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
701	Les Effigies	des Roys de France		[?c. 1566]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
702		Epictetus		1659	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	176.00
703	Desiderius Erasmus	Epitome chiliadum adagiorum	Basle	1528	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
704	Desiderius Erasmus	Colloquia nunc emendatoria	Leiden	1636	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
705		England: Parliament		1681	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
706		Sancto Paulo	Geneva	1638	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
707	J[ohn] E[velyn]	Publick Employment and an Active Life prefer'd to Solitude and all its appanages		1667	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	528.00
708	Payne Fisher	Piscatoris poemata: vel panegyricum carmen in diem inaugurationis Olivari		1656	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	440.00
709	Thomas Fuller	The History of the Worthies of England		1790	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	198.00
710	Thomas Fuller	A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine		1650	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	484.00
711	J.P. Bergomensis Forestus	Supplementum supplementi de le croniche	Venice	1535	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
712	John Foxe	An Abridgement of the Book of Acts and Monumentes of the Church			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	1,155.00
713	Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro	Gestorum populi poloni sub Henrico Valesio	Gedansk	1652	GBP 400.00 - 450.00	330.00
714	Thomas Goffe	The Courageous Turk		1632	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
715	John Greaves	Astronomica quaedam ex traditione Shah Cholgii Persae una cum hypothesibus planetarum		1652	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	396.00
716	Johann Frederich Gronovius	De sestertiis seu subsecivorum pecuniae veteris graecae & romanae	Leiden	1691	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
717		Guntherius	Geneva	1554	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	264.00
718		Historia de veneranda compassione beatissime dei genetricis semper virginis marie	Augsburg		USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
719	Hadrianus Junius	Nomenclator	Paris	1617	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	264.00
720	Hadrianus Junius	Batavia			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	605.00
721	Raphael Holinshed	Chronicles		[1577-1587]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	330.00
722	Thomas Jones	The British Language in its Lustre		1688	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	396.00
723	Christian Kortholt	De tribus impostoribus magnis liber	Kiel	1680	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	374.00
724	Charles de La Rue	Carminum libri quatuor	Paris	1680	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
725	C. Lascaris	De octo partibus orationes liber primus	Venice	1522	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
726	Pierre de L'Ancre	L'incredulite et mescreance du sortilege plainement convaincue	Paris	1622	GBP 220.00 - 280.00	363.00
727		Laudi	Florence	1564	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	198.00
728	Pierre Le Loyer	Discours	Paris	1605	GBP 280.00 - 320.00	418.00
729	Justus Lipsius	De cruce			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
730	Titus Livius	Latinae historiae principis	Basle	March 1531	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	290.00
731	N. Machiavelli	Historie florentine	Florence	1532	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
732	Michael Maier	Tripus aureus		1618	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	396.00
733	Junianus Maius	De priscorum proprietate verborum	Treviso	1477	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	495.00
734		Marguerite de Valois		1751	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	242.00
735	M. Menotus	Per pulchra epistolarum quadragesimalium expositio [Opus aureum evangeliorum]			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	242.00
736	William Molyneux	The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England	Ingolstadt	1541	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	165.00
737	Joannes Meursius	Miscellanea laconica	Amsterdam	1661	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	220.00
738	Pedro Mexia	Silua de varia lecion	Antwerp	1555	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	242.00
739	Sir Thomas More	Utopia...Translated into English [by Gilbert Burnet]			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	418.00
740	Sir Thomas More	A Dyaloge... wheryn be treatyd dyvers maters as of the veneracyon & worshyp of ymagys		1530	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,100.00
741		Bishop of Freising	Strassburg	March 1515	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
742	P. Ovidius Naso	Metamorphosis	Venice	1523	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
743		Oratores graeci. Orationes horum rhetorum	Venice	1513	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	880.00
744	Denys Papin	Ars nova ad aquam ignis adminiculo	Florence	1605	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	495.00
745	Claude Paradin	Les devises heroiques	Louvain	1563	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
746	Blaise Pascal	Les provinciales ou les lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte a un proviciai de ses amis	Amsterdam	1657	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	528.00
747	Blaise Pascal	Les provinciales ou les lettres ecrites par Louis de Montalte	Amsterdam	1657	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	165.00
748		Paulus de Middelburgo	Fossombrone	1513	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
749	P. Pergulensis	Compendium logicae	Venice	1486	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	330.00
750		Paulus Scriptor	Tubingen	1498	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
751	N. Perottus	Cornucopiae	Venice	1513	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
752	Roger de Piles	Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres	Paris	[1681]	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	176.00
753	Petrus Pomponatius	Opera	Basle	(March 1567)	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	484.00
754	J. J. Pontanus	Opera	Venice	1532	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	209.00
755		Portugal	Leiden	1641	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
756		Proclamations			GBP 250.00 - 300.00	352.00
757		Dominican use	Venice	January 1551	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
758	Rhetores Graeci	In Aphthonii progymnasmata commentarii innominati autoris	Venice	May 1509	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	880.00
759	Juan de Rojas Sarmiento	Commentariorum in astrolabium quod planisphaerium vocant libri sex	Venice	1539	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	330.00
760	Fulvio Rorario	Rime spirituali [La gloriosa vittoria di David contra Golia]	Venice	1581	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	396.00
761	M. A. Sabellicus	Croniche che tractano de la origine de Veneti	Milan	c. 1510	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	187.00
762	TITO Giovanni SCANDIANESE	I quattro libri della Caccia	Venice	1556	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	935.00
763	Balthazar Schnurin	Kunst Haus und Wunderbuch	Frankfurt	1664	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
764		Schole-house (A) for the Needle		1632	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	1,870.00
765	Johannes Olfersz Schooten	Tweevoudighe verklaringe van de Pleynschael ende het Liniael	Amsterdam	1655	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	55.00
766	William Shakespeare	Hersteide vorst	Amsterdam	1650	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,045.00
767	Andreas Schottus	Vitae comparatae Aristotelis ac Demosthenis		1603	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	396.00
768	Lewis Sharpe	The Noble Stranger		1640	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
769	Sir Philip Sidney	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	187.00
770	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene		1609	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	220.00
771	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queen		1611 [?1615]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	473.00
772	Gabriele Simeoni	Dialogo pio et speculatiuo	Lyon	1560	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
773	Jacobus de Strada	Epitome du thresor des antiquitez...traduit par Jean Louveau	Lyons	1553	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	220.00
774		Strozzi	Venice	1544	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	121.00
775	Christoforo Sylvestrani Brenzone	Vita et fatti del valorosiss	Verona	1591	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	605.00
776		Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Continental Books			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	550.00
777	Edward Squire	Een Volcomen ontdeckinghe van de Roomsche Leere	The Hague & Amsterdam	1606 & [1606]	GBP 120.00 - 160.00	242.00
778	Joannes Talentonius	De supremae sphaera loco disceptatio	Basle	1537	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	495.00
779	Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus	De summis naturae mysteriis commentarii tres	Vualdkirch	1584	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	495.00
780	Torquato Tasso	Il Re Torrismondo: Tragedia	Venice	1773	GBP 200.00 - 200.00	605.00
781		Turkish Pirates-Proclamation		10th August 1670	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	418.00
782		Valerius Maximus	Venice	1501-1502	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
783	Giorgio Vasari	Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori	Florence	1568	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	176.00
784	P. Teixeira	Fuora villiaco	Leiden	1641	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
785		Truchsess von Waldberg	Plantin	14 January 1642	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	165.00
786	Cesare Vecellio	De gli habili antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo	Venice	1598	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	1,430.00
787	Pedro de la Vega	Flos sanctorum	Zaragossa	1521	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	396.00
788		Virgil	Venice	1502	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
789		Virgil	Gryphyio	1549	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	374.00
790		Virgil	Venice	1503	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	165.00
791	Wynkyn de Worde	A single leaf from Wynkyn de Worde's 1498 edition of William Caxton's translation of Voragine's The Golden Legend	Strassburg	c. 1472	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	330.00
792	James Yorke	The Royal Line of the Crown of Great-Brittain		[1641]	GBP 140.00 - 180.00	110.00
793	Theodor Zwinger	Methodus apodemica	Hamburg	1737	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	198.00
794		Aesop			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
795	Sir Thomas More	The Histoire of the Pitifull Life			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	550.00
796	Sir Francis Bacon	Resuscitatio		1666	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	440.00
797	Martin Antonio Del Rio	Disquistionum Magicarum Libri Sex	Cologne	1633	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	374.00
798	Sir William Dugdale	A Short View of the Late Troubles in England		1673	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	286.00
799	Sir Thomas Herbert	Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia		1665	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	660.00
800	Daniel King	The Vale-Royal of England		1656	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	275.00

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.