Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, ROMAN,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 17, 1975 - March 17, 1975
Page Size: 554 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Ames (J.) and W. Herbert Typographical antiquities

1810-12

 GBP - 16.00
2 Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso in English heroical verse

1634

 GBP - 75.00
3 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Sylva sylvarum

1670

 GBP - 18.00
4 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) Of the advancement and proficiencie of learning

1674

 GBP - 14.00
5 [DARWIN (ERASMUS)] The botanic garden

1791

 GBP - 36.00
6 DAVENANT (Sir WILLIAM) The works

1673

 GBP - 55.00
7 Dryden (John) The comedies

1701

 GBP - 28.00
8 Dryden (John) Poems on various occasions

GBP - 24.00
9 Hooker (Richard) Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie

GBP - 16.00
10 NEWTON (Sir ISAAC) Philosophise naturalis principia mathematica Amsterdam

1723

 GBP - 45.00
11 Donne (John) Nonesuch Press

GBP - 20.00
12 Raleigh (Sir Walter) The historie of the world

1652

 GBP - 35.00
13 Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

1674

 GBP - 18.00
14 Spenser (Edmund) The faerie queen

1611 [-13]

 GBP - 80.00
15 Loyola (Saint Ignatius) Exercitia Spiritualia

GBP - 42.00
16 Book of Common Prayer Philadelphia

1786

 GBP - 110.00
17 [Cosin (R.)] An Apologie for sundrie Proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall

GBP - 60.00
18 Selden (J.) The Historie of Tithes

GBP - 55.00
19 MOZLEY (Rev. T.) Reminiscences

1882

 GBP - 50.00
20 Booth (C.) Labour and Life of the People in London

GBP - 26.00
21 Taylor (J.) The whole Works

GBP - 100.00
22 Creighton (M.) A History of the Papacy

GBP - 140.00
23 New Testament in Latin

1574

 GBP - 32.00
24 Bible

GBP - 12.00
25 BIBLE

1611

 GBP - 45.00
26 Bible in English

GBP - 12.00
27 New Testament in English

GBP - 20.00
28 Calvin (J.) The Institution of Christian Religion

1578

 GBP - 24.00
29 Cosin (Richard) An apologie for sundrie proceedings by iurisdiction ecclesiasticall

[1593]

 GBP - 20.00
30 CHAUCER (G.) The Workes

1602

 GBP - 70.00
31 Articles of Peace

GBP - 28.00
32 Short dialogue (A) proving that the ceremonyes [Amsterdam]

1605

 GBP - 20.00
33 James I Triplici nodo triplex cuneus sive apologia pro juramento fidelitatis adversus duo brevia P. Pauli V

GBP - 14.00
34 Joannes, Metropolitanis Euchaitensis., ed. Matthaeus Bustus Versus Iambici Eton

1610

 GBP - 24.00
35 Chrysostomus (St. Johannes) Opera Opera Eton

1612

 GBP - 60.00
36 Plutarch The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines . . .

1612

 GBP - 32.00
37 Adams (T.) Heaven and Earth reconcil'd

1613

 GBP - 24.00
38 Buckeridge (John, Bishop of Rochester) De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus

GBP - 10.00
38A Seneca The works

1620

 GBP - 40.00
39 Bacon (Sir Francis, Lord Verulam) The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh

1622

 GBP - 40.00
40 Aleman (Mateo) The rogue

1623

 GBP - 38.00
41 [Scott (Thomas)] A tongue-combat

1623

 GBP - 50.00
42 Pemble (W.) Vindiciae Fidei

1635

 GBP - 20.00
43 The Booke of Common Prayer ... for the use of the Church of Scotland Edinburgh

1637-36

 GBP - 35.00
44 Malvezzi (V.) Il Davide persequitato David persecuted

GBP - 40.00
45 Mede (Joseph) The name altar

GBP - 16.00
46 Whear (Diggory) Relectiones hyemales Oxonioe

1637

 GBP - 14.00
47 Junius (Richard, i.e. Richard Young) Sinne stigmatizd

GBP - 16.00
48 Puget de la Serre (Jean) The mirrour which flatters not

1639

 GBP - 42.00
49 The protestation of the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland Edinburgh

1639

 GBP - 14.00
50 Habington (William) The historie of Edward the fourth

1640

 GBP - 32.00
51 [Walkley (Thomas)] A catalogue of the Dukes

GBP - 26.00
52 Quarles (Francis) Judgement & mercy for afflicted soules

1646

 GBP - 32.00
53 Buck (G.) The History of

1647

 GBP - 38.00
54 Eikon Basilike [Greek] FIRST EDITION

1648 [1649]

 GBP - 10.00
55 Milton (John) Pro populo Anglicano defensio Amsterdam

1651

 GBP - 22.00
56 PRIMROSE (JAMES) POPULAR ERROURS

1651

 GBP - 55.00
57 Herbert (George) Herbert's remains

1652

 GBP - 30.00
58 Venning (Ralph) Orthodox paradoxes

GBP - 12.00
59 Cromwell (Oliver) A catalogue and collection of all those ordinances

1654

 GBP - 42.00
60 Scudery (Georges de) Curia politiae

1654

 GBP - 25.00
61 Bovilla (or Bonilla) (Juan de) A short treatise of the quiet of the soul

GBP - 85.00
62 Bridgman (Sir John, Judge) Reports

1659

 GBP - 80.00
63 Hammond (Henry) A paraphrase

1659

 GBP - 8.00
64 Tuke (Sir Samuel) The adventures of five hours

1663

 GBP - 60.00
65 Spurstow (W.) Satana Noemata [greek]

GBP - 18.00
66 Clark (S.) A Mirrour

1671

 GBP - 16.00
67 Denham (Sir John) Poems and translations

1671

 GBP - 18.00
68 Herbert (George) A priest to the temple

1671

 GBP - 22.00
69 Milton (J.) Paradise regain'd

1671

 GBP - 140.00
70 Boyle (Roger, Earl of Orrery) Two new tragedies

1672

 GBP - 28.00
71 Tracts

GBP - 26.00
72 [Charleton (Walter)] Natural history of the passions

1674

 GBP - 16.00
73 Andrewes (Lancelot) Preces privatae Oxford

1675

 GBP - 6.00
74 Shadwell (Thomas) The Libertine

1676

 GBP - 20.00
75 SERMONS

1678-93

 GBP - 32.00
76 [Bouhours (Dominique)] The life of the renowned Peter d'Aubusson

1679

 GBP - 20.00
77 [Darby (Charles)] Bacchanalia

1680

 GBP - 38.00
78 Barrow (Isaac) A brief exposition of the Lord's prayer

GBP - 10.00
79 Barrow (Isaac) The Works

GBP - 12.00
80 Murray (Sir Thomas) The Laws and Acts of Parliament

GBP - 24.00
81 Dryden (John) The medall

GBP - 30.00
82 Denham (Sir John) Poems and translations

1684

 GBP - 10.00
83 Hunt (Thomas) A defence of the charter

[1683]

 GBP - 22.00
84 James II (King) An account of the ceremonial at the Coronation of

GBP - 18.00
85 H[EAD] (R[ICHARD]) Proteus redivivus

1684

 GBP - 40.00
86 [Grotius (H.)] Christ's Passion

GBP - 30.00
87 Shadwell (T.) The Squire of Alsatia

1688

 GBP - 40.00
88 [Ascham (A.)] A seasonable Discourse

GBP - 32.00
89 Carlile (James) The fortune-hunters

1689

 GBP - 26.00
90 James I and William III A collection of eight pamphlets

GBP - 28.00
91 Lee (N.) The Massacre of Paris

1690

 GBP - 8.00
92 [Colvill (Samuel)] The Scotch Hudibras

1692

 GBP - 30.00
93 [Daniel (Gabriel)] A voyage to the world of Cartesius

1692

 GBP - 40.00
94 Bentley (Richard) The folly and unreasonableness of atheism (and seven other Boyle lectures) in one vol

GBP - 35.00
95 BLOUNT (Sir THOMAS POPE) DE RE POETICA

1694

 GBP - 55.00
96 Locke (John) An Essay concerning humane Understanding

1694

 GBP - 28.00
97 The Family-Dictionary

GBP - 90.00
98 [Lowndes (William)] A report containing an essay for the amendment of the silver coins

1695

 GBP - 35.00
99 MOTTEUX (PIERRE ANTOINE) Beauty in distress

1698

 GBP - 38.00
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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.
    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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    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.