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Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100 Charles Hamilton Smith The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland

USD - 14.00
101 John Speed The History of Great Britaine

USD - 1.40
102 Cesare Vecellio Habiti Antichi

USD - 100.80
103 Wild Flowers

USD - 2.80
104 Hours of the Virgin Paris

1518-1532

 USD - 616.00
104a Gabriel Biel De Festivitatibus Virginis Marie sermones

USD - 25.20
104b Sophocles Tragoediae septum

USD - 106.40
105 Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) Ad Henricu[m] Octavum Britanniae Regem Rome

[c. 1536]

 USD - 44.80
106 Crispin de Pas Les Nouvelles Inventions de Fortifier les Places

USD - 22.40
107 Giovanni Battista Ferrari Flora overo Cultura di Fiori . . . trasportata della Lingua Latina neh' Italiana da L. A. Perugino Rome

1638

 USD - 36.40
108 Hieronymus Mercurialis De arte gymnastica Paris

1577

 USD - 25.20
109 Constitucio[n]es Extravagantes do Arcebispado de Lixboa

USD - 14.00
110 Cid Ruy Diaz de Vivar Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador

USD - 22.40
111 Juan Bautista Lavana Viage de la Catholica Real Magestad del Rei D. Filipe III

USD - 25.20
112 Dom Nunalvrez Pereyra Chronica do Con[n]destabre de Portugal Dom Nunalvrez Pereyra Principiador da Casa de Braganca Lisbon

1623

 USD - 5.60
113 Fr. Miguel Agustin Libro de los Secretos de Agricultura Perpinan

1626

 USD - 11.20
114 Juan de Solorzano y Pereira Emblemas Regio-Poli ticos . . . Decada Prima

USD - 14.00
115 A. F. Aguado de Cordova and others Bullarium Equestris Ordinis S. Iacobi de Spatha Madrid

1719

 USD - 5.60
116 Jose Maria Soares Memorias para a Historia da Medicina Lusitana Lisbon

1821

 USD - 2.80
117 South Sea Bubble Amsterdam

1720

 USD - 33.60
117a Claag Bruin Works Amsterdam

1713-41

 USD - 33.60
118 M. de Spanheim Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne Hague

1736

 USD - 8.40
118a Eusebius Pamphilius, and others Historiae Ecclesiasticae Cambridge

1720

 USD - 25.20
119 P. J. Barthez Nouveaux elements de la science de l'homme Montpellier

1778

 USD - 61.60
120 Almanac Royal pour l'annee 1768 Paris

1768

 USD - 44.80
121 F.-M. Arouet de Voltaire La Henriade Paris

[1769]-1770

 USD - 154.00
121a Annibale Garracci Galeriae Farnesianae icones Romae in aedibus Sereniss Rome

USD - 11.20
121b A. Fabroni Dissertation sur les statues appartenantes a la fable de Niobe

USD - 8.40
121c Arundel Society Engravings from the frescoes by Pinturicchio in the Piccolomini Library at Siena

USD - 5.60
122 Jacob Behmen Works

USD - 2.80
123 Arnold Bennett The Old Wives' Tale

1927

 USD - 8.40
124 Bible Geneva

1560

 USD - 98.00
125 Book of Lian Dav (The) Oxford

1893

 USD - 14.00
126 Bookplates

USD - 30.80
127 John Brydall Camera Regis

1676

 USD - 5.60
128 W. R. Chetwood A General History of the Stage

1749

 USD - 14.00
129 Edwin Clark The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges

USD - 16.80
130 William Crowe The Catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament

USD - 61.60
131 Dafydd ap Gwilym Barddoniaeth. Ogrynhoad Owen Jones a William Owen

1789

 USD - 8.40
132 John Davies Antique Linguae Britannica . . . et Linguae Latinse Dictionerium Duplex

USD - 8.40
133 Francis Godwin A Catalogue of the Bishops of England

USD - 2.80
134 Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru : neu Flodau Godidowgrwydd Awen ... O Gasgliad Rhys Jones

1773

 USD - 14.00
135 Edward Herbert of Cherbury

USD - 14.00
136 John Lizars A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body Edinburgh

USD - 11.20
137 Mabinogion (The)

USD - 11.20
138 New and Easie Method to Learn to Sing by Book (A)

1686

 USD - 134.40
139 Red Book of Hergest (The) Oxford

1887-90

 USD - 22.40
140 Stephen Skinner Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae

1671

 USD - 8.40
141 Jeremy Taylor Ductor Dubitantium

1660

 USD - 14.00
142 Valor Beneficiorum

1695

 USD - 16.80
143 George Whitefield A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia

USD - 16.80
144 William Whiston and Humphry Ditton A New Method for Discovering the Longitude both at Sea and Land

1715

 USD - 78.40
144a Abbe A. F. Prevost and others Histoire generale des voyages ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et terre Dresden and Paris

1747-50

 USD - 28.00
145 F. L. Norden Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie Copenhagen

1755

 USD - 56.00
146 Capt. James Cook A voyage to the Pacific Ocean . . . written by Captain James Cook and Captain James King

1784

 USD - 36.40
147 Richard Parkinson The experienced farmer's tour in America to which are added sketches published by J. B. Boadley

1805

 USD - 61.60
148 W. B. Stevenson A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America Hurst

1825

 USD - 44.80
149 Alcide D. D'Orbigny Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale Paris

1835

 USD - 134.40
149a R. Gordon Cumming A Hunter's Life in South Africa

1850

 USD - 5.60
150 Laurence Oliphant Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan New York

1860

 USD - 2.80
151 William Harrison Ainsworth The Spanish match

USD - 33.60
152 Leonbattista Alberti La pittura Venice

1547

 USD - 182.00
153 P. Aretino Comedia intitolata il Filosofo

USD - 28.00
154 John Boys An exposition of all the principal scriptures used in our English liturgy

1610

 USD - 5.60
155 Thomas Duer Broughton Letters written in a Mahratta camp

1813

 USD - 30.80
156 Cantiques et Pots-Pourris

USD - 33.60
157 Geoffrey Chaucer Amorum Traili et Credeidae lib. II Oxford

1635

 USD - 168.00
158 Circus

USD - 112.00
159 Sir William Cornwallis Essays

1632-31

 USD - 36.40
160 George Cruikshank and Robert The universal songster

1825-26

 USD - 8.40
161 Campbell Dodgson Old French colour-prints

1924

 USD - 11.20
162 The English Bible

1902-05

 USD - 308.00
163 Sir Geoffrey Fenton Golden epistles containing variety of discourse

USD - 30.80
164 J. Flower Views of ancient buildings in the town and county of Leicester

[c. 1830]

 USD - 33.60
165 Sir John Fortescue De laudibus legum Anglie

1660

 USD - 28.00
166 Wolfgang Frantze The history of brutes

1670

 USD - 112.00
167 Randolph Gilpin Liturgica sacra curru Thesbitico London

1657

 USD - 140.00
168 Oliver Goldsmith The vicar of Wakefield

1929

 USD - 44.80
169 Antonio de Guevara The familiar epistles

1577

 USD - 36.40
170 William Hamper The life

USD - 5.60
171 Nic. Heinsius The life and surprising adventures of Mirandor

USD - 56.00
172 Hans Holbein Simolachri historie e figure de la morte Lyons

1549

 USD - 72.80
173 W. H. Hudson Idle days in Patagonia

1893

 USD - 16.80
174 Robert Hunt Popular romances of the West of England

USD - 14.00
175 Bishop John Jewell Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae

1581

 USD - 22.40
176 Dr. Samuel Johnson A dictionary of the English language

1755

 USD - 322.00
177 Justices of Peace

13 May 1559

 USD - 126.00
178 M. Kalin, J. Suter and Lusser Ansichten der neuen St. Gotthards-Strasse von Fluelen bis Lugano Zurich

1833

 USD - 28.00
179 Jacobus de Voragine The Golden Legend

1892

 USD - 50.40
180 Francois Levaillant Travels from the Cape of Good Hope into the interior parts of Africa

1790-96

 USD - 56.00
181 Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun Le roman de la rose Paris

1538

 USD - 364.00
182 Haldane Macfall The French pastellists of the eighteenth century

1909

 USD - 14.00
183 Marcus Minucius Felix Octavius Oxford

1636

 USD - 14.00
184 Jean Puget de la Serre The mirrour which flatters not

1639

 USD - 28.00
185 Christopher Saint Germain The dialogue in English between a doctor of divinity and a student in the laws of England

1598

 USD - 14.00
186 Scandalum Magnatimi or Potapski's case

1682

 USD - 16.80
187 Sir Walter Scott Waverley Edinburgh

1814

 USD - 56.00
188 Scrapbook

USD - 14.00
189 William Shakespeare The merry wives of Windsor

USD - 28.00
190 C. W. Shepherd The North-West peninsula of Iceland

USD - 16.80
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    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.
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    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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