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
99	James, Henry	The Two Magics	New York	1898	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
100	Jewett, Sarah Orne and Celia Thaxter	An extensive collective of works by and relating to Jewett and Thaxter	Montpelier	21 November 1878	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
101	Joachim of Flora (pseudo-)	Relationes	Venice	ca. 1520	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	8,625.00
102	Johnson, Samuel	A Dictionary of the English Language	London	1755	USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00	8,625.00
103	Johnson, Samuel	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	London	1775	USD 300.00 - 500.00	115.00
104	Kaler, James Otis	Toby Tyler; or Ten Weeks with a Circus	New York	1881	USD 600.00 - 800.00	460.00
105	Kern, Jerome	Typed letter signed	Beverly Hills	23 April 1941	USD 500.00 - 700.00	690.00
106	Das. Kuppers, Dr. Paul Erich, ed	Kestnerbuch	Hannover	1919	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,150.00
107	Kokoschka, Oskar, illus. Kraus, Karl	Die chinesische Mauer	Leipzig	1914	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
108	Kokoschka, Oskar	Hiob	Berlin	1917	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
109	Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de	Autograph letter signed ("Lafayette")	La Grange		USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,035.00
110	La Fontaine, Jean de	Contes et nouvelles en vers	Amsterdam [i.e. Paris: Barbou]	1762	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
111	Lear, Edward	Illustrated Excursions in Italy	London	1846	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,450.00
112	Leger, Fernand, illus. Rimbaud, Arthur	Les illuminations	Lausanne	(1949)	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
113	Lewis, Sinclair	Hike and the Aeroplane	New York	1912	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	11,500.00
114	Lilenthal, Otto	Autograph letter signed	Berlin	23 October 1895	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,887.00
115	Lilienthal, Otto	Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst	Berlin	1889	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,725.00
116	Lindsay, Vachel	A collection of 7 autograph letters signed ("Nicholas Vachel Lindsay" and "Vachel")	Springfield, Illinois, and London	11 January 1916-23 July 1929	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,150.00
117	Gay, John	Literature	London	1728	USD 500.00 - 700.00	460.00
118	Robert Browning	Literary figures	Warwick Crescent	6 April 1881	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
119	Lodge, Edmund	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain	London: Lackington	1821-1834	USD 350.00 - 500.00	1,035.00
120	Henry Wadsworth	Longfellow	Cambridge	30 March 1868	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
121	Louis XIV	Document signed ("Louis")	Versailles	25 January 1681	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
122	Marcus Annaeus	Lucanus	Venice	April 1502	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,840.00
123	Titus	Lucretius Carus		1 May 1511	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	10,925.00
124	Luther, Martin	[Works, German:]	Wittenberg	1539-1559	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	10,925.00
125	Longus	Maillol, Aristide	Paris	1937	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
126	Maillol	Aristide	Paris	1937-1943 (1950)	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
127	Marie Louise	Empress of the French	Parma	27 May 1833	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
128	Matisse, Henri, Illus, Joyce, James	Ulysses	New York	1935	USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00	4,887.00
129	Joyce, James	Ulysses	New York	1935	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,725.00
130	Matisse, Henri, illus, Tzara, Tristan	Le signe de vie	[Paris]	[1946]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
131	M'Kenney, Thomas L., and James Hall	History of the Indian Tribes of North America	Philadelphia	1838	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	40,250.00
132	Maugham, William Somerset	Autograph letter signed ("W. S. Maugham")	New York	5 June 1943	USD 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
133	Meggendorfer, Lothar	Zum Zeitvertreib fur brave Knaben & Madchen	Munich	[ca. 1890]	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	805.00
134	Melville, Herman	Moby-Dick	New York	1851	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	8,625.00
135	Metternich, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von	Fine autograph letter signed ("Metternich")	Vienna	28 July 1816	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
136	Miller, Philip	The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary	London	1807	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	6,325.00
137	Milne, A. A	When We Were Very Young	London: Methuen	1924; 1926; 1927; 1928	USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	14,950.00
138	Milne, A. A.	When We Were Very Young	London: Methuen	1924; 1926; 1927; 1928	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	8,050.00
139	(Mongolia) Voradyev, photographer	People and Views of Urga		1880s	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
140	Monroe, Marilyn	Fine photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Cecil Beaton inscribed and signed			USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
141	Williamson, G. C.	(Morgan Collection)	London	1906-08	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	19,550.00
142	Napoleon I	Fine group of fifty letters signed ("Np," "Nap," and "Napoleon")	Paris	17 January to 10 March 1813	USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	40,250.00
143	Naumann, Johann Andreas	Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas	Gera-Untermhaus	[1896]-1905	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
144	Francis Naghel	[Navigation]			USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
145	Dante Alighieri	(Nonesuch Press)	London	1928	USD 200.00 - 300.00	575.00
146		Ordo misse			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,325.00
147	Publius	Ovidius Naso	Bruges	May 1484	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	575.00
148	Palladio, Andrea	Le Fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi and Le Terme dei Romani	Vicenza	1776-83; 1785	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	5,750.00
149	Panciroli, Guido	Nova reperta	Amberg	1608	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
150		Paperbacks			USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	13,800.00
151	Pasca, Jan	La peregrination spirituelle: vers la terre saincte . . . Composee en langue Thyoise		1566	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	6,900.00
152	Pepys, Samuel	Fine autograph letter signed ("Pepys")	Chatham	13 February 1668	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
153	Petrarch, Francesco	Il Petrarcha	Venice	1547	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	21,850.00
154	Philip II	Fine letter signed ("yo el Rey")	Moncon	31 July 1585	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
155	Piaf, Edith	Autograph note signed			USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
156	Picasso, Pablo, illus	Aristophanes	New York	1934	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,300.00
157	Picasso, Pablo, illus Tzara, Tristan	De memoire d'homme	Paris	1950	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
158	[Picasso, Pablo] Fernard Mourlot	Picasso Lithographic	Monte Carlo	1947-1949	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,495.00
159	[Picasso, Pablo] Fernand Mourlot	Picasso Lithographie	Monte Carol	1947-1949	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
160	Pistolesi, Erasmo	Real Museo Borbonico descritto ed illustrato	Rome	1838-1845	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	2,300.00
161		(Playing cards.)	Paris	1672	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,300.00
162	[Rackham, Arthur, illustrator]	A HUNDRED FLEW OFF WITH THE STRING	London		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	21,850.00
163	[Rackham, Arthur, illustrator]	"THE FAIR MAID WHO THE FIRST OF MAY"	W. Heinemann		USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
164	[Rackham, Arthur, illustrator]	"OH MY! WAKE UP DEAREST BEAST. COME TO LIFE I PRAY!"			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	14,950.00
165	[Rackham, Arthur, illustrator]	"THE PEASANT STORY TELLER"			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	12,650.00
166	Rand, Ayn	Anthem	London	1938	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
167		Reformation Pamphlets			USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	12,650.00
168	Richard de Bury	Philobiblion	Oxford	1599	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	2,300.00
169	Robespierre, Maximilien and Comte Lazare Carnot	Document signed ("Robespierre" and "Carnot")	Paris	(3 November 1793)	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,300.00
170	Rousseau, Jean Jacques	Fine autograph letter signed ("J J Rousseau")	Chiswick	18 March 1766	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
171		Russian Poetry	Petrograd	1921	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
172	Sachs, Hans	The collected poetical and prose works of the sixteenth-century Nuremberg poet Hans Sachs			USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	14,950.00
173	Sangorski 8c Sutcliffe, binders Omar Khayyam	Rubaiyat . . .translated by Edward FitzGerald	London		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	16,100.00
174	Scott, Sir Walter	Autograph letter signed ("Walter Scott")	Lasswade Cottage	6 August 1800	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
175	Smith, Adam	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	London	1776	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	18,400.00
176	Stanhope, Philip Dormer, earl of Chesterfield	Letters Written by the Late ... to his Son	London	1774	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
177	Stein, Gertrude	Operas and Plays	Paris	(1932)	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,840.00
178	Steinbeck, John	Cup of Gold	New York	1927	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,162.00
179	Step, Edward	Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse	London	1896-1897	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	805.00
180	[Stevenson, Robert Louis]	Copy of the act of admission for Robert Louis Stevenson to be an advocate	Edinburgh	16 July 1875	USD 200.00 - 300.00	172.00
181	Thackeray, William Makepeace	Autograph note signed ("W M Thackeray")	Onslow Square		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
182	Theocritus	[Idylls, in Greek]	Louvain	31 January 1520	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	2,875.00
183	Thoreau, Henry David	Autograph manuscript			USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
184	Thoreau, Henry David	Waiden	Boston	1854	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,312.00
185	Thoreau, Henry David	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	Boston	1849	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	20,700.00
186	Thoreau, Henry David	The Writings	Boston and New York	1906	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,750.00
187	[Thoreau, Henry David.]	Small collection of clippings			USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	8,050.00
188	Thornton, Robert John, publisher	A collection of 18 fine aquatint			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	21,850.00
189	Victoria, Pedro Gobeo de	Argonauticon Americanorum . . . Libri XV	Amsterdam	1698	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
190	Volta, Alessandro	Fine autograph letter signed ("Cte Alessandro Volta")	Pavia	20 May 1816	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	920.00
191	Wagner, Richard	Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner")	Bayreuth	2 February 1875	USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	1,725.00
192	Welles, Orson	Screenplay of his celebrated film			USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	6,900.00
193	Welles, Orson	Working screenplay of his film		1962	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
194	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill	Autograph letter signed ("J McN. Whistler")			USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
195	(Whistler, James Abbott McNeill) Kennedy, Edward G	The Etched Work of Whistler	New York	1910	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,150.00
196	Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn	Brooklyn	1856	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	3,162.00
197	Whitman, Walt	Two Rivulets	Camden, N. J.	1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,300.00
198	Woolf, Virginia	The Waves.	London	1931	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	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.