Sothebys: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, DOMESDAY,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 05, 1990 - February 05, 1990

Page Size: 1086 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
901	Lionel Johnson	Poems		1930	USD 1,500.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
902		Crime and Detection			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	88.00
903	Ezra Pound	His Metric and Poetry	Los Angeles	1938	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
904	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Roman Bartholow	New York	1931	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	22.00
905	Siegfried Sassoon	Counter-Attack and Other Poems		1923	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	44.00
906	Dylan Thomas	From in Memory of Ann Jones		1954	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
907	Paul Valery	Souvenir de Paul Souday		1922	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	462.00
908	H. G. Wells	The Island of Doctor Moreau		1896	GBP 120.00 - 160.00	99.00
909	Oscar Wilde	Nihilists		1961	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
910	W. B. Yeats	Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry		1893	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
911	W. B. Yeats	Eight Poems...transcribed by Edward Pay		1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	275.00
912		The Dictionary of National Biography vol. 1-22 and 9 supplementary vol		1937-1986	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	638.00
913	A. Edward Newton	The Amenities of Book-Collecting	New York	1970	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	297.00
914	Oscar Wilde	Reviews			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,210.00
915	Antoine Alexandre Barbier	Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes	Paris	1872-1879	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	528.00
916	W. W. Greg	Bibliography		1883-1910	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
917	W. Mellor	Bookbinding		1891-1893	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
918		The Dictionary of National Biography		1964-1971	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	660.00
919		The Dictionary of National Biography		1921-1927	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	330.00
920	T. Hatton & A.H. Cleaver	Dickens Bibliography		[c. 1900]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	495.00
921		Book-Auction Records		1904-1988	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	605.00
922	W.B. Osgood Field	Edward Lear on my Shelves	Munich	1933	GBP 350.00 - 400.00	528.00
923	Jules Gay	Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'amour	Paris and Lille	1894-1900	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
924	W. W. Greg	A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration		1928	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	198.00
925	Samuel Halkett and John Laing	Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature		1926-1962	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
926	Sir M. Holmes	Captain James Cook		1883	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	528.00
927	W. T. Lowndes	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature	Oxford	1973	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	935.00
928	W. T. Lowndes	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature		1905	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	132.00
929		Maggs Bros		[c. 1890-1970]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	220.00
930	Gerard Meerman	Origines Typographicae	The Hague, Paris, London	1765	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
931	N. M. Penzer	An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
932		Sale catalogues-The Library of John Quinn	New York	1950-1951	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	110.00
933	Joseph Smith	A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books...from their first rise to the present time		1867	USD 140.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
934	Donald Wing	Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England	Ann Arbour	1950	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	330.00
935	J. Cartwright	Art History and Theory			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	242.00
936		The Art Journal		1870-1912	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
937	Jean de Bourgoing	English Miniatures		1905	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
938	M.V. and Dorothy Brewington	The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
939	Marcel Brion	L'Art Romantique			GBP 75.00 - 100.00	143.00
940	Gleeson White	British Painters	Oxford	1976	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	330.00
941	Michael Bryan	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1981	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	1,210.00
942	Thomas Chippendale	The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director		[?c. 1890]	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	275.00
943	Albert M. Cohn	George Cruikshank		1880	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	462.00
944	A. Colby	Samplers			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
945	H. M. Colvin	The History of the King's Works	Berlin	1896	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
946	W. G. Constable	Eighteenth-Century Art	Paris	1984	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	275.00
947	Julius Elias	Die Handzeichnungen Max Liebermanns		1922	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	462.00
948		Eumorfopoulos Collection		1925-1926	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
949	R. H. Wilenski	French Art and French Influence		1969	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	176.00
950	G. A. Godden	An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain		[1970]	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	88.00
951	Graily Hewitt	Lettering for Students and Craftsmen		[1924]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	308.00
952	J. Alfred Gotch	Architecture of the Renaissance in England			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	176.00
953	W. Henry Hill and A.F. and A.E. Hill.	Antoine Stradivarius	Paris	1924	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
954	Albert Jacquemart	History of the Ceramic Art			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	264.00
955		Miscellaneous Art Reference	Paris	1897	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	220.00
956	William S. Rubin	Modern Art		1929	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
957	Arve Moen Eduard Munch	Woman and Eros	The Hague	1976	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
958	Eugene Jaquet and A. Chapius	Technique and History of the Swiss Watch from its beginings to the present day	Olten	1953	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	165.00
959	V. Surtees	Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Art		1899	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	880.00
960		Oriental Art Reference-Chinese Art	Paris	1895	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
961	J. D. Passavant	Kunstreise durch England und Belgien	Basle	[1870]	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	143.00
962	J.R. de Petity	Bibliotheque des artistes et des amateurs de tablettes analytiques	Paris	1838	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	660.00
963	Georges Perrot and others	Exploration archeologique de la Galatie et de la Bithynie			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
964	Sir Joshua Reynolds	A Discourse	modern morocco	1769-1790	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	528.00
965	Egon Schiele	Das Egon Schiele Buch		[1922]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
966	R. W. Symonds	Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England		1955	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	275.00
967	R. W. Symonds	Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England		1955	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
968	Dirk Van Gelder	Rodolphe Bresdin	New York	1968	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
969	W. Stassoff	Textile Design		[c. 1875]	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	220.00
970	Sir John Wilson	The Royal Philatelic Collection		1952	USD 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
971	Frank Lloyd Wright	Buildings Plans and Designs	New York	1965	GBP 175.00 - 225.00	770.00
972	Joan MirO	XXe siecle New Series	Paris	1984	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	209.00
973	Francois Pietri Terechkovitch	Les Princes du Sang	Paris	1962	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
974	Robert Herrick	Cresset Press		1928	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
975		Doves Press-St. Francis of Assisi	Doves Press	1910	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	198.00
976	Theophile Gautier	Golden Cockerel Press		[1938]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	154.00
977	Edward Herbert of Cherbury	Gregynog PRESS		1928	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
978	Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch	Gregynog Press		1938	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	176.00
979	Syr John Rhys	Gregynog Press			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
980	Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke	Gregynog Press		1936	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
981	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Kelmscott Press		1896	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	495.00
982	Paul Valery	Officina Bodoni	Verona	1946	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	286.00
983	Homer	Shakespeare Head Press	Oxford	1931	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
984		Various Presses			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	374.00
985	David Gascoyne	Various Presses		1930	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
986	John William) Blake-Varley	A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy		1828	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
987	Walter Crane	Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical		1975	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
988	Edward J. Detmold	Aesop		1909	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
989	Sir William Russell Flint	Theocritus		1910	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	264.00
990	S. Stephen Gooden-Sassoon	Vigils		1938	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	242.00
991	Oscar Frans Masereel-Wilde	The Ballad of Reading Gaol	New York	1903	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	418.00
992	Rudyard W. Heath Robinson-Kipling	A Song of the English	London and New York	1910	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
993	Randolph Caldecott	The Farmer's Boy			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
994		Dean's Illustrated Farthing Books			GBP 120.00 - 150.00	110.00
995	Daniel Defoe	Aventures de Robinson Crusoe			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	187.00
996	Kate Greenaway	A Day in a Childs Life			GBP 125.00 - 175.00	176.00
997	Kate Greenaway	Almanack for 1884			GBP 250.00 - 300.00	418.00
998	Gumuchian & Cie	Les Livres de L'Enfance	Paris	[1930]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
999	Mrs. Sarah Trimmer	A Series of Prints of Roman History		1831	USD 120.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
1000	William Blacker	Angling		1824	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	858.00

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.
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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