Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS., 03Jun1935,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 03, 1935 - June 03, 1935

Page Size: 889 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
698	W. Page	Victoria County Histories. Suffolk.		1911-07	GBP -	2.05
699	White Gilbert	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.		1789	GBP -	7.15
700	Wilkes B.	English Moths and Butterflies.		n. d.	GBP -	2.05
701	Wilson Alexander	American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States.		1828-29	GBP -	5.00
702	Woolley R.	Compleat Library: or, News for the Ingenious.		1692	GBP -	1.05
703	Aldrovandus U.	Omithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII.	Francofurti	1610	GBP -	1.10
704	Aldrovandus U.	Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia.	Bononiae	1621	GBP -	2.02
705	Aldrovandus U.	De Quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis libri tres. Et de Quadrupedibus digitatis oviparis libri duo.	Colophon	1663	GBP -	2.05
706	Aldrovandus U.	Serpentum et Draconum.	Bononiae	1640	GBP -	2.08
707	ANGAS G. F.	The New Zealanders illustrated.		1847	GBP -	19.00
708	ANGAS G. F.	South Australia illustrated.		1847	GBP -	12.10
709	AUDUBON J. J.	THE BIRDS OF AMERICA.	London	1827-30	GBP -	210.00
710	Bacon Sir Francis	Sylva Sylvarum: or a Natural History, in ten centuries.		1676	GBP -	5.05
711	Bickman George	The British Monarchy: or, a new Chorographical Description of all the Dominions subject to the King of Great Britain.		1748-49	GBP -	4.00
712	Blome Richard	Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of England, Scotland, and Ireland.		1673	GBP -	4.05
713	Booth E. T.	Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 25 years shooting and collecting in the British Islands.		1881-87	GBP -	2.10
714	Camden W.	Britannia, publish'd by Edmund Gibson, portrait.		1695	GBP -	2.02
715	Catherwood F.	Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.		1844	GBP -	0.05
716	Choiseul-Goufher Comte de	Voyage pittoresque de la Grece.	Paris	1782	GBP -	2.10
717		Claude le Lorraine. Liber Veritatis; or a Collection of Prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain executed by Richard Earlom.		n. d. and 1819	GBP -	2.10
718	Curtis W.	Flora Londinensis: containing a History of the Plants indigenous to Great Britain.		1817-28	GBP -	8.00
719	Curtis W.	Flora Londinensis.		n. d.	GBP -	3.05
720	De La Quintinye J.	The Compleat Gard'ner...		1693	GBP -	1.18
721	Dodoens R.	A niewe herball or historie of plantes.	Antwerp	1578	GBP -	3.03
722	EDWARDS G.	A Natural History of Birds.		1802-5	GBP -	14.00
723	Elgood G. S.; Lenygon F.	Some English Gardens with notes by Gertrude Jekyll.; The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the 17th and 18th Centuries.		1904, 1909	GBP -	1.05
724	Evelyn J.	Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees.		1670	GBP -	0.12
725	Farington J.	Views of the Lakes.		1789	GBP -	0.18
726	Frankau Julia	Eighteenth Century Colour Prints.		1900	GBP -	0.12
727	Frankau J. William Ward, A.R.A., James Ward, RA.	Their Lives and Works.		1904	GBP -	3.05
728	Frohawk F. W.	Natural History of British Butterflies.		1924	GBP -	1.15
729	Frohawk F. W.	Natural History of British Butterflies.		1924	GBP -	1.15
730	Fuller T.	History of the Worthies of England.		1662	GBP -	2.10
731	Gell W.	The Topography of Troy.		1804	GBP -	0.18
732	Gerarde J.	The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.		1636	GBP -	2.02
733	Gould John	A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains.		1832	GBP -	7.00
734	Gould J.	Icones Avium.		1837	GBP -	5.00
735	Gould J.	A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.		1838	GBP -	4.10
736	Gould J.	A Monograph of the Trogonidae.		1838	GBP -	3.00
737	Gould J.	A Monograph of the Trogonidae.		1875	GBP -	5.10
738	GOULD J.	BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA.		1848-69	GBP -	78.00
739	Gould J.	A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America.		1850	GBP -	8.00
740	GOULD J.	BIRDS OF ASIA.		1850-83	GBP -	52.00
741	GOULD J.	A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans.		1854	GBP -	11.00
742	GOULD J.	MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE, or Family of Humming-Birds.		1861-87	GBP -	34.00
743	Gould J.	The Mammals of Australia.		1863	GBP -	13.10
744	GOULD J.	BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN.		1873	GBP -	34.00
745	GOULD J.	THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA, and the adjacent Papuan Islands.		1875-88	GBP -	36.00
745A	Gould J.	A specially constructed glazed mahogany Bookcase made to contain a collection of Gould's Birds.			GBP -	0.10
746	Hakluyt R.	Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation.		1598-1599	GBP -	3.05
747	Harris M.	The Aurelian. A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies.		1766	GBP -	0.15
748	Hartshorne A.	Old English Glasses.		1897	GBP -	3.15
749	HOLBEIN HANS	IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF HIS MAJESTY.		1792	GBP -	25.00
750	Hooker J. D.	The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya.		1849	GBP -	4.10
751	Horrebow N.	The Natural History of Iceland.		1758	GBP -	1.00
752	Hughes G.	The Natural History of Barbados.		1750	GBP -	2.00
753		Icones summorum pontificum et cardinalium.	Rome	circa 1740	GBP -	4.05
754	Magnus Olaus	Historia delle genti et della natura delle cose settentrionali.		1565	GBP -	4.04
755	Maitland W.	The History of London.		1739	GBP -	0.05
756	Millais J. G.	Game Birds and Shooting-sketches.		1892	GBP -	1.00
757	Morant P.	History and Antiquities of the County of Essex.		1768	GBP -	6.06
758	Norden F. L.	Antiquities of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes.; A Complete American Atlas.		1780, 1822	GBP -	0.15
759	Parkinson J.	Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers.			GBP -	5.00
760	Parkinson J.	Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1629		1904	GBP -	3.05
761	Piranesi J. B.	Colonna di Trajano.	Rome	n. d.	GBP -	1.00
762		Historia naturalis	Venice	14 May, 1487	GBP -	4.15
763		The Historie of the World.	London	1601	GBP -	8.00
764	Pontoppidan E.	The Natural History of Norway.		1755	GBP -	2.15
765	Raleigh W.	The History of the World.	London	1621	GBP -	1.10
766	Ray John	Flora: seu de florum cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege.		1665	GBP -	1.10
767	Ray J.	Historia Plantarum.		1686-1704	GBP -	1.10
768	Rippon R. H. F.	Icones Ornithopterorum: A Monograph of the Papilionine Tribe Troides of Hubner. Or Ornithoptera [Birdwing Butterflies] of Boisduval.		1898-1906	GBP -	3.00
769	Rocque John	A New and Accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster.		1748	GBP -	3.05
770	Salmon W.	Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants.		1710-11	GBP -	2.05
771	SCHEDEL H.	Liber Chronicarum, NUMEROUS WOODCUTS.	Nuremberg	1493	GBP -	15.10
772	SCLATER P. L. AND OSBERT SALVIN	EXOTIC ORNITHOLOGY, containing figures and descriptions of new or rare species of American birds.		1869	GBP -	10.00
773	Seebohm H.	Monograph of the Turdidae, or family of thrushes.		1902	GBP -	4.05
774	Selby P. J.	Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology.		1841	GBP -	9.00
775	Swammerdam John	The Book of Nature; or, the History of Insects.		1758	GBP -	1.15
776	Thornton R. J.	A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus.		1799	GBP -	2.10
777	Westwood J. O.	Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis; or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting Insects.		1874	GBP -	1.00
778	Willughby F.	The Ornithology...		1678	GBP -	1.10
779	Worlidge J.	Systema Agriculturae, the Mystery of Husbandry discovered.		1668-69	GBP -	1.05
780	Combe W.	The Life of Napoleon, a hudibrastic poem.		1815	GBP -	1.10
781	Dryden John	Works.		1808	GBP -	1.10
782	Shakespeare W.	Plays.		1765	GBP -	1.05
783	Thackeray W. M. and C. Dickens	The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman.		1839	GBP -	1.10
784	Horsfield T. W.	History of the County of Sussex.		1835	GBP -	0.10
785	Mackenzie Sir G. S.	Travels in the Island of Iceland.		1810	GBP -	1.18
786	Maund B.	The Botanic Garden; consisting of representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants.		1829	GBP -	6.15
788		An Album containing a collection of coloured sporting prints.			GBP -	8.10
789	Beaumont A.	Travels through the Rhaetian Alps in 1786		1792	GBP -	1.00
790	Gerarde John	The Herball or Generall Historie of plantes.	London	1636	GBP -	1.15
791	Harrington James	The Common-Wealth of Oceana.		1656	GBP -	1.00
792	Shakespeare W.	A Collection of prints illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeares.		1803	GBP -	7.10
800	Balzac H. de; Newton A. E.	The Physiology of Marriage.; Amenities of Book Collecting.	Boston	1904, 1922	GBP -	1.15
801	Bolton Edmund	The Elements of Armories.		1610	GBP -	1.06
802	Bossewell John	Workes of Armorie.		1597	GBP -	2.15
803	Feme John	The Blazon of Gentrie.		1586	GBP -	2.05
804		Intentions The of the Army of the Kingdome of Scotland declared...	Edmb.	1640	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.

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.