Hodgson & Co.: A CATALOGUE OF Rare and Beautiful Books. INCLUDING, THE DUNGLASS LIBRARY OF OLD SCIENTIFIC BOOKS FORMED MAINLY BY SIR JAMES HALL (1761-1832), AND SOLD BY ORDER OF SIR MARTIN HALL, BART. comprising mostly, XVIITH AND XVIIITH CENTURY ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SCI, 19470227,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 21, 1947 - February 21, 1947

Page Size: 588 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301		Pamphlets--Representation of Officers to Gen. Fleetwood...			GBP -	23.00
302		Pamphlets--Bill for repealing Subsidies on Tobacco	Edin.	1728	GBP -	22.00
303	Defoe (D.)	Tour thro' Great Britain...			GBP -	6.50
304		London--A New View of London, or an Ample Account of that City		1708	GBP -	8.75
305	Moncrieff (J.)	Three Dialogues on the Navy, 1759, etc....			GBP -	3.00
306		Bushnell (E.) The Compleat Ship-Wright...			GBP -	2.50
307	Vegetius (F.)	De Re Militari...			GBP -	9.75
308	Vauban (S. Le P.)	New Method of Fortification...			GBP -	5.00
309		France--Les Delices de la France...			GBP -	3.50
310		Postes de France--Liste Generale...			GBP -	5.50
311		Interiano (P.) Historie Genovesi...			GBP -	5.75
312		Boschini (M.) L'Arcipelago...			GBP -	4.25
313		Venice--L'Etranger Plainement Instruit...			GBP -	12.00
314	Aretino (P.)	Aretino (P.) Lettere			GBP -	9.50
315	Malvezzi (V.)	Il Romulo, etc....			GBP -	3.00
316	Scribanus (C.)	Origines Antverpiensium	Antverpice	1610	GBP -	8.50
317		Eyndius (J.) Chronici Zelandiae libri duo...			GBP -	5.75
318	Carr (W., Consul for the English Nation)	Remarks of the Government of Germanie, Holland, etc.	Amsterdam	1688	GBP -	8.00
319	Guicciardini (L.)	Belgicae Descriptio...			GBP -	3.00
320		Delices des Pais Bas--Histoire General, etc.	Brusselle	1743	GBP -	4.00
321	D'Estrades (Comte)	D'Estrades (Comte) Lettres, Memoires et Negociations...			GBP -	2.25
322	Turquet (M.)	L'Histoire d'Espagne...			GBP -	5.00
323		Elzevir Press--Respublica Bohemiae a P. Stranskii, Presentation Inscription on title		1628	GBP -	11.00
324		Hornius (G.) Orbis Imperans...			GBP -	3.00
325	Waesberge (J.)	Grand Dictionnaire Francois Flamen			GBP -	2.50
326	Lentulus (S.)	Praxis Grammatices Italicae Lentulianae...			GBP -	2.00
327	Alciatus (A.)	De Verborum Significatione...			GBP -	5.00
328	Minadoi (G. T.)	Historia della Guerra fra Turchi et Persani...			GBP -	4.25
329		Philonis Judaei Opera...			GBP -	2.70
330		Ciceronis de Officiis...			GBP -	3.62
331		Ziletus (J. B.) Matrimonialia Consilia...			GBP -	5.25
332		Treutler (H.) Disputationes...			GBP -	4.00
333	Pacius (J.)	Analysis Institutionum Imperialium			GBP -	4.20
334	Eckolt (A.)	Compendaria Pandectarum			GBP -	3.25
335	Puttenham, Gascoigne, Harvey, Spenser and others	Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy		1811	GBP -	40.00
336	Shakespeare (W.)	Shakespeare (W.) Works		1893	GBP -	11.00
337	Burton (R.)	Anatomy of Melancholy		1893	GBP -	2.10
338	J. D.	Donne (J.) Poems		1633	GBP -	17.00
339	Donne (J.)	Donne (J.) Poems		1669	GBP -	6.50
340	Brathwait (R.)	Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal		1820	GBP -	5.25
341	Brathwait (R.)	Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, in Latin and English Verse, to which is added		1716	GBP -	3.50
342	Brathwait (R.)	Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal			GBP -	5.50
343	Browne (Sir T.)	Browne (Sir T.) Works		1686	GBP -	9.00
344		Hermeticall Banquet (A)		1652	GBP -	13.50
345	Suckling (Sir J.)	Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces. . . Printed by his owne Copies		1646	GBP -	5.50
346	Lovelace (Richard)	Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, etc.		1649	GBP -	5.25
347	Lovelace (R.)	Lovelace (R.) Posthume Poems, 1659		1659	GBP -	2.00
348	Prynne (W.)	Histrio-Mastix. The Players Scourge, Actors Tragoedie		1633	GBP -	11.00
349	Steele (Sir R.)	The Romish Ecclesiastical History of Late Years		1714	GBP -	2.25
350	Trusler (J.)	Trusler (J.) The Works of Mr. Hogarth Moralized		1768	GBP -	3.50
351	Sterne (L.)	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy		1760	GBP -	51.00
352	Mr. Yorick	Sterne (L.) A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy		1768	GBP -	19.00
353	Sterne (L.)	The Sermons of Mr. Yorick		1760	GBP -	2.20
354	Johnson (S.)	Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage		1744	GBP -	12.00
355	BOSWELL (J.)	LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON		1791	GBP -	210.00
356	Goldsmith (O.)	Citizen of the World			GBP -	7.50
357	Beckford (W.)	Vathek An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript		1786	GBP -	10.50
358	Villon (F.)	Villon (F.) OEuvres		1897	GBP -	12.00
359	Villon (F.)	Villon (F.) Poems		1878	GBP -	4.50
360	Montaigne (M. de)	Montaigne (M. de) Essais	Bruxelles	1659	GBP -	13.00
361	Rabelais (F.)	Rabelais (F.) OEuvres		1663	GBP -	15.50
362	LA FONTAINE (J. DE)	FABLES CHOISIES, mises en vers	Paris	1765	GBP -	112.00
363	La Fontaine (J. de)	Contes et Nouvelles en Vers		1777	GBP -	7.00
364	Gessner (S.)	Gessner (S.) OEuvres		1795	GBP -	13.00
365	Lloyd (C.) and Charles Lamb.	Blank Verse			GBP -	5.25
366	Lamb (Charles)	The Adventures of Ulysses		1808	GBP -	6.00
367	Lamb (Charles)	Tales from Shakespeare		1809	GBP -	5.00
368	Lamb (Charles)	Elia...		1823	GBP -	10.50
369	Hazlitt (W.)	Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion		1823	GBP -	7.50
370	P. B. S.	Shelley (P. B.) Zastrozzi. A Romance		1810	GBP -	15.00
371	Shelley (P. B.)	St. Irvyne: or, the Rosicrucian: A Romance		1822	GBP -	12.50
372	SHELLEY (P. B.)	QUEEN MAB...		1813	GBP -	270.00
373	Shelley (P. B.)	Queen Mab			GBP -	10.50
374	Shelley (P. B.)	Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude		1816	GBP -	25.00
375	Shelley (P. B. and M. W.)	History of a Six Weeks' Tour through France, Switzerland, etc.		1817	GBP -	6.50
376	Shelley (P. B.)	Laon and Cythna		1818	GBP -	3.00
377	Shelley (P. B.)	The Cenci, A Tragedy	Italy	1819	GBP -	23.00
378	Shelley (P. B.)	The Cenci		1821	GBP -	9.50
379	Shelley (P. B.)	Rosalind and Helen		1819	GBP -	22.00
380	Shelley (P. B.)	Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama		1820	GBP -	14.00
381	SHELLEY (P. B.)	SHELLEY (P. B.) ADONAIS		1821	GBP -	220.00
382	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Adonais	Pisa	1821	GBP -	13.00
383	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Adonais	Cambridge	1829	GBP -	5.50
384	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Posthumous Poems		1824	GBP -	10.25
385	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Posthumous Poems		1824	GBP -	6.00
386	Shelley (P. B.)	The Masque of Anarchy		1832	GBP -	6.50
387	Seneca (L. A.)	Shelley (P. B.)--Opera		1615	GBP -	90.00
388	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Spurious Letters of		1852	GBP -	6.00
389	Shelley (P. B.)	MS. transcript of Robert Browning's Introductory Essay to Shelley's spurious Letters...			GBP -	8.00
390		Dowden (E.) Life of Shelley...			GBP -	2.25
391	KEATS (J.)	KEATS (J.) POEMS		1817	GBP -	105.00
392	Keats (J.)	Endymion: A Poetic Romance		1818	GBP -	130.00
393	Keats (J.)	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems		1820	GBP -	42.00
394	Keats (J.)	Keats (J.) Life, Letters, etc.			GBP -	2.50
395	Browning (E. B.)	Browning (E. B.) Poems before Congress		1860	GBP -	5.25
396	Morris (W.)	The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems		1892	GBP -	4.25
397	Morris (W.)	A Dream of John Ball		1892	GBP -	2.50
398		Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane		1893	GBP -	2.00
399	Rossetti (D. G.)	Ballads and Narrative Poems, and Sonnets and Lyrical Poems		1893	GBP -	10.00
400	Morris (W.)	The Story of the Glittering Plain		1894	GBP -	12.00

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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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.