Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, AUTUMN,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 07, 1968 - October 07, 1968
Page Size: 958 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
888 Worlidge (John) Systema agriculturae

1681

 USD - 62.40
889 Worlidge (John) Systema horti-culturae

1688

 USD - 24.00
890 Wright (Joseph) English dialect dictionary

1898-1905

 USD - 67.20
891 Year books

1562

 USD - 456.00
892 Year books

1620

 USD - 204.00
893 Young (Arthur) The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms

1770

 USD - 52.80
894 Young (Arthur) The farmer's tour through the east of England

1771

 USD - 108.00
895 YOUNG (ARTHUR) TRAVELS Bury

1792

 USD - 144.00
896 CARLYLE (THOMAS) PENCIL SKETCH OF HIMSELF

USD - 91.20
896A Basile (Giambattista) Stories from the Pentamerone

1911

 USD - 7.20
897 Begbie (H.) and Carruthers Gould The Political Struwwelpeper

USD - 38.40
898 Berkshire

USD - 38.40
899 Brangwyn (Frank)-Sparrow (W. Shaw) A Book of Bridges

USD - 24.00
900 Bulloch (J. M.); and others Modern Pen Drawings: European and American

USD - 16.80
901 Carlyle (Thomas) Past and Present

1897

 USD - 43.20
902 Churchill (Charles) Poems

1887

 USD - 43.20
903 Cruikshank (George) The Bachelors Own Book

1903

 USD - 26.40
904 Evans (Marian) "George Eliot" Silas Marner Edinburgh and London

1861

 USD - 9.60
905 Gay (John) Fables

1733-38

 USD - 19.20
906 Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield Grenoble

1927

 USD - 16.80
907 Henderson (T. F.) James I and VI

1904

 USD - 9.60
908 Hubbard (Elbert) A Message to Garcia

USD - 67.20
909 Lever (Charles) Our Mess

1850-1866

 USD - 33.60
910 Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) The Song of Hiawatha

1855

 USD - 312.00
911 Lydekker (R.) Animal Portraiture

1912

 USD - 38.40
912 Lyttelton (George, Lord) Poems

1872

 USD - 38.40
913 [Merigot (J.)] A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity

1815

 USD - 52.80
914 Poetical Magazine

1818

 USD - 45.60
915 Rackham (Arthur) A scrapbook containing over two |hundred plain and coloured illustrations for "Alice in Wonderland"

USD - 38.40
916 Roberte the Deuyll

1798

 USD - 12.00
917 Robertson (David) A Tour through the Isle of Man

1815

 USD - 57.60
918 Scott (Sir Walter) Guy Mannering Edinburgh

1829

 USD - 52.80
919 Strand Magazine

1891-1901

 USD - 24.00
920 Swift (Jonathan) A Tale of a Tub

1763

 USD - 38.40
921 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Death of Oenone

1927

 USD - 38.40
922 Thackeray (W. M.) The History of Pendennis

1858-59

 USD - 33.60
923 Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton The Complete Angler

1815

 USD - 31.20
924 Dickens (Charles) The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

1837

 USD - 36.00
924A Bosio (Giacomo) Histoire des chevaliers de l'ordre de S. Jean de Hierusalem Paris

1629

 USD - 168.00
925 Cabala sive Scrinia Sacra

1663

 USD - 28.80
926 Calepinus (Ambrosius) Dictionarium Venice

1579

 USD - 33.60
927 Evelyn (John) Numismata

1697

 USD - 60.00
928 Fuller (Thomas) A pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the confines thereof

1650

 USD - 132.00
929 Guerin (Verani) Recueil des principales antiquites de la ville de Nimes dessinees d'apres nature Rome and Florence

(c. 1870-80?)

 USD - 19.20
930 Kneller (Sir Godfrey) and J. Faber The Kit-Cat Club done from the original paintings of Sir Godfrey Kneller

1735

 USD - 38.40
931 Mercurialis (Hieronymus) Praelectiones Pisanae Venice

1597

 USD - 16.80
932 Planche (James Robinson) A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of dress

1876-79

 USD - 60.00
933 Plumier (Charles) L'art de tourner ou faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour Paris

1706

 USD - 84.00
934 Robinson (P. F.) Designs for ornamental villas second edition

1827

 USD - 33.60
935 Tacitus (Cornelius) The Annales

1598

 USD - 100.80
936 Talbot (W. A.) Forest Flora of the Bombay presidency and Sind Poona

1909-11

 USD - 28.80
937 Trials

USD - 31.20
938 Vertue (George) A description of the works of... Wenceslaus Hollar

1759

 USD - 624.00
939 [Chrystin (J. B.) and F. and P. Foppens] Les delices des Pays-bas Brussels

1697

 USD - 12.00
940 L'Enclos (Anne, called Ninon de) Memoirs

1776

 USD - 19.20
941 Sweet (Robert) The British flower garden

1823-27

 USD - 144.00
942 Thudichum (J. L. W.) and August Dupre A treatise on the origin

1872

 USD - 14.40
943 Wine

USD - 57.60
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.