Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT MAPS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., EAGLE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1948 - January 01, 1948

Page Size: 715 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	R. Ackermann	The History of the Abbey Church of Westminster		1812	GBP -	4.00
2	J. Adams	Index Villaris		1680	GBP -	2.00
3	G. Agricola	De ortu & causis subterraneorum	Basileae	1546	GBP -	10.00
4	H. G. Agrippa	Three Books of Occult Philosophy		1651	GBP -	12.00
5	Sir R. Ainslie and L. Mayer	Views in Egypt		1801	GBP -	18.00
6	Sir R. Ainslie and L. Mayer	Views in the Ottoman Dominions		1810	GBP -	17.00
7	E. Albin	A Natural History of Birds		1731	GBP -	25.00
8	E. Albin	A Natural History of Spiders		1736	GBP -	5.00
9	E. Albin	A Natural History of English Insects		1749	GBP -	13.00
10	B. Castiglione	Aldine Press		1541	GBP -	30.00
11	Henry Alken	The National Sports of Great Britain	New York	1904	GBP -	12.00
12	R. Allestree	The Gentleman's Calling		1682	GBP -	1.05
13		America		1779	GBP -	2.00
14		America		1783	GBP -	14.00
15	G. Anson	A Voyage round the World		1748	GBP -	4.00
16		Anti-Jacobin		1797-8	GBP -	7.10
17		Aristoteles	Francofurdi	1585	GBP -	2.00
18	Juan de Arphe	Quilatador de oro			GBP -	2.10
19	T. Astle	The Origin and Progress of Writing		1803	GBP -	2.00
20	Lord Auckland	Some remarks on the apparent circumstances of the War in the fourth week of October		1795	GBP -	8.00
21	Lord Bacon	The Historie of Life and Death		1638	GBP -	9.00
22	A. M. Bailey	One hundred and six copper plates of Mechanical Machines		1782	GBP -	12.00
23	J. Barbut	Les Genres des Insectes de Linné	Londres	1781	GBP -	5.00
24	J. Barrelier	Icones Plantarum	Paris	1714	GBP -	1.00
25	J. Barrow	An Account of Travels into the interior of Southern Africa		1801-4	GBP -	13.00
26	John Barrow	Travels in China		1804	GBP -	5.00
27	John Barrow	A Voyage to Cochinchina		1806	GBP -	12.00
28		Baskerville Press	Cambridge	1761	GBP -	1.00
29	Robert Barclay	Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1764	GBP -	4.00
30	P. Terentius	Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1772	GBP -	1.00
31		Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1772	GBP -	1.00
32		Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	1.00
33	Caspar Bauhin	Prodromos theatri botanici	Basileae	1671	GBP -	3.10
34	O. A. Bayardi	Prodromo delle antichità d'Ercolano	Napoli	1752	GBP -	1.00
35	J. Bayley	The History of the Tower of London		1821-5	GBP -	0.10
36	P. Bearcroft	An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq		1737	GBP -	2.00
37	A. Beaumont	Select Views in the South of France		1794	GBP -	3.10
38	F. Beaumont and John Fletcher	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies		1679	GBP -	16.00
39	Francis Beaumont and J. Fletcher	Works		1711	GBP -	3.00
40	R. and E. Benson	Catalogue of Italian Pictures		1914	GBP -	1.10
41	M. Bergeret	Phytonomatotechnie universelle	Paris	1783	GBP -	16.00
42	Sir Francis Bernard	Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America		1774	GBP -	9.00
43	T. Bewick	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1797-1804	GBP -	9.00
44		Bible		1549	GBP -	16.00
45	W. Brockedon	Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps		1828-9	GBP -	0.15
46	T. Birch	The History of the Royal Society		1756-7	GBP -	15.00
47	Peter Blackborow	Navigation rectified		1684	GBP -	30.00
48	William Blackstone	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Oxford	1766-9	GBP -	3.10
49	Gilbert Blane	A Short Account of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen		[1780]	GBP -	18.00
50	W. Bligh	A Voyage to the South Sea		1792	GBP -	20.00
51	M. E. Bloch	Fischwerck			GBP -	85.00
52	R. Blome	The Gentleman's Recreation		1686	GBP -	25.00
53	T. Blundeville	Exercises		1622	GBP -	20.00
54	G. Boccaccio	Il Decameron	Venetia	1602	GBP -	1.00
55	Trajano Boccalini	I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus		1656	GBP -	3.10
56	J. Bodin	Vniversae Natvrae Theatrum	Hanoviae	1605	GBP -	6.00
57		Bodoni Press	Parma	1809	GBP -	2.10
58	William Bollan	Coloniae Anglicanae Illustratae: or the acquest of dominion		1762	GBP -	20.00
59	James Bolton	Filices Britannicae	Leeds	[1785]	GBP -	2.00
60	James Bolton	An History of Fungusses		1788	GBP -	11.00
61		Book of Common Prayer in Spanish		1707	GBP -	0.15
62		Book of Common Prayer	Oxford	1776	GBP -	2.00
63		Book of Common Prayer	Oxford	1776	GBP -	1.00
64		Book of Common Prayer		1776	GBP -	2.00
65	I. von Born	Testacea Musei Vindobonensis	Vindobonae	1780	GBP -	8.00
66	B. Bossi	Raccolta di disegni di F. Mazzola detto il Parmigianino	Parma	1772	GBP -	6.10
67	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson		1791	GBP -	35.00
68	L. de Bougainville	A Voyage round the World		1772	GBP -	11.00
69	T. E. Bowdich	Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee		1819	GBP -	8.00
70	R. Bowyer	An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe		1812-15	GBP -	11.00
71	W. Bradford	Sketches of country . . . and costume		1809	GBP -	30.00
72	S. Brandt	Stultifera Nauis			GBP -	38.00
73	Noah Bridges	Stenographie and Cry[p]tographie		1659	GBP -	2.00
74	A. Brongniart and D. Riocreux	Description du Musée Céramique de Sèvres	Paris	1845	GBP -	9.00
75	George Brookshaw	Pomona Britannica		1812	GBP -	200.00
76	Patrick Browne	The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica		1789	GBP -	6.00
77		Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1930-4	GBP -	21.00
78	E. Burke	A Third Letter on the Proposals for Peace with the Regecide Directory of France		1797	GBP -	0.10
79	E. Burke	Speech on the better security of the Independence of Parliament		1780	GBP -	11.00
80	J. Burmann	Rariorum Africanarum plantarum decas I-X	Amstelaedami	1738-9	GBP -	42.00
81	A. Burnaby	Journal of a Tour to Corsica in 1766		1804	GBP -	5.00
82	Edmund Burke	Speech on American Taxation		1775	GBP -	52.00
83	R. Burton	The Anatomy of Melancholy		1660	GBP -	6.10
84	Samuel Butler	Hudibras		1801	GBP -	0.10
85	Lord George Anson Byron	Voyage to the Sandwich Islands		1826	GBP -	5.00
86		Cambridge University	Cantabrigiae	1688	GBP -	4.10
87	W. Camden	Britannia		1695	GBP -	19.00
88	Thomas Campbell	Gertrude of Wyoming		1809	GBP -	5.00
89	William Carter	The Disbanded Subaltern			GBP -	20.00
90	Sir John Carr	Descriptive Travels in Spain		1811	GBP -	2.10
91	Luca Carlevariis	Le fabriche	Venetia	[1703]	GBP -	16.00
92	J. Cats	Kerkyraia Mastix	Middelburgh	1622	GBP -	2.00
93	M. de Cervantes	Doh Quixote		1675	GBP -	3.10
94	M. de Cervantes	El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote	Madrid	1780	GBP -	38.00
95	W. Chambers	Plans . . . and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surry		1763	GBP -	10.00
96	Charles I	Workes		1662	GBP -	5.10
97	P. F. X. de Charlevoix	Histoire du Paraguay	Paris	1756	GBP -	10.10
98	G. Chaucer	Workes		1598	GBP -	16.00
99	Sir Winston Churchill	Divi Britannici: being a remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle		1675	GBP -	11.00
100	E., Earl of Clarendon	The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Oxford	1826	GBP -	4.10

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.
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.
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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