Sothebys: The Browning Collections. CATALOGUE OF OIL PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & PRINTS; AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS; BOOKS; STATUARY, FURNITURE, TAPESTRIES, AND WORKS OF ART; THE PROPERTY OF R. W. BARRETT BROWNING, ESQ. (DECEASED), of Asolo, Veneto, and La Tor, May011913,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 01, 1913 - May 01, 1913
Page Size: 1415 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
906 Martin (Sir T.) Shakespeare or Bacon? with inscription on half title

1888

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907 Martin (Sir T.). Essays on the Drama...

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908 Martin (T.) Poems...

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909 Massey (G.) Carmen Nuptiale

n. d.

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910 Maunory (M. de) Grammaire et Dictionnaire Francois et Espagnol Paris

1701

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911 Maximus Tyrius Dissertationes Cantab.

1703

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912 Maxse (Capt.) A Word for Truth (concerning our attitude towards France)

1860

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913 Mazzini (G.) Ricordi dei Fratelli Bandiera e dei loro compagni di Martirio in Cosenza il 25 Luglio 1844 Parigi

1844

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914 Melancthon (P.) Chronicon absolutissimum ab orbe condito usque ad Christum deductum

1560

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915 Mendelssohn (F.) Letters to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles

n. d.

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916 Meredith (G.) Modern I Love and Poems of the English Roadside

1862

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917 Merlette (G. M.) La Vie et l'OEuvre d'Elizabeth Barrett Browning Paris

1905

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918 Millot (Abbe) Elemens do l'Histoire de France depuis Clovis jusqu'a Louis XV Paris

1778

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919 Milues (Richard Monckton) Palm Leaves...

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920 MILTON (J.) Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio, contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii, Defensionem Regiam

1652

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921 MILTON (John) PARADISE LOST. A Poem

1669

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922 Milton (J.) Poems, etc.

1673

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923 Milton (J.) Literae pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, Cromwellii, etc.

1676

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924 Milton (J.) Literae pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, Cromwellii, etc.

1676

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925 Milton (J.) Paradise Regain'd: a Poem in IV Books

1680

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926 Milton (J.) Eikonoklastes Amsterdam

1690

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927 Milton (J.) The History of Britain

1695

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928 Milton (J.) Paradise Regain'd

1713

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929 Milton (J.) Prose Works...

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930 Mina (General) Breve Extracts de la vida del General Mina

1825

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931 Miscellaneous Books, Periodicals, etc.

GBP - Unknown
932 Missale Romanum. Ex Deereto SS. Concilii Tridentini rostitutum Sancti Pii V Pontilicis Maximi jussu editum Clementis VIII et Urbani VIII Romae

1761

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933 Mitford (Mary Russell) Atherton, and other Tales

1854

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934 Monro (D. B.) Grammar of the Homeric Dialect...

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935 [Montagu (E. W.)] Genuine Memoirs of the late celebrated Edw. W--ly M-ntague, Esq. etc.

1781

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936 Montaigne (M. de) Essais Lyon

1593

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937 Montgomery (R.) The Messiah, a Poem

1832

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938 More (Henry) Philosophicall Poems Cambridge

1647

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939 More (Henry) Philosophicall Poems

1647

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940 Morelli (G.) Italian Painters...

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941 Morison (Jeanie) The Purpose of the Ages...

GBP - Unknown
942 [Morris (Lewis)] Songs of Two Worlds

1871

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943 Morris (Wm.) The Life and Death of Jason

1867

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944 Morris (Wm.) The Earthly Paradise

1868-71

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945 Morris (Wm.) Two Verses from a Song in " Paracelsus"

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946 Muller (F. Max) La Oarita of Andrea del Sarto...

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947 Muloch (Miss D. M.) The Head of the Family

1852

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948 [Munby (A. J.)] Dorothy, a Country Story

1880

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949 Murray's Hand Book for Travellers in Switzerland

1846

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950 Nazanzenus (Gregorius) Orationes Gr Venetiis

1516-36

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951 Neoportus (M.) Votum Candidum Vivat Rex

1669

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952 Noel (Hon. Roden) The House of Ravensburg...

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953 Noel (Hon. R.) Behind the Veil, and other Poems...

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954 Nonnus Panopolitanus Conversio Graeca Evangelii secundum Joannem, in Latinum sermonem ad verhum translata Lugduni

1620

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955 Norton (Hon. Mrs.) The Dream, and other Poems

1840

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956 Notes on Naples and its Environs

1838

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957 Oliphant (Mrs.) The Makers of Florence...

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958 Orlandi (P. A.) Abcedario Pittorico Bologna

1704

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959 O'Shaughnessy (A. W. E.) An Epic of Women and other Poems

1870

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960 [Paget (Miss)] Baldwin: being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations

1886

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961 Paget (F.) The Spirit of Discipline...

GBP - Unknown
962 Paget (Sir James) Memoirs and Letters...

GBP - Unknown
963 Paley (Wm.) A View of the Evidences of Christianity

1821

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964 Palgrave (F. T.) Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson...

GBP - Unknown
965 Paracelsus Philosophy reformed and improved in four profound Tractates

1857

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966 Parkes (H.) Speeches, 1848-74 Melbourne

1876

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967 Parkhurst (J.) Hebrew and English Lexicon

1778

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968 Parnell (Charles Stewart) Life...

GBP - Unknown
969 Parr (Rev. S.) Parriana, or Notices of the Rev. S. Parr collected by E. H. Barker

1828

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970 Patmore (Coventry) Poems

1844

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971 Patmore (C.) The Angel in the House, The Betrothal

1854

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972 Patmore (C.) The Angel in the House (Book II)

1856

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973 Patmore (C.) The Unknown Eros

n.d.

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974 Patmore (C.) Faithful for ever...

GBP - Unknown
975 Payne (John) The Masque of Shadows and other Poems

1870

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976 Payne (J.) Intaglios, Sonnets

1871

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977 Payne (J.) Songs of Life and Death

1872

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978 Payne (J.) Lautrec, a Poem

1878

 GBP - Unknown
979 [Penrose (T.)] A Sketch of the Lives and Writings of Dante and Petrarch

1790

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980 Petavius (D.) History of the World

1659

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981 Petrarch (F.) De remediis utriusque fortunae libri II Lugduni

1584

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982 Petronius Arbiter Satyricon, cum notis Boschii, Reinesii et Schefferi Amstelaed.

1700

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983 Phalarides Epistolae Oxonii

1718

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984 Phillips (E.) Theatrum Poetarum Anglieanorum Canterbury

1800

 GBP - Unknown
985 Philostratus Opera quae exstant Paris

1608

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986 Pindarus Cartnina cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. .. a C. G. Hoyne

1824

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987 Pindar Odi Milano

1835

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988 Plaisted (B.) Journal from Calcutta in Bengal

1758

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989 Plato Opera Omnia, cum notis variorum et J. Bekker

1826

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990 Plato Dialogi V rec. N. Forster Oxon.

1752

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991 Plato Dialogues translated into English Oxford

1875

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992 Plato Republica

1888

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993 Plato Sophistes

1868

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994 Plautus Comoediae superst. XX Amsterod.

1619

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995 Plinius Secundus (C. C.) Epistolae Mediolani

1505

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996 Plinins Secundus (C.) Epistolae et Panegyricus

1722

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997 Plutarchus Opera Omnia, Greece, cum Latina interpretatione Hermann] Gruserii, Gulielmi Xylandri, etc. Francofurti

1620

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998 Plutarchus De Puerorum educatione, etc. Lipsiae

1704

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999 Plutarch's Lives, the Translation called Drydon's

1861

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1000 Poe (Edgar Allan) Life...

GBP - Unknown
1001 Poems by the most eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland

n. d.

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1002 Poems. A Chapter from the Modern Pilgrim's Progress

1882

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1003 Poetae Graeci Veteres Carminis Heroici Scriptores, qui extant omnes

1606

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1004 Poetae Minores Graeci. . . ace. etiam observationes R. Wintertoni in Hesiodum Cantabrig

1677

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1005 Poetical Miscellanies

1704

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  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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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    Book Week
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    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.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.