Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, WALNUT,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 24, 1946 - June 24, 1946
Page Size: 1015 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Dieupart. Six Suites pour Clavecin ; Airs et Chansons

GBP - 2.10
102 Mawson (T. H.) The Art and Craft of Garden Making

GBP - 4.00
103 Moliere (J. B. P. de) Theatre

GBP - 5.00
104 Ruskin (John) Modern Painters

GBP - 3.00
105 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Works

1928-9

 GBP - 22.00
106 Spenser (Edmund) Works

1930-2

 GBP - 13.00
107 Skelton (Sir J.), Charles I Goupil

1898

 GBP - 1.00
108 Stevenson (R. A. M.) The Art of Velasquez

1895

 GBP - 2.05
109 Strange (E. F.) The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige

1925

 GBP - 4.10
110 Thus (Dr. J.) Leonardo da Vinci

GBP - 7.00
111 Wagner (Richard) Der Fliegende Hollander

1899 [-1913]

 GBP - 1.00
112 Yashiro (Y.) Sandro Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance

1929

 GBP - 5.00
113 Armstrong (Sir Walter) Gainsborough and his Place in English Art

1898

 GBP - 3.05
114 Armstrong (Sir Walter) Sir Joshua Reynolds

1900

 GBP - 2.10
115 Brinton (S.) Florence (1450-1550) Goupil

1908

 GBP - 5.00
116 Brockwell (M. W.) Paintings of the British School in the Collection of H. E. Huntington

GBP - 9.00
117 Cust (L.) Anthony Van Dyck

1900

 GBP - 1.15
118 Cust (L.) The National Portrait Gallery

1901-2

 GBP - 2.10
119 Davies (G. S.) Frans Hals

1902

 GBP - 2.05
120 Dostal (E.) and Sima (J.) L'Architecture Baroque de Prague Paris

1926

 GBP - 8.00
121 Dostal (E.) and Sima (J.) Baroque Architecture of Prague Paris

1927

 GBP - 6.10
122 Drake (M. and W.) Saints and their Emblems

1916

 GBP - 6.00
123 Fouque (De la Motte) Undine

GBP - 15.00
124 France (La) a l'Empire Britannique Paris

1925

 GBP - 30.00
125 Gardiner (S. R.) Oliver Cromwell Goupil

1899

 GBP - 4.00
126 History (The) of "The Times"

1935

 GBP - 5.00
127 Jackson (C. J.) English Goldsmiths and their

1905

 GBP - 5.00
128 Lacroix (P.) Sciences et Lettres au Moyen Age

GBP - 9.10
129 Lawrence (D. H.) Birds

1930

 GBP - 4.00
130 Lawrence (H. W.1 and Dighton (B. L.) French Line Engravings of the late XVIII Century

1910

 GBP - 6.10
131 Leader (R. E.) History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire Sheffield

1905-6

 GBP - 2.15
132 Littre (E.) Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise Paris

1876-7

 GBP - 2.05
133 Michel (E.) Rembrandt

GBP - 5.00
134 Morrison (A.) The Painters of Japan

1911

 GBP - 10.00
135 Mylne (R. S.) The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland Edibburgh

1893

 GBP - 1.10
136 Nolhac (P. de) J..-M. Nattier Paris

1905

 GBP - 16.00
137 Nolhac (P. de) J.-H. Fragonard Paris

1906

 GBP - 17.00
138 Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

1929-30

 GBP - 8.10
139 Partridge (Bernard) Original Pen-and-ink Drawing for the Cartoon Punch

18th December, 1929

 GBP - 3.00
140 Ricci (C) Pintoricchio

1902

 GBP - 3.10
141 Rothenstein (J.) The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein

1926

 GBP - 2.15
142 Shaw (G. Bernard) Saint Joan

1924

 GBP - 8.00
143 [Johnson (Samuel)] The Prince of Abissinia [Rasselas]

1759

 GBP - 12.00
144 [SOUTHEY (ROBERT) AND OTHERS] THE FLAGELLANT

1792

 GBP - 34.00
145 Gerarde (John) The Herball or Generale Historie of Plantes

1636

 GBP - 16.00
146 [Lonicerus (P.)] Isignia Sacrae Caesareae Maiestatis

1579

 GBP - 19.00
147 RECORDE (ROBERT) THE URINAL OF PHYSICK

[? 1548-9]

 GBP - 19.00
148 Beardsley (A.) The Brighton Grammar School

1888

 GBP - 3.00
149 Sylvius (J.) Ratio Medendi Morbis Internis Lyons

1549

 GBP - 1.00
150 Sterne (L.) Works

1803

 GBP - 3.10
151 Bradley (R.) New Improvements in Planting and Gardening

GBP - 0.10
152 Cervantes (M. de) ), Don Quixote

[1930]

 GBP - 9.00
153 Cervantes (M. de) Navarre Society

1923

 GBP - 1.15
154 Fielding (Henry) Amelia

1752

 GBP - 1.00
155 [Fleetwood (Wm., Bishop of Ely)] The Life and Miracles of St. Wenefrede

GBP - 0.10
156 [Browne (Thomas)] Historie of the Life and Reigne of that Famous Princesse

1629

 GBP - 0.15
157 [Sterne (L.)] Tristiam Shandy

1760-7

 GBP - 1.00
158 Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol

1843

 GBP - 2.10
159 Dickens (C) The Chimes

GBP - 0.15
160 Syntax

GBP - 2.05
161 Shakespeare (W.) Othello

1897

 GBP - 0.15
162 Mallet (A. M.) Les Travaux de Mars Paris, and Amsterdam,

1671, 1685

 GBP - 3.10
163 Moore (George) Peronnik the Fool

1933

 GBP - 5.00
164 Kipling (Rudyard) Departmental Ditties and other Verses Lahore

1886

 GBP - 0.14
165 Pollock (Sir F.) and Maitland (F. W.) History of English Law before Edward I Cambridge

1898

 GBP - 2.00
166 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 2.10
167 Curtis (W.) The Botanical Magazine

1888-90

 GBP - 9.10
168 Hardy (F. E.) The Early Life of Thomas Hardy

1928

 GBP - 0.05
169 Goethe. Faust

1906-10

 GBP - 42.00
170 Shakespeare (Wm.) Poems Zaehnsdorf

1893

 GBP - 20.00
171 Egan (P.) Life in London

1821

 GBP - 15.00
172 Burns (Robert) Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh

1787

 GBP - 16.00
173 Sauvai (Henri) Memoires Historiques et Secrets Paris

1739

 GBP - 0.10
174 Marguerite de Valois [Reine de Navarre). Contes et Nouvelles Amsterdam

1698

 GBP - 0.10
175 Prior (Mathew) Poems on Several Occasions

1766-7

 GBP - 0.10
176 Foudras [Le Marquis de] Madeleine Repentante

GBP - 1.00
177 Moetjens (A.) Memoires de Bellievre et de Silleri

1696

 GBP - 1.00
178 Straparola (G. F.) Les Facetieuses Nuits Paris

1907

 GBP - 3.15
179 Kempis (T.) De Imitatione Christi

GBP - 12.00
180 Flaubert (G.) First Temptation of Saint Anthony

GBP - 4.10
181 Burke (Rt. Hon. Edmund) Works

1808

 GBP - 1.10
182 Dickens (C) Pickwick Papers

1837

 GBP - 3.10
183 Eliot (George) The Mill on the Floss

GBP - 0.15
184 Tomlinson (H. M.) The Sea and the Jungle

GBP - 3.00
185 Priestley (J. B.) Angel Pavement

GBP - 3.00
186 Bridges (R.) Verses written for Mrs. Daniel

GBP - 2.00
187 Stevenson (H.) The Birds of Norfolk

GBP - 11.00
188 Kirby (W. F.) The Butterflies and Moths of Europe

GBP - 10.00
189 Dryden (J.) Miscellaneous Works

1889

 GBP - 1.05
190 [Thackeray (W. M.)] Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

GBP - 1.00
191 Satirist (The)

1813

 GBP - 1.10
192 [Cox (N.) and R. Blome] The Gentleman's Recreation

1677

 GBP - 3.00
193 Cook (Capt. James) Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

1785-88

 GBP - 2.05
194 Forsyth (W.) History of the Captivity of Napolean at St. Helena

1853

 GBP - 1.00
195 Marryat (Capt. F.) Poor Jack

GBP - 2.15
196 Creswell (Rev. W. Parr) Annals of Parisian Typography

1818

 GBP - 2.00
197 [Pepys (Samuel)] Memoirs relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England

1690

 GBP - 1.00
198 Hutton (William) Voyage to Africa

GBP - 8.00
199 Barrie (Sir J. M.) Margaret Ogilvy

GBP - 1.15
200 Book-Prices Current

1921-42

 GBP - 20.00
  • <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.
    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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    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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    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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