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
200	Cleaveland (E.)	A Genealogical History of the Noble and Illustrious Family of Courtenay		1735	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	12.00
201	Dumont (J.) and J. Rousset	The Military History of His Serene Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy. .. as also of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough...		1735-37	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	280.00
202	[Swift (Jonathan)]	A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation		1738	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	75.00
203		Thorley (John) MEAIEZHAOFIA. Or, the Female Monarchy...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
204		PAMPHLETS. A Collection of 13 Pamphlets		1748-66	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
205	Fielding (H.)	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling		1749	GBP 30.00 - 60.00	85.00
206	Fielding (Henry)	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling		1750	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	45.00
207		Adams (W.) An Essay in Answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on Miracles...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	55.00
208		Merry Fellow (The). A Collection of the best Modern Jests [etc.]...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
209	Johnson (Samuel)	A Dictionary of the English Language		1756	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	110.00
210	Johnson (Samuel)	A Dictionary of the English Language		1770	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
211	JOHNSON (SAMUEL)	The Works	Oxford	1825-26	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
212	Nelson (James)	An Essay on the Government of Children		1756	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
213	Whitworth (Charles, Lord)	An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710	Strawberry Hill	1758	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
214		Milton (John) Paradise Lost; [-Paradise Regained]...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	15.00
215		Book of Common Prayer (The)	Cambridge	1762	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	8.00
216	Dryden (John)	The Dramatick Works		1762	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
217	BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM)	COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND		1766-69	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	350.00
218	[Johnston (Charles)]	Chrysal. .. By an Adept		1767-8	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	8.00
219	Gray (Thomas)	Poems	Glasgow	1768	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
220	[Sterne (Laurence)]	Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick. .. A New Edition		1771	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	12.00
221		Gessner (Salomon) New Idyls...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
222	Shakespeare (William)	Hamlet, Prinz af Dannemark	Copenhagen	1777	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	60.00
223	Campbell (J.)	Lives of the British Admirals		1779	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	14.00
224	Collins (Arthur)	Peerage of England		1779-84	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
225		[Madan (Martin)] Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
226	Priestley (Joseph)	Letters to a Philosophical Believer...	Bath/Birmingham	1780-87	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
227	Smith (Adam)	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	Dublin	1776	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
228		Book of Common Prayer (The). . . Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David	Cambridge	1781	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	120.00
229	Brooke (Henry)	The Fool of Quality or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland		1782	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
230		[Psalms, Proverbs, Prophets and New Testament]	Oxford	1782	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	24.00
231	WATSON (JOHN)	Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey	Warrington	1782	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	65.00
232	Young (Arthur)	Annals of Agriculture		1784-95	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
233	Boswell (James)	The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson		1785	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
234		[Beattie (James)] Scoticisms...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	38.00
235	Jones (W.), J. Reeves and T. Blakemore	Clavis Campanalogia or A Key to the Art of Ringing		1788	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
236		Literary Magazine and British Review, vol. IV-XII		1790-94	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
237	Aesop	The Fables		1793	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	55.00
238		Lucretius. De Rerum Natura ed. Bentley & Wakefield...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	70.00
239	Grose (Francis)	Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army		1801	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	28.00
240		List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet...			GBP 10.00 - 20.00	24.00
241	MAITLAND (JAMES, Earl of Lauderdale)	An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase	Edinburgh	1804	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	170.00
242		TRACTS-The Two Wealthy Farmers; or, the History of Mr. Bragwell...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	450.00
243	[BYRON (G. G. N., Lord)]	ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS		[1809]	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	55.00
244	[Byron (G. G. N., Lord)]	English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
245	Byron (G. G. N., Lord)	The Works. .. comprehending the suppressed poems	Paris	1822-24	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	30.00
246	Monstrelet (Enguerrand de)	The Chronicles. . .		1809	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	32.00
247		Muss Cantabrigiensis		1810	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	70.00
248	Robertson (William)	[Works]		1812-17	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	12.00
249		Burns (R.) The Works...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
250	[Thorn (Walter)]	Pedestrianism. . . with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches	Aberdeen	1813	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
251	Southey (Robert)	The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo		1819	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
252	[AUSTEN (JANE)]	NORTHANGER ABBEY: AND PERSUASION. . . with a Biographical Notice of the Author		1818	GBP 175.00 - 250.00	280.00
253		[Hoare (L.)] Hints for the Improvement of early Education...			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	28.00
254	Scott (Sir Walter)	The Lady of the Lake, a Poem	Edinburgh	1819	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	48.00
255	Junius	FORE-EDGE PAINTING-. Letters. . . complete in one volume		1820	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	70.00
256		Fore-edge Painting-Rogers (S.) The Poetical Works...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	90.00
257		Gibbon (Edward) History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
258	M'Culloch (J. R.)	The Principles of Political Economy	Edinburgh	1825	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	150.00
259	[Hamilton (Capt. Thomas)]	The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton	Edinburgh	1827	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
260	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	The Works. . . with his Life		1834	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
261	Rogers (Samuel)	Poems		1838	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	32.00
262	Kemp (William)	Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich		1840	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	4.00
263	Mill (John Stuart)	Principles of Political Economy		1848	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	140.00
264	Dickens (C.) and W. Collins	No Thoroughfare. A Drama		[1868]	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	40.00
265	Forbes-Leith (W.)	The Scots Men-at-Arms and Life-Guards in France	Edinburgh	1882	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	16.00
266	Lyall (Sir Alfred)	Verses written in India		1889	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	12.00
267	REPTON (HUMPHREY, JOHN ADEY AND G.S.)	DESIGNS FOR THE PAVILLION AT BRIGHTON		1808	GBP 700.00 - 800.00	900.00
268	REPTON (HUMPHREY)	OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING		1803	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
269	[Taplin (W.)]	The Sportsman's Cabinet		1803-04	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	160.00
270	[Taplin (W.)]	The Sportsman's Cabinet		1803-04	Not Available	150.00
271	[SURTEES (R. S.)]	Sporting Novels		n.d.	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	100.00
272	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH		1815-16	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
273	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The English Dance of Death		1815-16	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
274	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The [First, Second, Third] Tour of Doctor Syntax		[1812-21]	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	220.00
275	[Combe (William)]	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque		1813	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
276	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	The Dance of Life		1817	GBP 90.00 - 120.00	180.00
277	[Combe (William)]	[The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque]		[1819]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
278	[Combe (William)]	The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax		1820	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
279	[Combe (William)]	The History of Johnny Quae Genus		1822	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	35.00
280		Le Sage (A. R.) The Adventures of Gil Bias...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
281	PINE (JOHN)	THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: representing the several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets. .. 1588		1753	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	1,000.00
282	PYNE (W[ILLIAM] H[ENRY])	THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES		1819	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	300.00
283		Portfolio (The); a collection of engravings from Antiquarian, & Topographical Subjects		1823	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
284		Lorraine (Claude) Beauties of. . . consisting of Twenty Four Landscapes...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
285	HOGARTH (WILLIAM)	THE WORKS. . . from the Original Works		[1835-37]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
286	G. (A. P. D.)	Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume, and Character		1826	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	110.00
287		Looking Glass (The); or, Caricature Annual, 1830		1831	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	90.00
288	Cooper (T. S.)	Groups of Cattle drawn from Nature		1839	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	130.00
289		[Dalvimart (O.)] The Costume of Turkey, English and French text...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	65.00
290	Solvyns ([F.] B.)	The Costume of Hindostan, English and French text		1804	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	35.00
291	PINELLI (BARTOLOMEO)	Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittor-eschi	Rome	1816	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	170.00
292	D'OYLY (CHARLES)	The Costume and Customs of Modern India		[c. 1822]	GBP 90.00 - 120.00	150.00
293		COSTUME (THE) OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE		1804	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	140.00
294	[DALVIMART (O.)]	The Costume of Turkey, English and French text		1804	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
295	Hakewill (James)	A Picturesque Tour of Italy		1820	GBP 70.00 - 80.00	110.00
296	MASON (G. H.)	The Costume of China		1804	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
297	[?Mason (G. H.)]	The Punishments of China, English and French text		1804	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	60.00
298		MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY (THE)		[c. 1820]	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	130.00
299	MOLEVILLE (BERTRAND DE)	The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. ..		1804	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00

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.