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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
101 Earl of Edward Clarendon The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Oxford

1849

 GBP - 4.10
102 Claude Le Lorrain

1777-1817

 GBP - 22.00
103 Alexander Clunie The American Traveller: or

1769

 GBP - 30.00
104 C. Clusius Rariorum plantarum historia Antwerp

1601

 GBP - 9.00
105 C. Clusius Exoticorum libri decern

1605

 GBP - 11.00
106 Coleccion general de Maquinas Madrid

1773

 GBP - 1.00
107 D. Collins An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales

1798-1802

 GBP - 15.00
108 John Collins The Mariners Plain Spale new plain'd (Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale new plain'd)

1659

 GBP - 16.00
109 W. Combe The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

1812

 GBP - 2.10
110 W. Congreve Works

1710

 GBP - 8.10
111 Captain James Cook An Account of the Voyages

1773

 GBP - 6.00
112 Captain J. Cook A Voyage towards the South Pole

1777

 GBP - 5.00
113 Captain J. Cook A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

1784

 GBP - 5.10
114 Captain J. Cook Atlas of plates

GBP - 8.00
115 Moses Cook The Manner of Raising . . . Forest and Fruit Trees

1679

 GBP - 2.10
116 E. M. da Costa A Natural History of Fossils

1757

 GBP - 4.00
117 Costume of Portugal Coluaghi

1814

 GBP - 54.00
118 Court-Mercury (The)

1735

 GBP - 1.00
119 W. Cowper Poems

1782-5

 GBP - 9.00
120 W. Cowper and J. Newton Olney Hymns

1779

 GBP - 4.10
121 E. Curll Neck or Nothing: a consolatory letter upon his being Tost in a Blanket

1716

 GBP - 8.00
122 W. Curtis The Botanical Magazine

1787-1814

 GBP - 46.00
123 W. Curtis The Botanical Magazine

1787-91

 GBP - 8.10
124 W. Curtis Botanical Magazine

1815-25

 GBP - 19.00
125 William Curtis Flora Londinensis

1777-98

 GBP - 16.00
126 J. Dalechamp Historia generalis plantarum Lugduni

1587

 GBP - 21.00
127 William Dampier A New Voyage round the World

1697

 GBP - 2.00
128 W. B. Daniel Rural Sports

1802-13

 GBP - 3.00
129 D. O. Dapper Description de l'Afrique Amsterdam

1686

 GBP - 15.00
130 E. Darwin The Botanic Garden

1791

 GBP - 1.05
131 A. J. D. D'Argenville The Theory and Practice of Gardening

1712

 GBP - 4.00
132 Sir William Davenant Works

1673

 GBP - 7.10
133 H. C. Davila The Historie of the Civill Warres of France

1647

 GBP - 0.15
134 A. C. Daviler Ausführliche Anleitung zu der ganzen Civil-Baukunst Augspurg

1759

 GBP - 2.10
135 Robert Dawson The Present State of Australia

1830

 GBP - 2.00
136 D. Defoe Robinson Crusoe

1790

 GBP - 1.05
137 P. Delia Valle The Travels into East-India and Arabia Deserta

1665

 GBP - 5.00
138 J. A. De Luc Recherches sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphere Genève

1772

 GBP - 2.00
139 F. de Waldeck Voyage pittoresque dans la province d' Yucatan Paris

1838

 GBP - 46.00
140 Lord Digby The Speeches concerning Grievances

1641

 GBP - 7.00
141 J. J. Dillenius Historia Muscorum Oxonii

1741

 GBP - 2.10
142 J. J. Dillenius Historia muscorum: a general history of mosses and corals

1768

 GBP - 4.00
143 J. J. Dillenius Hortus Elthamensis

1732

 GBP - 20.00
144 George Dixon A Voyage round the World

1789

 GBP - 6.10
145 E. Dodwell Views in Greece

1821

 GBP - 33.00
146 W. Dugdale The Baronage of England

1675-6

 GBP - 3.10
147 A. Dumas Celebrated Crimes

1895

 GBP - 0.08
148 W. Eden History of New Holland

1787

 GBP - 4.00
149 J. Edmondson and Sir William Segar Baronagium Genealogicum

1764

 GBP - 2.00
150 G. Edwards A Natural History of Uncommon Birds

1743-64

 GBP - 82.00
151 John Ellis An essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines

1755

 GBP - 4.00
152 John Ellis An Historical Account of Coffee

1774

 GBP - 8.00
153 John Ellis The Natural History of Zoophytes

1786

 GBP - 5.00
154 Elizabeth

1806

 GBP - 3.00
155 D. Erasmus Paraphrasis in Evangelium Matthaei Basilea

1522

 GBP - 2.00
156 John Evelyn [Diary] Memoirs

1818

 GBP - 14.00
157 R. Fabyan Chronicle

1559

 GBP - 5.00
158 William Falconer A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine

1815

 GBP - 12.00
159 H. Fielding Amelia

1752

 GBP - 6.10
160 R. FitzRoy, P. P. King, and Charles Darwin Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.S

1839

 GBP - 26.00
161 John Flaxman A Letter to the Committee for raising the Naval Pillar

1799

 USD - Not Sold
162 Floral Cabinet

1837-40

 GBP - 14.00
163 Florence

1750

 GBP - 3.10
164 Sir John Floyer A Letter concerning

1725

 GBP - 7.00
165 George Forster A Voyage round the World

1777

 GBP - 3.10
166 Benjamin Franklin Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America

1769

 GBP - 6.10
167 John Franklin Narrative of a Journey to the Polar Sea

1823-8

 GBP - 2.10
168 Roland Freart A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern

1707

 GBP - 3.00
169 Sir John Froissart Cronycles

1525

 GBP - 66.00
170 Sir John Froissart Chronicles

1803-5

 GBP - 4.10
171 T. Fuller The Historie of the Holy Warre Cambridge

1639

 GBP - 1.10
172 Cieraad der Lusthooven Leyden

1730

 GBP - 4.00
173 T. Garnett Outlines of a course of lectures on Chemistry Liverpool

1797

 GBP - 1.00
174 C. Gesner Historiae Animalivm Francofvrti

1620

 GBP - 5.10
175 E. Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1776-88

 USD - Not Sold
176 James Gibbs Bibliotheca Radcliviana: or

1747

 GBP - 1.00
177 Vicary Gibbs The Speech in Defence of J. H. Tooke

1795

 GBP - 0.10
178 T. Gibson The Anatomy of Human Bodies epitomiz'd

1688

 GBP - 2.00
179 G. Ginanni Opere postume Venesia

1755-7

 GBP - 2.00
180 J. G. Gmelin Flora Sibirica Petropoli

1747-69

 GBP - 11.00
181 S. G. Gmelin Historia Fvcorvm Petropoli

1768

 GBP - 8.00
182 O. Goldsmith Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell

1795

 GBP - 3.00
183 Sir J. Skelton Mary Stuart

1893

 GBP - 5.10
184 M. Creighton Queen Elizabeth

1896

 GBP - 8.00
185 R. R. Holmes Queen Victoria

1897

 GBP - 2.00
186 Sir J. Skelton Charles I

1898

 GBP - 5.10
187 S. R. Gardiner Oliver Cromwell

1899

 GBP - 5.10
188 Andrew Lang Prince Charles Edward

1900

 GBP - 6.00
189 O. Airy Charles II

1901

 GBP - 6.00
190 Baron Grant The History of Mauritius

1801

 GBP - 4.10
191 James Grant The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to New South Wales

1803

 GBP - 10.00
192 Gratulatio solennis Universitatis Oxoniensis ob Walliae Principem natum Oxonii

1762

 GBP - 6.00
193 John Gay Fables

1793

 GBP - 2.05
194 Lewis Greener Specimens of Ornamental Art

1850

 GBP - 3.00
195 J. Grego Rowlandson the caricaturist

1880

 GBP - 8.00
196 John Mack Gregory The Geography and History of Lile Edinborough

1708-9

 GBP - 12.00
197 N. Grew Musaeum Regalis Societatis

1681

 GBP - 0.10
198 J. L. Grimm and W. K. Grimm German Popular Stories

1827-26

 GBP - 9.10
199 E. Grimston A Generall Historie of the Netherlands

1609

 GBP - 6.00
200 Gun at Home and Abroad

1912

 GBP - 4.00
  • <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.
  • <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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