Sothebys: BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Estate of Joseph L. Mankiewicz Property of Beatrice Welles Property Sold by the Danforth Art Museum to Benefit the Acquisition Fund Property from the Collection of Peter Jay Sharp Property from the Montclair Art Museum Property offered by Joslyn Museum's Board of Governors to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund Property from the Estate of Lucille Rosenblum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Property from the Estate of Anthony N.B. Garvan Property, 6581,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 10, 1994 - June 10, 1994

Page Size: 207 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1A		Aesop	London	1666	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	14,950.00
1	Abraham Ben Ezra	In re iudicali opera (transi. Petro de Abano)	Venice	1507	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
2		De magnis coniunctionibus	Augsburg	31 March 1489	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	6,900.00
3		American History			USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,380.00
4		[American Judaica] [Bible. Psalms.]	Cambrdige, Massachusetts	1809	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
5		[American Judaica]	Philadelphia	1823	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
6		[American Judaica] Grace Aguilar	Philadelphia	1842	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,587.00
7		[American Judaica]	Philadelphia	1845	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
8	Leeser, editor	[American Judaica] Isaac	Philadelphia	1848	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
9		[American Judaica]	Charleston, South Carolina	1 November 1848	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
10	Israel J. Benjamin, II	[American Judaica]	Hannover	1862	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,610.00
11		American Literature			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
12	Antoninus Florentinus	De censuris	Venice	23 September 1474	USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	1,610.00
13		Arts and Entertainment			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,162.00
14	Joseph Montgolfier and Claude Gabriel Fontaine	Ballooning: Joseph Montgolfier and Claude Gabriel Fontaine			USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	Not Sold
15	Joseph Montgolfier	Ballooning			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
16	Charles Green	Ballooning			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
17	John Jeffries	Ballooning	London	1786	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
18	Eugene Robertson	Ballooning			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	6,325.00
19		Ballooning			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,450.00
20	Barlach, Ernst, illus. Walter, Reinhold von	Der Kopf	Berlin	1919	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	805.00
21	Bayle, Pierre	Dictionnaire historique et critique	Rotterdam	1720	USD 350.00 - 500.00	287.00
22	Bertholon, Pierre	Des advantages que la physique	Montpellier		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
23	Bessa, Pancrace	[Rose Apple (Eugenia jambos)]			USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	5,750.00
24		Bible	Mainz	c. 1455	USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	18,400.00
25	Jost Amman	[Bible, illustrated by Jost Amman]		1571	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	3,162.00
26	Thucydides	(Bindings. French, 17th century)	Frankfurt	1594	USD 250.00 - 400.00	1,495.00
27	(Binding) Longus	Daphnis et Chloe	Paris	1890	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,955.00
28	Blaeu, Johannes	Nouveau theatre d'Italie	Hague	1724	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	48,875.00
29	Blaeu, Johannes	Nouveau Theatre d'Italie	Hague	1724	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	27,600.00
30	Boswell, James	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,840.00
31	Boswell, James	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,840.00
32	Buber, Martin	Fine autograph letter signed ("Buber")			USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
33	Burnett, M. A.	Plantae Utilores	London	[1839]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	2,875.00
34	Burroughs, Edgar Rice	"Tarzan of the Apes"	New York and London	1912	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
34 A	Byrne, Oliver	The First Six Books of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters	London	1847	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	920.00
35	Byron, George Gordon, Lord	Fine autograph letter signed ("Byron")			USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
36	Caruso, Enrico	Autograph postcard signed with photographic portrait of Caruso			USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
37	Cavour, Camillo	Fine autograph letter signed ("C. Cavour")			USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
38	Chagall, Marc, illus Morand, Paul	Ouvert la nuit	Paris	1927	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	920.00
39	Chagall, Marc, illus	The Story of the Exodus	Paris and New York	1966	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	23,000.00
40	Chagall, Marc, illus	Pieyre de Mandiargues	Paris	1975	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
41	Churchill, Sir Winston	Three autograph notes signed ("Winston S. Churchill")			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,070.00
42	Clemens, Samuel Langhorne	Fine autograph letter signed ('Mark Twain")			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	2,875.00
43	Clemens, Samuel Langhorne	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	New York	1885	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
44	Clemens, Samuel Langhorne	Adventures of Huckleberry	New York	1885	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
45	Clemens, Samuel Langhorne	Extracts from Adam's Diary	New York and London	1904	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	805.00
46		Continental letters			USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,737.00
47	Cook, James	A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World	London	[1784]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	805.00
48	Cook, James John Hawkesworth	An Account of the Voyages			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	11,500.00
49		Costumes of Holland	Amsterdam	1808	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	920.00
50	Cromwell, Oliver	Document signed			USD 200.00 - 300.00	1,495.00
51	Cruikshank, George, illus. Mayhew, Henry	Whom To Marry	London	1847-48	USD 250.00 - 400.00	690.00
52	Cruikshank, George	Group of drawings of theatrical subjects			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
53	Cruikshank, Robert	Group of drawings of theatrical subjects			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
54	Curtis, William	The Botanical Magazine	London	1787-1828	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	12,650.00
55	Danton, Georges Jacques	Document signed ("Danton")	[Paris]	11 August 1792	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
56	Dore, Gustav, illus Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy	London	1904	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
57	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND MEMORABILIA			USD 125,000.00 - 175,000.00	Not Sold
58	Dreiser, Theodore	Sister Carrie	New York		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
59	Dubourg, Matthew	Views of the Remains of Ancient Buildings in Rome	London	1820	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,495.00
60	Dufy, Raoul, illus	Apollinaire, Guillaume	Paris	1926	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	690.00
61	Ebeling, Christoph Daniel	Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika	Hamburg	1793-1816	USD 100.00 - 150.00	57.00
62	Ehret, Georg Dionysius	Plantae et papiliones rariores depictae et aeri incisae a a Georgio Dionysio Ehret	London	1748-1759	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	19,550.00
63	Einstein, Albert	Autograph manuscript unsigned	Princeton	1953-1954	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	3,737.00
64	Eisen, Charles, illustrator	Freron et Colbert	London and Paris	1775	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
65	Eliot, T. S.	A Practical Possum	Cambridge, Mass	1947	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,955.00
66	Eliot, T. S.	Poems 1909-1925			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
67	Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Fine autograph letter signed	Concord	27 November 1846	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,955.00
68	Pierce Egan	English Color Plate Books			USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,035.00
69	William Combe	English Color Plate Books			USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,750.00
70	Thomas Carlyle	English literary figures			USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,265.00
71	Charles Dickens	English Literature			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,587.00
72		English and Scottish Chapbooks			USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	920.00
73		English Royalty, Peerage, and Politics			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	805.00
74	(Erotica) Femin, Cesar	Musee Royal de Naples	Paris	1857	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
75	Faulkner, William	The Town	New York	1957	USD 500.00 - 700.00	7,475.00
76	Flaubert, Gustave	Autograph manuscript unsigned			USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	7,475.00
77		Fore-edge paintings			USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	2,587.00
78		France. Royalty and Nobility		11 April 1518, to 28 June 1844	USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00	Not Sold
79	Charles de Secondat Montesquieu	French Illustrated Books			USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	4,312.00
80		French Illustrated Books	Paris		USD 500.00 - 800.00	1,265.00
81	Gerard, John	The Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes	London	1633	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
82	Gershwin, George	Autograph manuscript of part of "Porgy and Bess,"		1935	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	4,025.00
83	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Autograph manuscript draft of a poem	Weimar	early 1810	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,750.00
84	Goltzius, Hubert	Vive omnium fere imperatorum imagines	Antwerp	1557	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
85	Goltzius, Hubert	Les images presque de tous les empereurs	Antwerp	1561 (colophon 1559)	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
86	Gordon, General Charles George	Autograph postcard signed			USD 600.00 - 800.00	575.00
87	Gould, William Buelow	Group of twenty-five botanical drawings	Hobart Town (Tasmania)	ca 1830	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	9,200.00
88	Greene, Graham	Babbling April	Oxford	1925	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	3,162.00
89	Haley, Alex	Typed letter signed	Beverly Hills	25 December 1980	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	920.00
90	Harris, Joel Chandler	Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings	New York	1881	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
91	Heine, Heinrich	Fine autograph letter signed	Paris	17 October 1844	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	7,475.00
92	Hemingway, Ernest	The Old Man and the Sea	New York	1952	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	5,462.00
93		Hemingway, Ernest	Hemingway	1940s and 1950s	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	8,050.00
94	Hertzl, Theodor	Autograph letter signed	Vienna	22 April 1891	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,450.00
95	Hieronymus (St.)	Vitae sanctorum patrum	Venice	14 February 1483/84	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,840.00
96	Hill, John	Eden	London	1757	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,887.00
97		Hortulus Animae	Strassburg	31 January 1500	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
98	Hugo, Victor	Portion of an autograph letter signed			USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00

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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.
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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.

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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.