Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 07Nov1932,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 07, 1932 - November 07, 1932

Page Size: 890 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300	Jerome, Saint	Zeno; Transitus, gothic letter			GBP -	0.14
301	ABECKETT, G. A.	Comic History of England; Comic History of Rome			GBP -	2.00
302	Adanson, M.; Melville, H.	A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia; Omoo: a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas			GBP -	1.00
303	Bossu, N.; Johnson, Capt. C.; Nicolay, C. G.	Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales; A General History of the Pyrates, the Fourth edition; The Oregon Territory, 1846; Habersham's Map of Oregon			GBP -	1.10
304	Bradley, E.	The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman. By Cuthbert Bede, B.A. With numerous illustrations by the author		1853	GBP -	1.12
305	Browning, R.; Word swort h, W.	Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau; The Prelude; Coleridge's Poems. A facsimile reproduction of the proofs and MSS. of some of the Poems edited by J. D. Campbell			GBP -	0.05
306	Defoe, D.	The Storm: or, A Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which happen'd in the late Dreadful Tempest, both by. Sea and Land		1704	GBP -	2.10
307	Esquemeling, J. and B. Ringrose	The History of the Bucaniers of America now collected into one volume		1699-98	GBP -	2.15
308	Froger, T.	A Relation of a Voyage made 1695-7 on the Coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles, by a Squadron of French Men of War under M. de Gennes		1698	GBP -	1.00
309	Funnell, W.	A Voyage round' the world. Containing an Account of Captain Dampier's Expedition into the South-Seas in 1703 and 1704. And a Description of the Mexico		1707	GBP -	2.15
310	Isert, P. E.; Stavorinus, J. S.	Voyages en Guinée et dans les Iles Caraïbes en Amerique; Voyage par Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance a Batavia, a Bantam et an Bengale en 1768-71			GBP -	3.05
311		Military Costumes. Schema aller Uniform der Kaiserl. Konigl. Kriegswolkern	Wien	1793	GBP -	4.05
312	Neal, D.; Psalmanazar, George	The History of New England; An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, the second edition, corrected			GBP -	0.10
313	Snelgrave, Capt. W.	A New Account of some Parts of Guinea and the Slave-Trade		1734	GBP -	0.18
314	Surtees, R. S.; Kingsley, C.	Plain or Ringlets ?; The Water-Babies			GBP -	0.10
315	Tattersall, G.	Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses		1850	GBP -	0.10
316	Tennyson, Lord	Enoch Arden, 1864; The Holy Grail, 1870; Queen Mary, 1875; Harold, 1877; Locksley Hall, 1886			GBP -	2.02
317		Travels (The) of several Learned Missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America		1714	GBP -	3.00
318	Wafer, L.	A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. Giving an Account of the Author's Abode there, the second edition; To which are added, the Natural History of those Parts, By a Fellow of the Royal Society: and Davis's Expedition to the Gold Mines,		1704	GBP -	3.03
319	Wilde, 0.	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Ward	1891	GBP -	0.10
320	Ackermann, R.	The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster		1812	GBP -	1.00
321	Baker, J.; Tattersall, G.; Dan, P.	A Complete History of the Inquisition in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the East and West-Indies; Sporting Architecture; Nauwkeurige Beschrijvingh van Groenland aen Heer de la Mothe Le Vayer, gothic leter; Historie van Barbaryen, en des zelfs Zee-Roovers			GBP -	2.05
322	BLAKE, W.	Designs to a series of Ballads, written by William Hayley, Esq..and founded on Anecdotes relating to Animals, drawn, engraved, and published, by William Blake	Chichester	1802	GBP -	9.00
323	Claret de Flerieu, Capt. Charles P.	Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769 to the South-East of New Guinea		1791	GBP -	3.15
324	Descartes, R.	Renatus Des-cartes excellent compendium of. Musick: with necessary and judicious Animadversions thereupon. By a Person of Honour [Lord William Brouncker]			GBP -	0.12
325	Donne, John	Letters to several! persons of honour		1651	GBP -	2.10
326	Phipps, C. J.	A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773		1774	GBP -	0.10
327	Southey, R.; Bolingbroke, H.	Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish; A Voyage to the Demerary, containing a statistical account of the settlements there, and of those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and other contiguous rivers of Guyana			GBP -	0.18
328	Cameron, Julia Margaret	Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other poems. By Julia Margaret Cameron			GBP -	0.05
329	Stevenson, R. L.; Edinburgh	Picturesque Notes with etchings by A. Brunet-Debaines		1879	GBP -	8.00
330	Thornton, R. J.	Temple of Flora		1812	GBP -	5.10
331	Richardson, Samuel	Novels	Oxford	1929-31	GBP -	3.10
332	SHAW, G. B.	WORKS		1930-2	GBP -	15.15
333	Byron, G. G. N., Lord	Works; with Letters and Journals, and Life by Thomas Moore		1832-4	GBP -	4.05
334	Coppard, A. E.; De la Mare, Walter; Masefield, J.	Collected Poems, 1928; The Veil and other Poems, 1921Ding Dong Bell, 1924; Odtaa, 1926; and others			GBP -	1.00
335	Kipling, Rudyard	Stalky & Co. 1899; Traffics and Discoveries, 1904; Actions and Reactions, 1909			GBP -	0.16
336	Phillpotts, Eden; Somerville, E. CE. and Martin Ross.; Huxley, A.	Folly and fresh Air; Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.; On the Margin, 1923; Those Barren Leaves, 1925			GBP -	0.16
337	Shaw, G. B.	John Bull's other Island, etc. 1907; The Doctor's Dilemma, etc. 1911; Androcles and the Lion, etc. 1916; Saint Joan, 1924			GBP -	1.00
338	Hewlett, Maurice; Graves, Robert	New Canterbury Tales, 1901; The Stooping Lady, 1907; Flowers in the Grass, 1920; Good-bye to all that			GBP -	1.05
339	De Morgan, William; Galsworthy, J.; Sassoon, S.	An Affair of Dishonour, 1910; Caravan, 1925; The White Monkey, 1924; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1930			GBP -	1.02
340	Stevenson, R. L.	Memories & Portraits, 1887; Kidnapped; The Black Arrow			GBP -	0.05
341	Watson, Sir William	The Hope of the World, 1898; Ode of the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII, 1902; For England, 1904; New Poems, 1909; Sable and Purple, 1910			GBP -	1.06
342	Swinburne, A. C.; Trench, Herbert; Newbolt, Sir Henry	Erechtheus, 1876; New Poems; Poems; New and Old, 1912			GBP -	0.05
343	Viollet-le-Duc, E.	Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine; Histoire dune Forteresse			GBP -	0.10
344	Viollet-le-Due, E.	Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Francaise du XIe an XVe Siècle	Paris	1858-68	GBP -	1.15
345	Viollet-le-Duc, E.	Dictionnaire Raisonné de Mobilier Français	Paris	1858-75	GBP -	1.10
346	Wells, H. G.	The First Men in the Moon; A Modern Utopia; In the days of the Comet; Ann Veronica, 1909; History of Mr. Polly			GBP -	1.15
347	Wells, H. G.	The New Machiavelli, 1911; Marriage, 1912; The Passionate Friends, 1913; The World Set Free, 1914; Mr. Britling sees it through, 1916; and others			GBP -	1.00
348	Wells, H. G.	War and the Future; The First Men in the Moon; The New Machiavelli, 1911; Joan and Peter, 1918; and others by the same author			GBP -	1.10
349	Beerbohm, Max; Bennett, A.	And even Now, 1920Brooke (Rupert) John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama, 1916; Literary Taste, 1909; Riceyman Steps, 1923			GBP -	0.16
350	Henley, W. E.; Yeats, W. B.; Roberts, C. G. D.; Milne, A. A.	The Song of the Sword, 1892; Hawthorn and Lavender, 1901; The Green Helmet and other Poems; The Book of the Native; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926			GBP -	0.14
351	Davies, W. H.; Walpole, Hugh; Wilder, Thornton; MaFe, W.	Later Days, 1925; Adventures of Johnny Walker; The Secret City; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 1927; Sailors of Fortune, 1930			GBP -	1.15
352	D'URFEY, T.	Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to purge Melancholy			GBP -	5.15
353	Mather, S.	An Apology for the Liberties of the Churches in New England	Boston.	1738	GBP -	1.00
354	SHAKESPEARE, W.	WORKS; edited by W. A. Wright		1893-5	GBP -	12.00
355	Surtees, R. S.	Sporting Novels: "Ask Mamma"; Handley Cross; "Hawbuck Grange"; Hillingdon Hall; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; "Plain or Ringlets?"			GBP -	5.00
356	Thorburn, Archibald	British Birds		1925-6	GBP -	3.10
357	Borrow, George	The Bible in Spain; Lavengro; The Romany Rye; Romano Lavo-Lil, 1907; Wild Wales; The Zincali			GBP -	2.10
358	Grandville, J. J.	Les Fleurs Animées			GBP -	0.05
359	Rossetti, C. G.; Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur; Dobson, Austin; Kipling, R.	A Pageant and other Poems, 1881; Poems and Ballads by Q. 1896; Collected Poems; The Five Nations			GBP -	0.05
360	Dodgson, C. L.	The Game of Logic; Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno concluded, 1893			GBP -	1.18
361	Stevenson, R. L.	Underwoods; Memories & Portraits, 1887; Catriona, 1893; Weir of Herminston, 1896			GBP -	0.12
362	Davidson, John	The Testament of a Prime Minister, 1904; Holiday and other Poems, 1906; God and Mammon, 1907; The Testament of John Davidson, 1908			GBP -	2.15
363	Hardy, Thomas	A Changed Man, etc.; Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922; Human Shows, etc. 1925; and another			GBP -	1.00
364	Kipling, R.	Soldier Tales; The Seven Seas, 1896; The Five Nioatns; Rewards and Fairies			GBP -	0.16
365	Stevenson, R. L.; Galsworthy, J.	A Footnote to History; Island Nights' Entertainments; Stevenson and Osborne. The Ebb-Tide; The Dark Flower			GBP -	0.10
366	Priestley, J. B.	The Good Companions; Angel Pavement			GBP -	2.02
367	Shelley, G. E.; Darwin, C.	Handbook to the Birds of Egypt; Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation			GBP -	1.18
368	Stenhouse, T. B. H.	The Rocky Mountain Saints: A History of the Mormons; Virginia Illustrated by Porte Crayon			GBP -	0.16
369	Priestley, J. B.; Huxley, A.; Sassoon, S.; Maugham, W. S.	Brief Diversions; Papers from Lilliput; Point counter Point; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Cakes and Ale			GBP -	2.08
370	Masefield, John	Ballads and Poems		1928 (2)	GBP -	0.07
371	Moore, George; De la Mare, W.	Evelyn Innes, 1898; Elizabeth Cooper, 1913; The Veil, 1912; The Riddle, 1923			GBP -	1.02
372	Aldington, Richard; Sitwell, Osbert; Blunden, Edmund	Collected Poems, 1929; England Reclaimed; Poems			GBP -	1.08
373	D'Oyly, Sir Charles	Tom Raw, the Griffin A Burlesque Poem		1828	GBP -	6.00
374	Mitford, J.; Hawker, Lt.-Col. P.	My Cousin in the Army; or, Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment, by a Staff Officer; Instructions to Young Sportsmen			GBP -	1.04
375	Masefield, John; De la Mare, W.; Dodgson, C. L.	The Tragedy of Nan, and Other Plays, 1909; Ding Dong Bel, 1924; Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll			GBP -	0.14
376	Haggard, Sir H. Rider; Conrad, J.	Cleopatra; Youth, etc.			GBP -	0.14
377	Galsworthy, John	A Modern Comedy		1929	GBP -	2.00
378	Milne, A. A.	Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; Now we are six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928			GBP -	1.05
379	Milne, A. A.	When I was very young	New York	1930	GBP -	1.05
380	Powys, T. F.; Phillpotts, Eden	Fables with four Drawings by Gilbert Spencer; A Hundred Lyrics			GBP -	0.08
381	Wolfe, Humbert	George Moore; The New Forget-me-not: a Calendar			GBP -	0.10
382	Galsworthy, John	The Country House; A Sheaf; Tatterdemalion			GBP -	0.12
383	Galsworthy, J.	Caravan, 1925; The Silver Spoon, 1926; Swan Song, 1928			GBP -	1.02
384	Mantz, 11. E.; Worthington, G.; Schwartz, J.	The Critical Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield; Bibliography of the Waverley Novels; The Writings of Alfred Edgar Coppard, 1931 (3)			GBP -	0.18
385	Lawrence, D. H.; Coppard, A. E.; Bates, H. E.	Kangaroo, 1923; England, My England, 1924; Nixey's Harlequin; The Black Boxer			GBP -	2.05
386	Boswell, J.; Hall, R.	Everybody's Johnson: being the Life of Samuel Johnson, from James Boswells complete text and from the "Tour to the Hebrides," illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard; The Master of the House			GBP -	1.08
387	Thompson, Edward; Sitwell, S.	The Thracian Stranger; Collected Poems; Doctor Donne & Gargantua			GBP -	1.02
388	Masefield, J.; Strachey, Lytton; Woolf, Virginia	Minnie Maylow's Story; Portraits in Miniature; Street Haunting			GBP -	2.00
389	O'Flaherty, L.; Benson, Stella; Collier, J.; Campbell, Roy	The Wild Swan and other Stories; Christmas Formula; Green Thoughts; The Georgia			GBP -	1.02
390	Doyle, Sir A. Conan	Rodney Stone; Exploits of Brigadier Gerard; His last Bow, 1917			GBP -	0.18
391	Matthews, Brander	Pen and Ink, 1888; The Historical Novel; Parts of Speech; Fugitives from Justice			GBP -	0.10
392	Trollope, A.; Reade, C.	Orley Farm; The Course of True Love			GBP -	0.05
393	Russell, Geo.; Levy, Amy; Payne, John	Salutation: a Poem on the Irish Rebellion of 1916, by "A.E."; A Ballad of Religion and Marriage; The Descent of the Dove and other Poems			GBP -	0.15
394	Thackeray, W. M.; Flecker, J. E.; Tennyson, Lord	Miscellanies; The Grecians; a Dialogue on Education; Enoch Arden			GBP -	0.12
395	Flecker, James; Synge, J. M.; Collier, j. Payne	The Bridge of Fire; The Shadow of. the Glen; A few Odds and Ends			GBP -	0.18
396	Breen, J. R.	Le Triomphe du Nouveau Monde; reponses Academiques; par l'Ami du Corps Social	Paris	1785	GBP -	0.18
397	Dickens, CHARLES	WORKS		n. d.	GBP -	15.00
398	Staunton, Sir G.; Crabbe, Rev. G.; Edgeworth, Maria	Historical Account of the Embassy to China; Tales; Life and Letters; edited by A. J. C. Hare			GBP -	0.05
399	Gibbon, E.; Strickland, A.	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Lives of the Queens of England			GBP -	0.10

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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.

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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.