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Auction Details

Auction Date
February 17, 1969 - February 17, 1969
Page Size: 445 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 Collection of poems (A)

1701

 USD - 72.00
201 Coliimbani (P.) Variety of capitals

1776

 USD - 144.00
202 [Combe (William)] The diabo-lady

1777

 USD - 48.00
203 Complete farmer (The)

[c. 1795]

 USD - 115.20
204 COOK (Captain JAMES) John Hawkesworth

1773-77-85

 USD - 336.00
205 Cook (John) An anatomical and mechanical essay on the whole animal oeconomy

1730

 USD - 67.20
206 Cox (Joseph Mason) Practical observations on insanity

1804

 USD - 76.80
207 Coxe (William) Travels into Poland

1784-90

 USD - 108.00
208 [Cramer (Karl Gottlob)] Albert de Nordenshild

1796

 USD - 33.60
209 Creed (Carey) The marble antiquities

1731

 USD - 144.00
210 Davies (David) The case of labourers in husbandry

1795

 USD - 76.80
211 Designs for chimney-pieces

[c. 1785]

 USD - 144.00
212 Devonshire (Georgiana, Duchess of) The passage of the mountain of Saint Gothard

1802

 USD - 48.00
213 Douat (Dominique) Methode pour faire une infinite de desseins differens avec des carreaux mi-partis de deux couleurs par une ligne diagonale Paris

1722

 USD - 180.00
214 Du Fresnoy (Charles-Alphonse) The art of painting York

1783

 USD - 110.40
215 Dugdale (Sir William) The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes

1662

 USD - 264.00
216 Dundonald (Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of) A treatise shewing the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry

1795

 USD - 115.20
217 Eastcott (Revd. Richard) Poetical essays Exeter,

1788

 USD - 216.00
218 Ebel (J. G.) Manuel du voyageur en Suisse Zurich

1817-18

 USD - 48.00
219 Edgeworth (Maria) Leonora

1806

 USD - 52.80
220 Emancipation

1808

 USD - 62.40
221 Evelyn (John) Sylva

1679

 USD - 76.80
222 Farrell (Sarah) Charlotte

1792

 USD - 57.60
223 Felibien (Andre) Des principes de l'architecture Paris

1690

 USD - 144.00
224 [Fielding (Sarah)] The adventures of David Simple

1744

 USD - 72.00
225 Freeman (Strickland) Observations on the mechanism of the horse's foot

1796

 USD - 100.80
226 French (John) The art of distillation

1667

 USD - 156.00
227 Freind (John) The history of physick from the time of Galen

1725-26

 USD - 132.00
228 [Gait (John)] Sir Andrew Wylie Edinburgh

1822

 USD - 28.80
229 Gauger (Nicolas) Fires improv'd: being a new way of building chimneys so as to prevent their smoaking

1715

 USD - 115.20
230 Genlis (S.-F. Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, comtesse de) Alphonsine

1806

 USD - 38.40
231 Gentleman jockey (The)

1704

 USD - 76.80
232 Gibbon (Edward) An essay on the study of literature

1764

 USD - 100.80
233 Gibbon (Edward) Miscellaneous works

1796

 USD - 180.00
234 Gilpin (William) Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views

1794

 USD - 120.00
235 [Graves (Richard)] Columella

1779

 USD - 132.00
236 Gregory (David) Elements of catoptrics and dioptrics

1735

 USD - 76.80
237 Guide to juries (A)

1699

 USD - 156.00
238 Gunning (Elizabeth) The orphans of Snowdon

1797

 USD - 168.00
239 Gunning (Susannah and Elizabeth) The heir apparent

1802

 USD - 108.00
240 Halley (Edmund, Editor) Miscellanea curiosa

1708

 USD - 180.00
241 Hales (Stephen) Statical essays

1731

 USD - 204.00
242 HAMILTON (Sir WILLIAM) COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN Naples

1766-67

 USD - 1,152.00
243 Hanger (Col. George) To all sportsmen

1814

 USD - 84.00
244 Hanway (Jonas) A journal of eight days journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames

1757

 USD - 96.00
245 Hoffmann (Friedrich) Observationum physico-chymicarum selectiorum libri III

1722

 USD - 144.00
246 Home (Robert) Select views in Mysore

1794

 USD - 57.60
247 Hope (Thomas) Anastasius

1820

 USD - 84.00
248 House of Commons

USD - 57.60
249 Howitt (Samuel) The British sportsman

[1800]

 USD - 228.00
250 Howlett (Robert) The anglers sure guide

1706

 USD - 120.00
251 Hulbert (Charles) The history and antiquities of Shrewsbury Shrewsbury

1837

 USD - 60.00
252 Ides (E. Ysbrants) Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China

1706

 USD - 168.00
253 Institution of Electrical Engineers

1931-37

 USD - Not Sold
254 Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque views on the River Thames

1792

 USD - 108.00
255 Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque views on the River Medway

1793

 USD - 76.80
256 Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque views on the River Medway

1793

 USD - 48.00
257 [Ireland (W. H.)] All the blocks!

1807

 USD - 36.00
258 Irwin (Eyles) A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red Sea

1787

 USD - 72.00
259 Janson (Charles William) The stranger in America

1807

 USD - 312.00
260 Johnson (Samuel) An account of the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson

1805

 USD - 204.00
261 Johnston (Charles) The history of Arsaces

1774

 USD - 120.00
262 JONES (INIGO) DESIGNS

1727

 USD - 228.00
263 Jorden (Edward) A discourse of natural bathes

1673

 USD - 84.00
264 [King (William)] The art of cookery

[1720]

 USD - 96.00
265 Knight (Richard Payne) The landscape

1794

 USD - 168.00
266 Knight (Richard Payne) An analytical inquiry into the principles of taste

1805

 USD - 144.00
267 Koran (The) translated by George Sale

1734

 USD - 67.20
268 [Laet (J. de)] Epistola de podagra curata Amsterdam

1643

 USD - 24.00
269 Lambe (R.) The history of chess

1764

 USD - 67.20
270 La Perouse (J.-F.-G. de) Voyage Stockdale

1798

 USD - 144.00
271 Le Clerc (Daniel) Histoire de la medecine Amsterdam

1727

 USD - 67.20
272 Lee (James) An introduction to the science of botany

1810

 USD - 33.60
273 Leland (John) Itinerary Oxford

1768-69

 USD - 76.80
274 Lemery (Nicolas) A course of chymistry

1698

 USD - 156.00
275 Le Prince de Beaumont (Jeanne-Marie) Letters from Emerance to Lucy

1766

 USD - 62.00
276 Le Prince de Beaumont (Jeanne-Marie) The new Clarissa

1768

 USD - 120.00
277 Le Prince de Beaumont (Jeanne-Marie) Moral tales

1775

 USD - 72.00
278 Le royal jeu de l'ombre et du piquet The Hague

1703

 USD - 36.00
279 Lewis (Samuel) A topographical dictionary of England

1842

 USD - 52.80
280 Leyden (John) Scenes of infancy [verse] Edinburgh

1803

 USD - 67.20
281 Lisle (J. G. Semple) Life

1799

 USD - 96.00
282 Locke (John) Some thoughts concerning education

1699

 USD - 96.00
283 Locke (John) A collection of several pieces

1720

 USD - 432.00
284 [Mackenzie (Henry)] Julia de Roubigne

1787

 USD - 84.00
285 Maclean (R.) A treatise on the progress and shedding of the human teeth

1836

 USD - 100.80
286 Marlborough (John Churchill, Duke of) A collection of 15 contemporary manuscript military plans of battles

USD - 72.00
287 Marot (Jean) Recueil des plans Paris

USD - 76.80
288 [Maurice (Thomas)] Grove-Hill

1799

 USD - 120.00
289 McWilliam (Robert) An essay on the origin and operation of the dry rot, plates

1818

 USD - 62.40
290 Baglivi (Georgio) The practice of physick,

1704

 USD - 144.00
291 Musgrave (William) De arthritide

1726

 USD - 96.00
292 Cheyne (George) An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout

1737

 USD - 67.20
293 Allen (John) Synopsis medicinae

1740-56

 USD - 91.20
294 Le Dran (H. E.) A treatise, or reflections, drawn from practice on gun-shot wounds

1743

 USD - 124.80
295 Ford (Edward) Observations on the diseases of the hip joint

1794

 USD - 180.00
296 Bell (Benjamin) A treatise on gonorhoea virulenta and lues venerea Edinburgh

1797

 USD - 108.00
297 Meeke (Mary) The abbey of Clugny

1796

 USD - 180.00
298 Miller (J.) The country gentleman's architect

1787

 USD - 120.00
299 [More (Hannah)] Hints towards forming the character of a young princess

1805

 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.
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    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.
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    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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