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
101	Mackenzie (Sir George)	Moral Gallantry		1669	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
102	Muret (Pierre)	Rites of Funeral Ancient and Modern, in Use through the known "World...		1683	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
103	Teresa (Saint)	The Flaming Hart or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa	Antwerp	1642	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
104		Zosimus. The New History of Count Zosimus, sometime Advocate of the Treasury of the Roman Empire		1684	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
105		[The newe Testamet. .. faythfully translated by Myles Coverdale]	[Antwerp]	[1539]	GBP 60.00 - 120.00	120.00
106		BIBLE, English, Matthew's version		[1549]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
107		BIBLE. The Byble that is to saye, all the holye Scripture		1551	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	50.00
108		Bible, English. [The Holy Byble]...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	45.00
109		NEW TESTAMENT, English. The New Testament of Iesus Christ	Rheims	1582	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
110		BIBLE, ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION, second folio edition, "she" reading of Ruth iii		1613-11	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
111		BIBLE, OLD TESTAMENT, ENGLISH, ROMAN CATHOLIC VERSION	[Rouen]	1635	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
112		Bible, Old Testament, English, Roman Catholic version	[Rouen]	1635	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	10.00
113		BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. . . [with the Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre]	Cambridge	1663	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	70.00
114		Bible, English, New Testament and Psalms only	Cambridge	1675	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
115		Bible, English. A Compendious History of the Old and New Testament		1734	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	10.00
116		Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments	Oxford	1739	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	12.00
117		Bible, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments	Edinburgh	1758	GBP 60.00 - 70.00	350.00
118		Bible. The Christian's Family Bible. . . Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha...	Manchester	1811-12	GBP 15.00 - 30.00	2.00
119	LITTLETON (Sir THOMAS)	Lytylton tenures newly and most truly corrected & amended...			GBP 70.00 - 90.00	320.00
120	SMITH (Sir THOMAS)	DE RECTA & EMENDATA LINGUAE ANGLICAE SCRIPTIONE, DIALOGUS			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	380.00
121	[Rastell (John, Barrister and Printer)]	[The Exposicions of the Termes of the Lawes of England]		1572	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
122	BATEMAN (STEPHEN)	The Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes		1577	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
123	Fulke (W.)	A Defense of the sincere and true Translations of the Holie Scriptures		1583	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
124	[Nowell (A.) and W. Day]	A true report of the Disputation or rather private Conference had in the Tower of London		1583	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	110.00
125		James I. His Maiesties Speach. .. together with a discourse of the maner of the discovery of this late intended Treason...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	40.00
126		[Ayscu (E.)] A Historie contayning the VVarres, Treaties, Marriages, and other occurents betweene England and Scotland...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	25.00
127	[Spenser (Edmund)]	[The Fairie Queene]		[1609]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	55.00
128		[Charles I] His Maiesties Commission to all the Lords...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
129	Luther (Martin)	A Commentarie. .. upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians		1615	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
130	Martyn (William)	The Historie, and Lives, of Twentie Kings of England, With the Successions of the Dukes, and Earles		1615	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
131	RALEIGH (Sir WALTER)	The Prerogative of Parliaments	Midelburge [London]	1628	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	70.00
132		Bacon (Sir Francis) Considerations touching a warre with Spaine...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	150.00
133		Sarpi (P.) The Historie of the Councel of Trent. . . translated. .. by Nathanael Brent...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
134	Botero (Giovanni)	Relations of the most famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths thorowout the World		1630	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	85.00
135		Francis de Sales, Saint. [A Treatise of the Love of God. . . translated. .. by M. Car]...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
136	BUTLER (CHARLES)	ENGLISH GRAMMAR. . . Whereunto is annexed an Index of Words, Like and Unlike	Oxford	1633	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	280.00
137	NASH (THOMAS)	QVATERNIO OR A FOUREFOLD WAY TO A HAPPIE LIFE		1633	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	170.00
138		Needlework Binding-Bible, English. The Whole Booke of Psalmes		1635	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
139	Yorke (James)	The Union of Honour		1640-41	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
140		Speeches and Passages of this Great and Happy Parliament: from the third of November...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	30.00
141		Charles I. Eikon Basilike...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	45.00
142		[R.A.] THE SAINTS DUTY DISCOURSED...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	190.00
143	SOPHOCLES	Electra. . . presented to Her Highnesse the Lady Elizabeth; with an Epilogue shewing the parallell in two Poems, the Return, and the Restauration	The Hague	1649	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
144	[Waring (Robert)]	Amoris Effigies		[c. 1650]	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	28.00
145	Cleveland] (J[ohn])	Poems. . . With Aditions	[London]	Printed.. . 1651	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	35.00
146	Saunders (Richard)	A Balm to heal Religions Wounds		1652	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
147		Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra. Mysteries of State & Government: in Letters. .. in the Reigns of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charls [sic]		1654	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
148	Bramhall (John)	Castigations of Mr. Hobbcs his last Animadversions, in the case concerning Liberty, and Universal Necessity		1658	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
149	[MILTON (JOHN)]	[Paradise Lost. A poem in ten books]		[1667?]	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	450.00
150	Charles II (King of England)	By the King. A Proclamation for Prohibiting the Transportation of Horns Unwrought, and Bunns of Horns Unwrought		1668	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
151	Murtadha ibn al Kafif	The Egyptian History. . . according to the Opinions and Traditions of the Arabians...		1672	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
152	Virgilius Maro (Publius)	Works...		1675	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	15.00
153	Sandford (Francis)	A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c, from the Conquest. . . to. .. 1677		1677	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
154	Beaumont (Francis) and John Fletcher	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies		1679	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
155		Dangerfield (Thomas) Information. .. Delivered at the Bar of the House of Commons...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
156		[WALTON (ISAAK)] LOVE AND TRUTH [Wing W673]...			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,100.00
157	[Crouch (N.)]	The Wars in England, Scotland and Ireland		1681	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	5.00
158		Venables (Col. Robert) The experienc'd Angler...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	240.00
159	Marlow (Jeremiah)	A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst		1683	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	150.00
160	Boccaccio (G.)	The Novels and Tales		1684	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	8.00
161	SIBBALD (ROBERT)	Scotia Illustrata sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis	Edinburgh	1684	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	70.00
162		Charles I, King of England. Eικων βασιλικη, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
163	BLOME (RICHARD)	GENTLEMANS RECREATION		1686	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	550.00
164	Camden (William)	The History of.. . Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England		1688	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
165	MILTON (JOHN)	Paradise Lost [-Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes]		1688	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	120.00
166		[Rapin (Rene)] The Modest Critick...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	28.00
167	[Burnet (T.)]	The Theory of the Earth. .. Third Edition review'd by the Author		1697	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	25.00
168		[Defoe (Daniel)] A collection of the writings of the author of the True-Born Englishman...			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	14.00
169	BROWN (THOMAS)	A Legacy for the Ladies. Or, Characters of the Women of the Age		1705	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	120.00
169A	Gay [(John)]	The Beggar's Opera. . . with the Ouverture in Score. . .		1761	GBP 25.00 - 40.00	12.00
170		[Gildon (C.)] The Post-Boy robb'd of his Mail: or, the Pacquet broke open...			GBP 35.00 - 45.00	48.00
171	M[ortimer] (J.)	The Whole Art of Husbandry		1707	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
172	[King (William)]	The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry		[c. 1708]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
173	Rabelais (Francois)	Pantagruel's Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle		1708	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	45.00
174	Cowley (A.)	The Works		1710-11	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	18.00
175		Drummond (William, of Hawthornden) The Works...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	55.00
176		[Arbuthnot (John)] An Appendix to John Bull stil in his senses: or, Law is a Bottomless-Pit...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	48.00
177	Smith (John)	Poems upon Several Occasions		1713	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	55.00
178	[DEFOE (DANIEL)]	FIFTEEN (THE). A VIEW OF THE SCOTS REBELLION: with some Enquiry		1715	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
179		Fifteen (The). The Whole Proceeding to Judgment upon the Articles of Impeachment. . . against James Earl of Derwentwater [etc.]...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
180		Forty-five (The). Cope (Sir John) The Report. .. of the Board of General Officers...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
181		FORTY-FIVE (THE). A Collection of 11 Pamphlets and 1 Broadside about the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and its aftermath		1746-50, and [n.d.]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
182	Pope (Alexander)	The Works		1717-35	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
183	Hall (T.)	The Queen's Royal Cookery		1719	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
184	VERRAL (WILLIAM)	A Complete System of Cookery		1759	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	80.00
185		Raffald (Elizabeth) Experienced English Housekeeper...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	65.00
186	Hughson (D.)	The New Family Receipt-Book		1817	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
187		Du Fresnoy (C. A.) The Compleat Art of Painting. A Poem...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	25.00
188		Homer. The Iliad. . . translated by Mr. Pope...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
189		Ollyffe (Thomas) A New Copy Book of the Law hands in Single lines...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	200.00
190	[DEFOE (DANIEL)]	A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR		1722	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	400.00
191		Manucci (N.) The History of Tamerlane the Great...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	50.00
192	[Brathwaite (Richard)]	Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys.. . Together with Bessy Bell		1723	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
193		Crousaz ([J. P. de]) A New Treatise of the Art of Thinking...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	18.00
194		[Defoe (Daniel)] Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	12.00
195	[SWIFT (JONATHAN)]	TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. .. BY LEMUEL GULLIVER		1726	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	480.00
196	[Nichols (Francis)]	British Compendium: or, Rudiments of Honour		[1732]	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	32.00
197	Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl)	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	50.00
198	Rapin de Thoyras (Paul)	History of England. . .		1732	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
199	Salmon ([Thomas])	The Chronological Historian. . . from the Invasion of the Romans, to. . . King George the First		1733	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	15.00

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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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.