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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
201	Thomas Hood	[DICKENS, CHARLES.] The Comic Annual for 1842.	London	1842	USD 150.00 - 150.00	17.50
202	[DICKENS, CHARLES]	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.	London	1846	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
203	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress.	London	1846	USD 50.00 - 50.00	22.50
204	DICKENS, CHARLES	Little Dorrit.	London	1857	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
205	DICKENS, CHARLES	Our Mutual Friend.	London	1865	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
206	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.	London	1887	USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.50
207	DICKENS, CHARLES	A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
208	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Works of Charles Dickens.	London	1881-2	USD 900.00 - 900.00	775.00
209	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Works of Charles Dickens. With Introduction and Notes by Andrew Lang.	London	n.d.	USD 150.00 - 150.00	150.00
210	DICKENS, CHARLES	A Collection of the Writings of Charles Dickens.	London	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
211	DOBSON, AUSTIN	At the Sign of the Lyre.	London	1884-94	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
212	[DORAT, CLAUDE J.]	Bagatelles Anonymes. Recueillies par un Amateur. 1776; [Together with] Suite de Bagatelles Anonymes ...	Geneva	1766-7	USD 50.00 - 50.00	9.00
213	DOUGLAS, NORMAN. D. H.	Lawrence and Maurice Magnus. A Plea for Better Manners. Portrait.	N.P., Privately printed	1924	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
214	William Shakespeare	DOVES PRESS. The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke.	Hammersmith	1909	USD 100.00 - 100.00	90.00
215		DRAWINGS. Handzeichnungen des 15. bis 18. Jalirhunderts (Boerner), Leipzig, 1930; Deutsche ...	Berlin and Leipzig	1926-1939	USD 25.00 - 25.00	6.00
216		DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS. Fantastic Memories (Sandoz), illustrations by Dali, N. Y. 1944; War ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
217	DRINKWATER, JOHN, Editor	The Outline of Literature.	London	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
218	DUBOIS, GUILLAUME C.	Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois. [Translated] by Ernest Dowson.	New York	1929	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
219	Leonard Rosenthal	DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS, EDMUND. The Kingdom of the Pearl.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
220	William Shakespeare	DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS, EDMUND. The Tempest.	London	n.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	20.00
221		DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS, EDMUND. Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights, London, n.d ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	16.00
222		DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS, EDMUND. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald trans.), London, n.d.; Edmund ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
223		DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS, EDMUND. The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales From the Old French. As ...	London	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.00
224	[DUMAS, ALEXANDRE]	A Collection of the Novels of Alexandre Dumas.	London	1906	USD 30.00 - 30.00	20.00
225		DUTCH PAINTINGS AND FURNITURE from the 16th to the 18th Century, (Ball-Graupe), Berlin, 1932 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	10.00
226		EARLY CALLIGRAPHY. D. Bonaventurae Doctoris Ecclesiae S.R.E. Cardinalis Episcopi Albanensis, in ...			USD 75.00 - 75.00	65.00
227		EARLY PLANTAGENETS, THE (Stubbs), London, 1876; General Sketch of European History (Freeman), London ...	London	1832-72-76	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
228	EGAN, PIERCE	Life in London; or, the Day and Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian ...	London	1821	USD 100.00 - 100.00	95.00
229	EGAN, PIERCE	Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected.	London	1825	USD 50.00 - 50.00	40.00
230		EISEN ILLUSTRATIONS. Suite des Gravures pour Illustrer les Contes et Nouvelles par J. De La Fontaine ...	N.p.	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
231	Theodore De Beza	EMBLEMS. Les Vrais Povrtraits des Hommes Illvstres en Piete et Doctrine . . . plvs qvaranteqvatre ...	[Geneva]	1581	USD 40.00 - 40.00	60.00
232	Thomas Carlyle	[EMERSON, RALPH W.] Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. [With Introduction by Emerson.]	Boston	1838	USD 25.00 - 25.00	5.00
233	EMERSON, RALPH W.	Representative Men, 1850; English Traits, 1856; Society and Solitude, 1870; and other works by ...	Boston	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	3.00
234	EMERSON, RALPH W.	The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.	Boston	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	42.50
235	[EMERSON, RALPH W., HENRY D. THOREAU, and others]	The Dial. A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion.	Boston	1841-4	USD 40.00 - 40.00	50.00
236		ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Maps, illustrations, and color plates.	London & New York	1929-32	USD 150.00 - 150.00	110.00
237	Llewellynn Jewitt and S. C. Hall	ENGLISH HOMES. The Stately Homes of England.	London	1881	USD 60.00 - 60.00	47.50
238		ENGLISH LYRICS, London, 1883; English Odes, selected by Gosse, London, 1881; English Sacred Lyrics ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	22.50
239		ENGRAVINGS. Dubletten aus dem Britischen Museum und der Albertina [Vienna], Goya-Sammlung von Dr. J ...	Leipzig	1920-1927	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
240		ENGRAVINGS. Kupferstiche des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts (Collection von Passavant-Gontard), Leipzig, 1922 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	70.00
241		EPOCHS OF HISTORY SERIES. The Roman Empire of the Second Century (Capes), 1876; The Houses of ...	London	1874-6-7	USD 25.00 - 25.00	55.00
242	Seeley, E. L.	EUROPEAN ART. Artist of the Italian Renaissance, London, 1908; Francis A. Geck, Bibliography of ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
243		EUTROPIUS. Epitome of the Roman History, with an English Translation by J. Clarke . . . with Notes ...	Dublin	1770	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
244	FARINGTON, JOSEPH	The Farington Diary.	New York	1923 and later	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
245		FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS. Galerie de Ridder, Paris 1924; Collection Jose de la Pena y Perez, Paris ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	22.50
246		FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS. Collective Lehmann, Part 2 and 3. Paris, 1925; Sammlung Victor Bloch, Vienna ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	15.00
247		FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS. Sammlung Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano. With preface by C. F. Foerster. Berlin ...	Berlin	1929-1931	USD 30.00 - 30.00	12.50
248		FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS. Gemalde des 14-16. Jahrhunderts, Collection Richard v. Kaufmann. Berlin 1901 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 35.00 - 35.00	12.50
249		FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS. Collection Roger Marx, Paris, 1914; Collections Jean Dollfus, Aquarelles ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	15.00
250	Edited by John K. Paine, Theodore Thomas and Karl Klauser	FAMOUS COMPOSERS AND THEIR WORKS.	Boston	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
251		FAMOUS PAINTINGS. Atelier Gustave Jacquet, Paris 1909; Collection de Madame de la Begassiere ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	15.00
252	[FARMIAN DE ROSOI, BARN]	Les Sens, Poeme en Six Chants.	London	1766	USD 75.00 - 75.00	10.00
253	Octave Uzanne	FASHION. Fashion in Paris. The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Aesthetics from 1797 to 1897. [ ...	London	1898	USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
254	FERNE, JOHN	The Blazon of Gentrie . . .	London	1586	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
255	FIELDING, HENRY	The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Written in ...	London	1794	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
256		FISHES AND FISHING (Wright), London, 1858; The British Angler, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen- ...	V.p.	1740-1868	USD 20.00 - 20.00	27.50
257		FISHING. Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, in 1871 and ...	V.p.	1826-1873	USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
258	FISKE, JOHN	This Historical Writings of John Fiske.	Boston	[1902]	USD 30.00 - 30.00	15.00
259	FISKE, JOHN	The Writings of John Fiske.	Cambridge	1902	USD 175.00 - 175.00	230.00
260	FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	The First Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated into English by Rene Francis from the 1849-1856 ...	London	1915	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
261	FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	Complete Works.	New York	n.d.	USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
262	Edited by Sir Martin Conway	FLEMISH AND BELGIAN ART. Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Flemish & Belgian Art. Burlington House ...	London	1927	USD 20.00 - 20.00	30.00
263	Edited by Stanley Morison	FLEURON, THE. No. v. A Journal of Typography. Cambridge (Eng.), 1926; The Woodcut No. i., London ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
264	Albert von Haller	FLOWERS. Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetia Inchoata.	Berne	1768	USD 25.00 - 25.00	30.00
265	G. B. Knowles and Frederic Westcott	FLOWERS. The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany.	London	1837-40	USD 100.00 - 100.00	110.00
266	Eden Warwick	FLOWERS. The Poets' Pleasaunce.	London	1847	USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
267	George Washington	FORD, WORTHINGTON C.	New York	1900	USD 25.00 - 25.00	11.00
268	Mark Twain	[Samuel L. Clemens] FORE-EDGE PAINTING. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. By Mark Twain.	New York	1889	USD 50.00 - 50.00	65.00
269	[Charles Dickens]	FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Mr. Pickwick.	London	n.d.	USD 60.00 - 60.00	65.00
270		FOREIGN VIEWS. A collection of scenes in foreign countries; includes line engravings, woodcuts ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	85.00
271		FOREIGN VIEWS. A collection of scenes in foreign countries; includes aquatints in color, line ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	45.00
272		FOREIGN VIEWS. A collection of scenes in foreign countries, mainly of India, including aquatints ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	12.50
273	FORSTER, JOHN	Historical and Biographical Essays.	London	1858	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
274	FORSYTH, R.	The Beauties of Scotland.	London	1805-8	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
275	Charles Simpson	FOX HUNTING. Leicestershire & Its Hunts: The Quorn, The Cottesmore, & The Belvoir.	London	[1926]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	22.50
276	FRANCE, ANATOLE	Thais, 1926; The Well of St. Clare, 1928; The Gods Are Athirst, 1928.	London	1926-28	USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
277	FRANCE, ANATOLE	Crainquebille. Piece en Trois Tableaux.	Paris	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	3.00
278	FRANCE, ANATOLE	The Works of Anatole France.	New York	1924	USD 175.00 - 175.00	180.00
279		FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, PORTRAITS. Benjamin Franklin, Ne a Boston dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
280	FREEMAN, EDWARD A.	The History of the Norman Conquest of England. 6 vols., 1876-9; The Reign of William Rufus and the ...	Oxford	1876-82	USD 40.00 - 40.00	10.00
281		[FRENCH ALMANACH.] Le Petit Almanaeh de nos Grands-hommes. 1788.	[Paris]	[1788]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
282		FRENCH GENERALS. Portraits des Genereux Francais, faisant suite aux Victoires et Conquetes des ...	Paris	1818	USD 40.00 - 40.00	12.00
283		FRENCH HISTORICAL SCENES, etc. A collection of about 550 prints of scenes connected with French ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	17.50
284		FRENCH PORTRAITS, etc. A collection of over 1,000 French and other portraits, many in proof state.			USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.50
285	Ch. F. L. Montjoye	FRENCH REVOLUTION. L'Ami du Roi des Francois . . . ou Histoire de la Revolution de France et de l' ...	Paris	1791-2	USD 40.00 - 40.00	10.00
286		FRENCH REVOLUTION. Proces Criminel de Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine . . . engraved plate, Paris [1794 ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.50
287	Francois Bonneville	FRENCH REVOLUTION. Portraits des Personnages Celebres de la Revolution. Avec Tableau Historique et ...	Paris	1796-7	USD 35.00 - 35.00	25.00
288	[Turbat Du Mans]	FRENCH REVOLUTION. Proces de Louis XVI, Roi de France, avec la Liste comparative des Appels nominaux ...	Paris	1814	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
289		FRENCH REVOLUTION (Aulart), 4 vols., N. Y., 1910; Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
290	FROUDE, JAMES A.	A History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth.	London	1858-70	USD 75.00 - 75.00	22.50
291	Thomas Sheraton	FURNITURE. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book. Third Edition, Revised, 1802; Appendix ...	London	1802-1796 etc.	USD 175.00 - 175.00	50.00
292	Esther Singleton	FURNITURE. French and English Furniture.	New York	1903	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
293	Percy Macquoid	FURNITURE. A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak. The Age of Satinwood. The Age of Mahogany ...	London	1904-05-06-08	USD 85.00 - 85.00	95.00
294	Herbert Cescinsky	FURNITURE. English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century.	London	n.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	85.00
295	Mortimer Menpes	[GAINSBOROUGH, THOMAS.] Gainsborough. Text by James Greig.	London	1909	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
296	GALENUS, CLAUDIUS	[Opera Omnia] [Collected works]. 337 numbered leaves and 6 leaves with contents printed in two ...	Venice	Jan. 5, 1528	USD 50.00 - 50.00	65.00
297	GALLE, THEODORE	Illvstrivm Imagines, Ex antiquis marmoribus, nomismatibus, et gemmis expressae . . . editio altera.	Antwerp	1606	USD 25.00 - 25.00	15.00
298	[GALSWORTHY, JOHN]	From the Four Winds. By John Sinjohn.	London	1897	USD 250.00 - 250.00	220.00
299	GALSWORTHY, JOHN	End of the Chapter.	New York	1933	USD 40.00 - 40.00	25.00
300	GARDNER, DORSEY	Quatre Bras, Ligny and Waterloo. A Narrative of the Campaign in Belgium, 1815.	Boston	1882	USD 15.00 - 15.00	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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