Bloomsbury Auctions: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, comprising, Angling Books, Sport, Natural History and Science, Travel and Topography, English Literature and History, Illustrated Books and Limited Editions including, Couch's History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vol, 35,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1985 - January 01, 1985

Page Size: 386 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1822	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	49.00
102	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1823	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	93.00
103	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1824	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	71.00
104	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
105	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	FIRST PICKERING EDITION...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	165.00
106	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	176.00
107	WALTON (ISAAC) AND CHARLES COTTON	THE COMPLETE ANGLER		1836	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
108	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	176.00
110	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	Boston	1886	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	77.00
112	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	77.00
114	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	New York	1880	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	71.00
115	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler, Strahan reprint		1881	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	99.00
116	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1883	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	77.00
117	WALTON (ISAAC) AND CHARLES COTTON	THE COMPLETE ANGLER		1888	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
118	WALTON (ISAAC) AND CHARLES COTTON	THE COMPLETE ANGLER	Boston & London	1889	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
119	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1889	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	77.00
120	WALTON (ISAAC) AND CHARLES COTTON	The Complete Angler		1893	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
121	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	Chicago	1893	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
122	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1897	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	22.00
123	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1902	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	55.00
124	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler, Routledge-Dutton reprint...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	77.00
125	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	231.00
126	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1909	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	55.00
127	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1911	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	88.00
128	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
129	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
130	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler		[1927]	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	110.00
131	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	Boston	1928	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	22.00
132	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1929	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	121.00
133	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1930	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
134	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler		1931	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
135	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	Den Fuldkomne Fisker			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
136	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	Mount Vernon	1947	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
137	Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler	New York	1948	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	44.00
138		English School. Portrait of Izaac Walton		[c. 1800]	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	594.00
139	West (Leonard)	The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation	Liverpool	1921	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	77.00
139A		Westwood (T.) and T. Satchell. Bibliotheca Piscatoria...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	143.00
140	Wheatley (Hewett)	The Rod and Line		1849	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	77.00
141	WILLIAMSON (JOHN)	The British Angler		1740	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
142	Williamson (Capt. T.)	The Complete Angler's Vade-Mecum		1808	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	104.00
143		Wilson (James) The Rod and the Gun...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	143.00
144	Aflalo (F. G.)	Woburn Library of Natural History		1904	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	22.00
145	YARRELL (WILIAM)	A History of British Fishes		1839-59	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	121.00
146		Young (Lambton) Sea-Fishing as a Sport...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
147		Zouch (T.) The Life of Isaac Walton...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	143.00
148	Dawson (Major Kenneth)	From Major to Minor, Some Keys for Anglers	Country Life	1928	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
149		Hodgson (W. Earl) How to Fish...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	484.00
150	Edwards (Lionel)	My Hunting Sketch Book		1930	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	71.00
151	Fothergill (George A.)	Twenty Sporting Designs	Edinburgh	1911	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
152		Four in Hand Club. Minutes of all Meetings of the Four in Hand Driving Club from its formation in 1856 until its dissolution in 1926		1926	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	407.00
153	Miles (W. J.)	Modem Practical Farriery			GBP 10.00 - 20.00	11.00
154	Suffolk and Berkshire (The Earl of) and others	The Encyclopaedia of Sport		1897-1898	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
155	Walton (Izaac) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	22.00
156		Wichers (J. van Buttingha) Schaatsenrijden...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	27.00
157		Album of watercolours of wild flowers		[1880s]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	44.00
158		THE AEROPLANE		1911-29	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	132.00
159		FLIGHT		1909-1914	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	110.00
160	BEWICK (THOMAS)	A History of British Birds	Newcastle	1809	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
161	[Emerson (William)]	The Principles of Mechanics		1758	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	132.00
162	PELTERIE (R.)	ESNAULT-L'EXPLORATION PAR FUSEES DE LA TRES HAUTE ATMOSPHERE ET LA POSSIBILITY DES VOYAGES INTERPLANYTAIRES	Paris	1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
163	Fabre (Jean Henri)	Book of Insects		1921	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
164	Featherstonhaugh (G. W.)	Geology.--Geological Report of an Examination made in 1834, of the Elevated Country between the Missouri and Red Rivers	Washington	1835	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	93.00
165	OWEN (DAVID DALE)	Geology.--Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	143.00
166	Goldsmith (Oliver)	A History of the Earth and Animated Nature		1864	GBP 40.00 - 64.00	33.00
167	Hulme (F. E.)	Familiar Wild Flowers			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	33.00
168	[Jackson (Mrs. Maria E.)]	The Florist's Manual, or, hints for the construction of A Gay Flower-Garden		1822	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	24.00
169		Looker (Samuel J., editor) William Henry Hudson: A Tribute by Various Writers...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
170	Marggravius (Christianus)	Materia Medica contracta	Leiden	1764	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
171	Martin (Benjamin)	Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography		1788	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	121.00
172	MORRIS (FRANCIS ORPEN)	A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS		1870	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	275.00
173		Olmsted (D.) Address on the scientific Life. . . of William C. Redfield...			GBP 30.00 - 60.00	66.00
174	Peckham (S. F.)	Production, Technology, and uses of Petroleum and its products			GBP 50.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
175		Recreations in Natural History; or, popular sketches of British Quadrupeds		1815	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
176		Rigby (Edward) Hoikham, its Agriculture etc....			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	82.00
177	Ruiz (Hippolyte) and Joseph Pavon	Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus	Rome	1797	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	66.00
178		Willughby (Francis) The Ornithology...			GBP 35.00 - 45.00	33.00
179		US MEDICAL COLLEGES. Instructions from the Regents of the University...			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
180	VALENTIA (GEORGE, Viscount)	VOYAGES AND TRAVELS TO INDIA, CEYLON THE RED SEA, ABYSSINIA, AND EGYPT		1809	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	462.00
181	Coronelli (M. V.)	Impero del Gran Mogol	[Venice]	[1700]	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	13.00
182	Hedin (Sven)	Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet		1909	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	71.00
183		Grogan (Ewart S.) and Arthur H. Sharp. From the Cape to Cairo...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	143.00
184	Beaton (Cecil)	Near East		1943	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	13.00
185	Drummond (Alexander)	Travels through different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and Several Parts of Asia		1754	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	66.00
186		Raoul (Maximilien) Histoire Pittoresque du Mont-Saint Michel et de Tombelene...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
187	Buckminster (Joseph)	A Discourse, occasioned by the late desolating fire, delivered in the first church in Portsmouth			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	22.00
188	Hollister (Ovando J.)	The Mines of Colarado	Springfield, Mass.	1867	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	71.00
189	Ingersoll (Ernest)	Gold Fields of the Klondyke			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	77.00
190	Lee (S. P.)	Track of the U.S. Surveying Brig Dolphin, Sept. 1851-July 1852			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
191	Rogers (Henry D.)	Report on the Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey	Philadelphia	1836	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
192	Sullivan (John T.)	Report of Historical and Technical Information relating to the problem of interoceanic communication by way of the American Isthmus	Washington	1883	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	66.00
193		Head (Capt. F. B.) Rough Notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
194	Helms (Anthony Zacariah)	Travels from Beunos Ayres, by Potosi, to Lima			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	66.00
195	Higinio de Ybarra (Fr. Ivan)	Dia Intercalar del ano bissiesto del sol divino Santo Domingo	Lima	1715	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	176.00
196		Mamiani (L. V.) Arte de Grammatica da Lingua Brazilica da Nacao Kiriri...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	44.00
197		Mappa Topographico da Provincia do Parana			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	88.00
198	Mulhall (M. G. and E. T.)	Handbook of the River plate	Buenos Ayres	1869	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
199	Ponthoz (A.)	Straten-Le Budget du Bresil...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	55.00
200		Thome de Gamond. Carte d'Etude pour le trace et le profil du Canal de Nicaragua	Paris	1858	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	66.00
201	Ralegh (Sir Walter)	The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana		1928	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	33.00
202	Ralegh (Sir Walter)	The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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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.
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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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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.