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Sale Name
PRINTED BOOKS
Auction Date
02/21/1974 - 02/21/1974
Year of Sale
1974
Sale Number
#21Feb1974
Total Lots
509
Sold Lots
505
Lots Sold
99.2%
Unsold Lots
4
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
19,494.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
402,971.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33 DRESSER, H. E. A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE, INCLUDING ALL THE SPECIES INHABITING THE WESTERN PALAEARCTIC REGION, 9 vol. (including Supplement)

1871-96

 GBP - 1,700.00
84 SCHWERDT, C.F.G.R. HUNTING HAWKING SHOOTING ... A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS [ETC.], 4 vol.

1928-37

 GBP - 480.00
145 HINRICH, J. C. HINRICHS' FÜNFJAHRIGER BÜCHER-CATALOG, vol. 3-5, 7-13, 18 vol. (some vol. in 2 parts), without; the subject indexes to vol. 3, 4, 5, 7 DEUTSCHES BÜCHERVERZEICHNIS. Eine Zusammenstellung der in deutschen Buchhandel erschienen Bücher, Zeitschriften und Land

1866-1913, 1916-72

 GBP - 400.00
37 FELTON, WILLIAM A Treatise on Carriages; comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Curricules, Gigs, Whiskies, &c, [The Supplement], 2 parts in 2 vol.

1796

 GBP - 260.00
90 SITWELL, SACHEVERELL, HANDASYDE BUCHANAN AND JAMES FISHER FINE BIRD BOOKS 1700-1900

1953

 GBP - 250.00
206 HOFMANN, FRIEDRICH H. GESCHICHTE DER BAYERISCHEN PORZELLAN-MANUFAKTUR NYMPHENBURG, 3 vol.

1921-23

 GBP - 240.00
17 BOOK AUCTION RECORDS, vol. 43-67, together 25 vol.

1948-71

 GBP - 190.00
153 Lorenz, O. Catalogue général de la librarire Française depuis 1840, vol. "Biblio", vol. [I]--VI, VIII-XIV, XXXII, 30 vol. Brink-man's cumulatieve catalogus van boeken 43 vol. (vol. for 1970 in 2 parts)

1876-1934, 1935-66, 1931-72

 GBP - 190.00
99 SPARROW, WALTER SHAW HENRY ALKEN, GEORGE STUBBS AND HENRY MARSHALL together 2 vol.

1927, 1929

 GBP - 180.00
71 PAGET (Major GUY) THE MELTON MOWBRARY OF JOHN FERNELEY

1931

 GBP - 170.00
105 Mr. Ferguson [T. (S. A.)] COCKING AND ITS VOTARIES

1885

 GBP - 170.00
488 PAPWORTH, JOHN B. RURAL RESIDENCES consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings

1818

 GBP - 170.00
100 SPARROW, WALTER SHAW HENRY ALKEN, GEORGE STUBBS AND BEN MARSHALL 2 works in 1 vol.

1927, 1929

 GBP - 155.00
108 Taunton, Thomas Henry Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries, 4 vol.

1887-88

 GBP - 150.00
120 BOOK AUCTION RECORDS, vol. 1-55, 57-68 [first, second and eighth indexes], 70 vol.

1903-72

 GBP - 150.00
143 HALKETT, SAMUEL AND JOHN LAING, J. Kennedy, W. A. Smith, A. F. Johnson, D. E. Rodes, and A. C. Simoni DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE

1926-62

 GBP - 150.00
27 CROSS, THOMAS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STAGE COACHMAN, 2 vol.

1904

 GBP - 140.00
39 Gilbey, Sir Walter Animal Painters of England from the Year 1650

1900-1911

 GBP - 140.00
41 Gilbey, Sir Walter Life of George Stubbs R. A.

1898

 GBP - 140.00
297 BROADSIDES. 12 broadsides including: A Proclamation for Restraint of Vnnecessarie Resorts to the Court [owing to the plague] A Proclamation ... for the Assembling of Parliament [STC 8886] A Proclamation for the Discovery and Apprehension of George, Duke o

1625, 1627 1628, 1666/7, 1687, 1627

 GBP - 135.00
91 SITWELL, SACHEVERELL, WILFRID BLUNT AND P. M. SYNGE GREAT FLOWER BOOKS

1700-1900, 1956

 GBP - 135.00
106 Tattersall, George The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses

1850

 GBP - 135.00
430 SKELTON, JOSEPH Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata, 2 vol.

1823

 GBP - 130.00
4 ABBEY, J. R. Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860

1956-57

 GBP - 125.00
394 DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM, AND R. DODSWORTH Monasticon Anglicanum, 6 vol., vol. VI in 3 parts, bound in 8 vol.

1846

 GBP - 115.00
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    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.