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
195 Rabelais (Francois) The five books and minor writings

USD - 14.40
196 Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice

USD - 14.40
197 Shadwell (Thomas) Works

1927

 USD - 120.00
198 Shakespeare Head Press Oxford

1930-31

 USD - 100.80
199 SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS Oxford

1931-34

 USD - 480.00
200 Soncino Press

1929

 USD - 24.00
201 Spenser (Edmund) Faerie Queene

1895-97

 USD - 52.80
202 Walton (Isaac) and Charles Cotton The Compleat Angler

1750

 USD - 43.20
203 Bacon (Francis) Of Gardens

1904

 USD - 132.00
204 Davies (W. H.) Gregynog Press

1933

 USD - 21.60
205 MORRIS (WILLIAM) KELMSCOTT PRESS

1894

 USD - 1,440.00
206 Kelmscott Press

1894

 USD - 52.80
207 Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Kelmscott Press

1895

 USD - 57.60
208 Morris (William) Kelmscott Press

1898

 USD - 132.00
209 Kingsley (Charles) Riccardi Press

1912

 USD - 115.20
210 Gay (John) Fables

1793

 USD - 132.00
211 Spenser (Edmund) Kelmscott Press

1896

 USD - 144.00
212 Kelmscott Press

1896

 USD - 108.00
213 Kelmscott Press

1897

 USD - 132.00
214 LANDOR (WALTER SAVAGE) WORKS

1927-36

 USD - 312.00
215 NONESUCH PRESS

1924-27

 USD - 672.00
216 Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of) Nonesuch Press

USD - 57.60
217 Nonesuch Press

1928

 USD - 144.00
218 Nonesuch Press

1930

 USD - 91.20
219 Nonesuch Press

1935

 USD - 132.00
220 White (Gilbert) Nonesuch Press

1938

 USD - 76.80
221 Nonesuch Press

USD - 2.40
222 Pater (Walter) Works

1900-01

 USD - 72.00
223 Rackham (Arthur)-Swift (Jonathan) Gulliver's Travels

1909

 USD - 132.00
224 Boswell (James) Private Papers

1951-57

 USD - 48.00
225 Flint (Sir W. Russell) Models of Propriety

1951

 USD - 48.00
226 Golden Cockerel Press

1947

 USD - 132.00
227 Golden Cockerel Press

1950

 USD - 108.00
228 Golden Cockerel Press

1951

 USD - 115.20
229 Golden Cockerel Press

1952

 USD - 132.00
230 Golden Cockerel Press

1955

 USD - 96.00
231 Golden Cockerel Press

1956

 USD - 132.00
232 Golden Cockerel Press

1956

 USD - 52.80
233 Golden Cockerel Press

1958

 USD - 156.00
234 Golden Cockerel Press

USD - 28.80
235 Maugham (W. Somerset) Cakes and Ale

1954

 USD - 52.80
236 HERBERT (GEORGE) GREGYNOG PRESS

1923

 USD - 216.00
237 Herbert (George) Gregynog Press

1923

 USD - 12.00
238 GREGYNOG PRESS

1924

 USD - 240.00
239 Jones (J. Lloyd, Editor) Gregynog Press

1925

 USD - 19.20
240 THOMAS (EDWARD) GREGYNOG PRESS

1926

 USD - 408.00
241 Jones (T. Gwynn) Gregynog Press

1926

 USD - 14.40
242 Rhys (Ernest, Editor) Gregynog Press

1927

 USD - 204.00
243 THOMAS (EDWARD) GREGYNOG PRESS

1927

 USD - 456.00
244 Davies (W. H.) Gregynog Press

1928

 USD - 33.60
245 PEACOCK (THOMAS LOVE) GREGYNOG PRESS

1928

 USD - 480.00
246 Rossetti (Christina) Gregynog Press

1930

 USD - 84.00
247 Wynne (Ellis) Gregynog Press

1940

 USD - 132.00
248 Seventeen prospectuses Gregynog Press

USD - 67.20
249 Gregynog Press

USD - 7.20
250 Davies (W. H.) Gregynog Press

1928

 USD - 19.20
251 Gregynog Press

1928

 USD - 48.00
252 Gregynog Press

1928

 USD - 28.80
253 Peacock (Thomas Love) Gregynog Press

1928

 USD - 67.20
254 Gregynog Press

1929

 USD - 72.00
255 Gregynog Press

1930

 USD - 33.60
256 Gregynog Press

1931

 USD - 115.20
257 Gregynog Press

1931

 USD - 132.00
258 Butler (Samuel) Gregynog Press

1932

 USD - 52.80
259 Gregynog Press

1932

 USD - 108.00
260 Davies (W. H.) Gregynog Press

1933

 USD - 14.40
261 Edwards (Owen) Gregynog Press

1933

 USD - 4.80
262 Vine Press

USD - 28.80
263 Sisson (Marjorie) The Cave

[1957]

 USD - 52.80
264 Vine Press

[1957]

 USD - 2.40
265 Fitzgibbon (Constantine) Vine Press

[1959]

 USD - 24.00
266 Read (Sir Herbert) Vine Press

[1960]

 USD - 43.20
267 Read (Sir Herbert) Vine Press

USD - 43.20
268 Read (Sir Herbert) Vine Press

[1962]

 USD - 24.00
269 Ansell (Evelyn) Vine Press

[1963]

 USD - 48.00
270 designed by Peter Foster [1961] Membership Appeal for St. James' Church, Hemingford Grey

[1961]

 USD - 62.40
271 VINE PRESS

USD - 144.00
272 Eragny Press

1901

 USD - 108.00
273 Nash (Paul) Golden Cockerel Press

1934

 USD - 43.20
274 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Golden Cockerel Press

1942

 USD - 216.00
275 Philby (H. St J B.) Golden Cockerel Press

1943

 USD - 52.80
276 Gregynog Press

1932

 USD - 100.80
277 Cavendish (George) Kelmscott Press

1893

 USD - 144.00
278 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Kelmscott Press

1896

 USD - 84.00
279 Nonesuch Press

1924-27

 USD - 52.80
280 Melville (Herman) Nonesuch Press

1926

 USD - 7.20
281 Otway (Thomas) Nonesuch Press

1926

 USD - 48.00
282 Blake (William) Nonesuch Press

1927

 USD - 67.20
283 Nonesuch Press

1928

 USD - 156.00
284 DICKENS (CHARLES) NONESUCH PRESS

1937-38

 USD - 528.00
285 White (Gilbert) Nonesuch Press

1938

 USD - 67.20
286 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS Stratford-on-Avon

1904-07

 USD - 91.20
287 FROISSART (JEAN) SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS Oxford

1927-28

 USD - 264.00
288 Marlowe (Christopher) and George Chapman Hero and Leander

1894

 USD - 21.60
289 Mansfield (Katherine) Verona Press

1939

 USD - 52.80
290 Costume (The) of the Russian Empire

1804

 USD - 120.00
291 [Svinine (Paul)] Sketches of Russia

1814

 USD - 28.80
292 [Combe (William)] The English dance of death

1815-6

 USD - 38.40
293 Egan (Pierce) Life in London Sherwood

1821

 USD - 192.00
294 Thomson (Hugh)-Sheridan (Richard B.) The school for scandal

USD - 76.80
  • <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.
  • <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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