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
100		ARNOULD (Joseph) afterwards Sir Joseph Arnould...			GBP -	Unknown
101		ARTISTS, including W. Page, the American artist who painted Browning's portrait			GBP -	Unknown
102		AUTHORS, SCHOLARS AND JOURNALISTS			GBP -	Unknown
103	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	afterwards Mrs. BROWNING, Twenty Letters to Sir Uvedale Price		1826-7	GBP -	Unknown
104	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A. L. 4 1/2 pp. 4to, March 19, 1828, to her grandmother		March 19, 1828	GBP -	Unknown
105	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Early Letters, including a Letter in Latin to her eldest brother		Nov. 1818	GBP -	Unknown
106	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Draft of an A. L. s. to the Ladies' Committee in Leeds of the Anti Corn Law League		Feb. 10, 1845	GBP -	Unknown
107	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A Note Book, containing some of her earliest Poems		1814-6	GBP -	Unknown
108	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Julia or Virtue, a Novel, MS. 15 pp. 4to, with dedication to her grandmother		July 17, 1816	GBP -	Unknown
109	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Glimpses into my own Life and Literary Character			GBP -	Unknown
110	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Pocket Diary for 1823		1824-5	GBP -	Unknown
111	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Three small Note Books		1842-4	GBP -	Unknown
112	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Three Note Books, containing Auto. Notes, some in pencil, one said to contain her ' Day and Night Thoughts"; and a tiny Book, in a red silk case, containing a poem "To Mary"			GBP -	Unknown
113	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Two Note Books, containing about 125 pp. folio and 8vo, including portions of an early Draft of the translation of Prometheus Bound"		1824	GBP -	Unknown
114	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Note Book			GBP -	Unknown
115	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Note Book, containing copies of Letters addressed to the Rev. Dr. Adams			GBP -	Unknown
116	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Early unpublished Poems, MSS. 27 pp. 4to and folio, chiefly addressed to her father and other members of her family			GBP -	Unknown
117	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	ESSAY ON MIND, two Auto. MSS. (neither quite complete), 165 pp. 4to, with Auto. MSS. of two other Poems published with it in 1826		1826	GBP -	Unknown
118	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A Drama of Exile			GBP -	Unknown
119	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Poems, mostly early, believed to be unpublished		dated 1817	GBP -	Unknown
120	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Poems, mostly early, believed to be unpublished			GBP -	Unknown
121	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A large number of Auto. Fragments of Poems (mostly early and probably unpublished)			GBP -	Unknown
122	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A largo Collection of Auto. Fragments of Prose			GBP -	Unknown
123	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	Auto. Draft of a Letter			GBP -	Unknown
124	BARRETT (Miss E. B.)	A large number of Auto. Scraps in prose and verse			GBP -	Unknown
125	[BARRETT (Miss E. B.)]	LINES, H. H. Pencil Drawing of Hope End		dated Apl. 11, 1877	GBP -	Unknown
126	BRIGHT (John)	Auto. Transcript of John Logan's poem "To the Cuckoo"		(dated March 23, 1867)	GBP -	Unknown
127	BROWNING (Robert), father of the poet, 1781-1866	various Auto. MSS		1781-1866	GBP -	Unknown
128	BROWNING (R.), father of the poet	Twelve A. L. s. 45 pp. 8vo, to his son and daughter			GBP -	Unknown
129	BROWNING (R.) father of the poet, " The Nomenclator"	Two Auto. MSS. of about 350 pp. 8vo, with an A. L. s. 3 pp. 8vo [n. d. but 1855], from his son about the work		[n. d. but 1855]	GBP -	Unknown
130	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	A LARGE PACKET of A. L. s. to Miss Mitford			GBP -	Unknown
131	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	A Correspondence with Hugh Stuart Boyd			GBP -	Unknown
132	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	ONE HUNDRED AND TWO LETTERS to Mrs. Martin, 1832-61; and Two Letters, 6 pp. 8vo, to her from Robert Browning		1832-61	GBP -	Unknown
133	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	upwards of FIFTY LETTERS to John Kenyon			GBP -	Unknown
134	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	FIFTY-FIVE LETTERS and Three Fragments to Mrs. Jameson			GBP -	Unknown
135	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	SEVENTEEN LETTERS to Miss Thomson			GBP -	Unknown
136	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	A. L. s. 4 pp. 8vo, n. d. [April, 1857], to Napoleon III		n. d. [April, 1857]	GBP -	Unknown
137	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Letters to her from Fanny Komble, Hatty Hosmer			GBP -	Unknown
138	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Note Book containing 45 pp. (a few in pencil) of passages copied from various authors in her handwriting The passages copied include fourteen poems by William Blake			GBP -	Unknown
139	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	TWO Note Books, one presented by her sister Arabel, with inscription			GBP -	Unknown
140	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Two Note Books			GBP -	Unknown
141	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Two small Note Books, one containing about 60 pp. of Auto. Notes			GBP -	Unknown
142	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	PROMETHEUS BOUND, a Dramatic Poem, translated from the Greek of AEschylus			GBP -	Unknown
143	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. Criticisms on some of her husband's poems			GBP -	Unknown
144	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Her photograph presented to her husband			GBP -	Unknown
145	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Translations			GBP -	Unknown
146	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. MS. of Poems			GBP -	Unknown
147	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Two Note Books			GBP -	Unknown
148	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	An Album containing photographs of contemporary politicians			GBP -	Unknown
149	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	"CASA GUIDI WINDOWS"			GBP -	Unknown
150	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	CASA GUIDI WINDOWS			GBP -	Unknown
151	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS			GBP -	Unknown
152	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	"SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE"			GBP -	Unknown
153	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Catarina to Camoens			GBP -	Unknown
154	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	"Last Poems," Auto. MSS. of all the poems included under that heading in her Collected Works			GBP -	Unknown
155	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	"AURORA LEIGH," ORIGINAL AUTO. MS. from which the poem was printed			GBP -	Unknown
156	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	A large number of Auto. Poems, Proof Sheets with auto, corrections, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
157	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.) Sonnets	Auto. MSS. 24 pp. some duplicates			GBP -	Unknown
158	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. MSS. of various Poems			GBP -	Unknown
159	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. MSS. of various Poems			GBP -	Unknown
160	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. MSS. about 33 pp. 8vo (some duplicates, some incomplete), including the following Poems: The Claim, A Mask, Confessions, How a Lady should Love, Calls on the Heart, The Child's Grave in Florence, Valediction, and The Lady's Yes			GBP -	Unknown
161	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Auto. MSS. of various Poems			GBP -	Unknown
162		BROWNING. (Mrs. E. B.). FOURTEEN LETTERS to H. F. Chorley; and BROWNING (R.) Three A. L. s. 6 pp. 8vo, to the H. F. Chorley...			GBP -	Unknown
163	BROWNING (Mrs. E. B.)	Upwards of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY LETTERS to Miss Sarianna Browning; and Eight Letters			GBP -	Unknown
164	BROWNING (R.)	Twelve Letters to Miss Euphrasia Fanny Haworth; and Browning (Mrs. E. B.) Fifty-Four Letters to Miss Euphrasia Fanny Haworth			GBP -	Unknown
165	BROWNING (R.)	About ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY LETTERS, and Mrs. BROWNTNG			GBP -	Unknown
166	BROWNING (ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT)	THE LOVE LETTERS			GBP -	Unknown
168	BROWNING (R.) and Mrs. BROWNING	Copy by Robert Browning of a Letter written by his wife to John Forster [May 1860]			GBP -	Unknown
169	BROWNING (R.)	A. L. s. 2 1/4 pp. 8vo, from New Gross, Hatcham, to Mr. Kenyon		n. d. [1843]	GBP -	Unknown
170	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Draft, 1 p. folio, of his Letter of thanks, written in Latin, for the degree of M. A. conferred on him by the University of Oxford in 1867			GBP -	Unknown
171	BROWNING (R.)	Rough Draft of an A. L. s. 2 pp. 8vo (one page, in verse), to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette'			GBP -	Unknown
172	BROWNING (R.)	Eleven A. L. s. (some signed with initials only), ten with envelopes, 43 pp. 8vo, Oct.-Nov. 1876, to Miss Egerton-Smith		Oct.-Nov. 1876	GBP -	Unknown
173	BROWNING (R.)	Nine Pencil Sketches, in a small paper-backed book			GBP -	Unknown
174	BROWNING (R.)	Account with his publisher, Edward Moxon		1855	GBP -	Unknown
175	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Character of Ferdinando Itomagnoli, the writer's servant, 1 p. 8vo, Sept. 5, 1861; and Roinaguoli's Marriage Licence from the Archbp. of Florence			GBP -	Unknown
176	BROWNING (Robert)	Lock of Hair, in an envelope with Auto. inscription by Robert Browning			GBP -	Unknown
177	BROWNING (R.)	Scraps of Paper with jottings in his writing			GBP -	Unknown
178	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Notes, 7 pp. 8vo, including an Epigram on the voluntary imprisonment of the Pope as proving his infallibility			GBP -	Unknown
179	BROWNING (R.)	Blotter and Penwiper, in a brown paper wrapper with inscription, dated Dec. 1889, by Mrs. Barrett Browning, to the effect that they were used up to the last by the poet		Dec. 1889	GBP -	Unknown
180	BROWNING (R.)	Suggestions for Subjects of Pictures, probably for his son			GBP -	Unknown
181	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Motto in verse for a picture by Felix Moseheles, "The Isle's Enchantress"			GBP -	Unknown
182	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Motto in verse, seven lines, for his son's picture, Joan of Arc and the Kingfisher			GBP -	Unknown
183	BROWNING (R.)	His Russian Passport, 1834; Flint Arrow Heads, picked up by him on his last visit to Asolo...			GBP -	Unknown
184	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Notes for " The Ring and the Book"			GBP -	Unknown
185	BROWNING (R.)	Another series of similar Auto. Notes, 1 1/4 pp. 4to; in this case, however, the dates are somewhat elaborated			GBP -	Unknown
186	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Notes for "Red Cotton Night Cap Country"			GBP -	Unknown
187	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. MSS.			GBP -	Unknown
188	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Draft of a Poem			GBP -	Unknown
189	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Verses			GBP -	Unknown
190	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. Verses			GBP -	Unknown
191	BROWNING (R.)	Auto. List of the Titles of six Sonnets	Venice	Nov. 28, 1883	GBP -	Unknown
192	BROWNING (R.)	Scraps of Verse in his handwriting			GBP -	Unknown
193	BROWNING (R.)	A BLOT IN THE SCUTCHEON			GBP -	Unknown
194	BROWNING (Robert)	A LAST WORD, TO E. B. B., Auto. MS. on 6 pp. 8vo of the poem now called "ONE WORD MORE"		Sept. 22, 1855	GBP -	Unknown
195	BROWNING (Robert)	HERVE RIEL, Auto. M.S. of the first five stanzas of this famous ballad, and the first seven lines of the sixth stanza			GBP -	Unknown
196	BROWNING (Robert)	EPPS Auto. MS. of this unpublished poem		Jan. 6, '86	GBP -	Unknown
197	BROWNING (Robert)	ASOLANDO, Fancies and Facts, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT from which the volume was printed, 93 pp. 4to, brown morocco, by Proud foot, with the poet's coat-of-arms on the upper cuter			GBP -	Unknown
198	BROWNING (Miss)	Papers in her handwriting, including Copies of Criticisms on the works of her brother and sister-in-law...			GBP -	Unknown
200	Furnivall (Professor F. J.) and Miss Emily Hickey	BROWNING SOCIETY. , Letters, chiefly about the Browning Society, of which they were the founders			GBP -	Unknown
201	BUCHANAN (Robert)	Forty A. L. s.		1864-79	GBP -	Unknown

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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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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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