Bonhams: Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part I, 32163, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
Page Size: 125 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Bartolomeo Marliani

Urbis Romae Topographia

Rome 1544 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,800.00
27 Giovanni Battista Palatino

Libro Nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere antiche et moderni di tutte nationi

Rome 1544 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,376.00
28 Sebastiano Serlio

Il primo [-secundo] libro d'architettura. Le premier (second) livre d'Archicture

Paris 1545 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,040.00
29 Giles Corrozet

Icones historiarum Veteris Testamenti

Lyon 1547 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,200.00
30 Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Architecture ou Art de bien Bastir

Paris 1547 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
31 HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER

Simolachri, historie, e figure de la morte aiuntovi di nuovo molte figure mai piu stampate

Lyon 1549 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,040.00
32 BENEDETTO VARCHI

Due Lezzioni di M. Benedetto Varchi, Nella Prima Delle Quali si dichiara un Sonetto di M. Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Nella seconda si disputa quale sia piu nobile arte la Scultura, o la Pittura, con una lettera d'esso Michelagnolo, & piu altri Eccellentiss.

Florence 1549 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
33 Robert Estienne

Novum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum

Paris 1550 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,040.00
34 PAULIO GOVIO

Historiarum... libri

Florence 1550-52 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,400.00
35 JUAN DE YCIAR

Arte subtilissima, por la qual se ensena a escrevir perfectamente, hecho y experimentado, y agora de nuevo anadido

Zaragoza 1550 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 10,240.00
36 CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Omnia quae extant opera , nunc primum e tenebris eruta Latinitateque donata

Florence 1551 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,584.00
37 PHILO JUDAEUS

Opera

Paris 1552 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,480.00
38 MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

De Architectura Libri Decem

Lyon 1552 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,320.00
39 ALBRECHT V, DUKE OF BAVARIA

Bairische Landtordnung

Ingolstadt 1553 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,760.00
40 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae familiares

Venice 1554 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
41 GUILLAUME RONDELET

Libri de piscibus marini... Universae aquatilium historiae

Lyons 1554-55 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,584.00
42 PIERRE BELON

L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naifs portraicts retirez du naturel

Paris 1555 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
43 PIERRE COUSTEAU

Pegma cum narrationibus philosophicis

Lyon 1555 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,200.00
44 HUBERT GOLTZIUS

Vivae Omnium Fere Imperatorum Imagines

Antwerp 1557 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,240.00
45 MARCUS JUNIANUS JUSTINUS

Les Histoires Universelles de Trogue Pompee

Paris 1559 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
46 ANTONIO DE GUEVARA

Histoire

Paris 1565 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
47 JEAN COUSIN

Livre de perspective

Paris 1560 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,760.00
48 VERGILIUS MARO

L'Eneide de Virgile

Lyons 1560 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
49 GIOVANNI ANTONIO TAGLIENTE

Lo presente libro Insegna la Vera arte delo Excellẽte scrivere de diverse Varie sorti de litere

Venice 1561 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,400.00
50 HADRIANUS JUNIUS

Emblemata

Antwerp 1565 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,840.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000