Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Fine Books and Manuscripts
29 November - 16 December 2022 • New York
•
Your local time • 19:00 PM GMT
1 Adams, Ansel | One of 500 copies, signed by Adams
2 Aristotle | First edition in English of Aristotle’s Politics
3 Bacon, Sir Francis | A "landmark in the advancement of human learning"
4 Bacon, Francis | First edition, and the first appearance in print of three of the four tracts
5 Bacon, Francis | First complete edition in English
6 Bacon, Francis | A pair of works by the English philosopher and statesman
7 Blackstone, William | "A work of the highest importance for the historian and constitutional lawyer"
8 [Camden, William] | First edition in English of the True and Royall History of the Famous Empresse Elizabeth
9 Cather, Willa | A signed first edition
10 Chaucer, Geoffrey | The edition of Chaucer's works which was probably used by Shakespeare
11 (Chaucer, Geoffrey) — John Wilfred Clarke | A charming illuminated manuscript, with extracts from Chaucer
12 Coronelli, Vicenzo Maria | First edition of this prolific mapmaker's work
13 Donne, John | "No man is an Island, intire of itself..."
14 Donne, John | First editions of his Six Sermons
15 Donne, John | First editions of the first folio collections of Donne's sermons
16 Donne, John | The first appearance of his correspondence in a cohesive collection
17 Edwards, George | Georges Cuvier’s set of George Edwards’ fine series of ornithological studies
18 Erasmsus, Desiderius | First edition in English, rarely seen in the market
19 Froissart, Jean | A primary source for Shakespeare
20 Lichtenstein, Roy, and Allen Ginsberg | Complete set of 10 initialed etchings and aquatints in color by Lichtenstein accompanying Ginsberg's verse
21 [Head, Richard and Francis Kirkman] | Vivid satirical accounts of 17th century debauchery
22 Hemingway, Ernest | "The world breaks everyone ..."
23 Henry VIII | A "critical moment in the history of the English Reformation"
24 Higden, Ranulph | The first illustrated edition of the most influential chronicle in Britain
25 Hobbes, Thomas | First edition, first issue of Hobbes's magisterial treatise of political theory
26 Holinshed, Raphael | Used by Shakespeare as a principal source for many of his plays
27 Howard, Robert E. | Weird Tales
28 Hugo, Victor | “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
29 Kant, Immanuel | Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy
30 Keynes, John Maynard | Three first editions
31 [Langland, William] | The Vision of Pierce Plowman
32 Lee, Harper | Lawyers, I suppose, were children once
33 Locke, John | On "the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge"
34 Lovecraft, H.P. | That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
35 Lovecraft, H.P. | The horror in the museum
36 Machiavelli, [Niccolo] | "In war, discipline can do more than fury"
37 Machiavelli, Niccolo | "This book carryes its poyson and malice in it"
38 Massinger, Philip | First edition, with distinguished provenance
39 Milne, A. A., and E.H. Shepard | Four first editions
40 [Milton, John] | The author's first prose work
41 Milton, John | First collected edition of Milton's poems and the first to bear his name
42 Milton, John | A title scarce enough to be lacking from many fine Milton collections
43 Milton, John | “The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.”
44 Ortelius, Abraham | The world in your pocket
45 Plutarch — Philemon Holland [translator] | First complete edition of the Moralia in English
46 Poe, Edgar Allan | Cornerstone of cornerstones
47 (Popish Plot) — “D. G.” [Possibly Gilbert Gifford] | On Cardinal William Allen and the Catholic Plot to Overthrow Elizabeth
48 Prynne, William | "Shackpeers Plaies are printed in the best Crowne paper, far better than most Bibles."