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
502 Loudon (Mrs.) British Wild Flowers

GBP - 9.00
503 WILLIAMSON (CAPT. T.) AND HOWITT (S.) ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS

1819

 GBP - 5.00
504 Scope (W.) Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed

1898

 GBP - 1.00
505 Halford (F. M.) Modern Development of the Dry Fly

1910

 GBP - 17.00
506 Wood (Anthony a) The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford Oxford

1786-96

 GBP - 2.15
507 Carman (Bliss) Poems New York

1904

 GBP - 0.10
508 Latrobe (C. I.) Journal of a Visit to South Africa

1818

 GBP - 13.10
509 E[velyn] (John) Sylva

1664

 GBP - 0.10
510 ACKERMANN (R.) HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

1815

 GBP - 58.00
511 Hamann (Richard) Rembrandts Radierungen Berlin

1906

 GBP - 2.10
512 Hancke (Erich) Max Liebermann Berlin

1914

 GBP - 4.10
513 Blakston (W. A.), Swaysland (W.), and Wiener (A. F.) Canaries and Cage-Birds

GBP - 2.02
514 edited by W. Robinson Flora and Sylva

1903-5

 GBP - 5.10
515 Kipling (Rudyard) Collected Verse

1912

 GBP - 1.15
516 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

 GBP - 4.10
517 Malory (Sir Thomas) The Romance of King Arthur

1917

 GBP - 6.00
518 [Auld (William)] The Free Mason's Pocket Companion Glasgow

1771

 GBP - 2.05
519 Belzoni (G.) Narrative of the . . . Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids Brussels

1835

 GBP - 4.15
520 [Berage] Les Plus Secrets Mysteres des Hauts Grades de la Maconnerie Devoiles Jerusalem [Holland

1782

 GBP - 2.00
521 Francs-Macons Ecrases (Les) Amsterdam

1766

 GBP - 4.15
522 Jones (Stephen) Masonic Miscellanies

GBP - 2.15
523 [Perau (G. L. C.)] L'Ordre des Franc-Macons Trahi Amsterdam

1745

 GBP - 5.00
524 Emblematic Plates

GBP - 2.10
525 Geometrical View (A)

GBP - 3.00
526 Inauguration (The)

1787

 GBP - 2.10
527 Keep within Compass

GBP - 6.00
528 Masonic Anecdote (A)

1804

 GBP - 1.15
529 Masonic Anecdote (A)

GBP - 3.00
530 MEETING (A)

1809-12

 GBP - 8.00
531 MEETING (A)

1809-12

 GBP - 8.00
532 Mystery (The)

GBP - 3.00
533 PANELS

GBP - 7.00
534 Portrait of Sergeant Andrew Wallace

GBP - 0.10
535 Portraits Montgomerie, Garden of ye Grand Lodge,

GBP - 1.00
536 Landseer after Bartolozzi The Earl of Moira,

GBP - 1.00
537 Prinz Frederik Grootmeester Nationaal van de orde der Vrijmetselaren in Nederland

GBP - 2.00
538 View of the Freemason's School

GBP - 3.05
539 Addison (J.) The Evidences of the Christian Religion

GBP - 1.05
540 Boyle (R.) Tracts

1672

 GBP - 11.10
541 Civil War Tracts

GBP - 10.10
542 Harvey (W.) Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium Amsterdam

1651

 GBP - 4.00
543 [Le Sage (A. R.)] Gil Bias [translated by T. Smollett]

GBP - 0.10
544 Newton (Sir I.) Opticks

GBP - 5.10
545 Shakespeare (W.) Works

GBP - 0.10
546 Shakespeare (W.) Plays

1803

 GBP - 0.10
547 Speed (J.) England

1627

 GBP - 4.10
548 [Weber (F. C.)] The Present State of Russia

GBP - 4.15
549 Anson (Lord) A Voyage round the World

1748

 GBP - 4.10
550 Newton (Sir Isaak) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Cambridge

1713

 GBP - 7.10
551 Camden (W.) Britannia

1753

 GBP - 11.00
552 Commines (P. de) Historie [translated by T. Danett]

1596

 GBP - 0.10
553 DE LISLE (GUILLAUME) ATLAS NOUVEAU Amsterdam

GBP - 20.00
554 Hakluyt (R.) The Principall Navigations

[1589]

 GBP - 5.00
555 KIDD (J. B.) VIEWS IN JAMAICA

[1840]

 GBP - 130.00
556 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 1.10
557 Nichols (J.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

1795-1811

 GBP - 7.00
558 Report (A) from the Committee of Secrecy appointed

GBP - 2.00
559 Arrests Notables

GBP - 3.15
560 BLUNDEVILLE (THOMAS) M. Blundevile His Exercises

1594

 GBP - 68.00
561 Bullinger (Heinrich) Bullae Papisticae ante biennum contra London

1571

 GBP - 6.00
562 Claromontius (C) De Aere

GBP - 7.00
563 Glauber (J. R.) Consolatio Navigantium in qua docetur et deducitur quomoda per maria peregrinantes a fame ac siti immo etiam morbis Amsterdam

1657

 GBP - 1.00
564 Junius (Adrian) The Nomenclator

1585

 GBP - 24.00
565 Ocland (Christopher) Anglorum Praelia ab anno Domini 1327 . . .usque ad annum London

1582

 GBP - 4.00
566 Persius Flaccus (Aulus) Satyrae sex London

1614

 GBP - 4.05
567 Philelfi (Franciscus) Epistole Paris

1509

 GBP - 5.00
568 Playford (J.) A Brief Introduction to the Skill of Musick

GBP - 20.00
569 [Tyndale (William)] The Exposition of the fyrste Epistle of seynt Jhon with a Prologge before it Antwerp

1531

 GBP - 62.00
570 Academiae Oxoniensis Pietas Erga . . . Jacobum Regem

GBP - 3.00
571 Craig (Alexander) The Poetical Recreations Aberdeen

1623

 GBP - 60.00
572 Cronica Cronicarum abbrege et mis p figures descentes et Rondeaulx Paris

[c. 1525]

 GBP - 32.00
573 Norris (Sir John) Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysii et Draki in Lusitaniam London

1589

 GBP - 38.00
574 Longland (Bishop John) [Expositio concionatis quinti psalmi poeniten-. tialis] a portion of this work consisting of [title] Sermones Joannis Longlondi London

1532

 GBP - 30.00
575 Proverbs Zurich

1572

 GBP - 12.00
576 Solinus (C. J.) [Polyhistor] Vienna

1520

 GBP - 11.00
577 Blume (C. L.) Flora Javae et Insularum Adjacentium Leyden and Amsterdam

1858

 GBP - 11.00
578 Gerarde (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

1636

 GBP - 17.00
579 Botticelli (Sandro) Zeichnungen zu Dante's Goettlicher Komoedie Berlin

1887

 USD - Not Sold
580 Curtis (Wm.) Flora Londinensis

1777

 GBP - 11.00
581 Saxton (Christopher) MAPS

(1576)

 GBP - 78.00
582 Ellesmere Chaucer (The) Manchester

1911

 GBP - 29.00
583 HARRIS (MOSES) A COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS

GBP - 26.00
584 Greek Anthology [Greek and English],

1937

 GBP - 8.10
585 Limekilns, its Antiquities, etc., and Passagium Reginae

GBP - 4.10
586 Dulac (E.) Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise

GBP - 12.10
587 Camden (W.) Britannia

1695

 GBP - 14.00
588 Hodgson (Mrs. Willoughby) Old English China

1913

 GBP - 8.00
589 Hamerton (P. G.) Etching and Etchers

1880

 GBP - 3.10
590 Hepplewhite (A.) The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide

1897

 GBP - 9.00
591 Chippendale (T.) The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director

1762

 GBP - 5.00
592 Macquoid (P.) A History of English Furniture

1923

 GBP - 30.00
593 Manning (O.) and Bray (W.) The History of Antiquities of the County of Surrey

1804-14

 GBP - 9.00
594 Vanity Fair Album

GBP - 0.10
595 edited by C. Holme English Water-Colour

1902

 GBP - 2.00
596 edited by C. Holme Representative Art of Our Time

1903

 GBP - 2.00
597 Century Book of Gardening (The)

GBP - 1.10
598 Engravings

1804

 GBP - 1.00
599 Lawrence (D. H.) Paintings

[1929]

 GBP - 8.10
600 Oppe (A. P.) Thomas Rowlandson his Drawings and Water-Colours

1923

 GBP - 15.00
601 Butler (A. G.) and others British Birds

GBP - 1.00
  • <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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