Sothebys: A Worldwide Grand Tour: The Sven A. Behrendt Collection, L25330, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 02, 2025 - December 02, 2025
Page Size: 35 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
88 Nonesuch Press---Charles Dickens

The Works, 1937-1928, 24 volumes including plate volume

1937-1928 GBP 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
89 Immanuel Kant

Werke, Berlin, 1912-22, 11 volumes, contemporary tan half morocco

1912-22 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,794.00
90 Rudyard Kipling

The Complete Works in Prose and Verse, 1937-39, 35 volumes, publisher's tan morocco gilt, first volume signed by the author

1937-39 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
91 Jean de La Fontaine

Fables..., Paris, 1755-1759, 4 volumes, contemporary calf gilt

1755-1759 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,413.00
92 Napoleon I

Letter signed ("Napn") to [Jacques] Defermon, 2 March 1809

1809 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,445.00
93 Napoleon I

Letter signed ("Buonaparte") to the Minister of the Interior, [2 October 1804]

1804 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 4,826.00
94 Isaac Newton

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... editia tertia, London, 1726

1726 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 15,240.00
95 Isaac Newton

The mathematical principles of natural philosophy..., London, 1729, first edition in English, 2 volumes, contemporary calf

1729 GBP 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 190,500.00
96 Baruch de Spinoza

Opera Posthuma quorum series post praefationem exhibiter, Amsterdam, 1677, contemporary vellum, first edition of Spinoza's posthumous works

1677 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 8,890.00
97 Shakespeare Head Press---W.B. Yeats

The collected works in verse and prose..., 1908, 8 volumes, signed authorial presentation inscription

1908 GBP 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 1,524.00
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