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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
601	PARKMAN, FRANCIS	Works.	Boston	1905	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.50
602	[PATTERSON, PAUL]	Brother Jonathan, the Smartest Nation in all Creation.	London	1844	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
603	PENNELL, JOSEPH and ELIZABETH R.	Lithography and Lithographers.	New York	1916	USD 15.00 - 15.00	18.00
604		PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE, THE: or, American Monthly Museum, 1775.	Philadelphia	1775	USD 100.00 - 100.00	55.00
605	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. The Diary deciphered by Rev. J. Smith; Life and ...	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
606	PEPYS, SAMUEL	Diary . . . Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	21.00
607	PEREFIXE, HARDOUIN DE	Histoire dv Roy Henry Le Grand.	Paris	1661	USD 50.00 - 50.00	11.00
608	PHAEDRUS, GAIUS JULIUS	Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque. Interpretatione et Notis ...	Paris	1675	USD 100.00 - 100.00	17.50
609		PHOTOGRAPHY. La Verite sur l'Invention de La Photographie. Nicephore Niepce, sa vie, ses essais, ses ...	Paris	1867	USD 50.00 - 50.00	35.00
610		PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, THE, 4 vols., London, 1841; A History of All Nations (Goodrich), 2 ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	11.00
611		PIPING HOT (Zola), London, 1885; Books and Persons (Bennett), N. Y. [1917]; Typee; or a Narrative of ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
612		PIRANESI, (Samuel), London, 1910; The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (Symonds), N. Y., 1902; The Secret ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
613		PLANTIN PRESS. Missale Romanvm, . . . Woodcut on title-page and other woodcuts by Peter van der ...	Antverpiae	1587	USD 35.00 - 35.00	37.50
614		PLANTIN PRESS. [Latin Texts]. Libri Regum iv; Paralipomenon ii: Esdrae ii: Tobias; Judith: Esther ...	Antwerp	1629	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
615		PLUTARCH. Lives. The Translation called Dryden . . . by A. H., Clough, 5 vols.; Essays and ...	Boston	1906	USD 50.00 - 50.00	52.50
616	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe . . . With a Critical Introduction by Charles F. Richardson.	New York	[1902]	USD 75.00 - 75.00	67.50
617	POE, EDGAR ALLAN	Edgar Allan Poe Letters till now Unpublished in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia ...	Philadelphia	1925	USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
618		POEMS FROM THE RANGES (Wood), San Francisco, 1929; Thirteene Most Pleasaunt and Delectable Questions ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.50
619		POETICAL WORKS (Proctor), Boston, n.d.; The House of Life (Rossetti), N. Y. n.d.; and 3 others ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
620		POETRY. Poetical Works (Byron), London, n.d.; Sacred Poem (Willis), N. Y., 1860.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
621	POMPADOUR, MADAME DE LA	Memoires de Madame La Marquise de Pompadour . . . ecrits par elle-meme et publie par R.P.	Paris	1808	USD 25.00 - 25.00	12.50
622		POPE BENEDICT XIII. Manuscript entitled: Sacrorvm Romani sub Sanctissimo Domino Nostro Papa ...			USD 50.00 - 50.00	20.00
623		PORCELAIN. Ancient Chinese Porcelains and Other Curios (Holcombe), [N. Y.], 1894; Rare Chinese ...	New York	[1894-1907]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	3.00
624	William Burton	PORCELAIN. A General History of Porcelain.	London	1921	USD 15.00 - 15.00	3.00
625		PORTRAITS OF AMERICANS. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (Herring and ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
626		PORTRAITS OF WOMEN. A collection of mezzotints, line engravings, and lithographs depicting women.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	22.50
627		PORTRAITS OF WOMEN. A collection of portraits of women and children.			USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
628		PORTRAITS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. A collection of line engravings, mezzotints and lithographs ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	10.00
629		POSTES IMPERIALES, Etat General des Routes de Poste de l'Empire Francais, du Royaume d'Italie et de ...	Paris	1812	USD 85.00 - 85.00	20.00
630	R. T. Haines Halsey	POTTERY. Pictures of Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery.	New York	1899	USD 50.00 - 50.00	50.00
631	William C. Prime	POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations.	New York	1879	USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
632	PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H.	A Collection of the Historical Writings of William H. Prescott.	London	1842-64	USD 60.00 - 60.00	37.00
633	PREVOST, ABBE	History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux.	London	1886	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
634		PRIME, W. C. I Go A-Fishing.	London	1873	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
635	Oliver W. Holmes	PYLE ILLUSTRATIONS. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.	Boston	1894	USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
636		PYGMALION, Scene Lyrique (Rousseau), engraved plates after Moreau, Paris, 1775; A La Memoire de L' ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	32.50
637	RABELAIS, FRANCOIS	Le Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Doctevren Medecine Contenat cinq liures, de la vie, faits & dits ...	A Troye	1613	USD 75.00 - 75.00	32.50
638	RABELAIS, FRANCOIS	Works. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with the Notes of Duchat, and others.	London	1897	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
639	RABELAIS, FRANCOIS	All the Extant Works of Francois Rabelais. An American Translation with a Critical Text, Variant ...	New York	1929	USD 20.00 - 20.00	35.00
640	RABELAIS, FRANCOIS	The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais.	London	n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	42.50
641	John Hervey	RACING. Racing in America 1665-1865. Written for the Jockey Club by John Hervey.	New York	1944	USD 50.00 - 50.00	60.00
642		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Some British Ballads.	London	[1919]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
643		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C. S. Evans.	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	25.00
644		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Irish Fairy Tales (Stephens), London, 1920; Rip Van Winkle (Irving), N. Y. [ ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
645		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Little Brother & Little Sister (Brothers Grimm), N. Y. 1917; The Tempest ( ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.50
646		RASSELAS (Johnson), London, [1926]; Fragments from Vermont's Parnassus (Dana, editor), Woodstock ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	16.00
647	RAWLINSON, GEORGE	The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and ...	New York	1871	USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
648	RAWSTORNE, LAWRENCE	Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game. 15 fine colored aquatint plates by J. T. Rawlins; a few ...	London	1837	USD 75.00 - 75.00	65.00
649	RAWSTORNE, LAWRENCE	Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers ...	London	1929	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
650	READE, WINWOOD	The Martyrdom of Man.	London	1872	USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
651		RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS. A collection of mezzotints, line engravings, etc., comprising portraits and ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	40.00
652		RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS. A collection of engravings, a few in colors, and some lithographs, depicting ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	7.50
653	Emile Michel	[REMBRANDT VAN RIJN.] Rembrandt, his Life, his Work, and his Time. From the French by Florence ...	London	1894	USD 35.00 - 35.00	30.00
654	REYNARDSON, C. T. S. B.	Down the Road, or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman.	London	1887	USD 10.00 - 10.00	6.00
655	C. R. Leslie and T. Taylor	REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds.	London	1865	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
656		RHINE VALLEY. Album des Rheins. Herausgegeben von Carl Jugel.	Frankfort am Main	n.d. (19th Century)	USD 25.00 - 25.00	21.50
657	E. B. Courtois	[ROBESPIERRE]. Rapport Fait au Nom de la Commission chargee de l'Examen des Papiers trouvee chez ...	Paris	An III [1795]	USD 25.00 - 25.00	8.00
658	ROGERS, SAMUEL	Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To which is added Porsoniana.	New Southgate	1887	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.00
659	ROLAND, MADAME	An Appeal to Impartial Posterity; by Citizeness Roland . . . or, a Collection of Pieces written by ...	London	1795	USD 25.00 - 25.00	7.00
660	ROLLIN, CHARLES	The Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium: that is, To the End of the ...	London	1739-54	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
661		ROMANTIC AMERICA. Picturesque United States (Hoppe), N. Y. n.d.; Raemaker's Cartoons, Garden City ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
662	V.-A. Malte-Brun	ROMANTIC BINDING. Les Jeunes Voyageurs en France ou Description Pittoresque.	Paris	n.d. (circa 1843)	USD 75.00 - 75.00	75.00
663	ROSSETTI, DANTE G.	Poetical Works. Edited with a Preface by William M. Rossetti.	London	1891	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
664		ROSSETTI AND HIS CIRCLE (Beerbohm), numerous plates in color, London, 1922; The Gentle Art of Making ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
665		ROXBURGHE CLASSICS, THE . . . Introductions by Andrew Lang, and others.	New York	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
666	RUSKIN, JOHN	The Writings of John Ruskin.	Boston	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
667	RUTTER, JOHN	Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey.	London	1823	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
668	SAINT-AMAND, IMBERT DE	The Writings of Imbert De Saint-Amand. Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, Thomas Sergeant Perry ...	New York	1891-2-3-8	USD 20.00 - 20.00	4.00
669	SAINT-PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE	Paul et Virginie.	Paris	1806	USD 75.00 - 75.00	8.00
670	SALTUS, EDGAR	Imperial Purple.	Chicago	1892	USD 40.00 - 40.00	32.50
671	SANTOLIO VICTORINE	Hymni Sacri et Novi.	Paris	1698	USD 25.00 - 25.00	11.00
672		SAPPHO (Daudet), n.p.: Golden Bough Press, 1930, one of 750 copies, signed by the artist, Majeska ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
673	[SCOTT, SIR WALTER]	Chronicles of the Canongate; by the Author of Waverley, &c.	Edinburgh	1827	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
674	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft . . .	London	1831	USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
675	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	The Waverley Novels.	London	1901-06	USD 60.00 - 60.00	57.50
676	Dr. Wilhelm Lubke	SCULPTURE. History of Sculpture, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Translated by F. E ...	London	1878	USD 30.00 - 30.00	28.00
677		SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. Let There Be Sculpture (Epstein), N. Y. 1940; Auguste Rodin (Rilke), N. Y ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	10.00
678		SCULPTURE, etc. Historical Motifs of Architecture and Sculpture in France (Daly), 2 vols., N. Y., n. ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
679		SECRET CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME DE MAINTENON with the Princess des Ursins, 3 vols., London, 1827 ...	V.p.	1742-1872	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
680		SECRET COURT MEMOIRS.	London	n.d.	USD 40.00 - 40.00	17.50
681		SELECTED POEMS (Swinburne), illustrations by Harry Clarke, London, [1928]; The First Temptation of ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
682	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	The Comedies, Tragedies and Histories.	Oxford	1922	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
683	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	King Lear.	San Francisco	[1930]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.50
684	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Works.	London	1900	USD 10.00 - 10.00	9.00
685	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Saint Joan. A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.	London	[1924]	USD 10.00 - 10.00	8.00
686	Henry N. Veitch	SHEFFIELD PLATE. Sheffield Plate. Its History. Manufacture and Art.	London	1908	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
687	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose . . . Edited with Prefaces, Notes and ...	London	1880	USD 100.00 - 100.00	75.00
688	SHELLEY, PERCY B.	Poetical Works.	London	1892	USD 50.00 - 50.00	21.50
689		SHERLOCK, THOMAS, Bishop of London. Several Discourses preached at the Temple Church.	London	1764	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
690		SHORTER CATECHISM, THE. Agreed upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster.	Boston	1765	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
691		SILVER. Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, English Irish and Scottish All prior to ...	London	1929	USD 25.00 - 25.00	7.00
692		SILVER POINTS (Gray), London, 1893, one of 250 copies; Lincoln the Man (Masters), N. Y., 1931, one ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
693		SKETCHES IN WATER COLORS (Richardson, and others), 9 colored plates, and other illustrations; Beauty ...	London	n.d.	USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
694	SMILES, SAMUEL	Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of their Principal Works.	London	1862-5	USD 20.00 - 20.00	7.50
695	SMITH, ALBERT	The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad.	London	1848	USD 25.00 - 25.00	7.00
696	SMITH, JOHN	Horological Disquisitions Concerning the Nature of Time and the Reasons why all Days, from Noon to ...	London	1694	USD 40.00 - 40.00	21.50
697	SMITH, JOHN T.	An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London. Edited by Charles Mackay.	London	1846	USD 30.00 - 30.00	20.00
698	SMITH, JOSIAH	A Discourse delivered at Boston, on July 11, 1726.	Boston	1726	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
699	SMITH, SIDNEY L.	A collection of 69 pen-and-ink and pencil sketches by Sidney L. Smith, executed on 36 sheets.			USD 25.00 - 25.00	20.00
700	SMITH, T. R., editor	Poetica Erotica.	New York	1921	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00

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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