Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT MAPS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., EAGLE,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
302	Sir Isaac Newton	Opera		1779-85	GBP -	16.00
303	John Newton	Astronomia Britannica		1657	GBP -	1.00
304	M. Norwood	System of Navigation		1685	GBP -	28.00
305	John Ogilby	America		1671	GBP -	40.00
306	John Ogilby	Asia		1673	GBP -	7.10
307		Ohio		1773	GBP -	28.00
308	J. Oldham	Works		1686	GBP -	4.10
309	Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery	Four New Plays		1672-7	GBP -	2.00
310	Thomas Otway	The Orphan		1685	GBP -	14.00
311	John Oxley	Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales		1820	GBP -	12.00
312	P. S. Pallas	Flora Rossica	Petropoli	1784-8	GBP -	12.00
313	S. Parkinson	A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas		1773	GBP -	6.10
314	W. E. Parry	Journal of a Voyage		1821-6	GBP -	3.10
315	W. Paterson	A Narrative of four Journeys into the country of the Hottentots		1789	GBP -	26.00
316		Peerage of England		1710	GBP -	4.10
317	Samuel Pepys	[Diary] Memoirs		1825	GBP -	35.00
318	S. Pepys	Diary	Bumpus	1889	GBP -	8.00
319	A. J. Pernety	The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands		1771	GBP -	14.00
320	George Perry	Conchology		1811	GBP -	14.00
321	D. Petavius	The History of the World		1659	GBP -	7.00
322	Sir John Pettus	Fodinae Regales		1670	GBP -	10.00
323	Sir John Pettus	Fleta minor		1683	GBP -	9.00
324	A. Phillip	The Voyage to Botany Bav		1789	GBP -	8.00
325	J. T. Phillips	An Account of the People of Malabar		1717	GBP -	1.00
326	Stephen Plank	An Introduction to the only Method for discovering Longitude	Longitude	1714	GBP -	9.10
327	R. Plot	The Natural History of Oxfordshire	Oxford	1677	GBP -	3.10
328	R. Plot	The Natural History of Stafford-shire	Oxford	1686	GBP -	10.00
329	L. Plukenet	Opera omnia botanica		1720	GBP -	28.00
330	C. Plumier	Nova plantarum Americanarum genera	Paris	1703	GBP -	18.00
331	James Plumptree	A Collection of Songs the music adapted and composed by Charles Hague	Cambridge	1805	GBP -	0.15
332	Erich Pontoppidan	The Natural History of Norway		1755	GBP -	5.10
333	G. B. Porta	Phytognomonica	Neapoli	1588	GBP -	10.00
334	G. B. Porta	De Humana Physiognomonia	Vrsellis	1601	GBP -	2.00
335	Matthew Prior	Poems on Several Occasions		1718	GBP -	1.00
336	John Pugh	A Treatise on the Science of Muscular Action		1794	GBP -	2.10
337	Henry Purcell	Orpheus Britannicus		1706-12	GBP -	8.10
338	J. Racine	Oeuvres	Paris	1820	GBP -	30.00
339	Lady T. S. Raffles	Memoir of Sir T. S. Raffles		1830	GBP -	2.00
340	J. Ray	Historia Plantarum		1686-1704	GBP -	8.00
341	R. A. F. de Réaumur	Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes	Paris	1734-42	GBP -	9.10
342		Remarks on the Preliminary Articles offer'd by the French King		1711	GBP -	16.00
343	A. J. Retzius	Observationes botanicae	Lipsiae	1791	GBP -	13.00
344	Sir Joshua Reynolds	A Discourse delivered at the Opening of the Royal Academy		1769	GBP -	4.10
345	S. W. Reynolds	Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds			GBP -	5.00
346	J. J. Roemer	Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii	Vitoduri Helvetorum	1789	GBP -	10.10
347	Sir John Ross	Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage		1835	GBP -	1.10
348	H. Salvianus	Aquatilium animalium historiae	Romae	1557	GBP -	16.00
349	F. Sandford	The History of the Coronation of James II		1687	GBP -	2.00
350	J. C. Schaeffer	Fungorum Icones	Ratisbonae	1770	GBP -	4.00
351	J. J. Scheuchzer	Herbarium diluvianum	Lugduni Batavorum	1723	GBP -	6.00
352	J. D. Schopf	Naturgeschichte der Schildkröten	Erlangen	1795	GBP -	11.00
353	J. C. D. Schreber	Beschreibung der Gräser	Leipzig	1769	GBP -	12.00
354	I. A. Scopoli	Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae	Ticini	1786	GBP -	1.00
355	A. Seba	Locupletissimi rerum naturalium Thesauri accurata descriptio	Amstelaedami	1734-65	GBP -	14.00
356	John Selden	Of the Dominion		1652	GBP -	10.00
357	T. Shadwell	The Squire of Alsatia		1688	GBP -	16.00
358	W. Shakespeare	Comedies		1685	GBP -	140.00
359	George Shaw	Museum Leverianum		1792-6	GBP -	40.00
360	George Shaw and F. P. Nodder	Naturalist's Miscellany		1796-1805	GBP -	40.00
361	S. Shaw	The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire		1798-1801	GBP -	5.10
362	Thomas Shepard	The Parable of the Ten Virgins		1660	GBP -	2.10
363	R. B. Sheridan	Comparative Statement . . . for the better government of . . . India		1788	GBP -	3.00
364	Sir George Staunton	An Authentic Account of an Embassy to China		1797	GBP -	6.10
365	J. Skelton	Oxonia antiqua restaurata	Oxford	1823	GBP -	3.00
366		Skinners Company			GBP -	4.10
367	Captain John Smith	England's Improvement Reviv'd		1670	GBP -	3.00
368	J. E. Smith	Plantarum icones	Londini	1789	GBP -	10.00
369	J. E. Smith	[Icones plantarum rariorum]		[1790]	GBP -	32.00
370	J. E. Smith	Spicilegium Botanicum		1792	GBP -	24.00
371	J. E. Smith	Tentamen botanicum de filicum generibus dorsiferarum	Turin	1793	GBP -	15.00
372	J. E. Smith and James Sowerby	Exotic Botany		1804-5	GBP -	28.00
373	A. Snape	The Anatomy of an Horse		1683	GBP -	30.00
374	W. Sole	Menthae Britannicae ... the British Mints		1798	GBP -	5.00
375	P. Sonnerat	Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée	Paris	1776	GBP -	9.00
376	P. Sonnerat	Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine		1782	GBP -	36.00
377	A. Sparrman	A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope		1786	GBP -	17.00
378	John Speed	A prospect of the most famous parts of the world		1631	GBP -	155.00
379	James Sowerby	Coloured figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms		1797-1803	GBP -	22.00
380	J. Sowerby	English Botany		1790-1834	GBP -	19.00
381	J. Sowerby	English Botany		1790-1814	GBP -	19.00
382	J. Sowerby	The British Miscellany		1806	GBP -	8.00
383	James Sowerby	A New Elucidation of Colours		1809	GBP -	7.00
384	John Stackhouse	Nereis Britannicae	Bath	1801	GBP -	10.00
385	Mme de Stael	Réflexions sur le Procès de la Reine		1793	GBP -	1.00
386	C. Stedman	The History of the American War		1794	GBP -	6.00
387	Graf Kaspar Sternberg	Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt	Regensburg	1825	GBP -	10.00
388	L. Sterne	Works		1780	GBP -	0.10
389	C. Stevens and J. Liebault	Maison Rustique		1616	GBP -	10.00
390	St. John John	Mary		1789	GBP -	3.00
391	J. Storer and J. Greig	Select Views of London and its Environs		1804	GBP -	3.10
392	J. Storer and J. Greig	Select Views of London and its environs		1804-5	GBP -	1.10
393	John Stow	Annales		1631	GBP -	6.10
394	J. C. Sturmius	Collegium Experimentale	Norimbergae	1676-1685	GBP -	4.10
395	J. Strutt	Sports and Pastimes		1810	GBP -	1.10
396	John Swammerdam	The Book of Nature		1758	GBP -	5.10
397	G. Swayne	Gramina pascua: or . . . common pasture grasses	Bristol	1790	GBP -	5.10
398	Stephen Switzer	The Practical Kitchen Gardiner		1727	GBP -	1.10
399	M. Symes	An account of an Embassy to the kingdom of Ava		1800	GBP -	2.00
400	T. Tanner	Notitia Monastica		1744	GBP -	1.10
401	John Taylor	Thesaurium Mathematicae		1687	GBP -	7.10

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.
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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.

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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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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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