Auction Reports

Dominic Winter Book Auctions

Auction Info

Sale Name
PRINTED BOOKS & MAPS
Auction Date
01/28/2009 - 01/28/2009
Year of Sale
2009
Sale Number
#S244
Total Lots
625
Sold Lots
528
Lots Sold
84.5%
Unsold Lots
97
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
258,999.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
131,760.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
186,560.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
162,820.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
232,150.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
111.57%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
469,822.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 Ortelius (Abraham). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1st edition, 3rd issue,

1570,

 GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 35,250.00
494 Harvey (William). The Anatomical Exercises of Doctor William Harvey, Professor of Physick, and ...

GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 6,580.00
512 Medical Casebook. Important autograph casebook of Rupert Nye, of Friday Street, London, physician, 1674-76,

GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 4,465.00
43 Ludlow (Captain William Andrew, 12th Bengal Native Infantry). Bengal Troops on the Line of March, (The Advanced Guard Driving in an outpost of the Enemy),

c. 1830

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 4,230.00
57 Ptolemaeus (Claudius). La Geografia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino Gia tradotta di greco in Italiano da M. Giero Ruscelli

1574-1573

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 4,112.50
548 Bartolozzi (Francesco & others). Italian Scool of Design, From the Original Pictures and Drawings...,

1835

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,877.50
514 Medical Receipts. Vade Mecum, sive Catalogus medicamentorum praestatissimiorum ad morborum quodcumq genus,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 3,760.00
307 Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Typed speech signed, 23rd September 1959,

1959

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,760.00
353 Angelo (Henry). A Treatise on the Utility and Advantages of Fencing;

1817

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,760.00
309 Cornwall - Manor of Arwenack. A voluminous archive of accounts relating to the manor,

c. 1743-1900,

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 3,525.00
498 Hurlock (Joseph). A Practical Treatise upon Dentition; Or, the breeding of teeth in children:

1742

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,525.00
56 Porcacchi (Tomaso). L'Isole piu Famose de Mondo, 3 parts in one,

1620,

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,525.00
522 [Newton, Sir Isaac]. Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves, and Analysis by Equations of ...

1745

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,172.50
558 Della Bella (Stefanino). A Collection of Etchings, by That Inimitable Artist Stefanino Della Bella,

1818

 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 2,585.00
109 Curtis (John). British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain...

1823-40

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,467.50
134 Sporting and Fancy Gazette; Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; A Magazine, Entirely Appropriated to Sporting Subjects and ...

1822-1828

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,467.50
99 Pyne (W.H.). The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, ...

1819

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,350.00
569 Lebrun (Jean Baptiste Pierre). Gallerie des Peintres Flamands, Hollandais et Allemands, 3 vols. in 2,

1792-96,

 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 1,997.50
541 Ulugh Beg ibn Shahrukh. Epochae Celebriores, Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologis, Chataiorum, Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, ...

1650

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,880.00
381 Colden (Cadwallader). The Principles of Action in Matter, The Gravitation of Bodies, ...

1751

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,880.00
25 Harris (John). Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels ...

1744-1748

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,762.50
74 Wood (Robert). Les Ruines de Palmyre, Autrement Dite Tedmor, au Desert, 1st ed.,

1753,

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,645.00
417 Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols.,

1765,

 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 1,527.50
14 Cluverius (Philippus). Introductio in Universam Geographiam Tam veterem quam novam Tabulis Geographicis XLVI ac Notis ...

1704

 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 1,468.75
152 British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was devided in the Tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially ...

[1627 or later]

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,468.75
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.