Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, SPIDERPLANT,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 1980 - January 01, 1980

Page Size: 522 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301	Meric Casaubon	De quatuor Unguis commentationis			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	75.00
302	William Cave	Apostolici			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	210.00
303	John Chalkhili	Thealma and Clearchus		1683	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
304	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Works		1687	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
305	John Donne	LXXX sermons		1640	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	110.00
306	John Donne	Biaøanatoz A declaration of that paradox		1700	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	45.00
307	C. Dow	A Discourse of the Sabbath			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	100.00
308	J. Downame	The Conflict betweene the Flesh and the Spirit		1618	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
309	Michael Drayton	Poems		1637	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
310	Armand Jean Du Plessis	Emblema animæ or Morall Discourses reflecting upon Humanitie [—The Mindes Delight]		1635	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	20.00
311		Eadmer (Monk of Canterbury) Historiae Novorum sive sui Saeculi Libri VI			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
312		England		1633	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
313	T. Forrester	Rectius Instruendum or a Review and Examination of the Doctrine presented by one assuming the Name of ane Informer			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	15.00
314	T. Fuller	The Historie of the Holy Warre			GBP 70.00 - 90.00	65.00
315	T. Fuller	The Historie of the Holy Warre			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	55.00
316	T. Fuller	The history of the worthies of England			USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
317	T. Fuller	A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	680.00
318	Edward Grimestone	A Generall Historie of the Netherlands		1608	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	150.00
319	George Herbert	Remains		1652	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	10.00
320	Edward	The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	90.00
321		Homilies			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
322	Sir Robert Howard	Poems		1660	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
323	Henry Isaacson	Satvrni Ephemerides sive Tabvla Historico Chronologica		1633	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	10.00
324	Henry Isaacson	Satvrni Ephemerides sive Tabvla Historico Chronologica		1633	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	30.00
325	Richard Knolles	The Generall Historie of the Turkes			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	120.00
326		Koran		1649	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	210.00
327	Garcia Lasso de la Vega	The Royal Commentaries of Peru		1688	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
328	William Laud	A Relation of The Conference Betweene William Lawd ... And Mr Fisher the Jesuite			GBP 70.00 - 100.00	85.00
329	William Laud	The History of the Troubles and Tryal of... William Laud			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	45.00
330	Antoine Le Grand	An Entire Body of Philosophy		1694	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	65.00
331	Pierre Matthieu	The History of Lewis the Eleventh			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	90.00
332	J. Mayer	The English Catechisme explained			GBP 75.00 - 100.00	85.00
333	G. Miege	A relation of three embassies from ... Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie		1669	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	75.00
334	G. Miege	The Great French Dictionary		1688--87	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
335	John Milton	Paradise Lost		1688	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	130.00
336	John Milton	Paradise Lost			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	25.00
337	John Milton	Paradise Regain'd ... to which is added Samson Agonistes		1680	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	35.00
338	J. Milton	Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	10.00
339	Edward Misselden	Free Trade			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	800.00
340	Sir Thomas More	Utopia		1684	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
341	Thomas Mun	England's Treasure by Forraign Trade		1669	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	480.00
342	Blaise Pascal	Les Provinciales		1657	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	60.00
343		Pliny			GBP 30.00 - 60.00	65.00
344	Alexander Radcliffe	The Ramble: an anti-heroick poem		1682	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	85.00
345	Sir Walter Raleigh	The history of the world		1617	USD 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
346	John Rushworth	Historical Collections of Private Passages of State		1659--92	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	20.00
347	Joannes Scapula	Lexicon Graeco-Latinum			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	50.00
348	J. Selden	Titles of Honor ... second edition		1631	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	75.00
349	A. A. Cooper Shaftesbury	A Letter from a Person of Quality			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
350	John Spottiswoode	The History of the Church of Scotland			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	240.00
351	Thomas Sprat	A True Account and Declaration of The Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King		1685	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	20.00
352	Thomas Stanley	The History of Philosophy		1687	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
353	Famianus Strada	De Bello Belgico			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	170.00
354	Henry Stubbe	A censure upon certaine passages contained in the history of the Royal Society	Venice	1502	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	35.00
355	Francisco Suarez	Tractatus de Legibus			GBP 70.00 - 100.00	210.00
356	Sir John Suckling	Fragmenta Aürea		1646	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	70.00
357	Publius Tacitus	The Annales ... The Description of Germanie [with] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	20.00
358	Publius Tacitus	The Annales .. . The Description of Germaine [with] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba			GBP 70.00 - 100.00	70.00
359	Torquato Tasso	Godfrey of Boulogne: or the Recouerie of Jerusalem			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	170.00
360	Torquato Tasso	Godfrey of Bulloigne or the Recovery of Jerusalem		1687	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	60.00
361	Jeremy Taylor	Ductor Dubitantium			GBP 70.00 - 100.00	90.00
362	Faithful Teate	Ter Tria: or the doctrine of ... Father		1669	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	60.00
363	William Turner	History of all Religions in the World... in Two Parts		1695	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
364	Basilius Valentine	The Last Will and Testament		1671	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	85.00
365	Publius Virgilius Maro	The Works ... translated		1668	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
366	Publius Virgilius Maro	The Works		1668	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	75.00
367	Edmund Waller	Poems		1664	USD 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
368	John Weever	Ancient Funerall Monuments			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
369	Edward Wetenhall	Enter into thy closet		1676	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	120.00
370	Sir Bulstrode Whitelock	Memorials of the English Affairs			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	50.00
371	George Wither	Speculum Speculativum		[1661]	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
372	Samuel Woodford	A paraphrase upon the Psalms of David		1667	USD 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
373		Zosimus			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	50.00
374	Joseph Berington	The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa	Birmingham	1788	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
375	John Skelton	Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes		1736	GBP 60.00 - 70.00	40.00
376	Mark Noble	Memoirs of the Illustrious House of Medici			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	20.00
377	James Douglas	Nenia Britannica		1793	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	90.00
378	Benjamin Franklin	Political		1779	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
379	Benjamin Franklin	Works	Dublin	1793	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
380	George Bickham	The British Monarchy		1748	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
381	James Macpherson	The poems of Ossian		1790	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	55.00
382	Anthony Ashley Cooper	Characteristicks of Men	Birmingham	1773	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
383		Biographical Mirrour (The)			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	55.00
384	Peter Barwick	The Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	50.00
385	Daniel Defoe	The History of the Devil			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
386	Richard Glover	Leonidas			GBP 80.00 - 100.00	100.00
387	Robert Nelson	An Address to Persons of Quality and Estate			GBP 70.00 - 90.00	45.00
388	V. de Voiture	Works		1736	GBP 5.00 - 10.00	20.00
389	Thomas Gray	An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard			USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
390	John Banks	The history of... Peter the Great			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	55.00
391		Evangelical Magazine (The) vol. 1--2		1793--98	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
392	William Wycherley	The Posthumous Works ... in prose and verse		1728	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	45.00
393	James Mackintosh	Vindiciae Gallicae			GBP 60.00 - 70.00	35.00
394	Richard Price	Additional Observations on the Nature and Value of Civil Liberty	Dublin	1777	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	30.00
395	John Howard	The State of the Prisons in England and Wales ... Third Edition			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	170.00
396		A collection of 6 late eighteenth-century pamphlets	Dublin and Drogheda	1774--91	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	290.00
397	Edward Hyde Clarendon	The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Oxford	1702--04	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	40.00
398	John Entick	The General History of the Late War ... in Europe		1765--72	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
399	William Roy	The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain first edition		1793	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	90.00
400	Antoine de Pas Marquis de Feuquieres	Memoirs Historical and Military ... with ... a Military Dictionary		1735--36	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	25.00

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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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.