Sothebys: Music, Continental Printed Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine comprising autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books, 4708,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 01, 1994 - December 01, 1994

Page Size: 694 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301	Rossini (Gioachino)	Autograph letter signed ("Rossini")	Bologna	16 August 1840	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
302	Rossini (Gioachino)	Alma viva o sia l'inutile precauzione commedia del Signor Beaumarchais	Rome, Mordacchini	[1816]	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
303	Rossini (Gioachino)	Autograph letter signed ("G. Rossini")	Paris	[1820s]	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
304	Rossini (Gioachino)	Autograph manuscript of a piano piece		1863	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
305	Rossini (Gioachino)	Autograph note signed			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
306	Rossini (Gioachino)	Autograph letter signed ("G. Rossini")	Paris	8 January 1857	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	345.00
307	Rubinstein (Anton)	Autograph musical quotation signed ("Ant. Rubinstein")			GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	805.00
308	Rubinstein (Anton)	Fine autograph manuscript of the "Caprice" in C minor			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
309	Saint-Saens (Camille)	Cabinet-style photographic portrait signed and inscribed ("a Madame St [?]Loglon		1899	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
310	Saint-Saens (Camille)	Autograph musical quotation signed and dated ("1 Novembre 1877 C. Saint- Saens")			USD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
311	Schroeter (Johann Samuel)	Trois Sonates Pour Clavecin ou Piano Forte Avec Violon et Violoncelle...Oeuvre 9			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	598.00
312	Schubert (Franz)	Fantasie			GBP 500.00 - 550.00	529.00
313	Saint-Saens (Camille)	Autograph manuscript of "Sur les bords du Nil"			USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
314	Schubert (Franz)	Winterreise von Wilhelm Muller	Vienna	[1828]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,495.00
315	Schubert (Franz)	Autograph manuscript of two songs	[Vienna]	27 February 1815	GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	23,000.00
316	Schumann (Robert)	Autograph manuscript signed of "Bunte Blatter" no.1	Leipzig	April 1841	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	14,950.00
317	Schumann (Robert)	The autograph manuscript of Schumann's Second Symphony Op.61	Dresden		GBP 1,846.00 - 1,847.00	1,486,500.00
318	Schumann (Robert)	Zweite Sinfonie fur grosses Orchester...Op.61			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	391.00
319	Schumann (Robert)	Autograph manuscript sketch-leaf			GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,680.00
320	Shostakovich (Dimitri)	Autograph musical	Moscow	1966	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
321	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Postcard photograph signed on the image ("DShostakovich")			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
322	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Fifteenth Symphony			GBP 1,300.00 - 1,500.00	1,955.00
323	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Three autograph notes signed ("DShostakovich")	Moscow	26 April 1944 and 17 June 1946	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
324	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Symphony No.11 "The Year of 1905"	Moscow	1958	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,955.00
325	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Simfonia dia orkestra Op.10	Moscow	1927	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
326	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Four autograph notes signed ("DShostakovich")			GBP 600.00 - 700.00	632.00
327	Shostakovich (Dmitri)	Autograph letter signed ("Dmitri Shostakovich")	Moscow	[c.1958]	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
328	Sibelius (Jean)	Autograph musical quotation from "The Swan of Tuonela"		17 April 1911	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	598.00
329	Sibelius (Jean)	Fine photograph of the young composer			USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
330	Sibelius (Jean)	Fine autograph memorandum signed ("Jean Sibelius", twice)		22 May 1922	USD 700.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
331	Sibelius (Jean)	Collection of nine autograph letters signed ("Jean Sibelius")		1914-1932	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
332	Sibelius (Jean)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Jean Sibelius")		24 November 1926	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
333	Sibelius (Jean)	Autograph manuscript of the two impromptus for piano		[c.1893]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,680.00
334	Sinding (Christian)	Three autograph letters signed ("Christian Sinding")		1868-1896	GBP 500.00 - 550.00	460.00
335	Smetana (Bedrich)	Remarkable autograph letter signed ("FriedrichSmetana")			GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,325.00
336	Sousa (John Phillip)	Postcard photograph and autograph musical			GBP 500.00 - 550.00	517.00
337	Spohr (Louis)	Autograph letter signed ("Louis Spohr")	Kassel	5 January 1847	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	460.00
338	Spontini (Gaspare)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Spontini")	Pescia	1857	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
339	Strauss (Johann, II)	Fine large photograph signed and inscribed by the composer		1894	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
340	Strauss (Johann, II)	Autograph letter signed ("Johann Strauss")	[Vienna]		USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
341	Strauss (Johann, II)	Cabinet-style photograph signed ("Johann Strauss 92")	Vienna		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,610.00
342	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Strauss")	Graz	5 March 1903	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
343	Strauss (Richard)	Ein Heldenleben, first edition	Leipzig	1898	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
344	Strauss (Richard)	Photograph signed by the composer and his wife ("Dr Richard Strauss" "Pauline Strauss...")		24 August 1917	USD 550.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
345	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph manuscript draft of the "Madrigal" in "Der Burger als Edelmann"		[1917]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
346	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph musical quotation signed ("Dr RichardStrauss")	Rome	24 November 1936	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
347	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph musical quotation signed from "Till Eulenspiegel"			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	552.00
348	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Dr RichardStrauss")	Garmisch	21 June 1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
349	Strauss (Richard)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Dr RichardStrauss")		2 September 1917	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
350	Strauss (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Strauss")	Munich	13 September 1897	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
351	Strauss (Richard)	Postcard photograph signed ("DrRichardStrauss")	Garmisch	20 June 1949	GBP 500.00 - 550.00	345.00
352	Stravinsky (Igor)	Fine autograph manuscript oe part of thf "Octet for wind instruments"			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
353	Stravinsky (Igor)	Photograph signed and inscribed ("To dear friend George Martin from his good friend Igor Stravinsky Venice Oct/58")	Venice	1958	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
354	Stravinsky (Igor)	Autograph manuscript of part of "Threni"	Venice	1958	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,070.00
355	Stravinsky (Igor)	Autograph musical quotation from the "Pastorale" for Violin and Piano			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
356	Stravinsky (Igor)	Photograph signed and inscribed with an autograph musical quotation from "Petrushka"		1952	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,092.00
357	Stravinsky (Igor)	Fine autograph musical quotation signed ("Igor Stravinsky Roma 10 IV 28")		1928	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	529.00
358		String duets			GBP 400.00 - 500.00	805.00
359		String Quartets			GBP 600.00 - 700.00	2,185.00
360	Sullivan (Sir Arthur)	Autograph musical quotation signed ("Arthur Sullivan")		15 August 1918	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,207.00
361	Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Il'yich)	Fine early sepia photograph of the composer signed	Moscow	14 October 1874	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
362	Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Il'yich)	Fine Large autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed		March 1889	USD 4,500.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
363	Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Il'ych)	Autograph letter signed ("P. Tschaikovsky")	Klin	5 January "[18]88", [but 1889]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
364	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Fine and remarkable early autograph letter signed ("Giuseppe Verdi, Maestro di Musica in Busseto")	Parma	2 November 1837	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
365	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Macbeth da rappresentarsi nell' I. e T. Teatro in Via della Pergola la quaresima dell'anno 1847 [libretto for the first performance]			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	632.00
366	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Fine autograph letter signed ("GVerdi")	Paris	3 September 1847	GBP 2,800.00 - 3,000.00	2,990.00
367	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Long autograph musical quotation from "Un ballo in maschera"		20 August 1860	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,370.00
368	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Important autograph letter signed ("G. Verdi")	Busseto	2 June 1856	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
369	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Fine autograph musical quotation signed ("G. Verdi")	London	23 July 1855	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
370	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Photographic portrait of Verdi	Milan	5 February 1887	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,325.00
371	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph letter signed ("GVerdi")	Paris	13 January 1857	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
372	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph letter signed ("GVerdi")		(before 1859)	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	1,380.00
373	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph letter signed ('GVerdi")	Cremona	3 July 1864	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	1,725.00
374	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Aida			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
375	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Aida	Milan	[1872]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
376	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph letter signed ("GVerdi") about a production of "Aida"		11 August 1874	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,265.00
377	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph musical quotation from the "Requiem" signed and dated	Paris	24 June 1874	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
378	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Fine autograph letter signed ("G Verdi")	Busseto	4 May 1895	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,552.00
379	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Fine large cabinet-style photograph signed ("GVerdi Milano Fevrier 1897")	Milan		GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	6,325.00
380	Verdi (Giuseppe)	Autograph letter signed ("GVerdi")		[27 February 1895]	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
381		Viola da Gamba		[c.1750-1760]	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
382		Violin			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	828.00
383	Vivaldi (Antonio)	La stravaganza	Amsterdam	[c.1712]	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
384	Vivaldi (Antonio)	It cimento dell' armonia e dell 'invenzione	Amsterdam	[1725]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
385	Vivaldi (Antonio)	Most Celebrated Concertos		[1715 and 1717]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
386	Wagner (Richard)	Fine early autograph musical quotation of the "Farewell to the Swan"		[?c.1850]	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,140.00
387	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"')	Paris	[c.1860]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
388	Wagner (Richard)	Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg	Mainz, Schott	[1868]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	690.00
389	Wagner (Richard)	Important and apparently hitherto unknown sketch-leaf for the opening orchestral	[Lucerne]	[1857]	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
390	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Rich. Wagner")	[Munich]	25 January 1865	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
391	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner")	Tribschen	29 November 1868	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	977.00
392	Wagner (Richard)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Rich. Wagner")	Lucerne	2 September 1868	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,265.00
393	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner")	Paris	11 April 1869	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	920.00
394	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner")	Bayreuth	27 December 1877	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,840.00
395	Wagner (Richard)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Ihr ganz gehorsamster Lohnarbeiter, RichardWagner")	Bayreuth	8 June 1872	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,092.00
396	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner") to Fraulein Schefsky	Bayreuth	1 May 1876	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,610.00
397	Wagner (Richard)	Fine autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner")	Bayreuth	18 May 1876	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	1,725.00
398	Wagner (Richard)	Autograph letter signed ("Rich. Wagner")	Berlin	10 May 1881	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,265.00
399	Warlock (Peter, Philip Heseltine)	Autograph manuscript notebook		1926	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
400	Weber (Carl Maria von)	Collection of first and early editions			USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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.