Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps, INCLUDING THE PERFORMING ARTS, LOGIE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 17, 1993 - February 17, 1993

Page Size: 1130 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
501	BENJAMIN CONSTANT DE REBECQUE	Adolphe			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
502	JOSEPH ANTOINE JOACHIM CERUTTI	Apologie generale	Lausanne		USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
503	GUSTAVE DORE	La Sainte Bible	Tours	1866	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	270.00
504	MAX ERNST	Carrington (Leonora) La Dame Ovale		1939	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	240.00
505	GUSTAVE FLAUBERT	La tentation de St Antoine		1942	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	10.00
506	J.-P.C.DE FLORIAN	Fables de Florian illustrees			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	70.00
507	ANATOLE FRANCE	Les contes de Jacques		1947	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	240.00
508		GERMAN LITERATURE			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
509	MARC ANTONIO	L'arte del blasone	Venice	1756	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	300.00
510	ANTHONY HAMILTON	Memoires du comte de		1792	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
511	JEAN DE LA FONTAINE	Les amours de Psyche		1795	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	460.00
512	ADRIEN MAILLART	Coutumes generales		1704	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
513	ARISTIDE MAILLOL	Two suites of wood-engraved		1937-1950	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	280.00
514	J.J. MARCEL	Alphabet Irlandais		1804	USD 400.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
515		MARGUERITE	Berne	1780-1781	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	300.00
516		MILLING	Avignon & Paris	1809	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	240.00
517	SILVESTRE D. MIRYS	Histoire de la Republique Romaine		1810	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	160.00
518	JEAN-BAPTISTE POCQUELIN DE MOLIERE	Oeuvres, avec des remarques		1773	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	340.00
519	CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT DE MONTESQUIEU	Le temple de Gnide			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	380.00
520	G. DES MOUSSEAUX	La magie au dix-neuvieme			GBP 200.00 - 220.00	150.00
521		MEMOIRES SUR LE PORTUGAL		1791	USD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
522	NOUVELLES HEURES GOTHIQUES	d'apres les Manuscrits			USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
523		OPPIANUS		1862	GBP 200.00 - 220.00	150.00
524	JAN PAS	Mathematische of wiskundige	Amsterdam	1737	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	200.00
525	PABLO PICASSO	Salmon (Andre) Le Manuscrit		1919	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
526	ALEXANDER POPE	Essai sur l'homme	Amsterdam	1736	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	420.00
527	RHEINISCHER MERKUR	slight browning and dampstaining	Coblentz	1816	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	200.00
528	V. RUBAN	Brief geographical		1773	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	260.00
529	JACQUES-HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE	Paul et Virginie		1789	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
530	LOUIS DE ROUVROI SAINT-SIMON	Memoires complets et authentiques		1829-1830	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
531	GEORGE SAND	Oeuvres		1860	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	620.00
532	T. SAUVAGE AND N. LECOUTURIER	Une annee de la vie		1790	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
533	HARRIET BEECHER STOWE	A cabana do Pai Thomaz		1853	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	420.00
534	Maurice Barres	Un jardin sur l'Oronte		1927	USD 160.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
535	P. DE SWART	Afbeelding van de Zaal	Pieter Gosse junior & Nicolaes van Daalen	1755	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	320.00
536	TORQUATO TASSO	La Gierusalemme liberata		1724	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	420.00
537	JACQUES-AUGUSTE DE THOU	Histoire universelle	London	1734	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
538	PAUL VALERY	Lajeune parque		1922	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	300.00
539	RENE AUBERT DE VERTOT	Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers			GBP 400.00 - 450.00	520.00
540	ADANCTUS VOIGT	Effigies virorum eruditorum	Prague		GBP 400.00 - 450.00	360.00
541	EMILE ZOLA	A collection of 32 original watercolours		1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	320.00
542	MICHEL ANGELO ANDRIOLLI	Hygines [graae]	Klagenfurt	1701	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
543		BEYER			GBP 400.00 - 450.00	380.00
544	RICHARD BOULTON	A Treatise of the Reason	Churchill	1697	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	500.00
545	WILLIAM BUCHAN	Advice to Mothers		1803	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
546	ROBERT BOYLE	Occasional Reflections		1665	GBP 180.00 - 240.00	220.00
547	EDMUND CHAPMAN	A Treatise on the Improvement		1735	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
548	J. Priestley	Experiments and Observations		1788-1789	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	400.00
549	SAMUEL COOPER	The First Lines of the Practice		1807	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
550	THOMAS DENMAN	An Introduction to the Practice		1749	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
551		GALEN		1523	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
552	ANTONIO GAZIO	Florida corona	Lyons	1534	GBP 180.00 - 200.00	150.00
553	WILLIAM GIFFARD	Cases in Midwifery		1734	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	380.00
554	NICOLAS GROLLIER DE SERVIERE	Recueil d'ouvrages curieux		1751	GBP 350.00 - 400.00	520.00
555	JAMES GUILLIMEAU	Child-Birth	Joyce Norton	1635	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	170.00
556	JOANNES HEVELIUS	Machinae coelestis	Danzig	1679	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	300.00
557	DOMENICO LA SCALA	Phlebotomia damnata	Padua	1696	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	320.00
558	ETIENNE DE L'AIGUE	In omnes C. Plinii Secundi		1530	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
559	HENRICUS A LINDHOUT	Introductio in physicam judiciarium	Hamburg	1597	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
560	JOSEPH LISTER	On the Early Stages of Inflammation		1858	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
561	JOHN MAUBRAY	The Female Physician	Edinburgh	1784	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
562	FRANCOIS MAURICEAU	The Diseases of Women with Child		1736	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	210.00
563	FRANCOIS MAURICEAU	Traite des maladies des femmes		1747	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
564	GIOVANNI TOMMASO MINADOIM	De humani corporis turpitudinibus	Padua	1600	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	350.00
565	T. MORGAN	The Mechanical Practice		1782	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	160.00
566	ARCHIBALD PITCAIRNE	Elementa medicinae physico-mathematica	Leiden	1838	USD 180.00 - 240.00	Not Sold
567	PIERRE POMET	A Compleat History of Druggs			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
568	PAUL PORTAL	The Compleat Practice of Men		1795	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	180.00
569	NICOLAS RIGAULT	Auctores finium regundorum			USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
570	K. A. RUDOLPHI	Beitrag zur Anatomie des	Berlin	1840	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	240.00
571	WILLIAM SALMON	Doron Medicum			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
572	M. Faraday	Chemical Manipulation			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	320.00
573	DUNCAN STEWART	A Treatise on Uterine		1883	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	240.00
574	SAMUEL SHARP	A Critical Enquiry		1750	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
575	MARIE C. STOPES	Contraception (Birth Control)	Pitman	1970	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
576	ROBERT TALBOT	Les admirables		1705	USD 280.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
577	MICHAEL TAYLOR	Tables of Logarithms		1792	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	150.00
578	LEONHARDT THURNEISSER ZUM THURN	Quinta essentia	Leipizig	1574	GBP 220.00 - 240.00	520.00
579	J. VERCELLONE	Traite des maladies	Edinburgh	1732	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
580	J.G. WALTER	Observationes anatomicae	folio, Berlin	1775	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	480.00
581	HOENEW RONSKY	Messianisme ou reforme		1847	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
582	ELEAZAR ALBIN	A Natural History of English Insects		1720	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	430.00
583	JAMES ANDREWS	The Parterre		1842	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	440.00
584	JOHN JAMES AUDUBON	The Birds of America		1973	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	320.00
585	THOMAS BEWICK	A General History of Quadrupeds			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	140.00
586	THOMAS BEWICK	History of British Birds			GBP 350.00 - 450.00	750.00
587	THOMAS BEWICK	A General History of Quadrupeds			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	180.00
588		DAS BUCH DER WELT	Stuuttgart	1848	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	280.00
589		COMPANY SCHOOL		1794	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
590	CHARLES DARWIN	On the Origin of Species		1866	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
591	ETIENNE DENISSE	Flore d'Amerique			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	500.00
592	ANTOINE JOSEPH DEZAILLIER D'ARGENVILLE	La theorie et la pratique du jardinage		1709	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	380.00
593	WILLIAM LUCAS DISTANT	Rhopalocera Malayana	London and Penang	1882-1886	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	800.00
594		GARDENING AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE			USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
595	Mrs. ALFRED GATTY	British Sea-Weeds		1911	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
596	JEAN GOEDART	Metamorphoses naturelles ou histoire des insectes		1700	GBP 160.00 - 220.00	170.00
597	JOHN GOULD	Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	150.00
598	WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY	Phycologia Britannica		1846-1851	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
599	F. EDWARD HULME	Familiar Wild Flowers			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	320.00
600		HUMPHREYS (H.N.) AND J.O. WESTWOOD			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	400.00

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.
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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.

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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.