Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AND A FEW ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND MINIATURES, ETC, PALM,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1952 - July 30, 1952
Page Size: 612 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 Hooke (Robert) The Posthumous Works

1705

 GBP - 14.00
302 James I Workes

1616-20

 GBP - 1.50
303 Kircher (Athanasius) Musurgia Universalis Rome

1650

 GBP - 12.00
304 Kircher (A.) Oedipus Aegyptiacus Rome

1652-54

 GBP - 7.50
305 Kircher (A.) Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica Rome

1654

 GBP - 10.00
306 Kircher (A.) Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae

GBP - 10.00
307 Kircher (A.) Mundus Subterraneus Amsterdam

1665

 GBP - 9.50
308 Ludolphus (J.) Historia Aethiopica

GBP - 5.00
309 Magnus (Olaus) Historia Basel

circa 1567

 GBP - 16.00
310 Milles (Thomas) A Catalogue of Honour

GBP - 2.25
311 Moll (Herman) The Compleat Geographer

GBP - 4.50
312 Munster (Sebr.) La Cosmographie Universelle Paris

circa 1560

 GBP - 19.00
313 Percivale (Richard) A Dictionary in Spanish and English

1623

 GBP - 3.00
314 Pryce (William) Mineralogie Cornubiensis

1788

 GBP - 5.00
315 [Sorel (Charles)] The Extravagant Shepherd

1654

 GBP - 11.00
316 Verdere (G. Saulnier, Sieur de) The Love and Armes of the Greeke Princes

1640

 GBP - 12.00
317 Wormius (Olaus) Fasti Danici

GBP - 6.50
318 DIBDIN (T. F.) The Bibliographical Decameron

1817

 GBP - 7.50
319 Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliomania

1842

 GBP - 1.50
320 Dibdin (T. F.) The Library Companion

GBP - 2.00
321 Doran (J.) "Their Majesties' Servants"

1864

 GBP - 4.50
322 McKerrow (R. B.) An Introduction to Bibliography

GBP - 4.50
323 Quaritch (B.) A General Catalogue of Books

1874-77

 GBP - 1.00
324 Quaritch (B.) A General Catalogue of Books

1880

 GBP - 1.00
325 Beatty (A. Chester) Sale Catalogues of Western MSS

GBP - 4.00
326 Pollard (A. W.) and G. R. Redgrave Bibliographical Society

1926

 GBP - 2.00
327 Johnson (A. F.) Bibliographical Society

1934

 GBP - 1.50
328 Britwell Court Library

1910-27

 GBP - 16.00
329 Britwell Handlist (The)

1933

 GBP - 3.00
330 Burckhardt (J.) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Vienna

GBP - 1.00
331 Clumber Library

1937-38

 GBP - 4.00
332 Froissart (Sir J.) Chronicles

1803-1810

 GBP - 14.00
333 Gronow (Capt.) Reminiscences and Recollections

1889

 GBP - 1.75
334 Holford Library

1927-28

 GBP - 8.00
335 Huth Collection

1911-22

 GBP - 14.00
336 Phillipps (Sir T.) Sale Catalogues of MSS

1897-1950

 GBP - 12.00
337 Quaritch (B.) Catalogues of Books

1908-30

 GBP - 1.75
338 Sale Catalogues of the Amherst, H. W. Bruton, Rosebery, Mensing, Aldenham, and Ham House Libraries,

1908-38

 GBP - 3.50
339 Shepherd (T. H.) London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century

1829-27

 GBP - 19.00
340 Thompson (H. Yates) Sale Catalogues of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

1914-21

 GBP - 5.00
341 Westwood (J. O.) Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria

1843-45

 GBP - 5.50
342 Wilkinson (R.) Londina Illustrata

1819-25

 GBP - 5.50
343 Brewer (H. W.) Old London Illustrated

1922

 GBP - 5.50
344 Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum

[1899]-1903

 GBP - 30.00
345 Catalogue of the 50 MSS. and Printed Books bequeathed by A. H. Huth

GBP - 3.00
346 Humphreys (H. Noel) A History of the Art of Printing

1867

 GBP - 6.00
347 Gaskell (Mrs.) Sylvia's Lovers

1863

 GBP - 3.50
348 Trollope (A.) Framley Parsonage

GBP - 2.00
349 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) WORKS

1857-83

 GBP - 155.00
350 [Shaw (G. B.)] Manifesto of the Joint Committee of Socialist Bodies

GBP - 12.00
351 Synge (J. M.) In the Shadow of the Glen New York

1904

 GBP - 4.00
352 Synge (J. M.) Poems and Translations New York

1909

 GBP - 4.50
353 Synge (J. M.) Deirdre of the Sorrows New York

1910

 GBP - 10.00
354 Synge (J. M.) Deirdre of the Sorrows New York

1910

 GBP - 5.00
355 [Russell (George)] Gods of War With Other Poems

GBP - 10.00
356 Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem

GBP - 9.00
357 Stevenson (R. L.) Works

1906-1907

 GBP - 2.00
358 James (H.) Novels and Tales

1907-1909

 GBP - 26.00
359 Frazer (Sir J. G.) Folk-Lore in the Old Testament

1918

 GBP - 2.00
360 Browning (R.) Men and Women

GBP - 6.50
361 Kipling (R.) The Jungle Books

GBP - 2.50
362 Shelley (P. B.) Poetical Works

GBP - 8.50
363 Farrer (R.) On the Eaves of the World

1917

 GBP - 5.50
364 Kipling (R.) Plain Tales from the Hills

1902-11

 GBP - 5.00
365 Motley (J. L.) Works

1903-1904

 GBP - 6.00
366 Tennyson (Lord) Works

1892-1905

 GBP - 4.00
367 Thackeray (W. M.) Works

1869-86

 GBP - 6.00
368 Arabian Nights

1897

 GBP - 5.50
369 Macaulay (Lord) Works

1898

 GBP - 6.50
370 Lamb (C. and M.) Works

1902-1908

 GBP - 7.00
371 Maxwell (Sir H.) The Life of Wellington

GBP - 1.50
372 Eliot (George) Novels

GBP - 3.00
373 Cooper (J. Fenimore) Novels

GBP - 3.00
374 Ireland (W. H.) Hogarth Illustrated

1793-1812

 GBP - 1.00
375 Dickens (C.) Dombey and Son

GBP - 2.50
376 Goldsmith (O.) The Vicar of Wakefield

1885

 GBP - 7.50
377 Hudson (W. H.) Works

1922-24

 GBP - 24.00
378 Borrow (G.) Works

1923-24

 GBP - 14.00
379 DICKENS (C.) NONESUCH PRESS

1937-38

 GBP - 80.00
380 Borrow (G.) Lavengro

1851

 GBP - 1.75
381 Thackeray (W. M.) The History of Pendennis

GBP - 1.75
382 [Dodgson (C. L.)] "Lewis Carroll"

1866

 GBP - 1.25
383 Trollope (A.) He Knew He Was Right

1869

 GBP - 1.25
384 De Quincey (Thos.) The Works Edinburgh

1862-71

 GBP - 4.00
385 Sevigne (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de) Lettres a sa fille et a ses amis Paris

1861

 GBP - 0.50
386 Smollett (T.) The Works

1899-1901

 GBP - 11.00
387 Thackeray (W. M.) The Works

1910-11

 GBP - 5.00
388 Meredith (George) Works

1897-1910

 GBP - 1.00
389 Swift (J., Dean) The Works Edinburgh

1824

 GBP - 0.50
390 Spenser (E.) The Faerie Queene

GBP - 2.00
391 Boswell (James) London Journal 1762-1763 together with Journal of my Jaunt

1951

 GBP - 4.00
392 Seyffert (O.) A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

GBP - 1.00
393 De Morgan (Wm.) Joseph Vance

GBP - 2.25
394 Small Collection (A)

GBP - 4.00
395 Cherry-Garrard (A.) The Worst Journey in the World

1922

 GBP - 7.00
396 Shackleton (Sir E. H.) The Heart of the Antarctic

GBP - 3.50
397 Nansen (F.) The First Crossing of Greenland

GBP - 3.50
398 Stein (Sir Aurel) Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan

1903

 GBP - 2.75
399 Kipling (J. Lockwood) MS. Notes on the Oriental Treatment of Animals

1892

 GBP - 2.25
400 Hodgkin (R. H.) A History of the Anglo-Saxons Oxford

1935

 GBP - 5.00
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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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  • <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.