Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, SUMMER,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 31, 1967 - July 31, 1967
Page Size: 789 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Allom (Thomas) and Robert Walsh Constantinople

[c. 1840]

 USD - 44.80
2 Andersson (C. J.) Lake Ngami

1856

 USD - 39.20
3 Ashe (Thomas) History of the Azores

1813

 USD - 36.40
4 Baskerville Press The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments . . . Cambridge

1762

 USD - 78.40
5 Beattie (William) and W. H. Bartlett Switzerland illustrated

1836

 USD - 50.40
6 Beattie (William) and W. H. Bartlett The Danube

1844

 USD - 44.80
7 Belle Assemblee (La)

USD - 126.00
8 Birch (Thomas), J. Houbraken, and G. Vertue The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain

1743

 USD - 39.20
9 Birch (Thomas), J. Houbraken, and G. Vertue The heads of illustrious persons

1752

 USD - 14.00
10 Blaine (Delabere) Canine pathology [with] a copious detail of the rabid malady

1824

 USD - 8.40
11 Blue mountains (The)

1822

 USD - 19.60
12 Boisgelin (Louis de) Ancient and modern Malta

1805

 USD - 106.40
13 Bradley (Richard) New improvements of planting and gardening

USD - 33.60
14 BRADSHAW (T.) AND WILLIAM RIDER VIEWS IN THE MAURITIUS

1832

 USD - 210.00
15 British theatre

1792-1805

 USD - 61.60
16 Browne (Patrick) The civil and natural history of Jamaica

1789

 USD - 140.00
17 Buchanan (Francis) A journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore

1807

 USD - 78.40
18 Burgher (Gottfried Augustus) Leonora

1796

 USD - 11.20
19 Burnet (Thomas) The theory of the earth

1697

 USD - 36.40
20 Burney (James) History of the buccaneers of America

1816

 USD - 33.60
21 Caillie (Rene) Travels through central Africa to Timbuctoo

1830

 USD - 72.80
22 Colquhoun (Patrick) A treatise on the police of the metropolis

1796

 USD - 67.20
23 Dodsley (R.) A collection of poems

1748-58

 USD - 44.80
24 Dow (Alexander) The history of Hindustan

1818

 USD - 44.80
25 Dryden (John) Works

1808

 USD - 16.80
26 Du Halde (J.-B.) A description of the empire of China

1737-41

 USD - 84.00
27 Engelbach (G. L.) Naples and the Campagna Felice

1815

 USD - 39.20
28 Esquemeling (John) The buccaneers of America

1891

 USD - 14.00
29 Finden (Edward) W. H. Bartlett, and William Beattie The ports

1842

 USD - 84.00
30 Griffiths (William) A practical treatise on farriery

[c. 1784]

 USD - 16.80
31 Howitt (Samuel) Miscellaneous etchings

USD - 162.40
32 Irby (Hon. C. I.) and James Mangles Travels in Egypt and Nubia

1823

 USD - 33.60
33 The laws of Jamaica:

1802-24

 USD - 154.00
34 Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica Jamaica

1811-22

 USD - 812.00
35 Votes of the honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica, 1822-25 Jamaica

1823-26

 USD - 56.00
36 Jelly (Thomas) A brief enquiry into the condition of Jamaica

1847

 USD - 56.00
37 JENKINS (JAMES) THE NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

1816-17

 USD - 1,260.00
38 Keysler (John) Travels through Germany

1756-57

 USD - 44.80
39 Kirby (Joshua) Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy

1768

 USD - 11.20
40 La Motraye (A. de) Voyages

USD - 33.60
41 L'ESTRANGE (Sir ROGER) A COLLECTION OF 43 TRACTS

USD - 980.00
42 Loudon (John) A treatise on forming

1806

 USD - 56.00
43 Lucan Pharsalia

1718

 USD - 33.60
44 Mackenzie (Sir George Steuart) Travels in the island of Iceland Edinburgh

1812

 USD - 72.80
45 Mainauduc (J. B. de) Lectures, part I

USD - 8.40
46 Mariana (Juan de) The general history of Spain

1699

 USD - 22.40
47 Martin (John) An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands

1817

 USD - 89.60
48 MARTYN (BENJAMIN) AN IMPARTIAL ENQUIRY INTO THE STATE AND UTILITY OF THE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA

1741

 USD - 168.00
49 Miers (John) Travels in Chile and La Plata

1826

 USD - 98.00
50 Miller (Philip) and Thomas Martyn The gardener's and botanist's directory

1807

 USD - 39.20
51 Morant (Philip) The history and antiquities of the county of Essex

1768

 USD - 145.60
52 More (Hannah) Coelebs in search of a wife

1808

 USD - 61.60
53 Nash (Thomas) The history and antiquities of Worcestershire

1781-82

 USD - 84.00
54 Observator (The)

1702-07

 USD - 162.40
55 Orlich (Leopold von) Travels in India

USD - 19.60
56 Pardoe (Julia) and W. H. Bartlett The beauties of the Bosphorus

USD - 50.40
57 Park (Thomas, Editor) The works of the British poets

1808

 USD - 22.40
58 Parkinson (John) Theatrum botanicum

1640

 USD - 89.60
59 Peacock (Thomas Love) The philosophy of melancholy

1812

 USD - 84.00
60 Philidor (Francois-Andre-Danican) Analysis of the game of chess

USD - 11.20
61 Pope (Alexander) Poetical works

1806

 USD - 28.00
62 Rainsford (Marcus) An historical account of the black empire of Hayti

1805

 USD - 39.20
63 Rhodes (E.) and Sir Francis Chantrey Peak scenery

USD - 28.00
64 Sandby (Paul) The virtuosi's museum containing select views in England

1778

 USD - 89.60
65 Senex (John) Atlas Without title

[c. 1710-20]

 USD - 364.00
66 Suetonius The historie of twelve caesars, emperours of Rome

1606

 USD - 16.80
67 Swift (Dean Jonathan) The beasts confession to the priest Dublin

1741

 USD - 50.40
68 Rules and regulations for the sword

1805

 USD - 22.40
69 Ware (Sir James) The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland Dublin

1764

 USD - 16.80
70 Morris (William) Kelmscott Press

1892

 USD - 168.00
71 Shakespeare (William) Kelmscott Press

1893

 USD - 238.00
72 Cavendish (George) Kelmscott Press

1893

 USD - 154.00
73 KELMSCOTT PRESS THE HISTORY OF GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE and of the Conquest of Iherusalem

1893

 USD - 210.00
74 Herrick (Robert) Poems

1895

 USD - 182.00
75 Coleridge (S. T.) Poems

1896

 USD - 126.00
76 Syr Ysambrace, edited by F. S. Ellis Syr Ysambrace

1897

 USD - 84.00
77 edited by S. C. Cockerell Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century,

1897

 USD - 126.00
78 MORRIS (WILLIAM) LOVE IS ENOUGH

1897

 USD - 182.00
79 James, King of Scotland The Kingis Quair

1903

 USD - 19.60
80 Francis (St., of Assist) The Little Flowers Florence

1909

 USD - 25.20
81 Milton (John) Poems in English

1926

 USD - 47.60
82 Morris (John, Editor) From the Third Programme: A Ten-Years' Anthology

1956

 USD - 2.80
82A William Morris and A. J. Wyatt Beowulf: The Tale of Beowulf, done out of the Old English Tongue Description KELMSCOTT PRESS Beowulf: The Tale of Beowulf, done out of the Old English Tongue by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt, one of 300 copies on paper, of an edition of 308, printed in T

1895

 USD - 106.40
83 Morris (William) A note on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press

1898

 USD - 145.60
84 Shakespeare Head Press The Whole Works of Homer . . . Oxford

1930-31

 USD - 126.00
85 Casanova de Seingalt (Jacques) Memoirs

1922

 USD - 39.20
86 Cockerell (Sir Sydney) and others Tributes to Edward Johnston New York

USD - 25.20
87 Gill (Eric) Id Quod Visum Placet

1926

 USD - 44.80
88 Homer The Iliad

USD - 16.80
89 La Tour Landry (Geoffroy) The book of the knight of La Tour Landry

1930

 USD - 5.60
90 La Tour Landry (Geoffroy) The same

USD - 5.60
91 Alken (Henry) Illustrations to popular songs

1825

 USD - 84.00
92 Rackham (Arthur) Cinderella Cinderella

1919

 USD - 78.40
93 BOOKPLATES

1665-1816

 USD - 98.00
94 Burns (Robert) Songs

1925

 USD - 8.40
95 Magic Horse (The)

1930

 USD - 2.80
96 Dryden (John) Poetical Works

USD - 8.40
97 Milton (John) Comus

1931

 USD - 44.80
98 Donne (John) Paradoxes and Problemes

1923

 USD - 5.60
99 Anacreon. Poems

1923

 USD - 11.20
  • <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.