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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | PIETRO CATANEO | L'architettura di Pietro Cataneo senese |
Venice | 1567 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,176.00 |
| 52 | MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO | De Architectura |
Venice | 1567 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,864.00 |
| 53 | PHILIBERT DE L'ORME | Le premier tome de l'architecture |
Paris | 1568 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 54 | SOPHOCLES | Tragoediae septem |
Geneva | 1568 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,176.00 |
| 55 | ACHILLE BOCCHI | Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque |
Bologna | 1574 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,120.00 |
| 56 | JACQUES BESSON | Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum |
Lyons | 1578 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 57 | ANTOINE LE POIS | Discours sur les medalles et graveures antiques, principalement Romaines |
Paris | 1579 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,200.00 |
| 58 | JEAN DU TILLET | Recueil des roys de France, leurs coronne et maison |
Paris | 1580 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 59 | LODOVICO CURIONE | La Notomia delle Cancellaresche corsive & altre maniere di Lettere. Libro Secondo |
Rome | 1588 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 60 | AGOSTINO RAMELLI | Le diverse et artificiose machine |
Paris | 1588 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 38,400.00 |
| 61 | PHILIPPE DANFRIE | Declaration de l'usage du graphometre, par la pratique duquel l'on peut mesurer toutes distances des choses de remarque ... et ce sans regle d'arithmetique |
Paris | 1597 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,096.00 |
| 62 | CORNELIS DIRCKSZ BOISSENS | Gramato-Graphices. In quo varia scriptorae emblemata, Belgicis, Germanicis, Italicis, Hispanicis, Gallicis, et Latinis Characteribus exarata |
Amsterdam | 1605 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 4,096.00 |
| 63 | CESARE VECELLIO | Habiti Antichi et Moderni di diverse parti del Mondo |
Venice | 1598 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,760.00 |
| 64 | WENDEL DIETTERLIN | Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der funf Seulen |
Nuremberg | 1598 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 65 | GABRIEL ROLLENHAGEN | Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant |
Cologne; Utrecht | 1611-1613 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 66 | JOHANN GEISSERT | Ein Ritterich und Adelich Kunstbuch |
Koburg | 1615 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 67 | VINCENZO SCAMOZZI | L'Idea della arcitectura universale |
Venice | 1615 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | PHILOSOPHTUS; BLAISE DE VIGENERE; ARTHUR D'EMBRY | Les Images ou tableaux de platte peinture |
Paris | 1615 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 69 | DOMINICUS CUSTOS | Fuggerorum et Fuggerarum quae in familia natae |
Augsburg | 1618 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,176.00 |
| 70 | DANIEL HEINSIUS; JOHAN I DE BRUNE | Nederduytsche poemata |
Amsterdam | 1618; 1616 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,376.00 |
| 71 | PROSPERO BONARELLI | Il Solimano, Tragedia |
Florence | 1620 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 72 | NICOLAS GRUDIUS | Constitutiones Ordinis Velleris Aurei e Gallico in Latinum Conversae |
Antwerp | ca. 1620 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 |
| 73 | ERICIUS PUTEANUS; IACOBO FRANCQUART | Pompa Funebris optimi potentissimiq. principis Alberti Pii, archiducis Austriae, ducis Burg. Bra. &c. Veris imaginibus expressa a Iacobo Francquart Archit: Reg. Eiusdem principis morientis vita, Scriptore E. Puteano, Consil. et Historiogr. Reg. |
Brussels | 1623 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,200.00 |
| 74 | MATHERIN JOUSSE | La Fidelle Ouverture de l'art de Serrurier ou l'on void les principaux preceptes. Desseings et figures touchant les experiences et operations dudit Art |
La Fleche | 1627 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,880.00 |
| 75 | ANTOINE DE PLUVINEL | L'Instruction du Roy en L'exercise de monter e Cheval |
Paris | 1629 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,096.00 |
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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.