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
706 Goldsmith (O.) Poetical Works and Essays, autograph signature of "Robert Browning"

1819

 GBP - Unknown
707 Gorius (A. F.) Gemmae Antiquae ex Thesauro Mediceo Florentiae

1732

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708 Gosse (E. W.) On Viol and Flute...

GBP - Unknown
709 Gosse (E. W.) New Poems...

GBP - Unknown
710 Gosse (E. W.) King Erik...

GBP - Unknown
711 Gothe (J. W. von) Egmont, Trauerspiel Leipzig

1788

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712 Gradus ad Parnassum Edinb.

1813

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713 Grant (C.) Stories of Naples and the Camorra...

GBP - Unknown
714 Gray (John Miller) Memoir and Remains...

GBP - Unknown
715 Greek and Latin Prize Poems of the University of Cambridge from 1814 to 1837 Cambridge

1837

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716 Greenwood (Col. G.) Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece

1839

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717 Gregorius (S.) Opera omnia Paris

1778

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718 Gregorius Naziazonus Opera, Graece et Lat Coloniae

1690

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719 Grimm (Baron de) et Diderot: Mimioires Historiques, Litteraires et Anecdotiques

GBP - Unknown
720 Grosart (A. B.) Songs of the Day and Night, or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns for Public and Private Praise and Reading

1890

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721 Guida al Forestiero per osservare con metodo le rarita e bellezze della citta di Firenze Firenze

1790

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722 Hall (John) Poems Cambridge

1646

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723 Hall (Jos.) Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall Cases of Conscience

1654

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724 Hall (J.) Satires with the Illustrations of the late T. Warton and additional Notes by S. W. Singer

1824

 GBP - Unknown
725 Hall (J.) Satires Chiswick

1824

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726 Hallam (H.) Introduction to the Literature of Europe

1839

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727 Hamerton (P. G.) The Graphic Arts: a Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

1882

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728 Hardy (T.) Wessex Tales, Strange, Lively, and Commonplace

1888

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729 Harte (Bret) In the Carquinez Woods Boston

1884

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730 Harte (B.) Lothaw

n.d.

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731 Hawker (R. S.) Poetical Works

1879

 GBP - Unknown
732 Hawthorne (N.) Passages from the American Note-Books

1868

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733 Hawthorne (N.) Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books

1871

 GBP - Unknown
734 Hayes (M. H.) Points of the Horse

1897

 GBP - Unknown
735 Heine (H.) Sammtliche Werke Hamburg

1867

 GBP - Unknown
736 Hemans (Mrs.) Common Place Book

c. 1800

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737 Hemans (Mrs.) Memorials

1837

 GBP - Unknown
738 Hephaestion Enchiridion, cum notis variorum cur. T. Gaisford Oxon.

1810

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739 Herbert (G.) The Temple...

GBP - Unknown
740 Herodianus Historiarum libri VIII Edinburghi

1724

 GBP - Unknown
741 Higginson (T. W.) Out-Door Papers Boston

1863

 GBP - Unknown
742 Histoire de l'Abdication de Victor Amedee, Roi de Sardaigne Turin

1734

 GBP - Unknown
743 Hobbes (Thos.) Tracts

1681

 GBP - Unknown
744 Hodgson (Rev. F.) Memoir

1878

 GBP - Unknown
745 Hogarth (W.) Graphic Illustrations by S. Ireland...

GBP - Unknown
746 Hogarth (W.) Works...

GBP - Unknown
747 Hogarth A. Collection of about One Hundred small Engravings by Hogarth

GBP - Unknown
748 Homerus Opera quae exstant omnia Graece et Latine Patavii

1819

 GBP - Unknown
749 Homerus Ilias et Odyssea

1831

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750 Homerus Ilias

1802

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751 Homerus Ilias, cum brevi annotations C. G. Heyne

1817

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752 Homerus Ilias ed. G. Baeumlein Lipsiae

1854

 GBP - Unknown
753 Homerus Iliad

1871

 GBP - Unknown
754 Homerus Odyssea, Graece Oxonii

1811

 GBP - Unknown
755 Homer Homeri et Homeridarum Opera et Reliquiae ex rec. F. A. Wolfii Lipsiae

1806

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756 Homer Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Pindar, Anacreon, Gnomici, Orphica, Babrius, Anthologia Graeca, Apollonius, etc. Tauchnitz

1829-69

 GBP - Unknown
757 Horatius Poemata, scoliis et argumentis ab H. Stephano illustrata Lutetiae

1549

 GBP - Unknown
758 Horatius Emblemata imaginibus in aes incisis notisque illustrata Antverpiae

1612

 GBP - Unknown
759 HORATIUS Opera, aoneis tabulis incidit Jo. Pine

1733-7

 GBP - Unknown
760 Horatius Opera

1820

 GBP - Unknown
761 Horatius Opera, cum selectis scholiis et observationibua Baxteri, Gesneri et Zeunii

1822

 GBP - Unknown
762 Horatius Opera omnia Paris

1828

 GBP - Unknown
763 Horatius Pickering's Diamond Edition

1824

 GBP - Unknown
764 Home (R. H.) The Death of Marlowe...

GBP - Unknown
765 Horne (R. H.) Cosmo de' Medici: an Historical Tragedy

1875

 GBP - Unknown
766 [Horne (R. H.)] Exposition of the false Medium and Barriers excluding Men of Genius from the Public

1833

 GBP - Unknown
767 Horne (R. H.) Ballad Romances...

GBP - Unknown
768 Home (R. H.) A New Spirit of the Age...

GBP - Unknown
769 Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord) Some Writings and Speeches

1888

 GBP - Unknown
770 Houghton (Lord) Monographs, Personal and Social

1873

 GBP - Unknown
771 Houssaie (A. de la) Histoire du gouvernement de Venise Paris

1677

 GBP - Unknown
772 Howell (J.) Dendrologia. Dodona's Grove, or the Vocall Forrest Cambridge

1645

 GBP - Unknown
773 Howell (J.) Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Fainiliar Letters

1726

 GBP - Unknown
774 Hugo (H.) Pia Desideria tribus libris comprehensa Antverp.

1657

 GBP - Unknown
775 Hugo (V.) La Legende des Siecles, Premiere Serie Paris

1859

 GBP - Unknown
776 Hunt (Leigh) Poetical Works

1832

 GBP - Unknown
777 Hunt (L.) Poetical Works

1844

 GBP - Unknown
778 Hunt (L.) The Palfrey: a Love Story of Old Times

1842

 GBP - Unknown
779 Hunt (L.) Imagination and Fancy

1844

 GBP - Unknown
780 [Hunt (L.)] Christianism, or Belief and Unbelief Reconciled, with note on title in the autograph of Robert Browning

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
781 Hunt (W. M.) Talks about Art

1878

 GBP - Unknown
782 Hutchinson (F.) Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft

1720

 GBP - Unknown
783 Iamblichus De vita Pythagorae et Psotrepticae orationes ad Philosophiam lib. II

1698

 GBP - Unknown
784 Il Nipotismo di Roma, or The History of the Pope's Nephews

1669

 GBP - Unknown
785 Isocrates Orationes et Epistolae

1613

 GBP - Unknown
786 Jameson (Mrs.) Legends of the Monastic Orders, as represented in the Fine Arts

1852

 GBP - Unknown
787 Jameson (Mrs.) A Commonplace Book of Thoughts...

GBP - Unknown
788 Jebb (J.) Sermons on subjects chiefly practical

1824

 GBP - Unknown
789 Jebb (R. C.) Translations into Greek and Latin Verse Cambridge

1873

 GBP - Unknown
790 Jewell (Jo.) Apologia Eeclosiae Anglicanae

1692

 GBP - Unknown
791 Johnson (S.) Select Essays...

GBP - Unknown
792 Jonson (Ben.) Workes

1616

 GBP - Unknown
793 Jonson Horace, his Art of Poetrie

1640

 GBP - Unknown
794 Jonston (A.) Psalmi Davidici cum argumentis et notis

1742

 GBP - Unknown
795 Junius (Francis) The Painting of the Ancients

1638

 GBP - Unknown
796 Junius Letters

1771

 GBP - Unknown
797 Junius Handwriting professionally investigated by Mr. C. Chabot

1871

 GBP - Unknown
798 Juvenal and Persius Satyrs

1726

 GBP - Unknown
799 KEATS (John) ENDYMION: A POETIC ROMANCE

1818

 GBP - Unknown
800 Keats (J.) Life, Letters and Literary Remains

1818

 GBP - Unknown
801 Keats, by Sidney Colvin (English Men of Letters)

1887

 GBP - Unknown
802 Kelsall (C.) Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino Geneva

1820

 GBP - Unknown
803 Knapton (J.) A Dictionary of all Religions, Ancient and Modern

1704

 GBP - Unknown
804 Knight (H. G.) Eastern Sketches in Verse

1819

 GBP - Unknown
805 Lafon (Mary) Mille ans de guerre entre Rome et les Papes...

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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