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
589 Oldenbourg (Rudolf) P. P. Rubens ... einleitung von Adolf Rosenberg

USD - 12.00
590 Clapp (Frederick Mortimer) Les dessins de Pontormo Paris

1914

 USD - 67.20
591 Mayer (August L.) Francisco de Goya Munich

1923

 USD - 24.00
592 Pissarro (L. R.) and L. Venturi Camille Pissarro Paris

1939

 USD - 240.00
593 Jamot (Paul) and Georges Wildenstein Manet

c. 1932

 USD - 432.00
594 Valentiner (William R.) Pieter de Hooch . . . with an appendix on the genre painters

USD - 43.20
595 Baker (H. Collins) Lely and the Stuart portrait painters

1912

 USD - 144.00
596 Turner (J. M. W.) Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England

1826

 USD - 76.80
597 Turner (J. M. W.) Liber Fluviorum

1857

 USD - 43.20
598 Turner (J. M. W.) Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall

USD - 67.20
599 Oppe (A. P.) The Water-Colours of Turner

1925

 USD - 28.80
600 Gower (Lord Ronald Sutherland) Sir Thomas Lawrence, with a catalogue of the artist's . . . works compiled by Algernon Graves Goupil

1900

 USD - 52.80
600A [Vertue (George)] A catalogue of the collection of pictures

USD - 120.00
601 Binyon (Laurence) The drawings and engravings of William Blake

1922

 USD - 36.00
602 Adams (H. G. and H. B.) The smaller British birds

1894

 USD - 14.40
603 [Atkins (M.)] Cataplus

USD - 16.80
604 Bailey (N.), G. Gordon and P. Miller Dictionarium Britannicum

USD - 43.20
605 [Banks (John)] A short critical review of the political life of Oliver Cromwell

1742

 USD - 9.60
606 Bawdwen (Rev. William) A translation of the record called Domesday Doncaster

1809

 USD - 7.20
607 Bewick (Thomas) A general history of quadrupeds

USD - 28.80
608 Heywood (Thomas) Bibliotheca Curiosa Edinburgh

USD - 14.40
609 Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron

USD - 7.20
610 Borrow (George) Works

1923-24

 USD - 172.80
611 Boulton (William B.) The amusements of old London

USD - 28.80
612 Burton (Richard F.) Translation of The book of thousand nights and a night

USD - 57.60
613 Butler (Samuel) Erewhon

1872

 USD - 24.00
614 Cervantes (Miguel de) The history of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha Edinburgh

1879-8

 USD - Not Sold
615 Chesterfield travestie

USD - 43.20
616 [Combe (William)] The tour of Doctor Syntax [and The second tour]

1820

 USD - 48.00
617 Conrad (Joseph) Tales of unrest

USD - 2.40
618 Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The hound of the Baskervilles

1902

 USD - 48.00
619 Dubourg (M.) Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome

1820

 USD - 96.00
620 Dugdale (William) Origines juridiciales

1671

 USD - 84.00
621 Dumas, (Alexandre, fils) The lady with the camellias

1887

 USD - 4.80
622 Egan (Pierce) Finish to the adventures of Tom

USD - 72.00
623 Egan (Pierce) Life in London

USD - 57.60
624 Farmer (John S., editor) Merry songs and ballads prior to the year A.D. 1800

1897

 USD - 67.20
625 Feuillet (Octave) The romance of a poor young man

USD - 2.40
626 Grego (Joseph) Rowlandson the caricaturist

1880

 USD - 84.00
627 Habershon (William G.) Records of old London

[c. 1880]

 USD - 24.00
628 Hardy (Thomas) Far from the madding crowd

USD - 33.60
629 Holmes (Oliver Wendell) Our hundred days in Europe

USD - 2.40
630 Huxley (Aldous) Crome yellow

USD - 2.40
631 Kappel (A. W.) and W. Egmont Kirby British and European butterflies and moths

[c. 1890]

 USD - 38.40
632 La Fontaine (Jean de) Tales and novels

USD - 14.40
633 Lang (Andrew) Prince Charles Edward

1900

 USD - 14.40
634 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven pillars of wisdom

1925

 USD - 7.20
635 Lawrence (T. E.) Oriental assembly

USD - 14.40
636 Lesage (Alain R.) The adventures of Gil Bias of Santillana Edinburgh

1886

 USD - 1.20
637 [Lever (Charles)] "Tilbury Tramp"

1845

 USD - 48.00
638 London interiors: a grand national exhibition

1841

 USD - 28.80
639 Mardrus (J. C, translator) Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit

1899-1904

 USD - 2.40
640 Martyn (Thomas) Plates with explanations intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables

1799

 USD - 43.20
641 Milton (John) Paradise lost

USD - 24.00
642 Moore (George) 'Hail and farewell'

1911-14

 USD - 12.00
643 Moore (George) Memoirs of my dead life

USD - 2.40
644 Raleigh (Sir Walter) The history of the world

1677

 USD - 84.00
645 Ross (Frederick) The ruined abbeys of Britain

USD - 2.40
646 Scott (Sir Walter) The bolder antiquities of England and Scotland

1889

 USD - 14.40
647 Sowerby (J.) and others English botany

1863-1902

 USD - 62.40
648 Spenser (Edmund) Works

1679

 USD - 28.80
649 Thackeray (William M.) Works

1878-79

 USD - 9.60
650 Vanbrugh (Sir John) Plays

1735

 USD - 48.00
651 Wood (W.) Index entomologicus

1845

 USD - 43.20
652 Wright (Thomas) The works of James Gillray

[c. 1870]

 USD - 21.60
653 Acts

1728-29

 USD - 40.80
654 Acts

1657

 USD - 76.80
655 ACTS

1691-94

 USD - 108.00
656 Addison (Joseph) Works

1721

 USD - 91.20
657 Aikin (J.) A description of the country . . . round Manchester

1795

 USD - 52.80
658 Amelot de La Houssaye (A.-N.) The history of the governement of Venice

1677

 USD - 48.00
659 Arguments upon the writ of Habeas Corpus

USD - 84.00
660 Arrighi (Ludovico degli, called Vicentino) Calligraphic models Paris

1926

 USD - 57.60
661 Asser (Joannes) Aelfredi regis res gestae

USD - 168.00
662 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Sylva sylvarum

1628

 USD - 57.60
663 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Sylva sylvarum

1685

 USD - 28.80
664 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Works

1753

 USD - 60.00
665 BADESLADE (THOMAS) CHOROGRAPHIA BRITANNIAE

1742

 USD - 180.00
666 Bailey (William) A treatise of the better employment and more comfortable support of the poor in workhouses

1757

 USD - 76.80
667 Baxter (Richard) The nonconformist's plea for peace

1679

 USD - 52.80
668 Beattie (William) and W. H. Bartlett The ports

1844

 USD - 91.20
669 Belcher (Captain Sir Edward) The last of the Arctic voyages

1855

 USD - 84.00
670 Bell (Sir Charles) Essays on the anatomy of expression

1806

 USD - 96.00
671 Bernier (F.) The history of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol

1676-72

 USD - 84.00
672 [Betts (Richard)] A remonstrance of the most gratious king James I

1619

 USD - 62.40
673 Blome (Richard) The art of heraldry

1685

 USD - 84.00
674 Blount (Thomas) Glossographia

1674

 USD - 81.60
675 Borelli (Giovanni Alfonso) De motu animalium Leiden

1685

 USD - 84.00
676 [Borlase (Edmund)] History of the execrable Irish rebellion

1680

 USD - 76.80
677 Boyle (Honble. Robert) Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental philosophy Oxford

1664

 USD - 108.00
678 Braithwaite (John) The history of the revolutions in the empire of Morocco

1729

 USD - 52.80
679 Brockwell (M. W.) A catalogue of some of the paintings of the British school in the collection of H. E. Huntingdon at San Marino California New York

1925

 USD - 1.20
680 Brookshaw (George) A new treatise of flower painting

1818

 USD - 14.40
681 Browne (Sir Thomas) Religio medici

USD - 96.00
682 Buffon (G.-L.-F., comte de) Oeuvres completes Paris

1828-38

 USD - 91.20
683 Burnet (Gilbert) The history of the rights of princes

1681

 USD - 52.80
684 Burnet (Thomas) The theory of the earth

1684-90

 USD - 120.00
685 Byron (John) Narrative containing an account of the great distress suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia Dublin

1817

 USD - 24.00
686 Bysshe (Edward) The art of English poetry

1705

 USD - 57.60
687 Camden (William) The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth

1688

 USD - 52.80
  • <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.