• <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>New York Book Week<br>12-26 June</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, June 25:</b> Theocritus. <i>Theocriti Eclogae triginta,</i> Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Fitzgerald, F. Scott. <i>The Great Gatsby,</i> 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Blake, William. <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience,</i> Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, June 26:</b> Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    New York Book Week
    12-26 June
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD
  • <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. <i>Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino,</i> 1481. €40,000 to €50,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>Il Convivio,</i> 1490. €20,000 to €25,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. <i>Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates,</i> 1567. €10,000 to €12,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. <i>Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…,</i> 1548. €4,000 to €6,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> SPINOZA, BARUCH. <i>Opera posthuma,</i> 1677. €8,000 to €12,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. <i>Borus Godunov,</i> 1831. €30,000 to €50,000. <b><center>Finarte<br>Books, Autographs & Prints<br>June 24 & 25, 2025</center></b> <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. <i>Ballets-minute,</i> 1954. €35,000 to €40,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. <i>Dlia Golosa,</i> 1923. €7,000 to €10,000. <b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. <i>Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos.,</i> 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
  • <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-25:</b> ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
  • <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000 <b>Bonhams, June 16-24:</b> MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500
    Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000

Sworders: Books and Manuscripts and Maps, 42725, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 27, 2025 - April 27, 2025
Page Size: 435 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
174 Dawe, G

The Life of George Morland. With an Introduction and Notes by J.J. Foster.

 London 1904 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
175 WALPOLE, Horace

Anecdotes of painting in England with some account of the principal artists

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 375.00
176 Pocock, William Fuller

Architectural Designs for Rustic Cottages, Picturesque Dwellings, Villas, &c. with Appropriate Scenery, Plans and Descriptions. To which are added some critical observations on their Style and Character; and also..

London 1807 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
177 Papworth, J B

Rural Residences, consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Building.

London 1818 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00
178 Graves, A

The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904.

 1905-06, GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 125.00
179

Peepshow book with seven scenes.

c.1840. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.00
180 1- Cleveland, John

The Idol of the Clownes, or Insurrection of Wat the Tyler his Priests Baal and Straw.

London 1654 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 625.00
181 Elzevir Press 1- TASSO, Torquato

minta Favola Boscareccia.

Leiden 1656 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 225.00
182 [Bewick, Thomas]

1- Seven volumes bound in One A Natural History of British Quadrupeds; Foreign Quadrupeds; British Birds; Water Birds; Foreign Birds; Fishes; & Reptiles. 7 vols.

Alnwick [c.1809]. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 225.00
183 1- Partridge, John

Merlinus Liberatus Being an Almanack for the year of our blessed Saviour's Incarnation 1697.

London GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.00
184 1- Guidott, Thomas

The Register of Bath, Or, Two Hundred Observations Containing an Account of Cures Performed...

London 1694 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00
185

An Appeal to the Head and Heart of Every man and Woman in Great Britain, Respecting the Threatened French Invasion and the Importance of Immediately Coming Forward With Voluntary Contributions.

 London 1798 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 162.50
186

De Pointis, Monsieur An account of the taking of Carthagena by the French in the year 1697

GBP 300.00 - 600.00 GBP 425.00
187 Plutarch

Plutarch Vitarum Plutarchi epitome, hoc est Graecorum et Romanorum illustrium res gestae, in compendium redactae per Darium Tibertum Equitem Cesaenatem...

 1597 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.00
188 Lucano (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)

Lucanus. Venice

 1502 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 700.00
189

1- The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter Who was apprehended for robbing Dr Hancock, of Salisbury, on Clarken Down, near Bath.

London 1753 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,200.00
190 JUVENAL - PERSIUS [Satyrae.]

Venice

 August 1501 [but circa 1515]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
191 1- [Hodges, Nathaniel]

Loimologia, or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665...[with] An Essay on the Different Causes of Pestilential Diseases...by John Quincy, M.D.,

 1720 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 475.00
192 1- Lord Byron; Samuel Rogers

Lara, a Tale and Jacqueline, a Tale.

London 1814 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,150.00
193

12 MINIATURE BOOKS Miniature History of England. Goode Bros, no date

 London no date GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 275.00
194 (WOLLSTONECRAFT) GODWIN, William

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

London 1798 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 975.00
195 1- Chandler, Thomas; WISE, Edward

The Remarkable Tryal of Thomas Chandler, late of Clifford's Inn, London... convicted at the Lent Assizes at Reading, 1750, before Mr. Baron Clive, for wilful and corrupt Perjury.

 Reading 1751 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 775.00
195a

Six Trial pamphlets in one volume

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 325.00
196

1- The True Manner of the Execution, Behaviour and Last Words (as Near as They Could be Taken) of Edw. Coleman at Tyburn on Tuesday the Third of December 1678.

London 1678 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,075.00
197

[The Father of STATISTICS] PETTY, Sir William- Political Arithmetick or a Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings; Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery...

London 1691 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
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    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Winston Link Signed Photograph, Hotshot Eastbound, Iager, West Virginia, July 1957. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Alexander Hamilton ALS, Whiskey Rebellion. $2,800 to $3,200.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Civil War Canteen and Letters, Thomas Tabb Jr. CSA. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Archive of Capt. William Tabb of MS, CSA, Killed Atlanta. $1,000 to $1,400.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Rudyard Kipling Collection, 29 Volumes, First Editions; Zaehnsdorf Bindings. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Artist Andrew Wyeth & Family Signed Letters, Cards. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
    July 12 & 13, 2025
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Augusta Resolves Silk Broadside, Revolutionary War RelateD. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: 1894 Map of Nashville. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques
    Two-Day Summer Auction
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    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Colonies of Great Britain, 1825, Macaulay, First Edition, plus Debate on Abolition, 1792. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Signed Photo of 3 Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Carter. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, July 12-13: Slave Ledger, Merrill Plantations, Natchez, MS & Concordia, LA. $1,000 to $1,200.
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