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
501	J. van Keulen	Southern India	Amsterdam	[1753]	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	154.00
502	J. Speed	Tartary		[c. 1627]	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	165.00
503	J. Speed	Tartary		[1627]	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	154.00
504		China			USD 175.00 - 225.00	Not Sold
505		Chinese Life and Trades			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	935.00
506		Chinese Shop Signs		[c. 1850]]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
507		Amateurs Repository of Indian Sketches	Calcutta	1828	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	308.00
508	AEneas Anderson	A Narrative of the British Embassy to China		1795	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	308.00
509	Henry Ellis	Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China		1817	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	396.00
510	Joachimo Alphonso Gonsalves	Lexicon magnum latio	Macao	1841	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
511	Stephen Graham	Through Russian Central Asia		1938	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	176.00
512	Edouard Hardouin and Wilhelm Leonard Ritter	Java	Leiden	1855	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	308.00
513	Etienne? Marchand	India-Marchand [(Etienne?)]	Madras	1835	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
514	Jan Nieuhoff	L'ambassade de la compagnie orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'empereur de la Chine	Leiden	1665	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	770.00
515	Sir Henry Pottinger	Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde		1816	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,100.00
516	Henry Charles Sirr	Ceylon and the Cingalese		1850	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
517	Sir George Thomas, translator Staunton	Ta Tsing Leu Lee		1810	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	396.00
518	H. Hondius	Polus Antarcticus	Amsterdam	[1636]	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	308.00
519	G. Mercator	Arctic	Amsterdam	c. 1628	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	495.00
520	Abraham Ortelius	Iceland	Antwerp	c. 1595	GBP 800.00 - 850.00	2,420.00
521		North Atlantic	Versailles	1776-1800]	GBP 220.00 - 280.00	242.00
522		Northern Regions	Venice	c. 1561	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	440.00
523	W. H. Browne	Ten Coloured Views taken during the Arctic Expedition	Ackermann	1850	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	242.00
524	Captain E. Carlsen	Optegnelser fra den osterrigsk-ungarske	Tromso	1875	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	462.00
525	John Phipps	A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken		1774	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	418.00
526	Sir John Ross	A Voyage of Discovery		1819	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
527		Australia and the Pacific	Paris,	1799-1800	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	550.00
528		Australia and the Pacific		1800	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	770.00
529	W. Blaeu	Australia	[Amsterdam	C. 1650. 1650]	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	418.00
530	F. G. Canzler	Australia	Nuremberg	1795	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	275.00
531	John Pinkerton	Australia		April 15, 1813	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
532	F.J.J. von Reilly	Australia	Vienna	1795	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	440.00
533		New South Wales		[c. 1820-1890]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
534	Walter Brodie	Pitcairn's Island		1851	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	187.00
535	Capt. James Cook	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean		1784	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
536	Capt. James Cook	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	286.00
537	Charles Samuel Stewart	Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean	New York	1828	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	242.00
538	Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville and others	Entdeckungs	Schaffhausen		USD 900.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
539	Franz Hernsheim	Sudsee	Berlin		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
540	Andrew Garran	Picturesque Atlas of Australia	Sydney	[1888]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	396.00
541	W. T. Brigham	Memoirs of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology			GBP 400.00 - 500.00	660.00
542	W. C. Wentworth	A Statistical		1820	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	121.00
543	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando furioso	Birmingham	1773	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	1,045.00
544	Ludovico Ariosto	Rasender Roland	Bern	1778	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
545	Ludovico Ariosto	Rasender Roland	Bern	1778	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
546	Pierre Francois Basan	Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes depuis l'origine de la gravure	Paris	1789	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	880.00
547	F.T.M. de B. d' Arnaud	Oeuvres	Paris	1795	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
548	Jean Jacques Barthelemy	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece	Paris	1790	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
549	Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais	La folle journee ou le mariage de Figaro	Paris	1785	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	825.00
550		Bible	Nurnberg	1755	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	990.00
551		Bible	Hamburg	1795	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	286.00
552	Giovanni Boccaccio	Il Decamerone	Paris	1757	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,210.00
553	Arnaud Berquin	Idylles	Paris	1775	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
554	Arnaud Berquin	Idylles		1776	GBP 180.00 - 240.00	176.00
555	Les Bijou des neuf-soeurs	engraved plates by Gaucher after Le Barbier	Paris	[1794]	GBP 180.00 - 240.00	550.00
556	A. Bosse	De la maniere de graver a l'eau forte et au burin	Paris	1808	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	935.00
557	Jacob Brucker and Johannes Jacob Haid	Bilder	Augsburg	1741-1755	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	825.00
558	M. T. Cicero	Sententiae insigniores			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	385.00
559	Miguel Cervantes Saavedra	Les principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte	Paris	1774	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	462.00
560	Claude Joseph Dorat	Les baisers	Paris	1770	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	286.00
561	Claude Joseph Dorat	Fables nouvelles	Paris	1770	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
562	Barnabe Farmian Du Rosoi	Les Sens	Paris	1766	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
563		Fromageot	Paris	1777	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	308.00
564	Salomon Gessner and Denis Diderot	Contes moraux et nouvelles idylles	Zurich	1773	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
565	Salomon Gessner	Oeuvres	Paris	1799	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	286.00
566	Salomon Gessner	Der Tod Abels	Leipzig	1767	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
567	Johann Gross	Kurtze Bassler Chronick	Basel	1624	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	165.00
568	Jacob Christoff Iselin	Neu-vermehrtes Historisch- und Geographisches Allgemeines Lexicon	Basel	1729-1728	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
569	Jean de La Fontaine	Contes et nouvelles	Amsterdam [Paris]	1762	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,860.00
570	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane	Paris	[1795]	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	330.00
571	Jean de La Fontaine	Les amours de Psyche et de Cupidon	Paris	1804	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,155.00
572	Roland Levayer de Boutigny	Tarsis et Zelie	Paris	1774	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
573	Titus Lucretius Carus	Della natura delle cose libri sei tradotti	[Paris]	1754	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	825.00
574	Jacques Charles Louis Clinchamp de Malfilatre	Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus	Berne	1775	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	209.00
575		Marguerite of Navarre	Bern	1792	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	396.00
576	Leonhard Meister	Helvetiens Beruhmte Manner	Zurich and Winterthur	1782-1786	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
577		Moliere, i.e. Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin	Paris	1734	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	715.00
578		Ovid	Lille	1767	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
579	Meunier de Querlon	Le Triomphe des Graces... troisieme edition			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
580	Jacques Ridley	Les contes des genies...par Sir Charles Morell	Paris	1794	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
581	Jean Francois Regnard	engraved portrait	Paris	1790	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
582	Jean-Francois, marquis de Lambert	Saint	Amsterdam	1773	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	286.00
583	Torquato Tasso	Jerusalem delivree	Paris	1774	GBP 400.00 - 450.00	825.00
584	Torquato Tasso	La Gerusalemme liberata	Paris	1771	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
585	Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire	Suite of plates for 'Les Oeuvres'	Paris	1802	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	770.00
586	Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire	La Henriade	[Barbou]	1769-1770	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	528.00
587	Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire	La Henriade	[Kehl]	1789	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	605.00
588	Alessandro Tassoni	La secchia rapita	Paris	1766	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
589	Vittorio Alfieri	L'America libera			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
590	Lodovico Ariosto	Sette libri di sattire di Lodovico Ariosto	London	1716	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	198.00
591	Joseph Alexander, Freiherr von	Austria	Vienna	[c. 1900]	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	11.00
592	Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria	Dei delitti e delle pine	Monaco	1764	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	462.00
593		Bibliotheca Albertina	Leiden	1763	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
594		Bindings. A collection of 6 empty bindings			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	660.00
595		Calendrier de la Cour pour l'annee bissextile 1820	Paris	[1820]	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	462.00
596	Jacques Benigne Bossuet	Liber Psalmorum	Paris	[1777]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
597	Pierre Corneille	Engraved portrait	Paris	1866-1881	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	418.00
598	Francois de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon	Dialogues sur l'eloquence	Paris	1718	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
599	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	West-oestlicher Divan	Stuttgart	1819	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	495.00
600	Francoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt Graffigny	Lettres d'une Peruvienne	Paris	1676	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	528.00

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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