Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, GREENWICH,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 16, 1963 - December 16, 1963
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 394 | [Monsigny (Pierre Alexandre)] | Operas | USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 395 | Jomelli (Nicolo) | Oratorios | USD - | 154.00 | ||
| 396 | Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Felix) | Oratorios | USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 397 | Philidor (Francois Andre Danican) | Le Marechal Ferrant | Paris | [1762] |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 397A | PUCCINI (GIACOMO) | A large photograph of Puccini seated at his grand piano | USD - | 67.20 | ||
| 398 | Rubinstein (Anton) | Kalaschnikoff | 1560 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 399 | Rubinstein (Anton) | Nero | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 400 | Rubinstein (Anton) | Feramors [Oper in 3 Acten] | Leipzig | 1312 |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 401 | Sacchini (Antonio Maria Gasparo) | Oedipe a Colonne | Paris | [1787] |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 402 | Schubert (Franz) | Premier Quatuor pour deux Violons | Vienna | [c. 1854] |
USD - | 25.20 |
| 403 | Schumann (Robert) | Symphonie fur Orchester revidirt von Alfred Dorffel | [c. 1887] |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 404 | Spontini (Gasparo) | La Vestale | Paris | [1817 or later] |
USD - | 42.00 |
| 405 | Kirnberger (Johann Philipp) | Theoretical | USD - | 106.40 | ||
| 406 | Wagner (Richard) | Lohengrin | Paris | USD - | 2.80 | |
| 407 | Wagner (Richard) | Tannhauser | Paris | USD - | 2.80 | |
| 408 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | A.L.s. to Monsieur Ullman | 2 March 1866 |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 409 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | Brief A. L. s. (signature in gothic Schrift) to Dr. Pachler [a lawyer in Graz] | 1815 |
USD - | 1,960.00 | |
| 410 | BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VAN) | A.L.s. (in French with bold signature in Latin characters) to Charles Neate | Vienna | 6 Feb. 1816 |
USD - | 1,820.00 |
| 411 | ELGAR (Sir EDWARD) | A.L.s. to Edward Lloyd | 24 Oct. 1921 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 412 | GOUNOD (CHARLES) | Nine A. Ls. s. to William (afterwards Sir William) Cusins [Master of the Queen's Mustek, 1870-1893] | 1870-1893 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 413 | GOUNOD (CHARLES) | Auto | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 414 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.Ls. (in French) to an unnamed correspondent whom he asks to hear the young pianist | 24 Nov. [18]65 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 415 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.L.s. (in French) to William (afterwards Sir William) Cusins sending his setting of "Go not happy day" for the new illustrated edition of the Songs of Tennyson and asking his correspondent to acknowledge receipt of the MS | Weimar | 7 Aug. [18]79 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 416 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.L.s. (in French) [to William (afterwards Sir William) Cusins] expressing his pleasure that his correspondent found his Tennyson song to his taste and asking for the last proofs | Tivoli | 21 Sept [18]79 |
USD - | 70.00 |
| 417 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.L.s. (in French) to an unnamed correspondent [evidently Sir William Cusins] saying that the proofs of the song have not yet come to hand but that yesterday he received the fee of twenty pounds sterling | Rome | 8 Oct.[18]79 |
USD - | 70.00 |
| 418 | MASSENET (JULES) | A.L.s. to an unnamed correspondent [evidently Sir William Cusins] | Paris | 9 Sept. 1879 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 419 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to George Anderson | 7 Nov. 1829 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 420 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to George Frederick Anderson | 7 July 1842 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 421 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to George Frederick Anderson | Leipzig | 8 May 1846 |
USD - | 126.00 |
| 422 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to George Frederick Anderson | USD - | 112.00 | ||
| 423 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to an unnamed correspondent | 30 April 1847 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 424 | SAINT-SAENS (CAMILLE) | AUTOGRAPH MUSIC: Song with pianoforte accompaniment | 20 Oct. 1879 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 425 | SULLIVAN (Sir ARTHUR) | A.L.s. to James Arrowsmith regretting that he cannot give his correspondent permission to perform "Cox and Box" as he is only one of three authors | 16 Dec. 1874 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 426 | SULLIVAN (Sir ARTHUR) | A.L.s. to Edward Lloyd | 28 Dec. 1888 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 427 | SULLIVAN (Sir ARTHUR) | A.L.s. to Edward Lloyd | 6 May 1893 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 428 | WAGNER (RICHARD) | A.L.s. (in French) to an unnamed correspondent who had written to him in the name of the Philharmonic Society of London to invite him to conduct the 1855 season of concerts expressing his willingness to do so provided that certain conditions, which he lay | Zurich | 28 Dec. 1854 |
USD - | 112.00 |
| 429 | WAGNER (RICHARD) | A.L.s. (in French) to George Frederick Anderson | London | 11 May [18]55 |
USD - | 98.00 |
| 430 | DELIUS (FREDERICK) | AUTOGRAPH MUSIC : Air and Dance for Strings | 1915 |
USD - | 210.00 | |
| 431 | HESELTINE (PHILIP, Peter Warlock) | AUTOGRAPH MUSIC: Serenade for String Orchestra | 1923 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 432 | GOETHE (JOHANN WOLFGANG VON) | Pen-and-ink and wash drawing of a lake | December 1838 |
USD - | 1,820.00 | |
| 433 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.L.s. (in French) | Detmold | 15 Nov 1841 |
USD - | 112.00 |
| 434 | LISZT (FRANZ) | A.L.s. (in French) addressed to "chere grand artiste" | Hamburg | 5 June 1842 |
USD - | 112.00 |
| 435 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) | 20 May [18]44 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 436 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) to Mrs. Sartoris (formerly Adelaide Kemble | 31 May 1844 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 437 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in English) [to Edward John Sartoris] asking his correspondent to excuse his not going with him to Kensington in the afternoon as he had promised | 12 June 1844 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 438 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. (in German, Latin characters) to Mrs. Sartoris (formerly Adelaide Kemble | 5 Sept. 1844 |
USD - | 182.00 | |
| 439 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. to Edward John Sartoris (in German, Latin characters) | 9 Jan. 1845 |
USD - | 210.00 | |
| 440 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. | 18 July 1845 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 441 | MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. | Leipzig | 14 Feb 1846 |
USD - | 238.00 |
| 442 | MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. | Leipzig | 20 Feb 1847 |
USD - | 182.00 |
| 443 | MUSICIANS | USD - | 50.40 | |||
| 444 | ABBEY OF HOLME CULTRAM | Collection of eighteen private charters of the 12th and 13th centuries granting various lands and properties | USD - | 308.00 | ||
| 445 | COMMONPLACE BOOK (in English) kept by various members of the Crackanthorpe family | c. 1595-1642 |
USD - | 364.00 | ||
| 446 | CRACKANTHORPE FAMILY | 13 October 1792 |
USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 447 | CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND | USD - | 308.00 | |||
| 448 | ELIZABETH I (Queen of England) | Royal Letters Patent authorising Thomas Hutton esquire and his wife Barbara to transfer to Henry Crackanthorpe esquire the manor of Ulsebye and extensive estates (specified) in Cumberland | USD - | 126.00 | ||
| 449 | ENGLISH ROYAL CHARTERS | 1355-1605 |
USD - | 616.00 | ||
| 450 | Two MANUSCRIPT PLANS of lands in the parishes of Kirkby Thore and Temple Sowerby | [c. 1500] |
USD - | 154.00 | ||
| 451 | WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) | A.L.s. | [c. 1815] |
USD - | 308.00 | |
| 452 | ERNEST MALOWETZ (1297-1364, Archbishop of Prague) | Charter by him granting the parish church of Kostolac to the Augustinian Abbey at Glatz | USD - | 98.00 | ||
| 453 | FERDINAND V (King of Castile and Aragon, "The Catholic") | Doc.s. | 29 June 1476 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 454 | FERDINAND V (King of Castile and Aragon, "The Catholic") | L.s., 1 page | 15 May 1505 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 455 | MISCELLANEOUS | USD - | 33.60 | |||
| 456 | ALBUM containing letters and papers | USD - | 64.40 | |||
| 457 | OXFORD (EDWARD DE VERE, seventeenth Earl of, 1550-1604, poet) | DOC.s. | 6 May 1592 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 458 | SUCKLING (Sir JOHN, 1609-42, poet) | DOC.s. | USD - | 210.00 | ||
| 459 | NEWCASTLE (WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Duke of, 1592-1676, poet and patron, writer on horsemanship) | A.L.s. | 2 June 1632 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 460 | PEPYS (SAMUEL) | L.s. (also signed by six other Navy Commissioners) | 2 January [16]88 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 461 | ORMONDE (JAMES BUTLER, first Duke of) | L.s. (as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) 1 page | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 462 | PARLIAMENT | [c. 1678-79] |
USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 463 | MEDICAL | USD - | 28.00 | |||
| 464 | COOKERY | 1785 |
USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 465 | Row (WILLIAM, the younger) | ON MAGICK | London | 1830 |
USD - | 16.80 |
| 466 | DRYDEN (JOHN, 1631-1700, poet) | A.L.s. | USD - | 2,660.00 | ||
| 467 | JOURNAL OF A TOUR through France and Flanders | USD - | 364.00 | |||
| 468 | GOLD COAST AND SIERRA LEONE | USD - | 308.00 | |||
| 469 | DUTCH GUIANA LANCE (J. H.) | His Letter Book | 27 January 1823 -27 June 1833 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 470 | INDIA | 28 July -30 August 1821 |
USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 471 | SPEKE (JOHN HANNING) | A.L.s. (as Captain commanding the East African Expedition) | Uganda | 6 July 1862 |
USD - | 98.00 |
| 472 | PENINSULAR WAR | 30 August 1813-29 August 1814 |
USD - | 126.00 | ||
| 473 | WILDMAN (THOMAS, Captain) | WATERLOO CAMPAIGN | USD - | 182.00 | ||
| 474 | PAGET (HENRY WILLIAM, Lieutenant-General, Earl of Uxbridge) | WATERLOO CAMPAIGN | 15 June 1815 |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 475 | NELSON (HORATION, Viscount, Admiral) | A.L.s. | 9 October 1801 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 476 | NELSON (HORATION, Viscount, Admiral) | A.L.s. | 15 August 1804 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 477 | [NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, Admiral)] | INTERESTING COLLECTION OF BILLS | USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 478 | BURKE (RICHARD, brother of Edmund Burke) | A.L.s. | [23 February 1792] |
USD - | 266.00 | |
| 479 | BURKE (EDMUND) | Three A.Ls.s. | 28 February - 10 July 1792 |
USD - | 364.00 | |
| 480 | Fox (CHARLES JAMES) | A.L. (third person) | USD - | 238.00 | ||
| 481 | MALONE (EDMUND) | A.L.s. | Oxford | 9 July 1792 |
USD - | 252.00 |
| 482 | REYNOLDS (Sir JOSHUA) | A.L. (third person) | USD - | 266.00 | ||
| 483 | REYNOLDS (Sir JOSHUA) | A.L. (third person) | 27 August 1790 |
USD - | 266.00 | |
| 484 | (REYNOLDS (Sir JOSHUA, 1723-92) | Interesting Collection of letters and documents from the papers of his executor Philip Metcalfe concerning arrangements for Reynolds's funeral and the settlement of his estate | USD - | 364.00 | ||
| 485 | SCOTT (WILLIAM, 1745-1836, first Lord Stowell) | Two A.Ls.s. | 27 December 1793 - August [1799] |
USD - | 364.00 | |
| 486 | LYTTELTON (GEORGE, first Baron Lyttelton, 1709-73, poet and statesman, friend of Pope) | A.L.s. | 23 January 1772 |
USD - | 154.00 | |
| 487 | (HUTTON (Rev. JOHN, 17407-1806, author) | Collection of about 60 A. Ls. s. and Ls.s. | USD - | 126.00 | ||
| 488 | SHEARES (JOHN, 1766-98, United Irishman) | A.L. (unsigned) | 10 July-11 July 1798 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 489 | BURNS (ROBERT) | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM "There's three gude fellows ayont yon glen" | USD - | 448.00 | ||
| 490 | HOGG (JAMES, "the Etrick Shepherd") | A.L.s. | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 491 | JENNER (EDWARD, discoverer of Vaccination) | Interesting A.L.s. | Cheltenham | 14 November 1814 |
USD - | 448.00 |
| 492 | GOETHE (J. W. VON) | L.s., 1 page | USD - | 28.00 |
