Hodgson & Co.: A CATALOGUE OF Books from Various Sources. COMPRISING, INCUNABULA--TURNER'S HERBAL, AND COVERDALE'S HOMISH APOTHECARY, 1551-62 AND OTHER INTERESTING 16TH-17TH CENTURY BOOKS--FIRST EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, 2 VOLS--BLOMEFIELD'S NORFOLK, 11 VOLS, 19451025,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 25, 1945 - October 25, 1945

Page Size: 649 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301		Monumenta Historica Britannica...			GBP -	Unknown
302		Clouet. French Portraits of the Courts of Francis I, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
303	Du Cange (C. D.)	Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis			GBP -	Unknown
304		Lipsius (J.) Poliorceticon, sive De Machinis Tormentis Telis...			GBP -	Unknown
305	Cook (T. A.)	Twenty-five Great Houses of France			GBP -	Unknown
306	Hope (Sir W. H. St. John)	Cowdray and Easebourne Priory, Sussex		1919	GBP -	Unknown
307	Feasey (J. H.)	Westminster Abbey Historically Described		1899	GBP -	Unknown
308	Stone (P. G.)	Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight, from the 11th to the 17th Centuries		1891	GBP -	Unknown
309	Hogarth (W.)	Hogarth (W.) Works			GBP -	Unknown
310	Gillray (J.)	Gillray (J.) Works			GBP -	Unknown
311		Victoria History of the County of Berkshire		1906	GBP -	Unknown
312	Weaver (L.)	Small Country Houses: their Repair and Enlargment		1914	GBP -	Unknown
313	J. Nicholss	Fuller (T.) History of the Worthies of England		1811	GBP -	Unknown
314		Burlington Fine Arts Club--Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures		1889	GBP -	Unknown
315	Mawson (T. H.)	The Art and Craft of Garden Making		1912	GBP -	Unknown
316	Falke (O.)	Decorative Silks			GBP -	Unknown
317	J. G. Bartholomew	Times Survey Atlas and Gazetteer of the World		1922	GBP -	Unknown
318	Jackson (J. E.)	Histories of the Ruined Church of St. Mary Magdalene, and St. George's Church, Doncaster		1853	GBP -	Unknown
319		Sussex--41 Litho Views of Hastings, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
320		Greyhound Stud Book		1882	GBP -	Unknown
321		Lloyd's Yacht Register			GBP -	Unknown
322		Bloodstock Breeders' Review...			GBP -	Unknown
323		Novels by Sigrid Undest (2)...			GBP -	Unknown
324	Hearn (Lafcadio)	Hearn (Lafcadio) Life and Literature, 1922, Occidental Gleanings			GBP -	Unknown
325		Ellis (Havelock) Man and Woman, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
326		Rutter (E.) The Holy Cities of Arabia...			GBP -	Unknown
327		Jataka Tales...			GBP -	Unknown
328		Hurley (F.) Pearls ana Savages...			GBP -	Unknown
329		Zucker (A. E.) The Chinese Theater...			GBP -	Unknown
330		Mothersole (Jessie) Czechoslovakia...			GBP -	Unknown
331		Paine (A. B.) Joan of Arc...			GBP -	Unknown
332	F. Baron Corvo	Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat, from the French of J. B. Nicolas			GBP -	Unknown
333	Bramah (E.)	Kai Lung's Golden Hours			GBP -	Unknown
334		Rimsky-Korsakoff (N. A.) My Musical Life...			GBP -	Unknown
335	Keats (J.)	Keats (J.) Poems			GBP -	Unknown
336	E. H. Shepard	Everybody's Boswell			GBP -	Unknown
337	Scott (Sir W.)	Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels	Edin.	1860	GBP -	Unknown
338	Le Grand and Way	Tales of the 12th-13th Centuries			GBP -	Unknown
339		Language of Flowers (The)...			GBP -	Unknown
340		Ancestor (The)...			GBP -	Unknown
341		Annual Register, from the commencement in 1758 to 1834, with Index to 1819		1758	GBP -	Unknown
342		Henderson (Keith) Palm Groves and Humming Birds...			GBP -	Unknown
343		Cannon's Record of the 8th (King's) Regiment...			GBP -	Unknown
344		Nansen (F.) The First Crossing of Greenland...			GBP -	Unknown
345	Bewick (T.)	Bewick (T.) Works		1885	GBP -	Unknown
346	Fielding (H.)	Tom Jones...			GBP -	Unknown
347	Kingsley (C.)	Westward Ho...			GBP -	Unknown
348		Barrie (J. M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens...			GBP -	Unknown
349		Leigh Hunt's London Journal...			GBP -	Unknown
350	Cook (Capt. J.)	The Three Voyages round the World		1821	GBP -	Unknown
351	Cook (Capt. J.)	Voyages...		1775	GBP -	Unknown
352		Almon's Remembrancer...			GBP -	Unknown
353		Pamphlets--The Interest of England			GBP -	Unknown
354		Johnson (S.) Works...			GBP -	Unknown
355		Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet		1817	GBP -	Unknown
356	Campbell (J.)	Treatise of Modern Faulconry			GBP -	Unknown
357		De la Quintinye. The Complete Gard'ner...			GBP -	Unknown
358	Roberts (D.)	The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome		1815	GBP -	Unknown
359		Costume--Raccolta degli Ordini Reliogisi e delle Vergini nella Citta di Roma		1826	GBP -	Unknown
360	De Foe (D.)	La Vita di Robinson Crusoe			GBP -	Unknown
361		Bible (The), Old and New Testament...			GBP -	Unknown
362		Book of Common Prayer...	Oxford	1772	GBP -	Unknown
363		Godfrey of Bulloigne...			GBP -	Unknown
364	Brandt (S.)	The Ship of Fools	Edin.	1874	GBP -	Unknown
365	Decker (T.)	The Gull's Hornbooke...			GBP -	Unknown
366	Langbaine (G.)	Langbaine (G.) English Dramatick Poets		1691	GBP -	Unknown
367		Shakespeare (W.) Plays...			GBP -	Unknown
368		Shakespeare (W.) Plays...			GBP -	Unknown
369	Bacon (Sir F.)	Bacon (Sir F.) Works		1803	GBP -	Unknown
370	Burton (R.)	The Anatomy of Melancholy...			GBP -	Unknown
371	Gadbury	Wharton (Sir G.) Works		1683	GBP -	Unknown
372	Warton, etc.	Pope (A.) Works		1822	GBP -	Unknown
373	J. Gillies	Whitfield (George) Life of			GBP -	Unknown
374	Sheridan (R. B.)	Verses to the Memory of Garrick		1779	GBP -	Unknown
375	Davies (T.)	Davies (T.) Dramatic Miscellanies			GBP -	Unknown
376	Anderson	British Poets, Complete Edition		1795	GBP -	Unknown
377		British Poets--Milton, Swift, Gay, etc.	Glasgow	1771	GBP -	Unknown
378		British Theatre (The)		1816	GBP -	Unknown
379		Percy Anecdotes (The)		1823	GBP -	Unknown
380	Moore	Byron (Lord) Life and Works		1832	GBP -	Unknown
381	Wilson	Burns (R.) Works			GBP -	Unknown
382	Cooper (Lane)	Concordance to the Poems of Wm. Wordsworth		1911	GBP -	Unknown
383		Hunt (Leigh) Captain Sword and Captain Pen, cuts, hf. mor., 1835, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
384		Chapbooks--The Conjurors' Museum, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
385	Sauveur (J.)	De Saint-Museum de la Jeunesse, numerous coloured plates of Costume, Botany, etc.		1812	GBP -	Unknown
386	Blades (W.)	William Caxton...			GBP -	Unknown
387	James I	History of King James...			GBP -	Unknown
388	Lord Mahon, editor	Chesterfield (Earl of) Letters		1845	GBP -	Unknown
389	Barker	Walpole (Horace) Memoirs of George in			GBP -	Unknown
390		Carlyle (T.) Miscellanies...			GBP -	Unknown
391		Aesop--Fabulae Aesopi, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
392	Cicero	Orationes		1642	GBP -	Unknown
393	Zannoni (R.)	Atlas Geographique...			GBP -	Unknown
394	La Fontaine (J.)	La Fontaine (J.) Fables...			GBP -	Unknown
395		Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages		1823	GBP -	Unknown
396	Edwards (S.)	The New Flora Britannica		1812	GBP -	Unknown
397		Curtis's Botanical Magazine...			GBP -	Unknown
398	F. W. Smith	Florists' Magazine...			GBP -	Unknown
399		Kerner and Oliver's Natural History of Plants...			GBP -	Unknown
400		Corke and Nuttall. Wild Flowers as they Grow...			GBP -	Unknown

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.
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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