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
594 Stephens (John) Essayes & Characters Ironicall

1615

 USD - 56.00
595 Hayward (Sir John) Davids Tears

1622

 USD - 67.20
596 Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales

1622

 USD - 72.80
597 Bacon (Sir Francis) The historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh

USD - 28.00
598 Morton (Bishop Thomas) Of the Institution of the Sacrament of the Blessed Bodie (by some called) the Masse of Christ

[1631]

 USD - 28.00
599 [Williams (John, Archbishop)] The holy table

1637

 USD - 33.60
600 Chillingworth (W.) The religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation

USD - 28.00
601 [Commines (Philippe de)] An epitome of all the lives of the Kings of France

1639

 USD - 28.00
602 Sibbes (Richard) Evangelicall Sacrifices

1640[-39]

 USD - 5.60
603 Andrewes (Lancelot) The Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine

1650

 USD - 8.40
604 Venner (Thomas) Via Recta ad Vitam Longam

1650, 1639

 USD - 106.40
605 Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan

1651

 USD - 84.00
606 Markham (Gervase) Markham's masterpiece containing all knowledge belonging to smith

1651

 USD - 61.60
607 Milton (John) Pro populo anglicano defensio Typis Du Gardianis

1651

 USD - 28.00
608 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia

1653; 1663

 USD - 61.60
609 M. (W.) THE QUEENS CLOSET OPENED

1655

 USD - 476.00
610 [Digby (Sir Kenelm)] Two Treatises

1658

 USD - 56.00
611 [CASA (GIOVANNI DELLA)] THE REFIN'D COURTIER

1663

 USD - 252.00
612 [Manning (Edward)] Ashrea

1665

 USD - 308.00
613 Aesop, edited by John Ogiby Fables,

1668

 USD - 19.60
614 Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Oxfordshire

1677

 USD - 56.00
615 Rusden (Moses) A Further Discovery of Bees

1679

 USD - 106.40
616 Clark (Margaret) Warning for Servants

1680

 USD - 78.40
617 Knox (Robert) An historical relation of the island Ceylon in the East Indies

1681

 USD - 22.40
618 Shirley (John) The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox

1681

 USD - 8.40
619 [Sancroft (William)] The Proceedings and tryal in the case of William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [Wing S564]

1680-90

 USD - 39.20
620 Lemery (Nicholas) A course of chymistry

1698

 USD - 134.40
621 Fox (George) A Journal or Historical Account of the Life

1694

 USD - 22.40
622 Malebranche (Nicolas) His Treatise concerning the Search after Truth

1700

 USD - 36.40
623 [Aubin (N.)] The cheats and illusions of Romish priests and exorcists discovered in the history of the devils of Loudun

1703

 USD - 11.20
624 Post-Man (The)

1719

 USD - 61.60
625 Solis (Antonio de) The history of the conquest of Mexico

1724

 USD - 39.20
626 [Macintosh (William)] A Treatise concerning the Manner of Fallowing of Ground Edinburgh

1724

 USD - 89.60
627 Ellis (William) The Modern Husbandman London

1750

 USD - 84.00
628 Hale (Thomas) A Compleat Body of Husbandry London

1756

 USD - 50.40
629 Bradley (Richard) A General Treatise of Agriculture

1757

 USD - 28.00
630 Plutarch Lives,

USD - 25.20
631 Vertot (Abbe Rene d'Aubert de) The History of the Knights of Malta

1728

 USD - 145.60
632 PINE (JOHN) PROCESSION AND CEREMONIES AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE KNIGHTS COMPANIONS OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH

1730

 USD - 196.00
633 Bible Edinburgh

1736

 USD - 28.00
634 Robins (Benjamin) New Principles of Gunnery

1742

 USD - 44.80
635 [Fielding (Henry)] The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews

1807

 USD - 16.80
636 Pine (John) and John Tinney Plan of London

[1746]

 USD - 392.00
637 Hoyle (Edmond) Short Treatise on the Game of Whist

USD - 5.60
638 View (A) of the invisible world or a general history of apparitions collected from the best authorities

1752

 USD - 30.80
639 Quakers Epistles from the Yearly Meeting . . .

USD - 14.00
640 Brooke (Ralphe) Discoverie of Certaine Errours in the ... Britannia

USD - 56.00
641 Almanachs

USD - 168.00
642 Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

1790

 USD - 16.80
643 Gay (John) Fables

1793

 USD - 39.20
644 Walters (Rev. John) An English-Welsh Dictionary

1794

 USD - 8.40
645 [Seeley (J.)] Stowe

USD - 33.60
646 Young (Arthur) An Enquiry into the State of the Public Mind amongst the Lower Classes ... London

1798

 USD - 39.20
647 British military library (The)

1799-1801

 USD - 196.00
648 Pamphlets

USD - 28.00
649 Selkirk (Thomas Douglas, Earl of) Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland

1806

 USD - 28.00
650 Byron (G. G., Lord) The Giaour

1814

 USD - 89.60
651 Byron (G. G., Lord) Armenian Exercises and Poetry

USD - 16.80
652 [Combe (William)] The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindustan

1816

 USD - 11.20
653 [Egan (Pierce)] Life in London

1822

 USD - 44.80
654 [D'Oyly (Sir Charles)] Tom Raw, the Griffin

1828

 USD - 67.20
655 [Tattersall (George)] "Wildrake"

USD - 16.80
656 Hackney Coach and Cabriolet Fares Regulations and Acts of Parliament

[c.1832]

 USD - 44.80
657 Cobbett (William) Rural Rides

1830

 USD - 56.00
658 Hobhouse (J. C., later Lord Broughton) A Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia

1813

 USD - 98.00
659 Dickens (Charles) Pickwick Papers

USD - 22.40
660 Ritchie (Leitch) Ireland Picturesque and Romantic

USD - 11.20
661 [Lytton (E. Bulwer, Lord)] Richelieu

USD - 2.80
662 Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair

1848

 USD - 117.60
663 Heath (Charles) The Heroines of Shakespeare

1848

 USD - 2.80
664 Strickland (A.) Lives of the Queens of England

1857

 USD - 33.60
665 [Evans (Marian)], George Eliot Middlemarch

1871-72

 USD - 44.80
666 [Evans (Marian)] Daniel Deronda

1876

 USD - 39.20
667 [Evans (Marian)] Adam Bede

USD - 11.20
668 Reynardson (C. T. S. Birch) 'Down the Road' second edition

1875

 USD - 2.80
669 Ladies Treasury

USD - 5.60
670 Milton (John) Shorter poems

1889

 USD - 106.40
671 Pardoe (Julia) Life of Marie de Medicis

USD - 42.00
672 High History of the Holy Graal

1898

 USD - 8.40
673 Album (An) containing 36 nineteenth-century illustrations on pierced-embossed or perforated paper mounts of various designs

USD - 16.80
674 [Paget (Violet, "Vernon Lee", 1856-1935)] Hortus Vitae (or The Hanging Gardens) [Florence]

USD - 117.60
675 Kipling (Rudyard) Plain Tales from the Hills Calcutta

1888

 USD - 25.20
676 Kipling (Rudyard) The same

1888

 USD - 25.20
677 Kipling (Rudyard) The Naulahka

USD - 14.00
678 Kipling (Rudyard) Many Inventions

USD - 5.60
678A SHAW (G. B.) Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

1906-07

 USD - 22.40
679 SHAW (G. B.) Selected Passages from his Works

1912

 USD - 50.40
679A Blake (William) Illustrations of the Book of Job

1902

 USD - 33.60
680 May (Phil) Pen and ink menu for a "Wake" held by the Pall Mall Budget

USD - 89.60
681 Marston (John) The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image

USD - 2.80
682 Kuprin (Alexandre) Sulamith

USD - 5.60
683 Rabelais (Francois) Gargantua & Pantagruel

USD - 2.80
684 Symons (A. J. A.) An episode in the life of the Queen of Sheba

USD - 5.60
685 Nash (Thomas) The unfortunate traveller

1930

 USD - 8.40
686 Newman (Ernest) The Life of Richard Wagner New York

1937-46

 USD - 19.60
687 Munnings (Sir Alfred J.) Autobiography

1950-52

 USD - 84.00
688 Lawrence (T. E.) The Mint

1955

 USD - 19.60
689 Singleton-Gates (Peter) and Maurice Girodias The Black Diaries

1959

 USD - 8.40
690 Menpes (Dorothy and Mortimer) The Durbar

USD - 2.80
691 Bunyan Meeting

1928

 USD - 22.40
  • <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.