Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps, INCLUDING THE PERFORMING ARTS, LOGIE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 17, 1993 - February 17, 1993

Page Size: 1130 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101		NAPOLEON		1794	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	950.00
102	E. NAVILLE	Bubastis... eighth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund	Egypt	1937	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	170.00
103		NEW TESTAMENT	Amsterdam		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
104	SIMON PELLOUTIER	Histoire des Celts et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains	Vienna	1852	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	400.00
105	WILLIAM PENN AND GEORGE WHITEHEAD	The Christian-Quaker, and His Divine Testimony Vindicated		1822	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
106	L.E. DU PIN	A Compleat History of the Canon and Writers		1848	USD 220.00 - 260.00	Not Sold
107		PLUTARCH		1888-1904	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	400.00
108	BERNARD QUARITCH	Privately Printed Opuscula		1778	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	10.00
109	ROBERT WISSETT	A Treatise on Hemp		1808	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	150.00
110	H. WITSIUS	Exercitationes sacrae	Lyon	1726	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
111		VICTORIA		1884	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
112	J.R. ABBEY	Scenery of Great Britain		1898-1907	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	180.00
113	H.M. Colvin	ARCHITECTURE	Rivington	1893	GBP 400.00 - 450.00	520.00
114	CHRISTIANE AULANIER	Histoire du Palais		1950-1971	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	80.00
115	E. BENEZIT	Dictionnaire critique		1966	GBP 180.00 - 240.00	160.00
116	E. BENEziT	Dictionnaire critique et documentaire		1976	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	240.00
117	FRANK BRANGWYN, Frank Newbolt	The Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn		1908	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	420.00
118		CATALOGUE	Michigan	1987	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	70.00
119	ROBERT CHIGNELL	The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole	Munich and London	1877	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	120.00
120	LOYS DELTEIL	Le Peintre-graveur illustre		1926	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	650.00
121		CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM SEMITICARUM		1881-1911	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
122	RICHARD DUPPA	The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarotti		1807	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	200.00
123	E.F. GERSAINT	Catalogue raisonne	Paris, Hochereau l'aine & Amsterdam	1751-1756	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
124	HIPPOLYTE CRUZ	Motifs de Peinture		1905	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	720.00
125	A.M. HIND	A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings		1913	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
126	A.J. HIPKINS	Musical Instruments Historic		1888	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	600.00
127	R.L. HOBSON	A Catalogue of the Chinese Pottery	Northamptoshire	1934	USD 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
128	BERNARD LENS AND G. DE LAIRESSE	For the Curious Gentlemen and Ladies	Dublin	1778	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	260.00
129		THE LONDON CHAIR-MAKERS		1844	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
130	PERCY MACQUOID AND RALPH EDWARDS	The Dictionary of English Furniture		1954	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
131	Charles MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRE	Versailles		1951	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
132		Die Medici-Kapelle Michelangelos			USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
133	GEORGES REMON	Soixante Planches de Peinture Decorative		1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	480.00
134	ROBIOU AND F. LENORMANT	Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art antique		1867	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
135	RAYMOND RICHARDS	Old Cheshire Churches		1836-1842	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
136	ALAN VICTOR SUGDEN AND JOHN LUDLAM EDMONDSON	History of English Wallpaper		1925	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
137	GIORGIO VIGNI	Disegni del Tiepolo	Rome	1934	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
138		WALPOLE SOCIETY	Oxford	1912-1991	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
139	J.J. WINCKELMANN	Atlas vol	Leipzig	1894	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
140		AUCTION CATALOGUES		1836-1992	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	18,000.00
141	C.H. COLLINS BAKER	Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters	Philadelphia	1968	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
142		CATALOGUES		1870-1919	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	140.00
143		CATALOGUES		1988	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	360.00
144	John CHALONER SMITH	British Mezzotinto Portraits		1969	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	260.00
145	C. COROT, Alfred Robaut	L'Oeuvre de Corot		1965	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,200.00
146	THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH	Studies of Figures			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
147	WILLIAM DICKES	The Norwich School of Painting	Norwich		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	280.00
148	Sir WALTER GILBEY	Animal Painters of England		1938	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	360.00
149	ALGERNON GRAVES	Extensive autograph manuscript		1909	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
150	ALGERNON GRAVES	Art Sales from early in the Eighteenth Century			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	210.00
151	ALGERNON GRAVES	The Royal Academy of Arts		1913-1915	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	220.00
152	Colonel M.H. GRANT	A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters		1957-1961	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
153	JOHN HASSELL	Memoirs of the Life of the late George Morland			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	280.00
154	SAMUEL HOWITT	The British Sportsman		1806	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	540.00
155	WILLIAM HAYLEY	The Life of George Romney		1924	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
156	Sir EDWIN LANDSEER	Library Edition of the Works of Sir Edwin Landseer		1902	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	420.00
157	Princess MARIE LIECHTENSTEIN	Holland House		1935-1938	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	180.00
158	FRITS LUGT	Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques int, ressant l'Art ou la Curiosit	The Hague	1938-1964	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	820.00
159	ANDRE MICHEL	Francois Boucher	Cleveland	1980	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
160	FREEMAN O'DONOGHUE	Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
161	NICOLAS POUSSIN	Blunt (Anthony) The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin		1966	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
162	GEORGE REDFORD	Art Sales		1888	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	150.00
163	Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS	Graves (Algernon) and William Vine Cronin		1901	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	520.00
164	JOHN SMITH	A Catalogue Raisonn, of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch		1977	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	320.00
165	N. NEAL SOLLY	Memoir of the Life of William James Muller			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	650.00
166	PAUL SANDBY	A Collection of Landscapes drawn by P. Sandby		1777	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
167	J.M.W. TURNER	Turner (J.M.W.) and John Ruskin. The Harbours of England		1939	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
168		WALPOLE SOCIETY	Oxford	1912-1988	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	240.00
169	GEORGES WILDENSTEIN	The Paintings of Fragonard		1961	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
170	RICHARD WILSON	Hastings (Thomas) Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson with some Memoirs of his Life		1824	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	130.00
171	THOMAS HENRY TAUNTON	Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries		1887	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	600.00
172	JOHN YOUNG	A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House		1948	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	250.00
173		BOOK AUCTION RECORDS		1974	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	220.00
174		CODEX SINAITICUS Petropolitanus et Friderico-Augustanus Lipsiensis		1911	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
175		CODEX LINDISFARNENSIS (THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS)		1956-1960	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	480.00
176		GUMUCHIAN & CIE		1929	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
177	SAMUEL HALKETT, JOHN LAING	Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature	Edinburgh & London	1926-1962	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	340.00
178	G.D. HOBSON	Bindings in Cambridge Libraries	Cambridge	1929	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
179	ALFRED MORRISON	Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison		1833	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	160.00
180	Sir F.G. KENYON	The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri	Oxford	1886	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	500.00
181	ERIC GEORGE MILLAR	The Luttrell Psalter			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	260.00
182	ALFRED MORRISON	Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison			USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
183	JOSEPH SMITH	A Descriptive Catalogue of Friend's Books		1867	USD 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
184		The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray	Los Angeles	1982	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	120.00
185	J.O. WESTWOOD	Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria		1843-1845	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	150.00
186	J. O. WESTWOOD	Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible		1954	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	300.00
187	Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery	ARCADIA PRESS		1970	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	620.00
188	AUBREY BEARDSLEY	The Yellow Book		1894-1897	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	420.00
189	AUBREY BEARDSLEY	Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock		January-April 1896	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	300.00
190	WILLIAM BLAKE	Illustrations of the Book of Job		1880	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	5,400.00
191	BENJAMIN BRITTEN	Children's Crusade		1972	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	360.00
192	EDWARD GORDON CRAIG	A Production			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
193	GEORGE CRUIKSHANK	Cohn (Albert) A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank		1924	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	190.00
194		CURWEN PRESS		1929	GBP 200.00 - 220.00	200.00
195	RICHARD DOYLE	Allingham (W.) In Fairyland		1875	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	170.00
196	Robert Browning	ERAGNY PRESS		1904	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	300.00
197		GILES		1946-1984	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	360.00
198	ERIC GILL	The Way of the Cross	Sussex	1919	GBP 180.00 - 250.00	150.00
199	Matthew Flinders	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS		1946	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
200	Jonathan Swift	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS		1925	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	200.00

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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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.
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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