Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW WESTERN AND ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, STEEL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 26, 1952 - May 26, 1952
Page Size: 1413 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Fry (Roger) and Others Georgian Art (Burlington Magazine Monograph)

1929

 GBP - 3.00
151 Boyer (A.) The Draughts of the most remarkable Fortified Towns of Europe

GBP - 2.25
152 Furnival (W. J.) Leadless Decorative Tiles

1904

 GBP - 4.05
152 Gibson (S.) Early Oxford Bindings

GBP - 2.25
153 Furst (Herbert) The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn

1924

 GBP - 1.05
153 Guillaume (A.) Faut Voir

1892

 USD - Not Sold
154 Garnett (Richard) and E. Gosse English Literature

1903

 GBP - 2.05
154 Marvell (A.) The Works

1776

 GBP - 1.00
155 Goodwin (Gordon) James McArdell

GBP - 1.15
155 Nicholson (J.) Folk Speech of East Yorkshire

GBP - 1.25
156 GORER (E.) AND J. F. BLACKER CHINESE PORCELAIN AND HARD STONES

1911

 GBP - 45.00
156 Poulson (G.) Beverlac

GBP - 1.50
157 Granger (N.) A Biographical History of England

1769-74

 GBP - 4.00
157 Poulson (G.) The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness in the East-Riding of the County of York

1840-41

 GBP - 1.50
158 Grant (Capt. M. H.) The Makers of Black Basaltes

1910

 GBP - 7.00
158 Quevedo-Villegas (F. de) Pablo de Segovia

USD - Not Sold
159 Graves (Algernon) A Dictionary of Artists

1895

 GBP - 1.15
159 Wrigglesworth (E.) Brown's Illustrated Guide to Hull

GBP - 2.00
160 Graves (Algernon) The Royal Academy of Arts

1905-06

 GBP - 17.00
160 Cox (Raymond) La Musee historique des trssus

GBP - 1.00
161 Graves (A.) Art Sales from early in the eighteenth Century to early in the twentieth Century

1918-21

 GBP - 13.00
161 Dugdale (Mr Wm.) Monasticon Anglicanum

1846

 GBP - 14.00
162 Greenwood (W. E.) The Villa Madama

GBP - 3.05
162 Nichols (J. G.) Autographs of Royal

USD - Not Sold
163 Hardie (Martin) Etchings and Dry Points from 1902 to 1924

1925

 GBP - 2.05
163 Skelton (J.) Etchings of the Antiquities of Bristol

GBP - 1.50
164 Hartshorne (Albert) Old English Glasses

1897

 GBP - 5.10
164 Walker (G.) The Costume of Yorkshire Leeds

1885

 GBP - 5.75
165 Haslem (John) The Old Derby China Factory

1876

 GBP - 4.00
165 Barbut (Jas.) The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus

1781

 GBP - 1.00
166 Hayden (Arthur) Spode and his Successors

1925

 GBP - 4.10
166 Latham (J.) A General Synopsis of Birds

1781-87

 GBP - 11.00
167 Hazlitt (W. C.) Handbook to the Popular

GBP - 5.00
167 NEWTON (Sir ISAAC) PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA

1687

 GBP - 195.00
168 Heal (Ambrose) London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIIIth Century

GBP - 4.15
168 NEWTON (Sir ISAAC) PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA

GBP - 30.00
169 Hetherington (A. L.) The Early Ceramic Wares of China

1922

 GBP - 8.10
169 Scot (Reginald) Discovery of Witchcraft

1651

 GBP - 7.00
170 Hind (A. M.) The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron

1924

 GBP - 1.00
170 MILTON (JOHN) PARADISE LOST

1667

 GBP - 145.00
171 Hind (A. M.) A History of Engraving and Etching

GBP - 5.00
171 Martyn (T.) The English Entomologist

1792

 GBP - 1.00
172 Hind (A. M.) Nielli chiefly Italian of the XV Century

1936

 GBP - 1.15
172 Green (Thomas) The Universal Herbal

[1824]

 GBP - 1.25
173 Hobson (R. L.) Worcester Porcelain

1910

 GBP - 14.00
173 Hooper (W. E.) The Motor Car

1908

 GBP - 2.50
174 Hobson (R. L.) The Wares of the Ming Dynasty

1923

 GBP - 10.00
174 Scheiner (C.) Oculus hoc est Fundamentum Opticum

GBP - 2.50
175 Hobson (R. L.) The Later Ceramic Wares of China

1925

 GBP - 8.00
175 Russell (Wm.) The History of America

1778

 GBP - 6.50
176 Hobson (R. L.) Chinese Art

1927

 GBP - 3.15
176 Wright (Thos.) and Bartlett (W.) The History and Topography of the County of Essex

1831-35

 GBP - 2.50
177 Hodgson (Mrs. Willoughby) Old English China

1913

 GBP - 4.05
177 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)

1912-13

 GBP - 4.00
178 Hoever (Otto) An Encyclopaedia of Ironwork

1927

 GBP - 4.00
178 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)

1924-30

 GBP - 7.00
179 Holbein (Hans) Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons

1812

 GBP - 16.00
179 Brayley (E. W.), J. Britton and G. Mantell A Topographical History of Surrey

GBP - 3.00
180 [Benson (Robert)] Holford (The) Collection Oxford

1924-27

 GBP - 7.00
180 Throsby (John) Select Views in Leicestershire

1789-90

 GBP - 2.50
181 Holmes (R. R.) Queen Victoria

GBP - 1.05
181 Scott (Sir W.) The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland

GBP - 1.00
182 Howard (F. E.) and F. H. Crossley English Church Woodwork

GBP - 2.15
182 Walpole (Horace) A [Sale] Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill

GBP - 1.75
183 Humphreys (H. N.) Ten Centuries of Art from the IXth to the XIXth Century

GBP - 1.10
183 Broadside Ballads of the Restoration Period from the Jersey Collection

GBP - 1.75
184 Humphries (Sidney) Oriental Carpets

1910

 GBP - 6.10
184 Darell (William) The History of Dover Castle

1797

 USD - Not Sold
185 Hurlbutt (Frank) Bow Porcelain

1926

 GBP - 4.00
185 Bible [Geneva]

1607

 GBP - 8.50
186 Hurlbutt (Frank) Bristol Porcelain

1928

 GBP - 5.10
186 See (R. R. M.) English Pastels 1750-1830

1911

 USD - Not Sold
187 Hutchinson (Walter) Britain Beautiful

1924

 GBP - 2.10
187 RUMPHIUS (G. E.) HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE Amsterdam

1741-55

 GBP - 48.00
188 Hutchinson (Walter) Marvels of the Universe

GBP - 3.15
188 Hooker (Rich.) Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

1617

 GBP - 1.00
189 Indian Drawings on talc

GBP - 5.10
189 Zanoni (Gia.) Istoria Botanica Bologna

1675

 GBP - 2.00
190 Jackson (C. J.) English Goldsmiths and their Marks

1905

 GBP - 3.00
190 Durante (Castore) Herbario Nuovo Roma

1685

 GBP - 1.25
191 Jackson (Sir C. J.) English Goldsmiths and their Marks

1921

 GBP - 3.10
191 Curtis (W.) Flora Londinensis

1835

 GBP - 36.00
192 JACKSON (C. J.) AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLISH PLATE

1911

 GBP - 42.00
192 Kircher (A.) Ars Magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta Rome

1646

 GBP - 1.25
193 Jackson (E. Nevill) Silhouettes

GBP - 2.00
193 Vesalius (A.) De Humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem Venice

1568

 GBP - 3.50
194 Jacquemart (A.) A History of Furniture

1908

 GBP - 3.00
194 Domenichino Rome

1762

 GBP - 0.75
195 Jamaica. Interesting Tracts

1800

 GBP - 16.00
195 Purcell (H.) Te Deum and Jubilate

1697

 GBP - 6.00
196 Jewitt (L.) The Ceramic Art of Great Britain

GBP - 1.05
196 Repton (Humphrey) Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton

[1808]

 GBP - 4.50
197 Jones (E. Alfred) Old Silver of Europe and America

1928

 GBP - 2.05
197 ALKEN (HENRY) THE NATIONAL SPORTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

1823

 GBP - 52.00
198 Justice (Jean) Dictionary of Marks and Monograms of Delft Pottery

1930

 GBP - 2.10
198 Newspapers

GBP - 2.50
199 King (William) Chelsea Porcelain

1922

 GBP - 8.00
199 Suffolk Maps

GBP - 3.00
200 Kipling (Rudyard) A Song of the English

1908

 GBP - 3.05
200 Sanson Cartes et Tables de la Geographie Ancienne et Nouvelle [La France et les Provinces Frontieres], Paris

[1700]

 USD - Not Sold
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    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.
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    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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    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.