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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
101	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. A New Edition with ...	London	1831	USD 40.00 - 40.00	32.50
102	BOUCHET, J.	Triumphes de la noble Amoureuse Dame, Et l'Art d'honnestement aymer, contenant trois parties ...	Paris	1555	USD 75.00 - 75.00	26.00
103	[BOUTET, HENRI]	[Les Modes Feminines du XIX Siecle 1801-1900.]	N.p., [Paris]	n.d., [1902]	USD 30.00 - 30.00	45.00
104	BOURNE, VINCENT	The Poetical Works of Vincent Bourne. Latin and English text.	Oxford	1826	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
105	BRINKLEY, CAPT	Oriental Series. China and Japan.	Boston	[1901]	USD 35.00 - 35.00	22.50
106		BRITISH POETS, THE. Including Translations. Vols. i-xl, xliii-c (lacking vols. 41-2).	Chiswick	1822	USD 75.00 - 75.00	70.00
107		BROADSIDE. Proclamation issued by James I., against transportation of Corne and Graine.	Imprinted at London	1612	USD 25.00 - 25.00	35.00
108	BROWNING, ROBERT	Poetical Works.	London	1889	USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
109	BRYAN, MICHAEL	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged.	London	1886-9	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
110	BULWER, EDWARD, LORD LYTTON	Works.	Boston	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
111	[BURNEY, FRANCES]	Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, 1778-1840, edited by her Niece.	London	1842-1846	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
112	BURNS, ROBERT	The Works of Robert Burns, with His Life by Alan Cunningham.	London	1834	USD 40.00 - 40.00	42.50
113	Isabel Burton	[BURTON, SIR RICHARD F.] The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton.	London	1893	USD 10.00 - 10.00	5.00
114	BUTLER, SAMUEL	Hudibras. With Historical, Biographical and Explanatory Notes . . . To which are prefixed a Life of ...	London	1822	USD 25.00 - 25.00	22.50
115	BUTTURA	Sonetti a Bonaparte.	Paris	1800	USD 75.00 - 75.00	35.00
116	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	Brass-bound mahogany desk box.		circa 1810	USD 500.00 - 500.00	230.00
117	Horace Hornem, Esq.	[BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD]. Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. By Horace Hornem, Esq.	London	1813	USD 600.00 - 600.00	300.00
118	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale.	London	1813	USD 150.00 - 150.00	115.00
119	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	Hebrew Melodies.	London	1815	USD 225.00 - 225.00	100.00
120	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	The Island or Christian and His Comrades.	London	1823	USD 60.00 - 60.00	35.00
121	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD	Fugitive Pieces. A Fac-Simile Reprint of the Suppressed Edition of 1806.	London	1886	USD 30.00 - 30.00	11.00
122	[CALDERON DE LA BARCA, MADAME]	Life in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in that Country.	London	1843	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
123	[CALLOT, JACQUES]	P. MOREAU. Les Sainctes prieres de l'ame Chrestienne, ecrites et gravees apres le naturel de la ...	Paris	1649	USD 20.00 - 20.00	75.00
124	CALVERT, ALBERT F.	SPAIN. An Historical and Descriptive Account of its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts.	New York	1924	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
125	CAMERON, D. Y.	6 A.L.s.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
126	George M. Grant, editor	CANADA. Picturesque Canada.	Toronto	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
127	Graham Everitt	CARICATURE. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.	London	1886	USD 20.00 - 20.00	13.00
128	CARLETON, JAMES H.	The Battle of Buena Vista, with the Operations of the Army of Occupation for One Month.	New York	1848	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
129	CARLYLE, THOMAS	History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.	London	1858-65	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
130	CARROLL, LEWIS	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.	London	1866	USD 250.00 - 250.00	100.00
131	CARROLL, LEWIS	Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.	London	1872	USD 75.00 - 75.00	60.00
132	CARROLL, LEWIS	Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893.	London	1889-93	USD 40.00 - 40.00	12.50
133	CAULFIELD, JAMES	The High Court of Justice; comprising Memoirs of the Principal Persons who sat in Judgement on King ...	London	1820	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
134	CELLINI, BENVENUTO	Life. Written by Himself. Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds.	New York	n.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.50
135		CENT ANS DE PEINTURE FRANCAIS. Amsterdam, 1928; Collection Henry Rouart, 2nd sale. Paris, 1912 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
136	William Chaffers	CERAMICS. The Keramic Gallery.	London	1907	USD 15.00 - 15.00	22.50
137	R. L. Hobson	CERAMICS. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain.	London	1915	USD 90.00 - 90.00	65.00
138	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha; translated from the Spanish by ...	Edinburgh	1822	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
139		CHANTS DU HOGGAR (Maraval-Berthoin, Paris, n.d.; La Guirlande d'Aphrodite (Herold), Paris, n.d.	Paris	n.d., circa 1920	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
140	[CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND]	Histoire entiere & veritable dv Procez de Charles Stuart Roy d'Angleterre.	London	1650	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
141		CHESHIRE HOUSE PRESS. The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), illustrations by Joanne Pursell, 1931; Erewhon ...	New York	1931	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
142		CHESHIRE HOUSE PRESS. The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe), 1931; The Maides Tragedy (Beaumont and ...	New York	1931-2	USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
143		CHESHIRE HOUSE PRESS. A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 1932; Sonnets (Shakespeare), 1931; Bewick's ...	New York	1931-2	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
144		CHESHIRE HOUSE PRESS. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving), illustrations by Bernhardt Wall, 1931 ...	New York	--	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
145		CHESTER PLAY OF THE DELUGE, THE. Wood Engravings by David Jones. London: The Golden Cockerell Press ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
146	Herbert A. Giles	CHINESE ART. An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art.	Shanghai	1905	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
147		CHINESE PORCELAINS. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains.	New York	1904-11	USD 225.00 - 225.00	190.00
148		CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM. Philothei Symbola Christiana Idea Homini Christiani Exprimitur.	Frankfort	1677	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
149	W. Roberts	CHRISTIE'S ART SALES. Memorial of Christie's. A Record of Art Sales from 1766-1896.	London	1897	USD 15.00 - 15.00	18.00
150	W. Roberts	CHRISTIE'S. Memorials of Christie's. A Record of Art Sales from 1766 to 1896.	London	1897	USD 35.00 - 35.00	40.00
151		CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM (Allen), N. Y. 1925; A Most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake (Roberts ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
152		CHODOWIECKI ENGRAVINGS. Manuel contenant diverses connoissances curieuses et utiles pour l'annee ...	Gottingen	1778	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
153		CITY CHILD (Robinson), decorations by Rockwell Kent. N. Y.: The Colophon, 1931; Summer Islands ( ...	New York	1931	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
154	[CLARKE, WILLIAM]	Three Courses and a Dessert.	London	1830	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
155	[CLAY, HENRY]	Calvin Colton. The Life of Henry Clay, the Great American Statesman . . . together with the Closing ...	New York	1855	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
156	CLERY, J. B.	Journal de ce qui s'est Passe a la Tour du Temple, pendant la Captivite de Louis XVI, Roi de France.	London	1798	USD 25.00 - 25.00	4.00
157	F. J. Britten	CLOCKS. Old Clocks and Watches & Their Makers. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the ...	London	[1932]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	40.00
158	Philippe S. Dufour	COFFEE, ETC. Traitez Nouveaux & curieux dv Cafe; de The et dv Chocolate.	Lyons	1685	USD 20.00 - 20.00	18.00
159		COLLECTED POEMS (Yeats), N. Y. 1938; Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers, [London ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
160		COLOPHON, THE. The Colophon: A Quarterly for Collectors & Lovers of Books, with illustrations. 5 ...	New York	1930-35	USD 75.00 - 75.00	110.00
161		COLOR PLATE BOOKS. A Christmas Carol (Dickens), London, 1905; Life in London (Egan), London, 1904 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	70.00
162	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard.	London	1904	USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
163	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Chance. A Tale.	London	[1914]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	3.00
164	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Tales of Unrest, London, 1898, First Issue; The Arrow of Gold, Garden City, 1919; The Rescue, Garden ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
165	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Youth, Edin., 1902; Romance, London, 1903 (Conrad and Hueffer), London, 1903; Typhoon, London, 1903 ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
166	C. R. Leslie	[CONSTABLE, JOHN.] Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq. R. A. Composed chiefly of his Letters ...	London	1845	USD 40.00 - 40.00	16.00
167	C. J. Holmes	[CONSTABLE, JOHN.] Constable and his Influence on Landscape Painting.	New York	1902	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
168		CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, September 5 ...	Philadelphia	1774	USD 10.00 - 10.00	23.00
169	Le Sieur Robert	COOKERY. L'Art de Bien Traiter. Divise en Trois Parties.	Paris	1674	USD 50.00 - 50.00	20.00
170	Ruth Lowinsky	COOKERY. Lovely Food. A Cookery Notebook. 1931; More Lovely Food, 1935.	London	1931-35	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
171	COOPER, JAMES F.	The Works of J. Fenimore Cooper. Edited with Introductions by Paul Leicester Ford, and others.	New York	n.d.	USD 75.00 - 75.00	85.00
172	J. Quicherat	COSTUME. Histoire du Costume en France.	Paris	1875	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
173		COSTUME. Les Communeux 1871. Types--Caracteres--Costumes.	Paris	1880	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
174	Camille Piton	COSTUME. Le Costume Civil en France du XIIIe au XIXe Siecle.	Paris	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
175		COSTUME IN ENGLAND (Fairholt), 2 vols., 1865; Christmas with the Poets, n.d.			USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
176	Oskar Fischel and Max Von Boehn	COSTUME PLATES IN COLOR. Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century.	London	1909	USD 40.00 - 40.00	40.00
177		COURT MEMOIRS. Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe from the 16th to the 19th Century.	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD 100.00 - 100.00	100.00
178	CRABBE, GEORGE	Poetical Works with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by his Son.	London	1834	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
179	[J. Whitty]	CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, GEORGE. Tales of Irish Life, illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and ...	London	1824	USD 30.00 - 30.00	16.00
180		CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS, ROBERT. Facetiae: Being a General Collection of the Jeux d'Esprits which ...	London	1831	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
181		CUPID AND PSYCHES (Apuleius), London, 1923; The Ladies' Pocket Book of Etiquette (A.F.), London ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
182		DAME PERKINS AND HER GREY MARE (Meadows), colored plates by H. K. Browne, 1866; Field Flowers ( ...	London	1866-78	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
183		DANCE OF DEATH, THE (Holbein), facsimile edition, London, 1916; Two Pilgrims' Progress (J. and E. R ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
184	[DARACOTT, JOHN]	Manuscript. 200 closely written pages.		n.d., early 18th Century	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
185	DAUDET, ALPHONSE	Sappho.	N.p.	1930	USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.50
186		DAYS OF THE DANDIES.	London	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	30.00
187	[DEFOE, DANIEL]	The History of the Great Plague in London, in Year 1665, containing Observations and Memorials ...	London	1819	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.50
188	H. Noel Williams	[DE MONTESPAN.] Madame De Montespan.	New York	1903	USD 50.00 - 50.00	37.50
189	DE MAISTRE, XAVIER	Voyage autour de Ma Chambre.	Paris	1888	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
190	DE MORGAN, WILLIAM	It Never Can Happen Again.	London	1909	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
191	DE NOLHAC, PIERRE	La Reine Marie-Antoinette.	Paris	1890	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
192		DEROME BINDING. Eutropius. Breviarum Historiae Romanae.	Paris	1745	USD 75.00 - 75.00	45.00
193	Paul Brown	DERRYDALE PRESS. Aintree. Grand Nationals--Past and Present.	New York	1930	USD 40.00 - 40.00	20.00
194	Herbert Manchester	DERRYDALE PRESS. Four Centuries of Sport in America, 1490-1890.	New York	1931	USD 40.00 - 40.00	35.00
195	[Henry W. Herbert]	DERRYDALE PRESS. The Warwick Woodlands.	New York	1934	USD 30.00 - 30.00	22.50
196		DESK SET. A Handy Classical Dictionary; Familiar Quotations; French and English Dictionary; and ...	New York	n.d.	USD 10.00 - 10.00	9.00
197	DIBDIN, THOMAS F.	Bibliomania or Book-Madness. A Bibliographical Romance.	London	1876	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
198	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne; some plates ...	London	1836-7	USD 125.00 - 125.00	105.00
199	[DICKENS, CHARLES]	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.	London	1839	USD 40.00 - 40.00	20.00
200	DICKENS, CHARLES	Master Humphrey's Clock.	London	1840-1	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00

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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