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
496 Theses

GBP - 18.00
497 Thirty plates illustrative of the phenomena of nature

1846

 GBP - 30.00
498 Vallisneri (A.) Historia della Generazione dell' Uorao e degli Animali

GBP - 35.00
499 Veitch (J. H.) Hortus Veitchii

GBP - 38.00
500 Gordon (Pat.) Geography anatomiz'd or the geographical grammar

GBP - 38.00
501 Hawkesworth (J.) and others An account of the Voyages

GBP - 18.00
502 Cook (Captain James) Voyages round the world Newcastle

1790

 GBP - 50.00
503 WALPOOLE (G. A.) The new British Traveller

[c. 1790]

 GBP - 90.00
504 A Collection of modern and contemporary Voyages and Travels

1805-08

 GBP - 10.00
505 Barrow (Sir John) A chronological history of voyages into the arctic regions

1818

 GBP - 42.00
506 Bonne (M.) Atlas maritime

GBP - 85.00
507 LEVASSEUR (V.) Atlas national illustre des 86 Departements et des Possessions de la France Paris

1854

 GBP - 130.00
508 Merigot (J.) Promenades ou itineraire des jardins de Chantilly Paris

1791

 GBP - 60.00
509 Baudot (A. de) Eglises de bourgs et villages Paris

1867

 GBP - 16.00
510 Decloux et Doury Paris

1865

 GBP - 48.00
511 Lalaisse (H.) and others La Normandie illustree Nantes

1852

 GBP - 120.00
512 Smith (James Edward) A sketch of a tour on the Continent

GBP - 14.00
513 James (J. T.) Journal of a Tour in Germany

GBP - 55.00
514 Stuart (J.) and N. Revett The Antiquities of Athens

1825-30

 GBP - 30.00
515 [Leigh (Sir Egerton)] Considerations on certain political transactions of the Province of South Carolina

1774

 GBP - 38.00
516 Morse (Jedidiah) The American Geography

GBP - 60.00
517 Daboll (N. & D.) The New-England Almanac New London [Later Norwich], Connecticut

[1843-1882]

 GBP - 10.00
518 Schwatka (F.) Report of a military reconnaissance in Alaska

GBP - 40.00
519 Garran (Andrew) A picturesque atlas of Australasia

GBP - 12.00
520 Amedeo of Savoy (Luigi) On the "Polar star" in the Arctic sea

1903

 GBP - 12.00
521 Turner (J. M. W.) Turner and Girtiin's picturesque Views

GBP - 42.00
522 Gage (J.) The History and Antiquities of Hengrave (Thinghoe Hundred) in Suffolk

1822-38

 GBP - 22.00
523 Whitaker (T. D.) History and Topography of

1816

 GBP - 16.00
524 Peck (F.) Academia tertia Anglicana

1727

 GBP - 30.00
525 Hakewill (J.) The History of Windsor

GBP - 16.00
526 Browne (J.) The History of . . . Sr. Peter

GBP - 100.00
527 Turner (J.) and J. Ruskin The Harbours of England

GBP - 28.00
528 Blew (W. C. A.) Brighton and its coaches

1894

 GBP - 32.00
529 Milner (John) The history and survey of the antiquities of Winchester

GBP - 18.00
530 Jones' Views of the Seats

GBP - 240.00
531 Hasted (E.) The History ... of the County of Kent

GBP - 95.00
532 Beattie (W.) The Ports

1842

 GBP - 85.00
533 Clark (E.) The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges

GBP - 160.00
534 Morgan (Mrs. Mary) A tour to Milford Haven

1795

 GBP - 24.00
535 Prout (J. S.) The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire

GBP - 70.00
536 Timbs (John) London and Westminster

1868

 GBP - 95.00
537 Baines (E.) History of . . . Lancashire

1836

 GBP - 85.00
538 History and Description of the Crystal Palace

[c. 1851]

 GBP - 32.00
539 Elmes (J.) Metropolitan Improvements

GBP - 75.00
540 [Grant (John)] The great metropolis

GBP - 4.00
541 The Scots Magazine

GBP - 42.00
542 Knox (John) Voyage dans les montagnes de l'Ecosse et dans les isles Hebrides fait en 1786

GBP - 18.00
543 Browne (J.) A History of the Higlands

GBP - 100.00
544 [Birt (Capt. Edward)] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland

GBP - 38.00
545 Bone (J.) Edinburgh

GBP - 12.00
546 Celtic Monthly (The); a Magazine for Highlanders

GBP - 32.00
547 Drummond (J.) Archaeologia Scotica

GBP - 35.00
548 Lauder (Sir T. D.) Lochandhu

GBP - 35.00
549 Maitland (W.) The History of Edinburgh Edinburgh

1753

 GBP - 28.00
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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.