Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 16Nov1959,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 16, 1959 - November 16, 1959

Page Size: 604 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Cescinsky Herbert	English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century		1909-11	GBP -	7.00
102	Cescinsky H., E. R. Gribble	Early English Furniture and Woodwork		1910-11	GBP -	5.00
103	Crisp F. A.	Memorial Rings		1910	GBP -	10.00
104	Francis Grant R.	Old English Drinking Glasses		1926	GBP -	6.00
105	Gulland W. G.	Chinese Porcelain	porcelain and china	1905	GBP -	10.00
106	Hep-plewhite A.	The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide		1902	GBP -	9.00
107	Hipkins A. J., W. Gilbb	Musical Instruments		1870	GBP -	8.00
108	Huish M. B., Mrs. Head	Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries		1900	GBP -	7.00
109	Humphreys H. Noel	Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers, facsimiles, cloth gilt, folio		1890	GBP -	9.00
110	Hurlbutt F. Bow Porcelain	plates, 8 coloured, cloth, folio		1913	GBP -	13.00
111	ackson Sir C. J.	English Goldsmiths and their Marks			GBP -	9.00
112	Jackson E. Nevill	The History of Silhouettes, plates, some coloured, cloth, 4to		1922-23	GBP -	14.00
113	Jewitt L., W. H. St. John Hope	The Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office of the Cities and Towns of England and Wales, 2 vol.		1908	GBP -	5.00
114	Macquoid Percy	A History of English Furniture		1904-1908	GBP -	9.00
115	Masse H. J. L. J. Pewter Plate	illustrations, cloth, 4to		1909	GBP -	8.00
116	Racinet A.	Polychromatic Ornament		1875-78	GBP -	1.00
117	Read Herbert	English Stained Glass, plates, some coloured, and other illustrations		1926	GBP -	6.00
118	Read Sir H. A. B. Tonnochy	Catalogue of the Silver Plate bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir A. W. Franks		1908	GBP -	5.00
119	Stratton A.	The English Inerior		1907	GBP -	9.00
120	Symonds R. W.	The Present State of Old English Furniture, plates, cloth, 4to		1905	GBP -	10.00
121	Westlake H. F. Westminster Abbey	2 vol., illustrations, buckram, folio	New York	1908	GBP -	2.00
122	Westropp M. S. Dudley	Irish Glass			GBP -	15.00
123	Winston C. C.	An Inquiry into the Difference of Style observable in Ancient Glass Paintings		1896	GBP -	2.00
124		British Plate Glass Manufactory.		1794	GBP -	14.00
125		Cheminees Nouvelles a la Mansarde			GBP -	10.00
126	Diderot Denis, Jean le Rond D'Alembert	Encyclopedic ou Dictionnaire des Sciences		18th century	GBP -	10.00
127	Dubreuil J.	Perspective Practical ...		1672	GBP -	28.00
128	Edwards, Darby	A New Book of Chinese Designs calculated to improve the Present Taste		1754	GBP -	140.00
129		Furniture.			GBP -	40.00
130		Furniture.			GBP -	44.00
131		Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste ...		1924	GBP -	60.00
132	Jones Inigo others	Designs . . .		1924	GBP -	20.00
133	Jones William	The Gentleman or Builder's Companion		1739	GBP -	18.00
134	Le Muet Le Sieur	Divers Traictez d'Architecture	Paris	1647	GBP -	14.00
135	Le Pautre Jean A. Pierretz	Two Hundred and Seventeen Plates of Chimneypieces, Doors, Picture Frames, Grotesques, Friezes, Urns, etc.			GBP -	16.00
136	Marot Jean	Recueil de plusieurs Portes des principaux Hostels et Maisons de la Ville de Paris			GBP -	15.00
137	Middleton C.	Japanese Colour Prints			GBP -	17.00
138		Over (Charles) Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic			GBP -	18.00
139	Pain W.	The Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository		1768	GBP -	19.00
140	Palladio Andrea	I Quattro Libri dell' Architettura		1616	GBP -	7.00
141		Photographs of Period Clocks			GBP -	20.00
142	Salmon William Palladio Londinensis	or, the London Art of Building		1749	GBP -	13.00
143	Seligman G. Saville, Talbot Hughes	Domestic Needlework			GBP -	11.00
144	Sheraton Thomas	Modell und Zeichenbuch fur Tischler			GBP -	3.00
145	SLEZER JOHN THEATKUM SCOTIAE	containing the Prospects of His Majesty's Castles and Palaces		1718	GBP -	16.00
146	Smith George	The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide		1826	GBP -	7.00
147	Verien Nicolas	Livre Curieux et Utile pour les Scavans, et Artistes.	Paris	1687	GBP -	2.00
148	Wrighte William	Grotesque Architecture, or Rural Amusement		1766	GBP -	19.00
149	Boccaccio Giovanni	The Decameron		1893	GBP -	1.00
150	Barrie Sir J. M.	Works		1913	GBP -	3.00
151	Hardy Thomas	The Works		1917-1931	GBP -	44.00
152	Stevenson Robert Louis	The Works		1922-1923	GBP -	12.00
153	Vaughan Henry	Nonesuch Press.		1926	GBP -	3.00
154	Rochester John Wilmot	Nonesuch Press.		1926	GBP -	8.00
155	Otway Thomas	Nonesuch Press.		1926	GBP -	3.00
156	Cervantes Miguel de	The History of . . . Don Quixote of La Mancha		1879-1884	GBP -	5.00
157	Goldsmith Oliver	The Works		1834	GBP -	1.00
158	Prescott W. H.	Works		1864	GBP -	1.00
159	Dickens Charles	Works		1872-1874	GBP -	26.00
160	Thackeray William Makepeace	The Works		1834	GBP -	1.00
161	Shakespeare William	Dramatic Works		1923	GBP -	1.00
162	Kipling Rudyard	[Novels]		1904-1928	GBP -	38.00
163	Bewick Thomas	A History of British Birds			GBP -	2.00
164	Shaw G. Bernard Saint Joan	and The The Apple Cart		1936	GBP -	10.00
165	Shaw G. Bernard	The Simpleton, The Six, and The Millionairess		1936	GBP -	12.00
166	Harris Frank	The Man Shakespeare and his tragic Life Story			GBP -	4.00
167	Loti Pierre Jerusalem	Paris			GBP -	6.00
168	Toche Raoul	Les premieres illustrees	Paris		GBP -	1.00
169	Magnin Charles	Les origines du theatre antique et du theatre moderne			GBP -	7.00
170	Tagore Rajah Sir Sourindro Mohun	Hindu Music			GBP -	3.00
171	Mely F. de	Les primitifs et leurs signatures	Paris	1913	GBP -	17.00
172	Leroquais V., chanoine	Les psautiers manuscrits latins des bibliotheques publiques de France	Macon	1940-1941	GBP -	18.00
173	Rolland Francisco Hueso	Exposition de encuadernaciones espanolas	Madrid	1934	GBP -	11.00
174	Caspar Max	Bibliographia Kepleriana	Munich	1936	GBP -	7.00
175	Albareda Dom Anselm M.	Bibliografia de la Regla Benedietina	Montserrat	1933	GBP -	9.00
176	Bohatta Hanns	Bibliographic der Livres d'heures des XV. und XVI.	Vienna	1924	GBP -	5.00
177	Penney Clara Louisa	Hispanic Society of America.	New York	1938	GBP -	3.00
178	Audin Marius	Histoire de l'imprimerie par l'image	Paris	1929	GBP -	14.00
179	Ransom Will	Selective Check Lists of Press Books	New York	1945-1950	GBP -	5.00
180	De Ricci Seymour	English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (1530-1930)		1930	GBP -	10.00
181	Lucas Florentino Zamora, Eduardo Ponce de Leon	Bibliografia espanola de arquitectura (1526-1850)	Madrid	1947	GBP -	4.00
182	Thibaudeau F.	La lettre d'imprimerie			GBP -	4.00
183		Library of Congress.	Washington	1906	GBP -	9.00
184		Borsenverein der deutschen Buchhandler (Der).	Leipzig	1885-1902	GBP -	4.00
185	Leigh Charles W. E.	Catalogue of the Christie Collection			GBP -	7.00
186	Mattingley H I. A. K. Burnett	British Museum.			GBP -	7.00
187	Alvin L.	Catalogue Raisonne de l'oeuvre des trois freres Jean	Brussels	1866	GBP -	6.00
188	Baker D. E.	I. Reed and S. Jones.		1812	GBP -	15.00
189	Duff E. Gordon	Fifteenth Century English Books		1917	GBP -	8.00
191	Osler Sir William	Incunabula Medica		1923	GBP -	20.00
192	Pollard A. W. G. R. Redgrave	A Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in England		1926	GBP -	5.00
193	Isaac Frank	English and Scottish Printing Types		1930-32	GBP -	2.00
194		Hand-Lists of English Printers			GBP -	14.00
195	Plomer H. R. Robert Wyer	Printer and Bookseller			GBP -	6.00
196		BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS.		1892-1958	GBP -	80.00
197	Johnson A. F.	German Renaissance Title-Borders			GBP -	2.00
198	Greg W. W. E. Boswell	Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company			GBP -	2.00
199	Dav C. L. E. B. Murrie	English Song Books			GBP -	7.00
200	Claudin A.	The First Paris Press			GBP -	12.00
201	Blakey Dorothy	The Minerva Press			GBP -	4.00

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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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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.