Sothebys: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY The Property of Derck Spence, Esq. Halsall House, Ormskirk, Lanes., FERN,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 27, 1949 - June 27, 1949

Page Size: 872 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
203	Dickens (C.)	Our Mutual Friend		1864-5	GBP -	4.50
204	Dickens (C.)	Master Humphrey's Clock		1840-41	GBP -	3.00
205	Dickens (C.)	Bleak House		1852-3	GBP -	5.50
206	Dickens (C.)	Little Dorrit		1855-7	GBP -	3.00
207	Dickens (C.)	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	1.25
208	Dickens (C.)	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	1.00
209	Dickens (C.)	Works		1906-8	GBP -	19.00
210	Dickens (C.)	Sketches by "Boz"		1836-37	GBP -	2.00
211	Dickens (C.)	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi		1838	GBP -	2.00
212	Dickens (C.)	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi		1838	GBP -	1.00
213	Dickens (C.)	Great Expectations		1841	GBP -	3.50
214	Dickens (C.)	The Pic Nic Papers		1841	GBP -	0.75
215	Dickens (C.)	American Notes for General Circulation		1842	GBP -	3.00
216	Dickens (C.)	American Notes for General Circulation			GBP -	6.00
217	Dickens (C.)	A Christmas Carol		1843	GBP -	12.00
218	Dickens (C)	The Chimes		1845	GBP -	0.50
219	Dickens (C.)	The Battle of Life		1846	GBP -	2.75
220	Dickens (C.)	Battle of Life			GBP -	7.00
221	Dickens (C.)	Christmas Books		1843-48	GBP -	8.00
222	Dickens (C.)	Bleak House		1853	GBP -	0.75
223	Digby (Sir K.)	Chymical Secrets		1683	GBP -	19.00
224	Dilke (Lady)	French Painters		1899-1902	GBP -	1.00
225	Disraeli (B.)	The Young Duke		1831	GBP -	1.50
226	Disraeli (B.)	Coningsby			GBP -	1.50
227	Disraeli (B.)	Tancred		1847	GBP -	0.50
228	Dodgson (C. L.)	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	New York, Broadway	1866	GBP -	34.00
229	Dodgson (C. L.)	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		1866	GBP -	17.00
230	Dodgson (C. L.)	Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland		1869	GBP -	1.00
231	Dodgson (C. L.)	Through the Looking Glass		1872	GBP -	3.00
232	Dodgson (C. L.)	Le Avventure d'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie		1872	GBP -	0.50
233	Dodgson (C. L.)	Le Avventure d'Alice nel paese della Meraviglie		1872	GBP -	1.25
234	Dodgson (C. L.)	The Hunting of the Snark		1876	GBP -	1.00
235	Dodgson (C. L.)	Euclid and His Modern Rivals			GBP -	1.75
236	Dodgson (C. L.)	A Tangle Tale			GBP -	1.50
237	Dodgson (C. L.)	Sylvie and Bruno			GBP -	1.25
238	Dodgson (C.)	The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler		1922	GBP -	2.00
239	Dodoens (Rembert)	Niewe Herball		1586	GBP -	2.00
240	Douglas (G.)	The House with the Green Shutters		1901	GBP -	3.00
241	Douglas (N.)	South Winds		1917	GBP -	6.50
242	Tacitus (C.)	Doves Press		1900	GBP -	2.00
243	Milton (J.)	Doves Press		1902-5	GBP -	20.00
244		BIBLE		1903-5	GBP -	50.00
245	Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)	Doves Press		1906	GBP -	1.50
246	Goethe (J. W. von)	Faust, eine Tragoedie		1906-10	GBP -	11.00
247	Ruskin (J.)	Unto the Last		1907	GBP -	2.50
248	Milton (J.)	Areopagitica		1907	GBP -	7.00
249		Catalogue Raisonne of Books Printed and Published at The Doves Press	Doves Press	1908-11	GBP -	3.50
250	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Tragicall Historie of Hamlet		[1909]	GBP -	1.50
251	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Sonnets		1909	GBP -	6.50
252	Winship (G. P.)	William Caxton		1909	GBP -	4.50
253	Francis (St. of Assisi)	Laudus Creaturarum		1910	GBP -	5.50
254	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Venus and Adonis		1912	GBP -	6.00
255	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra		1912	GBP -	5.00
256	Goethe (J. W. von)	Torquato Tasso		1913	GBP -	5.00
257	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Tragedie of Julius Caesar		1913	GBP -	5.00
258	Goethe (J. W. von)	Auserlesene Lieder Gedichte und Balladen		1916	GBP -	5.50
259	Doyle (Sir A. Conan)	The Adventures of Sherlock Homes		1892	GBP -	8.00
260	Doyle (Sir A. C.)	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP -	6.00
261	Dryden (John)	The Assignation		1673	GBP -	2.50
262	Dugdale (W.)	Antiquities of Warwickshire		1656	GBP -	7.00
263	Dutch Whore	(The) translated by J. Tembrull		1690	GBP -	8.50
264	Dykes (W. R.)	Notes on Tulip Species		1930	GBP -	4.00
265	Edwards (Sydenham)	The New Botanic Garden		1812	GBP -	13.00
265A	Ellis (Havelock)	Studies in the Psychology of Sex			GBP -	2.50
266	Curtius (Q.)	Q. Curtii Run Historiarum libri accuratissime editi	Leyden	1633	GBP -	1.75
267	Plinius Secundus (C.)	Historiae Naturalis libri XXXVII,		1640	GBP -	2.50
268	Balzac (H. de)	Les Oeuvres Diverses	Amsterdam	1664	GBP -	1.00
269		Lupanie Histoire Amoureuse de ce temps		1668	GBP -	2.25
270	Eliot (George)	Scenes of Clerical Life		1858	GBP -	13.00
271	Eliot (G.)	The Mill on the Floss		1860	GBP -	2.50
272	Eliot (G.)	Silas Marner			GBP -	3.00
273	Emy (M.)	L'Art de bien Faire les Glaces d'Office	Paris	1768	GBP -	2.00
274	[Engelbach (Lewis)]	Naples and the Campagna Felice		1815	GBP -	3.00
275	English (T. H.)	Collecting and History of Whitby Prints	Whitby	1931	GBP -	8.00
276	E[velyn] (J.)	Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees		1664	GBP -	5.50
277	Evelyn (J.)	Memoirs		1819	USD -	Not Sold
278	[Fellowes (John)]	Grace Triumphant		1770	USD -	Not Sold
279	Ferrarius (J. B.)	De Florum Cultura	Rome	1633	GBP -	4.00
280	Fielding (H.)	The Universal Gallant		1735	GBP -	4.00
281	[Fielding (Henry)]	The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews		1742	GBP -	8.50
282	Fielding (H.)	The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland		1745	GBP -	10.00
283	Fielding (H.)	History of Tom Jones		1749	GBP -	8.50
284	Fielding (H.)	Amelia		1752	GBP -	4.50
285	Fielding (H.)	A Proposal for Making Provision for the Poor		1753	GBP -	2.00
286	Fielding (H.)	La Storia di Tom Jones	Venice	1756	GBP -	0.50
287	Fielding (H.) Amelie	traduit de l'Anglois par Madame Riccoboni	Paris	1775	GBP -	2.00
289	Fitz Gibbon (A.)	Canadian Wild Flowers	Montreal	[1868]	GBP -	5.00
290	Flaubert (G.)	November			GBP -	15.00
291		Fleuron (The)		1923-30	GBP -	38.00
292	edited by W. Robinson	Flora and Sylva			GBP -	5.50
293		Florist (The) Fruitist		1855-61	GBP -	4.00
294A	[Ford (Richard)]	Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain		1845	GBP -	2.50
294B	Foreman (H. Buxton)	Rosalind and Helen		1888	GBP -	1.75
294		Florist and Pomologist (The)			GBP -	7.00
295	Franklin (B.)	Experiments on Electricity		1751-4	GBP -	60.00
296	Froissart (Sir John)	Chronicles		1839	GBP -	12.00
297	Fuchs (E.)	Kultur-und Kunstdokumente		1924	GBP -	7.50
298	Fuller (Dr. T.)	History of the Worthies of England		1622	GBP -	6.50
299	Garnett (R.)	The Twilight of the Gods		1888	GBP -	1.00
300	Gaskell (E. C.)	Life of Charlotte Bronte			GBP -	4.00

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.
Sotheby’s
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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