Sothebys: MODERN CONTINENTAL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS INCLUDING MANY UNIQUE COPIES ACCOMPANIED BY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THE PROPERTY OF A CONTINENTAL COLLECTOR, ENSEMBLE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 24, 1983 - January 24, 1983

Page Size: 532 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	edouard Manet - Poe (Edgar Allan)	Les Poemes		1889	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
202	Andre Marchand	Pierre a Feu	Paris	1945	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
203	Charles Martin	Sous les Pot de Fleurs		1917	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
204	Andre Marty	Modes et Manieres d'Aujoud'hui	Paris	1921	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	187.00
205	Andre Marty	Modes et Manieres d'Aujourd'hui	Paris	1921	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	187.00
206	A.-E. Marty - Montesquieu	Le Temple de Gnide	Paris	1930	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
207	W. Masjutin	Die Sieben Todsunden			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
208	Henri Matisse - Tzara (Tristan)	Le Signe de Vie	Paris	1946	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
209	Henri Matisse	Cinquante Dessins	Paris	1920	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	528.00
210	Henri Matisse - Ronsard (Pierre)	Florilege des Amours		1970	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	99.00
211	Minotaure	Revue Artistique et Literaire	Paris	1933-1936	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
212	Luc-Albert Moreau - Carco (Francis)	Images Cachees	Paris	1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
213	Joan Miro	Les Essencias de la Terra	Barcelona	1968	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
214	Alphonse Mucha - Le Pater	commentaire et compositions de A.M. Mucha	Paris	1899	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
215	Edvard Munch	Quickborn	Berlin	[1899]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	88.00
216	Edvard Munch and others - Struck (Hermann)	Die Kunst des Radierens	Berlin	1920	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
217	Jules Pascin - Heine (Heinrich)	Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schabelewopsky	Berlin	1910	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
218	Picinni - Montale (Eugenio)	Cinquante Ans de Poesie	Milan	1972	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
219	Filippo De Pisis	Alcune poesie	Venice	1945	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
220	Pablo Picasso - Mourlot (Fernand)	Picasso Lithographe I-IV: 1919-1963	Monte-Carlo	1949-1964	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
221	Pablo Picasso - Salmon (Andre)	Peindre	Paris	1921	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	308.00
222	Man Ray - Eluard (Paul)	Facile	Paris	1935	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	154.00
223	Man Ray	La Photographie n'est pas l'Art	Paris	1937	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
224	G. J. Powlewicz - Regnier (Henri de)	Arethuse		1940-1941	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	132.00
225	G. J. Powlewicz - Rimbaud (Arthur)	Bateau Ivre	Paris	1954	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
226	Legende Tartarede Crimee	title-page printed in red and gold and text printed in red with illustrations and decorations	Paris	1926	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
227	Pierre Auguste Renoir - Roger-Marx (Claude)	Les Lithographies de Renoir	Monte-Carlo	1951	USD 175.00 - 225.00	Not Sold
228	Auguste Renoir - Roger-Marx (Claude)	Les Lithographies de Renoir	Monte Carlo	1951	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
229	Sylvain Sauvage - Sade (Marquis de)	Ernestine	Paris	1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
230	Sylvain Sauvage - Sade (Marquis de)	Ernestine	Paris	1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
231	F. L. Schmied - Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von)	Faust	Paris	1938	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	374.00
232	Otto Schubert	Bilder fur Tyll und Nele	Munich	1920	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	319.00
233	Otto Schubert	Bei Uns	Borgberg	1920	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
234	Richard Seewald - Jammes (Francis)	Der Hasenroman		1916	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	220.00
235	Georges Seurat - Hauke (C. M. de)	Seurat et son Oeuvre	Paris	1961	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	484.00
236	Max Slevogt - Cooper (James Fenimore)	Lederstrumpf-Erzahlungen	Berlin	1909	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	572.00
237	T. A. Steinlen	Contes a Sara	Paris	1898	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	330.00
238	Surrealism	The International Surrealist Exhibition	Paris	1938	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
239	Surrealism - Penrose (Valentine)	Herbe a la Lune		1935	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
240	Surrealism - Eluard (Paul)	Les Animaux et leurs Hommes	Paris	1937	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
241	Surrealism - Chirico (G. de)	Hebdomeros	Paris	1929	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	341.00
242	Surrealism - Jarry (Alfred)	Ubu Roi	Paris	1900	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
243	Karl Thylmann - Bonaventura	Nachtwachen			USD 175.00 - 225.00	Not Sold
244	Kees Van Dongen - Poiret (Paul)	Deauville	Paris	1931	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
245	M. P. Verneuil	L'Animal dans la Decoration	Paris	1897	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	462.00
246	A. ET P. Verneuil	Kaleidoscope: Ornaments Abstraits	Paris		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
247		Verve	Paris	1937-1960	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	Not Sold
248	La Vie Parisienne	illustrations by Herouard	Paris	1917-1920	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	385.00
249	Andy Warhol and others	Ting (Walasse)	Bern	1964	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
250	Eduard Vuillard - Roger-Marx (Claude)	L'Oeuvre Grave de Vuillard	Monte Carlo		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	275.00
251	Kaete Wilczynski - Bonsels (Waldemar)	Indienfahrt	Frankfurt	1920	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
252	John Ruskin	The Nature of Gothic		1892	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
253	Jacobus de Voragine	The Golden Legend		1892	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	330.00
254	William Morris	Love is Enough		1898	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	374.00
255		English Bible (The)		1903-1905	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	935.00
256	John Milton	Areopagitica			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
257		Francis of Assisi (Saint)		1922	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
258	Ecclesiasticus	The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach		1932	GBP 500.00 - 750.00	880.00
259	Ernest Gimson	His Life and Work	Stratford-upon-Avon	1924	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	209.00
260	Venerable Bede	The History of the Church of Englande			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
261	Dante Alighieri	La Divina Commedia		1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	165.00
262	William Shakespeare	The Works		1929-1933	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
263	John Milton	Poems in English		1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
264	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales		1929-1931	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,650.00
265		Four Gospels (The)		1931	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,870.00
266	Edmund Spenser	The Wedding Songs		1923	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
267	Lucian of Samosata	The True Historie		1927	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	176.00
268	Robert Burton "Democritus Junior"	The Anatomy of Melancholy		1925	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
269	John Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston	Claud Lovat Fraser		1923	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
270	Stephen Gooden - Aesop	Fables		1936	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	264.00
271		Gregynog Press		1936	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	605.00
272	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the D'Urbervilles		1926	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	330.00
273	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus		1907	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
274	Robert Browning	Men and Women		1908	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	385.00
275	William Shakespeare	The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark		1909	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	286.00
276	Jean Froissart	Cronycles		1927-1928	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	418.00
277	G. Chaucer	The Works		1928-1929	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	396.00
278	Achilles Tatius	The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe		1923	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	187.00
279	A. T. A. Symons Desmond Flower, and Sir Frances Meynell	The Nonesuch Century		1936	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	231.00
280	Charles Dickens	Works		1937-1938	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,870.00
281		Holy Bible (The)		1924-1927	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	220.00
282	W. Congreve	The Complete Works		1923	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
283	William Bligh	Voyage in the Resource		1937	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	264.00
284	Anders Sparrman	A Voyage round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution		1944	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	319.00
285	John Keats	Endymion		1947	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
286	Sir William Russell Flint	Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved		1955	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
287	Robert Herrick	One Hundred and Eleven Poems		1955	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
288	S. Mallarme	L'Apres-midi d'un Faune		1956	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	352.00
289	John Dryden	Songs and Poems		1957	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
290		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight		1952	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	231.00
291	Evadne Lascaris	The Golden Bed of Kydno		1935	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
292	William Browne	Circe and Ulysses		1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	187.00
293	L. Binyon	Brief Candles		1938	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
294	T. Gautier	Mademoiselle de Maupin		1938	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
295		First Crusade (The)		1945	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	242.00
296	Matthew Flinders	Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis		1946	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	275.00
297		Chanticleer: a Bibliography		1948	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
298	E. Powys Mathers	Red Wise		1926	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
299	C. Cibber	An Apology for the Life		1925	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
300		Kelmscott Press		1896	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00

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
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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.
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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