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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
501		NIELSEN ILLUSTRATIONS, KAY. The Twelve Dancing Princesses and other Fairy Tales. Retold by Sir ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
502		NINON DE LENCLOS (Magne), London [1926]; The Heptameron, or Tales and Novels of Marguerite Queen of ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
503		NONESUCH PRESS. Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ...	London	1923	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
504		NONESUCH PRESS. The Book of Ruth. Translated out of the original tongues: & with the former ...	London	1923	USD 15.00 - 15.00	21.50
505	William Congreve	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Works. Edited by Montague Summers.	[London]	1923	USD 30.00 - 30.00	21.50
506	John Donne	NONESUCH PRESS. Love Poems.			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.50
507	John Donne	NONESUCH PRESS. X Sermons . . . Chosen from the whole body of Donne's Sermons by Geoffrey Keynes.	[London]	1923	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
508	Andrew Marvell	NONESUCH PRESS. Miscellaneous Poems. Portrait.	London	1923	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
509	William Wycherley	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Works. Edited by Montague Summers.	Soho	1924	USD 25.00 - 25.00	40.00
510		NONESUCH PRESS. The Holy Bible (including the Apocrypha), reprinte daccording to the Authorized ...	London	1924-5	USD 125.00 - 125.00	100.00
511	[Robert Burton]	NONESUCH PRESS. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Illustrated, by E. McKnight Kauffer.	London	1925	USD 35.00 - 35.00	7.50
512	Henry King	NONESUCH PRESS. The Poems of Bishop Henry King. Edited by John Sparrow.	London	1925	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
513	Edited by Peter Warlock	NONESUCH PRESS. Songs of the Gardens. Vignette on title-page. (Songs with music scores in the text).	[London]	1925	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
514	Abraham Cowley	NONESUCH PRESS. The Mistress with Other Poems by Abraham Cowley 1618-1667. Edited by John Sparrow.	London	1926	USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
515	Herman Melville	NONESUCH PRESS. Benito Cereno.	London	1926	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
516	Herman Melville	NONESUCH PRESS. Benito Cereno.	London	1926	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
517	John Milton	NONESUCH PRESS. Poems in English. Paradise Lost. Miscellaneous Poems. Illustrations by William Blake ...	London	1926	USD 35.00 - 35.00	35.00
518	Thomas Otway	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Works. Edited by Montague Summers.	Bloomsbury	1926	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
519	John Wilmont	NONESUCH PRESS. Earl of Rochester. Collected Works. Edited by John Hayward.	[London]	1926	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
520	George Herbert	NONESUCH PRESS. The Temple, Sacred Poems & Private Ejaculations.	London	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
521	James Laver	NONESUCH PRESS. A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall.	London	1927	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
522	James Thomson	NONESUCH PRESS. The Seasons.	London	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
523	Sir John Vanbrugh	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Works. The Plays edited by Bonamy Dobree.	Bloomsbury	1927	USD 25.00 - 25.00	25.00
524	J. M. Arouet De Voltaire	NONESUCH PRESS. The Princess of Babylon.	London	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
525	Mona Wilson	NONESUCH PRESS. The Life of William Blake. Portrait and illustrations by Blake.	London	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
526	Sir John Vanbrugh	NONESUCH PRESS. The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh. The plays edited by Bonamy Dobree.	Bloomsbury	1927-8	USD 20.00 - 20.00	13.00
527	John Bunyan	NONESUCH PRESS. The Pilgrim's Progress and the Life & Death of Mr. Badman.	London	1928	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
528	Dante Alighieri	NONESUCH PRESS. La Divina Comedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.	[London]	1928	USD 40.00 - 40.00	35.00
529	Dante Alighieri	NONESUCH PRESS. La Divina Comedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English.	[London]	1928	USD 50.00 - 50.00	42.50
530	Dr. William Harvey	NONESUCH PRESS. The Anatomical Exercises: De Motu Cordis 1828: De Circulation Sanguinis 1649.	London	[1928]	USD 20.00 - 20.00	22.50
531	Pindar	NONESUCH PRESS. Pindar Pythian Odes. Translated by H. T. Wade-Gery & C. M. Bowra. Copperplate ...	London	1928	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
532	William Beckford	NONESUCH PRESS. Vathek. Colored illustrations by Marion V. Dorn.	London	1929	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
533	John Donne	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Edited by John Hayward.	New York	1929	USD 25.00 - 25.00	20.00
534	John Donne	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose.	London	1929	USD 15.00 - 15.00	25.00
535	James Laver	NONESUCH PRESS. Love's Progress or the Education of Araminta.	Bloomsbury	1929	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
536	Plutarch	NONESUCH PRESS. The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes . . . Translated out of Greeke into French ...	London	1929	USD 40.00 - 40.00	35.00
537	Izaak Walton	NONESUCH PRESS. The Compleat Angler. The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson [and ...	Bloomsbury	1929	USD 20.00 - 20.00	30.00
538	Izaak Walton	NONESUCH PRESS. The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson ...	Bloomsbury	1929	USD 25.00 - 25.00	25.00
539	William Shakespeare	NONESUCH PRESS. The Works of William Shakespeare.	New York	1929-33	USD 125.00 - 125.00	215.00
540	Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra	NONESUCH PRESS. Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	[1930]	USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.50
541	George Farquhar	NONESUCH PRESS. Complete Works. Edited by Charles Stonehill.	Bloomsbury	1930	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
542	Homer	NONESUCH PRESS. The Iliad; Odyssey. Decorations by Rudolph Koch and Fritz Kredel.	[London]	1931	USD 50.00 - 50.00	42.50
543	Michel De Montaigne	NONESUCH PRESS. Essays. John Florio's Translation. Edited by J. I. M. Stewart.	London	1931	USD 35.00 - 35.00	30.00
544	Sir Philip Sidney	NONESUCH PRESS. Astrophel and Stella.	[London]	1931	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
545	John Dryden	NONESUCH PRESS. Dramatic Works.	London	1931	USD 40.00 - 40.00	35.00
546	John Donne	NONESUCH PRESS. Donne's Sermon of Valediction at his going into Germany, Preached at Lincoln's Inn ...	London	1932	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
547	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	NONESUCH PRESS. In Memoriam.	London	1933	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
548	Havelock Ellis	NONESUCH PRESS. [George] Chapman, with Illustrative Passages.	Bloomsbury	1934	USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
549	George R. Hamilton	NONESUCH PRESS. The Greek Portrait. An Anthology of English Verse Translations from the Greek Poets ...	London	1934	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
550		NONESUCH PRESS. Minnow among Tritons. Mrs. S. T. Coleridge's Letters to Thomas Poole 1799-1834.	Bloomsbury	1934	USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
551	Samuel T. Coleridge	NONESUCH PRESS. Selected Poems.	[London]	1935	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
552	Herodotus	NONESUCH PRESS. The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus . . . The Translation of G. Rawlinson ...	Bloomsbury	1935	USD 30.00 - 30.00	40.00
553	Edited by Noramn Ault	NONESUCH PRESS. Pope's Own Miscellany. Being a Reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717 containing ...	London	1935	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
554		NONESUCH PRESS. Letters from Conrad 1895 to 1924. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Edward ...	London	1923	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.00
555		NONESUCH PRESS. The Courtier's Library (Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson), 1930; Paradoxes and ...	London	1923-30	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
556		NONESUCH PRESS. Ladies' Mistakes, etc. (Laver), decorations by Thomas Lowinsky, 1933; Cupid and ...	London	1923-33	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
557		NONESUCH PRESS. Masses and Man (Toller), 1923. 2 copies.; Winter Harvest (Young), 1933; A Journal of ...	London	1923-5-32-3-4-5	USD 10.00 - 10.00	9.00
558		NONESUCH PRESS. Butleriana, [Butler], portraits, 1932; Peter Porcupine, (Cobbett), 1927; The Devil ...	London	1924-27-32	USD 20.00 - 20.00	16.00
559		NONESUCH PRESS. The Book of the Baer, 1926. 2 copies; The Week-End Book, 1924; The Week-End Book ...	London	1924-31	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
560		NONESUCH PRESS. Plato's Symposium [London, 1924]; Select Poems, Divine and Humane (Beedome ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
561		NONESUCH PRESS. Graziella (Lamartine), 1929; The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper with Portions of ...	London	1924-26-29	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
562		NONESUCH PRESS. The Latin Portrait. An Anthology made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. Copperlate ...	London	1925-9	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
563		NONESUCH PRESS. The Death of Christopher Marlowe (Hotson), 1925; Shakespeare versus Shallow (Hotson ...	London	1925-31-32	USD 10.00 - 10.00	9.00
564		NONESUCH PRESS. Irene Iddesleigh (Ros), 1926; Jane Austen: A Bibliography (Keynes), 1929; Select ...	Bloomsbury	1926-28-29	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
565		NONESUCH PRESS. Vathek (Beckford), colored illustrations, 1929; The Mistress with Other Select Poems ...	London and Bloomsbury	1926-29	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
566	George Moore	NONESUCH PRESS. Ulick and Soracha, London, 1926; Pure Poetry, Soho, 1924; A Communication to my ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
567	John Evelyn	NONESUCH PRESS. Memoires for my Grand-son, Bloomsbury, 1926; Directions for the Gardiner at Says- ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
568		NONESUCH PRESS. The Latin Portrait (Hamilton-editor), 1929; Poetry and Prose of William Blake ( ...	London	1927-29	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
569		NONESUCH PRESS. The Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), 1928; Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, 1927 ...	London	1927-28-29	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
570	Geoffrey Keynes	NONESUCH PRESS. Jane Austen: A Bibliography, 1929; Bibliography of William Hazlitt, 1931.	London	1929-31	USD 20.00 - 20.00	15.00
571		NONESUCH PRESS. Pindar. Pythian Odes (Wade-Gery & Bowra, translators), 1928; John Donne, Complete ...	London and Bloomsbury	1927-28-29	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
572		NONESUCH PRESS. Love Among the Haystacks, London, 1930, First Edition Henry Vaughan Silurist, Soho ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
573		NONESUCH PRESS. The Shakespeare Anthology, n.d.; The Week-End Problems Book, 1933; Lovely Food ( ...	London	3/5/1931	USD 10.00 - 10.00	13.00
574		NONESUCH PRESS. Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings (Swift), 1934; [Selected Writings], (Morris ...	London	1930-33-34	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
575		NONESUCH PRESS. Announcements and Prospectuses of the Nonesuch Press, 1923-29. 16 pieces. 1923-29 ...	London	1923-29-36	USD 15.00 - 15.00	32.50
576	NORVINS, JACQUES	Histoire de Napoleon.	Paris	1827-28	USD 25.00 - 25.00	8.00
577		NUOVA RACCOLTA RAPPRESENTANTE I Costumi Religiosi Civili, e Militari degli Antichi Egiziani ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
578		OLD ENGLISH MASTERS, engraved by T. Cole. Historical notes by John C. van Dyke. N. Y., 1902 ...	New York	1902-1930	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
579		OLD FACES IN NEW MASKS (Blakey), London, 1859; Holidays with Hobgoblins (Costello), London, 1861.	London	1859-61	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
580		OLD MASTERS, THE. One Hundred Examples of their Work chosen from European Galleries and Reproduced ...	London	1908	USD 40.00 - 40.00	40.00
581		OLD WORLD LOVE STORIES (Mason), London, 1913; Principles of Political Economy (Mill), 2 vols., 1852 ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	16.00
582		OMAR. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward ...	New York	1885	USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
583	M. A. Racinet	ORNAMENT. L'Ornement Polychrome.	Paris	1888	USD 75.00 - 75.00	95.00
584	Arne Dehli	ORNAMENT. Selection of Byzantine Ornament.	New York	n.d.	USD 25.00 - 25.00	15.00
585		PAGAN PAPERS (Grahame), London, 1894; Java Head (Herge-sheimer), N. Y., 1919; The Ordeal of Richard ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
586	PAINE, THOMAS	Writings. Collected and edited by Moncure Daniel Conway.	New York	1894	USD 15.00 - 15.00	19.00
587	Giorgio Vasari	PAINTERS. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects.	London	1912-4	USD 125.00 - 125.00	145.00
588	Michael Bryan	PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical.	London	1902	USD 40.00 - 40.00	25.00
589		PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings.	New York	1913	USD 50.00 - 50.00	40.00
590	Sir Joseph A. Crowe	PAINTINGS. The German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools of Painting.	London	1904	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
591	Richard Muther	PAINTING. The History of Painting from the Fourth to the Early Nineteenth Century.	New York	1907	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.00
592		PAINTING. The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (Wigs--compiler), London, 1923; The Last Flowering of the ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
593		PAINTING. Salvador Dali (Soby), N. Y. 1941; Art and Understanding, Vol. i., No. 2, Washington, D. C ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
594	Alfred Woltmann and Karl Woermann	PAINTING. A History of Ancient, Early Christian and Mediaeval Painting. Edited by Sidney Colvin.	New York	n.d.	USD 35.00 - 35.00	20.00
595		PAINTINGS. A Catalogue of Some of the Paintings of the British School in the Collection of Henry ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
596	Sir Joseph A. Crowe and Giovanni B. Cavalcaselle	PAINTING IN ITALY. A New History of Painting in Italy from the ii to the xvi Century. Edited by ...	London	1908	USD 35.00 - 35.00	23.00
597		PAINTINGS. A Handbook to the Public Picture Galleries of Europe (Thompson), London, 1880; The ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
598	Bernard Quaritch	PALAEOGRAPHY. Palaeography. Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination.	London	1894	USD 15.00 - 15.00	18.00
599		[PAMPHLETS ON THE QUEEN]. Numerous Satirical pamphlets on Queen Caroline of England and Bartolomeo ...	London	v.d., circa 1820	USD 20.00 - 20.00	23.00
600	PARIS, W. FRANCKLYN	Napoleon's Legion.	New York	1927	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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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.