Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 19Jun1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 19, 1961 - June 19, 1961

Page Size: 620 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401	Southey, Robert; Wotton, Sir Henry	The Life of Nelson, Reliquiae Wottonianae: or a collection of Lives, Letters, Poems with characters of sundry personages		1813, 1685	GBP -	7.00
402	Sowerby, James	English Botany		1790-1807	GBP -	5.00
403	Spenser, Edmund	The Faerie Queen: the Shepheards Calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet		1611-13	GBP -	17.00
404	Spilsbury, F. B.	Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria		1803	GBP -	20.00
405	Stark, Freya	The Valley of the Assassins, The Southern Gates of Arabia, A Winter in Arabia, Baghdad Sketches		1934, 1936, 1940, 1937	GBP -	10.00
406	St. Olon, P. de; Peter Motteux	The Present State of the Empire of Morocco		1695	GBP -	7.00
407		Sudan Notes and Records from vol. I		1918-55	GBP -	240.00
408	Sudan. Budge, E. A. Wallis; Machmichael, Sir H. A.; MacMichael, Sir H. A.	The Egyptian Sudan; A History of the Arabs in the Sudan; The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan	Cambridge	1907, 1922, 1934	GBP -	95.00
409	Arnold J. Toynbee and others	Survey of International Affairs	Oxford	1925-53	GBP -	40.00
410	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Idylls of the King; Enoch Arden; Maud and other Poems		1859, 1865, 1855	GBP -	4.00
411	Wallace, Edgar	The Yellow Snake, The Valley of Ghosts, The Door with Seven Locks; The Traitor's Gate		n.d., n.d., n.d.	GBP -	10.00
412	Waller, Edmund; Irwin, Eyles	Works in verse and prose, Eastern Eclogues		1729, 1780	GBP -	1.00
413	Gebel Moya and Abu Geili	Wellcome Excavations in the Sudan.		1949-51	GBP -	5.00
414	Wilde, Oscar; Flecker, J. E.; Munnings, Sir A. J.	Poems; Don Juan, a play; The Tale of Anthony Bell, a hunting ballad		1881, 1925, 1921	GBP -	1.00
415	Wolfe, Frida and A. T.; Ashton, Leigh and B. Gray	How to identify oriental rugs, Chinese Art		1931, 1935	GBP -	8.00
416	Woodville, William	Medical Botany		1790-94	GBP -	17.00
417	Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus	Pharsalia [with the commentary of Omnibonus Leonicenus]	Milan	10 November, 1491	GBP -	40.00
418	Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus	Pharsalia [with the commentaries of Joannes Sulpitius and Omnibonus Leonicenus]	Venice	20 October, 1498	GBP -	30.00
419	Bonaventura, Saint	Opuscula	Strassburg	18 December, 1495	GBP -	55.00
420	Haly Abbas	Liber totius medicinae ex arabica lingua in latinam reductus a Stephano	Lyons	1523	GBP -	6.00
421		The Holy Bible, fourth Great Bible (third with Cranmer's prologue)		1541	GBP -	17.00
422		The Holy Bible, Great Bible version, black letter	Rouen	1566	GBP -	10.00
423	Lycosthenes, Conrad	Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon	Basle	1557	GBP -	10.00
424	Lanquet, Thomas and T. Cooper	Coopers Chronicle [STC, 15218/20]		1560, 1 Aug., 1565	GBP -	4.00
425	Foxe, John	Actes and Monuments of matters happening in the Church		1596, 1631	GBP -	3.00
426	Romney Marsh	The Charter of, Latin and English texts on opposite pages, the latter Black letter		1597	GBP -	40.00
427	Ariosto, Lodovico; Garibaldi, Giuseppe	Orland Furioso	Venice, Milan	1552, 1870	GBP -	7.00
428		Artis Auriferae quam Chemiam vocant	Basle	1593	GBP -	5.00
429	Vecellio, Cesare	Habiti Antichi, et Moderai di tutto il Mondo	Venice	1598	GBP -	14.00
430		The Bible	Cambridge	1599, 1608, 1631, 1634, 1637-38	GBP -	12.00
431		The Holy Bible		1602	GBP -	5.00
432		The Holy Bible		1613	GBP -	8.00
433		The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New [with The Book of Common Prayer and The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Meeter]	Oxford, at the Theater	1675	GBP -	20.00
434	Sherley, Sir Anthony	His Relation of his Travels into Persia		1613	GBP -	9.00
435		A second part of Spanish Practices. Or a Relation of more particular wicked plots ... and unnaturall practises of the Spaniards	London	1624	GBP -	5.00
436	Taylor, John	Miniature Book, The Booke of Martyrs		1627	GBP -	60.00
437	Wadsworth, James	The English Spanish Pilgrime [STC 24926], T. C[otes] for M. S parke, Further Observations of the English Spanish Pilgrime [STC 24928a], The Present Estate of Spayne [STC 24929]		1629, 1630, 1630	GBP -	45.00
438	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke	Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes		1633	GBP -	20.00
439	Mr. Francis Hickes; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of	Lucian. Certaine Select Dialogues, together with his True Historie, translated from the Greeke into English; Letters between the Ld George Digby and Sr Kenelm Digby concerning Religion	Oxford	1634, 1651	GBP -	11.00
440	Semedo, Alvarez	The History of the Great and Renowned Monarchy of China		1655	GBP -	15.00
441	H., J. and others	The Gentleman's Jockey, and Approved Farrier, instructing in the Natures, Causes, and Cures of all Diseases incident to Horses		1674	GBP -	18.00
442	Hale, Sir Matthew	Difficiles Nugae or observations touching the Torricellian experiment		1674	GBP -	2.00
443	More, Henry; Luc, J. A. de	A brief reply to a late answer to Dr. Henry More his Antidote against idolatry, Lettres sur les montagnes et sur l'histoire de la terre	La Haye	1672, 1778	GBP -	18.00
444	Ogilby, John	Asia, ... being an Accurate Description of Persia, ... the Vast Empire of the Great Mogol, and other Parts of India		1673	GBP -	9.00
445	Papin, Denys	A new digester or engine for softening bones		1681-87	GBP -	8.00
446	Snape, Andrew	The Anatomy of the Horse		1687	GBP -	4.00
447	La Quintinye, Jean de; John Evelyn	The Compleat Gard'ner, or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens, made English		1693	GBP -	17.00
448	Burton, William	The Description of Leicestershire			GBP -	9.00
449	John and Thomas Spencer; Alice Dryden	Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner, an illustrated quarterly, Memorials of Old Leicestershire		1891-1895, 1911	GBP -	4.00
450	William Thornton; Pennant, Thomas	New, Complete and Universal History, Description, and Survey (The) of the Cities of London and Westminster, written by a Society of Gentlemen, revised ...	London	n.d., 1790	GBP -	2.00
451	Burton, Richard; Smith, Albert	Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster, Sketches of London Life and Character		1681, n.d.	GBP -	30.00
452	Camden, William; Edmund Gibson	Britannia, newly translated into English, with large editions and improvements		1695	GBP -	38.00
453	Camden, William; Edmund Gibson	Britannia, revised, digested, and published, with large additions		1722	GBP -	30.00
454	Dugdale, William	The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated		1656	GBP -	14.00
455	Wright, James; Blore, Thomas	The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland; The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland		1684	GBP -	5.00
456		Victoria County History.		1908-1935	GBP -	7.00
457	Howell, James	Londinopolis, an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London		1657	GBP -	22.00
458		Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.		1924-1930	GBP -	12.00
459	Plot, Robert	Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford; The Natural History of Oxford-shire	Oxford	1949, 1705	GBP -	6.00
460	Falda, Gio. Battitsa	Li giardini di Roma	Rome	n.d.	GBP -	90.00
461		Pseaumes (Les) de David, mis en rime Françoise	Sedan	1635	GBP -	32.00
462		Pictures of English History in miniature		1814-16	GBP -	10.00
463	W. Y. Fletcher, R. Proctor, E. Gordon Duff, A. W. Pollard, Falconer Madan, Paul Kristeller, and others	Bibliographica		1895-97	GBP -	12.00
464	Combe, Wm.	The English Dance of Death			GBP -	30.00
465	Defoe, Daniel; Yarranton, Andrew	Eleven Opinions about Mr. H--y; with observations; England's Improvement by Sea and Land		1711, 1677	GBP -	6.00
466	Quaritch, B.; Nordenskiold, A. E.	Facsimiles. La Bible Historiée toute figurée de la John Rylands Library, reproduction ... par Robert Fawtier, Facsimiles of some examples of the art of book-ornamentation; An account of a copy from the 15th century of a map of the world	Paris	1924, 1900, 1897	GBP -	7.00
467	Faithorne, William	The Art of Graving and Etching		1702	GBP -	8.00
468		ICELANDIC PRINTING.		1707	GBP -	120.00
469	Newton, A. E.	Sale Catalogue of the Collection of Rare Books	New York	1941	GBP -	1.00
470	Pollard, A. W.; Plomer, H. R.; Maskell, W.; Wedmore, F.	Italian Book; A Short History of Printing; Selected Centuries of Books		1905, 1915, 1843, 1910	GBP -	2.00
471	Rawstone, Lawrence	Gamonia : or, the Art of Preserving Game		1837	GBP -	18.00
472	Sowerby, G. B.; Walton, I. and C. Cotton	The Conchological Illustrations; The Complete Angler		1841, 1808	GBP -	40.00
473	Tennyson, Alfred Lord	Enoch Arden (3 copies), The Holy Grail, Gareth and Lynettte, Queen Mary		1864, 1870, 1872, 1875	GBP -	3.00
474	Defoe, Daniel	An Apology for the Army, in a Short Essay on Fortitude, etc.		1715	GBP -	20.00
475	Anson, George; Richard Walter	A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740-1744		1748	GBP -	4.00
476	Cavendish, George, Duke of Newcastle	A General System of Horsemanship		1748-43	GBP -	40.00
477	Goldsmith, Oliver	An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son		1764	GBP -	8.00
478	Gay, John	Fables, with a Life of the author		1793	GBP -	8.00
479	Johnson, Samuel	The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets		1794	GBP -	26.00
480	Thomson, James	The Seasons, with Life, Notes, etc., The Adventures of Doctor Comicus		1793, 1815	GBP -	14.00
481	Lysons, Samuel	An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester		1797	GBP -	20.00
482	Félibien, Michel	Histoire de la ville de Paris	Paris	1725	GBP -	38.00
483	Révolution française, La	Collection complète des tableaux historiques de	Paris	1804	GBP -	15.00
484	Charpentier, F. and others	Médailles sur les principaux évènements du règne entier de Louis-le-Grand	Paris	1723	GBP -	8.00
485	Alberti, Leonbatista; Venuti, Ridolfino	Delia architettura, della pittura e della statua, traduzione di Cosimo Bartoli, Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma moderna	Bologna, Rome	1782, 1766	GBP -	12.00
486	Tasso, Torquato	Lo Tasso napoletano, zoe La Gierusalemme libberata votata a llengua nostra da Grabiele Fasano, La Gierusalemme liberata, con le annotationi di Scipio Gentili e di Giulio Guastavini	London	1689, 1724	GBP -	3.00
487	Batty, Elizabeth Frances	Italian Scenery, from Drawings made in 1817		1820	GBP -	4.00
488	Vasi, M.	Itinéraire instructif de Rome et de ses environs, revu, corrigé et augmenté par le professeur A. Nibby, Itinéraire instructif de Rome à Naples	Rome, Rome	1824, 1815	GBP -	6.00
489		Almanach de Versailles année 1785.	Versailles and Paris	1785	GBP -	40.00
490		Book-covers			GBP -	10.00
491	D'Argenville, A. J. Dézallier	L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans Deux de ses Parties Principales, la Lithologie et la Conchyliologie	Paris	1742	GBP -	2.00
492	Saussure, H. B. de	Essais sur l'Hygromètrie	Neuchatel	1783	GBP -	12.00
493	de Morveau, Maret, Duhamel, Fourcroy, etc	Encyclopédie Méthodique. Chymie, Pharmacie et Metallurgie	Paris	1786-1814	GBP -	8.00
494		Bible, English, Geneva version		1583	GBP -	45.00
495		Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testa-menti.	Paris	1527	GBP -	26.00
496		Biblia cum concordontiis, gothic letter, Bible, English, Black letter	Lyons, Edward Whitchurch	1513, 1541	GBP -	15.00
497	Falkenstein, C. K.; Halliwell, J. O.	Bibliography. British Museum. Reproductions of illuminated manuscripts, Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst; A Catalogue of Chap-Books, Garlands and Popular Histories	Leipzig	1907-08, 1856, 1849	GBP -	7.00
498	Bohn, Henry G.; Thompson, H. Yates	Catalogues of book auctions and booksellers, including, Catalogue of Books, Willis and Sotheran. A Catalogue of upwards of fifty thousand volumes, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscript		1841, 1862, 1920	GBP -	2.00
499	A Kempis, Thomas; Bunyan, John	Facsimile Reproductions of books and manuscripts.; The Imitation of Christ, Goody Two-Shoes, A Book for Boys and Girls		1885, 1766, 1881, 1889	GBP -	6.00
500	Dickens, Charles	Facsimile of rare books and manuscripts.; The Christmas Carol, The Dialogue or Communing between the wise king Salomon and Marcolphus, The first four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci		1890, 1892, 1893	GBP -	11.00

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.

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.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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