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
504 Browning (R.) Life and Letters by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

1891

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505 Browning (R.) by G. K. Chesterton (English Men of Letters)

1903

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506 Browning (R.) Life...

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507 Browning (R.) Das Fremdenbuch Hamburg

1877

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508 Browning. Robert Browning, Essays and Thoughts...

GBP - Unknown
509 Browning The Old Yellow Book, source of Browning's "The Ring and the Book" Institution of Washington

July, 1908

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510 Browning Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton Railroad

1873-74

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511 Browning (R.) "Plan of Robert Browning's Rooms in Balliol College, Oxford. Plan made by Wm. Bridgewater

GBP - Unknown
512 Browning (R.) Small Photograph

GBP - Unknown
514 F. J. Furnivall Browning Society. Bibliography of Robert Browning

GBP - Unknown
515 Browning (Elizabeth Barrett and Robert) Two Poems

1854

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516 Browning (E. B. and R.) Two Poems

1854

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517 Browning (E. B. and R.) Two Poems

1854

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518 Browning (E. B. and R.) Two Poems

1854

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519 Browning (R.) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Letters New York

1899

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520 Browning (R. and E. B.) Briefe...

GBP - Unknown
522 Browning (Robert, sen.) Various Note Books, Essays, etc.

GBP - Unknown
523 Browning (Robert, sen.) Various Note Books, Essays, etc.

GBP - Unknown
524 Browning (Robert, sen.) Various Note Books, Essays, etc.

GBP - Unknown
525 Browning (R. sen.) Various Sketch Books a small parcel

GBP - Unknown
526 Browning (W. S.) The History of the Huguenots during the Sixteenth Century

1829

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527 Brunetto (Ser.) Il Tesoretto, etc. Torino

1750

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528 Brutus (S. J.) Vindiciae contra Tyrannos Arnstelod

1560

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529 [Bulwer-Lytton (Sir E.)] A Word to the Public

1847

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530 Banyan (John) Works Edinb.

1771

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531 Bunyan (J.) The Pilgrim's Progress Philadelphia

1845

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532 Burcholati (Dott-) Il Ritratto del Vistoso, gia Tremedo, Hor Venerando Colle di San Zenone Venetia

1625

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533 Burns (R.) Works

1821

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534 Butler (S.) Hudibras Bohn

1859

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535 Byron (Lord) Don Juan...

1837

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536 Byron (Lord) Letters Paris

1830

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537 Byron Poetry chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold

1881

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538 Leigh Hunt Byron (Lord) and some of his Contemporaries

1828

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539 Caesar, Floras, Statins, Silius Italicus and Claudianus Amsterod

1624, etc.

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540 Callimachus Hymni et Epigrammata Glasguae

1755

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541 Camoens (L. de) Poems from the Portuguese

1804

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542 Campe (J. H.) Robinson der Jungere Braunschweig

1856

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543 Campbell (L.) Leptophyllon Septentrionale: Translations and other Trifles Edinb.

1887

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544 Campbell (T.) Specimens of the British Poets, with Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry

1819

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545 Campbell (T.) The Pleasures of Hope

1820

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546 Campbell (T.) Theodric; a Domestic Tale, and other Poems

1824

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547 Carew (T.) Poems, Songs and Sonnets

1772

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548 Carionis (Jo.) Chronicon Francofurti

1581

 GBP - Unknown
549 Carlyle (T.) Sartor Resartus Boston

1837

 GBP - Unknown
550 Carlyle (T.) Past and Present

1845

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551 Carlyle (T.) The Life of Friedrich Schiller

1873

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552 Casanova de Seingalt (J.) Memoires, cents par lui-meme Bruxelles

1879

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553 Casanova de Seingalt (J.) Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la Republique de Venise qu'on appelle les plombs Bordeaux

1884

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554 H. Morley, editor Cassell's Library of English Literature

n. d.

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555 Catullus (C. V.) Carmina Altonae

1834

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556 Catullus Carmina recog. R. Ellis

1866

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557 Catullus Poems and Fragments translated in the Metres of the Original by R. Ellis

1871

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558 Catullus Tibullus Amsterodami

1640

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559 Gaunter (J. H.) The Poetry of the Pentateuch

1839

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560 Cervantes (M. de) History and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

1770

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561 Chalkhill (J.) Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral Romance

1820

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562 Chamberlayne (Wm.) Pharonnida: an Heroic Poem in Five Books

1820

 GBP - Unknown
563 Channing (W. E.) Poems Boston

1843

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564 Chap Books. Redicoluso Contrasto tra Annuccia e Tolla, etc.

GBP - Unknown
565 Charles I Eikon Basilike: Le pourtraict du Roy de la Grand Bretagne Paris

1649

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566 Charles I Reliquiae Saorae Carolinae Hague

1650

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567 Chaucer (G.) Works

1602

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568 Chaucer (G.) The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer modernized [with Introduction by R. H. Home]

1841

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569 Children's Garland (The), from the best Poets

1862

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570 Chrysostom (S.) Opera Etonae

1612

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571 Chrysostom (S.) De Sacerdotis libri VI ed. J. Hughes Cantabrigiae

1710

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572 Churchill (C.) Poems

1769

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573 Churchill (Sir W.) Divi Britannici: being a Remark upon the lives of all the Kings of the Isle from 2855 B.C. to 1660 A.D. coats-of-arms

1675

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574 Cibber (Colley) Apology for the Life of

1740

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575 Claudianus Opera quae exstant ad optimas editiones collata praemittitur notitia Iiteraria studiis societatis Bipontinae Biponti

1784

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576 Clement (C.) Michelangelo...

GBP - Unknown
577 Clephane (A. J. D. M.) Plays and Poems

1864

 GBP - Unknown
578 Clough (Arthur Hugh) Letters and Remains

1865

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579 Clubbe (Rev. J.) Physiognomy: being a Sketch only of a larger Work upon the same plan

1763

 GBP - Unknown
580 Cobbett (Wm.) History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth

1830

 GBP - Unknown
581 Coles (Elisha) A Practical Discourse of Effectual Calling and of Perseverance

(1677)

 GBP - Unknown
582 Collard (J.) The Essentials of Logic

1796

 GBP - Unknown
583 [Collard (J.)] An Epitome of Logic

1795

 GBP - Unknown
584 Collection of British Authors...

GBP - Unknown
585 Collins, Gray and Beattie, Poetical Works, etc.

1824

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586 COLUMNA (Fr. de) Poliphili Hyprierotomachia, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse ostendit, atque obiter plurima scitu sane qnam digna commemorat Venetia

1545

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587 Combacbius (J.) Metaphysicorum libri duo Oxonii

1663

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588 Combefis (F.) Originum Rerumque Constantinopolitanarum variis auctoribus Paris

1664

 GBP - Unknown
589 Companion to the Theatre, or a Key to the Play

1740

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590 Comparetti (D) Virgilio nel medio evo...

GBP - Unknown
591 Corneille (P.) OEuvres Diverses Amsterdam

1740

 GBP - Unknown
592 Corner (John) Portraits of Celebrated Painters

1825

 GBP - Unknown
593 Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae: Paulus Silentiarius Bonnae

1837

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594 CORYAT (T.) CRUDITIES hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France

1611

 GBP - Unknown
595 Coryat (T.) Coryat's Crudities Glasgow

1905

 GBP - Unknown
596 Cowper (Wm.) The Task

1817

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597 Crabbe (Rev. G.) Life and Poetical Works

1860

 GBP - Unknown
598 Croly (Rev. G.) The Angel of the World

1820

 GBP - Unknown
599 Cromwell (O.) Letters and Speeches

1846

 GBP - Unknown
600 Cruden (A.) Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures

1785

 GBP - Unknown
601 Daniel (S.) The History of the Civil War

1717

 GBP - Unknown
602 Dante La Divina Commedia Parigi

1820; etc.

 GBP - Unknown
603 Dante. New Life...

GBP - Unknown
604 D'Avenant (Sir Wm.) Gondibert: an Heroick Poem

1651

 GBP - Unknown
605 Defoe (D.) The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Cruso

1719

 GBP - Unknown
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    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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
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    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.
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    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.
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