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
98 [Butler (Samuel)] Hudibras

USD - 19.20
99 D'Urfey (Thomas) Love for money

1691

 USD - 43.20
100 Jonson (Ben) Works

1692

 USD - 168.00
101 Guide (The) of a Christian

1696

 USD - 33.60
102 Potter (John) Archaeologiae Graecae: or, the antiquities of Greece Oxford

1697-99

 USD - 21.60
103 [Morgan (Hugh)] A new theory of Agriculture

1702

 USD - 180.00
104 Woodward (John) Fossils of all kinds

1728

 USD - 84.00
105 Harrison (Mrs. Sarah, of Devonshire) The House-keeper's Pocket-Book

1733

 USD - 60.00
106 Henderson (William Augustus) The Housekeeper's Instructor

[c. 1798]

 USD - 24.00
107 Haslehurst (Priscilla) The Family Friend Sheffield

1802

 USD - 24.00
108 Frazer (Mrs., Confectioner, Teacher of these Arts in Edinburgh) The Practice of Cookery Edinburgh

1806

 USD - 19.20
109 T[ull] (J[ethro]) The horse-hoing husbandry

1733-40

 USD - 132.00
110 Packe (Jose Mac) Ichnographic distributions for small villas

1735

 USD - 48.00
111 Price (Francis) The British carpenter

1735

 USD - 67.20
112 Bible Oxford

1743

 USD - 24.00
113 Caesar (Caius Julius) The Commentaries of Cassar

1753

 USD - 33.60
114 Book of Common Prayer (The)

USD - 52.80
115 Shakespeare (William) Plays

USD - 62.40
116 Warton (Thomas) The history of English poetry

1774-81

 USD - 43.20
117 Evelyn (John) Silva York

1776

 USD - 24.00
118 Raffald (Elizabeth) The Experienced English Housekeeper

1776

 USD - 43.20
119 Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades

USD - 76.80
120 Edmondson (Joseph) A Complete Body of Heraldry

1780

 USD - 28.80
120A Fielding (Henry) The History of Tom Jones

USD - 12.00
121 Clark (Hugh) A concise history of knighthood

USD - 19.20
122 Wilson (W.) The post-chaise companion Dublin

1786

 USD - 115.20
123 Slavery

USD - 180.00
124 Cooper (Sir Astley P.) Surgical lectures 1793

USD - 72.00
125 Hawes (Robert) and Robert Loder The history of Framlingham

1798

 USD - 19.20
126 Davies (Edward) Celtic researches on the origin

USD - 38.40
127 Inchbald (Mrs., Editor) The British theatre

1808

 USD - 33.60
128 Culpeper ([Nicholas]) Complete herbal

USD - 38.40
129 [Austen (Jane)] Emma FIRST EDITION

1816

 USD - 156.00
130 HOGARTH (WILLIAM) WORKS

1822

 USD - 288.00
131 COBBETT (WILLIAM) A French grammar

USD - 204.00
132 Duelling

1824

 USD - 24.00
133 Baxter (George) The Pictorial Album

1837

 USD - 48.00
133A Dickens (Charles) The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

1837

 USD - 38.00
134 Murchison (Sir Roderick Impey) On the distribution of the flint drift of the south-east of England

1851

 USD - 43.20
135 Dickens (Charles) Bleak House

USD - 9.60
136 Marryat (Capt. Frederick) Peter Simple

USD - 38.40
137 CASS (FREDERICK CHARLES) South Mimms

USD - 52.80
138 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems

1899

 USD - 98.00
139 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Atalanta in Corydon

1899

 USD - 91.20
140 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Erectheus: a tragedy

1894

 USD - 98.00
141 VALLANCE (AYMER) The art of William Morris

1897

 USD - 336.00
142 Skelton (Sir John) Charles I original scarlet morocco

USD - 57.60
143 Walpole (Horace, Earl of Oxford) Letters

1891

 USD - 28.80
144 Chesterfield (Lord) Cartas Completas a su Hijo Felipe Stanhope Paris and Mexico

1890

 USD - 7.20
145 Woodward (John) and George Burnett A Treatise on Heraldry

1892

 USD - 43.20
146 Garnett (Richard) and Edmund Gosse English literature

1903

 USD - 33.60
147 Shakespeare (William) Works

1904-07

 USD - 108.00
147A New Numbers Gloucester

1914

 USD - 76.80
148 Stevenson (Robert Louis) Works

1922-23

 USD - 91.20
149 Farington (Joseph) The Farington Diary

1922-28

 USD - 33.60
150 Woodforde (James) The Diary of a Country Parson

1926-31

 USD - 38.40
151 Byng (Hon. John) The Torrington Diaries

1934-38

 USD - 33.60
152 Cobbett (William) Rural Rides

1930

 USD - 72.00
153 Frazer (Sir J. G.) The golden bough

1936

 USD - 28.80
154 Sassoon (Siegfried) Sherston's Progress

USD - 38.40
155 Blake (William) For the sexes The gates of paradise

1925

 USD - 33.60
156 APOCALYPSE OF GERONA Olten and Lausanne

1962

 USD - 288.00
157 BOOK OF DURROW Lausanne and Freiburg

1960

 USD - 216.00
158 BOOK OF KELLS Berne

1950-51

 USD - 1,920.00
159 LINDISFARNE GOSPELS Olten and Lausanne

1956-60

 USD - 360.00
160 Alcuin Press

1930

 USD - 16.80
161 Alcuin Press

1930

 USD - 16.80
162 Argonaut Press

1927

 USD - 43.20
163 Argonaut Press

1928

 USD - 38.40
164 Argonaut Press

1930

 USD - 67.20
165 Argonaut Press

1931

 USD - 43.20
166 Argonaut Press

1935

 USD - 57.60
167 Argonaut Press

1938

 USD - 33.60
168 Balzac (Honore de) The Physiology of Marriage

USD - 33.60
169 Barrie (Sir James Matthew) The Admirable Crichton

[1914]

 USD - 31.20
170 Brangwyn (Frank) Belgium

1916

 USD - 4.80
171 Butler (Samuel) Hudibras

1822

 USD - 67.20
172 Chatterton (E. Keble) Ship-Models

1923

 USD - 43.20
173 Chatterton (E. Keble) Old Sea Paintings

1928

 USD - 84.00
174 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Works

USD - 28.80
175 Bunyan (John) Cresset Press

1928

 USD - 110.40
176 Painter (William) Cresset Press

1929

 USD - 91.20
177 Dickens (Charles) Works

USD - 28.80
178 Dulac (Edmund) Picture-Book for the French Red Cross

USD - 48.00
179 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faust

1908

 USD - 14.40
180 Golden Cockerel Press

1936

 USD - 57.60
181 Green (J. R.) A Short History of the English People

1901

 USD - 19.20
182 Kingsley (Charles) Works

USD - 91.20
183 Maupassant (Guy de) Life Work

1903

 USD - 28.80
184 Congreve (William) Nonesuch Press

1923

 USD - 91.20
185 Burton (Robert, "Democritus Junior") Nonesuch Press

1925

 USD - 67.20
186 King (Bishop Henry) Nonesuch Press

1925

 USD - 24.00
187 Otway (Thomas) Nonesuch Press

1926

 USD - 62.40
188 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) NONESUCH PRESS

1929-33

 USD - 336.00
189 Farquhar (George) Nonesuch Press

1930

 USD - 91.20
190 DRYDEN (JOHN) NONESUCH PRESS

1931 -32

 USD - 192.00
191 White (Gilbert) Nonesuch Press

1938

 USD - 67.20
192 Vaughan (Henry, "Silurist") Nonesuch Press

1933

 USD - 33.60
193 Hudson (W. H.) Nonesuch Press

USD - 38.40
194 Pietsch (Ludwig) Contemporary German Art at the centenary Festival of the Royal Academy of Arts

USD - 7.20
  • <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.