Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FINE BINDINGS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS COMPRISING The Property of Rt. Hon. Lord Northbourne The Property of Mrs. H. A. Ridley The Property of Maj.-Gen. J. H. T. Priestman, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. The Property of the late Hugh Gledhill, Esq. formerly of St. John's College, Oxford AND Other Properties., ORE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 29, 1957 - July 29, 1957

Page Size: 672 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
288	Loudon (Mrs. Jane)	The Ladies' Flower-garden of ornamental annuals		1840-41	GBP -	30.00
289	Maund (B.)	The Botanic Garden		1825-36	GBP -	14.00
290	Paxton (Sir Joseph) and J. Lindley	Paxton's Flower Garden		1850-53	GBP -	7.00
291	Raffles (Sir T. S.)	The History of Java		1817	GBP -	19.00
292	Reichenbach (H. G.)	Xenia Orchidacea	Leipzig	1858-74	GBP -	16.00
293	BLUME (C. L. DE)	COLLECTION DES ORCHIDEES les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon	Amsterdam	1858	GBP -	85.00
294	Camden (W.)	Britannia		1722	GBP -	13.00
295	Fitzgerald (R. D.)	Australian Orchids		[1875]	GBP -	1.00
296	Horsfield (T.), J. J. Bennett, and R. Brown	Plantae Javanicae rariores		1838-52	GBP -	42.00
297	Nieuhoff (J.)	Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense Zee-en Lant-Reise			GBP -	4.00
298	Woolward (Florence H.) and F. C. Lehmann	The Genus Masdevallia		1892-6	GBP -	32.00
299	Shakespeare (William)	Nonesuch Press		1929-33	GBP -	34.00
300		Nonesuch Press		1923	GBP -	2.50
301		Nonesuch Press			GBP -	1.50
302	Beerbohm (Sir Max)	Works		1922-28	GBP -	22.00
303	Johnson (Lionel)	Poems		1895	GBP -	11.00
304	Johnson (Lionel)	Poems		1895	GBP -	6.00
305	Johnson (Lionel)	Religious Poems			GBP -	2.00
306	Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of)	Nonesuch Press		1926	GBP -	6.50
307		Nonesuch Press		1924-36	GBP -	3.50
308	Haggard (H. Rider)	Novels		1920-24	GBP -	32.00
309	Lytton (E. B. Lord)	Novels			GBP -	7.00
310	Jacobs'(W. W.)	Novels			GBP -	11.00
311	Stevenson (R. L.)	Works		1911-12	GBP -	20.00
312	Ainsworth (W. Harrison)	Novels			GBP -	6.00
313	Dickens (Charles)	Works			GBP -	24.00
314	Locke (W. J.)	Novels			GBP -	1.00
315		Arabian Nights	Denver, Colorado	1900	GBP -	19.00
316		Margaret			GBP -	4.00
317	Casanova (Jacques)	Memoirs		1894	GBP -	4.50
318	La Fontaine (J. de)	Tales and Novels in Verse			GBP -	2.00
319		Untrodden Fields of Anthropology ... by a French Army		1908	GBP -	12.00
320	Ellis (Havelock)	Studies in the Psychology of Sex	Philadelphia	1913	GBP -	4.50
321		ARABIAN NIGHTS		1885-88	GBP -	70.00
322	Margaret (Queen of Navarre)	The Heptameron		1922	GBP -	2.50
323	Joyce (James)	Finnegans Wake		1939	GBP -	11.00
324	Apperley (Capt. C. J.)	Nimrod Abroad			GBP -	0.50
325	Shaw (G. Bernard)	Works		1930-38	GBP -	28.00
326	Thayer (Alexander Wheelock)	The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven	New York	1921	GBP -	9.50
327	Ploss (H.) and B. Renz	Das Kind in Brauch und Sitte der Volker	Leipzig	1911-12	GBP -	1.50
328	Stratz (C. H.)	Die Rassenschonheit des Weibes		1929	GBP -	1.00
329		Books about Books		1893-94	GBP -	4.50
330	Allen (C. D.)	Ex-Libris Series		1894	GBP -	5.50
331	John Corrie	Sotheby's Book Sale Catalogues			GBP -	3.00
332	Chaffers (W.)	Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain		1874	USD -	Not Sold
333	Benezit (E., editor)	Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres	Paris	1911-23	GBP -	14.00
334	Barrie (J. M.)	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		1906	GBP -	16.00
335	SWIFT (JONATHAN)	CRESSET PRESS		1930	GBP -	58.00
336	Pope (Alexander)	The Rape of the Lock		1896	GBP -	4.50
337		Apuleius			GBP -	4.50
338		Cresset Press		1928	GBP -	1.50
339	Congreve (William)	The Way of the World			GBP -	1.00
340	Beckford (William)	Vathek			GBP -	4.00
341	Boccaccio (G.)	The Decameron			GBP -	4.50
342	Raleigh (Sir Walter)	Argonaut Press		1928	GBP -	3.00
343		Great Chronicle of London (The)		1938	GBP -	12.00
344		WREN SOCIETY	Oxford	1924-43	GBP -	44.00
345	Fuchs (Edouard)	Geschichte der erotischen Kunst	Munich	[1908-23]	GBP -	10.00
346	Fuchs (Edouard)	Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart	Munich	[1909-12]	GBP -	17.00
347	Hoffmann (E. T. A.)	Der Sandmann			GBP -	1.00
348	Burger (Fritz) and A. E. Brinckmann, Editors	Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft	Berlin-Neubabelsberg and Wildpark-Potsdam	1914-30	GBP -	10.00
349	Dahlgren (Per) and Herman Richter	Sveriges Sjokarta	Stockholm	1944	GBP -	2.00
350		Hoepli's Book Sale Catalogues	Milan	1926-35	GBP -	8.00
351		MANUEL of Portugal (King)		1929-35	GBP -	20.00
352		Fifteenth Century Woodcuts			GBP -	36.00
354	Jackson (Herbert J.) and Charles E. Whitelaw	European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth		1923	GBP -	19.00
355	Jalovec (Karel)	Italian Violin-Makers	Prague	1952	GBP -	2.50
356	Thomas (P.)	Kama Kalpa or the Hindu Ritual of Love	Bombay		GBP -	4.50
357		Collection Jacques Doucet	Paris	1912	GBP -	2.00
358		Picasso lithographe		1949	GBP -	13.00
359	Breuil (Abbe)	Les Peintures Rupestres Schematiques de la Peninsule Iberique		1935	GBP -	17.00
360	Luxmore (C. F. C.)	"Saltglaze"	Exeter	1924	GBP -	16.00
361	Koechlin (R.) and G. Migeon	Oriental Art			GBP -	3.50
362	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	Il Decamerone		1945	GBP -	3.50
363		Kaiserchronik des Stiftes Vorau (Die)		1953	GBP -	1.50
364		MEISSEN		1910	GBP -	24.00
364A	Jackson (H. J.) and C. W. Whitelaw	European Hand Firearms of the sixteenth		1923	GBP -	20.00
365		Luttrell Psalter (The)		1932	GBP -	13.00
366	WILSON (Sir JOHN)	The Royal Philatelic Collection		1952	GBP -	42.00
367	Lowe (Peter)	A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie [S.T.C., 16870]		1612	GBP -	46.00
368		Nugae Venales		1720	GBP -	1.00
369	Dolce (Lodovico)	[Tragedies] Thyeste	Venice	1543-9	GBP -	4.00
370	Giustiniano (Bernardo)	Historia			GBP -	5.50
371	Munk (William)	The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1518-1825)		1861-78	GBP -	1.00
372	Glissonius (Franciscus)	Anatomia Hepatis			GBP -	9.00
373	Beaufort (Catullo Rogier, Barone de)	Trattato Completa di Ostopedia Umana			GBP -	22.00
374	SPEED (JOHN)	An Epitome of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain		1676	GBP -	16.00
375	Lee (Weyman)	Insurance			GBP -	3.00
376	Swift (Jonathon)	Works			USD -	Not Sold
377	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Plays		1805	GBP -	1.00
378	Angelo (H.)	The School of Fencing		1787	GBP -	7.00
379		Breviary	Antwerp	1525-26	GBP -	50.00
380	Helmont (Joannes Baptista van)	Ortus Medicinae	Amsterdam	1648	GBP -	5.00
381	Harvey (William)	Opera Omnia		1766	GBP -	12.00
382	Harvey (William)	Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis		1886	GBP -	5.00
383	Veslingius (J.)	Syntagma Anatomicum	Amsterdam	1666	GBP -	8.00
384	[Pennant (Thomas)]	A Tour in Wales		1778	GBP -	0.50
385		Statutes		24th Jan., 1572	GBP -	13.00
386	Tyndall (William)	John Frith and Dr. Barnes		1573-72	GBP -	2.50
387	Gerard (John)	The Herball		1633	GBP -	3.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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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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.