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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
701	Edited by Charles G. Abbot	SMITHSONIAN SCIENTIFIC SERIES.	New York	1929-32	USD 75.00 - 75.00	55.00
702	Edited by Charles Greeley Abbot, and others	SMITHSONIAN SCIENTIFIC SERIES.	New York	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	30.00
703	[SMOLLETT, TOBIAS]	The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker.	London	1772	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
704		SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (Davis), 2 vols., N. Y. 1899; Books, Literature and the People (Van Dyke), N. Y ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	11.00
705	SOLINUS, JULIUS	Polyhister, Rervm Toto Orbe Memorabilivm The saurus locupletissimus . . . Pomponii Melae de Sitv ...	Basiliae	1543	USD 40.00 - 40.00	30.00
706	SOUTHEY, ROBERT	Poetical Works of Robert Southey, collected by himself.	London	1838	USD 20.00 - 20.00	4.00
707		SPANISH PAINTINGS. Old Spanish Masters, engraved by T. Cole.	New York	1907	USD 25.00 - 25.00	21.50
708	SPINO, PIETRO	Historia della Vita, et Fatti dell' Eccellentissimo Capitano di Gverra Bartolomeo Coglione.	Venice	1569	USD 30.00 - 30.00	42.50
709		SPORTING. The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette. A Magazine Entirely appropriated to Sporting ...	London	1822-8	USD 500.00 - 500.00	290.00
710		SPORTING BOOKS. Memoirs of a Racing Journalist (Galtrey), London, 1934; Men and Horses I Have Known ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	32.50
711	STAEL, MADAME DE	De L'Allemagne.	Brussels	1836	USD 40.00 - 40.00	12.00
712	STEVENSON, ROBERT L.	Prayers Written at Vailima.	London	1910	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.50
713	STEVENSON, ROBERT L.	Novels and Tales.	New York	1907-8	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.50
714	STIRLING-MAXWELL, WILLIAM	Annals of the Artists of Spain.	London	1848	USD 30.00 - 30.00	25.00
715	STOKES, I. N. PHELPS	The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. Compiled from Original Sources.	New York	1915-28	USD 300.00 - 300.00	300.00
716	STOWE, HARRIET B.	Uncle's Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.	Boston	1852	USD 60.00 - 60.00	65.00
717	STOWE, HARRIET B.	Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the Lowly.	Edinburgh	1853	USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
718		STRAPAROLA. The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola of Caravaggio.	Paris	1906	USD 20.00 - 20.00	20.00
719	[SURTEES, ROBERT S.]	Sporting Novels.	London	1845-65	USD 300.00 - 300.00	300.00
720	[SURTEES, ROBERT S.]	The Analysis of the Hunting Field.	London	1846	USD 50.00 - 50.00	60.00
721	[SURTEES, ROBERT S.]	Plain or Ringlets? Colored plates and wood engravings by John Leech.	London	n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	40.00
722	[SURTEES, ROBERT S.]	Sporting Novels.	London	n.d.	USD 60.00 - 60.00	65.00
723	SWIFT, HELEN	My Mother and My Father.	Chicago	1937	USD 25.00 - 25.00	5.00
724	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift. Selected and Edited with a Commentary and Notes by Stanley ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	17.50
725		[SWISS GUARDS, AUGUST 10, 1792.] Recit de la Conduite du Regiment des Gardes Suisses a la Journee du ...	Lucerne and Naples	1819-26	USD 10.00 - 10.00	10.00
726	SYMONS, ARTHUR	Poems.	New York	1924	USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
727	TAINE, H. A.	History of English Literature. Translated from the French by H. Van Laun.	London	1890	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
728	[TASSO, TORQUATO]	Godfrey of Bovlogne: or the Recouerie of lervsalem.	London	1624	USD 150.00 - 150.00	40.00
729	[TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD]	Poems, by Two Brothers.	London	1827	USD 30.00 - 30.00	37.50
730	TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD	Poems, Chiefly Lyrical.	London	1830	USD 35.00 - 35.00	12.00
731	TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD	The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson.	London	1892-1900-02-03	USD 35.00 - 35.00	10.00
732	THACKERAY, ANNE I.	(Lady Ritchie).	London	1875-76	USD 20.00 - 20.00	5.00
733	[THACKERAY, WILLIAM M.]	The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. With illustrations by the author ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	7.50
734		THESAURUS OF THE ARTS. (Wier), N. Y., (1943); The Life of Greece, (the Story of Civilization), ( ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
735		THEATRE OF APOLLO, THE (Beaumont), London, 1926; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
736	THIERS, M. A.	The History of the French Revolution. Translated, with Notes . . . from the most Authentic Sources ...	London	1838	USD 150.00 - 150.00	100.00
737		TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE and other poems (Swinburne), London, 1882; The House (Field), N. Y. 1896; A Six ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
738	[Joseph Addison and Richard Steele]	THOMSON ILLUSTRATIONS, HUGH. Days with Sir Roger De Coverley.	London	1886	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
739	William Shakespeare	THOMSON ILLUSTRATIONS, HUGH. As You Like it.	London	n.d. [1909]	USD 40.00 - 40.00	17.50
740	J. M. Barrie	THOMSON ILLUSTRATIONS, HUGH. The Admirable Crichton.	London	n.d. [1914]	USD 30.00 - 30.00	25.00
741		TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR, THE.	London	[1914-]20	USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
742	[TORY (GEOFROY)]	Hore in laudem beatissime virginis Marie: secundum consuetudinem Ecclesie Parisiensis.	[Paris]	[1527]	USD 400.00 - 400.00	175.00
743		TREATISE OF PAINTING, A (Da Vinci), illustrated, London, 1721; Paradise Lost (Milton), illustrated ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	18.00
744	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	The Way We Live Now.	London	187[4-]5	USD 75.00 - 75.00	65.00
745	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	A collection of works by Anthony Trollope.	New York	1892	USD 65.00 - 65.00	60.00
746	TURNER, SHARON	The History of the Anglo-Saxons.	London	1823-29	USD 30.00 - 30.00	4.00
747	Sir Walter Armstrong	[TURNER, J. M. W.] Turner.	New York	1902	USD 25.00 - 25.00	12.50
748	UZANNE, OCTAVE	The Fan. London, 1884; The Sunshade, The Glove, The Muff. London, 1884.	London	1884	USD 30.00 - 30.00	16.00
749	Julius Meier-Graefe	[VAN GOGH] Vincent Van Gogh. A Bibliographical Study . . . translated by John Holroyd Reece.	London	1922	USD 40.00 - 40.00	30.00
750		VANISHING EDEN (Birnbaum), N. Y. 1942; The Happy Hypocrite (Beerbohm), London, [1915]; and 3 others.	V.p.	v.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
751		VENETIAN LIFE (Howells), 2 vols., Cambridge, Mass. 1907; The Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam (Payne-- ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	9.00
752	VESALIUS, ANDREAS	De Humani Corporis fabrica, libri septem. 6 leaves, 824 pp., 23 leaves index, 49 lines and head line ...	Basle	[1555]	USD 350.00 - 350.00	310.00
753		VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, THE (Goldsmith), colored illustrations by H. M. Brock, Philadelphia, 1912 ...			USD 25.00 - 25.00	25.00
754		VIEWS AND MAPS. A collection of engraved and lithograph views, also maps.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	15.00
755		VIEWS, etc. A collection of views, reproductions of maps, original maps, etc.			USD 20.00 - 20.00	10.00
756		VIGEE-LEBRUN 1755-1842, Her Life, Works, and Friendships (Helm), London, [1914]; Peeping Pansy ( ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	12.00
757	VIRGIL, MARIO P.	The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgies, and Aeneis. Translated into English Verse ...	London	1697	USD 25.00 - 25.00	10.00
758	VIRGIL	The Georgies of Virgil. Translated into English Verse by Mr. John Dryden.	New York	1931	USD 10.00 - 10.00	3.00
759	VOLTAIRE, J. M. AROUET DE	La Pucelle the Maid of Orleans. An Heroic-Comical Poem in Twenty One Cantos. A New and Complete ...	London	1899	USD 20.00 - 20.00	6.00
760		WAGGONER, THE (Wordsworth), London, 1819; The Vampyre, A Tale [Polidori], London, 1819; The Field of ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	11.00
761	[WALPOLE, HORACE]	The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshall, Gent. from the original ...	Parma	1791	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
762	WALPOLE, HORACE	The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford.	London	1798-1822	USD 25.00 - 25.00	8.00
763	WALPOLE, HORACE	The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.	London	1840	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
764	WALPOLE, HORACE	Anecdotes of Painting in England . . . also a Catalogue of Engravers who have been born or resided ...	London	1849	USD 15.00 - 15.00	18.00
765	WALPOLE, HORACE	The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.	London	1857	USD 275.00 - 275.00	120.00
766	WALPOLE, HORACE	The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford.	Edinburgh	1906	USD 40.00 - 40.00	30.00
767	[WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON]	The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds ...	London	1668	USD 75.00 - 75.00	65.00
768	WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON	The Complete Angler . . . With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas.	London	1860	USD 30.00 - 30.00	21.50
769	WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON	The Complete Angler . . . To which are added, an Introductory Essay . . . and Illustrative Notes.	London	1824	USD 40.00 - 40.00	22.50
770	WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON	The Complete Angler.	Boston	1866	USD 40.00 - 40.00	40.00
771	Louis E. B. de Sauvigny	[WASHINGTON, GEORGE.] Washington ou la Liberte du Nouveau Monde, Tragedie, en quatre Actes ...	A Paris	1791	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
772	WASHINGTON, GEORGE	Apotheosis of Washington.			USD 30.00 - 30.00	5.00
773		WASHINGTON, GEORGE, PORTRAITS. Full-length portrait, standing. G. Stuart, pinxt. Eng. by J. Halpin ...			USD 30.00 - 30.00	25.00
774		WASHINGTON AND HAMILTON PORTRAITS. George Washington, President of the United States. [E. Savage ...			USD 35.00 - 35.00	10.00
775		WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE PORTRAITS.			USD 40.00 - 40.00	15.00
776	[WESLEY, JOHN]	Thoughts upon Infant-Baptism. Extracted from a Late Writer.	Bristol	1751	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
777	[WESLEY, JOHN]	Hymns for Ascension Day.	London	1753	USD 10.00 - 10.00	8.00
778	WESLEY, JOHN	Hymns for Our Lord's Resurrection.	London	1754	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
779	WESLEY, JOHN	The Means of Grace. A Sermon on Malachi iii, 7.	London	1755	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
780	[WESLEY, CHARLES]	Hymns for the Year 1756, particularly for the Fast-Day, February 6.	Bristol	1756	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00
781	WESLEY, JOHN	[Caption title] Hymns on the Expected Invasion 1759.	N.p.	n.d. [1759]	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
782	[WESLEY, JOHN]	A Short Hebrew Grammar.	London	1769	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
783	[WESLEY, JOHN]	Preparation for Death, in several Hymns.	London	1772	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
784	WESLEY, JOHN	Minutes of some late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and others.	Leeds	1789	USD 10.00 - 10.00	15.00
785	WESLEY, JOHN and CHARLES	Hymns of the Petition and Thanks-giving for the Promise of the Father.	Bristol	1760	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
786	Sir Benjamin Rudyerd	WEST INDIES. Two Speeches in Parliament: The one concerning Religion . . . the other concerning a ...	London	1642	USD 15.00 - 15.00	15.00
787	[WESTMACOTT, CHARLES M.]	The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous.	London	1825-6	USD 75.00 - 75.00	75.00
788		WESTMINSTER ABBEY (Stanley), With A.L.s. laid in. London, 1896; The Observer (Cumberland). London ...	London	1826-1896	USD 15.00 - 15.00	8.00
789	[WHISTLER JAMES A. McN]	The International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the ...	London	1905	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
790	[WHISTLER, JAMES A. McN]	Wilde v Whistler being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill ...	London	1906	USD 10.00 - 10.00	12.50
791	[WHISTLER JAMES A. McN]	E. R. and J. Pennell. The Life of James McNeill Whistler.	London	1908	USD 20.00 - 20.00	8.00
792	E. R. and J. Pennell	[WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL.] The Life of James McNeill Whistler.	Philadelphia	1909	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
793		WHISTLER (Laver), N. Y., 1930; Colonel Lawrence (Hart), N. Y., 1934; Henry Irving (Stoker), London ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	21.50
794		WHITE'S COFFEE-HOUSE. The History of White's with the Betting Book from 1743 to 1878 and a List of ...	London	[1892]	USD 30.00 - 30.00	12.00
795		WHITMAN, WALT. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT s. W.W. and entitled Walt Whitman's last 'Good-bye My Fancy ...			USD 150.00 - 150.00	60.00
796	WHITTIER, JOHN G.	The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.	Boston	n.d.	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
797	[WHITTY, J.]	Tales of Irish Life. Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the People.	London	1824	USD 20.00 - 20.00	3.00
798	[WICQUEFORT, ABR. DE]	Ad Vis Fidele aux Veritables Hollandois touchant ce qui s'est passe dans le Villages de Bodegrave ...	[Holland]	1673	USD 25.00 - 25.00	40.00
799	WILDE, OSCAR	Intentions, 1891, First Edition; The Sphinx, 1910; backstrip slightly chipped.	London	1891-10	USD 15.00 - 15.00	5.00
800	WILDE, OSCAR	The Importance of Being Earnest.	London	1899	USD 15.00 - 15.00	11.00

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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