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
395 Corpus iuris civilis Geneva

1614

 USD - 9.60
396 Plautus [Comoediae] [Comoediae] Geneva,

1622

 USD - 43.20
397 Perez d'Aleccio (Matteo) Disegni della guerra assedio et assalti dati dall' armata Turchesca all' isola di Malta l'anno MDLXV Bologna

1631

 USD - 768.00
398 Grotius (Hugo) De mari libero Leiden

1633

 USD - 28.80
399 Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius) Meditations

1635

 USD - 9.60
399A Fuller (Thomas) The historie of the holy warre Cambridge

1639

 USD - Not Sold
400 Perez (Antonio) Obras y relaciones Geneva

1644

 USD - 2.40
401 Erasmus (Desiderius) De conscribendis epistolas

USD - 52.80
402 Galilei (Galileo) Opere Bologna

1655-6

 USD - 312.00
403 Segoing (Charles) Tresor heraldique ou mercure armorial

USD - 52.80
404 D'Argentre (B.) Commentarii in Patrias Britonum Leges

USD - 12.00
405 Du Fresne (Raphael T.) Briefve histoire de l'institution des ordres religieux Paris

1658

 USD - 14.40
406 Moret (Joseph de) Annales del Reyno de Navarra

USD - 24.00
407 Willughby (Francis) Ornithologiae Libri Tres

1676

 USD - 120.00
408 Agostini (Leonardo) Gemmae et sculpturae antiquae depictae

1685

 USD - 26.40
409 [Dellon (C.)] Relation de l'inquisition de Goa Paris

1688

 USD - 14.40
410 Belarmino (Roberto) Declaracion de la doctrina Christiana Barcelona

[1690]

 USD - 7.20
411 Chronicon Saxonicum Oxford

1692

 USD - 48.00
412 Leusden (Johannes) Philologus Hebraeus Utrecht

1694

 USD - 33.60
412A Milton (John) The poetical works

1695

 USD - 100.80
413 Burchardus (Johannes) Historia Arcana sive de Vita Alexandri VI

1697

 USD - 19.20
414 [Mortier (Pieter)] Historie des ouden en nieuwen Testaments Amsterdam

1700

 USD - 100.80
415 Cunaeus (Petrus) De republica Hebraeorum Leiden

1703

 USD - 14.40
416 [Hamilton (Count Anthony)] Memoires de la vie du comte de Gram-mont Cologne

1713

 USD - 72.00
417 [Selincour (De)] Apologie de la Louange Paris

1717

 USD - 115.20
418 [Sorel (Charles)] La vraye histoire comique de Francion composee par Nicolas de Moulinet Leiden

1721

 USD - 12.00
418A Camoens (Luis de) Os Lusiadas con es argumentos do Joan Franco Barreto Lisbon

1721

 USD - 48.00
419 Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone

USD - 57.60
420 Voltaire (Francois M. Arouet, called) Le siecle de Louis XIV

1752

 USD - 24.00
421 Schioppalalba (Joannes B.) In perantiquam sacram tabulam graecam insigni sodalitio Sanctae Mariae Venice

1767

 USD - 4.80
422 Beaumarchais (Pierre A. Caron de) Memoires Paris

1774

 USD - 24.00
423 Lens (Andre) Le costume ou essai sur les habillements et les usages de plusieurs peuples de l'antiquite

1776

 USD - 33.60
424 Calepinus (Ambrosius) Septem linguarum Venice

1778

 USD - 16.80
425 Anacreon

1780

 USD - 19.20
426 Moreau le jeune (J. M.) Figures de l'histoire de France

USD - 62.40
427 Bertoldi (Francesco L.) Memorie storiche d' argenta Ferrara

1787-1815

 USD - 16.80
428 Vieweg (Wilhelm) Tabellarisches Verzeichniss der in der Churmark Brandenburg einheimischen Schmetterlinge Berlin

1789-90

 USD - 24.00
429 Capodieci (Giuseppe M.) La calligrafia Syracuse

1794

 USD - 21.60
430 Callot (Jacques) De droeve ellendigheden van den oorloogh

USD - 48.00
431 [Le Vacher de Chamois (Jean Charles)] Recherches sur les costumes et sur les theatres de toutes les nations Paris

1802

 USD - 132.00
432 Bouilly (J. N.) Neue Erzahlungen fur das fruhere Jugendalter Leipzig

1826

 USD - 9.60
433 St. Martial (Vicomte de Calvimont) Appel au patriotisme Francais

USD - 76.80
434 Gavarni Paris

1846-8

 USD - 48.00
435 Saint-Simon (Louis, Duc de) Memoires Complets et Authentiques Paris

1856-58

 USD - 96.00
436 Sand (Maurice) Masques et Bouffons Paris

1860

 USD - 72.00
437 Villiers de l'Isle Adam (Comte de) Axel Paris

1890

 USD - 33.60
438 D'Annunzio (Gabriele) La Nave Milan

1908

 USD - 12.00
439 Stephenson (John) and James Morss Churchill Medical Botany

1828-29-36

 USD - 96.00
440 Woodville (William) Medical Botany

1790-94

 USD - 108.00
441 Sowerby (James) and Sir James Edward Smith English Botany

[1832]

 USD - 7.20
442 Dioscorides (P.) Delia historia & materia medicinale Delia historia & materia medicinale Venice

1544

 USD - 100.80
443 Ambrosinus (Hyacinthus) Phytologiae hoc est de plantis Bologna

1666

 USD - 144.00
444 BONNET (CHARLES) RECHERCHES SUR L'USAGE DES FEUILLES DANS LES PLANTES RECHERCHES SUR L'USAGE DES FEUILLES DANS LES PLANTES Gottingen & Leyden

1754

 USD - 144.00
445 Bewick (Thomas) A general history of quadrupeds Newcastle

1791

 USD - 38.40
446 Bewick (Thomas) History of British birds Newcastle

1797-1804-1821

 USD - 144.00
447 Bewick (Thomas and John) Select fables Newcastle

1820

 USD - 91.20
448 White (Reverend Gilbert) A naturalist's calendar

USD - 19.20
449 Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica translated ... by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover

1912

 USD - 100.80
450 LINNE (Sir CHARLES) GENERA PLANTARUM Leiden

1742

 USD - 144.00
451 Fessard (Claude) [30 engraved plates of dogs, cats, pigeons, cocks, horses and other animals]

USD - 67.20
452 Hulme (F. Edward) Familiar wild flowers Cassell

[n.d., c.1897]

 USD - 2.40
453 Johnson (Charles) The ferns of Great Britain

USD - 19.20
454 Thorburn (Archibald) A naturalist's sketch book

1919

 USD - 168.00
455 Blackwall (John) A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland

1861-64

 USD - 76.80
456 Albin (Eleazar) A Natural History of English Song-Birds

1741

 USD - 14.40
457 Shelley (G. E.) A handbook of the birds of Egypt

[1872]

 USD - 12.00
457A ELWES (H. J.) AND A. HENRY THE TREES OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND Edinburgh

1906-13

 USD - 480.00
458 Howard (H. Eliot) The British warblers

1907-15

 USD - 132.00
459 Audubon (John J.) The birds of America

1937

 USD - 43.20
460 Scott (Peter) Wild chorus

1938

 USD - 124.80
461 JACKSON (Sir FREDERICK J,) The birds of Kenya colony and the Uganda protectorate

1938

 USD - 216.00
462 Delacour (Jean) The waterfowl of the world

1954-59

 USD - 48.00
463 Wallace (Alfred R.) Darwinism

USD - 48.00
464 Turbervile (George) The books of faulconrie [together with The noble arte of venerie]

1575

 USD - 52.80
465 Latham (Simon) Falconry

1615-18

 USD - 108.00
466 Campbell (James) A treatise of modern faulconry Edinburgh

1773

 USD - 60.00
467 Harting (James E.) Hints on the management of hawks

USD - 48.00
467A Lydekker (Richard) Wild life of the world

USD - 19.20
467B Wardrop (Major General A. E.) and others Days and nights with Indian big game

USD - 16.80
468 Taunton (Thomas H.) Portraits of celebrated racehorses

1887-8

 USD - 100.80
469 W. (C.) Portraits of brood mares

USD - 38.40
470 [Harrison (Fairfax)] The John's Island stud (South Carolina) 1750-1788

USD - 2.40
471 Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on hunting

USD - 33.60
472 Higginson (A. H.) and Julian I Chamberlain New York

1928

 USD - 24.00
473 Grace (W. G.) Cricket Bristol

1891

 USD - 84.00
474 Grace (W. G.) "W.G." Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections

1899

 USD - 24.00
475 Grace (W. G.) The Memorial Biography of Dr. W. G. Grace

1919

 USD - 2.40
476 SCHWERDT (C. F. G. R.) HUNTING

1928-37

 USD - 768.00
477 Sparrow (Walter S.) British sporting artists

1922

 USD - 50.40
478 Sparrow (Walter S.) Angling in British art

1923

 USD - 12.00
479 Sparrow (Walter S.) British sporting artists

USD - 26.40
480 [Lobo (Jeronymo)] A short relation of the river Nile

1673

 USD - 156.00
481 Mandeville (Sir John) The voiage and travaile

1725

 USD - 24.00
482 Cook (Capt. James) and others A New, Authentic

1784

 USD - 62.40
483 [Berneville (Marie Catharine Jumelle de)] The ingenious and diverting letters of the Lady

USD - 43.20
484 Cronica del esclarescido Rey Don Alonso onzeno deste nobre Padre que fue del Rey don Pedro

1563

 USD - 43.20
485 Guardiola (Juan Benito) Tratado de Nobleza Madrid

1591

 USD - 52.80
486 Mascarenas (Hieronymo) Viage de la Serenissima Reyna Dona Maria Ana de Austria Madrid

1650

 USD - 43.20
487 Solis (Antonio de) Historia de la Conquista de Mexico Madrid

1684

 USD - 76.80
488 PHILIP III (King of Spain) Grant of "la renta de las diazmas de la mar de Castilla" to Pedro Lopez de Reyno

5 March 1614

 USD - 24.00
  • <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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