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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
602 W. Daniell and Ayton (R.) A Voyage round Great Britain

1814-26

 GBP - 185.00
603 D. Defoe Jure Divino: a Satyr

1706

 GBP - 1.00
604 D. Defoe A Tour thro' London about the year 1725

1929

 GBP - 13.00
605 Duplessis-Bertaux (J.) Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington Paris

GBP - 6.00
606 French Revolution

1817

 GBP - 3.10
607 T. Gainsborough A Collection of Prints illustrative of English Scenery

GBP - 8.00
608 T. Girton A Selection of Twenty of the most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs

1803

 GBP - 22.00
609 J. Godby, Lerberghi (P. van), and Buonaiuti (M.) Italian Scenery

1823

 GBP - 7.00
610 P. G. Hamerton Landscape

1885

 GBP - 1.00
611 S. Leigh Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond

1829

 GBP - 32.00
612 D. Loggan Oxonia Illustrata Oxford

1675

 GBP - 12.00
613 T. Malton Views of Oxford

1810

 GBP - 42.00
614 Maps

1610

 GBP - 17.00
615 J. Ogilby The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II

1662

 GBP - 7.10
616 J. Ogilby Britannia

1675

 GBP - 36.00
617 E. Orme An Essay on Transparent Prints

1807

 GBP - 14.00
618 E. P[hillips] The New World of Words

1678

 GBP - 2.10
619 S. Prout Rudiments of Landscape

1813

 GBP - 17.00
620 Public Edifices of the British Metropolis (The)

1820

 GBP - 8.10
621 W. H. Pyne Microcosm: or a Picturesque Delineation of the Arts

1808

 GBP - 15.00
622 G. F. Robson Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

1819

 GBP - 12.00
623 P. Sandby Sixteen Etchings

1821

 GBP - 5.00
624 R. Seymour A Search of the "Comfortable

1829

 GBP - 2.10
625 H. Shaw and Madden (Sir F.) Illuminated Ornaments selected from Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

1833

 GBP - 7.10
626 J. T. Smith Antiquities of the City of Westminster

1811

 GBP - 1.00
627 J. Speed A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World

1627

 GBP - 150.00
628 F. B. Spilsbury Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria

1819

 GBP - 9.00
629 J. Varley A Treatise on the Principles of Landscape Design

1849

 GBP - 10.00
630 R. Westall Victories of the Duke of Wellington

1819

 GBP - 17.00
631 G. F. Handel Handel's Songs selected from his Oratorios. For the Harpsicord

GBP - 2.10
632 W. A. Mozart Le Nozze de Figaro. Die Hochzeit des Figaro

1796

 GBP - 2.00
633 W. A. Mozart Dom Juan oder der steinerne Gast. Eine Oper in vier Aufzügen ... In einem neuem

GBP - 3.00
634 W. A. Mozart Missa pro defunctis Requiem . . . Klavierauszug

GBP - 0.15
635 T. Linley the Elder

1786

 GBP - 1.00
636 Fr. de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon Oeuvres Sprituelles Rotterdam

1738

 GBP - 230.00
637 Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal Lisbon

1817

 GBP - 12.00
638 Miniature Books

1896

 GBP - 9.00
638a Wynkyn de Worde A leaf (folio LXXV) from Higden's Polycronicon Westminster

1495

 GBP - 1.00
639 Hours of the Virgin Paris

1515-30

 GBP - 44.00
640 Book of Hours Paris

1513

 GBP - 52.00
641 Breviarium Ratisbonense Augsburg

1487

 GBP - 5.00
642 Missale Romanum Venice

1485

 GBP - 12.00
643 Lud. Hain Repertorium Bibliographicum Stuttgart

1826-38

 GBP - 11.00
644 Missale ad usum Ecclesie Sarisburiensis Paris

1529

 GBP - 15.00
645 Francis Bond Gothic Architecture in England

1912

 GBP - 4.00
646 Hartmann Schedel Liber Chronicarum Nuremberg

1493

 GBP - 42.00
647 Missale Strasbourg

1493

 GBP - 8.00
648 Missale Benedictum Bursfeldense Speier

1498

 GBP - 9.00
649 Wm. Lyndewood Provinciale seu Constitutions Anglie Paris

1505-6

 GBP - 20.00
650 Book of Common Prayer Edinburgh

1637-36

 GBP - 7.10
651 Wm. Gibb Royal House of Stuart

1890

 GBP - 0.10
652 M. de Cervantes Don Quixote

1755

 GBP - 1.00
653 NICHOLAS COMEERFORD CHART OF THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND FROM THE HUMBER TO WINCHELSEA AND THE NORTH COAST OF EUROPE FROM CALAIS TO Friesland

1665

 GBP - 42.00
654 N. Comberford Chart of the Mediterranean

1666

 GBP - 40.00
655 N. Comberford Chart of the British Isles and the Coast of Europe from Bayonne to Southern Norway

1666

 GBP - 62.00
656 John Seller Atlas Maritimus London

1675

 GBP - 70.00
657 J. Blaeu Le Grand Atlas Amsterdam

1667

 GBP - 860.00
658 W. Shakespeare Comedies London

1632

 GBP - 260.00
659 John Gould Monograph of The Ramphastidæ

1834

 GBP - 46.00
660 John Gould Century of Birds from The Himalaya Mountains

1831

 GBP - 36.00
661 Robert Havell A Collection of the Birds of Paradise Oxford Street

GBP - 350.00
662 Edmund Dulac The complete set of the Original Drawings for the Illustrations to "The Green Lacquer Pavilion

GBP - 14.00
663 Robert Havell Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent

1823

 GBP - 60.00
664 Sir W. Jardine and Selby (P. J.) Illustrations of Ornithology

GBP - 11.00
665 Encyclographie du Regne vegetal Brussels

1828-32

 GBP - 115.00
666 R. J. Thornton Temple of Flora

1799-1806

 GBP - 85.00
667 W. Daniell and Ayton (R.) A Voyage round Great Britain

1814-25

 GBP - 250.00
668 James Boswell Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle

1928-37

 GBP - 140.00
669 Ackermann's Oxford

GBP - 12.00
670 King of England Charles II Very interesting A.L.s

GBP - 58.00
671 King of England Charles II L.s

1642

 GBP - 12.00
672 King of England Charles I Printed Doc. signed Oxford

1643

 GBP - 7.10
673 Lord George Jeffreys Interesting L.s

1687

 GBP - 16.00
674 Sir Thomas Myddleton

1645

 GBP - 3.10
675 Lord George Digby Receipt s

1642

 GBP - 4.00
676 Montague Bertie, Earl of Lindsey Doc. s

1643

 GBP - 2.00
677 Charles II Fine Doc. s Lincoln

1672

 GBP - 6.10
678 The Palatinate

1610

 GBP - 1.10
679 George III Doc. s. (with signs of mental disturbance) 1 page

1809

 GBP - 3.10
680 Charle's II's Escape after Worcester

GBP - 19.00
681 Charles James Fox A.L.s

1783

 GBP - 1.00
682 Josiah Wedgwood L.s Etruria

1790

 GBP - 3.10
683 Cromwell

GBP - 2.00
684 Shorthand

GBP - 1.00
685 Parliament

1679

 GBP - 1.00
686 Travel

GBP - 13.00
687 George Canning A.L.s

1798

 GBP - 12.00
688 David Garrick Very fine A.L.s

[1751]

 GBP - 34.00
689 William Pitt A.L.s

1793

 GBP - 5.10
690 J. W. M., R.A. Turner A.L.s

GBP - 4.10
691 C. Troyon French animal painter

GBP - 3.10
692 Léopold Robert French painter

1834

 GBP - 4.10
693 Frances Abington Actress with Garrick

1813

 GBP - 5.00
694 Lady Harriet Hesketh Two interesting A.L.s.

1794

 GBP - 12.00
695 Charles Wesley Seven A.L.s

1754-1764

 GBP - 36.00
696 J. G. Whittier America and England Amesbury

1874

 GBP - 6.00
697 Literary

GBP - 14.00
698 R. R. Madden The Autograph Collection formed by Dr. R. R. Madden

GBP - 15.00
699 Album of Marianne Ewart of Berwick-on-Tweed

GBP - 6.00
700 Australia

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.
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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