Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY INCLUDING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND NATURAL HISTORY. COMPRISING, The Property , 1977(OMEGA),

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 25, 1977 - July 25, 1977

Page Size: 625 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Alexander (William)	The History of Women			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	110.00
2		Anderson (A.) A Journal of the Forces. .. in the Mediterranean and Egypt...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	260.00
3		Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	85.00
4		Bernier (F.) Histoire de la derniere revolution des Estats du Grand Mogol...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
5	BIZOT (P.)	Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande	Paris	1687	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	100.00
6		Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim's Progress...			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	130.00
7	Burges (Sir James Bland)	The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem		1796	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	26.00
8	[Burton (John, M. D., of York)]	Ascanius: or, the Young Adventurer; a True History		1746	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	60.00
9		Burton (William) A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary. .. so far as it concerneth Britain...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	120.00
10	CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS)	[Opera] Quae Extant		1712	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
11		CALEDONIAN MERCURY (THE)	Edinburgh	1745-69	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	420.00
12	Cato (Marcus Porcius)	Libri de re rusticam. Catonis, Marci Terentii Varronis, L. Iunii Moderati Columellae, Palladii Rutilii, quorum summam pagina sequeti reperies			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	160.00
13	Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius	[Opera]	Antwerp	1569	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	65.00
14	Cavaleriis (J. B. de)	Pontiflcum Romanorum Effigies	[Rome]	1585	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	60.00
15	Chantrey (Sir F. L.)	Engravings and Drawings. A small Collection		1796-1818	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
16		Cicero (M. T.) Opera omnia...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	110.00
17	COCLES (BARTHOLOMALUS)	Physiognomiae & Chiromanti; e Compendium	Strassburg	1536	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	160.00
18	DICKSON (WILLIAM)	Letters on Slavery		1789	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	110.00
19		Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus and others. [Opera]...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	75.00
20		Edwards ([B.]) An Abridgement of. . . [the] Civil and Commercial History of the British West Indies...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
21		Ekins (C.) Naval Battles, from 1744 to the Peace in 1814...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
22	Escribano (Jose Matias)	Itinerario espanol o guia de caminos para ir desde Madrid a las ciudades y villas mas principales de Espana	Madrid	1767	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	5.00
23	Evelyn (John)	Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, ancient and modern		1697	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	100.00
24	[FLEURIMONT (G. R.)]	Medailles du regne de Louis XV	[Paris]	[c. 1749]	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	110.00
25		Gemelli Careri (G. F.) A Voyage round the World...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
26		General Collection (A) of Treatys, Declarations of War, Manifestos, and other Publick Papers...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	24.00
27	Gerard ([-], publisher and lithographer)	[Douze vues de Waterloo]		[map dated 20 November 1845]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
28		Histoire entiere & veritable du Procez de Charles Stuart, Roy d'Angle-terre	a Londres	1650	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	120.00
29	[Hoadly (Benjamin)]	Reasons against receiving the Pretender, and restoring the Popish Line		1710	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
30		[Jebb (Samuel)] The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots...			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	280.00
31		JOHN BULL, vol. I-XV...		Dec. 1820-Dec. 1835	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	120.00
32	Josephus (Flavius)	Dell' Antichita' de' Giudei [-Della Guerra de' Giudei]	Venice	1582	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	55.00
33		[Jurin (James)] An Expostulatory Address to John Ranby. .. Occasioned by his Treatise on Gunshot-Wounds...			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	240.00
34		La Morliere (Adrian de) Les Antiquitez... d'Amiens...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	220.00
35	Le Roy (J. D.)	La Marine des Anciens Peuples, expliquee et considered. . . pour perfectionner la Marine moderne	Paris	1777	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
36	Leusden (Johannes)	Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus, una cum Spicilegio Philologico	Leiden and Utrecht	1699	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
37		LONDON CHRONICLE (THE)		1758-78	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,000.00
38		Lopez de Ayala (I.) Historia de Gibraltar...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	48.00
39	[Lyall (Alfred)]	Rambles in Madeira, and in Portugal. .. 1826		1827	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
40	MERCURIALIS (HIERONYMUS)	De Arte Gymnastica, libri sex. . . Secunda editione aucti, & multis figuris ornati	Paris	1577	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
41	Nonnus (Ludovicus)	Commentarius in nomismata Iuli. Augusti. et Tiberi	Antwerp	1644	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	140.00
42	[Numan (Philips)]	Miracles lately wrought by the intercession of the glorious virgin Marie, at Montaigu...	Antwerp	1606	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
43		Pamphlets. A small Collection of 6 Naval or Military Pamphlets and 1 Manuscript		[1794]-1810	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	85.00
44	Pomponius Mela and C. Julius Solinus	De orbis situ, libri III. et. .. Polyhistor	Basle	April 1576	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	360.00
45		Pomponius Mela. De situ Orbis. C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor. AEthici Cosmographia cum Notis Variorum...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	170.00
46	PRAETORIUS (JOHANN)	Ludicrum Chiromanticum. . . seu Thesaurus Chiromantise	Leipzig	1661	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	160.00
47		Present State (The) of the Sugar Plantations consider'd; but more especially that of.. . Barbadoes...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	190.00
48		Preston (John) Life eternall or, a Treatise of the knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
49	[Prevost d'Exiles (A. F.)]	The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell		1741	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
50		Proclus...., Diadochus. Compendiaria de Motu disputatio, posteriores quinque Aristotelis de auscultatione naturali libros, mira breuitate complectens...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	120.00
51		RELATION (A) IN FORM OF JOURNAL, of the Voiage and Residence which. . . Charls the II King of Great Britain, &c. hath made in Holland...	The Hague	1660	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	240.00
52	Roberts (David)	Picturesque Sketches in Spain. . . 1832 & 1833		1837	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	220.00
53	Rossi (Jacques)	Le Maitre Aise & Rejouissant: ou Nouvelle Methode Agreable pour Apprendre sans peine la Langue Italienne	a Londres	1710	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	110.00
54	Salmon (Thomas)	An Essay concerning Marriage		1724	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
55		Sambucus (Joannes) Emblemata, et aliquot nummi antiqui operis...			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	150.00
56		Santos (F. de los) A Description of.. . the Escurial.. . translated. .. by George Thompson...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
57		[Scott (Sir W.)] Border Antiquities of England & Scotland...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
58		SCOTTISH BOOK OF COMMON ORDER. The CL. Psalmes of David, in Prose and Meeter...	Edinburgh	1615	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	160.00
59		Serres (Jean de) A Generall Historie of France...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	100.00
60		[Shirley (John)] The Life of the Valiant & Learned Sir Walter Raleigh...			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	220.00
61	Sidney (Algernon)	Discourses concerning Government		1698	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
62	Skene (Sir John)	Regiam Majestatem Scotia? Veteres Leges et Constitutiones	Edinburgh	1609	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	320.00
63		Slave Colonies of Great Britain (The): or a Picture of Negro Slavery drawn by the Colonists themselves		1825	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
64		Smith (C. J.) Historical and Literary Curiosities...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
65	Stopford (Joshua)	The Wayes and Methods of Romes Advancement, or whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their Doctrines	[York]	Printed in the Year, 1672	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
66		Strutt (J.) The Chronicle of England...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	300.00
67		Suchet (L. G, Marechal, Duc d'Albufera) Memoires. . . sur ses Cam-pagnes en Espagne...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
68	[Theveneau de Morande (Charles)]	La Gazette Noire par un homme qui n'est pas blanc; ou oeuvres posthumes du Gazetier Cuirasse		1784	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	110.00
69		Tobago Gazette (The)	[Scarborough]	11 September 1807-16 December 1808	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
70	Turnbull (George)	A Treatise on Ancient Painting		1740	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	38.00
71	URSINUS (FULVIUS)	Familiae Romanae quae reperiuntur in antiquis numismatibus	Rome	1577	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	100.00
72	Vaillant (D.)	Selectiora Numismata	Paris	1694	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
73	[Verstegan (Richard)]	Theatrum Crudelitatum Hsreticorum Nostri Temporis	Antwerp	1587	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	160.00
74		[Voltaire (F. M. A. de)] Fragments sur l'Inde, sur le General Lalli, et sur le Comte de Morangies...			GBP 75.00 - 100.00	120.00
75	Weber (Joseph)	Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta		1805-12	GBP 70.00 - 80.00	220.00
76	Wilberforce (W[illiam])	A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade		1807	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	140.00
77		[Wilkinson (J.)] [Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire]...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
78		Witt (J. de) The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	180.00
79	Wright (Edward)	Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c....		1730	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	55.00
80	YUSUF IBN RAFI, called Ibn Shaddad	Vita et Res Gesta:.. . Saladini. . . Auctore Bohadino F. Sjeddadi	Leiden	1755	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	350.00
81	T[OOKE] (G[EORGE])	THE BELIDES Elegie or Eulogie of that truly Honourable Iohn Lord Harrington...			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
82	SPENSER (EDMUND)	THE FAERIE QUEEN: THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDAR: TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER WORKS		1611-13 [1615?]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
83	Valeriano (Giovanni Pierio)	Poemata	Basle	March 1538	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	55.00
84	WILLIAMSON (THOMAS)	THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT TO SMITE IN PIECES THAT ANTICHRISTIAN GOLIAH		1613	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
85	Woolton (John)	A Treatise of the Immortalitie of the Soule		1576	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
86	Bense Dupuis (P.)	Grammaire allemande et francoise	Paris	1658	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
87	CAMDEN (WILLIAM)	Institutio Grxas Grammaices Compendiaria, in Usum Regias Scholar Westmonasteriensis		1656	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	60.00
88	[Howell (James)]	A New English Grammar. . . also another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung		1662	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	80.00
89	[Le Maistre (F.)]	Frederic Latimer: or, the History of a Young Man of Fashion		1799	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	65.00
90	[Lily (William)]	A short Introduction of Grammar, generally to be used	Oxford	1653	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	90.00
91	More (Sir Thomas)	Utopia, a mendis vindicata	Oxford	1663	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
92		Pattern Book. A series of 100 engraved plates (of 127) of articles manufactured for gas, oil or candles		[c. 1850]	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
93	Read (Sir Herbert)	Staffordshire Pottery Figures		1929	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
94	Schickard (W.)	Horologium Ebraeum, a few catchwords shaved	Utrecht	1661	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	130.00
95	F[ALCONER] (J[OHN])	Cryptomenysis Patefacta: or the Art of Secret Information disclosed without a Key		1685	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
96	[Floyd (John)]	A Paire of Spectacles for Sir Humfrey Linde to see his way withall. Or an Answeare to his booke called, Via Tuta...	[Rouen]	1631	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	55.00
97	Fortescue (Sir John)	De Laudibus Legum Angliae		1616	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	130.00
98	[Gracian y Morales (B.)]	The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or the way to Emi-nencie and Perfection		1652	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	28.00
99	HUGHES (WILLIAM)	The Flower Garden and Compleat Vineyard		1683	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	130.00
100	Johannes, Geometra	Hortus Epigrammatum...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00

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.

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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