Sothebys: Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts SOLD ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH RAIL PENSION FUND., BARKWORTH,

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 27, 1988 - September 27, 1988

Page Size: 215 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Sir WILLIAM CHAMBERS	PLANS, ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVE VIEWS OF THE GARDENS AND BUILDINGS AT KEW IN SURREY, ...		1763	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,870.00
2	HUMPHRY REPTON	SKETCHES AND HINTS		1794	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,400.00
3	HUMPHRY REPTON	OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING		1803	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
4	HUMPHRY REPTON AND J. ADEY REPTON	FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING		1816	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	4,620.00
5	ERIK JONSSON DAHLBERG	SUECIA ANTIQUA ET HODIERNA		1693-1714]	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	5,280.00
6	HENDRIK DE LETH	L'ANCIEN ET NOBLE CHATEAU DE TER MEER	Amsterdam	[c.1740]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,430.00
7	PIETER SCHENK	PARADISUS OCULORUM	[Amsterdam	c.1695]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,280.00
8	Sir JOHN SOANE	SKETCHES IN ARCHITECTURE		1793	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	935.00
9	SEBASTIANO SERLIO	THE FIRST [-FIFT] BOOKE OF ARCHITECTURE		1611	GBP 9,000.00 - 10,000.00	11,000.00
10	LAURIDS DE THURAH	DEN DANSKE VITRUVIUS	Copenhagen	1746-1749	GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	5,500.00
11	NICCOLO ZABAGLIA	CASTELLI	Rome	1743	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
12	MORTICELLARIUM AUREUM	QUADRAGESIMA & ADVENTUALE DE ARTE MORIENDI	Antwerp	20 February 1488	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	4,840.00
13	JOHANNES BALBUS	CATHOLICON		[1460]	GBP 90,000.00 - 120,000.00	132,000.00
14	AESOP	VITA ET FABULAE	Naples	13 February 1485	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	110,000.00
15	RABANUS MAURUS	DE UNIVERSO	Strabburg	20 July 1467	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	33,000.00
16	LUCIUS JUNIUS MODERATUS COLUMELLA	RUTILIUS TAURUS PALLADIUS	Venice	1472	GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	41,800.00
17	GUILLAUME CAOURSIN	OBSIDIONIS RHODIAE URBIS DESCRIPTIO	Ulm	24 October 1496	GBP 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	7,700.00
18	FORESTI JACOBUS PHILIPPUS	BERGOMENSIS	Ferrara	29 April 1497	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	12,100.00
19	GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE	AUTOGRAPH DRAFT FOR PART OF HIS POEM "CORTEGE" from "Alcools"			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,540.00
20	JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT	IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED		[1663]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,980.00
21	HENRI IV	GOOD AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	Fontainebleau	17 August [?1597]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,750.00
22	NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI	DRAFT OF TWO LETTERS CONCERNING THE CONQUEST OF PISA	Florence	24 July 1504	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,600.00
23	MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI	AUTOGRAPH NOTE OF SEVENTEEN WORDS	Florence	c. 1523-1525	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,060.00
24	JULES MAZARIN	AUTOGRAPH REPORT ABOUT THE PRECARIOUS POLITICAL SITUATION IN FLANDERS	Paris	20 May 1653	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
25	JULES MAZARIN	LETTER SIGNED	Paris	22 October 1649	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	418.00
26	BENITO MUSSOLINI	EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Mussolini Benito")	Dovia di Predappio	1908]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,430.00
27	NAPOLEON I	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF HIS EARLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LOVE-STORY 'CLISSON ET EUGENIE'		[before 1795]	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
28	NAPOLEON I	EARLY AUTOGRAPH REPORT ON THE DEFENCE OF AJACCIO	Pearly	1793	USD 4,500.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
29	NAPOLEON I	LETTER SIGNED ("Bonaparte") AS FIRST CONSUL		(15 March 1804)	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,750.00
30	NAPOLEON I	IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED ("Np") WITH FOUR-LINE AUTOGRAPH POSTSCRIPT			USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
31	NAPOLEON I	FINE DOCUMENT SIGNED ("Napole")	Rambouillet	20 May 1811	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
32	NAPOLEON I	LETTER SIGNED ("Np") WRITTEN DURING THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW	Molodetschno	4 December 1812	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
33	NAPOLEON I	IMPORTANT EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Bonaparte")		(25 September 1797)	USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
34	MARCEL PROUST	FINE LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED		[Paris, September 1919]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	3,850.00
35	JEAN RACINE	FINE EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Racine")	Paris	4 March 1660	GBP 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	8,250.00
36	MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL SEviGNE, marquise de	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("M. de Rabutin chantai) TO GILLES MENAGE		22 October [1661]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,850.00
37	MARIE HENRI BEYLE STENDHAL	AUTOGRAPH LETTER (UNSIGNED)	Metz	[18 October 1806]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,760.00
38	MARIE HENRI BEYLE STENDHAL	GOOD AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("L. A. Chevallet")			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,430.00
39	MARIE HENRI BEYLE STENDHAL	GOOD AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H. Beyle")		[but probably 1827]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
40	MARIE HENRI BEYLE STENDHAL	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H. Beyle")			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	825.00
41	PAOLO CALIARI VERONESE	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Paolo Caliari pitor")		4 January ("li 4 zener") 1578	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,950.00
42	FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE	REMARKABLE EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	Brussels	13 May 1740	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	7,920.00
43	TORQUATO TASSO	THE AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF HIS DIALOGUE "IL GONZAGA OVERO DEL PIACERE ONESTO"		May 1580	GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	28,600.00
44	JOHN JAMES AUDUBON	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("John J. Audubon")	Edinburgh	5 July 1838	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,045.00
45	JOHN GOULD	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	London	18 February 1842	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,100.00
46	JOHN GOULD	A CENTURY OF BIRDS FROM THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS		[1831-]1832	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	5,720.00
47	JOHN GOULD	A MONOGRAPH OF THE RAMPHASTIDAE		1854	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	15,400.00
48	JOHN GOULD	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE		[1849-]1887	GBP 40,000.00 - 50,000.00	52,800.00
49	JOHN GOULD	THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA		[1840-] 1848-1869	GBP 120,000.00 - 150,000.00	187,000.00
50	JOHN GOULD	ICONES AVIUM		1837-1838	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,500.00
51	JOHN GOULD-SHARPE (RICHARD BOWDLER)	AN ANALYTICAL INDEX TO THE WORKS OF THE LATE JOHN GOULD		1893	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	330.00
52	JOHN GOULD	THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN		[1862-]1873	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	34,100.00
53	JOHN GOULD	A MONOGRAPH OF THE PITTIDAE		1880-1881	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
54	JOHN GOULD	THE BIRDS OF EUROPE		[1832-]1837	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	33,000.00
55	JOHN GOULD	THE BIRDS OF ASIA		1850-1883	GBP 35,000.00 - 45,000.00	50,600.00
56	JOHN GOULD	THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA AND THE ADJACENT PAPUAN ISLANDS		1875-1888	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	38,500.00
57	JOHN GOULD	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROGONIDAE		1875	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	6,600.00
58	JOHN GOULD	A MONOGRAPH OF THE ODONTOPHORINAE		[1844-] 1850	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,720.00
59	JOHN LATHAM	A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF BIRDS		1781[-1785]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,850.00
60	WILLIAM HAYES	PORTRAITS OF RARE AND CURIOUS BIRDS		1794 [-1799]	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,640.00
61	Sir HUMPHREY GILBERT	AMERICA		6 June 1582	GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00	41,800.00
62	JOHN AUGUSTUS ATKINSON AND JAMES WALKER	A PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE MANNERS		1802	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
63	WILLIAM CLARK	TEN VIEWS IN THE ISLAND OF ANTIGUA		1819	GBP 4,500.00 - 5,000.00	5,500.00
64	JAMES FORBES	ORIENTAL MEMOIRS		1813	GBP 4,500.00 - 5,000.00	4,400.00
65	Captain JAMES COOK-HAWKESWORTH (JOHN)	AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES			GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	9,900.00
66	JERONIMO GIRAVA	DOS LIBROS DE COSMOGRAPHIA	Milan	1556	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	9,350.00
67	Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON	CAMPI PHLEGRAEI	Naples	1776-1779	GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	14,850.00
68	DAVID LIVINGSTONE	REMARKABLE LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED	South of Kazel	13th March 1872"	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	12,650.00
69	Sir GEORGE STEUART MACKENZIE	TRAVELS IN THE ISLAND OF ICELAND	Edinburgh	1811	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
70	ALEXANDER MACKENZIE	VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL		1801	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,980.00
71	Captain GEORGE FRANCIS LYON	A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA		1821	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	385.00
72		MASSACHUSET PSALTER (THE)	Boston	1709	GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	24,200.00
73	ANTOINE IGNACE MELLING	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE ET DES RIVES DU BOSPHORE	Paris	1819	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
74	PITT WILLIAM	IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED ("WPitt")	Whitehall	7 March 1758	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
75	WILLIAM PITT	FINE LETTER SIGNED	Whitehall	31 March 1757	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
76	WILLIAM PENN	DOCUMENT SIGNED		23 March 1681/2	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
77	MAXIMILIANUS	Transylvanus	Rome	November, 1523	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	33,000.00
78	DORIA ATLAS	A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN COMPOSITE ATLAS	Italy probably Venice	c.1570, and later	GBP 200,000.00 - 250,000.00	247,500.00
79	HENRY VII	FINE LETTER SIGNED			GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,050.00
80	HENRY VIII	ASSERTIO SEPTEM SACRAMENTUM ADVERSUS MARTIN[UM] LUTHERU[M]		1521	USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
81	HENRY VIII	SUPERB EARLY LETTER SIGNED ("Henry R" at head)	Calais	3 July [1513]	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,600.00
82	HENRY VIII	SUPERB EARLY LETTER SIGNED ("Henry R" at head)	Calais	7 July [1513]	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	14,850.00
83	EDWARD VI	ROYAL LETTERS PATENT	Westminster	5 April 1547	GBP 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	11,550.00
84	ELIZABETH I	FINE LETTER SIGNED	Greenwich	18 June 1588	GBP 15,000.00 - 18,000.00	44,000.00
85	JAMES I	LETTER SIGNED		3 October 1604	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,430.00
86	JAMES I	HANDSOME ILLUMINATED LETTER SIGNED ("JACOBUS R")	Whythall	15 June 1605	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,300.00
87	CHARLES II	MANUSCRIPT OF A "PROJECT FOR A TREATY WITH ALGIERS"		[1682]	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,980.00
88	CHARLES II	FINE DOCUMENT SIGNED	Whitehall	25 January 1682/1683	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
89	JAMES II	EVOCATIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("JAMES R" AT HEAD AND "JR" AT THE END)	Whitehall	9 December 1688	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	5,500.00
90	JAMES II	IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED IN EXILE ("JAMES R" AT HEAD AND "JR" AT END)		2 April 1692	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	4,400.00
91	WILLIAM III	THE ESTABLISHMENT BOOK OF THE ROYAL FORCES IN 1692 SIGNED EIGHTEEN TIMES BY WILLIAM III		1692	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,620.00
92	GEORGE I	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("GEORGE LOUIS")		16/26 June 1685	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
93	VICTORIA	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER	Dublin	13 April 1900	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
94	GEORGE V	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("George")	Marlborough House	17 April 1904	GBP 800.00 - 900.00	4,180.00
95		BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR	Euryalus	22 October 1805	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	4,180.00
96	THOMAS PAINE	FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Thomas Paine")		(28 December 1797)	GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	5,500.00
97	GEORGE STEPHENSON	FINE LONG AND IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("GeoStephenson")	Liverpool	31 January 1828	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	3,520.00
98	MISSAL	use of Sarum	Westminster	20 December 1498	GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	11,000.00
99	CLEMENT MAYDESTON	DIRECTORIUM SACERDOTUM		1501	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	12,100.00
100	IHESUS	THE FLOURE OF THE COMMAUNDEMENTS OF GOD WITH MANY EXAMPLES		1521	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	9,900.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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.