Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 14May1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 14, 1934 - May 14, 1934

Page Size: 946 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
799	Cook, T. A.	History of the English Turf		n. d.	GBP -	0.05
800	Parkinson, Tho; James, J.	Flower Painting Made Easy; Theory and Practice of Gardening		n. d., 1728	GBP -	10.00
801	Woodville, William	Medical Botany		1790-94	GBP -	1.06
802	Duhamel du Monceau	La Physique des Arbres		1758-67	GBP -	1.05
803	Anson, George; Dibdin, C.	A Voyage Round the World; The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin		1749, 1788	GBP -	2.02
804	Grego, Joseph	Rowlandson the Caricaturist		1880	GBP -	1.02
805	Cook, T. A.	History of the English Turf		1901	GBP -	1.08
806	Bede, Venerable	The History of the Church of England		1930	GBP -	1.10
807	Buckley, F.	History of Old English Glass		1925, 1926	GBP -	2.05
808	Cobbett, Wm.; Grimm, Brothers	Advice to Young Men; Fairy Tales		1930, 1909	GBP -	1.02
809	Byron, R. and D. T. Rice; Tilke, M.	The Birth of Western Painting; The Costumes of Eastern Europe		1930. 1925	GBP -	2.05
810	Tomkinson, G. S.	Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses in Great Britain, illustrations, boards 1928		1928	GBP -	0.10
811	Davy, Sir Humphry; Halliday, A.	Elements of Agricultural Chemistry; General History of the House of Guelph		1813, 1821	GBP -	0.14
812	Surtees, R. S.; Ball, R.	Analysis of the Hunting Field; Broncho		1923, 1930	GBP -	1.00
813	Strutt, J.; Hardy, H. F. H.	Sports and Pastimes of the People; Good Gun Dogs		1810, 1930	GBP -	0.10
814	Sheridan, R. B.; Litchfield, F.	The School for Scandal; Pottery and Porcelain		1930, 1925	GBP -	0.10
815	LAWRENCE, MARY	A COLLECTION OF ROSES FROM NATURE		1799	GBP -	78.00
816	Loudon, Mrs	The Ladies' Flower Garden, Greenhouse Plants, Bulbous Plants, Perennials and Annuals		1846	GBP -	11.00
817	ANDREWS, H. C.	BOTANISTS REPOSITORY of New and Rare Plants		1797-[1815]	GBP -	43.00
818	Andrews, H. C.	Botanists Repository		1797 and n. d.	GBP -	6.05
819	Andrews, H. C.	Botanists Repository		1797 and n. d.	GBP -	7.05
820	McDonald, Alex	Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening		1807	GBP -	3.10
821	Papworth, J. B.	Hints on Ornamental Gardening		1823	GBP -	1.18
822	Gronow, Capt; Hindley, C.	Reminiscences and Recollections; True History of Tom and Jerry		1889, 1888	GBP -	1.06
823	Radcliffe, F. P. D.; Vyner, R. T.	The Noble Science; Notitia Venatica		1839	GBP -	1.04
824	Surtees, R. S.; Nimrod	Young Tom Hall; My Life and Times		1927	GBP -	1.04
825	Daniel, Rev. W. B.; Bartlett, W. H.	Rural Sports; Canadian Scenery		[1801]-1813, 1842	GBP -	2.10
826	Sandby, P.; Watts, W.	Select Views of England, Scotland and Ireland; The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry		1781, 1779	GBP -	1.16
827		Copper Plate Magazine		1792-1802	GBP -	3.00
829	ACKERMANN, R.	THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD		1814	GBP -	17.00
830	Blacken, G.	Catalogue of the chiefest Rarities in the Theater and Anatomie Hall of Leyden	Leiden	1707	GBP -	4.00
831		Manuscripts, Deeds, etc.			GBP -	4.00
832	Macklin, C.	A.L.s., ETC.; The Man of the World		1793	GBP -	1.15
833	Fields, J. T.	Yesterdays with Authors	Boston	1882	GBP -	16.00
834	Blake, W.	Jerusalem		n. d.	GBP -	0.18
835	Blake, Wm.	Illustrations to "The Grave			GBP -	1.08
836		Rome			GBP -	3.00
837	Thackeray, W. M.	Character Sketches from, by F. Barnard			GBP -	0.10
838		Broadsides, Early Newspapers; etc. (a parcel)			GBP -	1.00
839		Chinese Drawings			GBP -	2.05
840	Blakston, W. A.; W. Swaysland, etc	The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds		n. d.	GBP -	0.10
841	Latham, John	General History of Birds	Winchester	1821-24	GBP -	2.15
842	Latham, J.	General History of Birds	Winchester	1821-28	GBP -	4.10
843	Barrow, John	Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa		1806	GBP -	5.00
844	Smith, Andrew	Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa		1849	GBP -	1.00
845		Burlington Fine Arts Club		1914	GBP -	0.10
846		Crisp Collection		1907	GBP -	0.12
847	Bertieri, R.; Winship, G. P.	L'arte di Giambattista Bodoni; The Merrymount Press of Boston	Venise	n. d., 1929, 1895-6	GBP -	0.18
848		Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke	Leipzig	1925-8	GBP -	Not Sold
849		Gutenberg Jahrbuch		1925	GBP -	2.00
850	Hackin, J. and Others	Asiatic Mythology		1932	GBP -	0.18
851	Lay, Amos; Catlin, G.	Map of the State of New York; North American Indians	Edinb.	1926	GBP -	1.10
852	Watts, W.; Angus, W.; Cooke, W. B. and S. Owen	Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; The Thames		1785, 1787, 1811	GBP -	2.15
853	Boswell, J.; Green, J. R.	Life of Samuel Johnson; Short History of the English People		1892, 1901	GBP -	1.08
854	Cescinsky, Herbert	The Old-World House		1924	GBP -	1.00
855	Moreau-Vauthier, C.; Brangwyn, F.	Les Portraits de l'Enfant; The Bridge		n. d., 1926	GBP -	1.15
856	Shelley, P. B.	DOVES PRESS		1914	GBP -	14.10
857	Bridges, Robert	The Testament of Beauty	Oxford	1929	GBP -	2.00
858	Flaubert, G.	Salammbo	Paris	1926	GBP -	2.00
859	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The Decameron		1893	GBP -	1.06
860	Beardsley, Aubrey	Illustrations to Salome		n. d.	GBP -	0.07
861		Coronation orders of King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria, etc., in an album, cloth 1831-8		1831-8	GBP -	0.10
862	BOYS, T. S.	ORIGINAL VIEWS OF LONDON as it is		1842	GBP -	33.00
862A		DRAWINGS, etc.			GBP -	2.15
862B	Heath, W.; Phillip, J.	Rustic Sketches; Familiar Life: Studies of Figures and Groups		1824	GBP -	0.18
862C		Scrap Books			GBP -	2.15
863	Chaplin, Ch.	Collection of Engravings from Paintings and Drawings by the most Celebrated Masters; A Collection of 29 etchings by C. Chaplin and others		n. d.	GBP -	1.10
864	Evelyn, John; Somner, W. and N. Battely	Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees; Antiquities of Canterbury		1670, 1703	GBP -	1.15
865	Hughes, Griffith	Natural History of Barbados		1750	GBP -	0.12
866	Shakespeare, W.	Works, National Edition		n. d.	GBP -	0.15
867	Meerburg, Nic	Plantae Rariores vivis coloribus depictae	Leyden	1789-98	GBP -	3.05
868	Raleigh, Sir W.	The History of the World		1614	GBP -	1.10
869	Martyn, W. F.	New Dictionary of Natural History		1785	GBP -	1.01
870	Messina	Instruzioni dello Scalo et Porto Franco ... di Messina		1728	GBP -	2.00
871	Rapicius, J.	De Numero Oratorio Libri Quinque		1554	GBP -	1.12
872	Guicciardini, Luigi	Descrittione di tutti i Paesi-Bassi		1588	GBP -	4.00
873	Plutarchus	Vitae illustrium virorum in latinum versae	Venice	1478	GBP -	10.10
874	Commines, Philippe de	Les memoires, vellum Paris, 1586	Paris	1586	GBP -	1.00
875	Horatianus, O.	Rerum Medicorum lib.; Raymundus de Sabundae		1532, 1496	GBP -	12.10
876	COLUMNA, F. DE	LA HYPNEROTOMACHIA	Venice	1545	GBP -	16.10
877		Breviarium Pataviense	Augsburg	1490	GBP -	16.00
878	Jerome, Saint	Liber epistolarum		1497	GBP -	8.10
879	Perottus, Nic	Comucopiae seu linguae latinae commentarii		1501	GBP -	16.10
880	Rhodiginus, C. L.	Lectiones antiquae	Venice	1516	GBP -	1.10
881	Eusebius; Nanus, Dom	Raymundus de Sabunde; De evangelica preparation; Polyanthea	Strassburg, Venice	26 Jan. 1501, 1 Sept. 1501, 1507	GBP -	2.05
882	Aristotle	De natura, partibus et generatione animalium	Venice	1513	GBP -	0.10
883		Pliny, the younger	Strassburg	1520	GBP -	2.15
884		Aristotle		1511	GBP -	1.10
885	Pulci, Ludovico	Libro segundo de Morgante	Valencia	1535	GBP -	9.05
886	Meyssens, Jean; Malebranche, N.	Regum Francorum imagines; Image [sic] de divers hommes desprit sublime; De la recherche de la verite		1554, 1649, 1678	GBP -	3.00
887	Bizarus, Petrus; Prateolus, Gabriel	Senatus populique Genvensis rerum gestarum historiae (mentions Columbus on pp. 370-6); De vitis, sectis, et dogmatibus omnium haereticorum	Antwerp	1579, 1569	GBP -	1.01
888	Faber, J.	Avicenna; Declamationes diuine de humane vite miseria		1502	GBP -	2.05
889		Aristotle; Thucydides		1543, c. 1527	GBP -	1.15
890		Regino de Prium	Mainz	1521	GBP -	4.10
891	Ryd, V. A.	Catalogus annorum et principum geminus		1540	GBP -	1.10
892	Sabellicus, M. C.	Exemplorum lib.	Strassburg	1518	GBP -	0.12
893	Rabanus Maurus, M.	De laudibus sanctae Crucis	Pforzheim	1503	GBP -	3.00
894	Munster, Sebastian	Cosmographey		1578	GBP -	6.15
895	Paracelsus	Astronomia Magna	Frankfort	1571	GBP -	1.15
896	Raphael; Du Perac, Etienne	Sacrae historiae acta in Vaticanis xystis expressa; I Vestigi dell' Antichita di Roma	Rome	1649, 1575	GBP -	0.15

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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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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.
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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.