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
201 Gerarde (J.) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

1636

 GBP - 13.00
202 Frankau (J.) Eighteenth Century Colour Prints

1900

 GBP - 1.50
203 Walton (I.) The Lives of Dr. John Donne

1904

 GBP - 1.50
204 Bronte (Charlotte) Jane Eyre Paris

1923

 GBP - 6.00
205 Bataille (Henry) Tetes et pensees Paris

1901

 GBP - 1.00
206 Hughes-Stanton (Blair) A Set of eight signed proof wood-engravings made for the Gregynog Press's edition of Milton's "Comus," mounted

1931

 GBP - 8.00
207 Constable (J.) Various Subjects of Landscape

1833

 GBP - 16.00
208 Lawrence (D. H.) Birds

1930

 GBP - 1.75
209 Alken (H.) Symptoms of Being Amused

1822

 GBP - 12.00
210 SCHLEGEL (H.) AND] VERSTER DE WULVERHORST (A. H.) TRAITE DE FAUCONNERIE

1844-53

 GBP - 85.00
211 Toudouze (G.) Le Roy Soleil

GBP - 0.75
212 Holbein (H.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII

GBP - 1.50
213 Adam (Victor) Passe-Temps

GBP - 4.50
214 Adam (V.) L'Hippodrome au coin du feu

GBP - 13.00
215 Album comique de pathologie pittoresque

1823

 GBP - 3.50
216 Beaumont (E. de) 69 lithographs from the series "Croquis parisiens" and "Croquis du jour"

GBP - 3.00
217 Beaumont (E. de) lia civilisation aux Iles Marquises

GBP - 8.00
218 Beaumont (E. de) 48 lithographs from the series "Quartier de la Boule Rouge" and "Le Quart de Monde"

GBP - 2.00
219 Bellange (H.) Album containing 130 lithographs

1823

 GBP - 2.00
220 Boilly (L.) 10 hand-coloured lithographs

GBP - 1.50
221 Charlet (N.-T.) Album containing 41 lithographs (2 unbound)

1822-23

 GBP - 3.00
222 Cham (Comte Am'edee de Noe) 14 small albums of humorous plates

GBP - 3.00
223 Cham (Comte A. de Noe) Pincez-moi a la campagne

GBP - 3.00
224 Cham (Comte A. de Noe) A la guerre comme a la guerre

GBP - 4.50
225 Compte-Calix

GBP - 8.50
226 Darjou (A.) Voyage comique et pittoresque en Bretagne

GBP - 5.00
227 Daumier (H. de) Physionomie de l'Assemblee

GBP - 19.00
228 Daumier, Cham, Vernier, Randon. Album containing 85 lithographs

GBP - 2.50
229 Dore (Gustave) Les differents publics de Paris

GBP - 10.00
230 Dore (Gustave) Des-agrements d'un voyage d'agrement

GBP - 8.00
231 Enfans parisiens (Les)

GBP - 17.00
232 Gedeon

GBP - 3.50
233 Gerard-Fontallard (H.) Histoire d'une epingle

GBP - 11.00
234 Grandville (Isidore) Voyage pour l'eternite

GBP - 2.00
235 Grandville (I.) Les metamorphoses du jour

GBP - 5.50
236 Grenier (F.) Divers sujets

GBP - 2.50
237 Grevin (A.) Mono-organorama

GBP - 5.50
238 Guerard (E.) La Mazourka

GBP - 24.00
239 Jacque (Ch.-E.) Les malades et les medecins

GBP - 4.00
240 Larai (Eugene) Souvenirs de Londres

1828

 GBP - 10.00
241 Lents, Talin et Damourette La chicane et l'amour

GBP - 1.00
242 Le Poitevin (E.) Les Diables de lithographies

GBP - 1.00
243 Lievre (Edouard) Comedies de Moliere

GBP - 2.00
244 Monnier, Bouchot, Cham, Travies, Grandville Lithographs

GBP - 4.00
245 Platier, Lorentz, Monnier, Manrisset, Sauveur and others Lithographs

GBP - 1.00
246 Lithographs from the series "Revue comique" and "Revue caricaturale"

GBP - 1.00
247 Lithographs from the series "Caricatures du jour"

GBP - 2.00
248 Madou (J. B.) Physionomie de la societe en Europe

1837

 GBP - 2.00
249 Marcelin (E.-P.) Le Tabac et les fumeurs

GBP - 3.00
250 Parades (Les) 12 lithographs in contemporary hand-colouring

[c. 1826]

 GBP - 1.00
251 Parades (Les) 12 lithographs in contemporary hand-colouring

[c. 1826]

 GBP - 1.50
252 Philipon (Charles) 24 hand-coloured lithographs from the series "Declarations"

GBP - 2.00
253 PIGAL (EDME-JEAN) 58 original pencil-drawings on thin paper

GBP - 11.00
254 Plattel (H.-D.) Macedoine

GBP - 2.00
255 Pruche Album containing 69 lithographs from the series Les Ouvriers de Paris...

GBP - 1.50
256 Randon (Gilbert) La vie de troupier

GBP - 2.00
257 Robida (A.) La grande mascarade parisienne

1882

 GBP - 3.00
258 Scheffer (J.-G.) Ce qu' on dit et ce qu' on pense

GBP - 7.50
259 Travies (C.-J.) Album Travies

GBP - 1.00
260 Trottman and Cham Impressions lithographiques da voyage

GBP - 3.50
261 Vernet (Horace) Vingt Fables de La Fontaine

GBP - 2.50
262 Vernier (Charles) and Cham (Comte A. de Noe) Album containing 37 lithographs from the series "Croquis militaires"

GBP - 1.00
264 Ecole (L') des pierrots

GBP - 2.50
265 Etudes d'androgynes

GBP - 2.00
266 Foire (La) aux amours

GBP - 1.00
267 Gavarni Lithographs from the series 'La vie de jeune homme'

GBP - 3.50
268 Gavarni Keapsake des enfants pour 1840,

GBP - 3.00
269 Gavarni Les Debardeurs

GBP - 13.00
270 Gavarni Perles et Parures

GBP - 11.00
270A Histoire d'en dire deux

GBP - 1.00
270B Maris (Les) me font toujours rire

GBP - 1.50
271 Parens (Les) Terribles

GBP - 1.00
272 Partageuses (Les)

GBP - 1.00
273 Manieres de voir des voyageurs

GBP - 1.00
274 Piano

GBP - 1.50
275 Amadis de Gaule Le trezieme livre d'Amadis de Gaule

1572

 GBP - 1.00
276 [Baxter (J.)] A Toile for Two-Legged Foxes

1600

 GBP - 5.50
277 Buffon, (Comte de) Oeuvres Completes

1774-78

 GBP - 0.50
278 Etherege (Sir George) Works containing his Plays and Poems

GBP - 4.50
279 Fergusson (James) Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles

GBP - 2.50
280 Fortescue (Sir John) A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England

1573

 GBP - 11.00
281 Guevara (Sir Anthony of) The Familiar Epistles

GBP - 2.50
282 Mydorge (Claude) Examen du Livre des Recreations Mathematiques

GBP - 7.00
283 Ray (J.) A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages

GBP - 13.00
284 [Saint German (Christopher)] The Dialogue in English betweene a Doctor of Divinitie and a Student in the Lawes of England

GBP - 16.00
285 [Sutcliffe (Matthew)] A Briefe Replie to a certaine odious and slanderous libel lately published by a seditious Jesuite

1600

 GBP - 13.00
286 [Davies (Sir John)] A Discoverie of the State of Ireland

1613

 GBP - 8.00
287 A View of the presente State of Ireland discoursed by way of a Dialogue betweene Eudoxus and Irenius

[c. 1600]

 GBP - 80.00
288 Le Blond (Le Sieur Alex.) The Theory and Practice of Gardening

1728

 GBP - 4.00
289 Lloyd (Lodovic) The pilgrimage of Princes

[1573]

 GBP - 8.00
290 Power (Henry) Experimental Philosophy in three books

1664

 GBP - 11.00
291 Poyntz (Sir Robert) A Vindication of Monarchy

GBP - 7.00
291A Alken (Henry) Going to the Races

GBP - 3.00
292 Barnes (Barnabe) Four Bookes of Offices

1606

 GBP - 18.00
293 Bradford (W.) Sketches of the Country

1809

 GBP - 22.00
294 Bretez (Louis) and Claude Lucas Plan de Paris

GBP - 6.50
295 Costume Plates

GBP - 20.00
295A CRUIKSHANK (I. R.) Going to a Fight Sherwood

1819

 GBP - 3.50
296 [Digley (Sir Kenelm)] Two Treatises Paris

1644

 GBP - 26.00
297 FETE PUBLIQUE

1747

 GBP - 38.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
    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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  • <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.