Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987
Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
501 M. Wyss The Family Robinson Crusoe

1814-1816

 GBP 500.00 - 750.00 440.00
502 Eagle Comic

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 462.00
503 Rainbow no. 933-1089

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 462.00
504 Illustrated Chips and Chips

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 935.00
505 (Augustine Saint) Confessionum Cologne

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
506 Almanach auf das Jahr 1818 Munich

[1817]

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
507 Almanach des Francs-Macons et des Franches-Macones avec Musique Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
508 Almanacks and Calendars

1873-1946

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
509 Almanacks and Calendars

1887-1955

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
510 Almanacks and Calendars

1915-1948

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 275.00
511 Almanacks and Calendars

1857-1939

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 330.00
512 Thomas Aquinas De Rebuspublicis et Principum Institutione Leyden

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
513 Bible in Minuiture (The)

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
514 Anicius Manlius Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae Oxford

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
515 Anicius Manlius Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae Amsterdam

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 385.00
516 Mrs Chapone Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Ludlow

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
517 La Constitution Francaise Almanach Necessaire Paris

1791

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
518 William Cowper The Poetical Works

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 286.00
519 Dr Arthur Etheridge The Model Letter-Writer Warne

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
520 Fenelon (Archbishop of Cambray) Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
521 First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy (The)

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
522 Scipione Herrico Delia Babilonia Distrutta Venice

1624

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
523 Gessner Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
524 Hippocrates [Leiden]

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
525 Laconism: or the Good Sayings of Wise Men

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 286.00
526 Jones and Co. Diamond Poets

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
527 Alfred Mills A Short History of the Bible

1811

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
528 Em. Martino Oratio pro Crepitu Ventris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
529 Miniature library of thirty-three volumes

[c. 1915-1920]

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 4,180.00
530 Alfred Mills Pictures of Grecian History

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
531 Moral Precepts

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 385.00
532 [New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ]

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
533 New Testament Sedan

1628

 GBP 350.00 - 500.00 330.00
534 New Testament

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
535 Francesco Petraca II Petrarca Venice

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
536 Francesco Petrarca Le Rime Venezia

1879

 GBP 350.00 - 500.00 330.00
537 Pickering's Diamond Classics

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 330.00
538 Pickering's Diamond Classics

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
539 Pickering's Diamond Classics

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 275.00
540 Pickering's Diamond Classics

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
541 Pindar Glasgow

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
542 Psalmen Davids Amsterdam

1649

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
543 Jeremiah Rich [The New Testament in Shorthand]

[c. 1665]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 385.00
544 Les Pseaumes de David mise en rime Francoise par Clement Marot et Theodore de Beze Sedan

1644

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 935.00
545 Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire La Henriade Paris

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
546 William Shakespeare The Dramatic Works

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
547 John Stow A Summarie of the Chronicles of England]

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
548 Publius Virgilius Marius Opera Amsterdam

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 330.00
549 Thomas Warburton A collection of Warburton's notes on miniature books Massachusetts

1928

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 880.00
550 Arithemetical Cards London

c.1710

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,925.00
551 Claude Oronce, M. de Brianville Fine Giuoco D'Arme dei Sovrani Naples

1725

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 495.00
552 Jeu des Masquerades Grotesques

[c.1822]

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 242.00
553 Moveable Characters with Hats

[c. 1830]

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
554 Pasquins Windkaart op de Windnegotie

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
555 Hornbooks

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
556 Instructive Dissected Puzzle: The Exodus of Israel from Egypt

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
557 Children in the Wood

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
558 New Map of the World (A)

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 594.00
559 Boarding School Romps (The)

1771

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
560 Fine manuscript harlequinade with the traditional illustrations of Adam

[watermarked 1822]

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
561 Broadsides

[c. 1850]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
562 Broadside Ballads

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
563 Changing Figures Germany

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 462.00
564 Changing Pictures Paris

[c.1830]

 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 2,420.00
565 Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse his Friends Augsburg

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
566 Miniature pictures

[c. 1800]

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
567 Magic Box ?Vienna

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 440.00
568 Le Moulin Joli coloured game sheet pasted to bottom of box paris

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
569 Myriorama

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 715.00
570 Myriorama

[c. 1830]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
571 Nouvelles Ombres Chinoises Germany

[c.1900]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 418.00
572 Silhouettes Animees Paris

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
573 Seven cards with moving illustrations Vienna, Nurnberg or Frankfurt

[c.1830-1840]

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 462.00
574 Toy Catalogue Nurnberg

der 1 Juni 1850

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 5,500.00
575 Transparencies

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 572.00
576 Willy's Walk to see Grandmamma

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
577 Urania's Mirror

[1825]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
578 A fine collection of twenty seven eighteenth-century table games

1763-1780

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,820.00
579 L. M. Drummond A Musical Game for Children

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 462.00
580 New Game of Human Life (The)

1790

 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 308.00
581 Decorative Papers Nurnberg

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
582 Decorative Papers Nurnberg

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
583 Decorative Papers Nurnberg

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
584 Richard Doyle The Tournament

[1840]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 1,210.00
585 Richard Doyle A Grand Historical Allegorical Classical and Comical Procession of Remarkable Personages Ancient Modern and Unknown]

1842

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 935.00
586 Christening Procession of Prince Taffy (The)

[c.1842]

 GBP 350.00 - 500.00 638.00
587 Charles Dickens The Chimes

1845-1848

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 176.00
588 J.L.C. and W.C. Grimm The Fairy Ring

1846

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 1,540.00
589 Gilbert A'Beckett Almanack of the Month

1846

 USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
590 Richard Doyle Selections from the Rejected Cartoons

1848

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 462.00
591 Leigh Hunt Ajar of Honey from Mount Hybla

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
592 John Ruskin The King of the Golden River

1851 [1850]

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 242.00
593 Richard Doyle Proof impressions of the wood-engraved frontispiece

[1850]

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 605.00
594 Leigh Hunt A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
595 Richard Doyle An Overland Journey to the Great Exhibition

1851

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 418.00
596 Richard Doyle Pictures of Extra Articles and Visitors to the Exhibition

[P1852]

 USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
597 Richard Doyle A complete set of proof impressions of the wood-engraved illustrations for "A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker"

1865

 GBP 300.00 - 350.00 286.00
598 William Allingham In Fairyland

1870

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 572.00
599 Richard Doyle A complete set of proofs of the wood-engraved illustrations for Laurence Oliphant's "Piccadilly"

[1870]

 USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
600 John Ruskin The King of the Golden River

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 462.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.