Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts., 17Nov1978,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 17, 1978 - November 17, 1978

Page Size: 502 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401	WALPOLE, HORACE; SEELEY, L. B.	Horace Walpole and his world	London	1884	USD 150.00 - 180.00	176.00
402	ALDINUS, TOBIAS, pseud. of Petrus Castellus	Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam Plantarum, Que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano	Rome	1625	USD 280.00 - 320.00	242.00
403	I.M. & J.B.	La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg peinte par Rubens	Paris	1710	USD 400.00 - 500.00	715.00
404	HOLBEIN, HANS	Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'Apres Les Beaux Ouvrages ... Publié par Chrétien de Mechel, Graveur...	Basle	1780-1795	USD 250.00 - 300.00	462.00
405	ROWLANDSON, THOMAS	Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders...	London	1820	USD 400.00 - 500.00	715.00
406	PIRANESI, FRANCESCO	Raccolta de' Tempi Antichi, ... Prima Parte	Roma	n.d. & 1 Agosto 1790	USD 650.00 - 750.00	880.00
407	PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Carceri, the complete set of 16 etchings on wove paper		n.d., after 1870	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,090.00
408	PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Diverse Maniere D'Adornare i Cammini	Rome	1769	USD 400.00 - 500.00	825.00
409	NIDEK, MATTHAEUS BROUERIUS VAN	Het Zegenpralend Kennemerland	Amsterdam	n.d., 1729	USD 700.00 - 800.00	418.00
410	PYNE, WILLIAM HENRY	The History of the Royal Residences	London	1819	USD 800.00 - 900.00	825.00
411	HOLBEIN, HANS	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII ...	London	1812	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
412	BRETEZ, LOUIS	Plan de Paris	Paris	1739	USD 450.00 - 550.00	715.00
413	DUBOURG, MATTHEW	Views of The Remains of Ancient Buildings in Rome, and its Vicinity	London	1820, 1838	USD 300.00 - 350.00	275.00
414	HAMILTON, Sir WILLIAM	Campi Phlegraei	Naples	1776-1779	USD 2,800.00 - 3,250.00	6,050.00
415	JONES, OWEN	The Grammar of Ornament	London	1856	USD 150.00 - 200.00	308.00
416	LE CLERC, SEBASTIEN and others, engravers	A collection of engravings commemorating the wars of Louis XIV of France in the Low Countries against Prince William of Orange	Paris	n.d., c. 1680	USD 300.00 - 500.00	550.00
417	PANVINIO, ONOFRIO	De Ludis Circensibus [and other works]	Padua	1642	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
418	ROBERTS, DAVID	The Holy Land; Egypt & Nubia	London	1842-1849	USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00	9,900.00
419	ROWLANDSON, THOMAS	Miseries of Human Life	London	1808, watermarked 1806-1806	USD 250.00 - 350.00	935.00
420	JAMES II, King of England	Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to his mercy ... King Charles the Second ... Bless the Royal King James the Second	London	1684	USD 100.00 - 120.00	55.00
421	LAVOISNE, C. V.; MITCHELL, S.A.	A Complete ... Atlas, A New Universal Atlas	Philadelphia's	1821, 1851	USD 300.00 - 350.00	220.00
422	Martin Luther	BIBLE, GERMAN. Biblia ...	Frankfurt am Main	1704	USD 400.00 - 450.00	825.00
423	BRINKLEY, Capt. FRANK, ed.	Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese	Boston	1897	USD 500.00 - 600.00	660.00
424	DICKENS, CHARLES	Nicholas Nickleby	London	1839	USD 100.00 - 200.00	99.00
425	DICKENS, CHARLES	Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son	London	1846-1848	USD 350.00 - 450.00	286.00
426	DICKENS, CHARLES	Bleak House	London	1852-1853	USD 150.00 - 250.00	176.00
427	DICKENS, CHARLES	Our Mutual Friend	London	1864-1865	USD 180.00 - 225.00	154.00
428	DICKENS, CHARLES	The Works, with The Letters and Speeches, etc., and The Life by Forster	London	1929	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,100.00
429	DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	London	1892-1894	USD 300.00 - 400.00	330.00
430	FIELDING, HENRY	The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling	London	1749, 1847	USD 450.00 - 550.00	462.00
431	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands...	Omoo, London	1846	USD 150.00 - 200.00	880.00
432	RICHARDSON, SAMUEL	The Novels	New York	1901	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
433	SMITH, ADAM	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	London	1776	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,760.00
434	SPENSER, EDMUND	The Works	Oxford	1930-1932	USD 200.00 - 250.00	308.00
435	THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE	The Newcomes	London	1853	USD 125.00 - 175.00	110.00
436	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	Barchester Novels	Oxford, Boston & New York	1929	USD 600.00 - 750.00	495.00
437	A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT	The Comic History of England, The Comic History of Rome		1847-48, 1851-52	USD 50.00 - 75.00	66.00
438	BEWICK, THOMAS	The Works	Newcastle	1822	USD 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
439	MELVILLE, HERMAN	The Whale	London	1853	USD 650.00 - 850.00	1,650.00
440	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE; Horace Mayhew	The Comic Almanack	London's	1835-51, 1842	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
441	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE; THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE	An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank [Westminster Review no. 66 June 1840]	London	n.d.	USD 500.00 - 600.00	528.00
442	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	Points of Humor	London	1823-24	USD 350.00 - 400.00	495.00
443	DODGSON, Rev. C. L.; Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, To all Child-Readers of "Alice's ..."		1866, 1872, 1871	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	770.00
444	DODGSON, Rev. C. L.; Lewis Carroll	The Game of Logic	London	1887	USD 225.00 - 300.00	308.00
445	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE; Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	London	1884	USD 350.00 - 450.00	462.00
446	N. Brady and N. Tate	A New Version of the Psalms of David ...	Boston	1765	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,540.00
447	BRINKLEY, Capt. F. Japan	Edition de Grand Luxe	Boston	1897-98	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
448	HEAD, RICHARD	The Life and Death of Mother Shipton	London	1687, i.e. early 19th century	USD 50.00 - 75.00	55.00
449	Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary	Acts and Laws, The Charter Granted	both Boston	1714, 1714	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
450	MATHER, INCREASE	The First Principles of New-England, Concerning The Subject of Baptisme & Communion of Churches.	Cambridge [Mass.]	1675	USD 1,200.00 - 1,700.00	1,100.00
451	MATHER, INCREASE and others	The Answer Of Several Ministers in and near Boston, To that Case of Conscience, Whether it is Lawful for a Man to Marry his Wives own Sister?	Boston	1695	USD 950.00 - 1,350.00	990.00
452		State of New Hampshire ... An Act to Prevent the Return to This State of Certain Persons Therein Named, and of Others Who have Left, or Shall Leave This State, or Either of the United States of America, and Have Joined, or Shall Join the Enemies Thereof..	Exeter	1778	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
453	WILLARD, SAMUEL	The Barren Fig Trees Doom	Boston	1691	USD 400.00 - 500.00	462.00
454	WILLARD, SAMUEL	Spiritual Desertions Discovered and Remedied	Boston	1699	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	550.00
455	WASHINGTON D. C.; James Greenleaf	City of Washington. The advantageous situation of the City ... and the encouragement ... of Virginia, of Maryland, and of the United States, have opened such fair and reasonable prospects ... to induce the Subscribers hereto, to form themselves into a Soc	Philadelphia	January 15th, 1794	USD 250.00 - 300.00	528.00
456	CHAPPEL, THOMAS	An Account of The Loss of The Essex, from having been struck by a whale in the South Seas ... from the narrative of one of the Survivors	London	1830	USD 120.00 - 150.00	352.00
457	CLAXTON, Lieut. CHRISTOPHER	A Letter to Lord Combermere, in reply to His Lordship's attack ... upon the Juries of St. Kitt's and Nevis	Saint Christopher	n.d., c. 1831	USD 150.00 - 175.00	154.00
458	GALILEI, GALILEO	Nov-Antiqua Sanctissimorum Patrum, & Probatorum Theologorum Doctrina, De Sacrae Scripturae Testimoniis, In Conclusionibus Mere Naturalibus...	Strassburg	1636	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
459	BEERBOHN, MAX	Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen, More, The Happy Hypocrite, Fifty Cari catures, Seven Men, And Even Now, A Survey, Things Old and New, Observa tions, The Fearful Dragon of Hay Hill	New York	1896, 1899, 1906, 1913, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1928	USD 250.00 - 350.00	418.00
460	BEERBOHM, MAX	The Happy Hypocrite	New York	1906	USD 300.00 - 400.00	440.00
461	BEERBOHM, MAX	Zuleika Dobson	London	1928	USD 200.00 - 250.00	605.00
462	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 900.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
463	CHANVALON, JEAN BAPTISTE THIBAULT DE	Voyage a la Martinique, contenant Diverses Observations sur la Physique, l'Histoire Naturelle ... faites en 1751	Paris	1763	USD 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
464	COMBE, W. and T. ROWLANDSON	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque	London	1819	USD 50.00 - 75.00	88.00
465	DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN	The Hound of The Baskervilles	London	1902	USD 75.00 - 100.00	121.00
466	DANTI ALIGHIERI	La Divina Commedia ... in Italian and English	London	1928	USD 125.00 - 150.00	99.00
467	DICKENS, CHARLES	Sketches by Boz	London	1836-37	USD 200.00 - 250.00	330.00
468	DICKENS, C.	The Haunted Man, Our Mutual Friend, Mr. Nightingale's Diary	Boston	1848, 1865, 1877	USD 60.00 - 80.00	77.00
469	DUNTHORNE, GORDON	Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries	Washington	1938	USD 60.00 - 80.00	264.00
470	HANWAY, JONAS	An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea	London	1754	USD 150.00 - 200.00	308.00
471	JOYCE, JAMES	Ulysses	London, Paris	1922	USD 50.00 - 75.00	209.00
472	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Fabian Essays in Socialism, The Quintessence of Ibsenism, The Perfect Wagnerite, Fabianism and the Empire, Man and Superman, The Irrational Knot, John Bull's Other Island, The Sanity of Art, The Doctor's Dilemma, Androcles and the Lion	Misalliance	1889, 1891, 1898, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1914, 1916	USD 100.00 - 150.00	176.00
473	STERNE, LAURENCE	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	London	1760-1767	USD 50.00 - 75.00	55.00
474	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Underwoods	London	1887	USD 50.00 - 75.00	132.00
475	THORNTON, Col. THOMAS	A Sporting Tour through various parts of France in the year 1802	London	1806	USD 100.00 - 125.00	88.00
476	THUCYDIDES; HERBERT, GEORGE; Thomas Hobbes	The History of the Grecian War ... Faithfully, The Temple	London	1676, 1703	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
477		BIBLE, English. The English Bible	Hammersmith	1903-05	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
478	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	Don Quixote of the Mancha	London	1927-28	USD 900.00 - 1,000.00	990.00
479	HUNTER, DARD	Old Papermaking in China and Japan	Chillicothe, Ohio	1932	USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00	1,210.00
480	HUNTER, DARD	Papermaking in Indo-China	Chillicothe, Ohio	1947	USD 750.00 - 850.00	715.00
481	HUNTER, DARD	Papermaking by hand in America	Chillicothe, Ohio	1950	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,750.00
482	VALERY, PAUL	Degas Danse Dessin	Paris	1936	USD 350.00 - 450.00	605.00
483	WILDE, OSCAR	Salome	London and Boston	1894	USD 600.00 - 850.00	990.00
484	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories and Tragedies ... The second Impression	London	1632	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	3,300.00
485	SHAKESPEARE, W.	Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies	London	1685	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,045.00
486	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Cashel Byron's Profession	London	1886	USD 100.00 - 120.00	110.00
487	SHAW, BERNARD, editor; LLOYD, J. H. and R. E. SCOULLER	FABIAN SOCIETY TRACTS. Fabian Election Manifesto 1892 ... no. 40, A Plan of campaign for Labor, Women as Councillors ... no. 93, Socialism for Mil lionaires ... no. 107, Fabianism and The Empire, Trade Unionism for Clerks		1894, 1900, n.d.	USD 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
488	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	The Quintessence of Ibsenism, Plays for Puritans, The Sanity of Art, John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion, Heartbreak House, Back to Methuselah, Translations and Tomfooleries, Saint Joan	Plays	1891, 1898, 1901, 1908, 1908, 1916, 1919, 1921, 1926, 1924	USD 150.00 - 200.00	88.00
489	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Man and Superman	London	1903	USD 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
490	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Press Cuttings, The Inca of Perusalem, How to Settle the Irish Question, Peace Conference Hints, Passion, Poison, and Petrification, The Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism and Capital ism	New York	1909, 1915, 1917, 1919, n.d., 1928	USD 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
491	SHAW, GEORGE BERN ARD	The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet	London	1911	USD 80.00 - 100.00	132.00
492	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play	London	1914	USD 120.00 - 150.00	154.00
493	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD; O'CONNOR, Mrs. T. P.	Bernard Shaw's Manuscript an article published in The Bookman's Journal	London	1929	USD 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
494	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	The John B. Gough Collection of Works, including Original Drawings, Published Illustrations, Autograph Letters, Books and Articles by and concerning Cruikshank and his works			USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	22,000.00
495	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	15 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND ONE ETCHING		n.d.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
496	Hablot K. Browne; THOMSON, DAVID CROAL	Life and Labours of Hablot K. Browne	London	1884	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	8,800.00
497	Hablot K. Browne	Then--Then--then let her come to me; Dear Greenow! dear husband!	from Anthony Trollope	1864-65	USD 200.00 - 250.00	605.00
498	PROPERT, J. L.	A History of Miniature Art	London	1887	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,100.00
499	MARIUS MICHEL	Aucassin et Nicolette ... traduite par A. Bida. Revision ... par Gaston Paris	Paris	1878	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
500	DU FOUR, GUY, Sieur de Pibrac	Les Quatrains du Sieur Pibrac. Enrichis de figures. Dedie a Monseigneur le Dauphin	Paris	1640	USD 550.00 - 650.00	550.00

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.

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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.
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