Bonhams: Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part I, 32163, New York

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Auction Date
May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
Page Size: 125 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 GIOVANNI CARLO COPPOLA

Le nozze degli dei favola ... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de ... Ferdinando II e Vittoria Principessa d'Urbino

Florence 1637 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
77 HUBERTUS GOLTZIUS; CASPAR GEVARTIUS

Icones imperatorum Romanorum, ex priscis numismatibus ad viuum delineatae, & breui narratione historica illustratae per Hubertum Goltzium

Antwerp 1645 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,200.00
78 COLBERT DE LOSTELNAU

Le Mareschal de Bataille

Paris 1647 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
79 MARC VULSON DE LA COLUMBIERE

Le vray Theatre d'Honneur et de la Chevalerie

Paris 1648 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
80 MICHEL DE MAROLLES

Tableaux de Temple des Muses

Paris 1655 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,176.00
81 WILLIAM DUGDALE

The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, From its Foundation untill these Times

London 1658 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,800.00
82 JEAN BERAIN

Ornemens inventez par J. Berain et se vendent Chez ledit Autheur aux galleries du Louvre [& title] Desseins de Cheminees dediez a monsieur Jules Hardouin Mansard [& other works]

Paris c. 1670–1700 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,480.00
83 ABRAHAM DE WICQUEFORT

Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandais. Touchant ce qui s'est passe dans les Villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam & les cruautes inouies que les Francais y ont exercees

The Hague 1673 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,560.00
84 NICLAUS PETTER

Der Kunstliche Ringer

Amsterdam 1674 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
85 NICOLAES PETTER

Manuscript Compendium from Petter's Worstel-Konst

Amsterdam? c. 1675–1690 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,096.00
86 FILLIPO BUONANNI

Ricreatione dell'occhio e della mente nell'osservation' delle chiocciole

Rome 1681 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,760.00
87 GEORG ANDREAS BOCKLER

Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, jumentarias, manuarias, pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures et diversas molas

Nuremberg 1686 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,176.00
88 JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books

London 1688 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,680.00
89 CORNELIUS DUSART; JACOB GOLE; Anonymous

Les heros de la ligue. Ou La procession monacale. Conduitte par Louis XIV, pour la conversion des protestans de son royaume. [Bound with:] Renversement de la Morale Chretienne par les desordres de la Monachisme

Paris; Holland 1691; late 17th century USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,176.00
90 GOVARD BIDLOO; JULES CHIFFLET

Relation du voyage de sa majeste Brittanique en Holland [Bound with:] Les Marques d'honneur de la maison de Tassis

The Hague; Antwerp 1692; 1645 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
91 Aesop

Aesop's Fables, with his life in English, French and Latin

London 1703 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,864.00
92 Jakob Basnage

't Groot Waerelds Tafereel

Amsterdam c. 1710 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,800.00
93 Filippo Bonanni

Gabinetto Armonico, pieno d'Istromenti sonori indicati, e spiegati

Rome 1722 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,480.00
94 P. Vergili Maronis

Codex Antiquissinius a Rufio Turcioi Aproniani

Florence 1741 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,760.00
95 Johann Martin Weis

Representation des Fetes donnees par la ville de Strasbourg

Paris ca. 1750 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
96 Giovanni Boccaccio

Il Decamerone

Paris 1757-1761 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,680.00
97 Torquato Tasso

Il Goffredo, ovvero Gerusalemme liberate

Venice 1760-1761 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
98 Luigi Subleyras, Etienne Lavallee-Poussin, Hubert Robert

Nella Venuta in Roma di Madonna Le Comte e dei Signori Waterlet

Rome 1764 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
99 George Stubbs

The Anatomy of a Horse

London 1766 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,240.00
100 Johannes Enschede

Epreuve de caracteres

Haarlem 1768 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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.