Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING In Property of the late C. Palry Scott, End., K.C. The Property of the late J. B. Oldham, Esq. The Property of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, PARACELSUS,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 29, 1963 - April 29, 1963
Page Size: 904 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 NIXON (HOWARD M.) ROXBURGHE CLUB Oxford

1953

 USD - 168.00
302 Ruskin (John) The arts and pleasures of England

USD - 2.80
303 Sotheby & Co. Book sale catalogues

USD - 2.80
304 Thomas (Sir Henry) Early Spanish bookbindings Oxford

1939

 USD - 14.00
305 Thompson (James Westfall) The medieval library Chicago

1939

 USD - 11.20
306 Weale (W. H. James) and L. Taylor Early stamped bookbindings in the British Museum

1922

 USD - 30.80
307 Verheyden (P.) Tentoonstelling van oud-vlaamsche kunst

USD - 30.80
308 Agrippa (Henricus) De occulta philosophia libri tres Cologne

1533

 USD - 106.40
309 Agrippa (H. C.) La philosophie occulte ou la magie

USD - 67.20
310 Albertus Magnus

USD - 28.00
311 Andraea (J. V.) Dichtungen, contemporary boards

USD - 11.20
312 Bacci (Andrea) Le XII pietre pretiose Rome

1587

 USD - 56.00
313 Bacon (Roger) Opera quadam hactenus inedita

1859

 USD - 22.40
314 Baker (Rev. Mr.) A complete history of the inquisition in Portugal

USD - 39.20
315 Baxter (Richard) The certainty of the world of spirits fully evinced by histories of apparitions and witchcrafts

1691

 USD - 61.60
316 Bocalini (Trajano) I ragguagli di parnasso or advertisements from Parnassus

1656

 USD - 14.00
317 [Cassina (Ubaldo)] Bodoni Press Parma

1783

 USD - 28.00
318 Bosse (Abraham) Traite des manieres de graver en taille-douce Paris

1701

 USD - 16.80
319 [Bragge (Francis)] A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft practised by Jane Wenham

USD - 84.00
320 Caesarius of Heisterbach

USD - 39.20
321 Calef (Robert) Wonders of the invisible world

USD - 22.40
322 Carus (Dr. Paul) The history of the devil

USD - 39.20
323 Christian (P.) Histoire de la magie

USD - 61.60
324 Collin de Plancy (J. A. S.) Le diable peint par lui-meme

USD - 44.80
325 Decremps (Henri) La magie blanche devoilee Paris and Lieges

1789

 USD - 61.60
326 Dessoir (Max ed.) Der Okkultismus in Urkunden

USD - 8.40
327 Dulaure (J. A.) Des divinites generatrices ou du culte du Phallus Paris

1885

 USD - 8.40
328 Du Lude (Comte) Daimonologia or a treatise of spirits

1723

 USD - 33.60
329 Du Prel (Carl) The philosophy of mysticism

USD - 14.00
330 Elworthy (Fred. Thomas) The evil eye, illustrated

1895

 USD - 14.00
331 [Espagnet (Joh. de)] Enchirirdion physicae restitutae

USD - 39.20
332 Figuier (Louis) L'alchimie et les alchimistes

USD - 5.60
333 Figuier (Louis) Histoire du merveilleux

USD - 25.20
334 Garinet (Jules) Histoire de la magie en France

USD - 61.60
335 Gaffarel (Jacques) Curiosite inouyes sur la sculpture Talis-manique des Persanes

USD - 19.60
336 Givry (Grillot de) Le Musee des sorciers Paris

1929

 USD - 14.00
337 Givry (Grillot de) A pictorial anthology of witchcraft

USD - 8.40
338 [Glanvil (Joseph)] A blow at modern sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft

USD - 50.40
339 Godelmann (Joh. Georg) De magis Frankfurt

1591

 USD - 61.60
340 [Gouriet (J. B.)] Les chalatans celebres

USD - 8.40
341 Graber (J. G.) and J. G. Gichtel Eine kurze Eroffnung und Anweisung der dreyen Principien und Welten im Menschen

1723

 USD - 95.20
342 Graesse (J. G. Th.) Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica oder Leipzig

1843

 USD - 16.80
343 [Grandval (Nie. Ragot de)] Le vice puni ou cartouche

USD - 19.60
344 Guazzo (Fr. Maria) Compendium maleficarum

USD - 28.00
345 Hale (Matthew) A collection of modern relations of matter of fact concerning witches and witchcraft

1693

 USD - 33.60
346 Harnack (Adolf von) Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten Leipzig

1915

 USD - 2.80
347 Jennings (Hargraves) The Rosicrucians

USD - 11.20
348 Junctinus Florentinus (Franciscus) Tractatus judicandi revolu-tiones nativitatum Lyons

1570

 USD - 28.00
349 Jung (C. G.) Psychologie und Alchemie

USD - 25.20
350 Karppe (S.) Etude sur les origines et la nature du Zohar

USD - 19.60
351 King (C. W.) The gnostics and their remains

1877

 USD - 14.00
352 Kittredge (G. L.) Witchcraft in old and new England

USD - 36.40
353 Kopp (Hermann) Die Alchemie in alterer und neuerer Zeit

USD - 16.80
354 La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et nouvelles

USD - 8.40
355 Lenglet Dufresnoy (Abbe) Traite historique et dogmatique sur les apparitions

USD - 33.60
356 Lenglet Dufresnoy (Abbe) Traite historique et dogmatique sur les apparitions

USD - 44.80
357 Lenormant (Francois) La magie chez les Chaldeens

USD - 28.00
358 Levi (Eliphas) Dogme et rituel de la haute magie

USD - 33.60
359 Lucretius (T.) De natura rerum

USD - 16.80
360 Macrobius

USD - 28.00
361 Malleus Maleficarum

1928

 USD - 22.40
362 Mather (Cotton) The wonders of the invisible world

USD - 25.20
363 Mcleod (Malcolm) History of witches

USD - 30.80
364 Michelet (J.) Satanism and witchcraft

USD - 25.20
365 Mynsicht (Hadrianus a) Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico-chymicum

USD - 25.20
366 Nevius (Rev. John L.) Demon possession and allied themes

USD - 5.60
367 Paracelsus (Theophrastus) Oeuvres completes

USD - 16.80
368 Parker (G. G.) Piratical barbarity or the female captive comprising the particulars of the capture of the English sloop Eliza-Ann and the sufferings of Miss Lucretia Parker New York

1826

 USD - 30.80
369 Peucer (Caspar) Commentarius de praecipius divinationum generibus Frankfurt

1593

 USD - 19.60
370 Pico de la Mirandola (Francesco) Libro detto Strega overo de le illusioni del demonio Venice

1556

 USD - 89.60
371 Porta (Gio. Battista) Delia celeste fisonomia Padua

1616

 USD - 14.00
372 Porta (Giov. Batt) De humana physiognomonia Rouen

1650

 USD - 11.20
373 Psellus (Michael) Dialogus de energia seu operatione daemonum e Graeco translatus Paris

1577

 USD - 16.80
374 Rabelais (Francois) Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel

USD - 25.20
375 Rensselaer (Mrs. John King van) Prophetical

USD - 25.20
376 Ricius (Paulus) Portae lucis Augsburg

1516

 USD - 56.00
377 Ronphile Paris

1665

 USD - 11.20
378 Roskoff (Gustav) Geschichte des Teufels Leipzig

1869

 USD - 5.60
379 Roskoff (Gustav) Geschichte des Teufels Leipzig

1869

 USD - 5.60
380 Sealiger (J. C.) Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV de subtilitate ad Hier. Cardanum

USD - 28.00
381 Scot (Reginald) The discoverie of witchcraft

1930

 USD - 25.20
382 Seligmann (Kurt) The history of magic

USD - 22.40
383 Sendivogius (Michael) A new light of alchemy

1650

 USD - 168.00
384 Spencer (John) A discourse concerning prodigies

USD - 14.00
385 St. Germain (Comte de) A parallel French and English text of the most holy Trinosophia

USD - 19.60
386 Summers (Montague) The history of witchcraft and demonology

USD - 25.20
387 Swinden (Tobias) An enquiry into the nature and place of hell

USD - 25.20
388 Codd. aucta, a J. Opsopae Brettano Sybillina Oracula ex veter

USD - 11.20
389 Trachtenberg (J.) Jewish magic and superstition

USD - 11.20
390 Transactions of the Phrenological Society

USD - 16.80
391 Tritheim (J.) Traite des causes secondes

USD - 16.80
392 Tulpius (Nicolaus) Observationum medicarum libri tres Amsterdam

USD - 42.00
393 Ulstadt (Philippus) Coelum philosophorum seu liber de secretis naturae Lyons

1572

 USD - 28.00
394 Vair (Leonard) Trois livres des charmes Paris

1583

 USD - 53.20
395 Valeranius (Pierius) Hieroglyphica seu de sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis commentarii Venice

1604

 USD - 11.20
396 Vallemont (L. L. de) La physique occulte ou traite de la baguette divinatoire

USD - 33.60
397 [Vaughan (Thos.)] Lumen de lumine oder ein neues magisches Licht

USD - 16.80
398 Waite (Arthur Edward) The brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

1924

 USD - 2.80
399 Waite (Arthur Edward) Lives of the alchemystical philosophers

USD - 16.80
400 Wier (Jean) Histoires Paris

1885

 USD - 14.00
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    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.
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    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.
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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.