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
601	Flaubert (Gustave)	Autograph letter signed		[20 November 1874]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	230.00
602	Fouquier-Tinville (Antoine Quentin, public prosecutor in the Tribunal revolutionnaire)	Autograph letter signed ("Fouquier de Tinville")	Paris	26 August 1776	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
603	Fouche (Joseph, 1759-1820, duke of Otranto, minister of police during the First Empire)	Autograph draft memorandum to Napoleon describing the situation in Rome at the time the Empire was beginning to crumble			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	747.00
604	Franz Joseph (Emperor)	Letter signed ("majestatis vestrae bonus Consanguineus et frater Franciscus Josephus")	Vienna	16 February 1897	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
605	Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe)	Autograph letter to Bossuet	Versailles	3 March, no year [before 1696]	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
606	Gamarra (Agustin)	Letter signed	La Paz	11 May 1828	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
607	Gamarra (Agustin)	Three Letters signed	La Paz and Cuzco	12 August and 24 September 1828, and 10 February 1831	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
608	Gamarra (Agustin)	Fifteen letters signed (one entirely autograph) to Mariano Alvarez	Lima, Cuzco and elsewhere	4 January 1830 to 15 March 1831	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
609		German and Austrian Literature			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,150.00
610		German Literature			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
611		Germany	Neuwied, Diedendorf, Frankfurt am Main, Duisburg, Groningen, Rotterdam, Amderdam, Hanover, Bremen, Cleves and elsewhere	1745-1809	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	345.00
612	Goethe (J.W. von)	Printed poem 'Die Feier des siebenten Novembers 1825 dankbar zu erwiedern' ("Sah gemalt, in Gold und Rahmen...")			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,150.00
613	Goya y Lucientes (Francisco Jose de)	Autograph letter signed ("Fran. co de Goya") about portraits of the King and Queen	Madrid	10 August 1801	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
614	Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von)	Autograph annotation			USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
615	Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von)	Letter signed with autograph subscription ("Ew. Wohlgeb. ergebenster Diener J W v Goethe")	Weimar	c. June 1831	USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
616	Guise (Francois de Lorraine, duc de)	Two letters signed with autograph subscription to Sebastien de l'Aubespine	Amboise and St Liger	6 March 1559/60 and 3 July 1560	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	575.00
617	Harden (Maximilian, adopted name of Felix Ernst Witkowski)	Series of some seventy autograph letters and postcards signed (some with initial) to Karl Kraus	Berlin	1897-1904	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	7,475.00
618	Hirohito (Emperor of Japan)	Fine photograph		[c.1945]	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
619	Hoffmann von Fallersleben (August)	Autograph poem dedicated to Ferdinand Hiller			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	299.00
620	Hofmannsthal (Hugo von)	Autograph letter signed ("Hofmannsthal")	Rodaun	20 January 1923	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	460.00
621		inkeeping in Renaissance Italy			USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
622	JArry (Alfred)	autograph manuscript signed		1901	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
623	Josephine (Empress)	Document signed as wife of the First Consul		(14 March 1801)	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
624		Josephine		(2 July) [1798]	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
625	Jung (C.G.)	Five important typed letters signed ("C.G. Jung") to Dr Felicia Froboese-Thiele			GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	6,900.00
626	[Jung, C.G.]	Fundamental Psychological Conceptions	London	1936	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	747.00
627	Kraus (Karl, editor of the Viennese satirical magazine 'Die Fackel)	Twenty autograph letters and postcards signed (many with initials)	Vienna and elsewhere	1902-1911	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	12,650.00
628	La Fontaine (Jean de)	Autograph verses			GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,450.00
629	La Fuente (Antonio G. de, Vice-President of Peru)	Eleven autograph letters signed and letters signed		18 August 1827 to 19 May 1835	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
630	Leclerc (General Victor)	Letter signed ("Leclerc")		(16 February 1798)	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
631	Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm von)	Autograph receipt		13 November 1709	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
632	Liliencron (Detlev von)	Autograph manuscript of a poem entitled 'Anakreontisches Liedel'		1905-1909	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
633	Ludwig II (King of Bavaria)	Six autograph letters signed ("Ludwig")		21 December 1870 to 1 September 1876	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	11,500.00
634		Literature			USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
635	Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon	Autograph transcript by Madame de Maintenon of a letter by Louis XIV to the Queen of Spain		[c.1704]	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
636	Louis XV	Autograph letter signed ("Louis") to the duc de Choiseul		25 September 1761	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
637	Louis XVI	Document signed ("Louis")	Paris	24June 1792	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
638	Louis XVI	Document signed eleven days before his imprisonment ("Louis")	Paris	29July 1792	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
639	Louis XVIII	Important letter signed ("Louis")	Paris	26 May 1814	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	690.00
640	Maeterlinck (Maurice)	Autograph letter signed and letter signed with autograph subscription		7 October 1910 and 16 October 1913	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
641		Malta			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
642	Marat (Jean-Paul)	Autograph letter signed ("Le Dr Marat")	Paris	28 February 1792	USD 2,500.00 - 2,800.00	Not Sold
643	Marie-Louise (Empress)	Autograph letter signed as Regent	Prague	25 June 1812	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
644	Matisse (Henri)	Autograph letter signed ("Henri Matisse")		16 November 1935	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	920.00
645	manupassant (Guy de)	Autograph letter signed ("Guy de Maupassant")	Paris	[1884]	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	690.00
646		Maximilian of Mexico	Vienna	19 January 1864	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	529.00
647	Mazarin (Cardinal Jules)	Autograph letter signed		30 July 1655	USD 450.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
648	Mendeleev (Dmitri Ivanovich, chemist, discoverer of the periodic table of the elements)	Autograph letter signed ("D Mendeleev" in Russian)		10 July 1888	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	2,990.00
649		Mexico		[c.1794]	GBP 2,500.00 - 2,800.00	2,645.00
650		Mexico	Havana	2 March 1828	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
651	Born (Ignaz von)	Mineralogy		1777	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	7,475.00
652	(Anne de, 1492-1567, Constable of France)	Montmorency	Paris	8 June 1549 to 19 June 1554	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
653	(Anne de, Constable of France)	Montmorency			USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
654	Morisot (Berthe)	Autograph letter signed ("B Manet")			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
655	Monkt (Claude)	Fifteen autograph letters signed			GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	9,430.00
656	Nabokov (Vladimir)	Autograph contract between Nabokov		16 February 1924	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
657	Napoleon I	Letter signed ("Np")	Bayonne	18 May 1808	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
658	Napoleon I	Letter signed ("Np" with blot)		22 March 1809	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
659	Napoleon I	Letter signed ("Np")	Paris	9 March 1809	USD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
660		Napoleonic: Marshals and Generals	French and German	1798 to 1813	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
661	Napoleon I	Minute signed ("Bonaparte") in the margin of a letter addressed to him as First Consul by Admiral Ganteaume		(6 and 10 May 1802)	USD 2,200.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
662	Nicholas II (Tsar)	Autograph letter signed ("Nikolai") in Russian		15 February 1902	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
663	Nicholas II (Tsar)	Letter signed ("Nikolai") in Russian		31 March 1898	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	920.00
664	O'Meara (Dr Barry, Napoleon's physician on St Helena)	Autograph letter signed			USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
665		Palatinate		1716 to 1789	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
666	Philip II and the Low Countries	Letter and document signed ("ph[e]l[ipp]e")	Brussels and Ghent	1 May and 2 August 1559	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	460.00
667	Planck (Max)	Ten autograph letters signed ("Max Planck")	Magdeburg	29 October 1943 to 10 February 1944	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,990.00
668	Racine (Jean)	Receipt signed as Prior of St Jacques de la Ferte ("Racine")		15 December 1672	GBP 900.00 - 1,000.00	1,035.00
669	Radiguet (Raymond)	Autograph letter signed ("Raymond Radiguet")	Paris	c. 1919	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
670	Rilke (Rainer Maria)	Autograph letter signed ("Rilke")	Munich	10 October 1918	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	862.00
671	Rothschild (Meyer Amschel.)	Letter signed ("M.A. Rothschild")	Frankfurt am Main	18 November 1822	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	552.00
672	Rousseau (Jean-Jacques)	Autograph letter signed with a pseudonym ("Renou")		29 September 1769	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,680.00
673	Rudolph (Archduke, died at Mayerling)	Autograph letter signed ("Rudolf') to Pausinger	Laxenburg	25 October 1885	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	460.00
674	Saint-Hilaire (Auguste, 1779-1853, naturalist)	Autograph letter signed ("Auguste de St Hilaire")	Paris	7 November 1839	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
675	Sainte-Beuve. (Charles Augustin de)	Five autograph poems and nine autograph letters signed	Paris	1840	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
676	Schadow (Johann Gottfried)	Series of over thirty autograph letters signed and letters signed ("Dr G Schadow director")	Berlin	1806-1848	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,680.00
677	Schiller (Friedrich)	Autograph statement		[?c. 1801]	USD 3,000.00 - 3,200.00	Not Sold
678	Schopenhauer (Arthur)	Remarkable autograph letter signed ("ton ami Arthur Schopenhauer")	Frankfurt am Main	2 May 1845	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
679	Strindberg (August)	Autograph letter signed ("August Strindberg")	Switzerland	13 July 1884	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	805.00
680	Stendhal (Henri Beyle)	Autograph letter	Erfurt	28 April 1813	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
681	Sucre (Antonio Jose de)	Document signed as President of Bolivia ("Ant. J. de Sucre")		3 April 1828	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
682		Sun Dials			GBP 600.00 - 700.00	1,322.00
683		Spain	Madrid and elsewhere	1580-1651	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
684		Spain			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,495.00
685	Trotsky (Leon)	Autograph inscription	Paris	1929	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,265.00
686	Trotsky (Leon)	Letter signed ("Ihr L Trotsky")	Mexico	30 March 1937	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
687	Unamuno (Miguel. de)	Two important autograph letters signed ("Miguel de Unamuno")			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,380.00
688	Verlaine (Paul)	Autograph sonnet			GBP 400.00 - 500.00	460.00
689		War of the Austrian Succession	Paris	c. 1744	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
690	Yourcenar (Marguerite, pen-name of Marguerite de Crayencour)	Autograph letter signed ("Marg. Yourcenar")	Brussels	18 April 1930	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
691	Zeppelin (Ferdinand, GraF)	Autograph letter signed		13 June 1907	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
692	Zola (Emile)	Autograph letter signed ("Emile Zola")	Medan	18 April 1881	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
693	Zoia (Emile.)	Autograph letter signed ("Emile Zola")			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	460.00
694	Zola (Emile)	Signed photograph of Zola seated at his desk		[?c. 1885-1890]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	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.