Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 16Nov1959,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 16, 1959 - November 16, 1959

Page Size: 604 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
502	Hind Arthur M.	Giovanni Battista Piranesi		1922	GBP -	26.00
503	Hind Arthur M.	A Short History of Engraving and Etching			GBP -	3.00
504	Parker Captain H. Frank C. Bowen	Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century		1928	GBP -	5.00
505	Chatterton E. Keble	Old Ship Prints		1927	GBP -	4.00
506	Powell J. W. Darner	Bristol Privateers and Ships of War		1930	GBP -	3.00
507	Robinson Charles N.	Old Naval Prints		1924	GBP -	3.00
508	Bowen Frank C.	The Golden Age of Sail		1925	GBP -	7.00
509	Aga-Oglu Mehmet	Safawid Rugs and Textiles	New York	1941	GBP -	4.00
510	Akashi Somendo Meibutsu Kinshyu Ruisan	A Classified Collection of Famous Oriental Textiles	Kyoto	1957	GBP -	20.00
511	Amades Joan	Xilografies gironines		1947-1948	GBP -	10.00
512		American Institute of Electrical Engineers.	New York	1909	GBP -	2.00
513	Anderson Lawrence	El arte de la plateria en Mexico 1519-1936	New York	1941	GBP -	8.00
514	ragon Louis Jean Cocteau	A Entretiens sur le Musee de Dresde	Paris	1957	GBP -	4.00
515	Atlas Polskich Strojow Ludowych	(Atlas of Polish Folk Costumes)	Paris	1891	GBP -	6.00
516	Bazin Germain	L'architecture religieuse baroque au Bresil	Sao Paulo and Paris	1956	GBP -	4.00
517	Bizarre	revue periodique	Paris	1955-1958	GBP -	2.00
518		Bonnefoux (baron de) et M. Paris.			GBP -	1.00
519	Brown William H.	Portrait Gallery of distinguished American Citizens	New York	1931	GBP -	2.00
520	Bunjes H.	Les chateaux de la Loire	Monaco	1943	GBP -	3.00
521	BURKE JOHN, JOHN BERNARDw PETER	A collection of genealogical and heraldic writings			GBP -	100.00
522	Butler A. J.	Islamic Pottery		1926	GBP -	14.00
523		Carrieri (Raffaele) Pittura	Milan	1950	GBP -	1.00
524		[Chinese Architectural Details]			GBP -	11.00
525	Chippendale Thomas	The Gentlemen and Cabinet-Maker's Director	New York	1938	GBP -	2.00
526	Clouzot H. Ch. Follot	Histoire du papier peint en France	Paris	1935	GBP -	10.00
527	Cocteau Jean Le	mystere laic		1924	GBP -	2.00
528	Colwell Ernest Cadman Harold R. Willoughby	The Four Gospels of Karahissar	Chicago	1936	GBP -	6.00
529		Coptic Textiles from Burying Grounds in Egypt	Kyoto		GBP -	20.00
530	Courboin Francois Marcel Roux	La gravure franchise	Paris	1927-1928	GBP -	8.00
531	D'Allemagne Henry-Rene	Les anciens maitres serruriers et leurs meilleurs travaux	Paris	1943	GBP -	9.00
532	D'Allemagne Henry-Rene	80 toiles imprimees et indiennes de Traite	Paris	1948	GBP -	17.00
533	D'Allemagne Henry-Rene	La maison d'un vieux collection-neur	Paris	1948	GBP -	6.00
534	Depew Chauncey M.	editor.	New York	1895	GBP -	1.00
535	De Roy Jacob Janssen	Voyagie gedaan . . . na Borneo en Atchin			GBP -	15.00
536		Diehl (Edith) Bookbinding	New York	1946	GBP -	15.00
537	Gabriel	Esquer Iconographie historique de lAlgerie depuis le XVIe siecle jusqu' a 1871	Paris	1929	GBP -	17.00
538	Flower Margaret	Victorian Jewellery	New York	1950	GBP -	6.00
539	Freart Roland	Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne	Paris	1650	GBP -	30.00
540	Froissart Jehan	[Le premier volume des croniques de France, dangleterre, et autres lieux voisins]	Paris	1505-1530	GBP -	20.00
541		Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum quae in familia natae quaeve in familiam transierunt . . . imagines	Augsburg	1618	GBP -	5.00
542	Gaiter Juan Subias	El arte popular en Espaha	Barcelona	1948	GBP -	3.00
543	Gogol Nicolas	La foire de Sorochinietz	Paris	1945	GBP -	2.00
544	Goll Yvan	Elegy of Ihpetonga and Masks of Ashes	New York	1954	GBP -	9.00
545	Graesse Jean George Theodore	Tresor de livres rares et precieux	Milan	1950	GBP -	45.00
546	Grimschitz Bruno	Ferdinand George Waldmuller			GBP -	4.00
547	Harisse	Sanz (Carlos) Henry Harrisse (1892-1910)	Madrid	1958	GBP -	12.00
548	Hastings Thomas Solomon Warriner	Musica Sacra: or Springfield and Utica Collections United			GBP -	4.00
549	Heal Sir Ambrose	The London Furniture Makers		1953	GBP -	3.00
550	Hentze C.	Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den fruechinesischen Kulturen	Antwerp	1941	GBP -	4.00
551	Hentze Carl Bronzgerat, Kultbauten	Religion im altesten China der Shang-Zeit	Antwerp	1951	GBP -	4.00
552	Herstal Stanislaw	Imagens religiosas do Brasil	Sao Paulo	1956	GBP -	7.00
553	Herviault Andre	Congo—Gabon—Cameroun—Dahomey--Togo	New York	1951	GBP -	4.00
554	Heydenreich Ludwig H.	Leonardo da Vinci	New York and Basle	1954	GBP -	5.00
555	Hiroshige	Landschaften	Munich	1956	GBP -	3.00
556	Houo-Ming-Tse Paul	Preuves des antiquites de Chine	Pekin	1930	GBP -	5.00
557	Hugnet Georges	La Chevre-Feuille	Paris	1943	GBP -	7.00
558		Japanese Coloured Porcelain	Kyoto	1953	GBP -	24.00
559		[Japanese Paper-making]	Japan		GBP -	16.00
560	Jarry Alfred	Oeuvres completes		1948	GBP -	4.00
561		KONDO HORYUJI MONASTERY	Tokyo	1951	GBP -	22.00
562	Kyriss Ernst	Verzierte gotische Einbande im alten deutschen Sprachgebiet	Stuttgart	1951-1954	GBP -	1.00
563	Laurence John	A New System of Agriculture		1726	GBP -	5.00
564	Lavachery Henri	Les petroglyphes de l'Ile de Paques	Antwerp	1939	GBP -	4.00
565	Lucretius Carus Titus	Delia natura delle cose libri sei	Amsterdam	1754	GBP -	1.00
566	Masson Andre	Mythologies	New York	1945	GBP -	3.00
567	Mathews Mitford M.	A Dictionary of Americanisms	Chicago	1951	GBP -	3.00
568	Matisse Henri	Portraits		1954	GBP -	4.00
569	Nagatake Takeshi	Kakiemon	Japan	1957	GBP -	3.00
570		"Noh" Masks treasured in the Kwanze Family	Japan, n.d.		GBP -	3.00
571		[Noh Brocades]	Japan		GBP -	10.00
572	Pallucchini Rudolfo	Guardis Zeichnungen im Museum Correr zu Venedig	Florence	1943	GBP -	3.00
573	Penzer N. M. Paul Storr	the last of the Goldsmiths		1954	GBP -	7.00
574	Petitjean C. C. Wickert	Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave de Robert Nanteuil	Paris	1925	GBP -	3.00
575	Picasso Pablo	[Sketch-book, Royan, 1940—Paris, 1942]	Paris	1948	GBP -	4.00
576	PICASSO PABLO	40 DESSINS EN MARGE DU BUFFON	Paris	1957	GBP -	20.00
577	Poncetton Frangois	Les gardes de sabre japonaises	Paris	1924	GBP -	8.00
578	Poncetton F. A. Portier	Les arts sauvages : Oceanie	Paris		GBP -	8.00
579	Portier A. F. Poncetton	Les arts sauvages : Afrique	Paris		GBP -	6.00
580		Propylaen-Kunstgeschichte.	Berlin		GBP -	6.00
581	Reichel Anton	Die Clair-obscur Schnitte des XVI., XVII. und XVIII. Jahrhunderts	Zurich	1926	GBP -	11.00
582	Roger-Marx Claude	L'oeuvre grave de Vuillard		1948	GBP -	4.00
583	Roger-Marx Claude Bonnard lithographe	coloured and plain reproductions		1952	GBP -	5.00
584		Sappho.			GBP -	3.00
585		S[auvan (J. B. B.)] Diorama anglais			GBP -	3.00
586	Shigemori Kanto	The Artistic Gardens of Japan	Tokyo	1957	GBP -	13.00
587	Soma Hiroshi Kiyonobu Torii	Kabuki Costumes and Make-ups	Tokyo		GBP -	5.00
588	Statler Oliver Chisaburoh F. Yamada	Kiyoshi Saito	Japan	1957	GBP -	4.00
589	Surrealisme le, meme	directeur: Andre Breton			GBP -	3.00
590	Tanaka Ryo	Pictorial Collection of Kabuki Standard Stages	Tokyo		GBP -	7.00
591	Taniguchi Yoshiro	The Shugakuin Imperial Villa	Tokyo	1956	GBP -	3.00
592	Taullard A.	El mueble colonial sudamericano		1947	GBP -	2.00
593		Theatrical Designs			GBP -	8.00
594	Thetard Henry	La merveilleuse histoire du cirque	Paris	1947	GBP -	5.00
595	Tilmans Emile	Porcelaines de France	Paris	1953	GBP -	4.00
596	Tilmans Emile	Faiences de France	Paris	1954	GBP -	5.00
597	Toesca Pietro	Les mosaiques de la Chapelle Palatine de Palerme			GBP -	4.00
598	Triolet Elsa	Mille regrets	Paris	1947	GBP -	6.00
599		Ukiyoe Woodblock Prints.	Tokyo	1956	GBP -	5.00
600	Van Moe	(Emile-A.) LApocalypse de Saint-Sever	Paris	1942	GBP -	6.00
601	Vincent Jean LIle de France	text and plates of chateaux unbound in portfolio	Paris	1937	GBP -	9.00

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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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.