Back

PBA Galleries: Fine Printing with Illustrated and Antiquarian Books: Selections from the Phil Lenna Collection (with Additions)

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Printing with Illustrated and Antiquarian Books: Selections from the Phil Lenna Collection (with Additions) Total Sales (USD) 367,212.50
Auction Date June 15, 2023 - June 15, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 268,300.00
Sale Number #790 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 414,600.00
Total Lots 361
Sold Lots 299.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 295,300.00
% of Lots Sold 82.83% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 456,300.00
Unsold Lots 62 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 80.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
16 Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

 1979 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
211 Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield

 1903 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
105 Melville, Herman

Moby Dick or the Whale

 1930 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 13,750.00
290 Risso, Joseph Antoine and Pierre Antoine Poiteau

Histoire Naturelle des Orangers

 1818-[1820] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 11,250.00
64

The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ

 1931 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,625.00
60 Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales...With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill

 1929 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
141

The Holy Bible

 1999 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
101 Keats, John

The Poems of John Keats

 1894 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,500.00
23 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII.

 1927-1928 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
26 Malory, Thomas

The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte DArthur...

 [1913] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,875.00
27 More, Thomas

[Utopia, i.e.:] A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the New Yle Called Utopia...

 1906 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,875.00
103 Morris, William

The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems

 [1892] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,875.00
148 Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The History of the Church of Englande

 1930 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,875.00
142 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

 [1983] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,937.50
140 Carroll, Lewis

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

 1982 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
254 Gould, John

The Birds of Asia

 1869-[74?] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,000.00
11 Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme

The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

 1994 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,687.50
104 [Voragine, Jacobus de]

The Golden Legend

 1892 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,375.00
139 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 1982 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
100 Cavendish, George

The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York

 [1893] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
102 [Lull, Ramon]

The Order of Chivalry

 1893 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,062.50
337 Johnson, Samuel

A Dictionary of the English Language

 1773 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,062.50
134

The Holy Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

 1962 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,750.00
8 Abbott, Edwin A.

Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions

 1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,437.50
310 Bonhomme, Yolande

Ces Presentes Heures a Lusaige de Paris Toutes au Long sans Rien Requerir: Nouuelleme[n]t Imprimees Audict Lieu, Auecques Plusieurs Belles Hystoires

 1525 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,437.50
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
  • <b><center>Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!</center></b>
    Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.