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Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana

Christie's, King Street, St. James's 8, London, SW1Y 6QT, United Kingdom
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Date of the auction: 01.10.2021 - 15.10.2021

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[GUTENBERG, Johannes (d. 1468).] Biblia Latina. [Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust, c.1455...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$30,000 - US$50,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 122
Manuscript celestial map

Xing Tu [Celestial Map]. China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1907. A large manuscript Chinese celestial map. In...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 123
Imperial Atlas of the Great Qing

Daqing Huangyu Quantu [The Imperial Atlas of the Great Qing]. China, Xuantong period, 1902. The...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,125
Lot number 124
Two cartographic fans

Two fans illustrated with maps: Daqing Yitong Quansheng Diyutu [Map of All Unified Provinces of the...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$4,750
Lot number 125
The Shop Signs of Peking

FUNG, H.K. The Shop Signs of Peking. Peking: Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931. Limited...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$4,375
Lot number 126
The Latest Situation in East Asia

Zuijin zhi Dongya Xingshi Tujie [Map Explaining the Latest Situation in East Asia]. Mainichi Shimbun...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 127
The East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

Da Dongya Gongrongquan ji Taipingyang Yaotu [Map of the East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere and the...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 128
A Myrrour for Magistrates

BALDWIN, William (fl. 1547), editor. A Myrrour for Magistrates. London: Thomas Marshe, 1563. The...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$47,500
Lot number 129
The Essayes

MONTAIGNE, Michel de (1533-1592). The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$20,000
Lot number 130
Plutarch's Moralia

PLUTARCHUS (c. 45-c.120). The Philosophie, commonlie called, The Morals. Translated by Philemon...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,375
Lot number 131
The Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy.

LEFEVRE, Raoul (c. 1460). The Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy. Translated by William...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$6,875
Lot number 132
Coryat's Crudities

CORYATE, Thomas (c.1577-1617). Coryat's Crudities. [London: William Stansby for the author, 1611...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$7,500
Lot number 133
The Second Folio

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$50,000 - US$80,000
Price realised:
US$118,750
Lot number 134
The Workes

JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Workes. London: William Stansby, 1616 [vol. I] and Richard Meighen...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
Lot number 135
The Castle of Otranto

[WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797).] The Castle of Otranto, a Story Translated by...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$10,000
Lot number 136
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: for W...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$20,000
Lot number 137
Things as they are

GODWIN, William (1756-1836). Things as they are: or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams. Philadelphia...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,000
Lot number 138
Alroy

DISRAELI, Benjamin (1804-1881). Alroy. [Jerusalem & London, c.1832.] Two bound volumes, approx. 397...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$30,000 - US$50,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 139
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club... Edited by "Boz." London...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 140
Fairy Tales

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (1805-1875). Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Copenhagen: Bianco & Schneider for...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$3,500
Lot number 141
Leaves of Grass

[WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892).] Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [Fowler & Wells] 1856. Second edition...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$11,250
Lot number 142
Madame Bovary, extra-illustrated

FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). Madame Bovary. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1857. First edition in book...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$5,250
Lot number 143
Middlemarch in original parts

ELIOT, George (1819-1880). Middlemarch. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, December...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$87,500
Lot number 144
Daniel Deronda

ELIOT, George (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, 1819-1880). Daniel Deronda. Edinburgh and London...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
Lot number 145
Autograph letters to Frederic Leighton

ELIOT, George (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, 1819-1880). Two autograph letters signed ("Marian E...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$5,625
Lot number 146
Autograph letter to Langford

ELIOT, George (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, 1819-1880). Autograph letter signed (‘M.E. Lewes’) to...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 147
Ravenna

WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Ravenna. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thomas...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,000
Lot number 148
Poems, first and second series

DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. [With:] Poems. Second Series...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$13,750
Lot number 149
The Native Born

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Autograph manuscript signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), n.p., n.d. Three...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,750
Lot number 150
Kelmscott Chaucer

KELMSCOTT PRESS – CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1340s-1500). The works ... now newly imprinted. Edited by...

Christie's, 1 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$25,000
Price realised:
US$68,750
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