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
601	Carlo Goldoni	Le commedie	Pesaro	1753	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
602	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Opera	Paris	1799	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	209.00
603	Charles-Antoine Jombert	Nouvelle methode pour apprendre a dessiner sans maitre	Paris	1740	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	330.00
604	Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos	Les liaisons dangereuses	Paris	1782	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
605	Theodor Mommsen	Romische Geschichte	Leipzig and Berlin	1854-1856	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
606	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Les essais		1844-1845	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	242.00
607		Pamphlets			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	3,300.00
608	Joannes Pastritius	Patenae argentae mysticae	Naples	1778	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	242.00
609	Marcel Proust	Les plaisirs et les jours	Paris	1896	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,045.00
610	Jean Racine	Oeuvres avec des commentaires par M. Luneau de Boisjermain	Paris	1768	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	616.00
611	Silvestro Antonio Rasponi	Saggio filosofico in terza rima	London & Paris	1768	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	484.00
612	Erich Maria Remarque	Im Westen nichts neues	Berlin	1929	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	550.00
613	Pierre Richelet	Dictionnaire francois	Paris	1806	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
614	Zaccaria Seriman	Viaggi di Enrico Wanton alle Terre Incognite Australi	Berne (Treviso)	1764	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
615	Adam Smith	Theorie des sentimens moraux	Paris	1774-1775	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	990.00
616	Alejo Vanegas	Primera parte de las diferencias de libros que ay en el universo	Buenos Aires	1914	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	440.00
617	F.M.A. De Voltaire	Oedipe	Geneva & Paris	1780	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
618	F.M.A. de Voltaire	Lettre de M. de V	the Hague	1744	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
619	F.M.A. de Voltaire	La pucelle d'Orleans	[Paris, Cazin]	1780	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
620	Richard Wagner	Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg	Potsdam	1927	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	154.00
621	Anton-Maria Zanetti	Le gemme antiche	Paris	1702	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
622	Georgius Agricola	De re metallica translated from the first Latin edition of 1556		1912	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	396.00
623		Aetius	Basle	1549	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	385.00
624	Emilio Campolongo	De arthritide liber unus	Venice	1586	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
625	G. M. Durastante	Problemata	Venice	1567	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	440.00
626	G. M. Durastante	Libri duo. Primus	Venice	1567	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	308.00
627	Capt. George Everest	An Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian		1830	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
628	William Harvey	Anatomical Exercitations		1653	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	880.00
629	Jean Housz	Ingen	Paris	1785	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	242.00
630	Giovanni Maria Lancisi	De subitaneis mortibus libri duo	Vienna	1802	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
631	Rodomontes Laurentius	De vitae humanae catastrophe ex pestilentia...tractatus	Pesaro	1649	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	330.00
632		Medicine-Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece		[1859]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
633	J. T. Minadous	De febre maligna			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	935.00
634	M. Savonarola	De tute le cose che se manzano communamente	Venice	1568	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	484.00
635	Joannes Franciscus Scardona	Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis	Padua	1762-1763	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
636	Gaspar Schott	Magia universalis naturae et artis...pars I	Wurzburg	1657-1659	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,320.00
637	J. F. Spina	De maximis coniunctionibus Saturni	Macerata	1621	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	198.00
638	G. B. Vimercato	Dialogo de gli horologi solari	Florence, Massa	1647	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
639	Jacobus Zabarella	De rebus naturalibus libri XXX	Venice	1590	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
640		Bible	Venice	1621	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	99.00
641		Bible	Leiden	1633	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
642		Diodorus Siculus	[Geneva]	1559	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	495.00
643		Dionysius	Paris	1551	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	374.00
644		Euripides. [Opera]	Venice	February 1503	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	1,430.00
645		Herodian	Florence	1564	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	715.00
646		Hippocrates	Venice	1588	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	396.00
647	Justus Lipsius	De cruce libri tres	Paris	1626	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	352.00
648		Procopius	Lyons	1623	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
649		Plutarch	Cambridge	1665	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	330.00
650		Themistius Euphrada	Paris	1684	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
651		Act of Parliament (An) for Errecting a Bank in Scotland	Edinburgh	1695	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	198.00
652		Albertus Magnus	Rome	1591	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	825.00
653	Antonio Agustin	Dialoghi...tradotti di lingua Spagnuola in Italiana	Rome	1650	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
654	Richard Allestree	Scala Santa: or the Exaltation of the Soul		1678	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
655		Antoninus	Venice	1511	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	352.00
656		Aristaenetus	Antwerp	1566	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	286.00
657	Sir Francis Bacon	Sylva sylvarum		[c. 1720]	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	440.00
658	Joshua Barnes	The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId	Cambridge	1688	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
659	Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies		1679	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
660	Joseph Beaumont	Psyche: or Loves Mysterie In XX Canto's	Cambridge	1749	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
661		Bible English		1596	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
662		Bible English	Cambridge	1674	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	253.00
663		Bible Hebrew and Latin	Geneva	1609	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	209.00
664		Bible Latin	Basle	1522	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
665		Bible Latin	Basel	1498-1502	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
666	Giovanni Battista Bidelli	Gl'idillii di diversi ingegni illustri del secol nostra	Milan		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
667	Christophorus Portius	Binding	Venice	1564	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	275.00
668	Giovanni Boccaccio	Le Decameron...traduict...par Maistre Antoine le Macon			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
669	A. P. Bocchius	Apologia in Plantum	Foligno	1547	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	220.00
670	Jean Bodin	De la demonomanie des sorciers	Paris	1582	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	528.00
671		The Book of Common Prayer		1691-(1688)	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	88.00
672	Jacques Benigne Bossuet	Oraison funebre de tres-haute et tres-puissant Prince	Paris	1687	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	264.00
673	Sebastian Brant	Arboru[m] consanguinitatis	Nuremberg	1517	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
674	L. D. Brusonius	Facetiarum exemplorumque	Rome	1518	USD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
675		Calligraphy	Rome	1570	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
676	William Camden	Britannia		1676	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	88.00
677	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Workes		1561	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	715.00
678	Concino Concini	A collection of 30 slim pamphlets relating to Concino Concini			GBP 180.00 - 220.00	550.00
679	Merlinus Cocaius	Teofilo Folengo	Verona	1697	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
680	Marcus Tullius Cicero	De oratore ad quintum fratrem dialogi tres			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	396.00
681	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Opera	Paris	1555-1554	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	88.00
682	Joachim Camerarius	Symboloru[m] & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum Centura una collecta	Heidelberg	1664	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	440.00
683	Francesco Colonna	La hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo	Venice	1545	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	3,960.00
684	A. Cornazzano	De re militaria	Florence	1521	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	825.00
685	Dominicus Custos	Insignia & elogia		1607	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	176.00
686		Cyprian	Lyons	1544	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
687		Council of Trent	Alcala de Henares	1564	GBP 400.00 - 450.00	385.00
688	Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac	The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun		1687	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	132.00
689	Dante Alighieri	Terze rime	Venice	1544	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
690	Dante Alighieri	Terze rime	Venice	1544	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	440.00
691	Dante Alighieri	L'amoroso conuiuo...con la additione	Venice	1529	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
692	Dante Alighieri	La commedia	Florence	30 August 1481	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	935.00
693	Dante Alighieri	La commedia	Brescia	1487	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	8,800.00
694	Dante Alighieri	La commedia	Venice	1497	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	3,080.00
695	Dante Alighieri	Terze rime	Venice	1544	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,100.00
696	Sir William Davenant	The Works		1673	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	396.00
697		Demosthenes	Paris	1570	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	264.00
698		Dion Cassius	Geneva	1592	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
699	John Donne	LXXX Sermons [with the Life and Death of Dr. Donne by Izaak Walton]			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	374.00
700	G. Tagliente	Economics	Venice	1569	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	220.00

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…
Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!