Bonhams: Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part I, 32163, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
| 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 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’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, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, 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 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.