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
601	Vulliamy, L.	Neolith (The) Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece and Rome			GBP -	0.05
602	BROWNING, R.	The Inn Album		1875	GBP -	2.05
603	Burke, E.	A Vindication of Natural Society		1756	GBP -	5.00
604	Burke, E.	Reflections on the Revolution in France		1790	GBP -	1.10
605	Byron, Lord; Pope, A.	Letter to * * * * * * * * * on the Life and Writings of Pope; The Temple of Fame: a Vision			GBP -	1.15
606	Cory, W.	Ionica		1891	GBP -	0.16
607	Defoe, D.	Eleven Opinions about Mr. H--y; with observations, 1711 -- The Re-Representation: or, A Modest. Search after the great Plunderers of the Nation, 1711 A Letter from a Member; of the House of Commons relating to the Bill of Commerce, 1713 (3			GBP -	1.15
608	Fielding, H.; Shenstone, W.	Plutus, the God of Riches. A Comedy translated from Aristophanes by H. Fielding, Esq. and the Revd. Mr. Young; The Judgment of Hercules, a poem			GBP -	3.15
609	Fielding, H.	A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury, 29 June, 1749; A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor			GBP -	2.00
610	Fielding, H.	An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c		1751	GBP -	2.15
611	Gay, J.	Trivia: or, the Art of walking the Streets of London		n. d. 1716	GBP -	12.00
612	Gibbon, E.; Boswell, J.; Clinton, Sir H.	A Vindication of some passages of the Decline and Fall; A Letter to the People of Scotland on the Articles of the Union; Narrative relative to his conduct in North America			GBP -	3.00
613	Swift, J.	Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty; A Preface to the Bp of Srm's Introduction, etc By Gregory Misosarum [ascribed by Halkett and Laing to Swift]			GBP -	5.00
614	Swift, J.	A Short View of the State of Ireland; A Vindication of His Excellency the Lord Ct, from the Charge of favouring none but Tories, High-Churchmen and Jacobites. By the Reverend Dr. S--t			GBP -	5.00
615	Tennyson, Lord	Maud, and other poems	Moxon	1855	GBP -	2.15
616	Wollstonecraft, Mary	A Vindication of the Rights of Men		1790	GBP -	8.05
617	Wordsworth, W.; Hazlitt, W.	A Letter to a friend of Robert Burns: occasioned by an intended republication of the account of the Life of Burns by Dr. Currie; A Letter to William Gifford, Esq.			GBP -	15.00
618		Barbary. Late Newes out of Barbary. In a Letter written from a Merchant there ... containing some strange particulars, of this new Saintish King's proceedings (1111.)		1613	GBP -	5.10
619	Cowley, A.	A Poem on the late Civil War		1679	GBP -	1.15
620	Dryden, J.; Ravenseroft, E.; Mountfort, W.	A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector; King Edgar and Alfreda. A tragi-comedy; Greenwich-Park: a Comedy			GBP -	3.05
621	James I.	A Publication of his Maties. Edict, and severe Censvre against Private Combats and Combatants		1613	GBP -	0.12
622	Sprat, T.	Parliaments (The) Letanie, for the more speedy composure of Differences, between them and the City, between the City and the Army, and between them all, and the King (4 ll.); The Plague of Athens, in verse; Mr. Waller's Speech in Parliament (8 11.)			GBP -	1.00
623	Somerville, W.; otway, T.; Wotton, H.	Hobbinol, or the Rural. Games; Windsor Castle, a poem; The Elements of Architecture			GBP -	3.05
624	Congreve, W.; Rowe, N.	A Pindarique Ode to the King on his taking Namure; A Poem upon the late Glorious Successes of Her Majesty's Arms			GBP -	1.15
625	Pope, A.; Gahagan, Usher	The Second Epistle of the second book of Horace imitated; The First Ode of the Third Book of Horace, newly translated			GBP -	0.05
626	Beckford, William Vathek	An Arabian Tale from an Unpublished Manuscript		1786	GBP -	5.05
627	FIELDING, HENRY	THE HISTORY OF To JONES, A FOUNDLING		1749	GBP -	15.00
628	GOLDSMITH, Oliver	The Vicar of Wakefield	Ackermann	1823	GBP -	17.00
629	Defoe, D.	A Hymn to the Mob		1715	GBP -	1.10
630	Bellew, Captain; Byron, G. G. N. Lord; Marryat, Capt. F.	Memoirs of a Griffin, illustrations by the Author; The Prisoner of Chillon; The Pirate and The Three Cutters			GBP -	0.18
631	COMBE, W.	The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos by Doctor Syntax		1815	GBP -	10.10
632	Combe, W.	The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan		1816	GBP -	5.05
633	Combe, W.	Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France		1821	GBP -	6.10
634	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers; Master Humphrey's Clock			GBP -	1.05
635	Surtees, B. S.	Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities		1838	GBP -	1.00
636	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt		1854	GBP -	2.00
637	Surtees, R. S.	Ask Mamma; Or, The Richest Commoner in England		1858	GBP -	2.02
638	Surtees, R. S. "	Plain or Ringlets?"		1860	GBP -	1.15
639	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds		1865	GBP -	1.10
640	Surtees, R. S.; Thackeray, W. M.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Vanity Fair			GBP -	1.10
641	Knapp, Andrew and William Baldwin	Criminal Chronology; or the New Newgate Calendar		1809-10	GBP -	4.05
642	Scott, Sir Walter	Peveril of the Peak	Edinb.	1822	GBP -	0.10
643	Scott, Sir W.	Redgauntlet. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century	Edinb.	1824	GBP -	0.10
644	Scott, Sir W.	Chronicles of the Canongate, First and Second Series; Tales of My Landlord, Third Series			GBP -	1.05
645	Scott, Sir W.	Halidon Hill, a Dramatic Sketch; Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, 1830; Ballads and Lyrical Pieces			GBP -	0.10
646	Scott, Sir W.	Rob Roy; Harold the Dauntless; Tales of the Crusaders; Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk			GBP -	0.08
647	Cruikshank, Robert	Ascanius: or, the Young Adventurer; A True History [of the Pretender]; Comic Album, First Series			GBP -	0.05
648	WHITE, H. K.	REMAINS		1811	GBP -	6.15
649	Scott, Sir W.	The Lay of the Last Minstrel		1810	GBP -	4.10
650	Scott, Sir W.	Marmion	Edinburgh	1811	GBP -	4.00
651	Scott, Sir W.	The Lady of the Lake			GBP -	3.05
652	Clam, John	The Rural Muse, Poems		1835	GBP -	1.18
653	CLARE, J.	THE VILLAGE MINSTREL AND OTHER POEMS		1823	GBP -	4.05
654	Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist	Bentley	1839	GBP -	0.10
655	Graham, R. B. Cunninghame; Thackeray, W. M.	Aurora la Gujini, a realistic sketch in Seville; Whistler's Catalogue of his Exhibition of Etchings; as an Artist and Art Critic, by W. E. Church			GBP -	0.09
656	Thackeray and M. Tournemine	L'Abbaye de Penmarch, mélodrame en trois aetes		1840	GBP -	0.05
657	Tennyson, Alfred	Poetical Works	New York	1870	GBP -	2.05
658	Hardy, Thos	Tess of the D'Urbervilles		1891	GBP -	7.10
659	Galt, John	Rothelan; a Romance of the English Histories	Edinburgh	1824	GBP -	0.10
660	Merriman, H. Seton	Roden's Corner, 1898; In Kedar's Tents, 1897; Velvet Glove, 1901; The Vultures, 1902; Barlasch of the Guard, 1903; The Last Hope, 1904; Tomaso's Fortune, 1904; Flotsam, 1896			GBP -	1.15
661	Field, Michael; Levy, Amy; Payne, John	Brutus Ultor, a play; A Ballad of Religion and Marriage; The Descent of the Dove, and other poems; Fielding's Tom Thumb			GBP -	0.10
662	Thackeray, W. M.	The Yellowplush Correspondence	Philadelphia	1838	GBP -	0.08
663	Dorat	Fables Nouvelles	Paris	1773	GBP -	4.00
664	Moore, George	Memoirs of my Dead Life		1906	GBP -	0.14
665	Thackeray, W. M.	Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo		1846	GBP -	0.12
666	Barrie, J. M.	Auld Licht Idylls		1888	GBP -	3.05
667	Burton, R. F.	Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or Six Months of sick leave		1851	GBP -	1.10
668	Ainsworth, W. H.	Old St. Paul's: a Tale of the Plague and the Fire		1847	GBP -	1.05
669	Ainsworth, W. H.	Old St. Pauls		1847	GBP -	1.00
670	Dickens, Charles	Bleak House		1853	GBP -	1.00
671	Shaw, Bernard	Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion		1901	GBP -	0.18
672	Butler, Samuel	The Way of all Flesh		1903	GBP -	3.10
673	Blake, William	Set of six plates to Mary Woolstonecraft's Original Stories, and the set of six plates to Hayley's "Triumphs of Temper," by William Blake		1791-1803	GBP -	2.15
674	Stevenson, R. L.	New Arabian Nights		1882	GBP -	12.00
675	Wilde, Oscar	Intentions, the Decay of Lying, etc.		1891	GBP -	1.00
676	Barrie, J. M.	The Little Minister		1891	GBP -	5.15
677		Whistler. Exhibition of Etchings by J. McNeil Whistler; Notes-Harmonies-Nocturnes, F; Notes-Harmonies-Nocturnes; Keppel's Exhibition, with introduction by Joseph Pennell; Keppel's Exhibition, introduction and notes by Pennell, 1910Exhibition of Whistler l			GBP -	0.10
678	DICKENS, CHARLES	A Christmas Carol		1843	GBP -	7.10
679	Dickens, C.	Christmas Carol		1843	GBP -	3.05
680		Music. Propre pour la Paroisse de Maisons pres Charenton, pour le jour de ses deux Patrons Saint Remy, et Saint Hilaire		c: 1680	GBP -	0.10
681	Smith, Albert	The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole	Bentley	1848	GBP -	4.05
682	Dickens, Charles	Our Mutual Friend		1865	GBP -	0.15
683	Hazlitt, Wm	Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft		1816	GBP -	1.02
684	Peacock, T.	Maid Marian; by the author of "Headlong Hall,"		1822	GBP -	6.00
685	Dickens	David Copperfield: a Drama in Two Acts, adapted from Dickens' Popular Work of the same name, by John Brougham	New York	1851	GBP -	0.16
686	Dickens	The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home in three Chirps, adapted from Charles Dickens		1846	GBP -	2.15
687	Reynolds, G. W. M.	Robert Macaire in England, numerous plates by "Phiz,"		1840	GBP -	1.15
688	Lamb, Lady Caroline	Graham Hamilton		1822	GBP -	1.00
689	Godwin, Wm	Mandeville, a tale of the Seventeenth Century in England	Edinburgh	1817	GBP -	1.10
690	Berkeley, Grantley F.	My Life and Recollections		1865-6	GBP -	0.18
691	Scrope, W.	The Art of Deer-Stalking, with Narrative of a few days Sport in the Forest of Atholl		1839	GBP -	1.02
692	Farrell, W.	History of British Birds, 3		1843-56	GBP -	1.02
693	Dickens, C.	Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens		1838	GBP -	1.08
694	Dickens, C.	Sketches by Boz		1839	GBP -	3.05
695	Dickens, C.	Tale of Two Cities		1859	GBP -	3.05
696	Dickens, C.	The Earliest Letters of Charles Dickens (written to his friend Henry Kolle), edited by Harry B. Smith	Cambridge Mass.	1911	GBP -	1.08
697	Thackeray, W. M.	Denis Duval		1867	GBP -	0.14
698	A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott	The Comic History of England	Punch Office	1847-8	GBP -	3.05
699	Whistler, J. McNeill	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies		1890	GBP -	1.05
700	Kipling, Rudyard	Second Jungle Book; Rewards and Fairies; The Seven Seas			GBP -	1.00

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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.

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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.

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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.

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