Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, HARE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 01, 1965 - March 01, 1965
Page Size: 765 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
499 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) A.L.S.

[c. 1860]

 USD - 61.60
500 BENNETT (ARNOLD) Fine A.L.s. Paris

7 December 1904

 USD - 56.00
501 BENNETT (ARNOLD) Autograph note s. (initials)

[1918]

 USD - 70.00
502 BENNETT (ARNOLD) Autograph Manuscript signed London

5 May 1929

 USD - 70.00
503 LITERARY AND ARTISTIC

USD - 39.20
504 DICKENS (CHARLES) Amusing A.L.s. Elm Cottage

6 August 1839

 USD - 140.00
505 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s. Devonshire Terrace

30 October 1841

 USD - 126.00
506 DICKENS (CHARLES) Long A.L.s. Devonshire Terrace

2 August 1845

 USD - 336.00
507 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s. Devonshire Terrace

30 July 1845

 USD - 210.00
508 DICKENS (CHARLES) Interesting short A.L.s. (initials) Folkestone

10 August 1855

 USD - 196.00
509 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s.

23 November 1855

 USD - 84.00
510 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s. Tavistock House

17 March, 1856

 USD - 84.00
511 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s.

16 October 1857

 USD - 98.00
512 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.s. Gads Hill Place

13 October 1863

 USD - 140.00
513 LAMARTINE (ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE) A.L.s. Paris

18 January 1837

 USD - 14.00
514 LYTTON (EDWARD LYTTON BULWER-, first Lord Lytton) Two A.Ls.s.

[1857]

 USD - 33.60
515 READE (CHARLES, dramatist and novelist) A.L.s. Liverpool

1849

 USD - 39.20
516 SCOTT (Sir WALTER) A.L.s. Melrose

1 August 1824

 USD - 70.00
517 SOUTHEY (ROBERT) Fine A.L.s.

7 August 1830

 USD - 89.60
518 STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS) Interesting A.L.s.

[c. 1888]

 USD - 168.00
519 TALFOURD (Sir THOMAS NOON, judge and author) A.L.s.

27 March 1850

 USD - 5.60
520 THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) A.L.s. Kensington

4 December 1847

 USD - 84.00
521 Bembo (Pietro) Le prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgare lingua Venice

1561, 1584

 USD - 22.40
522 Bembo (Pietro) Delle Lettere Verona

1743

 USD - 2.80
523 Brito (Fray Bernardo de) Elogios dos Reis de Portugal com os mais verdadeiros retratos Lisbon

1603

 USD - 28.00
524 Costa (Francisco da) Sermam que fez OP. D

USD - 28.00
525 Escovar (Manoel de) Sermao que pregou o Padre Manoel de Escovar Coimbra

1638

 USD - 22.40
526 Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Motte) Dialogues des Morts Paris

USD - 2.80
527 Gavarni (Paul) Masques et visages Paris

1857

 USD - 8.40
528 Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opera

1749

 USD - 14.00
529 Instruccion que debera observarse para la Eleccion de Diputados de Cortes Seville

1810

 USD - 14.00
530 Tratado llamado mysterios Burgos

26 June 1537

 USD - 50.40
531 Lipsius (Justus) De Cruce libri tres Antwerp

USD - 19.60
532 Marmontel (Jean Francois) Belisaire Paris

1767

 USD - 89.60
533 Mirabeau (H. G. Riquetti, Comte de) Elegies de Tibulle Paris

USD - 11.20
534 SALLUSTIUS (CAIUS CRISPUS) LA CONJURACION DE CATILINA Y LA GUERRA DE JUGURTA Madrid

1772

 USD - 308.00
535 Virgilius Maro (Publius) Le Georgica Rome

1574

 USD - 22.40
536 APULEIUS (LUCIUS) OPERA Rome

29th Feb. 1469

 USD - 784.00
537 Propertius (Sextus) Elegiae Bologna

1487

 USD - 126.00
538 Gratianus Venice

1477

 USD - 224.00
539 Erasmus (Desiderius) In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum Annotationes Basle

March, 1519

 USD - 39.20
540 Castiglione (Conte Baldesar) II libro del Cortegiano Venice

April, 1528

 USD - 280.00
541 ARETINO (PEDRO) COLOQUIO DE LAS DAMAS

1548

 USD - 420.00
542 Dausquius (Claudius) Orthographia Latini Sermonis Vetus et Nova Paris

1677

 USD - 5.60
543 Houard (David) Traites sur les Coutumes Anglo-Normandes Paris

1776

 USD - 33.60
544 VAN DEN VELDE (JAN) SPIEGHEL DER SCHRDFKONTE Rotterdam, Amsterdam

1605, 1608

 USD - 308.00
545 Suchten (Alexander von) Liber de tribus facultatibus et magica inventione Germany

USD - 72.80
546 SANSON (G. AND N.) NOUVELLE INTRODUCTION A LA GEOGRAPHIE Paris

1693

 USD - 700.00
547 ANACREON Paris

1554

 USD - 84.00
548 SHARP (Mrs. JANE) THE MIDWIVES BOOK

1671

 USD - 70.00
549 Bidloo (Godefridus) Anatomia humani corporis Amsterdam

1685

 USD - 224.00
550 CASSERIUS (JULIUS) DE VOCIS AUDITUSQUE ORGANIS HISTORIA ANATOMICA Ferrara

1600-[01]

 USD - 476.00
551 Cheselden (William) Osteographia

1733

 USD - 14.00
552 Fraunhofer (Joseph) Bestimmung des Brechungs Munich

1817

 USD - 98.00
553 GALVANI (ALOYSIUS) DE VIRIBUS ELECTRICITATIS IN MOTU MUSCULARI COMMENTARIUS Modena

1792

 USD - 392.00
554 GESNER (CONRAD) HISTORIAE ANIMALIUM Zurich

1558

 USD - 154.00
555 GEMINUS (THOMAS) COMPENDIOSA TOTIUS ANATOMIE DELINEATIO

October 1545

 USD - 672.00
556 GREVIN-GEMINUS Paris

1564

 USD - 756.00
557 Juvenal (D. Junius) Mores hominum

USD - 14.00
558 Ketham (Johannes de) The Fasciculus Medicinae Milan

1924

 USD - 44.80
559 Lizars (John) A system of anatomical plates of the human body Edinburgh

USD - 5.60
560 Maurin and others Medecins et Chirurgiens Celebres Paris

[c. 1845]

 USD - 56.00
561 Morgagni (J. B.) De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri V Venice

1761

 USD - 106.40
562 Pare (Ambrose) Works

1678

 USD - 140.00
563 SPIGELIUS (ADRIANUS) OPERA quae extant omnia Amsterdam

1645

 USD - 196.00
564 VESALIUS (ANDREAS) DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM Basle

June 1543

 USD - 4,760.00
565 VESALIUS (ANDREAS) DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRORUM EPITOME Basle

June 1543

 USD - 9,520.00
566 VICQ D'AZYR (FELIX) TRAITE D'ANATOMIE ET DE PHYSIOLOGIE Paris

l786

 USD - 728.00
567 Yeats (W. B.) and George Russell Caricature in water-colour with the following text below

USD - 25.20
568 BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, Comte de) and others HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OISEAUX Paris

1771-72

 USD - 1,736.00
569 Cuciniello (D.) and L. Bianchi Viaggio pittorico nel regno delle due Sicilie Naples

1828

 USD - 39.20
570 Gori (A. F.), F. Moucke, and A. Pazzi Museum Florentinum Florence

1731-66

 USD - 89.60
571 LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) FABLES CHOISIES Paris

1755-59

 USD - 308.00
572 Neufforge (Sieur de) Recueil elementaire d'architecture Paris

[1757-80]

 USD - 616.00
573 Patte (Pierre) Monumens eriges en France a la gloire de Louis XV Paris

1765

 USD - 112.00
574 Picart (Bernard) and others Le temple des muses Amsterdam

1733

 USD - 84.00
575 Sanez Reguart (Antonio) Diccionario historico de los artes de la pesca nacional Madrid

1791-95

 USD - 476.00
576 Visconti (Giambattista) II Museo Pio-Clementino Rome

1782-1808

 USD - 117.60
577 FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) LES AVANTURES DE TELEMAQUE Paris

1790

 USD - 182.00
578 LASTANOSA (VICENCIO JUAN DE) TRATADO DE LA MONEDA IAQUESA Zaragoza

1681

 USD - 840.00
579 MALLARME (STEPHANE) L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE Paris

1876

 USD - 672.00
580 Moreau de Maupertuis (P. L.) Lettre sur la Comete [Paris]

1742

 USD - 154.00
581 Office (L') de la Semaine Sainte Paris

1661

 USD - 140.00
582 OROSIUS (PAULUS) HISTOIRES Paris

21 August 1491

 USD - 1,288.00
583 TOSCANELLA (ORATIO) BELLEZZE DEL FURIOSO di M. Lodovico Ariosto Venice

1574

 USD - 210.00
584 VOLTAIRE (F. M. A. DE) LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS Paris

[1795]

 USD - 448.00
585 Accolti (Pietro) Lo Inganno de gl'Occhi Florence

1625

 USD - 78.40
586 ADAM (ROBERT) RUINS OF THE PALACE OF THE EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN AT SPALATRO IN DALMATIA

1764

 USD - 336.00
587 Album officiel de la Fete des Vignerons Paris

1889

 USD - 22.40
588 Alexander (William) The Costume of China

1805

 USD - 39.20
589 Ashmole (Elias) The Institution

1672

 USD - 44.80
590 Baldi (Bernardino) Memorie concernenti la citta di Urbino Rome

1724

 USD - 182.00
591 Barbut (James) Les genres des insectes de Linne constates par divers echatillons d'insectes d'Angleterre

1781

 USD - 39.20
592 Barbut (James) The genera Vermium exemplified by specimens

1783-88

 USD - 67.20
593 Barbut (James) The genera vermium exemplified by various specimens

1783

 USD - 16.80
594 Becattelli (Lorenzo) I riti nuziali degli antichi Romani per le nozze di S. E. Don Giovanni Lambertini con S. E. Donna Lucrezia Savorgnan Bologna

1762

 USD - 28.00
595 BENTLEY (CHARLES) AND ROBERT HERMANN SCHOMBURGK TWELVE VIEWS IN THE INTERIOR OF GUIANA

1841

 USD - 182.00
596 BIANCHI (SECONDO) AND OTHERS RACCOLTA DI SESSANTA PIU BELLE VESTITURE CHE SI COSTUMONO NELLE PROVINCIE DEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Naples

1793

 USD - 476.00
597 BIBIENA (FERDINANDO GALLI) L'ARCHITETTURA CIVILE PREPARATA su LA GEOMETRIA E RIDOTTA ALLE PROSPETTIVE Parma

1711

 USD - 616.00
598 Bibiena (Giuseppe Galli) Architetture e Prospettive

1740

 USD - 1,400.00
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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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    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.
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