Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts - online bidding 11/27, N11500, New York

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Auction Date
December 10, 2024 - December 10, 2024
Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1077 (China) --- John Thomson

Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented.

London 1874 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
1078 (Darwin, Charles)

A group of five photographs, ca. 1863-1878

ca. 1863-1878 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,800.00
1079 Eytzinger, Michael von

Novus ad Hispaniae et Hungariae reges ter maximos de Leone Belgico, eiusque topographica atque historica descriptione liber.

Cologne 1588 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,760.00
1080 Hobbes, Thomas

Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill.

London 1651 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,400.00
1081 (India) --- James Todd, et al.

Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India.

London 1829-1832 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,600.00
1082 Klimt, Gustav

Eine Nachlese. Herausgegeben von Max Eisler. Wien, Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei 1931

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 42,000.00
1083 Lopez, Gregorio

Libro de Medisina por orden alfavetico, compuesto por el Venerable siervo de Dios Gregorio Lopez (Mexico, late 17th century)

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
1084 Mao Tse-Tung

The most effective political messaging of the 20th century signed by the author

USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 90,000.00
1085 (Matisse, Henri)

Archive of letters by contemporary artists and critics on Henri Matisse's influence on the Abstract Expressionists

1981-1982 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
1086 Mottram, Charles

Jerusalem in her Grandeur. Scarborough and London

1860 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,680.00
1087 Newton, Sir Issac

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... Editio tertia aucta & emendata.

London 1726 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,600.00
1088 (Painted Book Bindings)

Painted upper and lower book covers. Saxony, mid seventeenth century

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,360.00
1089 Peron, Francis, et al

Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes Execute par ordre de sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette la Casuarina, pendant les annee 1800, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

Paris 1807; 1816 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,400.00
1090 Phipps, Constantine John

A Voyage Towards the North Pole Undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773.

London 1774 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
1091 (Photography) --- Man Ray

Four signed photobooks

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,600.00
1092 Sendak, Maurice

Original artwork for the inaugural New York is Book Country poster

1979 USD 300,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 336,000.00
1093 Straszewicz, Joseph

Les Polonais et les Polonaises de la Revolution du 29 Novembre 1830 ou Portraits des Persons qui ont figure dans la derniere Guerre de l'Independance Polonaise avec la Facsimile de leur Signature ...

Paris 1832 but ca. 1835 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 600.00
1094 Vegetius Renatus, Flavius, et al

De re militari libri quatuor Four Military Books.

Paris 1553 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
1095 Williamson, George Charles

Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan.

London 1910 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Not Sold
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
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    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
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    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD