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
397 OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY Oxford

1888-1928

 GBP - 17.00
398 Dumont d'Urville Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde Paris

1834

 GBP - 2.00
399 Brewing-Schoepffer (Th.) Frankfurt

1732

 GBP - 3.50
400 VOESMAER (A.) NATUURKUNDIGE BESCHRYVING EENER UITMUNTENDE VERZAMELING VAN ZELDSAME GEDIERTEN BESTAANDE EN OOST-EN WESTINDISCHE DIEREN Amsterdam

1768-1804

 GBP - 38.00
401 ALDINI (TOBIAS) Rariorum quarundam Plantarum quae continentur Rome in Horto Franesiani Rome

1625

 GBP - 7.00
402 Loudon (Mrs.) The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals

1840

 GBP - 10.00
403 Plaw (John) Ferme Ornee or Rural Improvements

1796

 GBP - 4.50
404 REPTON (H. AND J. A.) FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING

1816

 GBP - 58.00
405 REPTON (H.) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

1803

 GBP - 46.00
406 Morris (C. L.) Behind Moroccan Walls

GBP - 4.50
407 Aviation

GBP - 11.00
408 Watercolour Sketches

1860-67

 GBP - 16.00
409 Collins (Lt.-Col. D.) An Account in the English Colony in New South Wales

1804

 GBP - 7.50
410 Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North West Passage

1835

 GBP - 3.75
411 Garrick (David) The Private Correspondence

1831-1832

 GBP - 3.75
412 Westall (W.) Great Britain Illustrated

1830

 GBP - 1.25
413 Shepherd (T. H.) London in the Nineteenth Century

1828-[31]

 GBP - 7.50
414 Landor (A. H.) Savage

GBP - 4.00
415 Michel (E.) Rubens

GBP - 1.00
416 Grouse (The) in Health and in Disease

1911

 GBP - 0.50
417 Grouse (The) in Health and Disease

1911

 GBP - 0.50
418 Jackson (Sir C. J.) English Goldsmiths and their Marks

1905

 GBP - 1.50
419 Meinertzhagen (Col. R.) Nicoll's Birds of Egypt

1930

 GBP - 13.00
420 McDonald (Alex.) A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening

1807

 GBP - 10.00
421 Byzantine Institute (The) Oxford

1942

 GBP - 1.00
422 Tissot (J. J.) The Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ

[1897]

 GBP - 1.00
423 Olivier (E.), Hermal (G.) and Roton (R. de) Manuel de l'amateur de reliures armoriees francaises Paris

1924-38

 GBP - 13.00
424 Gavarni Le Diable a Paris Paris

1845-46

 GBP - 3.50
425 Racine (J.) Oeuvres Paris

1760

 GBP - 1.25
426 Guilbert (A.) Histoire des villes de France Paris

1839

 GBP - 0.75
427 Tharaud (J. et J.) La Randonnee de Samba Diouf Paris

1928

 GBP - 6.00
428 Albohazen Haly, filius Abenragel De Iuditiis [Astrorum] gothic letter

1523

 GBP - 9.50
429 Augustinus (Saint Aurelius) De Civitate Dei Venice

1475

 GBP - 7.50
430 Boethius (A. M. T. S.) Duplex Comentatio ex integro reposita atque recognita in Boetius Lyons

[1514]

 GBP - 3.50
431 Bayer (J.) Uranometria Augsburg

1603

 GBP - 8.00
432 DANTE ALIGHIERI Divina Comedia Venice

1497

 GBP - 80.00
433 Bible Paris

1566

 GBP - 6.50
434 Riccioli (J. B.) Astronomiae Reformatae Tomi Duo Bologna

1665

 GBP - 5.50
435 Ptolemaeus (C.) Omnia quae extant opera Basel

1551

 GBP - 5.50
436 Plinius Secundus (C.) L'Histoire du Monde Cologne

1526

 GBP - 1.00
437 Plutarch Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Paris

1572, 1587

 GBP - 1.00
438 Cluverius (Ph.) Sicilia antiqua

GBP - 1.50
439 Lyra (Nicolas de) [Psalterium Latino-Germanicum] Strassburg

c. 1474

 GBP - 7.50
440 Edwards (L.) A Sportsman's Bag

GBP - 1.00
441 Adam (R.) Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian in Dalmatia

1764

 GBP - 7.50
442 Guiffrey (J.) Sir Anthony Van Dyck

1896

 GBP - 1.75
443 Jellicoe (G. A.) Baroque Gardens of Austria

1932

 GBP - 4.50
444 Gellius (Aulus) Noctes Atticae Venice

1496

 GBP - 11.00
445 Wiltshire

GBP - 7.00
446 Chaucer (G.) The Workes

1602

 GBP - 4.00
447 Spigel (A.) Opera quae extant omnia Amsterdam

1645

 GBP - 6.00
448 [Holy Bible (The) Barker

1613

 GBP - 10.00
449 Ortelis (A.) Theatre Tragique

GBP - 14.00
450 Popish Plot (The) Prance (Miles)

GBP - 2.00
451 Album Amicorum

1708-52

 GBP - 1.00
452 Fee (A.-L.-A.) [Essai sur les cryptogames des ecorces exotiques officinales], (Paris)

1825-37

 GBP - 45.00
453 ROCQUE (J.) AN EXACT SURVEY of the Cities of London and Westminster

GBP - 11.00
454 J. Speed A Collection of 45 Maps of London and Middlesex

1611-1831

 GBP - 10.00
455 Maps

GBP - 10.00
456 Hogarth (W.) Works

GBP - 3.50
457 BLAEU (W. & J.) Novus ATLAS Amsterdam

1646

 GBP - 70.00
458 Santini (P.) Atlas Universel

GBP - 16.00
459 Barrelierus (Jacobus) Plantae per Galliam Paris

1714

 GBP - 8.00
460 Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum Das ist

GBP - 6.50
461 Engraved Portraits

GBP - 0.50
462 Peck (Francis) Antiquarian Annals of Stanford

1727

 GBP - 2.25
463 Cox (N.) and Blome (R.) The Gentleman's Recreation

1710

 GBP - 7.00
464 Nolli (Giambattista) Nuova Pianta di Roma [Rome]

1748

 GBP - 10.00
465 Ovidius (P. Naso) Les Metamorphoses Amsterdam

1732

 GBP - 1.25
466 Kleiner (S.) and Pfeffel (J. A.) Vera Vienna

1734-37

 GBP - 22.00
467 Flaxman (J.) La Divina Comedia di Dante Alighieri

GBP - 2.00
468 Oppermann (W.) and Winkles (H.) Panorama du Rigi Zurich

[c. 1800]

 GBP - 1.00
469 Vitruvius (M. P.) Les dix livres d'architecture Paris

1684

 GBP - 2.00
470 Numismata Virorum Illustrium ex Barbadica Gente Padua

1732

 GBP - 11.00
471 Stothard (C. A.) The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain

1817-1832

 GBP - 2.00
472 Law (John) Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid (Amsterdam)

1720

 GBP - 5.50
473 Benoit (P. J.) Voyage a Surinam Brussels

1839

 GBP - 11.00
474 Ercker (L.) Aula Subterranea das ist Unterirdische Hoffhaltung Frankfurt

1703

 GBP - 5.00
475 Boydell (J. and J.) A Collection of Prints

1803 [-05]

 GBP - 21.00
476 Morant (P.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex

1816

 GBP - 3.00
477 Musee Francais Recueil des plus beaux tableaux Paris

GBP - 11.00
478 GOULD (JOHN) BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA

GBP - 175.00
479 Sanders (Wm. B.) Half-Timbered Houses and Carved Oak Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries

GBP - 0.50
480 Astle (Thomas) The Origin and Progress of Writing

1803

 GBP - 3.00
481 Simpson (Wm.) The Seat of War in the East

1856

 GBP - 1.00
482 Military Costume of Turkey (The)

1818

 GBP - 9.00
483 Punishments of China (The)

1801

 GBP - 3.50
484 Burlington Fine Arts Club

1901

 GBP - 3.00
485 Gardner (J. Starkie) Old Silver Work chiefly English from the 15th to the 18th Centuries

1903

 GBP - 2.50
486 Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa or a Collection of Divers Curious Pieces

1732

 GBP - 3.00
487 Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture

1904-1908

 GBP - 18.00
488 Barnes (William) Poems of Rural Life

1844

 GBP - 7.50
489 Bronte (Sisters) Novels

1905

 GBP - 2.75
490 Browne (Moses) Angling Sports

GBP - 2.25
491 Camden Society

1843-1903

 GBP - 65.00
492 Camden (William) The abridgement of Camden's Britania

GBP - 8.50
493 Causes Celebres et Interessantes

GBP - 1.00
494 Cheselden (William) The Anatomy of the Human Body

GBP - 10.00
495 Churchill (W. S.) The River War

GBP - 6.50
496 Colson (Lancelot) Philosophia Maturata

1668

 GBP - 34.00
  • <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>
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    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.