Bonhams: Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part II, 32162, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 06, 2026 - May 06, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | FORSTER, JOHANNES | Dictionarium Hebraicum Novum, Non Ex Rabinorum Commentis, Nec Nostrativm Doctorum |
Basel | 1557 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 11,520.00 |
| 177 | MURET, MARC-ANTOINE | M. Antonii Mureti ad Leonardum Mocenicum, patricium Venetum, Orationum Ciceronis in Catilinam Explicatio |
Venice | 1557 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 178 | PARADIN, CLAUDE | Devises heroiques |
Lyon | 1557 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,664.00 |
| 179 | CONNAN, FRANCOIS DE | Commentariorum... iuris ciuilis libri X |
Paris | 1558 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 180 | PARADIN, GUILLAUME; BORLUYT, GUILLAUME | Historiarum Memorabilium ex Genesi; Historiarum memorabilium ex Exodo, sequentibusq[ue] libris descriptio |
Lyon | 1558 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,408.00 |
| 181 | SERLIO, SEBASTIANO | Libro primo [-secondo, terzo] d'architettura |
Venice | 1560; 1564 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,608.00 |
| 182 | GOLTZIUS, HUBERT | C. Julius Caesar sive historiae imperatorum Caesarumque Romanorum. --Caesar Augustus sive historiae imperatorum caesarumque Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber secundus. Accessit caesaris Augusti vita et res gestae |
Bruges | 1562[3], 1574 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,408.00 |
| 183 | TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS | Comoediae |
Florence | 1582; 1565 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 184 | ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO | Orlando furioso di m. Lodovico Ariosto con cinque nuovi canti del medesimo |
Venice | 1567 (1566) | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | CONCILIUM TRIDENTINUM | Sacrosancti et oecumenici concilii Tridentini ... canones et decreta |
Antwerp | 1571 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 186 | CARLO GUALTERUZZI | Libro Do Novelle, et di Bel Parlar Gentile |
Florence | 1572 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 187 | LUCA PAETUS | De Mensuris et ponderibus romanis et graecis |
Venice | 1573 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 188 | CALLIMACHUS | Hymni (cum suis scholiis graecis) & Epigrammata (graece). Eiusdem Poematum de coma Berenices a Catullo versum. Nicodemi Frischlini intcrpretationes duae Hymnorum. |
Geneva | 1577 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,536.00 |
| 189 | PAOLO GIOVI | Vitae illustrium virorum |
Basel | 1577-8 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 190 | PHILIPPE DE COMMYNES | Les memoires |
Paris | August 19, 1581 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 191 | CORNELIUS TACITUS | Les Oeuvres de C. Cornelius Tacitus Chevalier Romain |
Paris | 1582 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 192 | CAMILLO CAMILLI | Imprese illustri di diversi coni discorsi |
Venice | 1586 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,152.00 |
| 193 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA PALATINO | Compendio del gran volume dell'arte del bene, & leggiadramente scrivere tutte le sorti di lettere e caratteri |
Venice | 1588 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,088.00 |
| 194 | MICHELE POCCIANTI | Catalogus scriptorium Florentinorum omnis generis |
Florence | 1589 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,408.00 |
| 195 | LEVINUS HULSIUS | XII. Primorum Caesarum et LXIIII ipsorum uxorum et parentum ex antiquis numismatibus, in aere incisae, effigies: atque eorundem earundem vitae et resgestae, ex varijs authoribus collectae. |
Frankfurt | 1597 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 196 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA ZUCCHETTA | Prima parte della arimetica |
Brescia | 1600 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,792.00 |
| 197 | JAN DAVID | Veridicus Christianus |
Antwerp | 1601 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,432.00 |
| 198 | Various Signatories | FOUNDATION DEED for Lay Fraternity |
Germany, Strasbourg[?] | 24 June 1603 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 199 | JAN DAVID | Occasio Arrepta... Occasio Drama |
Antwerp | 1605 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,088.00 |
| 200 | JOHN CHRYSOSTOM | Opera Graece, octo voluminibus |
Eton | 1610-1613 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,536.00 |
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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.