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 Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, &c. COMPRISING A SELECTION PROM THE LIBRARY AT SPRINGWOOD PARK, KELSO, OF English Literature; First Editions and Presentation Copies of Thomas Hardy;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
500	Loutherbourg (P. J. de)	The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales		1805	GBP -	2.75
501	WILSON (HARRIETTE)	MEMOIRS WRITTEN BY HERSELF		1825	GBP -	20.00
502	Bemrose (W.)	Longton Hall Porcelain		1906	GBP -	0.75
503		Furniture		[c. 1760]	GBP -	7.75
504	Bone (David)	Merchantmen-at-Arms		1919	GBP -	2.50
505		Flemish and Belgian Art		1927	GBP -	2.00
506	Hobson (R. L.)	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	1.00
507	Jackson (C. J.)	An Illustrated History of English Plate		1911	GBP -	7.75
508	Laking (Sir G. F.)	A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries		1920-22	GBP -	5.00
509	Manners (Lady Victoria) and Dr. G. C. Williamson, John Zoffany	His Life and Works			GBP -	5.75
510	Ricketts (C. S.)	The Prado and Its Masterpieces			GBP -	1.00
511	Staniforth (Rev. Thomas)	A Collection of Early English Spoons of the 15th	London	1898	GBP -	4.00
512	CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS)	THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKER'S		[1754]	GBP -	8.50
513	CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS)	THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET- MAKER'S DIRECTOR		1762	GBP -	16.00
514	Goos (PETER)	THE SEA-ATLAS	Amsterdam, Mirror	1668	GBP -	92.00
515		Italian Art	Oxford	1931	GBP -	1.75
516	Macquoid (Percy) and Ralph Edwards	Dictionary of English Furniture		1924-27	GBP -	16.50
517	Macquoid (Percy)	History of English Furniture			GBP -	1.25
518	Ogilby (John)	Britannia: or		1698	GBP -	6.25
519	Raemaekers (Louis)	War Cartoons		1916-19	GBP -	2.25
520	WAGHENAER (L. J.)	THE MARINERS MIRROUR	London	1588	GBP -	125.00
521	[FOLENGO (THEOPHILE)]	ORLANDINO DI LIMERNO PITOCCO		1773	GBP -	62.00
522	Perkins (John)	A Profitable Booke treating of the Lawes of England			GBP -	6.00
523	KEATS (JOHN)	LAMIA		1820	GBP -	38.00
524	Prior (Matthew)	FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS		[1807]	GBP -	3.50
525	Barrie (Sir J. M.)	The Little Minister		1891	GBP -	3.25
526	Dickens (C.)	Our Mutual Friend		1864-5	GBP -	5.00
527	Dickens (C.)	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	2.75
528	Thackeray (W. M.)	The Virginians		1857-9	GBP -	5.00
529	DICKENS (C.)	A TALE OF TWO CITIES		1859	GBP -	15.00
530	DICKENS (CHARLES)	A small collection of 15 PROOFS on India paper of illustrations to his CHRISTMAS BOOKS			GBP -	1.00
531	DICKENS (CHARLES)	A SMALL COLLECTION OF THE ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND		1849	GBP -	21.00
532	[Dickens (Charles)]	Report of the Public Meeting for the Establishment of a Royal Dramatic College	Melbourne	[1858]	GBP -	3.00
533	Barrie (J. M.)	An Edinburgh Eleven		1899	GBP -	0.25
534	Philipotts (E.)	The Human Boy			GBP -	0.80
535	Stevenson (R. L.)	Kidnapped			GBP -	0.75
536	Conrad (J.)	The Rover			GBP -	0.50
537	Kipling (R.)	The Second Jungle Book		1895	GBP -	0.70
538	Kipling (R.)	Many Inventions			GBP -	1.00
539	Barrie (J.)	Margaret Ogilvy			GBP -	0.50
540	Coppard (A. E.)	Nixey's Harlequin			GBP -	12.00
541	Trollope (A.)	Phineas Redux			GBP -	2.25
542	Garrick, Cumberland, Colman, etc	Comedies		c. 1755-85	GBP -	2.00
543	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Five Nations		1903	GBP -	2.75
544	Kipling (R.)	The Day's Work		1899	GBP -	0.75
545	Kipling (R.)	From Sea to Sea		1900-1904	GBP -	1.00
546	Kipling (R.)	Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories		1903	GBP -	1.00
547	Kipling (R.)	The Years Between		1919	GBP -	11.50
548	Stevenson (R. L.)	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	5.25
549	Pinero (Arthur W.)	Trelawny of the "Wells"		September, 1897	GBP -	0.25
550	Huxley (Aldous)	The Burning Wheel	Oxford	1916	GBP -	2.50
551	Gilbert (Sir W. S.)	Songs of a Savoyard		[1890]	GBP -	2.50
552	Dufour (P. S.)	Traitez du Cafe			GBP -	0.70
553	Housman (Laurence)	A Farm in Fairyland			GBP -	1.30
554	Dumas (A.)	Works		1894	GBP -	5.00
555	Leland (John)	The Itinerary			GBP -	0.50
556		Civilite (La)	Paris		GBP -	1.50
557		Quakers			GBP -	0.70
558	Antoninus (Marcus Aurelius)	Livre dore			GBP -	0.50
559	Verhaeren (Emile)	Les Villages Illusoires			GBP -	1.75
560	BLAKE (WILLIAM) Swedenborg (Emanuel)	The Wisdom of Angels		1790	GBP -	54.00
561	RUSKIN (JOHN)	The Political Economy of Art			GBP -	13.50
562	Wordsworth (William)	Memorials of a Tour on the Continent		1822	GBP -	1.00
563	Hardy (Thomas)	A Pair of Blue Eyes		1873	GBP -	11.50
564	STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)	PRINCE OTTO		1885	GBP -	30.00
565	Stevenson (R. L.)	Familiar Epistle in Verse and Prose		1896	GBP -	0.75
566	Stevenson (R. L.)	Three Short Poems		1898	GBP -	1.00
567		The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea,		1894	GBP -	1.00
568	Morris (William)	A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson		1892	GBP -	2.50
569	Kingsley (Charles)	Westward Ho!	Cambridge	1855	GBP -	20.00
570	Kingsley (Charles)	Hypatia		1853	USD -	Not Sold
571	Kingsley (C.)	The Water-Babies		1863	GBP -	8.00
572	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	Idylls of the King		1864	GBP -	4.00
573	TENNYSON (A., LORD)	Queen Mary		1875	GBP -	7.00
574		The Portland Times		1862	GBP -	3.75
575		The Self-Help Society		1866	GBP -	1.25
576		The Self-Help Society		1866	GBP -	1.50
577	Flamank (George)	The Golden Dragon of Golconda		1865	GBP -	3.75
578		The Commoners Delight		1866	GBP -	0.50
579	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	ENID AN IDYLL & Geraint a Mabinogi			GBP -	9.50
580	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	THE WINDOW		1867	GBP -	13.00
581	TENNYSON (A., LORD)	THE VICTIM		1867	GBP -	12.00
582	TENNYSON (A., LORD)	THE VICTIM		1867	GBP -	11.00
583	Eliot (Hon. Charles)	A Short Account of Port Eliot and St. Germans Church		1869	USD -	Not Sold
584	Eliot (Hon. Charles)	A Short Account of Port Eliot		1869	USD -	Not Sold
585	[CRAWHALL (Joseph)]	THE COMPLEATEST ANGLING BOOKE THAT EVER WAS WRIT		1859	GBP -	12.50
586	Crawhall (J.)	A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers	Newcastle	1864	USD -	Not Sold
587	Crawhall (J.)	Chaplets from Coquet-side	[Newcastle]	1873	USD -	Not Sold
588	Crawhall (J.)	Border Notes and Mixty-Maxty		1880	GBP -	0.50
589	[Crawhall (J.)]	Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces		1883	GBP -	0.75
590	Crawhall (J.)	Chap-Book Chaplets		1883	GBP -	1.00
591	[Crawhall (J.)]	Izaak Walton: his Wallet Booke		1885	GBP -	18.00
592	Crawhall (J.)	A Jubilee Thought	Newcastle	1887	GBP -	0.50
593	Crawhall (J.)	A Beuk o' Newcassel Sangs	Newcastle	1888	GBP -	0.50
594	Crawhall (J.)	'Impresses Quaint'	Newcastle	1889	GBP -	0.50
595	Brandon (R. and J. A.)	Parish Churches; being Perspective Views of English Ecclesiastical Structures			USD -	Not Sold
596	Fairbairn (J.)	Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland			USD -	Not Sold
597		Sporting Magazine (The)		1822-66	GBP -	5.50
598	Combe (W.)	Three Tours of Dr. Syntax			GBP -	1.00
599	Cruikshank (G.)	The Universal Songster; or		1825-26	GBP -	1.80

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.
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