Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana Property of Mr. Charles E. Feinberg Mrs. Adele Wertheimer Various Owners, 5530,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 15, 1986 - December 15, 1986
Page Size: 237 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 ROME Brooklyn

5 June 1898

USD 500.00 - 750.00 825.00
102 SAUNDERS, HENRY S. Autograph Draft Manuscript signed ("HSS.") Toronto

10 January 1915

USD 250.00 - 350.00 825.00
103 SLOAN, JOHN American Artist New York

12 May 1909, 8 January and 20 May 1915

USD 500.00 - 750.00 550.00
104 STIEGLITZ, ALFRED Two Autograph Letters signed

USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 1,650.00
105 SULLIVAN, LOUIS American Architect Chicago

13 May 1912

USD 200.00 - 300.00 990.00
106 TRAUBEL, HORACE Collects One through Five New York

1913

USD 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
107 TRAUBEL New York

28 December 1897

USD 350.00 - 500.00 495.00
108 TRAUBEL

USD 350.00 - 500.00 660.00
109 TRAUBEL

USD 350.00 - 500.00 1,100.00
110 WHITMAN ADVERTISEMENTS AND APPEALS

USD 350.00 - 500.00 495.00
110A WHITMAN ADVERTISING BROADSIDE

USD 400.00 - 600.00 880.00
111 WHITMAN, WALT After All Boston

1871

USD 350.00 - 500.00 880.00
112 ALGER WHITMAN, WILLIAM ROUNSE-VILLE The Poetry of the East Boston

1856

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,430.00
113 WHITMAN As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems Washington

1872

USD 225.00 - 275.00 330.00
114 WHITMAN Autobiographia

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
115 WHITMAN Autograph Manuscript fragment

USD 400.00 - 500.00 605.00
116 WHITMAN Autograph Manuscript

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,540.00
117 WHITMAN Autograph Manuscript

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,320.00
118 WHITMAN Autograph Manuscript

USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 1,650.00
119 WHITMAN Autograph Draft Manuscript

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,430.00
120 WHITMAN Two Autograph Manuscript Fragments

USD 375.00 - 425.00 770.00
121 WHITMAN Autograph Note

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,430.00
122 WHITMAN BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

USD 400.00 - 600.00 275.00
123 WHITMAN BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM New York

1866

USD 300.00 - 500.00 715.00
124 WHITMAN BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 660.00
125 WHITMAN BIRTHDAY MEMORABILIA

June 1891

USD 250.00 - 400.00 385.00
126 WHITMAN Complete Poems & Prose

USD 700.00 - 900.00 880.00
127 WHITMAN Complete Poems & Prose . . .1855- 1888

USD 250.00 - 300.00 330.00
128 WHITMAN The Complete Writings

USD 600.00 - 800.00 605.00
129 WHITMAN Corrected proof sheet (13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.) of "Death's Valley'" minor staining

USD 350.00 - 500.00 385.00
130 WHITMAN Good-Bye My Fancy Philadelphia

1891

USD 250.00 - 400.00 330.00
131 WHITMAN Good-Bye My Fancy Philadelphia

1891

USD 400.00 - 600.00 275.00
132 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 990.00
133 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass

USD 300.00 - 500.00 385.00
134 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
135 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass Camden

1876

USD 500.00 - 750.00 660.00
136 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass Camden

1876

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,210.00
137 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass Boston

1881-82

USD 350.00 - 500.00 495.00
138 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass Philadelphia

1889

USD 600.00 - 800.00 770.00
139 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass London

1887

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 825.00
140 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass . . . Facsimile Edition of the 1855 Text New York

1920

USD 200.00 - 300.00 385.00
141 WHITMAN Leaves of Grass [in Japanese] Tokyo

July 5th. 1936

USD 250.00 - 300.00 165.00
142 WHITMAN Corrected proof sheet (4 1/2 x 6 in.) of "My 71st Year"

USD 300.00 - 450.00 385.00
143 WHITMAN Notes and Fragments . . . edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke.

1899

USD 500.00 - 750.00 715.00
144 WHITMAN Corrected proof sheet (4Y4 x 6 1/ 1 in.) of "Patroling Barnegat"

USD 350.00 - 500.00 660.00
145 WHITMAN PORTRAIT

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,045.00
146 WHITMAN PORTRAIT

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,100.00
147 WHITMAN PORTRAIT

USD 600.00 - 800.00 440.00
148 WHITMAN Portraits from Life Philadelphia

1889

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 2,200.00
149 WHITMAN Printed check

30 January 1875

USD 250.00 - 350.00 440.00
150 WHITMAN Printed check

6 March 1875

USD 250.00 - 350.00 550.00
151 TRAUBEL WHITMAN, HORACE, editor Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman

USD 300.00 - 450.00 220.00
152 WHITMAN Annotated proof sheet (8 x 7 1/4 in.) of "A Twilight Song"

USD 300.00 - 450.00 495.00
153 WHITMAN Two Rivulets Camden

1876

USD 500.00 - 750.00 825.00
154 GUTENBERG, JOHANN STILLWELL New York

1936

USD 2,750.00 - 3,250.00 2,310.00
155 JUSTINUS, M. JUNIANUS Epitome in Trogi Pompeii historias [in Italian] Venice

[not before 12] September 1477

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 1,760.00
156 AUGUSTINE, saint De civitate Dei [in Italian] Venice

not after 1483

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 2,090.00
157 SABELLICUS, MARCUS ANTONIUS De Venetis magistratibus Venice

19 January 1488/9

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,320.00
158 Johann Froben BIBLE IN LATIN Basel

27June 1491

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 6,600.00
159 GAZIUS, ANTONIUS Corona florida medicinae Venice

de Forlivio, 20 June 1491

USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 1,650.00
160 SPRENGER, JACOB; and INSTITOR, HEINRICH Malleus maleficarum Nuremberg

17 January 1496

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,420.00
161 FICINO, MARSIGLIO Epistolae Nuremberg

24 February 1497

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,860.00
162 BONIFACE VIII Liber sextus decretalium Basel

1 December 1500

USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,870.00
163 SENECA Opera [in Latin and French] Paris

[not before 1500]

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,540.00
164 MARCHESINUS, JOHANNES Mammotrectus super Bibliam

USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 2,090.00
165 BONAVENTURE, saint Sermones de tempore et de sanctis

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 2,530.00
166 JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO Supplementum chronicarum

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,310.00
167 HEROLT, JOANNES Sermones discipuli

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,576.00
168 MARTIAL

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 1,650.00
169 ANDREAE, JOHANN PHILIPP Neu inventirtes belehrendes und ergotzendes Astronomisches Karten Spiel Nuremberg

1719

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 2,530.00
170 ARMENINI, GIOVANNI BATTIST De' veri precetti della pittura

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,320.00
171 ARTEMIDORUS, Daldianus Oneirocriticon . . . De somnium interpretatione libri quinque

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
172 ATLAS MODERNE Paris

[1783]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,760.00
173 ATLAS Livorno

1777

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,280.00
174 ATLAS Baltimore

[ca. 1823]

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
175 PALAIRET, JEAN ATLAS London

1755

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
176 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America New York

1859-60

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
177 BALZAC, HONORE DE La Comedie Humaine Philadelphia

[co. 1899]

USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 6,050.00
178 KIPLING, RUDYARD BINDING Paris

1936

USD 600.00 - 800.00 660.00
179 LOUYS, PIERRE BINDING Paris

1926

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 6,325.00
180 VIGNY, ALFRED DE BINDING Paris

1930

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 770.00
181 BRAQUE, GEORGES, JOUHANDEAU, MARCEL Descente aux enfers Paris

1961

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
182 CHAGALL, MARC La Bible Pans

1956

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 2,420.00
183 CHAGALL, MARC Dessins pour La Bible paris

1960

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 2,090.00
184 CHAGALL, MARC Drawings for the Bible New York

[1960]

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,090.00
185 CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France Paris

1744

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 1,210.00
186 CURTIS, EDWARD S The North American Indian New York

1907-08

USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
187 DANCKERTS, JUSTIS Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non Pennsylvaniae et partis Virginiae tabula Amsterdam

ca. 1650

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,540.00
188 DARWIN, CHARLES On the Origin of Species London

1859

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 2,750.00
189 DICKENS, CHARLES, BROWNE, HABLOT K. An original steel plate (9 x 5 1/2 in.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
190 DONNE, JOHN Poems with Elegies on the Author's Death London

1633

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,320.00
191 DRURY, DRU Illustrations of Exotic Entemology London

1837

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,210.00
192 EGE. OTTO F. Original Leaves from Famous Books

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,760.00
193 EHRET, GEORG DIONYS Group of 35 hand-colored engraved botanical plates partly lettered in gold Nuremberg

1750-73

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 5,500.00
194 THE FAMOUS TRAGEDIE of King Charles I London

1649

USD 200.00 - 300.00 220.00
195 FULLER, THOMAS A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof with the Historie of the old and new Testament acted thereon London

1650

USD 500.00 - 800.00 825.00
196 GAUTIER, THEOPHILE The Works

1900

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 1,650.00
197 GESNER, CONRAD Historiae animalium liber iii Zurich

1555

USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,870.00
198 GOLDING, WILLIAM Poems London

1934

USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 1,320.00
199 HALE, NATHAN, HOBART, NOAH An Attempt to Illustrate and Confirm the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Consociated Churches New Haven

1765

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 4,950.00
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