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Auction Details

Auction Date: May 14, 1946 - May 14, 1946

Page Size: 821 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ADAM LIBRARY. The R. B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and His Era.	London and New York	1929	USD 40.00 - 40.00	45.00
2	[ADDISON, JOSEPH and RICHARD STEELE]	Days with Sir Roger De Coverley.	London	1892	USD 40.00 - 40.00	21.00
3		AETHIOPIAN HISTORY, AN (Heliodorus). Englished by Thomas Underdowne, Anno 1587. With an Introduction ...	London	1894-5	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
4	AINSWORTH, WILLIAM H.	Saint James's: or The Court of Queen Anne. An Historical Romance.	London	1844	USD 30.00 - 30.00	12.50
5		ALBUM POLITIQUE et Allegorique de 1850. Colored and uncolored caricatures by Gavarni, [Paris, 1850 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	22.50
6	Henry Popple	AMERICA. A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent ...	London	1733	USD 150.00 - 150.00	170.00
7		AMERICAN BINDINGS. Forget Me Not Album. Engraved plates and colored blank pages, N. Y. n.d. (c. 1840 ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
8		AMERICAN BINDINGS. The American Juvenile Keepsake, for 1830.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
9		AMERICAN BOTTLES OLD AND NEW (Walbridge), Toledo, 1920; The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance ( ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
10		AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. Vol. 26, Part 3. Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (Parsons ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
11		AMERICAN POETRY. The Beauties of Poetry, British and American. [Compiled by Matthew Carey.]	Philadelphia	1791	USD 25.00 - 25.00	21.50
12		AMERICAN PRIMERS. A collection of American Primers, as below described.	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	13.00
13		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Broadside. Worcester, June 13th, 1774.	[Boston]	[1774]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
14		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Rights of Great Britain Asserted Against the Claim of America . . . The ...	London	1776	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
15		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.	[Boston]	[1780]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
16		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The British Surrendering their Arms to Gen. Washington after their Defeat at ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
17	Henry Laurens Esqr.	AMERICAN REVOLUTION. President of the American Congress 1778.			USD 25.00 - 25.00	4.00
18		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Death of General Montgomery at Quebec.			USD 50.00 - 50.00	6.00
19		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Peter Francisco's Gallant Action with Nine of Tarleton's Cavalry . . . in ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	25.00
20		AMERICAN STATESMEN, ETC. A collection of engraved portraits of Statesmen, Army Officers, etc.			USD 30.00 - 30.00	12.50
21		AMERICAN VIEWS. A collection of views of buildings, scenes, etc., in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	21.50
22		AMERICAN VIEWS. A collection of views in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Missouri, and other places.			USD 50.00 - 50.00	21.50
23		ANCIENT ART. History of Ancient Art (von Reber), translated and augmented by Joseph Thacher Clarke ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
24		AND EVEN NOW (Beerbohm), N. Y. [1921]; The Collected Poems (Housman), N. Y. 1940; The Life of Our ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
25		ANIMALS. A Collection of engravings, in color, depicting dogs, sheep, cows, donkeys, and other ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	18.00
26		ANIMALS. A collection of engravings, in color, depicting, cows, sheep, dogs, and other animals.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
27		ANNALS OF SPORTING AND FANCY GAZETTE, THE. A Magazine Entirely appropriated to Sporting Subjects and ...	London	1822-8	USD 750.00 - 750.00	550.00
28	ANSON, GEORGE	Voyage autour du Monde fait dans les Annees mdccxl, i, ii, iii, iv . . . tire des Journaux & autres ...	Amsterdam & Leipzig	1751	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
29	Nimrod	[APPERLEY, CHARLES J.] Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. . . . with Notices of his ...	London	1835	USD 75.00 - 75.00	40.00
30	Nimrod	[APPERLEY, CHARLES J.] Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq. . . . with Notices of his ...	London	1837	USD 100.00 - 100.00	105.00
31	Nimrod	[APPERLEY, CHARLES J.] The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod.	London	1842	USD 100.00 - 100.00	150.00
32		APPLES OF NEW YORK (Beach), 2 vols., Albany, 1905; The Condition of Hunters (Nimrod and Barton ...	V.p.	1905-1908	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
33		ARABIC. Volume in Arabic, probably the Koran.			USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
34		ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. Three manuscripts in Arabic, with gold and colored borders, and colored floral ...	N.p.	n.d.	USD 35.00 - 35.00	22.50
35	Richard F. Burton	ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.	Benares	1885	USD 60.00 - 60.00	40.00
36		ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments . . . With ...	Benares	1885-8	USD 200.00 - 200.00	200.00
37		ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. Translated into English from the last Paris Edition. 4 vols., London ...	London	1789-1836	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
38	Russell Sturgis	ARCHITECTURE. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, biographical, historical and descriptive.	New York	1902	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
39	Robert E. Peary	ARCTIC EXPLORATION. Northward Over the Great Ice. A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores ...	New York	1914	USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
40	ARETINO, PIETRO	The Works of Aretino. Translated into English . . . by Samuel Putnam.	Chicago	1926	USD 20.00 - 20.00	13.00
41		ART AND ARTISTS. Art and I (Hind), N. Y. 1921; The Enchantment of Art (Phillips), Washington, D. C ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
42		ART AUCTION CATALOGUES. Tres Belles Estampes du xviiie siecle. Collection H. B. (Georges Petit ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	20.00
43		ART AUCTION CATALOGUES. Sammlung Victor Hahn (Falke), Berlin, 1932; Sammlung Dr. Max Emden, Hamburg ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.50
44	Edited by C. H. Collins Baker	ART TREASURES OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
45	ARTHUR, SIR GEORGE	Life of Lord Kitchener.	London	1920	USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
46		AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE.	London	1911	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
47		AUGUSTUS, JOHN (Rothenstein), London, n.d.; Augustus John Drawings (Browse-editor), n.d. Numerous ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
48	AURELIUS ANTONINUS, MARCUS	The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long. Colored plates by ...	London	1909	USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.50
49		AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.	V.p.	1889-1906	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
50		BACHE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of Paintings in the Collection of Jules S. Bache.	New York	1929	USD 25.00 - 25.00	6.00
51	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	Works.	London	1824	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
52	J. G. Lockhart	BALLADS. Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic. A New Edition, Revised.	London	1841	USD 35.00 - 35.00	12.00
53	BALZAC, HONORE DE	Comedie Humaine.	New York	1901	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
54	BANCROFT, GEORGE	History of the Colonization of the United States.	Boston	1856	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
55	BANCROFT, GEORGE	History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent.	New York	n.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	25.00
56		BARBIZON HOUSE. An illustrated Record. London, 1933; Sammlung Dr. E. W. Berlin 1932; Collections ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
57	BARCLAY, JOHN	Argenis, Figuris Aenis adillustrata, suffixo Clave, hoct est Nominum Propriorum Explicatione, atque ...	Noribergae	1673	USD 25.00 - 25.00	22.50
58	HENRY CHADWICK	BASEBALL. Autograph Manuscript of Professional Baseball Record for 1871 Price 25cts. Published by E ...			USD 75.00 - 75.00	37.50
59		BEAR-HUNTERS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (Bowman), London, 1861; German popular Stories, Illustrations by ...	London	1861-1892	USD 25.00 - 25.00	15.00
60	Sir Thomas Malory	BEARDSLEY ILLUSTRATIONS, AUBREY. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the ...	London	1909	USD 25.00 - 25.00	37.50
61	BEAUJOINT, JULES	The Secret Memoirs of Madame La Marquise de Pompadour.	London	1885	USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.00
62	BELLOC, HILAIRE	Marie Antoinette.	London	1923	USD 15.00 - 15.00	21.50
63	BENET, STEPHEN V.	The Beginning of Wisdom, N. Y. 1921; Tiger Joy, N. Y. 1925; Heavens and Earth, N. Y. 1920; John ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	15.00
64	BENSON, A. C., and others, editors	The Book of the Queen's Doll's House.	London	[1924]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
65	BENTZON, TH.	Jacqueline.	Paris	1893	USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
66	BERGERAC, CYRANO DE	The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun. Newly Englished by ...	London	1687	USD 50.00 - 50.00	50.00
67	BERTHIER, ALEX	Relation de la Bataille de Marengo, gagnee le 24 Prairial An 8, par Napoleon Bonaparte, Premier ...	Paris	1806	USD 125.00 - 125.00	17.50
68	[BESANT, WALTER]	Autograph Manuscript of Loved I Not Honour More. A Play.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
69	BEVERIDGE, ALBERT J.	The Life of John Marshall.	Boston	1919	USD 60.00 - 60.00	47.50
70		BIBLE. The English Bible. Translated out of the Original Tongues by the Commandment of King James ...	London	1903-04	USD 25.00 - 25.00	15.00
71		BIBLE STORY, THE. Arranged and Edited by the Rev. Newton Marshall and Rev. Irving Francis Wood.	Springfield, Massachusetts	1917	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
72		BINDING. Breuiarium iuxta ritus ordinis Listerciensium. . . .	[Venetiis]	[1542]	USD 60.00 - 60.00	70.00
73	John Denham	BINDING BY ROGER PAYNE. Poems and Translations: with the Sophy, a Tragedy.	London	1719	USD 150.00 - 150.00	110.00
74		BINDING. L'Office de la Semaine-Sainte, a l'Usage de la Maison du Roy . . . En Latin & en Francois ...	Paris	1748	USD 75.00 - 75.00	35.00
75	Joannis Brunonis	BINDING. De Medicina Praelectoris . . . Elementa Medicinae.	Edinburgh	1784	USD 150.00 - 150.00	80.00
76	BIRD, ROBERT M.	The City Looking Glass. A Philadelphia Comedy in Five Acts.	New York	1933	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
77	Alexander Wilson and Charles L. Bonaparte	BIRDS. American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States.	London	1832	USD 175.00 - 175.00	120.00
78	CARROLL TYSON	BIRDS. 20 Birds of Mt. Desert Island.	N.p.	[1921]	USD 225.00 - 225.00	180.00
79	William L. Dawson	BIRDS. The Birds of California. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and ...	San Diego	1923	USD 125.00 - 125.00	90.00
80	Mary Howitt	BIRDS. Birds and their Nests.	New York	n.d.	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
81	Thomas Rymer Jones	BIRDS. Cassell's Book of Birds. From the text of Dr. Brehm.	London	n.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	20.00
82	Algernon C. Swinburne	[BLAKE, WILLIAM]. William Blake A Critical Essay.	London	1868	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
83	Alexander Gilchrist	[BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Life of William Blake, with Selections from his Poems and Other Writings. A ...	London	1880	USD 20.00 - 20.00	27.50
84	BLAKE, WILLIAM	The Writings of William Blake.	London	1925	USD 40.00 - 40.00	42.50
85		BLAKE, WILLIAM. Pencil Drawings by William Blake.	[London]	1927	USD 20.00 - 20.00	25.00
86	Mona Wilson	[BLAKE, WILLIAM]. The Life of William Blake.	London	1927	USD 20.00 - 20.00	21.50
87	Dante Alighieri	[BLAKE, WILLIAM.] The Inferno from La Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri. As translated by the ...	New York	1931	USD 40.00 - 40.00	31.00
88	Geoffrey Keynes, editor	BLAKE, WILLIAM. The Note-Book of William Blake, Called the Rossetti Manuscript.	London	1935	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
89		BOATSWAIN'S WHISTLE, THE. Published at the National Sailors' Fair. Nos. 1-10, Nov. 9-19, 1864.	Boston	1864	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
90	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	II Decameron . . .	Amsterdam	1665	USD 20.00 - 20.00	37.50
91	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	Nouvelles de Jean Boccace. Traduction librepar Mirabeau.	Paris	1802	USD 20.00 - 20.00	21.50
92		BOOK OF HISTORY, THE. A History of all Nations.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
93	P. Neville Barnett	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKPLATES. Pictorial Book-Plates, 1931, 2 copies; Armorial Book-plates, 1932.	Sydney	1931-2	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
94		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKPLATES. Historic California in Bookplate (Talbot), Los Angeles, 1936; Delaware ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
95		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKPLATES. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bookplates . . . by George W. Eve (Viner ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
96	J. Payne Collier	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English ...	New York	1866	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
97		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature. Compiled ...	New York	1902-04	USD 60.00 - 60.00	65.00
98		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. American Book-Prices Current, N. Y., 1918, 1919, 2 vols.; Book-Prices Current ...	V.p.	1902-1919	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
99		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Suppressed Plates (Layard), London, 1907; The Golden Book (McMurtrie), Chicago ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
100	T. H. Halsey	BOSTON. The Boston Port Bill as Pictured by a Contemporary London Cartoonist.	New York	1904	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00

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.
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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