Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 1LEAD,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 03, 1952 - November 03, 1952

Page Size: 859 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	John Law		1864	GBP -	7.50
2	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	The Constable de Bourbon		1866	GBP -	6.50
3	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	Old Court		1867	GBP -	6.50
4	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	Myddleton Pomfret		1868	GBP -	5.50
5	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	Boscobel		1872	GBP -	10.00
6	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	The Good Old Times		1873	GBP -	9.00
7	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	The Fall of Somerset		1877	GBP -	6.00
8	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	Beatrice Tyldesley		1878	GBP -	7.50
9	[Apperley (C. J.)]	Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton		1835	GBP -	5.00
10		Arabian Nights (The)			GBP -	4.50
11	Auscher (E. S.)	French Porcelain		1905	GBP -	3.50
12	Ayscough (S.)	Index to Shakespeare			GBP -	4.50
13	Bacon (Sir F.)	The Elements of the Common Lawes of England		1639	GBP -	4.00
14	Barante (A. G. P. Brugiere de)	Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne	Paris	1837-38	GBP -	2.00
15	Beatson (R.)	Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain		1804	GBP -	1.00
16	Burton (W.)	English Earthenware and Stoneware		1904	GBP -	1.00
17	Byron (Lord)	Works			GBP -	5.50
18	Caesar	C. Iulii Csesaris quae extant	Leyden	1635	GBP -	1.75
19	C[hevigne] (Le Comte de)	Les Contes Remois	Paris	1858	GBP -	3.50
20	Clarke (E. D.)	Travels in various Countries of Europe		1816-24	GBP -	2.00
21		Counters			GBP -	1.75
22	Coxe (N.)	The Huntsman			GBP -	1.00
23	Dafydd ab Gwilym	Barddoniaeth		1789	GBP -	2.00
24	Darwin (C.)	A Monograph of the Sub-Class Cirripedia			GBP -	4.50
25		Description de Paris			GBP -	1.25
26		Description of Stonehenge (A)			GBP -	1.00
27	Dibdin (T. F.)	A Bibliographical			GBP -	4.00
28	Duncan (S.) and G. Thorne	The Complete Wildflower		1911	GBP -	1.00
29	[Gaskell (Mrs.)]	Cranford		1853	GBP -	2.75
30	Grellmann (H. M. G.)	Dissertation on the Gipseys			GBP -	1.25
31	Grimm (F. M., Baron) and D. Diderot	Correspondence	Paris	1829	GBP -	6.00
32	Hamilton (Comte A.)	Oeuvres			GBP -	2.00
33	Hume (D.) and T. Smollett	The History of England			GBP -	2.00
34	Jewitt (L.)	The Ceramic Art of Great Britain			GBP -	2.00
35	Johnson (S.)	Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson		1788	GBP -	5.00
36		Journal of Design and Manufactures (The)		1849-52	GBP -	17.00
37		Juvenile Game			GBP -	13.00
38	Kipling (R.)	The Jungle Book		1894-95	GBP -	4.50
39	Meynell (A.)	The Children		1897	GBP -	4.00
40	Milton (J.)	Poetical Works			GBP -	4.50
41	Milton (J.)	[Poetical Works]			GBP -	7.00
42	Mitford (M. R.)	Our Village [vol. 1]		1824	GBP -	1.75
43	Mitford (M. R.)	Belford Regis			GBP -	1.25
44	Moliere (J. B. Poquelin de)	Oeuvres	Florence	1824	GBP -	1.25
45	Pepys (S.)	Diary and Correspondence		1828	GBP -	24.00
46	Pepys (S.)	Diary		1904-11	GBP -	5.00
47	Racine (J.)	Oeuvres		Paris, 1768	GBP -	2.50
48	Racine (J.)	Oeuvres		Paris, 1768	GBP -	3.50
49	[Raynal (W. T., Abbe)]	Histoire des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes	Maestricht	1775	GBP -	1.00
50	Raynal (W. T., Abbe)	History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies		1782	GBP -	1.25
51	Rossetti (D. G.)	Poems			GBP -	1.75
52	Rowe (N.)	Tamerlane			GBP -	11.00
53	Saint-Evremond (C. M. de Saint-Denys, Sieur de)	Oeuvres			GBP -	1.00
54	[Saint German (C.)]	An Exact Abridgement of that excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student		1630	GBP -	4.00
55	Seger (H. A.)	Collected Writings on the Manufacture of Pottery			GBP -	4.50
56	Shore (A.)	Practical Treatise on Brewing			GBP -	3.50
57	Sismondi (J. C. L. Simonde de)	Histoire des Francais	Paris	1821-44	GBP -	2.50
58	Sismondi (J. C. L. Simonde de)	Histoire des Francais	Brussels	1836-46	GBP -	1.00
59	Sketchley (W.)	The Cocker		1814	GBP -	9.50
60	Smith (Sir J. E.) and J. Sowerby	Exotic Botany		1804-1805	GBP -	15.00
61	Smith (Sir J. E.)	An Introduction to Botany			GBP -	1.50
62	Solon (M. L.)	The Old French Faience		1903	GBP -	1.50
63	Stephens (J. L.)	Incidents of Travel in Yucatan		1843	GBP -	2.50
64	Stephens (J. L.)	Incidents of Travel in Yucatan			GBP -	6.00
65	Stevenson (R. L.)	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	15.00
66	Thomson (R.)	A Faithful Account of the		1820	GBP -	2.00
67	Trollope (A.)	The Eustace Diamonds		1873	GBP -	12.00
68	Vasari (G.)	Lives of the Painters			GBP -	2.50
69	Walton (I.)	Lives of Donne		1825	GBP -	5.50
70	Walton (I.) and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler			GBP -	9.50
71	Weber (J. C.)	Die Alpen-Pflanzen Deutschlands und der Schweiz			GBP -	2.50
72	Wellington (Duke of)	Dispatches		1837-39	GBP -	0.50
73	illustrations by A. Beardsley, W. Rolhenstein and others	Yellow Book (The)		1894-97	GBP -	6.50
74	Alken (H.)	Illustrations for Landscape Scenery		1821	GBP -	13.00
75	Milton (J.)	Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1759	GBP -	1.00
76	Caldecott (R.)	Picture Books		1889	GBP -	5.00
77	Chubb (T.)	The Printed Maps and Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland		1927	GBP -	11.00
78	Cordiner (J.)	A Description of Ceylon			GBP -	4.00
79	Culpeper (N.)	Complete Herbal		1831	GBP -	2.00
80	D'A[rgenville] (A. J. D.)	La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage			GBP -	1.00
81	Edwards (R.) and M. Jourdain	Georgian Cabinet-Makers			GBP -	1.50
82	W. Robinson	Flora and Sylva		1903-1905	GBP -	2.50
83	Greenaway (Kate)	A Day in a Child's Life	Routledge	[1881]	GBP -	2.00
84	Greenaway (Kate)	Mother Goose			GBP -	3.00
85	Hales (S.)	La Statique des Vegetaux	Paris	1735	GBP -	11.00
86		Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry			GBP -	6.50
87	Hodgson (J. E.)	The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain	Oxford	1924	GBP -	4.50
88	Hooper (W. E.)	The Motor Car in the First Decade of the 20th Century		1908	GBP -	13.00
89	Howitt (S.)	A New Work of Animals		1811	GBP -	5.50
90	Humphreys (H. N.)	The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing			GBP -	0.75
91	Kappel (A. W.) and W. E. Kirby	British and European Butterflies and Moths			GBP -	1.50
92		Lives of the Saints		1869	GBP -	6.00
93	Loudon (Mrs.)	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants		1848	GBP -	11.00
94	Malcolm (J. P.)	Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the year 1700		1811	GBP -	3.00
95	Oettingen (B. von)	Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice		1909	GBP -	3.50
96	Plumpton (James)	Treatise on Mechanics			GBP -	4.00
97	Polybius	Histoire	Paris	1727-30	GBP -	1.25
98	Pugin (A. W.) and C. Heath	Paris and its Environs		1830-31	GBP -	1.00
99	Spenser (E.)	The Faerie Queene		1751	GBP -	1.50
100	Spielmann (M. H.) and G. S. Layard. Kate Greenaway	EDITION DE LUXE		1905	GBP -	7.50

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.
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.
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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