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
788 Paruta (Paolo) Politick discourses

1657

 USD - 84.00
789 Pennant (Thomas) Tours in Wales

1810

 USD - 28.80
790 Percy (Thomas) Reliques of ancient English poetry

1765

 USD - 108.00
791 Percy (Thomas) The Percy folio of old English ballads and romances

1905-10

 USD - 72.00
792 Petavius (Dionysius) The history of the world

1659

 USD - 76.80
793 Phillips (Edward) The new world of English words

1658

 USD - 108.00
794 Phillips (G. F.) Principles of effect and colour

[1838]

 USD - 19.20
795 Phillips (G. F.) The same

USD - 21.60
796 Piozzi (Hester Lynch) Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

1788

 USD - 52.80
797 Pitton de Tournefort (Joseph) A voyage into the Levant

1718

 USD - 115.20
798 Plaw (John) Ferme ornee

1803

 USD - 72.00
799 [Playford (John)] Vade mecum

1696

 USD - 38.40
800 [Pomfret (John)] Miscellany poems

1702

 USD - 84.00
801 Pope (Alexander) Four ethic epistles

1748

 USD - 91.20
802 Pope (Alexander) Works

USD - 43.20
803 Priestley (Joseph) Lectures on history

1793

 USD - 43.20
804 Pulton (Ferdinand) A kalender or table

1617

 USD - 48.00
805 Raleigh (Sir Walter) The prerogative of parliaments in England Middelburgh

1628

 USD - 67.20
806 Raleigh (Sir Walter) The same

1640

 USD - 43.20
807 Ralfe (James) The naval chronology of Great Britain

1820

 USD - 360.00
808 Richardson (Gabriel) Of the state of Europe XIIII bookes Oxford

1627

 USD - 76.80
809 Rich (D. C.) Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collection of paintings Chicago

1935

 USD - 24.00
810 Richter (Jean Paul) Sammtliche Werke Berlin

1840-42

 USD - 33.60
811 Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage

1838

 USD - 28.80
812 Rowe (George) Forty-eight views of cottages and scenery at Sidmouth Sidmouth

[1826]

 USD - 48.00
813 Roxburghe Club

1844

 USD - 144.00
814 ROXBURGHE CLUB

1917

 USD - 480.00
815 Roxburghe Club

1920

 USD - 132.00
816 Roxburghe Club

1921

 USD - 204.00
817 ROXBURGHE CLUB

1927

 USD - 576.00
818 Bigham (Honble. Clive) The Roxburghe Club: its history and its members

1928

 USD - 84.00
819 Roxburghe Club

1929

 USD - 228.00
820 Cockerell (Sir Sydney) The work of W. de Brailes

1930

 USD - 192.00
821 Roxburghe Club

1936

 USD - 264.00
822 ROXBURGHE CLUB

1937

 USD - 216.00
823 Roxburghe Club

1946

 USD - 120.00
824 Millar (E. G.) The St Trond lectionary

1949

 USD - 228.00
825 Bury (Richard de) Liber epistolaris

1950

 USD - 132.00
826 Roxburghe Club

1952

 USD - 192.00
827 Roxburghe Club

1953

 USD - 288.00
828 Dugdale (Sir William) The restoration of the Beauchamp Chapel

1956

 USD - 96.00
829 Roxburghe Club

1956

 USD - 60.00
830 Roxburghe Club

1957

 USD - 408.00
831 Roxburghe Club

1958

 USD - 336.00
832 Wall (Thomas) The voyage of Sir Nicholas Carewe to the Emperor Charles V

1959

 USD - 288.00
833 Roxburghe Club

1960

 USD - 96.00
834 Oakeshott (Walter) Some woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair

1960

 USD - 60.00
835 Pope (Alexander) An essay on man

1962

 USD - 288.00
836 Barker (Nicholas) The publications of the Roxburghe Club

1964

 USD - 52.80
837 Colvin (H.) and M. Craig Architectural drawings in the library of Elton Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce

1964

 USD - 288.00
838 Pollard (Graham) and Albert Ehrman The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D. 1800

1965

 USD - 408.00
839 Sandys (George) A relation of a journey

1670

 USD - 60.00
840 Savaron de Villars (Jean) Traicte contre les duels Paris

1610

 USD - 14.40
841 Schott (Franz) Italy

1660

 USD - 120.00
842 Shakespeare (William) Works

1901

 USD - 43.20
843 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Works Oxford

1928-29

 USD - 336.00
844 Smith (George) Cabinet-maker's & upholsterer's guide

[1826]

 USD - 72.00
845 Spelman (Sir Henry) Glossarium archaiologicum

1687

 USD - 28.80
846 Spon (Isaac) The history of the city and state of Geneva

1687

 USD - 43.20
847 Sprat (Thomas) The history of the Royal-Society of London

1667

 USD - 108.00
848 Sprat (Thomas) The history of the Royal-Society of London

1667

 USD - 163.20
849 Sprat (Thomas) The history of the Royal-Society

1667

 USD - 115.20
850 Sterne (Laurence) Works

1793

 USD - 72.00
851 Stow (John) The survay of London

1618

 USD - 84.00
852 Strada (Faminius) De hello belgico

1650

 USD - 38.40
853 Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett The antiquities of Athens

1825

 USD - 28.80
854 Swift (Jonathan) Miscellanies in prose and verse

1713

 USD - 28.80
855 SWIFT (JONATHAN) TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

1726

 USD - 384.00
856 Swift (Jonathan) Voyages du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver The Hague

1727

 USD - 144.00
857 Symonds (R. W.) Thomas Tompion plates

1951

 USD - 28.80
858 Symonds (R. W.) Furniture making in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England

1955

 USD - 38.40
859 Tacitus

1622

 USD - 38.40
860 Tallis (John) London street views

USD - 312.00
861 Tallis (John) London street views

[c. 1840]

 USD - 216.00
862 Tallis (John) London street views

[c. 1840]

 USD - 240.00
863 THEATRE

USD - 576.00
864 Thevenot (Jean de) Travels

USD - 115.20
865 Thornton (A.) The adventures of a post captain

[1817]

 USD - 72.00
866 Thornton (R. J.) Temple of Flora

1951

 USD - 43.20
867 Thucydides

1629

 USD - 312.00
868 Tinney (J.) A compendious

1808

 USD - 12.00
869 Trades

1821

 USD - 52.80
870 Trollope (Anthony) A fine collection of first editions of his works

USD - 5,280.00
871 Turner (Dawson) Account of a tour in Normandy

1820

 USD - 38.40
872 Turner (J. M. W.) and Thomas Girtin River scenery

1827

 USD - 33.60
873 Turner (J. M. W.) and H. E. Lloyd Picturesque views in England and Wales

1838

 USD - 96.00
874 Tusser (Thomas) Five hundred points of good husbandry

1931

 USD - 38.40
875 Uztariz (Geronymo) The theory and practice of commerce and maritime affairs

1751

 USD - 139.20
876 Walpole Society

USD - 144.00
877 Walpoole (George Augustus) The new British traveller

[1784]

 USD - 115.20
878 Ward (Thomas) England's reformation

1716

 USD - 52.80
879 Waterton (Charles) Wanderings in South America

1825

 USD - 28.80
880 Watts (W.) The seats of the nobility and gentry

[c. 1780]

 USD - 76.80
881 Weever (John) Ancient funerall monuments

1631

 USD - 24.00
882 West (Thomas) A guide to the lakes in Cumberland

USD - 38.40
883 White (Francis) A replie to Iesuite Fishers answere to certain questions propounded by his most gratious matie King lames

1624

 USD - 67.20
884 White (Gilbert) The natural history of Selborne

1900

 USD - 52.80
885 Wildman (Thomas) A treatise on the management of bees

1768

 USD - 21.60
886 Willement (Thomas) Regal heraldry

1821

 USD - 52.80
887 Williams (Iolo A.) Early English watercolours

1952

 USD - 108.00
  • <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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