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
801		Homer		1660	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	410.00
802	Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus	Mores Hominum	Oxford	1673	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	440.00
803	John Tradescant	Musaeum Tradescantianum or a collection of rarities preserved at South Lambeth near London		1656	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,540.00
804		Virgil		1654	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	572.00
805	JacoL beslie	Caesarea legatio quam mandante Augustissimo Rom		1653	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	132.00
806	George Vertue	A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar		1642	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	286.00
807	Sir Joseph Banks	Autograph letter signed			USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
808	Arnold Bennett	Autograph manuscript of an article on his own plays		[1924]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	286.00
809	Eric Benton	A collection of approximately 75 ring files containing the papers of Eric Benton			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
810	Robert Burns	Portrait of Robert Burns after the original by Alexander Nasmyth			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	198.00
811	Sir Winston Churchill	Two typed letters signed to Mr. H.T. Dixon of South Woodford			GBP 280.00 - 340.00	550.00
812	Ian Fleming	Three typed letters signed		1952	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	385.00
813	John Hoadley	Fine autograph letter to his publisher	St. Cross	16 January 1769	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	55.00
814		Heraldic Manuscript			GBP 140.00 - 180.00	88.00
815	Eva Marie Violetti Garrick	Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Mary Dickenson	Adelphi	17 November 1800	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	143.00
816	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Typed letter signed	Washington	15 January 1955	USD 350.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
817	Matthew Gregory Lewis	Reassignment of copyright for nine of his own books to M.G. Lewis		2 August 1806	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	352.00
818		Literature			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	462.00
819		Literature			GBP 550.00 - 600.00	605.00
820	David Lloyd George	Ten letters written to Lloyd George		1898-1905	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
821	Sir Oliver Lodge	Two wartime autograph letters signed			USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
822	Sir Edwin Lutyens	Four autograph and typed letters signed		1933	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
823		Methodism	various parts of England and from Bombay	c. 1728-1868	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	528.00
824		Metropolitan Fire Brigade order books for 1871-1872 and 1902-1904		1871-1904	GBP 350.00 - 400.00	330.00
825		Naval-American War of Independence		1781	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,640.00
826		Naval-Canada		June to November 1750	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	3,080.00
827		Nineteenth-century theatre			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	715.00
828		Philip II		2 December 1574	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	242.00
829	John Ruskin	Autograph working draft on the aims of the St George's Guild		[c. 1878]	USD 400.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
830	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Autograph letter signed ("RBSheridan") to his brother		14 August, 1788	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	286.00
831	Robert Sidney	Viscount Lisle and first Earl of Leicester of a new creation	Barnards Castle	7 April 1606	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
832	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Autograph draft of an inscription in verse for the pedestal of the statue of Marlowe erected at Canterbury		[c. 1890-1895]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	682.00
833		Theatre			GBP 200.00 - 250.00	275.00
834	Maurice Utrillo	Letter signed	Le Vesinet	24 May 1941	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	71.00
835	Samuel Warren	Part of the autograph draft of his most celebrated work			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	176.00
836	Daniel Webster	Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer	Elmwood		USD 280.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
837	James McNeill Whistler	Legal document signed by Whistler		24 February 1896	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	495.00
838		Wilhelm II	Berlin	21 February 1910	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
839	Elizabeth Yeats	Moving autograph letter signed		(1937)	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	550.00
840	Sir Winston Churchill	Lord Randolph Churchill		1966-1976	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	605.00
841	Sir Winston Churchill	London to Ladysmith via Pretoria		1900	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	374.00
842	Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins	The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	1,650.00
843	Charles Dickens	A Child's Dream of a Star			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	242.00
844	Charles Dickens	The Story of Little Dombey			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
845	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations		1861	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	825.00
846	Charles Dickens	American Notes			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,045.00
847	Charles Dickens	Christmas Books			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,210.00
848	J.C. Charles Dickens-Eckel	The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens		1843	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	715.00
849	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby		1865	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	374.00
850	Charles Dickens	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club		1837	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
851	Charles Dickens	Hunted Down			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
852	Charles Dickens	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	528.00
853	Charles Dickens	Master Humphrey's Clock			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	374.00
854	Charles Dickens	Bentley's Miscellany			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	484.00
855	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist		1838	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
856	Charles Dickens	Sketches of Young Couples		1837	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	187.00
857	Charles Dickens	Sunday Under Three Heads...by Timothy Sparks		1836	USD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
858	Charles Dickens	Sketches by Boz		1838	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
859		The Dickensian		1905-1982	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
860	Charles Dickens	Sketches of Young Gentlemen			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	506.00
861	William Shakespeare	The Plays...A History of the Stage		1805	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	660.00
862		The Adventures of a Valet		1752	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	638.00
863	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	A New Pilgrimage		1807	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	187.00
864	James Boswell	The Decision of the Court of Session		[c. 1750]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
865		The British Essayists		1804-1806	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	418.00
866	Robert Bridges	Poems first edition	Londres	1860	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
867	Charles Dickens	The Cricket Polka			GBP 120.00 - 150.00	209.00
868	Charles Dickens	Sketches by Boz	Philadelphia	1838	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	165.00
869	Charles Dickens	Acting Editions		[?c. 1886]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	330.00
870	Charles Dickens	The Beauties of Pickwick			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
871	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	605.00
872	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol...a Facsimile of the Original Edition			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	176.00
873	Charles Dickens	A Curious Dance round a Curious Tree		[1860]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	1,100.00
874	Charles Dickens	The Adventures of Oliver Twist...A New Edition			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
875	John Dryden	The Comedies			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	143.00
876	Henry Fielding	The Works		1871-1872	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	264.00
877	Henry Fielding	The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
878	Francis Grose	A Provincial Glossary	Amsterdam	1706	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	66.00
879	Samuel Johnson	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland		1815-1818	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	176.00
880	David M. Little and G. M. Kahrl	Literary Biographies and Diaries		1969	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,045.00
881	John Milton	Paradise Lost		1754-1752	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	165.00
882	T. L. Peacock	The Philosophy of Melancholy		1910-1922	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	385.00
883	Alexander Pope	The Works			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	121.00
884	Sir Walter Scott	Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border	Kelso/Edinburgh	1802-1803	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
885	William Shakespeare	The Works		1907	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	352.00
886		Shakespeariana			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	286.00
887	Edmund Spenser	Epithalamion and Amoretti		1880	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	71.00
888	Alfred Tennyson	Helen's Tower		1937	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	528.00
889	R. L. Stevenson	The Works		1904-1910	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	715.00
890	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Virginians		1857-1859	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	132.00
891	William Wycherley	The Complete Works			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	484.00
892	Edmund Blunden	Undertones of War	Florence	30 January 1960	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	396.00
893	Richard Aldington	Images (1910-1915)		(1924)	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
894	Sir Winston Churchill	London to Ladysmith via Pretoria		1908	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	528.00
895	Frederic Corvo	Omar Khayyam		1924	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
896	W. H. Davies	In Winter		1901-1902	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	308.00
897	James Joyce	Ulysses	Paris	1924	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
898	James Joyce	The Joyce Book		[1933]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
899	James Joyce	The Mime of Mick		1930	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
900	T.S. Eliot Charles Whibley	A Memoir		1930	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	176.00

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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