Bonhams: Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part I
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Printing and Process The David Godine Collection Part I | Total Sales (USD) | 810,472.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 478,500.00 |
| Sale Number | #32163 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 738,500.00 |
| Total Lots | 125 | ||
| Sold Lots | 95.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 615,000.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 76.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 948,000.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 30 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 85.49% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Works |
1896 | USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 | USD 140,200.00 |
| 60 | AGOSTINO RAMELLI | Le diverse et artificiose machine |
1588 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 38,400.00 |
| 33 | Robert Estienne | Novum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum |
1550 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 23,040.00 |
| 18 | Oronce Fine | Protomathesis |
1532 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 19,200.00 |
| 125 | DERAIN, ANDRE | Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du tres renomme Pantagruel, Roy des dipsodes fils du grand geant Gargantua |
1943 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 16,640.00 |
| 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 |
1903-1905 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 15,360.00 | |
| 25 | Guido Guidi | Chirurgia |
1544 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 26 | Bartolomeo Marliani | Urbis Romae Topographia |
1544 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 81 | WILLIAM DUGDALE | The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, From its Foundation untill these Times |
1658 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 92 | Jakob Basnage | 't Groot Waerelds Tafereel |
c. 1710 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 113 | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River |
1851 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 12,800.00 |
| 2 | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus | Institutiones Oratoriae |
c. 1480 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 12,160.00 |
| 121 | CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE | The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha |
1927-28 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 11,520.00 |
| 3 | Werner Rolewinck | Fasciculus temporum |
1481 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,880.00 |
| 17 | Jean Bertaud | Encomium trium Mariarum cum earundem cultus defensione ad versus Lutheranos; Horae trium Mariarum; Divinarum humana-rumque rerum . . . de cognatione sacerrimi Joannis Baptistae |
1529 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,880.00 |
| 74 | MATHERIN JOUSSE | La Fidelle Ouverture de l'art de Serrurier ou l'on void les principaux preceptes. Desseings et figures touchant les experiences et operations dudit Art |
1627 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,880.00 |
| 35 | JUAN DE YCIAR | Arte subtilissima, por la qual se ensena a escrevir perfectamente, hecho y experimentado, y agora de nuevo anadido |
1550 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 44 | HUBERT GOLTZIUS | Vivae Omnium Fere Imperatorum Imagines |
1557 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 99 | George Stubbs | The Anatomy of a Horse |
1766 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 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 |
1801 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 116 | Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle | Les Erinnyes: tragedie antique |
1908 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,240.00 |
| 1 | Eusebius of Caesarea | Historia ecclesiastica |
c. 1479 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 64 | WENDEL DIETTERLIN | Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der funf Seulen |
1598 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 103 | Giocondo Albertoli | Ornamenti Diversi. Inventati Disegnati ed esequiti |
1782 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 122 | Eric Gill | The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I |
1931 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
