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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
301	[GAUDEN, JOHN]	[Eikon Basilike]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings.	[London]	1648	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
302	GAZETTE DE PARIS	81 original numbers (irregular) from January 4, 1791, to December 31, 1791.	Paris	1791	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
303	T. Worlidge	GEMS AND CAMEOS. Collection Choisie de Desseins tires de Pierres Precieuses Antiques, pour la ...	London	1768	USD 20.00 - 20.00	40.00
304	GENLIS, MADAME DE	Madame De Maintenon.	London	1806	USD 20.00 - 20.00	13.00
305	GERALDY, PAUL	Toi et Moi.	Paris	1925	USD 20.00 - 20.00	4.00
306	GIBBON, EDWARD	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A New Edition, with Notes.	London	1908	USD 40.00 - 40.00	47.50
307	GLASSE, HANNAH	The Compleat Confectioner: or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Plain and Easy.	London	circa 1760-70	USD 150.00 - 150.00	45.00
308		GLUE AND LACQUER, illustrated by Eric Gill [Waltham St. Lawrence], n.d. The Modern Rake's Progress ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
309	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	An History of the Earth and Animated Nature.	Dublin	1778	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
310	Sir Charles J. Jackson	GOLDSMITHS. English Goldsmiths and their Marks.	London	1921	USD 50.00 - 50.00	37.50
311	Walt Whitman	GRABHORN PRESS. Leaves of Grass, comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the ...	New York	1930	USD 50.00 - 50.00	80.00
312		GRANT, PRESIDENT U. S. A collection of portraits of President Grant and members of his family, and ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
313		GRANT, GEN. U. S. A collection of engraved portraits of General Grant.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	7.50
314	GRAY, THOMAS	Poems by Mr. Gray.	Parma	1793	USD 40.00 - 40.00	25.00
315	GRAVES, CHARLES L.	Mr. Punch's History of Modern England.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
316		GREAT MASTERS IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, THE. Includes Van Dyck (Cust), 1908; Velasquez (Stevenson ...	London	v.d.	USD 75.00 - 75.00	77.50
317		GREAT WAR, THE (Allen, and others), 5 vols., Phila., n.d.; On War (Von Clausewitz), 3 vols., London ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
318	Adolf Furtwaengler	GREEK SCULPTURE. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture.	London	1895	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
319	GREGORY, THAUMAT. S.	Opera Omnia quotquot in Insignioribus, praecipue Romanis Bibliothecis . . . interprete . . . Gerardo ...	Mogvntiae [Mainz]	1604	USD 40.00 - 40.00	12.00
320	GRONOW, [REES HOWELL]	The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow.	London	1889	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
321	GROTE, GEORGE	A History of Greece.	London	1872	USD 75.00 - 75.00	40.00
322		GROUP PORTRAITS. A collection of prints, mainly engravings, depicting mythological subjects, home ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	25.00
323		GROUP PORTRAITS. A collection of mezzotints, lithographs, line engravings, etc., depicting ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	40.00
324	GUIZOT, F. P. G.	The History of France. Translated by Robert Black.	London	1872	USD 50.00 - 50.00	30.00
325	HALLAM, HENRY	Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 4 vols., 1837; View of the State of Europe during the ...	London	1832-7	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.50
326	HAMERTON, PHILIP GILBERT	Etching & Etchers.	Boston	1916	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
327	HAMILTON, COUNT ANTHONY	Memoirs of Count Grammont. Translated from the French.	London	1809	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
328	HARDY, THOMAS	Life's Little Ironies, etc. [London, 1894]; A Group of Noble Dames [London, 1891].	London	1891-94	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
329	HARTE, BRET	Novels and Stories.	Boston	n.d.	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.50
330		HARVARD CLASSICS.	New York	[1909]	USD 75.00 - 75.00	95.00
331	[HEARN, LAFCADIO]	Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs.	New York	1885	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
332	HENRY, O.	Complete Works.	Garden City	1912	USD 90.00 - 90.00	80.00
333		HENRY THE LEPER (Rossetti), portrait and illustrations, 2 vols., one in facsimile, Boston: The ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
334	HERBERT, EDWARD LORD	The Life of Edward Lord Herbert, of Cherbury; written by Himself: and Continued to his Death.	London	1826	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
335	HERBERT, HENRY W.	Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing in the United States and British Provinces of North America.	New York	1850	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
336		HISTORICAL PRINTS. A collection of prints depicting scenes in the American Revolution, American ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	45.00
337		HISTORY OF MEXICO (Young), Cin., 1847; Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-Western Territory ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
338		HISTORY OF THE POPES, THE (Ranke), 3 vols., London, 1853; The Life of Margaret D'Angouleme, Queen of ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
339	HOFLAND, T. C.	The British Angler's Manual.	London	1841	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
340	Austin Dobson	[HOGARTH, WILLIAM] William Hogarth. With an Introduction on Hogarth's Workmanship by Sir Walter ...	London	1902	USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.00
341	HOLBEIN, [HANS]	The Dance of Death. Les Simulachres & Historiees Faces de la Mort. Facsimile edition of the work ...	London	1869	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
342		HOLBEIN AND HOGARTH PRINTS. A collection of 17 engravings after drawings by Holbein of portraits of ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	37.50
343	HOLMES, OLIVER W.	Poems.	Boston	1836	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
344	HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL	The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes.	Boston	n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
345	HOMER	The Odyssey of Homer.	[London]	1932	USD 70.00 - 70.00	80.00
346	Mrs. J. Stirling Clarke	HORSEMANSHIP. The Habit & the Horse; a Treatise on Female Equitation.	London	1860	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
347		HORSE RACING. Playing the Races (Dowst and Craig), N. Y. 1940; Such Was Saratoga (Bradley), N. Y ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	45.00
348		HORSES. Famous Horses of the British Turf.	London	1929-32	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
349	HUBBARD, ELBERT	These Pages Recount Little Journeys made to the Homes of Ruskin and Turner.	East Aurora	1896	USD 20.00 - 20.00	25.00
350	HUNEKER, JAMES G.	Steeplejack.	New York	1920	USD 30.00 - 30.00	15.00
351	HUNTER, DARD	Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries.	New York	1930	USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
352		ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT [Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis ad usum Romanum. Cum Calendario.] Manuscript ...	Flemish	circa 1520	USD 450.00 - 450.00	275.00
353	William Shakespeare	ILLUMINATIONS. The Songs & Ballads of Shakespeare.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
354	G. F. Macmunn	INDIA. The Armies of India. With Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts.	London	1911	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
355		INDIAN RACES OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, THE (Brownell), colored plates and other illustrations, N ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
356		INDIANS. A collection of 52 fine steel engravings, drawn by Capt. S. Eastman.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
357		INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, THE, or, Mirth and Marvels [Barham], London, 1903; Shipwrecks and Disasters at ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.50
358		IN PRAISE OF FOLLY (Erasmus), London, 1876; Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf ( ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
359		IN SINGLE STRICTNESS (Moore), 1922, one of 1,030 copies, signed by the author; A Small Boy (James ...	London	1913-22	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
360	Diedrich Knickerbocker	[IRVING, WASHINGTON] A History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch ...	New York	1809	USD 150.00 - 150.00	90.00
361	IRVING, WASHINGTON	The Crayon Miscellany. By the Author of the Sketch Book. [Comprising] A Tour of the Prairies ...	New York	1835	USD 20.00 - 20.00	35.00
362	[IRVING, WASHINGTON]	Pierre Irving. The Life and Letters of Washington Irving.	New York and London	1862-4, 1836	USD 10.00 - 10.00	45.00
363	IRVING, WASHINGTON	The Works of Washington Irving.	New York	n.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	21.50
364	Sudten H. Layard	ITALIAN PAINTING. The Italian Schools of Painting. Based on the Handbook of Kugler . . . thoroughly ...	London	1907	USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
365	JACKSON, LADY CATHERINE C.	The Works of Lady Jackson.	Paris	n.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	25.00
366	JACOBS, W. W.	A Master of Craft, 1900; Dialstone Lane, 1904; Salt Haven, London, [1908]; Night Watches, [1914 ...	London	v.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	17.50
367		JANINET. Memorables De la Revolution.	[Paris]	[n.d.], circa 1792	USD 150.00 - 150.00	40.00
368		JAPAN. Message of the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of the ...	Washington, D. C.	1855	USD 75.00 - 75.00	17.50
369	P. Neville Barnett	JAPANESE PRINTS. Glimpses at Ukiyo-Ye.	Sydney	1940	USD 50.00 - 50.00	65.00
370	P. Neville Barnett	JAPANESE PRINTS. Nishiki-Ye Brocade Prints of Japan.	Sydney	circa 1940	USD 50.00 - 50.00	65.00
371	JEFFERIES, RICHARD	Amaryllis at the Fair, 1887; Fields and Hedgerow, 1889; The Toilers of the Field, 1892; After London ...	London and New York	1880-1892	USD 50.00 - 50.00	17.00
372		JOHN KEATS (Lowell), 2 vols., Boston, n.d.; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (by his son), 2 vols., N. Y., 1897 ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
373		JOHN KEATS (Lowell), 2 vols., Boston, 1925; Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (Allen ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	21.00
374	[JOHNSON, CHARLES]	Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea. A New Edition, to which is now prefixed a Sketch of the ...	London	1821	USD 75.00 - 75.00	32.50
375	[JOHNSON, CHARLES]	Chrysal: or, The Adventures of a Guinea . . . with Interesting Anecdotes . . . by an Adept.	London	n.d., circa 1770	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
376	JUNOT, MADAME	Memoirs of Madame Junot Duchesse D'Abrantes.	London	1883	USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
377	JUVENALIS AND PERSIUS	Satyrae. Cum Veteris Scholiastae & Variorum Commentariis Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio.	Leyden	1648	USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
378		JUVENILES. Fairy Tales (Anderson), N. Y. 1910; Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), Chicago [1916]; At the ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
379		JUVENILE AND TOY BOOKS. A collection of American Juvenile and Toy Books, also three English Juvenile ...	V.p.	1832 and later	USD 100.00 - 100.00	290.00
380	[KEBLE, JOHN]	The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year.	Oxford	1864	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
381	William Morris	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair.	Hammersmith	1895	USD 40.00 - 40.00	32.50
382	KENT, ROCKWELL	Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska. 1920; Voyaging Southward from the Strait of ...	New York	1920-4	USD 25.00 - 25.00	17.50
383	KENT. ROCKWELL	N by E, 1930, signed by the author; Gabriel (Pushkin), 1929; A Birthday Book (Kent), 1931, signed by ...	New York	1929-31	USD 15.00 - 15.00	16.00
384	KENT, ROCKWELL	Bookplates & Marks, 1929; Late Bookplates & Marks, 1937. With a Preface in each vol. by the artist.	New York	1929-37	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
385		KENT ILLUSTRATIONS. Dreams & Derisions.	[New York]	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
386		KENT ILLUSTRATIONS. Candide (Voltaire), N. Y., 1928, signed by the artist; The Bridge of San Luis ...	New York	1928-9	USD 15.00 - 15.00	26.00
387	William Shakespeare	KENT ILLUSTRATIONS. Venus and Adonis.	Rochester	1931	USD 50.00 - 50.00	45.00
388	[William Shakespeare]	KENT ILLUSTRATIONS.	[Garden City]	[1936]	USD 40.00 - 40.00	12.50
389		KENT ILLUSTRATIONS. The Saga of Gisli, N. Y. [1936]; Americana Esoterica (Various authors) [N. Y ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	15.00
390		KENT ILLUSTRATIONS, ROCKWELL. Salamina (Kent), N. Y., 1935; Paul Bunyan (Shephard), N. Y. [1924 ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
391	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Seven Seas.	London	1896	USD 15.00 - 15.00	3.00
392	KIPLING, RUDYARD	A Collection of the Writings of Rudyard Kipling.	London	1916-20	USD 55.00 - 55.00	80.00
393	KITCHIN, G. W.	A History of France.	Oxford	1899-1903	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
394	[KNOX, JOHN]	A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: containing whatever is worthy of Notice, in ...	London	1767	USD 60.00 - 60.00	10.00
395	LAFAYETTE, MADAME DE LA	La Princesse de Cleves.	Paris	1725	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
396	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers.	Amsterdam [Paris: Barbou]	1762	USD 350.00 - 350.00	120.00
397	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	The Fables of La Fontaine. Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury.	London	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
398	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers.	Paris	1795 [reprint]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
399		LAMB, CHARLES, eminent English essayist and humorist. A.L.s. C. Lamb. 3 pp., 4to, [London] May 26 ...			USD 500.00 - 500.00	150.00
400	LAMB, SIR JAMES B.	The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem.	London	1823	USD 10.00 - 10.00	8.00

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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