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
805	Lord Henry	A Display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies.		1630	GBP -	3.00
806	Meehan J. F.; Ramsay Sir W. M. and Gertrude L. Bell	Famous [and More Famous] Houses of Bath and District.; The Thousand and one Churches.		1901-06, 1909	GBP -	2.05
807		Miscellaneous Books.			GBP -	1.18
808	Moermann Johann	Apologi Creaturarum.	Antwerp	1584	GBP -	3.15
809	Montalembert Count de	The Monks of the West.		1896	GBP -	3.05
810	Plummer Charles	Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae.; Bethada Naem Nerenn, Lives of Irish Saints.	Oxford	1910, 1922, 1910-22	GBP -	1.08
811	Post C. R.; Hurlbutt F.	History of Spanish Painting.; Old Derby Porcelain.	Cambridge, U.S.A.	1930, 1925	GBP -	3.10
812	Round J. Horace	Peerage and Pedigree, Studies in Peerage Law and Family History.		1910	GBP -	1.08
813		Silva Gadelica.		1892	GBP -	5.10
814	Spence Lewis; Cohen J.	Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine.; Nederlandsche Sagen en Legenden.	Zutphen	1915, 1921	GBP -	1.05
815	Thompson Sir E. M.	Introduction to Greek and Latin Paaleography.	Oxford	1912	GBP -	1.00
816		Short-Title Catalogue of Books.	England	1926	GBP -	2.02
817	Bange E. F.	Book of Kells described.; Eine Bayerische Malerschule des XI and XII Jahrhunderts.	Munich	1920, 1923	GBP -	2.10
818	Bridges Robert	Peace, Ode...		1903	GBP -	0.15
819	Burchard Johannes	Diarium sive Rerum Urbanarum Commentarii.	Paris	1883-85	GBP -	2.10
820	Fairbairn James	Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain.		1905	GBP -	3.15
821	Ffoulkes C. J. and R. Maiocchi; Conway Sir M.	Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia.; The Van Eycks and their Followers.	New York	1909, 1921	GBP -	2.02
822	Gams P. Pius Bonifacius	Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae.		1873-86	GBP -	2.10
823	Goldschmidt Prof. Adolph	German Illumination.	Florence	1928	GBP -	4.10
824	Haseloff Arthur	Pre-Romanesque Sculpture in Italy.	Florence	1930	GBP -	2.00
825	Hobson R. L.	The Wares of the Ming Dynasty.		1923	GBP -	2.10
826	Hurlbutt F.; Ayrton M. and A. Silcock	Bristol Porcelain.; Wrought Iron and Its Decorative Use.		1928, 1929	GBP -	1.10
827	Jackson Sir C. J.	English Goldsmiths and their Marks.		1921	GBP -	2.15
828	Taking Sir G. F.; Cripps-Day F. H.	A Record of European Armour and Arms.; A Record of Armour Sales.		1920-22, 1925	GBP -	3.10
829	Mackenzie Sir G. S.	Travels in the Island of Iceland.	Edinb.	1811	GBP -	1.10
830	Male Emile	L'Art Religieux en France, Etude sur ITconographie du Moyen Age.		1922-25	GBP -	3.05
831	Malory Sir T.	The Romance of King Arthur Abridged.		1917	GBP -	2.05
832	Read Herbert	English Stained Glass.		1926	GBP -	2.05
833		Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.	Edinb.	1915-30	GBP -	Not Sold
834	Warner G. F.	Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum.		1903	GBP -	14.00
835		Schools of Illumination, Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum		1914-26	GBP -	3.05
836		The Lindisfarne Gospels.		1923	GBP -	2.02
837		The Luttrell Psalter.		1932	GBP -	2.12
838	Edmondson Joseph	Complete Body of Heraldry.		1780	GBP -	1.10
839		Exhibition of Italian Art at Burlington House.	Oxford	1931	GBP -	1.10
840	Guillim John	A Display of Heraldry		1724	GBP -	3.03
841	Millar E. G.	English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIHth Century.	Paris	1926	GBP -	2.10
842	Rutter John; Green M. A.	Illustrated History and Description of Fonthill Abbey.; Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath.		1823, 1904	GBP -	3.15
843	Stewart B.; Conder J.	Subjects portrayed in Japanese Colour Prints.; Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai.	Tokyo	1922, 1911	GBP -	1.08
844	Williamson G. C.	History of Portrait Miniatures.		1904	GBP -	1.08
845	Abbott George; Du Plessis S.	A Briefe Description of the whole world.; The Resoluer; or Curiosities of Nature.	London	1636	GBP -	1.08
846	Browne Sir T.; Malvezzi V.	Religio Medici. The fourth Edition.; Romvlvs and Tarqvin...		1656, 1637	GBP -	2.02
847	Bulwer John	Chirologia: or the Natvrall Langvage of the hand.		1644	GBP -	5.10
848	Bulwer J.	PHILOCOPHUS: or, The Deafe and Dumbe Mans Friend.	London	1648	GBP -	7.00
849	Donne J.	Poems.	London	1639	GBP -	1.12
850	Drayton Michael; Weaver T.	Poems collected into one volume.; Plantagenets Tragicall Story: or, the Death of King Edward the Fourth.	London, London	1637, 1649	GBP -	3.15
851	Sibbes R.	The Epistle of Gildas.; A fountain sealed.	London	1638, 1638	GBP -	1.15
852	Habington W.	Castara. Sonnets in English.	London	1640	GBP -	5.05
853	Hayward Sir J.; Fletcher G.; Udall W.	Life and Raigne of King Edward the sixt.; The History of Russia.; Historie of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland.		1636, 1643, 1636	GBP -	3.05
854	More Sir Thomas	Epigrammata.	London	1638	GBP -	3.10
855	More Sir T.; Smith Sir T.	The Commonwealth of Utopia.; The Commonwealth of England.		1641, 1635	GBP -	5.15
856	QUARLES FRANCIS	EMBLEMES.	London	1635	GBP -	3.10
857	Quarles Fr.	Hieroglyphikes of the life of Man.	London	1638	GBP -	2.15
858	Quarles F.	Emblemes. Hieroglyphikes of the life of Man	London	n. d.	GBP -	0.10
859	Senault J. F.	The Use of Passions...		1649	GBP -	2.05
860	Suckling Sir John	Fragmenta Avrea. A Collection of all the incomparable peeces...	London	1648	GBP -	1.10
861	Wilkins J.	A Discourse concerning a New world & Another Planet in 2 Bookes.	London	1640	GBP -	2.05
862	Brathwait Richard	A Survey of History: or, A Nursery for Gentry.	London	1638	GBP -	1.15
863	Estienne H.; Laud W.	The Art of Making Devises.; The Recantation of the Prelate of Canterbury.		1650, 1641	GBP -	2.00
864	Felltham Owen; Bethune Philippe de	Resolves. A Duple Century.; The Covnsellor of Estate...	London, London	1636, 1634	GBP -	5.00
865	Heylyn P.; Garthwait H.	Historic of St. George of Cappadocia.; The Evangelicall Harmonic.	Cambridge	1631, 1634	GBP -	1.10
866	Montagu Walter; Bacon N.	Miscellanea Spiritualia: or, Devout Essaies.; Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England.		1648, 1647	GBP -	0.10
867	Quarles Francis	The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglogues.		1646	GBP -	1.00
868	Beaumont F. and J. Fletcher	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies.	London	1679	GBP -	5.05
869	Erasmus D.; Strada F.	Epistolae.; De Bello Belgico. The History of the Low-Countrey Warres.	London	1642, 1650	GBP -	1.10
870	Fuller T.; Bacon Sir F.	The Historie of the Holy Warre.; Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh.	Cambridge	1639, 1641	GBP -	2.05
871	Herbert Sir T.	Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique.	London	1638	GBP -	3.15
872	Heywood T.	The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells. Their names.	London	1635	GBP -	3.00
873	Sprigge J.	Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: Being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under...		1647	GBP -	4.00
874	Sprigge J.; Fuller T.	Anglia Rediviva.; The Holy State.	Cambridge	1647, 1642	GBP -	1.10
875	Ussher James; Fuller T.	A Body of Divinity.; The Historie of the Holy Warre.; The Holy State.	Cambridge	1648, 1640, 1642	GBP -	2.15
876	Alfieri V.	Vita di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti scritta da esso.	Londra	1807	GBP -	11.00
877	D'Acuna C.	Voyages and Discoveries in South-America....		1698	GBP -	6.05
878	Froissart Sir J.	Chronicles.		1849	GBP -	5.05
879		USE OF PARIS, WITH CALENDAR.		XV CENTURY	GBP -	56.00
880		USE OF ROME. WITH CALENDAR.		XV CENTURY	GBP -	66.00
881		USE OF ROME.	Paris, Almanac	circa 1526, 1526-37	GBP -	17.00
882	M. R.	A Relation of Mr. R. M's Voyage to Buenos-Ayres; And from thence by Land to Potosi		1716	GBP -	3.05
883	Miall L. C.	The early naturalists their lives and work (1530-1789)		1912	GBP -	1.00
884	Muratori M.	A Relation of the Missions of Paraguay.		1759	GBP -	2.00
885		Strozii patris & filii poemata.; Opera.	Venice	1513, 1517	GBP -	5.00
886	Wilder T. N.; Bewick T.	The Bridge of San Luis Rey.; A General History of Quadrupeds.	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1929, 1800	GBP -	0.10
887	SKELTON SIR JOHN	CHARLES I.		1899	GBP -	15.00
888	Gardiner S. R.	Goupil Monographs.		1898	GBP -	0.05
889	AIRY OSMUND	CHARLES II.		1901	GBP -	15.00
890		Expositions vocabulorum libri qui appellat: Mamotrectus.	Venice	1478	GBP -	4.05
891	Titsingh M.	Illustrations of Japan.		1822	GBP -	5.10
892		Historiae Romanae decades.	Treviso	31 Oct. 1480	GBP -	4.10
893	Voragine Jac. de	Legenda Aurea.	Lugduni	1512	GBP -	2.15

Sotheby’s
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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.