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
806		Lafon (M.) Rome depuis l'etablissement du Christianisme jusqu'a nos jours...			GBP -	Unknown
807	Lairesse (G. de)	The Art of Painting		1778	GBP -	Unknown
808	Lamb (Charles)	Tales from Shakespeare		1831	GBP -	Unknown
809	Barry Cornwall [B. W. Procter]	Lamb (C.): a Memoir by Barry Cornwall [B. W. Procter]		1866	GBP -	Unknown
810	Talfourd (T. N.)	Lamb. Final Memorials of Charles Lamb		1848	GBP -	Unknown
811	Landon (L. E.)	The Troubadour		1825	GBP -	Unknown
812	Landon (L. E.)	The Zenana and Minor Poems		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
813		Landon (L. E.) Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. by Laman Blanchard...			GBP -	Unknown
814	Landor (R. E.)	The Fawn of Sertorius...			GBP -	Unknown
815	Landor (W. S.)	Works		1853	GBP -	Unknown
816	[LANDOR, W. S.]	Gebir; a Poem	St. Paul's Church-yard	1798	GBP -	Unknown
817	LANDOR (W. S.)	GEBIR; a Poem		1798	GBP -	Unknown
818	LANDOR (SAVAGIUS)	Gebirus, Poema	Oxonii	1803	GBP -	Unknown
819	Landor (W. S.)	Gebir, Count Julian and other Poems		1831	GBP -	Unknown
820	Landor (W. S.)	Gebir, Count Julian and other Poems		1831	GBP -	Unknown
821	[LANDOR (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian, with Notes by the author of Gebir	Warwick, Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard, London	1800	GBP -	Unknown
822	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
823	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
824	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
825	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
826	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
827	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems from the Arabic and Persian		1800	GBP -	Unknown
828	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
829	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
830	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
831	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
832	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
833	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
834	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
835	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
836	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poems		1800	GBP -	Unknown
837	[Landor (W. S.)]	Poetry		1802	GBP -	Unknown
838	[LANDOR (W. S.)]	Poetry		1802	GBP -	Unknown
839	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode ad Gustavum Begem, Ode ad Gustavum Exulem		1810	GBP -	Unknown
840	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode ad Gustavum Regem, Ode ad Gustavum Exulem		1810	GBP -	Unknown
841	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode ad Gustavum Regem, Ode ad Gustavum Exulem		1810	GBP -	Unknown
842	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode ad Gustavum Regem, Ode ad Gustavum Exulem		1810	GBP -	Unknown
843	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode		1810	GBP -	Unknown
844	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode		1810	GBP -	Unknown
845	[Landor (W. S.)]	Ode		1810	GBP -	Unknown
846	Landor (W. S.)	Idyllia Heroica, Decem Librum Phaleuciorum unum	Pisa	1820	GBP -	Unknown
847	Landor (W. S.)	Andrea of Hungary and Giovanna of Naples		1839	GBP -	Unknown
848	Landor (W. S.)	Era Rupert, the last part of a Trilogy		1840	GBP -	Unknown
849	Landor (W. S.)	The Hellenics, comprising Heroic Idyls, etc.	Edinb.	1859	GBP -	Unknown
850	Landor (W. S.)	The Hellenics		1859	GBP -	Unknown
851	Landor (W. S.)	Poems			GBP -	Unknown
852	Landor (W. S.)	Heroic Idyls, with additional Poems		1863	GBP -	Unknown
853	Landor (W. S.)	Selections from his Writings		1882	GBP -	Unknown
854	John Forster	Landor (Walter Savage), a Biography by John Forster		1869	GBP -	Unknown
855	Sidney Colvin	Landor		1881	GBP -	Unknown
856	Lang (A.)	Helen of Troy		1882	GBP -	Unknown
857	Lazaroni (P.)	Carmina in laudem Catharinae Corneliae Cypri Reginae		1794	GBP -	Unknown
858	Leti (G.)	Vita di Don Pietri Giron	Amsterdam	1699	GBP -	Unknown
859		Lettres a un jeune prince par un Ministre d'Etat charge de l'elever et de l'instruire	Amsterdam	1755	GBP -	Unknown
860		Liberty Bell (The)	Boston	1845	GBP -	Unknown
861		Liberty Bell (The)	Boston	1856	GBP -	Unknown
862	Licetus (F.)	De Lucernis antiquorum reconditis libri VI	Patavii	1662	GBP -	Unknown
863	Lichtenborg (J.)	Conjunctione Saturni et Martis in ano dni MCCCCLXXIII ponultima die mensis augusti, etc.	Argentine	1474	GBP -	Unknown
864		Lidded (H. G.) and R. Scott, Greek-English Lexicon...			GBP -	Unknown
865		Life and Reign of King Richard the Second		1681	GBP -	Unknown
866		Lites ac Res gestae inter Polonos Ordinemque Oruciferorum...			GBP -	Unknown
867	Livius	Historiarum ab urbe condita	Amsterd.	1678	GBP -	Unknown
868	Locke (J.)	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding		1605	GBP -	Unknown
869	Locker (Fred.)	Selections from his Works		1865	GBP -	Unknown
870	Locker (F.)	London Lyrics		1870	GBP -	Unknown
871	Locker (F.)	London Lyrics, Presented to the Members of the Cosmopolitan Club		1874	GBP -	Unknown
872	Locker (F.)	Patchwork		1879	GBP -	Unknown
873	Locker-Lampson (F.)	A Catalogue of the Printed Books		1886	GBP -	Unknown
874		Locker-Lampson (F.) My Confidences...			GBP -	Unknown
875	Longinus	De Sublimitate commentarius, quem nova versione donavit, etc.		1824	GBP -	Unknown
876	[Lothian (Marquis of)]	Fragment of a Parallel between the History, Literature and Art of Italy in the Middle Ages	Edinb.	1863	GBP -	Unknown
877		Loti (P.) Pecheur d'Islande...			GBP -	Unknown
878	Lowell (J. B.)	Poems	Cambridge, Mass.	1844	GBP -	Unknown
879	Lowell (J. R.)	Conversations on some of the Old Poets	Cambridge	1845	GBP -	Unknown
880	Lowell (J. R.)	Poetical Works	Boston	1860	GBP -	Unknown
881	Lowell (J. R.)	The Cathedral	Boston	1870	GBP -	Unknown
882	Lucianus	Opera, etc.	Basileae	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
883	Lyttelton (Lord)	Lettres	Paris	1789	GBP -	Unknown
884	Lytton (Sir E. Bulwer)	Poems		1865	GBP -	Unknown
885	Lytton (Earl of)	Lucile		1860	GBP -	Unknown
886	Lytton (Earl of)	Serbski Pesme, or National Songs of Sorvia		1861	GBP -	Unknown
887	Lytton (Robert, first Earl of)	Personal and Literary Letters		1906	GBP -	Unknown
888	Macaulay (T. B.)	History of England from the Accession of James II...			GBP -	Unknown
889	McCarthy (Justin H.)	Serapion and other Poems		1883	GBP -	Unknown
890	McCarthy (J. H.)	Hafiz in London		1886	GBP -	Unknown
891		Macdonald (G.) Unspoken Sermons...			GBP -	Unknown
892	Machiavelli (N.)	Il Principe	Palermo	1584	GBP -	Unknown
893	Machiavelli (N.)	Il Principe	Cosmopoli	1769	GBP -	Unknown
894	Mahaffy (J. P.)	Rambles and Studies in Greece		1878	GBP -	Unknown
895	Mahaffy (J. P.)	A History of Classical Greek Literature		1880	GBP -	Unknown
896	Mahaffy (J. P.)	Greek Life and Thought from the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest		1887	GBP -	Unknown
897	Mandeville (B.)	Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases		1730	GBP -	Unknown
898	Mandeville (B.)	The Fable of the Bees		1795	GBP -	Unknown
899		Manson (George) and his Works	Edinburgh	1880	GBP -	Unknown
900	Marat (M.)	Decouvertos sur la lumiere		1780	GBP -	Unknown
901	Marlowe (Christopher)	Dramatic Works		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
902	Marlowe (C.) and G. Chapman, Hero and Leander	autograph signature, of "Elizabeth B. Barrett"		1820	GBP -	Unknown
903	Marmion (S.)	Cupid and Psyche: A Legend		1820	GBP -	Unknown
904	Marmontel (J. F.)	Memoiros	Paris	1804	GBP -	Unknown
905	Martin (Helena Faucit)	On Some of Shakespeare's Women		1885	GBP -	Unknown

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.
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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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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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