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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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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.