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
601 Veth (P. J.) and others Midden-Sumatra Leyden

1881-92

 USD - 19.60
602 Wathen (James) Journal of a Voyage

1814

 USD - 14.00
603 Wilson (Capt. James) A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean

1799

 USD - 16.80
604 Yule (Sir Henry) A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855

1858

 USD - 50.40
605 Clement V (Pope) Constitutiones

21 November 1471

 USD - 44.80
606 Nicolaus de Auximo [Venice]

30 November 1473

 USD - 84.00
607 Nider (Johannes) Praeceptorium divinae legis Augsburg

24 May, 1475

 USD - 182.00
608 Livius (Titus) Historiae Romanae decades Milan

23 October 1480

 USD - 84.00
609 Festus (Sextus Pompeius) De verborum significatione Parma

1480

 USD - 89.60
610 Textor (Guilelmus) Sermones tres de passione Christi [and two other tracts] Strassburg [Martin Flach]

18 October 1490

 USD - 72.80
611 Camanus (Joannes Antonius) Opera [edited by Michael Fernus] Rome

31 October, 1495

 USD - 50.40
612 Riederer (Friedrich) Spiegel der waren rhetoric uss Marco Tulio Cicerone und anderen getutscht Strassburg, Johannes Priiss

1509

 USD - 25.20
613 Romischer Catechismus welcher auss befelch Baepstlicher Hailigkeit Pii des funfften nach hievor gegebner Ordnung des hailigen zu Triendt gehaltenen Concilii Ingolstadt

1577

 USD - 11.20
614 Reineccius (R., ed.) Chronicon Alberti

1587

 USD - 11.20
615 Troyes Troyes

1530

 USD - 61.60
616 Driedo a Turnhout (Johannes) De captivitate et redemptione humani generis Louvain

1534

 USD - 44.80
617 Paradin (Claude) Alliances genealogiques des rois et princes de Gaule

USD - 22.40
618 Ovid

USD - 39.20
619 Porta (Giovanni Battista) Phytognomonica Napes

1589 [dated at end 1588]

 USD - 95.20
620 Lottini (Giov. Angiolo) Scelta d'alcuni miracoli e grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze Florence

1619

 USD - 11.20
621 Cervantes de Saaverdra (Michel di) Dell'ingegnoso cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancha Venice

1625

 USD - 210.00
622 Severino (Aurelio) La filosofia overo il perche degli scacchi Naples

1690

 USD - 16.80
623 Melzo (Lodovico) Regole militari sopra il governo Antwerp

1611

 USD - 36.40
624 Schoonhovius (Fl.) Emblemata Gouda

1618

 USD - 33.60
625 Callot (Jacques) Les miseres et les malheurs de la guerre Paris

1633

 USD - 28.00
626 Nadasd (Count Franciscus de) Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum regni Apostolici regum Nuremburg

1664

 USD - 25.20
627 La Rochefoucauld (Francois, duc de) Memoires sur les brigues a la mort de Louys XIII Cologne

1662

 USD - 19.60
628 Corneille (Pierre) Theatre Paris

1664

 USD - 42.00
629 Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti V Lyons

1680

 USD - 25.20
630 Buonarruoti (Fil.) Osservazioni sopra alcuni frammenti di vasi antichi Florence

1716

 USD - 8.40
631 Poggio Bracciolini (Gian Francesco) Historia Florentina

USD - 5.60
632 Leonardo da Vinci Trattato della Pittura Naples

1733

 USD - 22.40
633 Iconographia Caesarea Pinacothecae

USD - 14.00
634 Bodoni Press

1817

 USD - 16.80
635 Sefer Haminhagim printed in Hebrew throughout Amsterdam

1734

 USD - 25.20
636 Santa Clara (Abrahama) De wel voorziene wynkelder Amsterdam

1742

 USD - 19.60
637 Diarium Frankfurt

1742

 USD - 78.40
638 Bible in Danish

USD - 19.60
639 Manuscript Maps

USD - 2.80
640 Manuscript Maps

USD - 5.60
641 Boileau Despreaux (Nicholas) Oeuvres The Hague

1729

 USD - 5.60
642 Senault (L.) Heures nouvelles tirees de la Sainte Ecriture Paris

[c. 1750]

 USD - 56.00
643 Almanach Royal Paris

1783

 USD - 39.20
644 Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe) Les Aventures de Telemaque [Paris]

1785

 USD - 78.40
645 Gessner (Salomon) Oeuvres completes Paris

1778-82

 USD - 19.60
646 Laclos (Pierre Choderlos de) Les Liasons Dangereuses Amsterdam

1782

 USD - 39.20
647 La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et nouvelles en vers Paris

1792

 USD - Not Sold
648 Diderot (Denis) Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre [Switzerland]

1772

 USD - 56.00
649 [Mirabeau (Honore-Gabriel Riquetti Comte de)] Errotika Biblion Rome

1783

 USD - 30.80
650 [Restif de la Bretonne (N.E.)] Le pornographe

1769

 USD - 39.20
651 VOLTAIRE (F. M. AROUET DE) LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS Paris

[1799]

 USD - 210.00
652 Hamilton (Count Anthony) Memoirs of Count Grammont

1809

 USD - 11.20
653 Blondeau (Nicholas) Dictionnaire Erotique Latin-Francais

USD - 67.20
654 Martial (M.V.) The Index Expurgatorius literally translated

1868

 USD - 16.80
655 Aretino (Pietro) The Ragionamenti Paris

1889

 USD - 22.40
656 R. B. Douglas Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles Paris

[1899]

 USD - 14.00
657 Straporola (G.F.) The most delectable nights Paris

1906

 USD - 14.00
658 Guillie (Dr. S.) Essai sur l'instruction des aveugles

USD - 11.20
659 Landscape Francais (Le) France, plates Paris

1834

 USD - 19.60
660 Laveau (G. Lecointe de) Description de Moscou

USD - 16.80
661 Begin (Emile) Voyage pittoresque en Espagne et en Portugal Paris

USD - 39.20
662 Baron (A.) La Belgique monumentale

USD - 2.80
663 Le Gras (M.) Album des pavillons Paris

1858

 USD - 50.40
664 Embroidery London

c. 1800

 USD - 28.00
665 Bertuch (F. J.) Bilderbuch fur Kinder

USD - 210.00
666 Bonnard (Camille) Costumi Rome

1827

 USD - 16.80
667 Stackeiberg (O.M., Baron von) Costumes et usages des peuples de la Grece moderne Rome

1825

 USD - 350.00
668 Belin Paris

(c. 1860)

 USD - 11.20
669 Camine and Regamey Costumes Suedois Paris

[c. 1860]

 USD - 11.20
670 Bildermagazin der Allgemeinen Modezeitung Leipzig

1843-47

 USD - 44.80
671 Moniteur de la mode (Le) for 1875 Paris

1875-86

 USD - 78.40
672 De Ridder (G.) Catalogue et description bibliographique d'une collection de livres et gravures sur le costume militaire

USD - 25.20
673 La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Paris

1842

 USD - 8.40
674 Lacroix (P.) XVIIe siecle Paris

1875

 USD - 11.20
675 Swift (Jonathan) Voyages de Gulliver, one of 100 copies on papier du Japan Paris

[1884]

 USD - 8.40
676 Doucet (J.) Notre ami Pierrot

[c. 1890]

 USD - 14.00
677 Moliere (J. B. P. de) Le bourgeois gentilhomee

USD - 8.40
678 Vuillier (Gaston) La danse Paris

1898

 USD - 11.20
679 Uzanne (Octave) Son Altese la femme

USD - 16.80
680 Uzanne (O.) Les Zigzags d'un curieux [Paris]

1874

 USD - 14.00
681 Uxanne (O.) La locomotion a travers l'histoire et les moeurs Paris

1900

 USD - 39.20
682 Noronha (E. de) Historia das Toiradas Lisbon

1900

 USD - 2.80
683 Grand-Carteret (John) La montagne a travers les ages Grenoble

1903-04

 USD - 2.80
684 Allemagne (Henry-Rene d') Les Saint-Simoniens Paris

1930

 USD - 30.80
685 MAUPASSANT (GUY DE) La Maison Tellier Paris

1934

 USD - 72.80
686 Rouault (Georges) Stella Vespertina Paris

1947

 USD - 11.20
687 Boccioni (U.) Pittura Milan

1914

 USD - 33.60
688 Futurism

USD - 11.20
689 Marinetti (E. T.) Zang Tumb Tuuum Adrianopoli Ottobre 1912 parole in liberta Milan

1914

 USD - 22.40
690 Glatz (Jacob) Childrens Books

USD - 11.20
691 Childrens Books Paris

USD - 25.20
692 Childrens Books London

1870-80

 USD - 67.20
693 Childrens Books

USD - 25.20
694 Doyle (R.) Jack the giant killer

USD - 28.00
695 Edwards (B.) Childrens Books

USD - 14.00
696 Childrens Books Paris

[c. 1905]

 USD - 30.80
697 Greenaway (Kate) Almanack for 1884

1884

 USD - 36.40
698 Greenaway (Kate) Under the window

USD - 16.80
699 Greenaway (Kate) [A collection of 12 alphabets]

USD - 25.20
700 Tyas (Robert) Favourite Field Flowers

USD - 56.00
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    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.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.