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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
801	WILDE, OSCAR	Essays, Criticisms and Reviews.	London	1901	USD 10.00 - 10.00	7.00
802	WILDE, OSCAR	Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde.	London	1907	USD 15.00 - 15.00	16.00
803	Frank Harris	[WILDE, OSCAR.] Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions.	New York	1916	USD 20.00 - 20.00	18.00
804	[WILDE, OSCAR]	Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, & Oscar Wilde (Sherard), London, [1937], 2 copies; Oscar Wilde, His Life ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD 20.00 - 20.00	14.00
805	[WILDE, OSCAR]	Three Times Tried. [Report of the Trial of Lord Queensberry and Oscar Wilde.]	Paris	n.d.	USD 30.00 - 30.00	32.50
806	WILDE, OSCAR	The Writings of Oscar Wilde.	New York	1925	USD 200.00 - 200.00	180.00
807	WILDE, OSCAR	The Writings of Oscar Wilde.	London	n.d.	USD 50.00 - 50.00	47.50
808	WILLIS, N.P.	The Prose Works of N.P. Willis.	Philadelphia	1849	USD 15.00 - 15.00	12.00
809	WILSON, HARRIETTE	Memoirs.	London	1924	USD 10.00 - 10.00	5.00
810	WINTER, WILLIAM	Shadows of the Stage. 2 vols.; Gray Days and Gold; Shakespeare's England; Wanderers; Old Shrines and ...	Boston	1892	USD 15.00 - 15.00	14.00
811	WITHERSPOON, JOHN	An Address to the Natives of Scotland residing in America, being an Appendix to a Sermon preached on ...	London	1778	USD 20.00 - 20.00	17.00
812		WOMAN IN PORTRAITURE. A collection of engravings of women, mainly representative of mythological ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	5.00
813		WOMEN IN PORTRAITURE. A collection of engravings of women, mainly representative of mythological ...			USD 40.00 - 40.00	5.00
814		WOMEN IN LOVE (Lawrence), N.Y., 1920; God's Trombones (Johnson), N. Y. 1927; The Venetian Glass ...			USD 15.00 - 15.00	13.00
815	Valentine Green	WORCESTER. The History and Antiquities of the Cities and Suburbs of Worcester.	London	1796	USD 15.00 - 15.00	7.00
816		WORKS (Shakespeare), 2 vols., Boston, n.d.; The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo-Grammaticus ...			USD 10.00 - 10.00	4.00
817	La Baionnette	WORLD WAR I. Nouvelle Serie, Nos. 1 to 182, July 8, 1915 to December, 1918.	Paris	1915-18	USD 100.00 - 100.00	20.00
818		WORLD'S HISTORY AND ITS MAKERS, THE.	New York	1902	USD 15.00 - 15.00	6.00
819	WRANGHAM, REV. FRANCIS	The British Plutarch; containing the Lives of the most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statesmen ...	London	1816	USD 15.00 - 15.00	4.00
820		YELLOW BOOK, THE.	London	1894-7	USD 15.00 - 15.00	20.00
821		MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. A collection of about 250 vols., including History, Poetry, Biography, Fiction ...			USD 20.00 - 20.00	70.00

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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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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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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.