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Auction Details

Auction Date: April 17, 1972 - April 17, 1972

Page Size: 560 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	William Temple	Miscellanea			GBP -	7.00
102	Terentius Afer	Comoediae	Paris	1642	GBP -	80.00
103	Thurman Henry	Praxis Grammatica in decalogum		1647	GBP -	85.00
104	Virgilius Maro	Works			GBP -	35.00
105	Virgilius Maro	Opera			GBP -	20.00
106	F. M. A. de Voltaire	La Pucelle d'Orleans	Geneva	1762	GBP -	4.00
107	Charles Whitworth	An account of Russia as it was in the year 1710		1758	GBP -	75.00
108	Charles Hanbury Williams	The Foundling Hospital for Wit		1743-49-64-49	GBP -	10.00
109	R. Wimbledon	A sermon no lesse fruitfull then famous preached at Pauls Crosse ... in the reign of Henry IV... 1388 and found out hidden in a wall (A-D 8		1629	GBP -	6.00
110	Robert Witty	Gout Raptures ... An historical fiction of a war among the stars	Cambridge	1677	GBP -	75.00
111	Robert Witty	Ouranoskopia: or		1681	GBP -	38.00
112	William Wycherley	Works		1713	GBP -	26.00
113	Alexander Nowell and William Day	A true report of the disputation ... in the Tower of London		1 January 1583	GBP -	45.00
114	B. Jonson	The Workes		1616	GBP -	26.00
115	Thomas Scott	Pamphlets			GBP -	8.00
116	Thomas Stafford	Pacata Hibernia		1633	GBP -	58.00
117	Marcus Minucius Felix	His dialogne (sic) called Octavius . . . translated by Richard James			GBP -	22.00
118	G. Williams	The right Way to the best Religion		1636	GBP -	9.00
119	Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury)	A speech delivered in the Starr Chamber . . . XIV June 1637 at the censure of John Bastwick		1637	GBP -	18.00
120		Palmerin of England		1639	GBP -	20.00
121	Rev. Calybute Downing	Pamphlets			GBP -	12.00
122	Thomas Grantham	A motion against imprisonment		1642	GBP -	9.00
123		"Notarius Rusticus"		1637	GBP -	16.00
124	John Swan	Speculum Mundi		1643/44	GBP -	22.00
125	F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher	Comedies and Tragedies		1647	GBP -	120.00
126	Rev. Isaac Ambrose	Prima: The first things			GBP -	14.00
127	John French	The art of distillation ... to which is added . . . sublimation and calcination ... as also		1667	GBP -	80.00
128	Anthony Sparrow	A rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer		1676	GBP -	6.00
129	Thomas Holyoke	A large dictionary		1677	GBP -	26.00
130	John Ray	Catalogus plantarum Angliae et insularum adjacentium		1677	GBP -	4.00
131		Book (The) of Common Prayer		c. 1680	GBP -	3.00
132		Northampton Assizes		1683	GBP -	10.00
133	Thomas Stanley	The history of philosophy		1687	GBP -	18.00
134	Charles Caesar	Numerus Infaustus: A short review of the unfortunate reigns of William the second ... James the second			GBP -	22.00
135	William Dewsbery	The faithful testimony of... in his books			GBP -	16.00
136		By the Lords-Justices of Ireland, a Proclamation	Dublin	1691	GBP -	42.00
137	George W. Story	An impartial history of the Wars of Ireland		1693	GBP -	45.00
138	Edward Cocker	Arithmetick being a plain and familiar method . . .		1697	GBP -	14.00
139	J. Bernard	The Acts and Negotiations ... of the General Peace			GBP -	14.00
140	Horace	Opera,	Cambridge	1699	USD -	Not Sold
141	John Tillotson, [edited by Ralph Barker]	[Sermons]			GBP -	15.00
142	John Evelyn	Silva		1706	GBP -	18.00
143	Daniel Defoe	A hymn to the pillory		1708	GBP -	5.00
144	C. J. Poncet	A voyage to AEthiopia made in 1698		1709	GBP -	70.00
145	Richard Steele and Joseph Addison	The Tatler] The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq		1710-11	GBP -	16.00
146		[Proclamation, of Loyalty to George I]			GBP -	65.00
147	Thomas Watts	A treatise of mechanicks . . . done out of French		1716	GBP -	11.00
148	D. Defoe	The Life and strange surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		1719	GBP -	18.00
149	Jonathan Swift	Travels into several remote nations of the World ... by Lemuel Gulliver		1726	GBP -	55.00
150	Jonathan Swift	Miscellanea . . . never before published		1727	GBP -	20.00
151	Alexander Le Blond	The theory and practice of gardening			GBP -	20.00
152	John Milton, edited by Richard Bentley	Paradise Lost			GBP -	26.00
153	Andrew Moreton	The secrets of the invisible world disclos'd: or		1735	GBP -	22.00
154	Francis Bacon	Works		1740	GBP -	14.00
155	G. Bickham	The British Monarchy		1743-47	GBP -	75.00
156	Jethro Tull	Horse-Hoeing Husbandry			GBP -	18.00
157	J. Addison, Sir R. Steele	The Spectator			GBP -	16.00
158	Robert Morris	Select Architecture		1757	GBP -	120.00
159	Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler			GBP -	16.00
160	John Milton	Paradise Lost		1763-66	GBP -	14.00
161		Novum Testamentum	Oxford	1763	GBP -	35.00
162	Elizabeth Moxon	English housewifery	Leeds	1769	GBP -	11.00
163	M. Hinde, W. Squire	A new royal and universal dictionary of arts and sciences		1770-71	USD -	Not Sold
164	Rev. J. Ekins	The loves of Medea and Jason			GBP -	9.00
165	John Goldsmith	Almanack for MDCCLXXVIII		1777	GBP -	14.00
166	Henry Barry	Elegy to the memory of Miss Elizabeth Swift	South Carolina	March 10th-February 17th, 1782	GBP -	320.00
167	J. Andrews	History of the War with America		1785-86	GBP -	40.00
168	Henry Boswell	Picturesque views ... of the antiquities of England and Wales		c. 1790	GBP -	110.00
169	Edmund Burke	Reflections on the Revolution in France		1790	GBP -	60.00
170	General Lloyd	A political and military rhapsody on the invasion and defence of Great Britain and Ireland			GBP -	12.00
171	C. Pigott	The Jockey Club		1792	GBP -	7.00
172		Cooke's pocket edition of select British poets (-select British Classics) A collection of 46 vol		1794-1804	GBP -	12.00
173	W. Gilpin	Remarks on Forest Scenery		1794	GBP -	10.00
174	John Farley	The London Art of Cookery		1796	GBP -	10.00
175	Valentine Green	The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester		1796	GBP -	14.00
176	Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Immanuel Kant	Anthropologic in pragmatischer Hinsicht	Konigsberg	1798	GBP -	120.00
177	J. Easton	Human Longevity	Salisbury	1799	GBP -	8.00
178	Abraham Swan	The British Architect: or the builders treasury of staircases			GBP -	24.00
179	John Chandler	The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion		1803	GBP -	7.00
180	J. Adams	An Analysis of Horsemanship		1805	GBP -	12.00
181		Walpole (Horace, Earl of Orford) A CATALOGUE OF the royal and noble authors of England		1806	USD -	Not Sold
182	M. E. Rundell	A new System of domestic Cookery		1807	GBP -	7.00
183	Rev. George Crabbe	The Borough		1810	GBP -	5.00
184	Rev. George Crabbe	Tales of the Hall		1819	GBP -	10.00
185	Percival Lewis	Historical enquiries concerning forests and forest laws		1811	GBP -	6.00
186	William Combe	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque [first tour]		1813	GBP -	28.00
187	W. Beckford	Vathek		1815	GBP -	38.00
188	Nicholas Culpeper	Complete Herbal			GBP -	22.00
189	John Aikin	Annals of the reign of King George the third . . . 1760 to the general peace in 1815		1816	GBP -	4.00
190	E. S. Barrett	The talents run mad		1816	GBP -	1.00
191		Tracts			GBP -	500.00
192	Edmund Lodge	Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain			GBP -	15.00
193	C. M. Westmacott	"Bernard Blackmantle"' The English Spy		1825-26	GBP -	42.00
194	Thomas Smith	The art of drawing in its various branches		1827	GBP -	11.00
195	Nathaniel Whittock	The art of drawing and colouring from nature		1829	GBP -	50.00
196	William Cobbett	Rural Rides		1830	GBP -	28.00
197	W. H. Medhurst	An English and Japanese Vocabulary		1830	GBP -	20.00
198	Samuel Rogers	Italy		1830	GBP -	2.00
199	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Masque of Anarchy		1832	GBP -	42.00
200	Peter Cunningham	Songs of England and Scotland			GBP -	80.00

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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.

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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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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.