FREEMASONRY | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 17 | FRENCH ART | 3 June 1917 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 18 | FREUD (SIGMUND) | AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD | Vienna | 25 January 1930 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,207.00 |
| 19 | GAMARRA (AGUSTIN) | THREE LETTERS SIGNED | La Paz and Cuzco | 12 August and 24 September 1828, and 10 February 1831 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 402.00 |
| 20 | GAMARRA (AGUSTIN) | LETTER SIGNED | La Paz | 11 May 1828 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | GAMARRA (AGUSTIN) | FIFTEEN LETTERS SIGNED (ONE ENTIRELY AUTOGRAPH) to Mariano Alvarez | Lima Cuzco and elsewhere | 4 January 1830 to 15 March 1831 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | GENTZ (FRIEDRICH VON) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED | Dresden | 30 June 1806 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 |
| 23 | GENTZ (FRIEDRICH VON) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED | Dresden | 12 July 1806 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 |
| 24 | GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) AND AUCTIONEERS | LETTER SIGNED ("J W v Goethe" in a shaky hand) | Weimar | 8 June 1831 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 25 | GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) | LETTER SIGNED ("JWvGoethe") | Weimar | 28 November 1816 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 26 | GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) | DOCUMENT SIGNED ("mich geneigtem Andenken empfehlend Goethe") headed " Zu gedenken' | Jena | 12 March 1812 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 977.00 |
| 27 | GORKY (MAXIM) | CABINET PHOTOGRAPH | 17 April 1902 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 28 | GRILLPARZER (FRANZ) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Grillparzer") | Vienna | 25 December 1866 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 29 | GRIS (JUAN) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED | 5 October 1920 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 30 | ITALY_CITTA DI CASTELLO | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 | |||
| 31 | LA FUENTE (ANTONIO G. DE, Vice-President of Peru) | ELEVEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED AND LETTERS SIGNED | Santiago and Valparaiso | 18 August 1827 to 19 May 1835 |
USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 32 | LAS CASAS (Fray BARTOLOME DE) | CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT OF THE 'TRACTATUS DE THESAURIS IN REGNIS DEL PERU' AND THE 'TRATADO DE LAS DOCE DUDAS' | Madrid | GBP 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 | 38,000.00 | |
| 33 | LEGER (FERNAND) | TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED | 15 November 1931 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 34 | LILIENCRON (DETLEV VON) | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A POEM entitled 'Anakreontisches Liedel' | 1905-1909 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 | |
| 35 | LUGANO | 25 June 1622 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 36 | MAETERLINCK (MAURICE) | SERIES OF TWENTY-FIVE AUTOGRAPH AND TYPED LETTERS SIGNED to Mr Colles of the Authors'Syndicate in London | Paris, Nice | 10 November 1921 to 21 October 1925 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 37 | MALTA | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | |||
| 38 | MARCONI (GUGLIELMO) | IMPORTANT SERIES OF THIRTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("Guglielmo Marconi", "G") TO HIS FATHER | London | 11 March 1896 to 7 September 1898 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 36,700.00 |
| 39 | MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ( 1553-1615, first wife of Henri IV, known as "la reine Margot") | LETTER SIGNED WITH AUTOGRAPH SUBSCRIPTION ("v[os]tre plus afectionnee amie Marguerite") | Paris | 7 September 1606 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 805.00 |
| 40 | MARX (KARL) | PLAYFUL AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED WITH HIS NICKNAME ("Dein Mohr") to his friend Dr Charles Waldstein ("Lieber Waldhorn") | London | 26 January 1880 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 41 | MATISSE (HENRI) | TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED | 20 August and 4 November 1920 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 | |
| 42 | [MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI] | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MICHELANGELO BY HIS PROTEGE THE PAINTER ANTONIO MINI in Lyons | Lyons | 27 February 1531/2 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 5,750.00 |
| 43 | MOLUCCAS | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 920.00 | |||
| 44 | MUCHA (ALPHONSE) | THREE AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS SIGNED ("Alfons Mucha", "Mucha") to Professor Kofron | Prague and Nice | 21 December 1931 to 21 Decembger 1934 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 45 | NAPOLEON I | LETTER SIGNED ("Np") | Bayonne | 18 May 1808 |
GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 345.00 |
| 46 | NAPOLEON I | LETTER SIGNED ("Np") | Trianon | 13 July 1811 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 |
| 47 | NAPOLEON I | LETTER SIGNED ("Napo") | Bayonne | 2 June 1808 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 529.00 |
| 48 | NAPOLEON I | LETTER SIGNED ("Napol") to his stepson Eugene de Beauharnais | Fontainebleau | 19 October 1807 |
USD 750.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 49 | CHOLAS II (Tsar) | PHOTOGRAPH OF NICHOLAS with his cousins Crown Prince (later King) Constantine and Prince George of Greece (the latter in the uniform of High Commissioner of Crete), signed by Constantine in upper right-hand corner of image | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 437.00 | ||
| 50 | ORLOV (Prince ALEXEI, diplomat) | ORLOV (Prince ALEXEI, diplomat) | Paris, St Petersburg and elsewhere | 1856 to 1859 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 51 | PAUL I (1754-1801, Tsar, assassinated) | DOCUMENT SIGNED ("Pavel" with blots) | St. Petersburg | 21 December 1798 |
USD 450.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 52 | RASPUTIN (GRIGORY EFIMOVICH) | RASPUTIN'S SIGNATURE AND MARK ("grigori" in Russian, and a cross) at the head of a postcard written for him in another hand and addressed to his wife | Siberia | 19 June 1907 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,955.00 |
| 53 | ROME AND THE PAPACY | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 | |||
| 54 | SAINT-HILAIRE (AUGUSTE, 1779-1853, naturalist) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Auguste de St Hilaire") | 1716 to 1789 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 | |
| 55 | SCHILLER (FRIEDRICH VON) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Sch") | Weimar | 19 October 1801 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 56 | SEGONZAC (ANDRE DUNOYER DE) | FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED | 1963 to 1970 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 | |
| 57 | SIGNAC (PAUL) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to the Belgian gallery owner Georges Giroux, about his forthcoming exhibition there | 23 July |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 58 | SPANISH INQUISITION | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,150.00 | |||
| 59 | TRAVEN (B., 1890-1969, pseudonym of an unidentified novelist, possibly a Bavarian emigre to Mexico) | COLLECTION OF LETTERS | Mexico City | 6 January 1925 to 3 December 1932 |
USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 60 | TRUCE OF NICE | 4 June 1538 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 402.00 | ||
| 61 | VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET) | PORTRAIT OF VOLTAIRE | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 4,830.00 | ||
| 62 | VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) | CHARACTERISTIC LETTER SIGNED | 25 February [1752] |
GBP 900.00 - 1,000.00 | 977.00 | |
| 63 | AIRS DE COUR | 1623-1676 |
GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,610.00 | ||
| 64 | ALBERT (EUGEN D') | FINE COLLECTION OF ABOUT SIXTY AUTOGRAPH AND TYPED LETTERS SIGNED ("E. D'Albert") | Vienna, London, Hamburg and Riga | c. 1912-1931 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 65 | ALBUM CONTAINING AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS SIGNED BY MASCAGNI (Lola's "Fior di giaggiolo" | Milan | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 977.00 | ||
| 66 | ARON (PIETRO) | TOSCANELLO IN MUSICA...nouvamente stampato con laggiunta da lui fatta et con diligenza corretto | Venice | 1529 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,220.00 |
| 67 | AVISON (CHARLES) | AN ESSAY ON MUSICAL EXPRESSION with A Reply to the Author of 'Remarks on the Essay on Musical Expression' | GBP 550.00 - 650.00 | 575.00 | ||
| 68 | BACH (CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL) | EARLY SCRIBAL MANUSCRIPT OF "MAGNIFICAT A 4 voci" | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,610.00 | ||
| 69 | BACH (CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL) | CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT OF THE "SECHS SONATEN MIT VERANDERTEN REPRISEN" (Wq.50; H.136-139 and 126) | [c. 1760s] |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 70 | BACH (CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL) | VERSUCH UBER DIE WAHRE ART DAS CLAVIER ZU SPIELEN.... Erster [...zweyter] | Leipzig | 1780 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 |
| 71 | BACH (JOHANN SEBASTIAN) | MANUSCRIPT OF THE "CLARINO I" PART OF THE CANTATA "HERR GOTT DICH LOBEN ALLE WIR" BWV 130 | Leipzig | around 29 September 1724 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 15,525.00 |
| 72 | BALBASTRE (CLAUDE-BEGNINE) | AUTOGRAPH RECEIPT SIGNED ("Balbastre") acknowledging the receipt of seventy-two livres ("...pour un mois de lecons de Clavecin queje lui ai donne a panthemont...") | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 73 | BALFE (MICHAEL WILLIAM) | TWO AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS OF PIANO WORKS: one | GBP 800.00 - 900.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 74 | BALLARD (JEAN-BAPTISTE-CHRISTOPHE) | PRINTED RECEIPT SIGNED ("Ballard C") | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 75 | BALLET | Milan Parma, Brescia, Paris, Bologna and elsewhere | c. 1775-c. 1830 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 805.00 | |
| 76 | BARTOK (BELA) | FINE AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF TWO TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR TWO PIANOS OF THE TWO STUDIES FROM THE "MIKROKOSMOS" | PROBABLY NEW YORK | [C. 1940] |
GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 5,175.00 |
| 77 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | GOOD COLLECTION OF EARLY EDITIONS OF MUSIC BY BEETHOVEN | c.1800-1830 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 78 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Beethoven") probably to his friend Karl Holz | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 14,950.00 | ||
| 79 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER | Vienna | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 5,520.00 | |
| 80 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG van) | TROIS TRIOS pour le pianoforte | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 632.00 | ||
| 81 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | BAGATELLES pour le Pianoforte composees par Louis van Beethoven Oeuvre 33 | Vienna | [1804] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 82 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG van) | FIDELIO | Vienna | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 83 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG van) | SONATE POUR LE PIANOFORTE composee et dediee a Madame la Comtesse Therese de Brunswick.. .Oeuv.78 | Leipzig, Breitkof and Hartel | [November, 1810] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 862.00 |
| 84 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | 33 VERANDERUNGEN UBER EINEN WALZER fur das Piano-Forte componirt...l20tes Werk | Vienna | [1823] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,680.00 |
| 85 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | QUATUOR pour deux Violons | Mainz | [1826] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 86 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG van) | FIDELIO Drame lyrique en deux actes | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 414.00 | ||
| 87 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | GRAND QUATUOR En Ut dieze mineur pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle...Oeuvre 131 | Mainz | [1827] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 88 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | GRANDE FUGUE tantot libre | Vienna | [1827] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 89 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG van) | Two AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS OF SKETCHES OF THE STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR | Vienna | 1825 |
USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | BELLINI (VINCENZO) | NORMA tragedia lirica di F.Romani posta in musica e dedicata al Signor Nicolo Zingarelli | Milan | [1832] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,092.00 |
| 91 | BELLINI (VINCENZO) | LA SONNAMBULA | Milan | c. 1893 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 483.00 |
| 92 | BELLINI (VINCENZO) | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE BASSOON PART OF THE "TANTUM ERGO" IN G MAJOR | Naples | c. 1820-1823 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 93 | BELLINI (VINCENZO) | IL PIRATA melodramma | Hamburg | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 805.00 | |
| 94 | BERG (ALBAN) | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF HIS TRANSCRIPTION IN SHORT SCORE OF SCHOENBERG'S | Vienna | [c. 1913-1915] |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 95 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Hector Berlioz") | Paris | 30 January 1866 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 96 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | GRANDE MESSE DES MORTS...Op.5 | Paris | [1838] |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 97 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT MEMORANDUM OF HIS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 98 | BONNIERES (NICOLAS ALEXANDRE de) | LETTER SIGNED ("Bonnieres") | Paris | 1587-1623 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 99 | BOESSET (ANTHOINE, Sieur de Villedieu) | RECEIPT SIGNED ("Boesset") | Paris | 14 October 1614 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 100 | BRAHMS (JOHANNES) | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with initials ("J.Br.") to the publisher Simrock | Vienna | 29 December 1889 |
GBP 400.00 - 50.00 | 437.00 |
