Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF A CHOICE COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS TOGETHER WITH AN INTERESTING LOT OF CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVES MADE DURING THE WAR. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MORNINGS FEBRUARY 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH, 1913. B, 494,

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Auction Date
February 05, 1913 - February 05, 1913
Page Size: 1078 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
22 Grant (C.) ANNE OF AUSTRIA. Queen and Cardinal. A Memoir of Anne of Austria and of her relations with Cardinal ... London

1907

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23 ANNUALS. The Violet. Engravings. Phila. 1840;--Gift of Affection. Engravings. N. Y. n. d.

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24 ARBER'S ENGLISH REPRINTS. Arte of English Poesie (Pullenham);--Castara (Habington);--Instructions ... Westminster

v. d.

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25 ARBER'S ENGLISH REPRINTS. More's Utopia;--A Harmony of the Essays, etc., of Francis Bacon;--John ... v. p.

v. d.

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26 ARCHITECTURE. Les Styles de L'Architecture. Leipzig

1883

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27 Sverdrup (Otto) ARCTIC. New Land. Four years in the Arctic Regions. London

1904

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28 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Poems, 2 vols.;--God and the Bible;--Literature and Dogma. New York (London)

1883

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29 ARNOLD (MATTHEW) Mixed Essays and Irish Essays;--Culture and Anarchy. New York

1883-91

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30 W. H. Dawson ARNOLD (MATTHEW). Matthew Arnold, and His Relation to the Thought of our Time. New York

1904

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31 ART. Nos Peintres. Dessines par Eux-Memes. Notes Humoristiques et Esquisses Biographiques par A.-M ... Paris

1883

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32 Sadakichi Hartmann ART. A History of American Art. London

1903

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33 Duret (Theodore) ART. Manet and the French Impressionists. Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot ... London

1910

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34 ART. Ruskin and the Religion of Beauty (Sizeranne);--The Painter in Oil (Parkhurst);--The Ideal in ... v. s.

v. d.

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35 Clarence Cook ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. New York

(1888)

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36 ART JOURNAL (THE), 1851, 1853, 1885, 1875, 4 vols.;--The Pictorial Gallery of Arts, Vol. 1;--London ...

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37 A. W. Fuller and W. A. Wheeler ARTISTIC HOMES IN CITY AND IN COUNTRY, with other examples of Domestic Architecture. Boston

1891

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38 ASIATIC JOURNAL (THE). For British and Foreign India, China and Australasia. 1839, 3 vols.;--1840, 2 ... London

1839-41

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39 Chevalier J. Von Hammer ASSASSINS. History of the. London

1835

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40 ATKINSON (CHARLES MILNER) Jeremy Bentham, His Life and Work. London

(1905)

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41 AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE. An Old French Song-Tale. Edinburgh

1902

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42 AUSTIN (ALFRED) At The Gate of the Convent and other Poems. London

1885

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43 AUTHORS OF ENGLAND. A Series of Medallion Portraits of Modern Literary Characters by Achille Collas. London

1838

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44 AUTOGRAPHIC MIRROR (THE). Autographic Letters and Sketches of Illustrious Men. London

1865-6

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45 Beaumont (W. Worby) AUTOMOBILES. Motors, Vehicles and Motors. Their design, construction and working by Steam, Oil and ... London

1902-1906

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46 AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING. Cyclopaedia of. A General Reference Work. Chicago

1909

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47 BACH (ALBERT B.) The Art Ballad. Loewe and Schubert with Musical illustrations. Edinburgh

1890

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48 Fox (Arthur W.) BACHELORS. A Book of Bachelors. Westminster

1899

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49 BACON (FRANCIS) The Advancement of Learning;--The Law of Love (Reedy);--Characteristics from the Writings of John ... v. s.

v. d.

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50 BALZAC (HONORE DE) Memoir by K. P. Wormley. Portrait (few pp. water-stained);--Brotherhood of Consolation;--Village ... Boston

1892-96

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51 BALZAC (HONORE DE) Oeuvres Illustrees De. Paris

1867

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52 M. F. Sandars BALZAC (HONORE DE). Honore De Balzac. His Life and Writings. London

1904

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53 BARBEAU (A) Life and Letters at Bath in the 18th Century. London

1904

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54 BARING-GOULD (S.) Origin and Development of Religious Belief. Part 1, Polytheism and Monotheism;--Part 2, Christianity ... London

1884

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55 BARNEY (LAURA CLIFFORD) God's Heroes. A Drama. London

(1910)

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56 BARRIE (J. M.) The Little Minister. New York

1898

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57 BATSON (H. M.) A Book of the Country and the Garden. London

1903

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58 BASTIAN (H. CHARLTON) The Evolution of Life. With diagrams and many photomicrographs. London

n. d.

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59 BEATTIE (JAMES) Original Poems and translations. London

1760

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60 BEATTIE (JAMES) The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius: and other Poems. London

1827

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61 BEATTIE (JAMES) Poetical Works. London

1831

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62 BEAUMONT (W. WORBY) Motor Vehicles and Motors, their design, construction and working by Steam, Oil and Electricity. London

1902-1906

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63 [BECKFORD (WILLIAM)] Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal. London

1834

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64 BELL (CHARLES) Engravings of the Arteries. London

1811

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65 BENHAM (W. H.) Trade and trade Centres of History. New York

1907

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66 BENSON (A. C.) Peace, and other Poems. London, 1905;--Puckle's Club. Illustrations. 1900;--Fellows (Housman), 1896 ...

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67 BENSON (A. C.) Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, New York, 1907;--With Zola in England (Vizetelly), London, 1899;-- ...

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68 Charles Milner Atkinson BENTHAM. Jeremy Bentham. His Life and Work. London

(1905)

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69 BERLIOZ (HECTOR) Autobiography of. Comprising travels in Italy, Germany, Russia and England. London

1884

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70 BIBLE. Breeches Bible. London

1598

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71 BIBLE. The Pictorial Bible. London

1837

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72 BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY. Third Year Book. Boston

(1904)

USD - Unknown
73 BIDDLE (CHARLES) Autobiography of. Vice-President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. 1745-1821. Philadelphia

1883

USD - Unknown
74 BIOGRAPHICAL. James Thomson (Macaulay);--Life and Letters of Cicero (Jeans);--Wordsworth (Calvert ... v. s.

v. d.

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75 Wm. Hamilton Gibson BIRDS. Sharp Eyes. A Rambler's Calendar. New York

1898

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76 Irene Langridge BLAKE (WILLIAM). A Study of His Life and Art Work. London

1904

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77 BLAKE (WILLIAM) The Prophetic Books of William Blake. Jerusalem;--Milton. Edited by E. R. D. MacLagan and A. G. B ... London

1904-7

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78 A. G. B. Russell BLAKE (WILLIAM). The Letters of William Blake. Together with a life, by Fred. Latham. Edited from ... London

[1906]

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79 BLAVATSKY (H. P.) Nightmare Tales. Foreword by Annie Besant. London

1892

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80 BOCCACCIO. Series of engraved copper-plate engravings and etchings for extra illustrating Boccaccio ...

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81 Goethe (J. W.) BOHN'S LIBRARY. Wilhelm Meister's Travels;--Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. London

1882-83

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82 BOHN'S LIBRARY. A Treatise on Painting (L. Da Vinci), 1877;--Life of Lorenzo de Medici (Roscoe ... London

1851-77

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83 BOHN'S LIBRARY. Tragedies of Euripides, 2 vols. 1854;--Literature of the South of Europe (Sismondi ... London

USD - Unknown
84 BOKER (GEO. H.) Plays and Poems. Boston

1857

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85 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (THE) and Administration of the Sacraments. . . . According to the use of the ... Edinburgh

1768

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86 Luther S. Livingston BOOK-PRICES CURRENT (AMERICAN). Compiled from the Auctioneers' Catalogues. New York

1910

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87 BOSTON EVENTS. From 1630 to 1880. Boston

1884

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88 BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson. London

1818

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89 BOURNE (VINCENT) Miscellaneous Poems. London

1772

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90 Edited by Max Kalbeck BRAHMS. Johannes Brahms. The Herzogenberg Correspondence. New York

1909

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91 BRAHMS. The Herzogenberg Correspondence. New York

1909

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92 Tom Taylor BRITTANY. Ballads and Songs of Brittany. London

1865

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93 BRONTE. The Novels of the Sisters Bronte. London

1905

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94 BROOKE (HENRY) The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. London

1767-70

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95 BROWN (JOHN) Rab and his Friends. Edinburgh

1878

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96 BROWN (THOMAS) Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. London

(circa 1720)

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97 BROWNE (CHARLES F.) The Complete Works of. London

n. d.

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98 [BROWNE (H. K.)] Dissection of Teetotalism. London

1846

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99 BROWNE (WILLIAM) Poems. Edited by Gordon Goodwin, with an introduction by A. H. Bullen. London

1894

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100 BROWNING (ROBERT) Dramatis Personae; and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. [London]

1909

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101 BROWNING (ROBERT) Men and Women. Edited by Basil Worsfold. 2 vols.;--The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith);--Portrait. Phila.

n. d.

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102 BUCHANAN (ROBERT) The Outcast, 1891;--The Earthquake, 1885;--David Gray, 1868;--London Poems, 1867;--Poems (Boston ... London and Boston.

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103 BUCHANAN (ROBERT) The Coming Terror;--Effie Hetherington;--Shadow of the Sword and others. v. s.

v. d.

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104 BULLEN (A. H.) Carols and Poems from the Fifteenth Century to the present time. London

1886

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105 BUNNER (H. C.) The Midge. New York

1886

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106 [BURKE (EDMUND)] A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. London

1770

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107 [BURKE (EDMUND)] A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful;--Dion Ysius ... London

1773-1800

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108 BURNS (ROBERT) Love Songs of (Douglas). Portrait;--Irish Love Songs (Tynan). New York

1892

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109 BURNS (ROBERT) AND MRS. DUNLOP. Correspondence now published in full for the first time. New York

1898

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110 BURNS (ROBERT) Henley and Burns. Sterling, Scotland

1901

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111 BURNS (ROBERT) Genius and Character of Burns (Wilson);--Holograph Manuscripts in the Kilmarnock Museum;--All about ... New York, and Kilmarnock, Scotland

1861-1900

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112 BURTON (ALFRED) The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy. London

1904

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113 BUTTERFIELD (GEN. DANIEL) A Biographical Memorial of. Including many Addresses and Military writings. New York

1900

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114 BUTTERFLIES. Berge's Schmetterlingsbuch. Bearbeitet von H. v. Heinemann. Stuttgart

1883

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115 W. F. De V. Kane BUTTERFLIES. European Butterflies. London

1885

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116 W. J. Holland BUTTERFLIES. The Butterfly Book. A popular guide to a knowledge of the Butterflies of North America. New York

1905

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117 BYRON (LORD) Child Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the fourth. London

1818

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118 John Hobhouse BYRON (LORD). Historical Illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold. London

1818

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119 BYRON (LORD) Narrative of Last Journey to Greece. From the Journal of Count Peter Gamba. London

1825

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120 BYRON (LORD) Dramas, 2 vols.;--Miscellanies, 3 vols.;--Tales, 2 vols. London

1837

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121 BYRON (LORD) Vindication of Lady Byron;--The Real Lord Byron (Jeaffreson). London

1871-84

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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.