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Sothebys: THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE BRIDGEWATER LIBRARY Sold by Order of the Rt. Hohble. the Earl of Ellesmere, VINE,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 19, 1951 - March 19, 1951

Page Size: 375 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		CADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES	Paris	1733-55	GBP -	60.00
2	Adams (T.)	The Happiness of the Church			GBP -	9.00
3	[Addison (J.)]	Remarks on Several Parts of Italy		1705	GBP -	1.50
4	[Aglionby (W.)]	Choice Observations upon the Art of Painting		1719	GBP -	1.00
5	Agrippa (H. C.)	De Incertitudine et Vanitate omnium Scientiarum			GBP -	6.00
6	Agrippa (H. C.)	Female Pre-eminence . . . done into English . . . by H. C[are]		1670	GBP -	20.00
7	[Akenside (M.)]	The Pleasures of the Imagination			GBP -	6.00
8	Alexandre de Rhodes (Pere)	Divers Voyages en la Chine			GBP -	9.00
9	Amans Trompez (Les)	Histoires Galantes			GBP -	5.50
10		Anglica Hibernica			GBP -	5.00
11	Andersen (H. C.)	Eventyr [Tales]	Copenhagen	1846-47	GBP -	5.00
12	Andrews (I. D.)	Report on the Trade and Commerce of the British North American Colonies			GBP -	12.00
13	Apflaumern (J. H.)	Mercurius Italicus			GBP -	4.00
14		A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments	Benares	1885-88	GBP -	4.00
15		Arbitrary Government Display'd			GBP -	8.00
16	[Aulnoy (M. C. le Mothe), Comtesse]	Nouvelles d'Elisabeth Reyne d'Angle-terre			GBP -	5.50
17	[Aulnoy (M.-C. la Mothe), Comtesse]	The Novels of Elizabeth, Queen of England			GBP -	7.00
18	Baker (D. E.)	Biographia Dramatica		1782	GBP -	1.50
19	Baker (G.)	The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton		1822-41	GBP -	1.25
20		Liber Cartarum Sancti Crucis			GBP -	0.50
21	BARCLAY (W.)	DE REGNO ET REGALI POTESTATE adversus Buchanum	Paris	1600	GBP -	95.00
22	Barraud (C. D.)	New Zealand			GBP -	7.00
23	Barret (W.)	Ius Regis			GBP -	5.50
24	Basile (G. B.)	Il Pentamerone		1893	GBP -	1.25
25	Bastwick (J.)	The Utter Routing of the whole Army of all the Independents and Sectaries			GBP -	12.00
26	[Baxter (R.)]	Roman Tradition Examined			GBP -	4.50
27	Baxter (R.)	Reliquiae Baxterianas			GBP -	2.50
28	Bede (Venerable)	Histories Ecclesiastics Gentis Anglorum Libri V			GBP -	4.00
29	[Beroalde de Verville (E.)]	Le Moyen de Parvenir		[1732-34]	GBP -	0.50
30	Steele (R.)	Bibliographical Society		1903	GBP -	3.50
31	Bilson (T.)	Bishop			GBP -	5.00
32	Blessebois (Pierre Corneille)	Le Rut ou la Pudeur Etiente			GBP -	6.00
33	Blondel (D.)	Des Sibylles			GBP -	4.00
34	Blondel (D.)	A Treatise of the Sibyls . . . Englished by J. D[avies]		1661	GBP -	7.50
35	[Blount (T.)]	Boscobel: or the Compleat History of His Sacred Majesties . . . Preservation after the Battle of Worcester			GBP -	14.00
36		Bodleian Library. Catalogue of Early English Poetry, etc.,	Oxford	1836	GBP -	5.50
37	Boethius	Five Books of Philosophicall Comfort		1609	GBP -	14.00
38	Borellus (J. A.)	Historia et Meteorologia Incendii AEtnsei Anni 1669		1670	GBP -	5.00
39	[Borlase (E.)]	The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion		1680	GBP -	1.75
40	Boswell (J.)	The Life of Samuel Johnson			GBP -	1.00
41	Botero (G.)	Commentariolus Parallelos [a Comparison between Philip II of Spain and the Sultan Mohammed III]	Cologne	ece, 1598	GBP -	11.00
42	Boyle (R.)	A Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems		1672	GBP -	11.00
43	Bradshaw (G.)	Map and Sections of the Railways of Great Britain		1839	GBP -	1.00
44	Bradshaw (G.)	Map and Sections of the Railways of Great Britain		1839	GBP -	1.00
45	Brett (A.)	Patientia Victrix		1661	GBP -	54.00
46	[BRIDGEWATER (COUNTESS OF)]	MEDITATIONS ON THE SEVERALL CHAPTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT			GBP -	46.00
47	Bridgman (Sir D.)	Conveyances			GBP -	5.50
48	Briggs (W.)	Ophthalmo-graphia	Cambridge	1676	GBP -	22.00
49	[Bullen (G.)]	Catalogue of Books printed in England		1884	GBP -	16.00
50	British Museum [Bullen (G.)]	Catalogue of Books printed in England		1884	GBP -	5.00
51		British Sports and Sportsmen		1920	GBP -	2.50
52	Browne (J.)	Adenochoiradelogia		1684	GBP -	22.00
53	Brunet (J. C.)	Manuel du Libraire	Paris	1812-44	GBP -	1.25
54	Brunet (J. C.)	Manuel du Libraire	Paris	1860-65	GBP -	10.00
55	[Burnet (T.)]	Telluris Theoria Sacra		1681	GBP -	2.00
56	Butler (J.)	The Analogy of Religion		1736	GBP -	1.00
57	Butron (I. de)	Discursos Apologeticos			GBP -	7.00
58	Byfield (N.)	Directions for the Private Reading of the Scriptures			GBP -	13.00
59		Cabala			GBP -	14.00
60	Camus (J. P.)	Elise		1655	GBP -	8.00
61		Canada		[circa 1870]	GBP -	0.50
62	Carey (M.)	Vindiciae Hibernicae			GBP -	1.00
63	Case (J.)	Lapis Philosophicus seu Commentarius in 8 Lib. Phys	Oxford	[1599]	GBP -	14.00
64	Case (J.)	Lapis Philosophicus	Oxford	[1599]	GBP -	11.00
65	Cassini (G. D.)	Elemens d'Astronomie	Paris	1740	GBP -	0.50
66	Castello de Solorzano (A.)	La Fouyne de Seville			GBP -	1.50
67	Cau (C.) and others	Groot Placaet-Boeck			GBP -	1.00
68		Certaine Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches		1623	GBP -	11.00
69	Chalcondylas	L'Histoife de la Decadence de l'Empire Grec et Establisse-ment de celuy des Turcs	Paris	1650	GBP -	1.00
70	Chambers (E.)	Cyclopaedia			GBP -	1.00
71	Chapman (W.)	Observations on the various Systems of Canal Navigation		1797	GBP -	19.00
72	Charles I	Bibliqtheca Regia, 'or, the Royal Library			GBP -	9.00
73	J. Nalson	True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of K. Charles I,			GBP -	4.50
74	Chaucer (G.)	The Canterbury Tales	Manchester	1911	GBP -	25.00
75	[Chrystin (J. B.) and F. & P. Foppens]	Histoire Generate des Pais-Bas			GBP -	6.00
76	Cicero	Cicero [Opera]	Paris	1572-73	GBP -	2.00
77	Clarendon (Earl of)	A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors ... in Mr. Hobbes's Book	[Oxford]	1676	GBP -	22.00
78	Clark (S.)	The History of the Glorious Life			GBP -	16.00
79	Clarke (S.)	A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines			GBP -	15.00
80	Clavius (C.)	Epitome Arithmetical Practical			GBP -	8.00
81	Collier (J. Payne)	A Catalogue		1837	GBP -	3.00
82	Collier (J. P.)	A Catalogue		1837	GBP -	3.00
83	Collier (J. P.)	A Catalogue		1837	GBP -	1.00
84	Cotgrave (R.)	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues		1632	GBP -	7.50
85	Cotman (J. S.)	Facsimiles of Twelve Sketches made in Norfolk			GBP -	1.50
86	[Cotton (C.)]	A Concordance to all the Books of the Old Testament		1627	GBP -	14.00
87	[Cotton (C.)]	The Christians Concordance [to the New Testament]			GBP -	11.00
88	Cotton (C.)	The Wonders of the Peake			GBP -	7.50
89	Cotton (Sir R.)	Cottoni Posthuma			GBP -	12.00
90	Cowley (A.)	Works		1668	GBP -	3.00
91	Cowley (A.)	Poemata Latina		1668	GBP -	1.25
92	Crebillon (C. P. J. de)	fils	Londres	1735	GBP -	0.75
93	Crebillon (C. P. J. de)	fils			GBP -	2.50
94	Croll (0.)	Basilica Chymica . . . additus est Autoris ejusdem Tractatus Novus de Signaturis Rerum Internis	Frankfort	1609	GBP -	16.00
95	Croll (O.)	Basilica Chymica ... in fine libri additus est eiusdem Autoris Tractatus nouus de Signaturis Rerum Internis		1624	GBP -	7.50
96	[Crowe (W.)]	An Exact Collection or Catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament		1663	GBP -	4.00
97	Culpeper (N.)	Pharmacopoeia Londinensis		1659	GBP -	11.00
98	Cumberland (R.)	Bishop of Peterborough		1672	GBP -	4.00
99	[Dallington (Sir R.)]	Aphorismes Ciyill and Militarie		1613	GBP -	19.00
100	Daniel (Father)	The History of. France		1726	GBP -	0.75

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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.
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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.

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.