Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT MAPS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., EAGLE,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

1699-1701

 GBP - 8.10
403 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair

1848

 GBP - 4.00
404 J. Thevenot Travels into the Levant

1687

 GBP - 4.00
405 Thucydides

1634

 GBP - 2.00
406 Timber Nürnberg

1733-4

 GBP - 9.00
407 H. Tragus De Stirpium usitatis nomenclaturis Argentorati

1552

 GBP - 38.00
408 Trials

1679

 GBP - 4.10
409 S. Vaillant Botanicon Parisiense ou denombrement des Plantes Leide

1727

 GBP - 8.00
410 Thomas Velley Coloured figures of Marine Plants Bathcniae

1795

 GBP - 6.00
411 T. Venner Via Recta ad Vitam Longam. . . . Whereunto is annexed a Treatise of the famous Baths of Bathe ... As also an accurate Treatise concerning Tobacco

1638

 GBP - 4.00
412 Versailles Paris

1679

 GBP - 8.00
413 Victoria History of the County of Stafford

1908

 GBP - 4.10
414 John Walcott Descriptions and Figures of Petrifactions Bath

GBP - 5.10
415 George Walker The Costume of Yorkshire

1885

 GBP - 5.00
416 Horace Walpole Letters

1857-9

 GBP - 1.10
417 J. B. Waring Masterpieces of Industrial Art

1863

 GBP - 6.10
418 James Watt Correspondence on his discovery of the theory of the Composition of Water

1846

 GBP - 3.00
419 Josiah Wedgwood An Address to the Young Inhabitants of The Pottery Newcastle

[1783]

 GBP - 26.00
420 J. Weever Ancient Fvnerall Monvments

1631

 GBP - 0.10
421 Isaac Weld Travels through the States of North America

1799

 GBP - 3.00
422 J. Wells Sciographia

1635

 GBP - 5.10
423 Thomas Whateley Observations on Modern Gardening

1801

 GBP - 6.10
424 John White Journal of a voyage to new South Wales

1790

 GBP - 13.00
425 R. White A Summary of the Pneumato - Chemical Theory

GBP - 8.10
426 Francis Willoughby Ornithologiae libri tres

1676

 GBP - 8.10
427 Richard Wilson Studies and Designs done at Rome in the year 1752 Oxford

1811

 GBP - 10.00
428 Mary Wollstonecraft Letters written ... in Sweden

1796

 GBP - 2.10
429 W. Woodfall The Debate at the East India House on Private Trade

1802

 GBP - 1.00
430 William Woodville Medical Botany

1790-94

 GBP - 13.00
431 G. G. Zannichelli Istoria delle piante che nascono ne lidi intorno a Venezia Venezia

1735

 GBP - 2.10
432 G. Zanotti Le Pitture di Pellegrino Tibaldi Venezia

1756

 GBP - 1.00
433 America

1774

 GBP - 115.00
434 America

1770

 GBP - 15.00
435 America

1774

 GBP - 500.00
436 America

GBP - 44.00
437 America

1775

 GBP - 62.00
438 Army

1679/8

 GBP - 17.00
439 Artillery

1688

 GBP - 28.00
440 Charles II A Freind to Caesar

GBP - 5.00
441 Ceylon

1799

 GBP - 14.00
442 Commonplace Book of Anne Beauclerk

1779

 GBP - 14.00
443 Dartmouth

GBP - 50.00
444 William Gerard De Brahm Report of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America

1773

 GBP - 195.00
445 William Gerard De Brahm The Revelling Balance and Counter-Balance

1774

 GBP - 36.00
446 Navy

GBP - 44.00
447 Parliament

GBP - 6.00
448 Parliament

1628

 GBP - 9.00
449 Post Office

1682-83

 GBP - 70.00
450 Sir Robert Slingsby A Discourse touching the Past and Present State of the Navy

1660/61

 GBP - 26.00
451 Architecture

GBP - 20.00
452 Bermuda

GBP - 290.00
453 Channel Islands

1600

 GBP - 58.00
454 Continental

GBP - 110.00
455 Fortifications

GBP - 40.00
456 Hull and Scarborough

1681/2

 GBP - 42.00
457 IRELAND

GBP - 1,100.00
458 Isle of Wight

GBP - 160.00
459 London

GBP - 180.00
460 Miscellaneous

GBP - 95.00
461 Naval

USD - Not Sold
462 Ordnance

(1687)

 GBP - 16.00
463 Philippine Islands

GBP - 18.00
464 Plymouth

1672

 GBP - 210.00
465 Portsmouth

GBP - 400.00
466 Portulan chart on vellum of the North Sea and the Baltic

GBP - 110.00
467 Scotland

1674

 GBP - 12.00
468 Somersetshire

GBP - 46.00
469 Tangier

GBP - 210.00
470 The World

GBP - 360.00
471 The World

GBP - 35.00
472 R. Ackermann The Poetical Magazine

1809-11

 GBP - 5.00
473 R. Ackermann Picturesque Tour through the Oberland in the Canton of Berne

1823

 GBP - 20.00
474 L. A. Anspach History of Newfoundland

1819

 GBP - 7.00
475 Belle Assemblée (La)

1825

 GBP - 2.05
476 S. Butler Hudibras

1819

 GBP - 4.00
477 M. de Cervantes The Spirit of Don Quixote

1831

 GBP - 6.00
478 Lieut. E. Chappell Voyage of H.M.S. Rosamond to Newfoundland

1818

 GBP - 4.00
479 Winston S. Churchill The World Crisis

1923-31

 GBP - 4.10
480 W. Combe The Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque

1815

 GBP - 1.15
481 W. Combe The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax]

GBP - 6.00
482 W. Combe The English Dance of Death

1815-16

 GBP - 24.00
483 W. Combe The Dance of Life

1817

 GBP - 10.00
484 L. Cust and Colvin (S.) History of the Society of Dilettanti

1898

 GBP - 5.00
485 D. Defoe The True-Born Englishman

1701

 GBP - 6.00
486 D. Defoe The True-Born Englishman

1701

 GBP - 6.00
487 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners

1702

 GBP - 3.00
488 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners

1702

 GBP - 2.00
489 D. Defoe A true Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man

1703

 GBP - 3.10
490 D. Defoe A Hymn to Victory

1704

 GBP - 3.10
491 D. Defoe Vox Populi

1709

 GBP - 4.10
492 D. Defoe An Account of the Conduct of Robert Earl of Oxford

1715

 GBP - 3.10
493 D. Defoe A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain

1724-5

 GBP - 14.00
494 D. Defoe A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain

1724

 GBP - 5.00
495 D. Defoe A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain

1753

 GBP - 5.00
496 D. Defoe A Tour through the Island of Great Britain

1778

 GBP - 2.00
497 D. Defoe A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain

1927

 GBP - 16.00
498 D. Defoe Augusta Triumphans

1728

 GBP - 5.10
499 D. Defoe The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton

1728

 GBP - 2.00
500 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers

1837

 GBP - 3.00
501 C. Dickens Bleak House

1853

 GBP - 2.15
  • <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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