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
302 Thomason George Catalogus Librorum diversis Italiae locis emptorum anno Dom.

1647

 GBP - 110.00
303 Thomason George Catalogue of the Pamphlets

1908

 GBP - 1.00
304 Willett Ralph A Memoir on the origin of Printing Newcastle

1820

 GBP - 20.00
305 Bible, German Twenty-nine leaves from the Augsburg (Anton Sorg) Bible

1480

 GBP - 24.00
306 Aldine Press. Venice

1502

 GBP - 13.00
307 Aldine Press. Venice

1517

 GBP - 4.00
308 Aldine Press. Venice

1559

 GBP - 2.00
309 Piccolomini (Cardinal Jacobus) Epistolae et Commentarii Milan

1506

 GBP - 10.00
310 Raymundus de Pennaforti.

GBP - 4.00
311 New Testament

GBP - 10.00
312 Ballay Traite sommaire des maladies veneriennes

1559

 GBP - 10.00
313 Hollerius Jacobus De morbis internis libri II Lyon

1578

 GBP - 10.00
314 Porta J. B. De Miraculis Rerum Naturalium

GBP - 4.00
315 Gramanno M. Joannes Apologetica Refutatio Calumniae

GBP - 15.00
316 Dietterlin Wendel Architectura von Ausstheilung Symmetria und Proportion der funff Seulen Nuremberg

1598

 GBP - 26.00
317 Speed John The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain

1620

 GBP - 16.00
318 Kingdome (The) of England and Principality of Wales exactly described

1644

 GBP - 26.00
319 BLAEU JOANNES GEOGRAPHIAE BLAVIANAE Amsterdam

1662

 GBP - 145.00
320 [Ireland].

1673

 GBP - 13.00
321 Blegny Etienne de Les elemens ou premieres instructions de la jeunesse

GBP - 5.00
322 Robinson Thomas The Anatomy of the Earth

GBP - 7.00
323 Curtius Quintus Alexander Magnus et in ilium commentarius Samuelis Pitisci

GBP - 3.00
324 Olyffe Thomas The Practical Pen-Man: a new copy-book

1713

 GBP - 24.00
325 Macaulay Aulay Polygraphy or short-hand made easy

1756

 GBP - 4.00
326 Kneller Sir Godfrey John Faber The Kit-Cat Club

1735

 GBP - 8.00
327 Kneller Sir Godfrey John Fraser The Kit-Cat Club

1735

 GBP - 15.00
328 Bretez Louis Claude Lucas Plan de Paris Paris

1739

 GBP - 46.00
329 Anson George A Voyage round the world

1748

 GBP - 10.00
330 Grieve James The History of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands

1764

 GBP - 13.00
331 Sparrman Andrew A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope

1785

 GBP - 22.00
332 Howard Charles Thoughts Essays and Maxims

1740

 GBP - 9.00
333 Shakespeare William The Works

1770-1771

 GBP - 8.00
334 Burney Charles A General History of Music

1776-1789

 GBP - 13.00
335 New Testament

1775

 GBP - 7.00
336 Bible English.

1795

 GBP - 22.00
337 Newton Sir Isaac Opticks: or a treatise ... of light

GBP - 4.00
338 Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis

1785

 GBP - 2.00
339 Basan F. Catalogue Raisonne de differeus objets de curiosites

GBP - 8.00
340 Raphael Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano series 1 only Rome

1772

 GBP - 48.00
341 Rossi D. de Studio d'architettura civile di Roma Augsburg

GBP - 18.00
342 Vredeman de Vriese J. Perspective Leyden

1605

 GBP - 32.00
343 Roland le Virloys C. F. Dictionnaire d'Architecture Paris

1770-1

 GBP - 19.00
344 Vignola J. B. de Regras das sinco ordens de architectura Coimbra

1787

 GBP - 17.00
345 Paaw P Primitiae anatomicae: de humani corporis ossibus

1615-16

 GBP - 4.00
346 Smith James The carpenter's companion

1733

 GBP - 14.00
347 Overton T. C. The temple 'builder's useful companion

1766

 GBP - 15.00
348 Langley B. The builder's vade-mecum

1729

 GBP - 17.00
349 Carmichael A. J. Brownlie The Edinburgh smoke-doctor

GBP - 17.00
350 Gallaccini T. Trattato degli architetti

1767-71

 GBP - 24.00
351 Southey Robert Metrical Tales and other Poems

1805

 GBP - 7.00
352 Southey Robert All for Love

GBP - 6.00
353 Southey Robert Xenophon.

1772

 GBP - 4.00
354 Southey Robert Chiabrera (Gabriel) Amedeida, Poema Genoa

1610

 GBP - 2.00
355 Wordsworth William Descriptive Sketches

GBP - 3.00
356 Coleridge Samuel Taylor The Statesman's Manual

GBP - 8.00
357 Coleridge Samuel Taylor Christabel, Kulbla Khan

1816

 GBP - 20.00
358 Wordsworth William Ecclesiastical Sketches

GBP - 3.00
359 Ruskin John Selections from the Writings

GBP - 5.00
360 Coleridge S. T. The Friend

March 1810

 GBP - 18.00
361 Austen Jane Emma

1816

 GBP - 10.00
362 Austen Jane Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion

1818

 GBP - 9.00
363 Coibbett Wm A Grammar of the English Language

GBP - 1.00
364 Cobbett William History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth

1830

 GBP - 1.00
365 Cruikshank George A small collection of material relating to

GBP - 3.00
366 Dickens Charles Our Mutual Friend

GBP - 2.00
367 Dodgson C. L. Through the Looking Glass

1872

 GBP - 1.00
368 Barrett Francis The Magus

1801

 GBP - 10.00
369 Campbell John Travels in South Africa

1815

 GBP - 1.00
370 Lyon G. F. A Brief Narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay

GBP - 5.00
371 Ferrall S. A. A Ramble of six thousand miles through the United States of America

GBP - 4.00
372 Fume Joseph Tobacco and Snuff.

GBP - 10.00
373 Salter T. F. The Angler's Guide

GBP - 5.00
374 Howitt Samuel [Foreign Field Sports]

1819

 GBP - 28.00
375 Perry George Conchology

1811

 GBP - 40.00
376 Forbes Edward S. Hanley A History of British Mollusca and their shells

1853

 GBP - 7.00
377 Adams Henry Arthur The Genera of Recent Mollusca

GBP - 7.00
378 Lydekker Richard The Royal Natural History

1893-96

 GBP - 2.00
379 Thornton R. J. Elements of Botany

GBP - 1.00
380 Kirby Wm. W. Spence An Introduction to Entomology

GBP - Not Sold
381 Hogg Jabez The Microscope

GBP - 1.00
382 Lyell Charles Principles of Geology

GBP - 1.00
383 Leach W. E. The Zoological Miscellany

1814-17

 GBP - 36.00
384 Fishes. Paris

1820

 GBP - 11.00
385 Temminck C. J. Manuel d'ornithologie

GBP - 10.00
386 Maund B. The Botanic Garden

GBP - 32.00
387 Lindley John Joseph Paxton Paxton's Flower Garden

1850-53

 GBP - 15.00
388 Hooker W. J. Exotic Flora

1812-27

 GBP - 25.00
389 Morris Beverley R. British Game Birds and Wildfowl

1855

 GBP - 9.00
390 Wild Boar Hunting 16 pen-and-ink and wash drazvings

19th Century

 GBP - 10.00
391 Apperley Charles J. "Nimrod."

GBP - 6.00
392 Apperley Charles J. "Nimrod."

1851

 GBP - 8.00
393 Apperley Charles J. "Nimrod."

1869

 GBP - 5.00
394 Apperley C. J. The Life of a Sportsman

1842

 GBP - 28.00
395 Ackermann R. The History of Westminster School

1816

 GBP - 6.00
396 Willis N. P. W. H. Bartlett American Scenery

1840

 GBP - 8.00
397 Hering G. E. The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland

1847

 GBP - 4.00
398 Morison Douglas Views of the Ducal Palaces and Hunting Seats of Saxe Goburg and Gotha

1846

 GBP - 10.00
399 Bowyer R. An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe

1817

 GBP - 13.00
400 JENKINS J. THE NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

1816-1817

 GBP - 78.00
401 Chinese Ricepaper Drawings

19th Century

 GBP - 65.00
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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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  • <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.