Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern - online 11/28, L24401, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 12, 2024 - December 12, 2024

Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	Sir Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner	Series of c.120 autograph letters signed, many of great length, to Lady Violet Cecil, covering twenty years of close friendship and ending shortly before their marriage,...			GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
52	Cardinal John Henry Newman.	Series of 20 autograph letters signed (including one with a clipped signature), with two further fragments, and one printed letter signed, to the Rev. Lord Charles Thynne and his wife Harriet,...		1852-67	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 7,200.00
53	Florence Nightingale	Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not.	London	1860	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 9,600.00
54	Beatrix Potter	The Tale of Peter Rabbit.	London	1902	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 24,000.00
55	Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. V & E Sackville West	Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the Castle of Duino	London	1931	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
56	J.K. Rowling	Inscribed copies of the first two Harry Potter books, comprising: i. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.	London	1997	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
57	J.K. Rowling	A collection of letters and related ephemera, comprising: (i) Typed letter signed, dated 11 November 1997, addressed to "Everyone in Miss. Searle's Class", ...		1997	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 4,800.00
58	J.K. Rowling	A collection of first edition Harry Potter books, comprising: (i) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.	London	1997	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 14,400.00
59	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.	London	1998	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 7,200.00
60	Arthur Szyk---Cecil Roth (editor)	The Haggadah, Executed by Arthur Szyk, Edited by Cecil Roth.	Watford	1940	GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
61	Arthur Szyk	The Haggadah executed by Arthur Szyk edited and with an introduction by Cecil Roth.	Watford	1940	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
62	Christian Zervos	Pablo Picasso. OEuvres de 1895 a [1972].	Paris	1949-1986	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
63	Album	Attractive early twentieth-century German album containing signatures and inscriptions of c.60 singers, musicians and actors, together with a number of photographs	Germany,	early twentieth-century	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 1,080.00
64	Bela Bartok	Extraordinary autograph field-book of Hungarian folksong transcriptions, UNPUBLISHED		1906-1918	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	GBP 132,000.00
65	Bela Bartok	Collection of 24 Hungarian folksong transcriptions 1906-1030		1906-1930	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 21,600.00
66	Bela Bartok	Autograph manuscript of 18 Hungarian folksong texts, SOME WITH RHYTHMIC AND MUSICAL ANNOTATIONS, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED		1918 or later	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 2,040.00
67	Bela Bartok	Autograph notebook documenting Bartok's phonograph recordings of Hungarian folksongs, UNPUBLISHED		1906-1907	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 12,000.00
68	Bela Bartok	Autograph notebook documenting Bartok's phonograph recordings of Slovak folksongs		c.1907	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 3,600.00
69	Bela Bartok	Remarkable manuscript of Slovak folksong-text transcriptions apparently in Klara Gombossy's hand, CORRECTED AND ANNOTATED BY BARTOK, UNPUBLISHED IN THIS FORM		1915-1916	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 4,200.00
70	Bela Bartok	Autograph letter to Klara Gombossy, ONLY PARTLY PUBLISHED		1916	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,000.00
71	Bela Bartok	Remarkable autograph letter signed, with Bartok's monogram ("khaB"), to Klara Gombossy, PARTIALLY PUBLISHED, ABOUT HIS OWN MUSIC		1916	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 4,560.00
72	Bela Bartok	Two autograph letters to his muse Klara Gombossy, about the ballet The Wooden Prince and the Five Songs op.15, ONLY PARTIALLY PUBLISHED		1916	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 5,400.00
73	Bela Bartok	Four autograph letters, three signed ("B"; "Bartok Bila"; "Alib Kotrab"), to Klara Gombossy, SUBSTANTIALLY UNPUBLISHED		1916	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 4,800.00
74	Bela Bartok	Collection of autograph letters by Ditta Bartok, and other Bartok material, the letters c.1942-1950, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED		c.1942-1950	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 7,800.00
75	Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt	Four photographic portraits, two signed ("Johannes Brahms" and "F. Liszt"), and three autograph envelopes by Brahms	New York	c.1860s-1897	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 5,400.00

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Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

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.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

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Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

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

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

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.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
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Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD