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
487 Sterne (L.) Works

GBP - 2.00
488 Taylor (G.) and A. Skinner Maps of the roads of Ireland

GBP - 14.00
489 Valerius Maximus Leyden

1670

 GBP - 3.00
490 Walton (Isaac) The compleat angler

1661

 GBP - 17.00
491 Abbey (Major J. R.) Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland

1952

 GBP - 9.50
492 ACKERMANN (R.) THE MICROCOSM OF LONDON

[1808-10]

 GBP - 105.00
493 Ackermann (R.) The Poetical Magazine

1809-11

 GBP - 12.00
494 ACKERMANN (R.) THE REPOSITORY OF ARTS

1809-20

 GBP - 65.00
495 ACKERMANN (R.) A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

1814

 GBP - 60.00
496 ACKERMANN (R.) A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

1815

 GBP - 80.00
497 ACKERMANN (R.) The History of the Colleges

[1816]

 GBP - 13.00
498 ACKERMANN (R.) THE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF WINCHESTER

1816

 USD - Not Sold
499 Album

USD - Not Sold
500 [Alexander (William)] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English

1814

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501 Alexander (W.) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians

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502 Allom (T.) W. H. Bartlett and others Devonshire and Cornwall illustrated

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503 Almanach Lauenburg

1794

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504 Amman (Jost) Kunstbuchlein

1599

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505 Apianus (Petrus) Cosmographia

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506 Arias Montanus (Benedictus) Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri IX

1593

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507 Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso

1584

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508 Baskerville Press

USD - Not Sold
509 Batty (R.) French Scenery

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510 Baxter (W.) British Phaenogamous Botany Oxford

1834-43

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511 Biekham (George) A Curious Antique Collection of Birds-eye Views of the several Counties in England and Wales

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512 Bowen (E.) Britannia depicta

1720

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513 Bowen (E.) Britannia depicta

1720

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514 Bowen (E.) Britannia depicta

1724

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515 Bowen (E.) Britannia depicta

1734

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516 Bowen (E.) Britannia depicta

1764

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517 Brietius (Philippus) Parallela geographiae veteris et novae Paris

1649

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518 Buffon (George-Louis Leclerc, comte de) Histoire naturelle Paris

1785-87

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519 Caesar (Caius Julius) I Commentari

1575

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520 Calvert (F.) Picturesque views in Staffordshire and Shropshire

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521 Camilli (Camillo) Imprese illustri di diversi co i discorsi Venice

1586

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522 Cartari (Vincenzo) Le imagini degli dei degli antichi

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523 CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DRAMATIQUES Paris

1773

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524 [Combe (William)] The English Dance of Death

1816

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525 [Combe (William)] The [First and Second] Tourfs]

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526 Conversations-Freund (Der) Modezeitung und Unterhaltungsblatt fur gebildete Stande

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527 Coxe (William) Memoirs of John

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528 CURTIS (W.) The Botanical Magazine

1787-1807

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529 CURTIS (WILLIAM) THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

1793-1814

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530 [Dahling] Berlin

1805-08

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531 Delord (Taxile) Les Fleurs animees

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532 Dibdin (Charles) Observations on a Tour through almost the Whole of England

[1801-02]

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533 Donovan (E.) The Natural History of British Birds

1794-1819

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534 Donovan (E.) An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China

1798

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535 Donovan (E.) An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India

1800

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536 EDWARDS (SYDENHAM) and JOHN LINDLEY THE BOTANICAL REGISTER

1815-47

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537 Egan (Pierce) Life in London

1822

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538 Falaschi (Vittore) La Gerarchia ecclesiastica e la famiglia pontiftcia

1828

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539 Fitzgerald (F.) Surveys of Nature

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540 Fox-Davies (Arthur Charles) The Book of Public Arms

1915

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541 Grandville (J.-J.) Les Metamorphoses du jour

USD - Not Sold
542 Henry Rome

1777

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543 Historia Deorum Fatidicorum

USD - Not Sold
544 Horatius Flaccus (Q.) Opera

USD - Not Sold
545 [Howell (Laurence)] The Orthodox Communicant

1721

 USD - Not Sold
546 Howitt (Samuel) A New Work of Animals

USD - Not Sold
547 Hughson (David) London

USD - Not Sold
548 Hulsius (Levinus) [Sammlung von Schiffahrten: Voyages I, II and III]

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549 Humphreys (Arthur L.) Old Decorative Maps and Charts

1926

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550 Ingram (James) Memorials of Oxford

1837

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551 Jesse (J. Heneage) London, a fragmentary Poem

1847

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552 Journal des dames et des modes Paris

1819-20

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553 Lacroix (Paul) and Ferdinand Sere Le Moyen-age et la Renaissance

USD - Not Sold
554 Ladies

USD - Not Sold
555 Landon (C.-P.) Annales du Musee et de l'Ecole moderne des Beaux-arts

USD - Not Sold
556 [Leigh (Gerard)] The Accedence of Armorie

1591

 USD - Not Sold
557 Loddiges (Conrad) The Botanical Cabinet

1818-21

 USD - Not Sold
558 M[arechal] (Sylvain) Antiquites d'Herculanum Paris

1781

 USD - Not Sold
559 Martin (Charles and Leopold) The Civil Costume of England

USD - Not Sold
560 Maund (B.) The Botanic Garden

USD - Not Sold
561 Meisner (Daniel) Thesaurus Philo-politicus

USD - Not Sold
562 Moniteur (Le) de la mode Paris

1847-59

 USD - Not Sold
563 Morden (R.) Geography rectified

1688

 USD - Not Sold
564 Natural History of Birds (The)

USD - Not Sold
565 Natural History

USD - Not Sold
566 Neue Bilder Gallerie fur junge Sohne und Tochter Berlin

1794-1806

 USD - Not Sold
567 Nevill (Ralph) Old English Sporting Books

1924

 USD - Not Sold
568 [Papworth (J. B.), F. Wrangham and W. Combe] Poetical Sketches of Scarborough

1813

 USD - Not Sold
569 Parraso Espanol Coleceion de poesias escogidas de los mas celebres poetas castellanos

USD - Not Sold
570 Peacham (Henry) The Gentlemens exercise

1634

 USD - Not Sold
571 Pennant (Thomas) Some Account of London

USD - Not Sold
572 Phillips (G. F.) Principles of Effect and Colour

USD - Not Sold
573 Phillips (Philip Lee) A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress Washington

1909-14

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574 Platina (Gioseffo Maria) Arte oratoria Bologna

1716

 USD - Not Sold
575 Pocket-guide (A)

USD - Not Sold
576 Racine (Jean) Oeuvres

1723

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577 Ralfe (J.) The Naval Chronology of Great Britain

1820

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578 Regnard (Jean-Francois) Oeuvres Paris

1789-90

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579 Roberts (Emma)and Robert Elliott Views in India

1835

 USD - Not Sold
580 Rome

USD - Not Sold
581 Sandby (Paul) Views in . . . Wales

USD - Not Sold
582 SAUVAN (J. B. B.) PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE SEINE

1821

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583 Shaw (George) and Frederick P. Nodder The Naturalist's Miscellany

1790

 USD - Not Sold
584 Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages

1843

 USD - Not Sold
585 SOWERBY (JAMES) English Botany

1790-1843

 USD - Not Sold
586 Sportsman's Dictionary (The)

USD - Not Sold
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    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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    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.
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    Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
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