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Auction Name
Books and Prints
Auction Date
10/09/2014 - 10/09/2014
Sale Number
#100914
Total Lots
81
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0
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Unsold Lots
81
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Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
46

SOTHEBY'S CELEBRITY AUCTION CATALOGS. Lot also includes Russian works of art catalogs.

 Not Available Unknown
304

PAIR OF ALEXANDER POPE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF DOGS.

 Not Available Unknown
304A

THREE FRAMED PRINTS.

 Not Available Unknown
308

PORTSMOUTH FURNITURE AND FIVE OTHER ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS.

 Not Available Unknown
309

TEN SHEETS OF RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALS FROM 1924.

 1924 Not Available Unknown
313 KENNETH DALEY (AMERICAN, B. 1941).

CASCADE AT YENLING YEYUAN.

1966 Not Available Unknown
58 SCHONLEBEN.

DISSERTATIO POLEMICA DE PRIMA ORIGINE, 1680

 1680 Not Available Unknown
57 ANDREA MORELLIO.

THESAURI MORELLIAN,

1799 Not Available Unknown
49

THE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER COLLECTION OF AMERICA, SEVEN BOUND VOLUMES PLUS INDEX.

 Not Available Unknown
48

FIVE BOUND VOLUMES OF "THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO."

 1923-1925. Not Available Unknown
47

THE DICTIONARY HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OF MR. PETER BAYLE, THE SECOND EDITION.

1734 Not Available Unknown
2

PORTFOLIO OF UNFRAMED PRINTS AND OTHER MATERIAL.

 Not Available Unknown
45

PEWTER REFERENCE BOOKS. Including a boxed set of Pewter in America and Dean A. Fales personal bound volumes of "Pewter Club Bulletins"

 Not Available Unknown
44

EARLY AMERICAN WROUGHT IRON BY ALBERT H. SONN. Three volume first edition published in 1928

 1928 Not Available Unknown
43

BOSTON CITY DIRECTORIES.

 1833 Not Available Unknown
42 GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The Life of George Washington, Maps and Subscribers' Names,

 1807 Not Available Unknown
41 GEORGE WASHINGTON. Jared Sparks,

The Writing of George Washington

 1837 Not Available Unknown
33

BOX LOT OF ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS.

 Not Available Unknown
30

WILLIAM MCKINLEY CAMPAIGN BUTTON AND A LARGE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MCKINLEY TEN DOLLAR BILL.

 Not Available Unknown
15

JOHN LANGDON'S COPY OF THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE

1799 Not Available Unknown
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Kelmscott Chaucer: The Finest Book Since the Gutenberg Bible. $60,000 - $90,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Morris's Original Manuscript Title-Page Design for Rosetti. Ballads and Narrative Poems. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Printed on Vellum: The Founding of the Kelmscott Press. $30,000 - $50,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Voragine, Jacobus De. The Golden Legend. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Lull, Ramon. The Order of Chivalry. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Swinburne. Morris, William, translator. Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. $4,000 - $6,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Printed on Vellum: One of Only 15 Copies. Morris, William, translator. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. $15,000 - $25,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> William Morris Association Copy in Fine Binding. Morris, William. Child Christopher and Goldilind at the Fair. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Morris, William. 1834-1896. The Earthly Paradise. $6,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Nuremberg Chronicle. Schedel, Hartmann. 1440-1514. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Kelmscott Chaucer: The Finest Book Since the Gutenberg Bible. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Morris's Original Manuscript Title-Page Design for Rosetti. Ballads and Narrative Poems. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Printed on Vellum: The Founding of the Kelmscott Press. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Voragine, Jacobus De. The Golden Legend. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Lull, Ramon. The Order of Chivalry. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Swinburne. Morris, William, translator. Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Printed on Vellum: One of Only 15 Copies. Morris, William, translator. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: William Morris Association Copy in Fine Binding. Morris, William. Child Christopher and Goldilind at the Fair. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Morris, William. 1834-1896. The Earthly Paradise. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Nuremberg Chronicle. Schedel, Hartmann. 1440-1514. $30,000 - $50,000
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Discover Upcoming Auctions</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 9:</b> Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. "Epitome Cosmografica." With the 6 circular celestial and terrestrial charts. 7,000 – 10,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 9:</b> Hurley, Frank. Collection of 69 photographs taken during Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. 80,000 – 120,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 10:</b> Sendak, Maurice. Original artwork for the inaugural "New York is Book Country" poster, 1979. 300,000 – 600,00 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 10:</b> [Brontë, Emily, and Ann Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell. An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels Estimate. 90,000 - 130,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Discover Upcoming Auctions
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 9: Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. "Epitome Cosmografica." With the 6 circular celestial and terrestrial charts. 7,000 – 10,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 9: Hurley, Frank. Collection of 69 photographs taken during Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. 80,000 – 120,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 10: Sendak, Maurice. Original artwork for the inaugural "New York is Book Country" poster, 1979. 300,000 – 600,00 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 10: [Brontë, Emily, and Ann Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell. An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels Estimate. 90,000 - 130,000 USD
  • <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> A Very Fine Composite Atlas Magnificently Illuminated and Heightened with Gold in a Fine Contemporary Hand Throughout. $300,000 - $500,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Saint-Exupéry's Revised Ending for Wind, Sand and Stars. $40,000 - $60,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Edith Wharton's Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1924. $20,000 - $30,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Salinger on the Glass Family and on Detachment. $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Fanny Burney's Groundbreaking First Novel. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Kafka's Earliest Extant Piece of Writing. Autograph Note Signed ("Franz Kafka"). $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Wagner Signed "Ride of the Valkries." $6,000 - $9,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Dickens on the Death of Little Nell. $5,000 - $8,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Sylvia Plath's Copy of Joy of Cooking. $4,000 - $6,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Walt Whitman and Friends: Whitman to James Russell Lowell. $8,000 - $12,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Walt Whitman and Friends: The Genesis of his Lincoln Lectures. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: A Very Fine Composite Atlas Magnificently Illuminated and Heightened with Gold in a Fine Contemporary Hand Throughout. $300,000 - $500,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Saint-Exupéry's Revised Ending for Wind, Sand and Stars. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Edith Wharton's Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1924. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Salinger on the Glass Family and on Detachment. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Fanny Burney's Groundbreaking First Novel. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Kafka's Earliest Extant Piece of Writing. Autograph Note Signed ("Franz Kafka"). $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Wagner Signed "Ride of the Valkries." $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Dickens on the Death of Little Nell. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Sylvia Plath's Copy of Joy of Cooking. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: Whitman to James Russell Lowell. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: The Genesis of his Lincoln Lectures. $6,000 - $9,000
  • <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 67. Book Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 68. J. W. Daughaday Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 69. C. & P. Pilot Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 73. Vandercook Cylinder Proof Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 76. Showcard Proof Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 80. C. & P. Printing Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 81. C. & P. Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 82. Kelsey Star Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 83. Pilot Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 212. Kelsey Letterpress <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Wood & Metal Type. Many fonts and faces. <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Print Shop Miscellany including type, tools, and equipment.
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 67. Book Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 68. J. W. Daughaday Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 69. C. & P. Pilot Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 73. Vandercook Cylinder Proof Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 76. Showcard Proof Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 80. C. & P. Printing Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 81. C. & P. Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 82. Kelsey Star Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 83. Pilot Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 212. Kelsey Letterpress
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Wood & Metal Type. Many fonts and faces.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Print Shop Miscellany including type, tools, and equipment.
  • <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Yeats (W.B.) <i>The Poems of W.B. Yeats,</i> 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Fishing: <i>Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing,</i> Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Fishing: Blacker's - <i>Art of Fly Making, etc.,</i> Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Joyce (James). <i>Finnegans Wake,</i>, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. <i>The Aran Islands,</i>, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Meyer (Dr. A.B.) <i>Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten,</i> Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Carve (Thomas). <i>Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,</i>, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Grose (Francis). <i>The Antiquities of Ireland,</i> 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. <i>Ugolino,</i> D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
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