Hodgson & Co.: A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, MSS. AND ENGRAVINGS. INCLUDING, Interesting Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Books--Bertius. Tabulae Geographical, 1600--First Edition of Holland's Pliny, 2 vols, 1601--Gerarde's Herbal, 1636--Beaumont & Fletcher's Dramatic Work, 19660324,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 24, 1966 - March 24, 1966
Page Size: 618 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
299 J. Gillray Two Copper Plates--Political Cartoons: "A Sun Setting in a Fog" and "The Loves of the Fox and the Badger"

1783

 GBP - Unknown
300 Album containing Water-Colour Drawings from Tapestries, Scenery, etc.

1850

 GBP - Unknown
301 Mrs. Edwards Etchings--Views etc.

GBP - Unknown
302 Postcards of England, Europe and Canada etc.

GBP - Unknown
303 Catalogues--Mortimer Schiff Library

GBP - Unknown
304 Sir C. Webster Second World War--Air Offensive

GBP - Unknown
305 Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, 1944, and others

GBP - Unknown
306 Stevenson (R. L.) and Lloyd Osborne The Ebb Tide

GBP - Unknown
307 Sitwell (O.) Two Generations...

GBP - Unknown
308 Speaight (R.) Life of Hilaire Belloc...

GBP - Unknown
309 Lamb (C.) Essays of Elia...

GBP - Unknown
310 King (E.) The Southern States of North America

GBP - Unknown
311 Peary (R. E.) Nearest the Pole...

GBP - Unknown
312 Pike (W.) The Barren Ground of Northern Canada...

GBP - Unknown
313 Farrer (R.) On the Eaves of the World

1917

 GBP - Unknown
314 Kemp (E. G.) The Face of China...

GBP - Unknown
315 Glubb (Sir J. B.) A Soldier with the Arabs...

GBP - Unknown
316 Bridge (A.) The Selective Traveller in Portugal

GBP - Unknown
317 Barns (T. A.) An African Eldorado...

GBP - Unknown
318 Yarrell (W.) History of British Birds

1843

 GBP - Unknown
319 Bannerman (D. A.) The Birds of Tropical West Africa

1939

 GBP - Unknown
320 Morris (F. O.) British Butterflies...

GBP - Unknown
321 Pflugt-Harttung (J. von) Weltgeschichte Berlin

1907

 GBP - Unknown
322 Arthur Mee, editor I See All: The Pictorial Dictionary

GBP - Unknown
323 Churchill (Sir W. S.) The Second World War

1948

 GBP - Unknown
324 Churchill (Sir W. S.) Chartwell Edition

1954

 GBP - Unknown
325 Churchill (Sir W. S.) Into Battle

GBP - Unknown
326 Churchill (Sir W. S.) Early English Meals and Manners...

GBP - Unknown
327 May (Robert) The Accomplisht Cook

1671

 GBP - Unknown
328 Smith (E.) The Compleat Housewife...

GBP - Unknown
329 Johnson (Madam) The Young Woman's Companion...

GBP - Unknown
330 Francatelli (C. E.) The Modern Cook...

GBP - Unknown
331 Rohde (E. S.) A Garden of Herbs...

GBP - Unknown
332 Simon (Andre) Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy

GBP - Unknown
333 Toklas (Alice) Cook Book...

GBP - Unknown
334 Dale (F.) The Practical Cook, and The Ambitious Cook

GBP - Unknown
335 Chamberlain (S.) Bouquet de France, etc.

GBP - Unknown
336 Larousse Gastronomique

GBP - Unknown
337 Mulvey (R. W.) Good Food from Mexico...

GBP - Unknown
338 Oliver (F.) Chinese Cooking...

GBP - Unknown
339 Oliver (F.) The Constance Spry Cook Book...

GBP - Unknown
340 Ladies' Home Journal Cookbook

GBP - Unknown
341 Campbell (E.) Encyclopaedia of World Cookery...

GBP - Unknown
342 Dudley (Countess) The Dudley Book of Recipes

GBP - Unknown
343 Bell (J. S.) Journal of a Residence in Circassia

1840

 GBP - Unknown
344 MacFarlane (C.) Constantinople in 1828

1829

 GBP - Unknown
345 Alexander (Wm.) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks

1814

 GBP - Unknown
346 M'Leod (J.) Voyage of the Alceste to China, Corea, etc.

1819

 GBP - Unknown
347 Miles (E.) Epitome of the Royal Naval Service

1841

 GBP - Unknown
348 Scarth (J.) Twelve Years in China...

GBP - Unknown
349 Thiers (L. A.) The History of the French Revolution

1838

 GBP - Unknown
350 Smith (J. E.) and J. Sowerby Exotic Botany

1804

 GBP - Unknown
351 Sinclair (G.) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis

1826

 GBP - Unknown
352 Wood (W.) General Conchology

1835

 GBP - Unknown
353 Dibdin (T. F.) Library Companion...

GBP - Unknown
354 Thackeray (W. M.) Vanity Fair

GBP - Unknown
355 Thackeray (W. M.) Pendennis

1850

 GBP - Unknown
356 Reynolds (G. W. M.) Pickwick Abroad

GBP - Unknown
357 Gaskell (Mrs. E. C.) Ruth

GBP - Unknown
358 Disraeli (Benjamin) Lothair

GBP - Unknown
359 George Eliot Felix Holt

GBP - Unknown
360 Rolfe (F.--Baron Corvo) In his own Image

GBP - Unknown
361 Wells (H. G.) A Collection of First Editions

1895

 GBP - Unknown
362 Wells (H. G.) The War in the Air...

GBP - Unknown
363 Heal (Sir A.) The London Furniture Makers 1660-1840

1953

 GBP - Unknown
364 Wright (A.) Court-Hand Restored...

GBP - Unknown
365 Woodward (B. B.) History of Hampshire

GBP - Unknown
366 Cooke (G. A.) System of Universal Geography: Africa. America etc.

GBP - Unknown
367 Evelyn (John) Evelyn (John) Memoirs

GBP - Unknown
368 Pain (W.) The Practical House Carpenter

1794

 GBP - Unknown
369 Middiman (S.) Select Views in Great Britain...

GBP - Unknown
370 Tombleson (W.) Views on the Rhine and the Upper Rhine

1832

 GBP - Unknown
371 Tombleson (W.) Views on the Rhine...

GBP - Unknown
372 Willoughby (E. E.) A Printer of Shakespeare...

GBP - Unknown
373 E. Sharpham, etc. The Berkshire Series--Cupids Whirligig

GBP - Unknown
374 Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Dramatic Works

GBP - Unknown
375 Pope (A.) Pope (A.) Works

1871

 GBP - Unknown
376 Pope (A.) The Rape of the Lock

GBP - Unknown
377A Bewick Supplement to the History of British Birds

GBP - Unknown
377B Hugo (Thos.) Catalogue of the Works of Thos. and John Bewick

GBP - Unknown
378 Bloomfield (Robert) May Day

GBP - Unknown
379 Sowerby (J.) English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants

1790

 GBP - Unknown
380 Johnson (T.) Mercurius Botanicus, and Thermae Bathonicae S.T.C. 14704

1634

 GBP - Unknown
381 Ray (J.) Catalogus Plantarum Angliae...

GBP - Unknown
382 Boswell (J.) Boswell (J.) Life of Samuel Johnson

1887

 GBP - Unknown
383 Johnson (S.) Johnson (S.) Poems

GBP - Unknown
384 Houston (P. H.) Doctor Johnson...

GBP - Unknown
385 Tinker (C. B.) Young Boswell...

GBP - Unknown
386 Goldsmith (Oliver) Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq.

1762

 GBP - Unknown
387 Goldsmith (Oliver) Roman History and Grecian History

GBP - Unknown
388 Cibber (Colley) Cibber (Colley) Dramatic Works

1760

 GBP - Unknown
389 Bell's British Theatre--Supplement of Farces and Entertainments

GBP - Unknown
390 Temple (Sir Wm.) Temple (Sir Wm.) Miscellanea

GBP - Unknown
391 Barton (B.) Poems...

GBP - Unknown
392 Coleridge (Hartley) Coleridge (Hartley) Poems

GBP - Unknown
393 Sturgeon (L.) Essays on Good Living...

GBP - Unknown
394 Arber (Agnes) Herbals: their Origin and Evolution...

GBP - Unknown
395 Nichols (J.) Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century

1812

 GBP - Unknown
396 Lowndes (W. T.) The Bibliographer's Manual

1883

 GBP - Unknown
397 McKerrow (R. B.) Introduction to Bibliography...

GBP - Unknown
  • <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.
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    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.
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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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    Rare Books Signature Auction
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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