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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