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
606 Defoe (D.) Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

1853

 GBP - Unknown
607 De Luc (J. A.) Histoire du Passage des Alpes par Annibal Geneve

1818

 GBP - Unknown
608 De Vere (Aubrey) Poems...

GBP - Unknown
609 De Vera (A.) St. Thomas of Canterbury: a Dramatic Poem

1876

 GBP - Unknown
610 De Vere (A.) The Foray of Queen Meave, and other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age

1882

 GBP - Unknown
611 Dicey (Edw.) Rome in 1860 Cambridge

1861

 GBP - Unknown
612 DICKENS (Charles) Barnaby Budge

1841

 GBP - Unknown
613 Dickens (C.) The Adventures of Oliver Twist

1846

 GBP - Unknown
614 Dickens (C.) Dombey and Son

1848

 GBP - Unknown
615 Dickens (C.) Bleak House

1853

 GBP - Unknown
616 Dickens (C.) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1857

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617 Dickens (C.) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

1859

 GBP - Unknown
618 Dickens (C.) A Tale of Two Cities

1860

 GBP - Unknown
619 Dickens (C.) Little Dorrit

1863

 GBP - Unknown
620 Dickens (C.) Sketches by Boz

1863

 GBP - Unknown
621 Dickens (C.) The Personal History of David Copperfield

1863

 GBP - Unknown
622 Dickens (C.) The Old Curiosity Shop

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
623 Dickens (C.) Letters...

GBP - Unknown
624 S. Lee, editor Dictionary of National Biography

1903

 GBP - Unknown
625 Dionysius Halicarnassus De priscis scriptoribus tractatus

1778

 GBP - Unknown
626 Disraeli (I.) The Literary Character illustrated by the History of Men of Genius

1818

 GBP - Unknown
627 Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et des Alpes par Annibal Paris

1821

 GBP - Unknown
628 Dodington (George Bubb) Diary Dublin

1784

 GBP - Unknown
629 Dodsley (R.) A Select Collection of Old Plays

1744

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630 Dodsley (R.) Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists

1793

 GBP - Unknown
631 Domett (A.) Poems

1833

 GBP - Unknown
632 Doni (A. F.) La Libraria Vinegia

1580

 GBP - Unknown
633 Donne (J.) Poems

1639

 GBP - Unknown
634 Donne (J.) Poems on several Occasions

1719

 GBP - Unknown
635 Donne (J.) Complete Works

1872

 GBP - Unknown
636 Donne (J.) Complete Poems

1872

 GBP - Unknown
637 Donne (J.) Unpublished Poems

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
638 Doyle (It.) The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown...

GBP - Unknown
639 Drayton (M.) England's Heroical Epistles

1788

 GBP - Unknown
640 Drummond of Hawthornden (Wm.) Poems

1790

 GBP - Unknown
641 Dryden (John) The State of Innocence and Fall of Man

1733

 GBP - Unknown
642 Dryden (J.) Fables, Ancient and Modern

1745

 GBP - Unknown
643 Duff (Sir M. E. Grant) Notes from a Diary...

GBP - Unknown
644 Durer (Albert) De Symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum Norimbergae

1534

 GBP - Unknown
645 Ecldey (S. M.) The Oldest of the Old World

1860

 GBP - Unknown
646 Edgeworth (M.) Prime Lezioni Milano

1833

 GBP - Unknown
647 Edwards (B.) Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo

1797

 GBP - Unknown
648 Eliot (Sir John) A Biography...

GBP - Unknown
649 Emerson (R. W.) Poems Boston

1884

 GBP - Unknown
650 Epictetus Enchiridion, una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula, etc. Cantab.

1655

 GBP - Unknown
651 Epictetus Enchiridion, una cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula Delphis Bat.

1683

 GBP - Unknown
652 Epictetus Enchiridion, Or. ex editione Jo. Upton Glasguae

1748

 GBP - Unknown
653 Epictetus Enchiridion, Cebetis Tabula, Prodici Hercules et Theophrasti Characteres Ethiei...per Jos. Simpson Oxonii

1804

 GBP - Unknown
654 Epictetus Manuale, etc.

1758

 GBP - Unknown
655 Epigrammi di Zefirino Re Cesenate Bologna

1823

 GBP - Unknown
656 Episcopius (J.) Signorum Veterum Icones, etc.

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
657 Erasmus Colloquia

1727

 GBP - Unknown
658 Erasmus Dialogus, cui titulus Ciceroniauus Oxoniae

1693

 GBP - Unknown
659 Erasmus De duplici copia verborum ac rerum commentarii duo

GBP - Unknown
660 Euripides Tragoediae

GBP - Unknown
661 Euripides Tragoediae XX, cum variis Iectionibus ex edit. J. Barnes Oxonii

1812

 GBP - Unknown
662 Euripides Tragoediae IV

1824

 GBP - Unknown
663 Euripides Tragoediae priores quatuor Cantabrigiae

1829

 GBP - Unknown
664 Euripides Tragoediae ex rec. A. Nauckii Lipsiae

1866

 GBP - Unknown
665 Euripides

1857-60

 GBP - Unknown
666 Euripides Tragedies Bohn

1868

 GBP - Unknown
667 Euripides Cyclops, Graece Lipsiae

1789

 GBP - Unknown
668 Alcestis (Gr.) ex rec. Euripides. A. Nauckii

1864

 GBP - Unknown
669 Eusebius, etc. Ecclesiasticae Historiae Lut. Paris

1544

 GBP - Unknown
670 Evelyn (John) Sculptura, or The History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper

1755

 GBP - Unknown
671 Exposition Generale des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles

1884

 GBP - Unknown
672 Fane (Violet, Lady Currie) Collected Views

1880

 GBP - Unknown
673 Fairer (R. R.) A Tour in Greece...

GBP - Unknown
674 Fau (J.) Anatomie des formes extericures du corps humain a l'usage des peintres et des sculpteurs Paris

1845

 GBP - Unknown
675 Fellows (J.) History of the Holy Bible

1811

 GBP - Unknown
676 Fernandez (F.) Diccionario Manual de la Lengua Ingleza para el uso de los Espanoles

1813

 GBP - Unknown
677 Fernandez (F.) A New Practical Grammar of the Spanish Language

1822

 GBP - Unknown
678 Field (Michael) Long Ago

1889

 GBP - Unknown
679 Field (M.) The Tragic Mary

1890

 GBP - Unknown
680 Field (M.) Stephania, a Trialogue

1892

 GBP - Unknown
681 Field (M.) Sight and Song

1892

 GBP - Unknown
682 Field (M.) The Father's Tragedy, William Rufus, Loyalty or Love ?

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
683 Field (M.) Brutus Ultor...

GBP - Unknown
684 Firdusi. Epic of Kings

1882

 GBP - Unknown
685 Firminianus (P.) Gyges Gallus Mediolani

1694

 GBP - Unknown
686 Flatman (T.) Poems and Songs

1674

 GBP - Unknown
687 Florilegiura Piversorum Epigrammatum Vetevum Graecorum Lipsiae

1657

 GBP - Unknown
688 [FOLENGO (Theoph.)] Orlandino di Limerno Pitocco, nuovamonte stampato diligentemonte corretto ed arricchito di annotazioni Londra

1773

 GBP - Unknown
689 Forman (Alfred) Sonnets

1886

 GBP - Unknown
690 Ford (John) Dramatic Works

1831

 GBP - Unknown
691 Forster (John) Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

1848

 GBP - Unknown
692 Forster (J.) Eminent British Statesmen...

GBP - Unknown
693 Forster (J.) Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First...

GBP - Unknown
694 Fougasses (T. de) Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice

1612

 GBP - Unknown
695 Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum collegit et disposuit Aug. Meineke Berolini

1839-57

 GBP - Unknown
696 Fuseli (H.) Life and Writings...

GBP - Unknown
697 Galloway (G.) The Battle of Luncarty, etc. Edinb.

1804

 GBP - Unknown
698 Garth (S.) The Dispensary, a Poem in Six Cantos

1726

 GBP - Unknown
699 Gattella (A.) Historia d' Exzelino Terzo da Roman Padova

1668

 GBP - Unknown
700 Gellius (Aulus) Noctes Atticae Amstelod.

1651

 GBP - Unknown
701 Gellius (A.) Noctium Atticarum libri XX, etc. Biponti

1784

 GBP - Unknown
702 Geseniusand Furst Student's Hebrew Lexicon

1882

 GBP - Unknown
703 Gibbon (F.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1862

 GBP - Unknown
704 Gladstone (W. E.) The Iris of Homer and her Relation to Genesis IX

GBP - Unknown
705 Glanvill (J.) The Vanity of Dogmatizing

1661

 GBP - Unknown
  • <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.
  • <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.
    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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