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
301	Genlis (Mme de)	Tales of the Castle		1785	GBP -	2.00
302	Geoffrey of Monmouth	British History		1718	GBP -	0.50
303	GERARD DE LIEGE	(fl. 1270, also attributed to Robert Grosseteste)			GBP -	15.00
305	Gibbon (E.)	Miscellaneous Works		1796	GBP -	1.00
306	Gibbon (Edward)	An Essay on the Study of Literature		1764	GBP -	2.00
307	Gibbon (E.)	Vindication of some Passages in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1779	GBP -	0.75
308	Gibbon (E.)	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1776-88	GBP -	10.00
309	Gibbon (E.)	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1903	GBP -	6.50
311	Gibson (F.) Charles	Condor His Life and Work		1914	GBP -	1.00
312	Gilbert (W. S.)	The "Bab" Ballads		1896	GBP -	5.00
313	Gill (Eric)	Engravings	Bristol	1929	GBP -	9.00
314	Gill (E.)	Engravings		1934	GBP -	7.50
315	Gissing (G.)	Isabel Clarendon		1886	GBP -	12.50
316	Gissing (G.)	The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft		1903	GBP -	2.75
317	Godwin (Wm)	Things as They are		1794	GBP -	2.00
318	Goethe (J. W. von)	Schriften, Achter Band [Faust],	Leipzig	1789	GBP -	16.00
319	Swift (J.)	Directions to Servants		1925	GBP -	1.25
320	Coventry (F.)	History of Pompey the Little			GBP -	1.50
321	Fielding (H.)	A Journey from this World to the Next		1930	GBP -	1.00
322		Crusader Castles		1936	GBP -	14.00
323	Fryer (Mary Ann)	John Fryer of the Bounty		1939	GBP -	2.50
324	Lawrence (T. E.)	Men in Print		1940	GBP -	2.75
325		Glue and Lacquer		1941	GBP -	6.00
326	Lawrence (T. E.)	Letters to H. S. Ede		1942	GBP -	2.50
327	Chair (Somerset de)	The Silver Crescent		1943	GBP -	2.25
328		The Golden Carpet		1943	GBP -	2.25
329		The Athenians		1943	GBP -	2.25
330	Philby (H. St. J. B.)	A Pilgrim in Arabia		1943	GBP -	2.50
331		Golden Cockerel Press		1944	GBP -	3.50
332	Shelley (P. B., H., M.) and T. J. Hogg	Harriet and Mary		1944	GBP -	3.50
333	Sparrman (A.)	A Voyage Round the World with Captain Cook		1944	GBP -	5.50
334	Swinburne (A.)	Hymn to Proserpine		1944	GBP -	5.00
335		The Ninety-First Psalm			GBP -	1.50
336		Napoleon's Memoirs		1945	GBP -	16.00
337		The First Crusade		1945	GBP -	2.00
338	Swinburgh (A. C.)	Laus Veneris		1948	GBP -	2.50
339	Swinburne (A. C.)	Laus Veneris		1948	GBP -	2.50
340	Homer	The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite		1948	GBP -	5.00
341		The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion		1948	GBP -	10.00
342	Calderon (V. G.)	The Lottery Ticket			GBP -	0.50
343	Goldscheider (L.)	Five Hundred Self Portraits			GBP -	0.75
344	Goldsmith (O.)	Works			GBP -	7.50
345	[Goldsmith (Oliver)]	The Mystery Revealed		1742	GBP -	40.00
346	Goldsmith (0.)	Enquiry into Polite Learning		1759	GBP -	4.00
347	GOLDSMITH (0.)	THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD	Salisbury	1766	GBP -	44.00
348	Gooden (Mona)	The Poet's Cat		1945	GBP -	2.75
349	[Goosens (A.)]	Florilegium Harlemense	Haarlem	1901	GBP -	9.00
350	Gover (E.) and J. F. Blacker	Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones		1911	GBP -	34.00
351	Grant (Capt. B.)	The Orchids of Burma			GBP -	3.50
352	Gray (T.)	Poems		1768	GBP -	4.00
353	Gray (Thomas)	Poems		1768	GBP -	3.50
354	Green (J. R.)	History of the English People			GBP -	8.00
355	Greenaway (Kate)	Calendars for 1884		1884	GBP -	2.50
356	Greenaway (K.)	Language of Flowers			GBP -	1.00
357	Greenaway (K.)	Mother Goose			GBP -	2.00
358	Greenaway (K.)	Marigold Garden		[1885]	GBP -	3.00
359	Greenaway (K.) Taylor (J. and A.)	Little Anne			GBP -	1.50
360	Greenaway (K.)	A Day in a Child's Life			GBP -	2.00
361	Greenaway (K.)	An Apple Pie			GBP -	2.50
362	Greenaway (K.) Cundall (H. M.)	Kate Greenaway Pictures		1921	GBP -	2.00
363	Greenaway (K.) Cresswell (B. F.)	The Royal Progress of King Pepito			GBP -	0.50
364	Greenaway (K.) Spielmann (M. H.) and G. S. Layard	Kate Greenaway		1905	GBP -	7.50
365	Grego (J.)	Rowlandson the Caricaturist		1880	GBP -	6.50
366	Grego (J.)	Cruikshank's Water Colours		1903	GBP -	2.50
367	Abu Obeyd	Gregynog Press		1930	GBP -	7.00
368	Vansittart (R.)	Gregynog Press		1932	GBP -	3.00
369	Milton (J.)	Gregynog Press		1933	GBP -	4.00
370	Madariaga (S. de)	Gregynog Press		1934	GBP -	1.50
371	Hartzenbusch (J. E.)	Gregynog Press		1938	GBP -	3.50
372	Grossmith (G. and W.)	The Diary of a Nobody, name on title and verso of half-title			GBP -	4.50
373	Guarini (G.)	Il Pastor Fido	Paris	1782	GBP -	7.00
374		Guide to the Watering Places between the Exe and the Dart		1818	GBP -	9.00
375	Gunther (R. T.)	The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides	Oxford	1934	GBP -	3.00
377	Hanbury (Rev. Wm.)	Complete Body of Planting and'Gardening		1770-71	GBP -	6.50
378	Hardy (T.)	The Woodlanders		1887	GBP -	1.75
379	Harris (J. C.)	Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings	New York	1881	GBP -	2.50
380	Harris (J. C.)	Nights and Uncle Remus	Boston	1883	GBP -	4.00
381	Harte (Bret)	Poems			GBP -	2.00
382	Hazlitt (Wm.)	The Round Table	Edinburgh	1817	GBP -	5.00
383	Hazlitt (Wm.)	Lectures on the English Comic Writers		1819	GBP -	3.00
384	Helme (E.)	The Farmer of Inglewood Forest			GBP -	2.75
385	HEMMERLIN (F.)	VARIAE OBLECTATIONIS OPUSCULA ET TRACTATUS	Basle	1497	GBP -	17.00
386	Hentze (C.)	Chinese Tomb Figures		1928	GBP -	9.00
387	Hepplewhite (A.)	Cabin-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide		1789	GBP -	12.00
388	Hetherington (A. L.)	Early Ceramic Wares of China		1922	GBP -	6.25
389	Hill (J.) Eden	A Complete Body of Gardening		1757	GBP -	1.00
390		Histoire de la Republique Romaine, engraved throughout except title and preliminaries			GBP -	0.50
393	Hobson (R. L.)	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	7.50
394	Hobson (R. L.)	Chinese Pottery and Porcelain		1915	GBP -	19.00
395	Hobson (R. L.) and A. L. Hetherington	Art of the Chinese Potter		1923	GBP -	6.50
396	Hobson (R. L.)	Wares of the Ming Dynasty		1923	GBP -	8.00
397	Hobson (R. L.)	The Later Ceramic Wares of China		1925	GBP -	7.50
398	Hobson (R. L.)	Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain		1931	GBP -	20.00
399	[Holmes (O. W.)]	The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table			GBP -	4.00
400	Homer	The Whole Works of Homer		[1616]	GBP -	26.00
401	Homer	Batrachomyomachia, Greek and Latin text		1721	GBP -	1.00
402	Homer	Odyssey		1924	GBP -	3.00
403	Homer	Ilias et Odyssea (Graece)		1831	GBP -	4.00
404	[Holmes (O. W.)]	The Poet at the Breakfast-Table	Boston	1872	GBP -	5.00
405	Horatius Flaccus (Q.)	Opera	Paris	1519	GBP -	2.75

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.

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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