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Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 21Jul1931,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 21, 1931 - July 21, 1931

Page Size: 762 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
102		Mexico	Madrid	1783	GBP -	5.05
103	Gamboa, Fr.-Xav. de.	Comentarios a las ordenanzas de Minas	Madrid	1761	GBP -	5.10
104	Zatta, Antonio	La Nuova Zelanda trascorso nel 1769 e 1770 dal Cook Commandante dell' Endeavour	Venice	1778	GBP -	3.00
105	Zatta, Antonio	Nuove scoperte nel 1765	Venice	1776	GBP -	2.00
106	A. Guillaumot	Costumes du XVIIIe Siècle		1874-5	GBP -	2.00
107	RACINET, M. A.	LE COSTUME HISTORIQUE		1888	GBP -	16.00
108	SARGENT, JOHN S.	THE WORKS OF		1903	GBP -	1.10
109	Aikin, Lucy; Pinkerton, John	Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth; Iconographia Scotica		1818; 1797	GBP -	0.10
110	Audubon, J. J; Bewick, T; Walton, I.	Ornithological Biography; British Birds; Complete Angler	Edinburgh; Newcastle	1831; 1805; 1824	GBP -	0.05
111	Bacon, Francis	Works		1825-31	GBP -	1.00
112		Belle Assemblée, La		1818-20	GBP -	1.05
113	Bridges, G. W; Hodgson, Adam; Mackenzie, Charles	Annals of Jamaica; Letters from North America; Notes on Haiti		1828; 1824; 1830	GBP -	2.10
114	Alexander Chalmers	British Essayists The		1808	GBP -	1.05
115	Burke, Edmund	A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful		1757	GBP -	6.05
116	Burke, E.	An Account of the European Settlements in America...		1758	GBP -	1.05
117	Burns, Robert	Works	Edinburgh	1819	GBP -	0.10
118	Byron, G. G., Lord	Works; Continuation of Don Juan		1815; 1825	GBP -	0.12
119	Casa, Giovanni della; Pulci, Luigi; Bentivoglio, Guido	Opere; Morgante Maggiore; Della Guerra di Fiandra; Relazioni; Memorie	Milan	1806; 1807	GBP -	1.00
120	Castiglione, Baldessare; Grazzini, A. F.	II Libro del Cortigiano; Libro di Novelle; Novelle di Varii Autori; Prima e Seconda Cena Novelle	Milan	1803; 1804-10	GBP -	0.15
121	Colden, Cadwallader	The History of the Five Indian Nations...		1750	GBP -	3.15
122	Curtis, John	The Botanical Magazine		1787-1815	GBP -	6.10
123	Dickens, Charles; Motley, J. L.	Dombey & Son; Little Dorrit; The Rise of the Dutch Republic		1848; 1857; 1861	GBP -	0.10
124	Dickinson, James; Grant, Anne	A Journal of the Life; Memoirs of an American Lady		1745; 1808	GBP -	5.00
125	Gay, John	Fables		1793	GBP -	1.05
126	Gibbon, Edward	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1807-02	GBP -	0.10
127	GILPIN, WILLIAM	Remarks on Forest Scenery..; Observations on the Western Parts of England; Observations on the River Wye..; Observations on..; Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty		1794; 1798; 1800; 1808; 1809	GBP -	2.00
128	Hales, Stephen	Vegetable Staticks...		1727	GBP -	2.10
129	Hume David; Smollett, Tobias	History of England; History of England		1808-10; 1810-11	GBP -	0.05
130	Johnson, Samuel	Works		1801	GBP -	0.10
131	Johnson, S.	Prayers and Meditations		1785	GBP -	8.00
132	Newton, Sir Isaac	The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy		1729	GBP -	1.15
133	Otway, Thomas	Works		1728	GBP -	0.10
134	Parini, Guiseppe; Ovid	Odi; Les Metamorphoses	Paris; Parma	1799; 1700	GBP -	1.15
135	Scott, Sir Walter	Lay of the Last Minstrel..; Marmion..; The Lady of the Lake..; Rokeby..; The Lord of the Isles...		1809; 1810; 1813; 1815	GBP -	1.05
136	Scott, Sir W.	Tales of My Landlord; The Monastery; The Fortunes of Nigel; The Pirate; Woodstock; Chronicles of the Canongate		1818; 1820; 1822; 1826; 1827; 1828	GBP -	0.10
137	Shakespeare, William	Plays		1813	GBP -	0.10
138	Sterne, Laurence	Tristram Shandy		1761-67	GBP -	5.10
139	Swift, Jonathan	Works		1754-64	GBP -	0.05
140	Thomson, James	The Seasons		1730	GBP -	Not Sold
141	Ward, H. G.	Mexico in 1827		1828	GBP -	0.16
142	Biggs, Noah	Mataeotechnia Medicinae Praxews		1651	GBP -	3.15
143	CERVANTES, MIGUEL	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha	Madrid	1780	GBP -	8.00
144	DONOVAN, E.	INSECTS OF CHINA; Insects of India; Insects of New Holland		1800; 1798; 1805	GBP -	13.10
145	Giraldi, G. B.	Hecatommithi	venice	1584	GBP -	0.05
146	Marsden, William; Carr, Sir John	The History of Sumatra; A Tour through Holland		1784; 1807	GBP -	0.12
147	Wordsworth, William	The Excursion		1814	GBP -	1.10
148	Worlidge, T.	Drawings from Curious Antique Gems		1768	GBP -	Not Sold
149	Molevile, Bertrand de; Mason, G. H; Pyne, W. H.	Costume of the Russian Empire; Costume of the Hereditary States of Austria; Costume of China; Punishments of China; Costume of Turkey; Military Costume of Turkey; The Costume of Great Britain		1804; 1818; 1808	GBP -	18.10
150	HAKLUYT, RICHARD	THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS		1598-1600	GBP -	12.00
151	Piedrahita, L. F.	Historia General de las Conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada	Madrid	1688	GBP -	6.10
152	WALL, W. J.	NEW YORK FROM WEEHAWK	New York	1828	GBP -	24.00
153	Walsh, E; Mcgahey	A View of the Lake and Fort Erie		1811; 1846	GBP -	2.00
155	AINSWORTH, W. H.	The Tower of London		1840	GBP -	3.00
156	Bedford, W. K. R; Woodward, J.	The Blazon of Episcopacy; Ecclesiastical Heraldry		1858; 1894	GBP -	0.18
157	Bewick, T.	Natural History	Alnwick		GBP -	0.08
158	Birch, W. de G; Bloom, J. H.	Seals; English Seals		1907; 1906	GBP -	0.05
159		Breeffe Methode howe to serve God (A)		c. 1600	GBP -	0.15
160	Charleton, W; Torr, J.	Chorea Gigantum; Antiquities of York City	York	1719; 1663	GBP -	0.15
161	Cruikshank, G.	Fairy Library; Jack and the Bean-Stalk			GBP -	1.10
162	Fox-Davies, A. C; Eve, G. W.	Complete Guide to Heraldry; Decorative Heraldry		1925; 1897	GBP -	1.04
163	Locker Lampson, F.	Poems		1868	GBP -	0.18
164	Mills, J; Watson, A. E. T.	The Life of a Foxhound; Sketches in the Hunting Field		1861; 1880	GBP -	0.13
165	J. J. Howard	Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica; New Series		1874-84	GBP -	Not Sold
166	Papworth, J. W. and A. W. Morant	Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland		1874	GBP -	11.00
167	Surtees, R. S.	Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities		1869	GBP -	1.10
168	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross; Across Country by "Wanderer,"		1882	GBP -	0.18
169	Surtees, R. S; Hawbuck Grange	Handley Cross; coloured plates by H. K. Browne; Young Tom Hall		1926	GBP -	1.05
170	Surtees, R. S.	Hillingdon Hall		1888	GBP -	3.00
171	Thackeray, W. M.	The History of Pendennis; The Virginians		1849; 1858	GBP -	0.05
172	Robson, T.	British; History of Heraldry	Sunderland	1830; 1892	GBP -	0.14
173	Browne, J.	Description of the Representations and Arms on the Glass in the Windows of York Minster		1915	GBP -	0.12
174	Dallaway, J.	Heraldry in England; Genealogical Magazine		1793	GBP -	0.05
175	Edwards, S.	The New Flora Britannica		1812	GBP -	4.08
176	A. C. Fox-Davies	Fairbairns Book of Crests	Edinburgh	1892	GBP -	1.12
177	Fox-Davies, A. C. and M. E. B. Crookes	Book of Public Arms	Edinburgh	1894	GBP -	0.10
178	Henfrey, H. W; Porteus, A.	Numismata Cromwelliana; Town Council Seals of Scotland		1877; 1906	GBP -	0.05
179	Pedrick, G.	Monastic Seals of the XIIth Century; Borough Seals of the Gothic Period		1902; 1904	GBP -	0.08
180	Laing, H.	Seals; Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals	Edinburgh	1866; 1837	GBP -	1.05
181	Ward, W. H.	Cylinders and other Ancient Oriental Seals in the library of J. Pierpoint Morgan	New Haven	1920	GBP -	2.05
182	Coker, N.	Survey of Dorsetshire		1732	GBP -	1.00
183	Edmondson, J; Gwillim, J.	A Complete Body of Heraldry; A Display of Heraldry		1780; 1679	GBP -	0.10
184	Guellim, J.	A Display of Heraldry; Rapin de Thoyras		1679; 1732-3	GBP -	0.05
185	Purey-Cust, A. P.	The Heraldry of York Minster	Leeds	1890	GBP -	0.15
186	Froissart, Sir J.	Chronicles of England		1855	GBP -	6.10
187	Hazlitt, W.	Characters of Shakespeare's Plays		1817	GBP -	1.01
188	Yarrell, W.	A History of British Birds; A History of British Fishes		1843; 1836	GBP -	0.05
189	ÆSOP	Fables		1793	GBP -	2.08
190	Luther, Martin	Eyn Sermon von der Entpfahung und Zubereyttung des hochwirdigen Fronleychnams Jesu Christi; Ein undericht der beicht kinder über die verpotten biecher D. M. Luther; Ain Serman von dreyerlay gutem leben das geurssen zu underrichtten	Wittenberg; n. p.	1521; 1521	GBP -	2.15
191	O'Sullivan, Philip	Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium	Lisbon	1621	GBP -	15.10
192	Elizabeth, Queen of England	Le caractere de la reine Elizabet	à La Haye	1694	GBP -	1.00
193	Saint-Croix, G. E. J. de	Histoire des progrès de la puissance navale de l'Angleterre	Yverdon	1783	GBP -	0.12
194	Shenstone, W; Collins, Wilkie	Works; Saint Evremon; The Fallen Leaves	Edinburgh	1765; 1728; 1879	GBP -	0.14
195	Swift, J.	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver		1726	GBP -	1.14
196	Lawrence, J.	British Field Sports, by W. H.		1818	GBP -	0.08
197	Thomson, J; Young, E.	The Seasons; Night Thoughts		1794; 1802	GBP -	3.00
198	Dickens, C; White, J.	Nicholas Niekleby; The Adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin		1839; 1836	GBP -	0.05
199	Pope, A.	Works		1770	GBP -	0.05
200	Goldsmith, O; Buchanan, W.	The Citizen of the World; A brief Inquiry into...		1782; 1723	GBP -	0.05
201	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe	Edinb	1820	GBP -	Not Sold
202	Goldsmith, O.	History of England		1771	GBP -	1.10

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Book Week
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.