Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, &c. COMPRISING A SELECTION PROM THE LIBRARY AT SPRINGWOOD PARK, KELSO, OF English Literature; First Editions and Presentation Copies of Thomas Hardy; Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club Publications; a Fifteenth Century French Manuscript on Chess; Voyages and Travels; Charts, etc.; The Naval Papers, Journals, etc., of Admiral Sir James Douglas; The Property of the late Sir George Douglas, Bt., [Sold by Order of his Exec, HYPERION,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 25, 1938 - July 25, 1938

Page Size: 680 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	collier (Jeremy)	A Short View- of the Immorality			GBP -	1.75
202	collier (Jeremy)	Myotomia Reformata: or		1694	GBP -	3.25
203	Daventer (H. a)	The Art of Midwifery Improv'd			GBP -	4.25
204	collier (Jeremy)	De Virorum organis Generationi Inservientibus			GBP -	5.50
205	DONNE (JOHN)	POEMS		1635	GBP -	17.00
206	collier (Jeremy)	The Art of Graving and Etching			GBP -	1.25
207	Gaskell (Mrs.)	Ruth		1853	GBP -	0.50
208	Grafton (Richard)	Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande		1570	GBP -	3.75
209	Latham (Simon)	Latham's Faulconry		1658	GBP -	2.75
210	Mead (Richard)	A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays		1701	GBP -	2.00
211	Mercure de France	Dedie au Roi	Paris	1768	GBP -	5.25
212	NECKER (J.)	DE L'ADMINISTRATION DES FINANCES DE LA FRANCE	[Paris	1784	GBP -	40.00
213	Sowerby (James)	English Botany		1790-1814	GBP -	1.00
214	Steele (Sir Richard)	The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff [The Tatler]		1710-11	GBP -	0.50
215	Wilkins (John)	The Discovery of a World in the Moone		1638	GBP -	1.75
216	WOTTON (SIR HENRY)	A PANEGYRICK OP KING CHARLES			GBP -	6.00
217	Milton (J.)	Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1758	GBP -	2.10
218		BIBLE	Cambridge	1673	GBP -	7.50
219		Book of Common Prayer		1639-37	GBP -	0.50
220	Cervantes (M. de Saavedra)	Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha translated by Charles Jarvis		1742	GBP -	1.50
221	Edwards (George)	A Natural History of Uncommon Birds		1743-64	GBP -	11.50
222	HIERONYMUS (ST.)	LA VITA EL TRANSITO e gli Miracoli del	Venice	1475	GBP -	4.00
223	Huygens (Christian)	Systema Saturnium		1659-84	GBP -	8.50
224	Langley (B.)	The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs		1745	GBP -	2.75
225	Leeuwenhoek (Ant. van.)	Arcana Naturae Detecta		1695-96	GBP -	5.75
226	Licetus (P.)	De Monstris			GBP -	3.75
227		PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS		1665-1755	GBP -	68.00
228	Pomet (P.)	A Compleat History of Druggs		1712	GBP -	1.40
229	Price GBP (Francis)	The British Carpenter		1760	GBP -	1.75
230	E. P. Shirley	The Sherley Brothers, An Historical Memoir		1848	GBP -	2.00
231	Sprat (T.)	History of the Royal Society		1702	GBP -	1.25
232		TRACTS			GBP -	16.50
233	Willis (Thomas)	De Anima Brutorum quae Hominis Vitalis ac Sensitiva est	Oxford	1672	GBP -	5.50
234	Ashmole (Elias)	Institution	Edinburgh	1816	GBP -	0.50
235	Birch (Thomas), Houbraken (J.), and Vertue (G.)	Heads of Illustrious Persons		1743-51	GBP -	1.75
236	Blackwell (Elizabeth)	A Curious Herbal		1751-39	GBP -	13.50
237	Blome (R.)	The Gentleman's Recreation		1686	GBP -	3.15
238	B[romhall] (T[homas])	A Treatise of Specters		1658	GBP -	4.00
239	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Pseudodoxia Epidemica		1697	GBP -	1.00
240	CATESBY (MARK)	NATURAL HISTORY OF CAROLINA		1731-43	GBP -	42.00
241	Chaucer (G.)	The Works		1721	GBP -	1.40
242	Davies (John)	The History of the Carriby-Islands		1666	GBP -	0.50
243	Guillim (John)	A Display of Heraldrie		1610	GBP -	0.75
244	Handel (G. F.)	Pull score of the Dettingen Te Deum		March 23, 1938	GBP -	6.00
245	Hanmer (Meredith)	Campion (Edmund)	Dublin	1633	GBP -	4.00
246	Holinshed (Ralph)	The Whole Volume of Chronicles con		1586-87	GBP -	5.25
247	HOOKE (R.)	MICROGRAPHIA		1665	GBP -	22.00
248	James (John, of Greenwich)	Rules and Examples of Perspec-tive Proper for Painters and Architects		1707	GBP -	0.70
249	JOHNSON (DR. SAMUEL)	A DICTIONARY of the English Language		1755	GBP -	7.00
250	Killigrew (Thomas)	Comedies and Tragedies		1664	GBP -	5.00
251	Knox (Robert)	An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon		1681	GBP -	2.25
252	Leo (John)	A Geographical Historie of Africa		1600	GBP -	6.50
253	Loggan (D.)	Oxonia Illustrata		1675	GBP -	3.00
254	Loggan (D.)	Cantabrigia Illustrata		[1688]	GBP -	2.00
255	MONTAIGNE (M. DE)	THE ESSAYES or Morall		1603	GBP -	10.50
256	(William Cavendish, Duke of)	Newcastle		1743	GBP -	7.00
257	Ovid	Metamorphoses			GBP -	2.25
258	Palladio (A.)	The Four Books of Architecture		1738	GBP -	1.00
259	Palladio (A.)	The Architecture in Four Books		1742	GBP -	0.50
260	Pliny	The Historie of the World		1635-34	GBP -	2.25
261	Pluvinel (Antoine de)	L'Instruction du Roy en L'Exereice de Monter a Cheval	Paris	1625	GBP -	0.75
262	Pontoppidan (Erich)	The Natural History of Norway		1755	GBP -	0.50
263	PRIOR (MATTHEW)	AN ENGLISH PADLOCK		1656-1705	GBP -	26.00
264	Prior (Matthew)	Poems on Several Occasions			GBP -	1.25
265	Ray (John)	Historia Plantarum		1686-88-1704	GBP -	0.25
266	Robert (G.) et Vaugondy (R. de)	Atlas Universel	Paris	1757	GBP -	1.00
267	[ROCHESTER (JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF)]	A Satyr against Man-kind		1679-81	GBP -	5.00
268	Scheffer (John)	The History of Lapland	Oxford	1674	GBP -	1.50
269	Sloane (Sir Hans)	A Voyage to the Islands		1707-25	GBP -	7.00
270	SPEED (JOHN)	A PROSPECT OF THE MOST FAMOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD		1646	GBP -	45.00
271		The Tryals, Conviction and Sentence of Titus Otes		1681-85	GBP -	0.25
272	Vertot (Rene D'Aubort)	l'Abbe de			GBP -	1.40
273		Vitruvius Britannicus		1731	GBP -	0.75
274	Ware (Isaac)	A Complete Body of Architecture			GBP -	2.25
275	Willoughby (Francis)	De Historia Piscium	Oxford	1686	GBP -	2.00
276	Willoughby (Francis)	Ornithologiae Libri Tres			GBP -	1.75
277	Worm (Olaus)	Museum Wormianum	Leyden	1655	GBP -	2.75
278	Yorke (James)	The Union of Honour		1640	GBP -	0.70
279	SWIFT (JONATHAN)	A PINE IRISH SILVER MARROW SPOON			GBP -	6.50
280	Lavender (T.)	The Travels of eertaine Englishmen into Africa	London	1609	GBP -	10.00
281	Holies (Lord)	A Letter of a Gentleman to his Friend shewing that the Bishops are not to be Judges in Parliament in Cases Capital		1679	GBP -	10.00
281A	A SHAKESPEARE (W.)	THE RAPE OP LUCRECE		1655	GBP -	3.50
282	A Kempis (Thomas)	Of the Imitation of Christ		1580	GBP -	2.75
283	Baxter (Richard)	The Saints Everlasting Rest		1650	GBP -	2.00
284	Mornay (Philip of)	A Worke concerning the Trunesse of Christian Religion			GBP -	0.50
285		Binding		1673	GBP -	3.75
286	Gay (John)	The Shepherd's Week		1714	GBP -	2.10
287	Lloyd (Charles)	Poems on Various Subjects	Carlisle	1795	GBP -	2.50
288	Parnell (Thomas)	Poems on Several Occasions		1770	GBP -	0.50
288A	A Galilei (Galileo)	Dialogus de Systemate Mundi		1641	GBP -	8.50
289	Grafigny (Mme de)	Lettres d'une Peruvienne	Paris	(1797)	GBP -	0.75
290	LA FONTAINE (J. DE)	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS	Amsterdam [Paris]	1762	GBP -	100.00
291	GUARINI (BATTISTA)	Il PASTOR FIDO		1736	GBP -	24.00
292		Magnifique Carousel (le)	Paris	1664	GBP -	3.50
293	Saint Remy (Surirey de)	Memoires d'Artillerie			GBP -	1.00
294	Collinson (John)	History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset	Bath	1791	GBP -	12.00
295	Catherine of Siena (St.)	Opera Nova della Vita et morte della	Venice	1511	GBP -	12.00
296	Ambrosius, Hieronymus et Augustinus.	De Virginitate Opuscula Sanctorum Doctorum	Rome	1562	GBP -	1.50
297	GAY (JOHN)	FABLES		1727-38	GBP -	7.25
298	Dryden (John)	The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards		1672	GBP -	2.75

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
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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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