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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Caius Sallustius Crispus | La conjuracion de Catilina y la guerra de Jugurta |
Madrid | 1772 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,760.00 |
| 102 | Francois Arnaud | Description des principales pierres gravees du cabinet de S.A.S. Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans |
Paris | 1780-84 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 |
| 103 | Giocondo Albertoli | Ornamenti Diversi. Inventati Disegnati ed esequiti |
Milan | 1782 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 104 | Isocrates | Isocratis opera omnis graece et latine |
Paris | 1782 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,200.00 |
| 105 | Giambattista Bodoni | Prose e versi. Per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffi Principessa del S.R. Imp. |
Parma | 1793 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 106 | James Thomson | The Seasons |
London | 1797 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,200.00 |
| 107 | Luigi Mayer, Sir Robert Ainslie | Views in Egypt, from the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie Taken during His Embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer |
London | 1801 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 108 | Giambattista Bodoni | Oratio Dominica in CLV linguas versa et exoticis characteribus plerumque expressa |
Parma | 1806 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,864.00 |
| 109 | Robert Blair, William Blake | The Grave. A Poem |
London | 1808 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,400.00 |
| 110 | Giambattista Bodoni | Le piu insigni Pitture Parmensi indicate Agli Amatori delle Belle Arti |
Parma | 1809 [but 1816] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 111 | Johann August Barth | Pacis annis MDCCCXIV et MDCCCXV foederatis armis restitute monumentum orbis terrarum de fortuna reduce gaudia gentium linguis interpretans |
Breslau | 1818 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 |
| 112 | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress |
London | 1838 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 113 | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River |
London | 1851 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 114 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Works |
Hammersmith | 1896 | USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 | USD 140,200.00 |
| 115 | The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & The New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First |
Hammersmith | 1903-1905 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 15,360.00 | |
| 116 | Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle | Les Erinnyes: tragedie antique |
Paris | 1908 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 117 | Biblia Sacra |
Leipzig | 1913-1914 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 | |
| 118 | Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes | Iconography of the Island of Manhattan Island |
New York | 1915-28 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,480.00 |
| 119 | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues |
Chelsea | 1923 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,320.00 |
| 120 | Paul Valery | L'Ame et la danse. Dialogue socratique |
Paris | 1925 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,960.00 |
| 121 | CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE | The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha |
Chelsea | 1927-28 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 11,520.00 |
| 122 | Eric Gill | The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I |
Waltham St. Lawrence | 1931 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 123 | BRIDGES, ROBERT | Eros and Psyche |
Newtown | 1935 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,088.00 |
| 124 | REDON, ODILON | La Tentation de Saint Antoine |
Paris | 1938 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,760.00 |
| 125 | DERAIN, ANDRE | Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du tres renomme Pantagruel, Roy des dipsodes fils du grand geant Gargantua |
Paris | 1943 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 16,640.00 |
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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.