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Auction Details

Auction Date: July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962

Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
378	Kate Greenaway	Birthday Book for Children			USD -	8.40
379	Kate Greenaway Sharpe (Mrs.)	Dame Wiggins of Lee			USD -	11.20
380	Kate Greenaway	Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland	Routledge	1887	USD -	22.40
380a	Kate Greenaway Browning (Robert)	The Pied Piper of Hamelin			USD -	5.60
381	Francesco Petrarca	The triumphs	London and Cambridge	1906	USD -	14.00
382	J. H. Jesse	Charles the Second			USD -	16.80
383	William Shakespeare	A midsummer night's dream		1908	USD -	39.20
384	William Shakespeare	Comedies			USD -	11.20
385	W. Shakespeare	Selections from "The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice			USD -	2.80
386	Sir Winston Churchill	India "The great betrayal" (being the text of an address broadcast on 29th January			USD -	33.60
387	George Moore	Memoirs of my Dead Life			USD -	8.40
388	Somerset Maugham	first edition		1915	USD -	28.00
389	Sackville-West (Victoria)	Knole and the Sackvilles		1922	USD -	16.80
390	Cervantes (Miguel de)	Don Quixote		1930	USD -	44.80
390a		Cambridge History of English Literature		1908-16	USD -	22.40
390b		Star Club		[c. 1855]	USD -	2.80
391	John Lyon	The history of the town and port of Dover and of Dover Castle			USD -	8.40
392	C. & R. Sickelmore	Descriptive views of Brighton	Brighton	[1827]	USD -	50.40
392a	J. Rouse	The beauties and antiquities of the county of Sussex		1825	USD -	39.20
393		South Polar Times (The)		1907	USD -	28.00
394	Frederic M. Halford	Modern development of the Dry Fly		1910	USD -	84.00
395	Albert Einstein	Ather und Relativitatstheorie	Berlin	1920	USD -	126.00
396	Moysheh Oyved	The book of affinity		1933	USD -	2.80
397	Max von Boehn	Modes and Manners		1932-35	USD -	19.60
398	O. M. Dalton	Byzantine art and archaeology	Oxford	1911	USD -	33.60
398a	Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov	The Russian Icon	Oxford	1927	USD -	78.40
399	Sir Walter Armstrong Sir Henry Raeburn	portrait and plates		1901	USD -	5.60
400	Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G. C. Williamson	John Zoffany		1920	USD -	56.00
400a	John Smith	A Catalogue Raisonne of the works of the Dutch Flemish		1829-42	USD -	2.80
401	L. Delteil	Annuaire des Ventes d'Estampes	Paris	1920-29	USD -	2.80
402		Print Prices Current		1921-39	USD -	8.40
402a	Lucien Monod	Le prix des estampes anciennes et modernes	Paris	1920-28	USD -	2.80
403	H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton	French line-engravings of the late eighteenth century		1910	USD -	22.40
404	Karl Asplund Anders Zorn	His Life and Work			USD -	5.60
405	F. C. Lonchamp	Un Siecle d'Art Suisse (1730-1830)	Lausanne	[1920]	USD -	16.80
406		Collection de Clercq	Paris	1888	USD -	2.80
407	R. L. Hobson	Eumorfopoulos Collection		1925-1932	USD -	1,148.00
408	Engelbert Kaempfer	The history of Japan	Glasgow	1906	USD -	28.00
409	Edward F. Strange	Victoria and Albert Museum		1924-25	USD -	16.80
410	F. M. Jonas	Netsuke		1928	USD -	8.40
411	F. M. Jonas	Netsuke		1928	USD -	8.40
412	Albert Brockhaus	Netsuke. Versuch einer Geschichte der Japanischen Schnitzkunst	Leipzig	1909	USD -	78.40
413	Berthold Laufer	Jade	Chicago	1912	USD -	36.40
414	Pope-Hennessy (Una)	Early Chinese Jades		1923	USD -	28.00
415	Edward F. Strange	Chinese Lacquer		1926	USD -	30.80
416	Asselineau	Armes et armures du moyen-age et de la renaissance	Paris		USD -	16.80
417	Edwin J. Brett	A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour		1894	USD -	33.60
418	Quirin Leitner	Die Waffensammlung des osterreichischen Kaiserhauses im K.K. Artillerie-Arsenal-Museum in Wien	Vienna	1866-1870	USD -	56.00
419	Edouard Lievre	Les collections celebres d'oeuvres d'art			USD -	8.40
420	Samuel Rush Meynck and Joseph Skelton	Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour		1830	USD -	14.00
421		Spitzer Collection	Paris	1895	USD -	25.20
422	Bernard Rackham	Early Netherlands Maiolica		1926	USD -	16.80
423	W. G. Thomson	Tapestry Weaving in England			USD -	11.20
424	Francis Lenygon	Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770			USD -	8.40
424a	H. Cescinsky and E. R. Gribble	Early English furniture and woodwork		1922	USD -	8.40
425	R. W. Symonds	Masterpieces of English furniture and clocks		1940	USD -	16.80
426	J. Alfred Gotch	Architecture of the Renaissance in England		1894	USD -	2.80
426a	Percy Macquoid	A History of English Furniture		1904-1908	USD -	25.20
427	Frederick Bradbury	History of Old Sheffield Plate		1912	USD -	61.60
428	Barbet de Jouy	Les Gemmes et Joyaux de la Couronne au Musee du Louvre	Paris	1886	USD -	2.80
429	Le Breviaire Grimani	reproduction photographique complete publiee par Salomone Mopurgo et Scato de Vries	Leyden	[1904-10]	USD -	280.00
430		Gorleston Psalter (The)		1912	USD -	42.00
431		Queen Mary's. Psalter		1912	USD -	19.60
432	Georg Swarzenski and Rosy Schilling	Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz	Frankfurt	1929	USD -	28.00
433		Codex Gisle	Berlin	1926	USD -	39.20
434	J. F. Laharpe	Lycee	Paris	1799-1805	USD -	5.60
435		Le Bibliophile Francais gazette illustree des amateurs de livres	Paris	1868-73	USD -	42.00
436	Le Livre	Le Livre revue mensuelle : Bibliographie ancienne et moderne	Paris	1880-89	USD -	44.80
437	Edouard Rouveyre	Connaissances necessaires a un bibliophile	Paris		USD -	36.40
438		Revue Biblio-Iconographique	Paris	1896-1907	USD -	44.80
439		Buch und Schrift: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Vereins fur Buchwesen und Schrifttum	Leipzig	1927-37	USD -	33.60
440	T. F. Dibdin	The Bibliographical Decameron		1817	USD -	72.80
441	John Eliot Hodgkin	Rariora		[1902]	USD -	14.00
442		Book-Auction Records		1907-61	USD -	Not Sold
442a		Bookworm (The) [edited by P. J. Berjeau]			USD -	11.20
443		Bibliographical Society (The) Transactions		1893-35	USD -	168.00
444		Bibliographical Society			USD -	28.00
445	R. Proctor	Jan van Doesborgh		1894	USD -	19.60
446	G. R. Redgrave Erhardt Ratdolt	Half cloth		1894-1926	USD -	22.40
447	H. S. LAshbee	An Iconography of Don Quixote		1895-1906	USD -	25.20
448	R. Proctor	A classified index to the Serapeum		1897-1915	USD -	11.20
449	A. Claudin	The first Paris Press		1898-1901	USD -	14.00
450	J. IMacfarlane	Antoine Verard		1900	USD -	16.80
451	R. Steele	The earliest English music printing		1903	USD -	22.40
452	H. R. Plomer and others	Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers		1905-32	USD -	56.00
453	F. Isaac	English and Scottish printing types [vol. 1 only]		1930	USD -	5.60
454	edited by Falconer Madan	Stuart Papers relating chiefly to Queen Mary of Modena and the Exiled Court of King James II		1889	USD -	39.20
455	E. Gordon Duff William Caxton	plates	Chicago	1905	USD -	134.40
456	H. Buxton Forman	A bibliography of George Meredith			USD -	8.40
457	Henri Bouchot	Les reliures d'art a la Bibliotheque Nationale	Paris	1888	USD -	16.80
458	Strickland Gibson	Early Oxford Bindings		1903	USD -	19.60
459		Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst	Leipzig	1927-37	USD -	98.00
460	Gilles Auguste Bazin	The natural history of bees		1744	USD -	19.60
461	Thomas Bewick	Figures of British land birds	Newcastle	1800	USD -	2.80
462	Blagrave J [Joseph]	The epitome of the art of husbandry		1685	USD -	28.00
463	Charles Butler	The Feminine monarchy or the history of bees		1623	USD -	44.80
464	Charles Butler	The Feminine monarchie or the history of bees	Oxford	1634	USD -	30.80
465	Charles Butler	Monarchia Foeminina sive apum historia		1673	USD -	25.20
466	John Evans	The bees	Shrewsbury	1806	USD -	14.00
467	John Gedde	The English apiary or the complete bee-master		1721	USD -	30.80

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.
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