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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
401	LAMBALLE, PRINCESS	Secret Memoirs of the Royal Family of France.	London	1826	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
402	Lewis Carroll	[LAURENCIN, MARIE] Alice in Wonderland.	Paris	1930	USD 30.00 - 30.00	22.50
403	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Sun.	London	1926	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
404	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence.	London	n.d., circa 1929	USD 25.00 - 25.00	35.00
405		LAWRENCE, D. H. Pansies, June 1929; Pansies, portrait, 1929.	N.p., and London	1929	USD 15.00 - 15.00	25.00
406	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Birds, Beasts and Flowers. Poems by D. H. Lawrence.	London	1930	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
407	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Last Poems.	Florence	1932	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.50
408	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Virgin and the Gipsy, Florence, 1930; Apocalypse, portrait, Florence, 1931.			USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.00
409	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Women in Love [1921], First Issue; Aaron's Rod [1922]; The Virgin and the Gipsy [1930] and other ...	London	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
410	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Letters of D. H. Lawrence.	London	[1932]	USD 10.00 - 10.00	12.00
411	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Escaped Cock.	Paris		USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
412	[LAWRENCE, D. H.]	The Gentleman from San Francisco (Bunin), London, 1922; Little Novels of Sicily (Verga- trans. by ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
413	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The White Peacock, 1911; Sons and Lovers, 1913; Collected Poems, 2 vols., 1928; and other works by ...	London	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	22.50
414	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Touch and Go, London, 1920; Mornings in Mexico, London, 1927; Movements in European History, London ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	11.00
415	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Lost Girl [1920], 2 copies; The Ladybird [1923]; The Plumed Serpent [1926]; and other works by ...	London	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.00
416	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Birds, Beasts and Flowers, London [1923]; Sea and Sardinia [1923]; The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	25.00
417	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces. With a Reminiscence by David Garnett, London, The Nonesuch ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
418	LAWRENCE, D. H.	The Collected Poems of D. H. Lawrence. 2 vols., London, 1928; Rawdon's Roof, London, 1928; The Story ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
419	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Glad Ghosts, London, 1926; Bay. A Book of Poems, [Westminster, 1919]; The Triumph of the Machine ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
420	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Sea and Sardinia, N. Y., 1921; Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, Phila ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
421	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Women in Love, N. Y., 1920, one of 1,250 copies; Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	22.50
422	[LAWRENCE, D. H.]	A Bibliography . . . of D. H. Lawrence (McDonald), 2 vols., including Supplement, Phila., 1925-31; D ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	12.50
423		LEBRUN, MADAME VIGEE. Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun. Translated by Lionel Strachey.	New York	1903	USD 50.00 - 50.00	21.50
424	LECKY, WILLIAM E. H.	A History of England in the Eighteenth Century.	London	1879-90	USD 50.00 - 50.00	75.00
425	LECKY, WILLIAM E. H.	Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, 2 vols., 1903; Historical and Political Essays, 1908.	London	1903-8	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
426	Gilbert A. A'Beckett	LEECH ILLUSTRATIONS. The Comic History of Rome. [1852]; The Comic History of England, London, n.d ...	London	1852 and n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.50
427	LE SAGE, ALAIN R.	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.	Paris	1771	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
428	LE SAGE, ALAIN R.	The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana. Newly translated from the French . . . By Martin Smart.	London	1807	USD 60.00 - 60.00	75.00
429	LE SAGE, ALAIN R.	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.	Paris	1836	USD 40.00 - 40.00	30.00
430	[LEVER, CHARLES]	Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands.	London	1845	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
431	LEWIS, M. G.	The Monk, A Romance.	Boston	1913	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
432		LIBRARY COMPANION, THE, or The Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of a ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
433		LIFE OF FIELD-MARSHAL His Grace the Duke of Wellington (Maxwell), 3 vols., London, 1839-41; The ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	20.00
434	Edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay	LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln. With an Introduction by John Wesley Hill.	N.p.	n.d.	USD 75.00 - 75.00	67.50
435	LINGARD, JOHN	The History of England, from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary ...	London	1883	USD 50.00 - 50.00	21.50
436		LITHOGRAPHS, AND MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS. A collection of lithographs, engravings, mezzotints ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	15.00
437		LIVRE ROUGE, LE. Convention Nationale. Premiere Registre des Depenses Secretes de la Cour connu sous ...	Paris	1793	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
438	LODGE, EDMUND	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.	London	1835	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
439		LONDON TIMES. The [London] Times, Wednesday, November 8, 1797.	London	1797	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
440	LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.	Writings of Henry W. Longfellow.	Boston	1895-1897	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
441	LOUYS, PIERRE	The Twilight of the Nymphs.	N.p.	1927	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
442	LOVELACE, RICHARD	Lucasta. The Poems of Richard Lovelace.			USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
443	LUBKE, DR. WILHELM	Outlines of the History of Art. Edited, Minutely Revised and Largely Rewritten by Russell Sturgis.	New York	1911	USD 35.00 - 35.00	17.50
444	MACAULAY, THOMAS B., LORD	The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.	London	1858-62	USD 50.00 - 50.00	50.00
445	MACAULAY, THOMAS B.	The Complete Works of Lord Macaulay.	London	1898-1903	USD 30.00 - 30.00	16.00
446	MACDONOUGH, THOMAS	Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain.			USD 35.00 - 35.00	45.00
447	MADISON, JAMES	Portrait. Stipple engraving. Stewart, Pinxt. Printed by C. P. Harrison.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
448		MAN OF SORROWS (Hubbard), East Aurora, 1906, one of 200 copies, signed by Hubbard; The Bible, N. Y ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	12.00
449		MANON LESCAUT (Prevost), colored illustrations by Alastair, London, 1928; The Knave of Hearts ( ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
450	Sieur De Lostelneau	MANUEL OF ARMS. Le Mareschal de Bataille. Contenant le Maniment des Armes. Les Evolvtions. Plusieurs ...	Paris	1647	USD 75.00 - 75.00	65.00
451	MARAT, J. P.	Plan de Legislation Criminelle.	Paris	1790	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
452	Joseph Weber	[MARIE ANTOINETTE.] Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre ...	London	1805-06-12	USD 25.00 - 25.00	22.50
453	MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER	The Works of Christopher Marlowe with Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by the Rev ...	London	1850	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
454	MAROT, CLEMENT	Les Oeuvres de Clement Marot de Cahors, Valet de Chambre du Roy.	The Hague	1700	USD 25.00 - 25.00	22.50
455	Lionel Cust	[MARY STUART.] Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots. Based on the Researches of ...	London	1903	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
456	MASEFIELD, JOHN	The Hawbucks.	London	1929	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
457	[MASON, GEORGE H.]	The Punishments of China.	London	1801	USD 30.00 - 30.00	16.00
458		MASSACHUSETTS. Broadside. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.	[Boston]	[1762]	USD 25.00 - 25.00	15.00
459		MASSACHUSETTS. Broadside. Hard-Ware Goods.	[Boston]	[1773?]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
460		MASSACHUSETTS. Broadside. Just imported, and to be sold by Joseph Greenough, Jun., at his Cheap Shop ...	[Newburyport]	1784	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
461		MATHER, INCREASE and COTTON. The History of King Philip's War by the Rev. Increase Mather, D.D. also ...	Albany	1862	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
462	MAUPASSANT, GUY DE	The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant. With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget . . . and an ...	London	n.d.	USD 175.00 - 175.00	70.00
463	MAUVE, ANTON	[Sketch Book of Anton Mauve].	N.p.	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	52.50
464	MAXWELL, W. H.	History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803 ...	London	1845	USD 20.00 - 20.00	25.00
465		MUSEE KUMS. Catalogue des Tableaux anciens et modernes des Ecoles Flamande, Francaise, Hollandaise ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
466	MUSSET, ALFRED and PAUL DE	Nouvelles.	Paris	1848	USD 20.00 - 20.00	13.00
467	MEADOWS, KENNY	Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English.	London	1840-41	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
468		MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE (Osborn), N. Y. 1916; Blake's Innocence and Experience. A Study of the ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
469	MERRICK, LEONARD	Works.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
470		MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A (Shakespeare), Hellerau, 1926; Musk, Hashish and Blood (H. France ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	5.00
471		MILLAIS, SIR JOHN EVERETT. The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, [edited] by his Son J ...	New York	1899	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
472	MILTON, JOHN	The Poetical Works of John Milton.	London	1903	USD 15.00 - 15.00	9.00
473		MIRROR BINDING. Les Veillees de la Chaumiere ou les Amusemens Lyriques d'une Famille Aimable reuinis ...	Paris	[1807]	USD 25.00 - 25.00	25.00
474		MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS. A collection of portraits, views, etc. comprising line engravings ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	30.00
475		MOBY DICK, or the White Whale (Melville), N. Y. 1923; Pan the Piper & Other Marvellous Tales ( ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
476		MODERN PAINTERS (Ruskin), 2 vols., London, 1896; The Works of Flavius Josephus. 6 vols., London ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
477		MODERN PAINTING (Mather), Garden City, N.d.; Tercentenary History of Canada (Tracy), 3 vols., N. Y ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
478		MODERN WORKS OF ART, N. Y. 1936; Picasso, Forty Years of His Art (Barr, editor), N. Y. [1939]; Joan ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
479		MOLIERE, JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN, DIT. Oeuvres de Moliere, avec Des Remarques Grammaticales; Des ...	Paris	1773	USD 500.00 - 500.00	240.00
480	MOMMSEN, THEODORE	The History of Rome. Translated . . . by the Rev. William P. Dickson.	London	1868	USD 35.00 - 35.00	21.50
481	MOORE, GEORGE	Sister Teresa.	London	1901	USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
482	MOORE, GEORGE	Ulick and Soracha.	New York	1926	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
483	MOORE, GEORGE	The Collected Works of George Moore.	New York	1922-4	USD 150.00 - 150.00	125.00
484		MOORE, THOMAS, celebrated Irish poet. A.L.s. 1 p., small 4to, about 220 words.			USD 22.50 - 22.50	20.00
485	MOORE, THOMAS	The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore.	London	1840-1	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
486	[MORGAN, J. PIERPONT]	Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan at Princes Gate & Dover House, London.	London	1907	USD 200.00 - 200.00	175.00
487	MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP	The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by G. W. Curtis.	New York	1889	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
488		MYTHOLOGY, ETC. A collection of engravings depicting mythological subjects, also engravings of ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	10.00
489	[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]	Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes D'Italie, depuis l'An iv jusqu'a la Bataille de Marengo; suivis ...	Paris	1806	USD 75.00 - 75.00	30.00
490	NAPOLEON I.	A collection of engravings and lithographs, comprising portraits of Napoleon I, battle and other ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	11.00
491	NAPOLEON I.	A collection of portraits of Napoleon, members of his family, and scenes connected with Napoleon.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	13.00
492		NATURE (Emerson), Bremer Press, Munich, 1929; Saint Hercules and Other Stories (Armstrong), colored ...			USD 35.00 - 35.00	15.00
493		NAVAL AND MARITIME PRINTS. A collection of engravings and lithographs depicting naval engagements ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	20.00
494		NEW FOREST, THE [Smith], 3 vols., London, 1829; The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
495		NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA, THE.	New York	1928	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
496		NEWSPAPERS. A collection of old newspapers of New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and other ...			USD 35.00 - 35.00	20.00
497	[NEWTON, A. EDWARD]	Catalogue of the Eminent A. Edward Newton Collection, formed by the late George H. Sargent.	Metuchen	1931	USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
498		NICODEMUS (Robinson), N. Y. 1932; Something About Eve (Cabell), N. Y. 1927; The Book of the Long Bow ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
499		NIELSEN ILLUSTRATIONS, KAY. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm.	London	n.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
500		NIELSEN ILLUSTRATIONS, KAY. East of the Sun and West of the Moon, London, n.d.; Hansel and Gretel ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	19.00

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.

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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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