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
200 Shaw (George Bernard) The works

1930-34

 GBP - 22.00
201 Picture Post

1938-52

 GBP - 30.00
202 Transition Paris

1927-28

 GBP - 55.00
203 Scrutiny

1932-41

 GBP - 2.00
204 Redding (Cyrus) Miscellaneous

GBP - 16.00
205 A'Kempis (Thomas) Miscellaneous

GBP - 6.00
206 Miscellaneous

GBP - 35.00
207 HOGARTH (WILLIAM) HOGARTH RESTORED

1806

 GBP - 190.00
208 HOGARTH (W.) Works

'1822' [c. 1850]

 GBP - 130.00
209 Vertue (George) [Works]

[c. 1780]

 GBP - 40.00
210 ACKERMANN (R.) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster

1812

 GBP - 100.00
211 [Combe (William)] The second tour of Doctor Syntax

1820

 GBP - 20.00
212 Bowyer (R.) An impartial historical Narrative

GBP - 42.00
213 Egan (Pierce) The finish to the adventures of Tom

GBP - 20.00
214 Scrap Album

GBP - 20.00
215 Scrapbook

GBP - 32.00
216 [Barham (R. H.)] "Thomas Ingoldsby"

GBP - 22.00
217 Bartholomew (A. T.) Richard Bentley

GBP - 12.00
218 Bentley (Elizabeth) Poems Norwich

1821

 GBP - 22.00
219 Broughton (Rhoda) Second thoughts

GBP - 60.00
220 Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) Poetical works

1866

 GBP - 20.00
221 Burns (Robert) Poems

GBP - 30.00
222 Carter (John) Binding variants in English publishing

GBP - 48.00
223 Dictionary of national biography

1885-1927

 GBP - 90.00
224 Dobson (Austin) Horace Walpole

1890

 GBP - 35.00
225 Ellis (Sir Henry, editor) Original letters

1825-46

 GBP - 40.00
226 Evans (Thomas) Old ballads

1784

 GBP - 25.00
227 Ferrier (Susan E.) Novels

1881-82

 GBP - 22.00
228 Gronow (Capt. R. H.) The reminiscences and recollections

1889

 GBP - 20.00
229 HASSELL (J.) PICTURESQUE RIDES AND WALKS

1817-18

 GBP - 320.00
230 Kirby (William) and William Spence An introduction to entomology

1818-26

 GBP - 18.00
231 Lamb (Charles) The life

1876

 GBP - 18.00
232 Lewis (Wilmarth S.) Collector's progress

GBP - 22.00
233 Lewis (Wilmarth S., editor) Memoranda Walpoliana

GBP - 32.00
234 Massinger (Philip) The dramatick works

GBP - 32.00
235 Monk (J. H.) The life of Richard Bentley

1830

 GBP - 22.00
236 Moore (Thomas) Memoirs

1853-56

 GBP - 26.00
237 Moore (Thomas) Memoirs of the life of... Richard Brinsley Sheridan

GBP - 45.00
238 [Owen (H.) and J. B. Blakeway] A history of Shrewsbury

1825

 GBP - 16.00
239 Pamphlets

GBP - 6.00
240 Sadleir (Michael) Excursions in Victorian bibliography

1922

 GBP - 26.00
241 Smiles (Samuel) A publisher and his friends

1891

 GBP - 24.00
242 Strawberry Hill Catalogue

GBP - 24.00
243 Thackeray (W. M.) An essay on the genius of George Cruikshank

1884

 GBP - 8.00
244 Tytler (P. F.) England under the reigns of Edward VI and Mary

GBP - 42.00
245 Walpole (Horace, Earl of Orford) The letters

1891

 GBP - 14.00
246 Wheatley (H. B.) and P. Cunningham London past and present

GBP - 38.00
247 Wolf (Joseph) and D. G. Elliot The life and habits of wild animals

1874

 GBP - 50.00
248 Wordsworth (William) The poetical works

1870

 GBP - 26.00
249 Coleridge (S. T.) Arcadia Press

1972

 GBP - 18.00
250 Shelley (P. B.) Epipsychidion Monagnola

1923

 GBP - 110.00
251 Pater (W.) An imaginary Portrait

1894

 GBP - 26.00
252 Ashbee (C. R.) An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris

GBP - 30.00
253 Quennel (Peter) Golden Cockerel Press

GBP - 14.00
254 Rossetti (D. G.) Halcyon Press

GBP - 55.00
255 Morris (William) Kelmscott Press

1892

 GBP - 42.00
256 VORAGINE (J. DE) KELMSCOTT PRESS

1892

 GBP - 80.00
257 Coleridge (S. T.) Poems

1896

 GBP - 90.00
258 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales

GBP - 30.00
259 Vaughan (Henry, Silurist) Poems ... ; An Essay ... ; Two Letters

1924

 GBP - 8.00
260 Bunyan (John) The pilgrim's progress,

GBP - 24.00
261 Dante La Divina Commedia

GBP - 80.00
262 Harvey (William) The anatomical exercises . ..

[1928]

 GBP - 28.00
263 edited by A. J. A. Symons The Nonesuch century,

1936

 GBP - 85.00
264 Blake (W.) The complete Writings

GBP - 18.00
265 Pisan (C. de) The Epistle of Othea to Hector

1904

 GBP - 5.00
266 Pisan (C. de) The Epistle

GBP - 5.00
267 Ricketts (Charles) and Lucien Pissarro De la typographie et de l'harmonie de la page imprimee.

1898

 GBP - 70.00
268 Rossetti (D. G.) The blessed Damozel

1898

 GBP - 48.00
269 Arabian Nights

GBP - 110.00
270 Arabian Nights

GBP - 75.00
271 Bahr (A. W.) Old Chinese porcelain and works of art in China

GBP - 38.00
272 Baldwin (W. C.) African hunting from Natal to the Zambesi

1863

 GBP - 32.00
273 Bloodstock Breeders' Review (The)

GBP - 20.00
274 Carter (H.) and A. C. Mace The tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

1930-27-33

 GBP - 26.00
275 Churchill (Sir Winston S.) Marlborough

1933-38

 GBP - 20.00
276 Daniel (W. B.) Rural sports

1812-13

 GBP - 80.00
277 [Lytton (E. G. Bulwer, Lord)] A strange story

GBP - 35.00
278 Maugham (W. S.) The merry-go-round

1904

 GBP - 9.00
279 Pallucchini (R.) Giovanni Bellini

GBP - 40.00
280 Pepys (Samuel) The diary

GBP - 30.00
281 Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-upon-Avon

1928

 GBP - 8.00
282 Siltzer (F.) The story of British sporting prints

1929

 GBP - 70.00
283 Sparrow (W. S.) George Stubbs and Ben Marshall

1929

 GBP - 18.00
284 Sparrow (W. S.) A book of sporting painters

1931

 GBP - 38.00
285 Sparrow (W. S.) A book of sporting painters

1931

 GBP - 34.00
286 Surtees (R. S.) Jorrocks's jaunts & jollities

GBP - 22.00
287 Thackeray (W. M.) The works

GBP - 40.00
288 Alphabet and Image

GBP - 16.00
289 Arts et Metiers graphiques Paris

1927-39

 GBP - 70.00
290 Bollert (Martin) Lederschnittbande des XIV Jahrhunderts Leipzig

1925

 GBP - 32.00
291 Fumagalli (G.) L'arte della legatura alla corte degli Estensi

GBP - 26.00
292 Haebler (Konrad) Deitsche Bibliophilen des 16 Jahrhunderts

GBP - 14.00
293 Jessen (P.) Meister der Schreibkunst aus drei Jahrhunderten

GBP - 32.00
294 Johnson (A. F.) Periods of typography

GBP - 42.00
295 Keynes (Sir Geoffrey) Jane Austen

GBP - 38.00
296 Morison (Stanley) The art of the printer

1925

 GBP - 36.00
297 Morison (Stanley) Caracteres de l'ecriture dans la typographie

GBP - 26.00
298 Orcutt (W. D.) and E. E. Bartlett The manual of linotype typography

GBP - 16.00
299 Pellegrin (F.) La fleur de la science de pourtraicture

GBP - 6.00
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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.
    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.