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
501		Pater (W.) Sebastian van Storck...			GBP -	Unknown
502	Blackstone (W.)	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Oxford	1765	GBP -	Unknown
503		Harleian Miscellany...		1650	GBP -	Unknown
504	Daniel (W. B.)	Rural Sports...			GBP -	Unknown
505	E. Giraud	Naples--Le Grand Golfe de Naples			GBP -	Unknown
506	Britton and Brayley	Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
507		Webster's English Dictionary			GBP -	Unknown
508	Custer (E. B.)	Tenting on the Plains Kansas			GBP -	Unknown
509	Sanderson (W.)	History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles		1658	GBP -	Unknown
510	E. Gibson	Camden (W.) Britannia		1695	GBP -	Unknown
511	De la Quintinye (J.)	The Compleat Gard'ner		1693	GBP -	Unknown
512	Beawes (W.)	Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or Merchants Directory		1771	GBP -	Unknown
513	Doddridge (J.)	Family Expositor			GBP -	Unknown
514	Wilson (A.)	History of Great Britain			GBP -	Unknown
515	Lewis (S.)	Topographical Dictionary			GBP -	Unknown
516	Westwood (J. O.)	Fac-Similes of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts		1868	GBP -	Unknown
517	Bartolozzi (F.)	Engravings after Old Masters		1764	GBP -	Unknown
518	Deuchar (A.)	Original Etchings after Old Masters		1826	GBP -	Unknown
519		Kit-Cat Club Memoirs		1821	GBP -	Unknown
520	Palladio (A.)	Il Quattro Libri dell' Architettuta		1581	GBP -	Unknown
521	Serlio (S.)	Booke of Architecture First-Fift Booke...			GBP -	Unknown
522		Prince of Orange--Begraeffenisse van Syne Hoogheyt...	Amst.	1651	GBP -	Unknown
523		Russia--Costume of the Russian Empire		1811	GBP -	Unknown
524	Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clarke	Italian Art--Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of 1930	Oxford	1931	GBP -	Unknown
525	Conder (J.)	Landscape Gardening in Japan	tokyo	1893	GBP -	Unknown
526	Cook (Capt. J.)	Maps and Plates to Cook's Second Voyage		1777	GBP -	Unknown
527	Gray (T.)	Gray (T.) Poems, Glasgow, A. Foulis 1787, etc....	Birmingham	1765	GBP -	Unknown
528	Fuller (T.)	The Holy Warre...			GBP -	Unknown
529		Campana (G. P.) Antiche Opere in Plastica, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
530	Morris (F. O.)	Picturesque Views of Seats			GBP -	Unknown
531	Dibdin (C.)	Tour through England...			GBP -	Unknown
532		Gilbert (G.) Cathedral Cities of England...			GBP -	Unknown
533	Stukeley (W.)	Itinerarium Curiosum...			GBP -	Unknown
534	Hogarth (W.)	Hogarth (W.) Works			GBP -	Unknown
535		Five Scrap Books			GBP -	Unknown
536	Donovan (E.)	Natural History of British Insects		1813	GBP -	Unknown
537		Cowper (W.) Poems...			GBP -	Unknown
538		Ireland--Sketches of Irish Characters...			GBP -	Unknown
539	Apperley (C. J.)	Apperley (C. J.) Life of a Sportsman			GBP -	Unknown
540	Bryant (A.)	English Saga 1840-1940, 1941, and other Modern Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	Unknown
541	A. Machen	Margaret of Navarre. The Heptameron...			GBP -	Unknown
542		Bible in Miniature...			GBP -	Unknown
543	W. Robinson, editor	Flora and Sylva		1903	GBP -	Unknown
544		British Sports and Sportsmen--Big Game Hunting, Racing		1908	GBP -	Unknown
545	Millais (J. G.)	Natural History of British Game Birds		1909	GBP -	Unknown
546		Soncino Press--The Haggadah		1930	GBP -	Unknown
547	Boisgelin (L. de)	Travels through Denmark and Sweden			GBP -	Unknown
548		Coloured Caricatures by Dighton...	Paris		GBP -	Unknown
549		Coloured Plates of Italian Characters and Costume...			GBP -	Unknown
550		Linguaphone Conversational Courses--French and Italian			GBP -	Unknown
551	T. Keightley	Shakespeare's Works			GBP -	Unknown
552		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	Unknown
553		East India Company--A Remonstrance of the Directors of the Netherlands East India Company Proceedings against the English at Amboyna		1632	GBP -	Unknown
554		Amboyna--Relation of the Barbarous Proceedings against the English...			GBP -	Unknown
555		Le Grand (Abbe) Histoire de l'Isle de Ceylon...			GBP -	Unknown
556		Mill (J.) History of British India...			GBP -	Unknown
557		Keane (H. G.) History of India...			GBP -	Unknown
558		Smith (V. A.) Akbar: the Great Mogul...			GBP -	Unknown
559	Dalrymple (A.)	East India Company--Appeal to a General Court of Proprietors			GBP -	Unknown
560		Hastings (Warren)--History of his Trial...			GBP -	Unknown
561	Taylor (Col.)	Letters on India...	Calcutta	1832	GBP -	Unknown
562		Mundy (Capt.) Tour in India...			GBP -	Unknown
563		Hugel (C.) Travels in Kashmir...			GBP -	Unknown
564	Auber (P.)	The British Power in India...	Allahabad	1880	GBP -	Unknown
565		Reports on Settlements...			GBP -	Unknown
566	Dickinson (J.)	India under a Bureaucracy...			GBP -	Unknown
567		Tayler (W.) Thirty-eight Years in India...			GBP -	Unknown
568		Workman (F. B. and W. H.) Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
569		Freshfield (D. W.) Round Kangchenjunga...	Bologna	1923	GBP -	Unknown
570	Menpes (M.)	The Durbar			GBP -	Unknown
571		Roberts (Lord) Forty-one Years in India...			GBP -	Unknown
572	Curzon (Lord)	British Government in India		1925	GBP -	Unknown
573		Bird (G. W.) Wanderings in Burma...			GBP -	Unknown
574		Sangermano (Father) The Burmese Empire a Hundred Years ago			GBP -	Unknown
575		Popham (Sir Home) Description of the Prince of Wales Island in the Streights of Malacca...			GBP -	Unknown
576	Anderson (J.)	Considerations relating to the Malayan Peninsula and the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca		1824	GBP -	Unknown
577		Leyden (J.) Malay Annals...			GBP -	Unknown
578		McNair (F.) Perak and the Malays...			GBP -	Unknown
579		Colquhoun (A. R.) Across Chryse...			GBP -	Unknown
580		Kloss (C. B.) The Andamans and Nicobars...			GBP -	Unknown
581		Philippine Island--Petition by Don Juan Grav y Monfalcon to the King of Spain in Spanish		1638	GBP -	Unknown
582	Christoval Pedroche	Philippine Island--Breve Relacion de la Estranez y Destierro de el Senor Arcobispo. . . de Manila			GBP -	Unknown
583		Philippine Island--Relacion de la Valerosa Defensa de los Naturales Bisayas del Pueblo de Palompong en la Ysla de Leyte		1754	GBP -	Unknown
584		Golownin (Capt.) Narrative of my Captivity in Japan...			GBP -	Unknown
585		Adams (F. O.) History of Japan...			GBP -	Unknown
586	Hartshorne (A. C.)	Japan and her People...			GBP -	Unknown
587		Dautremer (J.) The Japanese Empire...			GBP -	Unknown
588	Norman (H.)	The Real Japan			GBP -	Unknown
589	Crawfurd (J.)	Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China...			GBP -	Unknown
590		Longford (J. H.) The Story of Korea...			GBP -	Unknown
591	Ides (E. Ysbrants)	Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China		1705	GBP -	Unknown
592		Waddell (L. A.) Lhasa and its Mysteries...			GBP -	Unknown
593		Landon (P.) The Opening of Tibet...			GBP -	Unknown
594		Sherring (C. A.) Western Tibet...			GBP -	Unknown
595		Prejevalsky (N.) Mongolia...			GBP -	Unknown
596		Carruthers (D.) Unknown Mongolia...			GBP -	Unknown
597	Strahlenberg (P. J.)	Description of Russia, Siberia, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
598		Seebohm (H.) Siberia in Asia...			GBP -	Unknown
599	Sandys (G.)	Voyagien	Utrecht	1654	GBP -	Unknown
600	Fontenay (Le Fevre)	Journal du Voyage de l'Ambassadeur de Perse en France			GBP -	Unknown

Sotheby’s
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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.

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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.