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
203	[Brydges (Sir Samuel Egerton)]	Topographical Miscellanies		1792	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	33.00
204	COLLINS (ARTHUR)	Historical Collections of the Nobel Families of Cavendishe, Hoiles, Vere, Harley and Ogle		1752	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
205	DALLAWAY (JAMES)	A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex		1815-1819	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
206	Evans (John)	Map of the Six Counties of North Wales		1795	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
207	Gunton (Symon)	The History of the Church of Peterburgh		1686	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	66.00
208	Hall (Samuel Carter)	The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England		1868	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
209	Hasted (Edward)	Kent.--The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent			GBP 80.00 - 100.00	209.00
210	Jeake (Samuel)	Kent.--Charters of the Cinque Ports		1728	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	44.00
211	Martin (Charles Wykeham)	Kent.--The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent		1869	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	46.00
212	Thorpe (John)	Kent.--Registrum Roffense: or, a collection of ancient records, charters		1769	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	46.00
213	[KING (DANIEL)]	THE CATHEDRALL AND CONVENTUALL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, (Monasticon Anglicanum)		1656	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
214	[Leigh (Charles)]	[The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak in Derbyshire]	[Oxford]	[1700]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	77.00
215	Loggan (David)	Cantabrigia Illustrata	Cambridge	1905	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
216		London.--Baddeley (Sir John James) Cripplegate...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	19.00
217	Clinch (George)	London.--Bloomsbury and St. Giles's		1890	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
218	SHEPHERD (THOMAS HOSMER) AND JAMES ELMES	London.--Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century			GBP 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
219	Smith (James Winter)	London.--Antiquities of London and its Environs		1791 [-1800]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	33.00
220		London.--Survey of London		1940-70	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	66.00
221	Lysons (Daniel & Samuel)	Magna Britannia, being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain		1816	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	143.00
222	ORMEROD (GEORGE)	THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY PALATINE AND CITY OF CHESTER		1819	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	275.00
223	Prine (John)	Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or the Worthies of Devon	Exeter	1701	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	55.00
224	Ross (Frederick)	The Ruined Abbeys of Britain		n.d.	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	33.00
225	ANNAN (THOMAS)	SCOTLAND.--THE OLD COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE OLD GLASGOW GENTRY	Glasgow	1878	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
226	BEATTIE (WILLIAM)	SCOTLAND.--Scotland			GBP 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
227		SCOTLAND.--Hole (William) Quasi Cursores: Portraits of the High Officers and Professors of the University of Edinburgh...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	77.00
228		SCOTLAND.--Hole (William) Quasi Cursores: Portraits of the High Officers and Professors of the University of Edinburgh...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	66.00
229		SCOTLAND.--Registrum Monasterii de Prasselet	Paisley	1877	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
230		SCOTLAND.--Registrum Monasterii de Passelt...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	44.00
231	Skelton (Joseph)	Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire	Oxford	1823	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	77.00
232	Thomson (Christopher)	The Hallamshire scrap book: containing views of Hallamshire, Derbyshire, Notts., and adjoining counties	Sheffield	n.d. [1850]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
233	Y. (D.)	COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE		n.d. [1795]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	110.00
234	Yorke (Philip)	The Royal Tribes of Wales	Wrexham	1799	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	121.00
235	Burton (John)	Yorkshire.--Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire	York	1758	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
236	Walker (J. W.)	Yorkshire.--Wakefield: Its History and People	Wakefield	1939	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	44.00
237	Whitaker (Thomas Dunham)	Yorkshire.--The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York		1812	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	121.00
238	LYNDEWODE (WILLIAM)	PROVINCIALE SEU CONSTITUTIONES ANGLIAE...	Paris	23rd March 1505	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
239		Matthew of Westminster. Flores Historiarum	Franckfurt	1601	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	24.00
240	SIDNEY (Sir PHILIP)	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia	Dublin	1621	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
241	Raleigh (Sir Walter)	The Historie of the World			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
242		Polybius. The History		1634	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	77.00
243	Charles I (King of Great Britain)	A Large Declaration concerning the late Tumults in Scotland from their first originals		1639	GBP 75.00 - 95.00	99.00
244	Dalton (Michael)	The Countrey Justice		1655	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	88.00
245	Leigh (Edward)	A Systeme of Body of Divinity		1662	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	22.00
246	TAYLOR (JEREMY) and (WILLIAM) CAVE	Antiquitates Christianae: or The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus		1675	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
247	EXQUEMELIN (ALEXANDRE)	BUCANIERS OF AMERICA		1684-85	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	990.00
248	Lhuyd (Edward)	Archaeologia Britannica	Oxford	1707	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	132.00
249	Fontaine (Nicolas, Sieur de Royaumont)	The History of the Old and New Testament			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	77.00
250	Bisse (T.)	The beauty of Holiness. . . four Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel		1728	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	77.00
251		Harleian Miscellany		1744-46	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	71.00
252	[Addison, Steele, and others]	Spectator (The)		1747	GBP 60.00 - 75.00	99.00
253		Watson (William) The Clergy-Man's Law: or, the Complete Incumbent...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
254	HOMER	ILIAD AND ODYSSEY	Glasgow	1756-8	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
255	Walpole (Horace)	A Catalogue of Engravers		1763	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	104.00
256	Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of)	Letters written to his son		1774	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	33.00
257		The Holy Family Bible			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	88.00
258	TREYSSAC DE VERGY (PIERRE HENRI)	Henrietta, Countess Osenvor		1785	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
259	Tanner (Thomas)	Notitia Monastica	Cambridge	1787	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	49.00
260		Burke (Edmund) Reflections on the Revolution on in France...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	27.00
261	Young (Arthur)	Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789		1794	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	88.00
262	[Darwin (Erasmus)]	The Botanic Garden, a poem			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
263		Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth and Animated Nature...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	71.00
264		Scale (Bernard) Tables for the easy Valuing of Estates...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	27.00
265	Faber (George Stanley)	A Dissertation on the Mysteries of The Cabiri	Oxford	1803	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	88.00
266	Tytler (Alexander Fraser)	Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Henry Home of Kames	Edinburgh	1807	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	209.00
267	Colman (George, the younger)	Poetical Vagries		1812	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	41.00
268		Erskine (Lord) The Speeches...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	44.00
269		[Salengre (Albert Henri de)] Ebrietatis Encomium: or, the Praise of Drunkeness...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
270		Zenobia, Queen of Palmyrs; a Narrative...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	33.00
271	Puigblanch (D. Antonio)	The Inquisition Unmasked		1816	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
272	Franklin (Benjamin)	Memoirs of the Life and Writings		1817-1818	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
273	Las Casas (Count de)	Las Casas (Count de) Memoirs		1818	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	27.00
274		The Book of Common Prayer (The)	Madras	1819	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	55.00
275		Dante Alighieri. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise		1819	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	15.00
276		Dante Alighieri. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise		1819	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
277	Prichard (J. C.)	An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology		1819	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	77.00
278		Clare (John) Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
279		Scott (Sir Walter) Kenilworth...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	121.00
280	Apuleius (Lucius)	The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass		1822	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	44.00
281	Geoffrey Crayon, Gent	[Irving (Washington)] Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists		1822	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	22.00
282	Geoffrey Crayon, Gent	[Irving (Washington)] Tales of a Traveller		1824	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	33.00
283	Irving (Washington)	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus		1828	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	49.00
284	Bloomfield (Robert)	Hazelwood-Hall: A Village Drama		1823	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	11.00
285	[Galt (John)]	The Spaewife: a tale of the Scottish Chronicles	Edinburgh	1823	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	24.00
286	[Cooper (James Fenimore)]	The Pilot		1824	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
287	[Scott (Sir Walter)]	Redgauntlet	Edinburgh	1824	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
288		[Fisher (Thomas)] The Negro's Memorial, or, Abolitionists Catechism; and others...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	154.00
289	Hazlitt (William)	Notes of a Journey through France and Italy		1826	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	38.00
290	RADCLIFFE (ANNE)	Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III		1826	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	104.00
291	Higgins (Godfrey)	The Celtic Druids		1829	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	66.00
292		[Galt (John) The Radical: an Autobiography...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
293	Kenrick (F.)	Theologiae Dogmaticae tractatus tres...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	11.00
294		[Marryatt (Capt.)] Olla Podrida...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	77.00
295	Borrow (George)	Lavengro		1851	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	77.00
296	Thackeray (William Makepeace)	The History of Henry Esmond, Esq		1852	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	49.00
297	Reid (Capt. Mayne)	The White Chief			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
298		Strickland (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of Scotland...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	132.00
299		Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	165.00
300	Shelley (P. B.)	Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson		[c. 1870]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	49.00
301	Eliot (George, [Marian Evans])	Middlemarch		1871-72	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
302	Trollope (Anthony)	Trollope (Anthony) An Autobiography		1883	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	55.00

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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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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.