Sothebys: AN EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF GENERAL LITERATURE REMARKABLE FOR ITS EXCEPTIONALLY SOUND AND HANDSOME BINDINGS Removed from Arthington Hall, Nr. Leeds The Property of Lt.-Col. A. C. Sheepshanks AND OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK WITH SOME BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY OTHER 19th CENTURY ARTISTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY "ALFRED CROWQUILL" The Property of Richard Maddocks, Esq., CROW,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 29, 1951 - October 29, 1951

Page Size: 469 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
301	Wordsworth (Wm.)	Poetical Works			GBP -	8.00
302	Wordsworth (Wm.)	The Prelude			GBP -	8.50
303	Worlidge (J.)	Vinetum Britannicum			GBP -	10.00
304	Wright (Thomas)	England under the House of Hanover			GBP -	5.50
305	Xenophon	Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates			GBP -	6.50
306	Henry Kingsley, Ouida, Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, etc.,	Yellow Back Novels			GBP -	1.00
307	Aikin (J.) and W. Enfield	General Biography		1799-1815	GBP -	7.50
308	Bacon (R. M.)	A Memoir of the Life of Edward			GBP -	7.50
309	Baines (Edward)	History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster		1836	GBP -	8.50
310	Brand (John)	The History and Antiquities of Newcastle upon Tyne		1789	GBP -	1.50
311	Burnet (John)	Practical Hints on Portrait Painting			GBP -	4.50
312	Cervantes (M. de)	Don Quixote		1742	GBP -	26.00
313	Cervantes (M. de)	Don Quixote		1755	GBP -	24.00
314	Cervantes (M. de)	Don Quixote		1818	GBP -	14.00
315	Clarke (J. S.)	The Life of James the Second			GBP -	5.00
316	Clarkson (C.)	The History of Richmond in the County of York			GBP -	16.00
317	Collinson (John)	The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset	Bath	1791	GBP -	11.00
318	Daniel (W. B.)	Rural Sports		[1801]-1813	GBP -	5.00
319	Drinkwater (John)	A History of the Siege of Gibraltar			GBP -	6.00
320	Finberg (A. J.)	The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum		1924	GBP -	1.00
321	Franklin (John)	Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea		1823-28	GBP -	9.50
322	Goldsmith (O.) and T. Parnell	Poems			GBP -	7.50
323	Keats (John)	Poetical Works			GBP -	5.50
324	Lempriere (J.)	A Classical Dictionary			GBP -	3.50
325	Lindsay (Lord)	Ballads			GBP -	4.00
326	Lipscomb (George)	The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham		1847	GBP -	22.00
327	Lonsdale (John Viscount)	Memoir of the Reign of James II			GBP -	5.00
328	Reynolds (Sir Joshua)	A Discourse delivered at the Opening of the Royal Academy		1769-91	GBP -	12.00
329	Ross (Sir John)	A Voyage of Discovery		1819	GBP -	6.50
330	Ross (Sir J.)	Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage		1835	GBP -	6.50
331	Ruding (Rogers)	Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies		1840	GBP -	5.00
332	Strutt (Joseph)	A Compleat View of the Manners		1775-76	GBP -	2.50
333	Strutt (J.)	The Chronicle of England			GBP -	3.50
334	Strutt (J.)	A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England		1796-99	GBP -	14.00
335	Strutt (J.)	The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England		1801	GBP -	4.50
336	Watson (John)	The History of Halifax		1775	GBP -	7.50
337	Wood (Robert)	An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer		1775-1814	GBP -	5.00
338	Alken (Henry)	The National Sports of Great Britain	New York	1904	GBP -	20.00
339		Book of Common Prayer		1844	GBP -	62.00
340	Clutterbuck (Robert)	The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford		1815-27	GBP -	9.50
341		Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations		1851-52	GBP -	6.50
342		Exhibition of 1851. Official Descriptive Catalogue		1851	GBP -	4.00
343	Fox (John)	Acts and Monuments of Matters		1684	GBP -	11.00
344	Hasted (Edward)	The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent	Canterbury	1788-99	GBP -	27.00
345	HOARE (SIR R. COLT)	THE HISTORY OF MODERN WILTSHIRE		1822-44	GBP -	38.00
346	Hunter (Joseph)	Hallamshire		1819	GBP -	3.00
347	Hunter (Joseph)	South Yorkshire		1828-31	GBP -	8.00
348	Manning (Owen) and William Bray	The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey		1804-1814	GBP -	12.00
349	Morant (Philip)	The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex		1868	GBP -	25.00
350		Engravings from the Pictures in the National Gallery		1840	GBP -	1.50
351	Neville (R. C.)	Saxon Obsequies illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons		1852	GBP -	6.50
352	Ormerod (George)	The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester		1819	GBP -	8.50
353	Ottley (W. Y.) and P. W. Tomkins	Engravings of the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures			GBP -	4.00
354	Spenser (Edmund)	The Faerie Queen		1617	GBP -	14.00
355	Surtees (Robert)	The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham		1816-52	GBP -	19.00
356	Waring (J. B.)	Art Treasures of the United Kingdom from the Art Treasures Exhibition		1858	GBP -	1.50
357	Whitaker (T. D.)	An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York		1823	GBP -	4.00
358	Wood (Anthony A.)	Athenae Oxonienses		1813-20	GBP -	32.00
359		Ainsworth's Magazine		1842-46	GBP -	4.00
360	Ainsworth (W. H.)	Guy Fawkes			GBP -	4.00
361	Ainsworth (W. H.)	Jack Sheppard			GBP -	5.00
362	Ainsworth (W. H.)	Rookwood			GBP -	6.50
363	Ainsworth (W. H.)	The Tower of London		1840	GBP -	15.00
364	Ainsworth (W. H.)	Windsor Castle, IN 11 ORIGINAL PARTS		1844	GBP -	11.00
365		Angelo's Pic Nic		1834	GBP -	3.00
366	[Barham (Rev. R. H.)]	The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire		1840-42-47	GBP -	9.00
367		British Journal (The)			GBP -	8.00
368	Carey (D.)	Life in Paris		1822	GBP -	36.00
369	[Collier (J. P.)]	Punch and Judy		1828	GBP -	4.00
370	[Collier (J.)]	Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect			GBP -	4.50
371		Constitutional Apple Pie			GBP -	5.00
372	Cox (Mrs. E. W.)	Twilight Tales			GBP -	2.50
373	Grimm (J. L. and W. K.)	German Popular Stories		1823-26	GBP -	24.00
374	Grimm (J. L. and W. K.)	German Popular Stories		1823-26 [27]	GBP -	8.00
375	Cruikshank (G.)	A Discovery Concerning Ghosts			GBP -	7.00
376	Cruikshank (G.)	Omnibus		1841-42	GBP -	16.00
377	Cruikshank (G.)	Points of Humour [Part I]			GBP -	2.00
378	Cruikshank (G.)	Table-Book		1845	GBP -	12.00
379	Cruikshank (G.)	The Comic Almanack			GBP -	15.00
380	Cruikshank (G.)	The Glass and the New Crystal Palace			GBP -	5.00
381	Cruikshank (G.)	The Way to be Happy in the Married State		[c. 1815]	GBP -	4.00
382	[Daniel (G.)]	The Modern Dunciad			GBP -	7.50
383	Defoe (D.)	The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe			GBP -	8.00
384	Defoe (D.)	The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		[c. 1819]	GBP -	8.00
385	[Dickens (Chas.)]	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi			GBP -	3.00
386	[Dickens (Chas.)]	Oliver Twist		1838	GBP -	11.00
387	[Dickens (Chas.)]	Sketches by "Boz" illustrative of Every-day Life			GBP -	5.50
388	Dickens (C.)	The Pic Nic Papers		1841	GBP -	2.75
389	Egan (Pierce)	Anecdotes (Original and Selected) of the Turf		1827	GBP -	5.50
390	Egan (Pierce)	Life in London		1821	GBP -	14.00
391	Ewing (J. E.)	The Brownies			GBP -	2.00
392		Fashion			GBP -	8.00
393		Forty Thieves (The)			GBP -	13.00
394		Freischutz Travestie (Der)		1824	GBP -	3.00
395	Grimm (A. L.)	Fairy Tales			GBP -	1.75
396		Hans of Iceland			GBP -	4.50
397	Hone (Wm.)	Ancient Mysteries Described			GBP -	3.50
398	Kosewitz (W. F. von)	Eccentric Tales		1827	GBP -	4.00
399	Kosewitz (W. F. von)	Eccentric Tales		1827	GBP -	3.50
400	Kosewitz (W. F. von)	Eccentric Tales		1827	GBP -	3.00

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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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.