Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, INITIAL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 09, 1967 - October 09, 1967
Page Size: 954 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 Lawrence (T. E.) Revolt in the Desert

USD - 5.60
402 Maxwell (Sir Herbert, Translator) Scalacronica: The Reigns of Edward I

USD - 2.80
403 Moore (George) Aphrodite in Aulis

1930

 USD - 11.20
404 Moore (George) A Story-Teller's Holiday

USD - 19.60
405 Moore (George) Peronnik the Fool

1933

 USD - 22.40
406 Moore (George) Ulick and Soracha

USD - 14.00
407 Pepys (Samuel) Diary

1893-99

 USD - 72.80
408 Petronius Arbiter (T.) The Satyricon

1910

 USD - 16.80
409 Secret Court Memoirs

USD - 5.60
410 Tariff Reform

USD - 5.60
411 White (Rev. Gilbert) Natural History of Selborne

USD - 16.80
412 Cospi (Ant. Maria) L'interpretation des chiffres ou reigle pour bien entendre & expliquer facilement toutes sortes de chiffres simples Paris

1641

 USD - 154.00
413 F[alconer] J[ohn] Cryptomenysis patefacta or the art of secret information disclosed without a key containing rules

1685

 USD - 182.00
414 Hiller (L. H.) Mysterium artis steganographice novissimum

1682

 USD - 72.80
415 Porta (Joannes Baptista) De furtivis literarum notis vulgo de Ziferis Naples

1563

 USD - 117.60
416 Porta (Joannes Baptista) Magiae naturalis sive de miraculis rerum naturalium libri IV

1563

 USD - 16.80
417 Porta (Joannes Baptista) Magiae naturalis libri XX

USD - 16.80
418 [Roussel (P. J. A.)] Correspondeance secrette de plusieurs grands personnages illustres a la fin du XVIIIe siecle Londres & Paris

1802

 USD - 5.60
419 Schott (P. Gaspar) Organum mathematicum libris IX explicatum Wurzburg

1668

 USD - 11.20
420 Schott (P. Gaspar) Technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis libris XII comprehensa Wurzburg

1687

 USD - 50.40
421 Trithemius (Joannes) Polygraphiae libri sex Frankfurt

1550

 USD - 72.80
422 Uken (Melchia) Steganometrographia sive artificium novum et inauditum Frankfurt & Leipzig

1751

 USD - 44.80
423 Vaines (Dom de) Dictionnaire raisonne de diplomatique contenant les regles principales pour servir a dechiffer les anciens titres Paris

1774

 USD - 39.20
424 Vigenere (Blaise de) Traicte des chiffres ou secretes manieres d'escrire Paris

1586

 USD - 117.60
425 [Wilkins (Bishop John)] Mercury or the secret and Swift messenger

1641

 USD - 112.00
426 Bembo (Pietro) Gli Asolani Venice

1505

 USD - 50.40
427 Lucanus (M. A.) Pharsaliae Strasburg

1509

 USD - 5.60
428 Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiametta per Messrs Venice

c. 1510

 USD - 33.60
429 Boethius (A. M. T. S.) De consolatione philosophic libri quinque

USD - 39.20
430 Aelianus (Claudius) De Militaribus orbinibus instituendis liber nunc primum Graece editus Venice

1552

 USD - 5.60
431 Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae omnes Venice

1561

 USD - 8.40
432 Cattani da Diacetto (F. de, Bishop) Discorso sopra la superstizzione dell'arte magica Florence

1567

 USD - 56.00
433 Bartoli (Cosimo) Discorsi historici universali

USD - 16.80
434 Gualteruzzi (Carlo) Libro di Novelle

USD - 44.80
435 MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN) COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALE [in Italian] Cologne

1575

 USD - 560.00
436 Piccolomini (Alexander, Archbishop) De nova ecclesiastici Calendarii Siena

1578

 USD - 5.60
437 Burlat (Hugo) Astutiarum vulpeculae domini vineam demolientis

USD - 33.60
438 Le Pois (Antoine) Discours sur les Medalles et Graveures Antiques Paris

1579

 USD - 84.00
439 Cicero (M. Y.) Epistolae ad Familiares

USD - 22.40
440 Carazzi (Carlo) Modo del dividere l'alluvioni da quello di Bartolo Bologna

1581

 USD - 70.00
441 Sansovino (F.) Del governo et amministratione di diverse regni

USD - 33.60
442 Petius (L.) Vinea Domini cum brevi descriptione sacramentorum Venice

1588

 USD - 8.40
443 [Manuzio (Aldo, the Younger)] Le Attioni di Castruccio Castracane de gli Antelminelli Rome

1590

 USD - 8.40
444 Manfredi (Muzio) La Semiramis: Tragedia

USD - 11.20
445 [Sealiger (Joseph)]-Clavius (Christopher, Editor) Josephi Scaligeri elenchus Rome

1595

 USD - 39.20
446 [Barclay (John)] Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon Amberg

1606

 USD - 8.40
447 A'Kempis (Thomas) De imitatione Christi

USD - 19.60
448 Copia ihrer Hochfurstlicher Durchleuchtichkeit des Ertz-Hertzogen zu Osterreich

USD - 39.20
449 Caussin (P. N.) De symbolica AEgyptiorum Sapientia: Polyhistor Symbolicus Cologne

1623

 USD - 2.80
450 Oddi (Mutio) Dello Squadro Milan

1625

 USD - 33.60
451 Barclay (John) Argenis Leyden

1630

 USD - 11.20
452 Livius (T.) Elzevir Press

USD - 16.80
453 Baudius (D.) Amores

USD - 14.00
454 Mezeray (F. E. du) Histoire de France depuis Faramond jusqu'a Maintenant Paris

1643-51

 USD - 50.40
455 Saumaise (Claude de) Defensio Regia pro Carolo I ad Sereniss

USD - 28.00
456 Cavacio (J.) Illustrium Anachoretarum Elogia

USD - 22.40
457 Vedriani [Lodovico] Catalogo de Vescovi Modonesi Modena

1669

 USD - 28.00
458 Matthiolus (P. A.) Opera omnia Basle

1674

 USD - 36.40
459 Hugo (Hermann) Pia Desideria

USD - 33.60
460 Episcopius (Johan) Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum Netherlands

USD - 28.00
461 Santo Bartoli (Pietro) Colonna Traiana Rome

USD - 14.00
462 Conti (G. A.) Breve Compendio di varii Essercizii di Compasso fondati su gli Elementi di Euclide Bologna

1702

 USD - 39.20
463 Pecchius (F. M.) Tractatus de Aquaeductu Pavia

1707

 USD - 44.80
464 Leyseri (P.) Historia poetarum et poematum medii aevi

USD - 25.20
465 Ceneri (Angelo Maria) L'uso dello Strumento geometrico detto La Tavoletta Pretoriana proposto Bologna

1728

 USD - 22.40
466 Wolf (Christian) Philosophia Prima Verona

1736

 USD - 16.80
467 La Fontaine (J. de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers

USD - 16.80
468 [Menon (le Sieur)] La Cuisiniere bourgeoise Paris

1746

 USD - 56.00
469 Racine (Jean Baptiste) Oeuvres Paris

1760

 USD - 11.20
470 Mace de Richebourg (M.) Essai sur la qualite des Monnoies Etrangeres et sur leurs differens rapports avec les Monnoies de France

USD - 25.20
471 Ovid Les metamorphoses Paris

1767

 USD - 22.40
472 De-Rossi (J. B.) Delia Lingua propria di Cristo e degh Ebrei nazionali della Palestina da' tempi de' Maccabei,

1772

 USD - 39.20
473 De-Rossi (J. B.) De Hebraicas Typographic origine . . . disquisitio historico-critica,

1776

 USD - 61.60
474 Barotti (Lorenzo, Abbot) Lezioni sacre su i libri di Tobia, di Giuditta, e di Ester

1785-86

 USD - 33.60
475 De-Rossi (J. B.) MSS. Codices Hebraici bibliothecas J. B. De-Rossi . . .

1803

 USD - 56.00
476 Voltaire (F. M. A. de) L'Olimpia

USD - 39.20
477 Pope (Alexander) Saggio sull'Uomo

1819

 USD - 5.60
478 Bodoni Press Codex medicamentarius parmensis

1823

 USD - 22.40
479 Terentius Afer (Publius) Phormio

USD - 61.60
480 Bodoni Press

USD - 28.00
481 Mercadier (M.) Recherches sur les Ensablemens des Ports de Mer

USD - 39.20
482 Nerciat (Andrea de) Les Aphrodites

USD - 56.00
483 Sade (D. A. F., Marquis de) Histoire de Justine

1797

 USD - 182.00
484 Coffret (Le) du Bibliophile Paris

USD - 44.80
485 Rehberg (Frederick) Drawings faithfully copied from nature at Naples Rome

1794

 USD - 44.80
486 Caracci (A.) Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese

USD - 11.20
487 [Grimod de la Reyniere (A. B. L.)] Manuel des Amphitryons Paris

1808

 USD - 8.40
488 Gresset (J. B. L.) Oeuvres Paris

1811

 USD - 19.60
489 Raphael (Sanzio) Picturae Peristyli Vaticani Rome

1818

 USD - 22.40
490 Moliere (J. B. P. de) Oeuvres Paris

1835-36

 USD - 28.00
491 Virchow (Rudolf) Die Krankhaften Geschwulste

USD - 126.00
492 Weismann (August) Das Keimplasma: Eine Theorie der Vererbung Jena

1892

 USD - 39.20
493 Leopardi (Giacomo) Canti

USD - 5.60
494 Palazzi (Giovanni) Aquila Romana overo Monarchia Occidentale da Carlo Magno d'Occidente Imperador Primo sino alla Coronatione del glorioso Leopoldo Primo Venice

1679

 USD - 5.60
495 Ibbetson (J.), L. Laporte and J. Hassell (J.) A Picturesque Guide to Bath

USD - 140.00
496 Owen (Charles) An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents

1742

 USD - 44.80
497 Mariette (P. J.) Traite des Pierres Gravees Paris

1750

 USD - 67.20
498 Roberts (David) Picturesque Sketches in Spain

1837

 USD - 89.60
499 Cervantes (Miguel de) Les Principales Avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte The Hague

1746

 USD - 78.40
500 Gumppenberg (Guilielmus) Atlas Marianus

USD - 8.40
  • <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.
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