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
302 Selby (P. J.) 34 Coloured Plates from Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology

GBP - 7.10
303 Burlington Fine Arts Club English Mezzotint Portraits

1902

 GBP - 1.10
304 Spenser (Edmund) The Foerie Queene

1609

 GBP - 15.00
305 ORME (E.) FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS . . . with a Supplement of New South Wales

1823

 GBP - 22.00
306 WILLIAMSON (CAPT. T.) AND HOWITT (S.) ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS

1819

 GBP - 26.00
307 Forrest (Lieut-Col.) A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India

1824

 GBP - 24.00
308 Blair (Robert) The Grave, portrait

1842-3

 GBP - 1.00
309 Roberts (D.) Sketches in the Holy Land

1842-3

 GBP - 26.00
310 Selley (P. J.) Plates to British Ornithology

1841

 GBP - 82.00
311 Edwards (G.) Natural History of Birds

1743-51

 GBP - 58.00
312 Curtis (Wm.) Flora Londoniensis, 2 volumes (2 and 3 only)

GBP - 9.00
313 Desmarest (A. G.) Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras Paris

1805

 GBP - 55.00
314 Fruits of India Edinburgh

1839-40

 GBP - 9.00
315 Bacon (Sir F.) and others, Cabala

1663

 GBP - 1.00
316 Thorburn (A.) Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland Ireland

1923

 GBP - 16.00
317 Ludolphus (Job) New History of Ethiopia

1684

 GBP - 4.10
318 Ackermann (R.) Repository of Arts

1809-10

 GBP - 7.00
319 Butler (Samuel) Hudibras

GBP - 1.00
320 Carlyle (Thomas) Works

1891-85

 GBP - 3.00
321 Delices de la Campagne Suitte du Jardinier Francois

1684

 GBP - 7.00
322 Dickens (C) Our Mutual Friend

GBP - 3.05
323 Dryden (J.) Poetical Works

1891

 GBP - 3.05
324 Fielding (Henry) Works

1807

 GBP - 2.15
325 Galsworthy (J.) Jocelyn by John Sinjohn

1898

 GBP - 15.00
326 Kipling (R.) Rewards and Fairies

GBP - 3.10
327 LAMB (CHARLES AND MARY) TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE

1807

 GBP - 29.00
328 Pepys (Samuel) Diary and Correspondence

1887

 GBP - 2.05
329 Surtees (R. L.) Sporting Novels

GBP - 22.00
330 [edited by George Borrow], Trials, Celebrated

1825

 GBP - 5.00
331 Behman (J.) XL Questions Concerning the Soule

GBP - 11.00
332 Blondel (J. F.) De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance et de la Decoration des Edifices en General Paris

1737-8

 GBP - 15.00
333 Cervantes (Miguel de) Don Quixote de La Mancha

1742

 GBP - 3.00
334 D'Argenville (A. J. D.) Theory and Practice of Gardening

1712

 GBP - 2.00
335 Michel (E.) Rembrandt

1894

 GBP - 3.05
336 Scappi (Bartolomeo) Dell'Arte del cucinare Venice

1622

 GBP - 4.10
337 Anderson (Wm.) Pictorial Arts of Japan

1886

 GBP - 1.15
338 Dodoens (Rembert) Stirpium Historioe pemptades sex sive Libri xxx

1616

 GBP - 17.00
339 Nash (J.) Mansions of England

1839-49

 GBP - 10.00
340 Year Books

1542-43

 GBP - 34.00
341 Barth (Henry) Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

1857-8

 GBP - 6.00
342 Burnet (Bishop G.) History of his own time Oxford

1823

 GBP - 1.00
343 Burton (Sir R. F.) First Footsteps in East Africa

GBP - 3.10
344 Campbell (John Lord) The Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England England

1747-8

 GBP - 2.00
345 Clarendon (Edward, Earl of) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England England, Oxford

1826

 GBP - 1.00
346 Congreve (Wm.) Works Birmingham

1761

 GBP - 2.05
347 Corneille (P.) Oeuvres Completes Paris

1817

 GBP - 6.05
348 Danet L'Art des Armes Paris

1766-7

 GBP - 3.10
349 Dryden (John) Works Edinburgh

1821

 GBP - 13.00
350 FENELON (F.) Les Aventures de Telemaque Paris

1784

 GBP - 30.00
351 Froissart (Sir John) Chronicles of England England, France and Spain

1808-10

 GBP - 1.00
352 Hale (Sir Matthew) Contemplations

1721

 GBP - 4.10
353 Hook (Theod. E.) Sayings and Doings

GBP - 1.00
354 La Fontaine (Jean de) Oeuvres Completes Paris

1814

 GBP - 25.00
355 Lytton (E. G. Bulwer, Lord) Eugene Aram

USD - Not Sold
356 Milton (John) The Works

1851

 GBP - 4.10
357 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 2.00
358 Morier (J. J.) The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England

1828

 GBP - 0.10
359 Osbeck (P.) A Voyage to China

GBP - 5.00
360 Pope (Alexander) Works

1804

 GBP - 12.10
361 Racine (J.) Oeuvres Paris

1820

 GBP - 12.00
362 Rousseau (J. J.) Oeuvres Paris

1819-20

 GBP - 9.10
363 Sale (G.) The Koran

1836

 GBP - 1.10
364 Sevigne (Madame de) Lettres de Madame de Sevigne Paris

1818-20

 GBP - 4.00
365 Shakespeare (Wm.) Works, edited by L. Theobald

1740

 GBP - 2.15
366 Shakespeare (Wm.) Works

1765

 GBP - 1.15
367 Strickland (A.) Lives of the Queens of England

1841-8

 GBP - 1.10
368 Sully (Duc de) Memoirs

1778

 GBP - 2.00
369 Cavallo (Tiberius) A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air

1781

 GBP - 4.00
370 CERVANTES (M. DE) El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Madrid

1780

 GBP - 50.00
371 Cinthio (G. B. G.) Hecatommithi overo Cento Novelle Russia

1608

 GBP - 0.10
372 Collinson (J.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset

1791

 GBP - 8.00
373 Notes and Queries

1850-7

 GBP - 5.00
374 Saint-Simon (Duc de) Memories

GBP - 0.10
375 Spenser (Edmund) The Fairie Queene (with Life by Dr. Birch) Russia

1751

 GBP - 2.00
376 Walpole (H.) and Vertue (G.) Anecdotes of Painting in England England

1762

 GBP - 3.10
377 Abela (F. G.) Malta Illustrata Malta

1772

 GBP - 6.00
378 Chaucer (G.) Works

1721

 GBP - 1.15
379 Herculaneum-Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte Russia

1757-67

 GBP - 2.10
380 Nash (T.) Collections for the History of Worcestershire

1799

 GBP - 8.10
381 Gaskell (Mrs.) Works

1906

 GBP - 2.00
382 Dodgson (C. L,) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

GBP - 9.10
383 Loddiges (C) The Botanical Cabinet

1820-9

 GBP - 5.05
384 Kipling (Rudyard) The Ballad of Ahmed Shah

GBP - 9.10
385 Kipling (R.) The Inauthorated Corpses

15th July, 1890

 GBP - 7.00
386 Joyce (James) Chamber Music

1907

 GBP - 3.05
387 Pound (Ezra) A Draft of xxx Cantos

GBP - 3.00
388 Symons (A.) Love's Cruelty

1923

 USD - Not Sold
389 Joyce (J.) Haveth Childers Everywhere Paris

1930

 GBP - 3.10
390 Trollope (Anthony) Barchester Towers

1857

 GBP - 11.00
391 Victoria (Queen) The Queen's Visit to the City

1838

 GBP - 1.00
392 CHINESE DRAWINGS

GBP - 27.00
393 Sweet (Henry) Shelley's Nature Poetry

1888

 GBP - 2.00
394 Medical Essays and Observations Edinburgh

1733-44

 GBP - 5.10
395 Darwin (Chas.) The Descent of Man

1871

 GBP - 0.10
396 Curtis (W.) 181 Coloured Plates

1786-95

 GBP - 9.00
397 Hardy (Thomas) The Dynasts

1903-1906-1908

 GBP - 28.00
398 Hardy (Thomas) Time's Laughingstocks and other Verses

USD - Not Sold
399 Conrad (Joseph) The Mirror of the Sea

GBP - 0.15
400 Conrad (Joseph) Tales of Unrest

1898

 GBP - 1.10
401 Lewine (J.) Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books

1898

 GBP - 7.00
  • <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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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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