Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., 23Mar1936,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 23, 1936 - March 23, 1936
Page Size: 453 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 NELSON Admiral Viscount; ELLIOT Hugh L. s.; A. L. s.

GBP - 6.00
202 PAGANINI A. Ls. s.

GBP - 20.00
203 POST.

GBP - 1.08
204 RUSKIN John Six A. Ls. s.

circa 1847

 GBP - 1.05
205 SCOTT Sir Walter A. L. s.

GBP - 4.00
206 STEVENSON Robert Louis A very fine A. L. s. San Frisco

n. d., April 1880

 GBP - 19.10
207 STEVENSON Robert Louis A. L. s.

Sep. 13, 1882

 GBP - 4.00
208 PULEIUS Cupid and Psyche.

1887

 GBP - 1.15
209 Barrie Sir J. M. Auld Licht Idylls.

1888

 GBP - 3.00
210 Barrie Sir J. M. A Window in Thrums.

1889

 GBP - 2.00
211 Barrie Sir J. M. The Little Minister.

1891

 GBP - 3.05
212 Barrie Sir J. M. A Window in Thrums. New York

1896

 GBP - 1.10
213 Barroso G. Mapirunga translated by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

1924

 GBP - 3.10
214 Beughem (Cornelius a) Apparatus ad historiam literariam novissimam... Amsterdam

1689

 GBP - 1.05
215 Burns Robert Poems. Edinburgh

1787

 GBP - 2.15
216 Byron Lord Mazeppa.

1819

 GBP - 2.00
217 Byron Lord Mazeppa.

GBP - 1.05
218 Cervantes M. de The Spirit of Cervantes; or, Don Quixote abridged.

1820

 GBP - 2.10
219 Charles I. Traeicum theatrum actorum, & casuum tragicorum Londini publice celebratorum. Amsterdam

1649

 GBP - 1.08
220 Coleridge S. T. Poems. London

1797

 GBP - 2.00
221 Coleridge S. T. The Statesman's Manual.

1816

 GBP - 0.10
222 Coleridge S. T. Biographia Literaria.

1817

 GBP - Not Sold
223 Coleridge S. T. Biographia Literaria.

1817

 GBP - 0.10
224 Coleridge S. T. Specimens of the Table Talk.

1835

 GBP - 0.10
225 Colendge S. T. Specimens of the Table Talk.

1835

 GBP - 1.05
226 Combe W. The Dance of Life.

1817

 GBP - 1.05
227 DAVIDSON JOHN PLAYS.

1894

 GBP - 3.10
228 Dickens Charles Pickwick Papers.

1837

 GBP - 5.00
229 Dickens C. Pickwick Papers.

1838

 GBP - 2.15
230 Dickens C. Nicholas Nickleby.

1839

 GBP - 1.12
231 Dickens C. Thirty-two plates to illustrate the cheap edition of Nicholas Nickleby engraved on steel in the best manner.

n. d.

 GBP - 0.10
232 Dobson Austin Eighteenth century vignettes.

1892-6

 GBP - 3.00
233 Egan Pierce Life in London.

1822

 GBP - 6.10
234 GISSING George Our friend the charlatan.

1901

 GBP - 6.05
235 Gray T. Poems.

1768

 GBP - 1.10
236 Hardy T. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

1891

 GBP - 1.05
237 Hudson W. H. Idle Days in Patagonia.

1893

 GBP - 6.00
238 Hughes T. Tom Brown at Oxford. Cambridge

1861

 GBP - 0.14
239 JOHNSON SAMUEL IRENE.

1749

 GBP - 7.00
240 Kipling Rudyard The Jungle Book.

GBP - 5.05
241 Maugham W. Somerset The making of a saint.

1898

 GBP - 7.05
242 Maugham W. S. Orientations.

1899

 GBP - 6.15
243 Merrick Leonard Violet Moses.

1891

 GBP - 0.15
244 Morns W. Dream of John Ball.

1903

 GBP - 1.08
245 Polidori J. W. The Vampyre. Sherwood

1819

 GBP - 0.18
246 Shakespeare W. The Sonnets.

1881

 GBP - 1.10
247 Shaw G. B. Cashel Byron's Profession.

1886

 GBP - 2.10
248 Smollett T. Travels Through France and Italy.

1766

 GBP - 1.05
249 Stephens James The Crock of Gold.

1912

 GBP - 2.05
250 Stephens J. Here are Ladies.

1913

 GBP - 1.15
251 Stephens James The Insurrection in Dublin.

1916

 GBP - 1.15
252 Stephens J. In the Land of Youth.

1924

 GBP - 1.18
253 Stevenson R. L. An Object of Pity.

1898

 GBP - 4.00
254 Swift J. Gulliver's Travels.

1726

 GBP - 3.05
255 SYMONDS J. A. In the Key of blue.

1893

 GBP - 1.10
256 TENNYSON A. Idylls of the King.

1869

 GBP - 10.10
257 Thackeray W. M. The Book of Snobs.

1848

 GBP - 3.15
258 Thackeray W. M. Doctor Birch.

1849

 GBP - 0.15
259 Thackeray W. M. The Virginians.

1859

 GBP - 7.00
260 Tomlinson H. M. Old Junk.

1918

 GBP - 2.00
261 TWAIN MARK Following the equator. Hartford

1897

 GBP - 14.00
262 Wells H. G. The soul of a Bishop.

1917

 GBP - 1.10
263 Wells H. G. War and the future.

1917

 GBP - 1.10
264 Wordsworth W. Yarrow revisited.

1835

 GBP - 0.10
265 Yeats W. B. The Tables of the Law.

1897

 GBP - 5.15
266 DANTE LO PURGATORIO.

1904

 GBP - 26.00
267 DANTE LO PARADISO.

1905

 GBP - 28.00
268 VERINO U. VITA DI SANTA CHIARA VERGINE.

1921

 GBP - 17.00
269 Verino U. Vita di Santa Chiara vergine.

1921

 GBP - 4.00
270 Gay J. Polly: being the second part of the Beggar's Opera.

1729

 GBP - 1.00
271 Spenser Edmund The Shepheardes Calendar.

1896

 GBP - 5.00
272 MORE SIR THOMAS UTOPIA.

1906

 GBP - 18.00
273 APULEIUS LUCIUS THE GOLDEN ASSE.

1924

 GBP - 14.00
274 Beaumont F. and J. Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies.

1647

 GBP - 9.15
275 BOCCACCIO G. [FALL OF PRINCCES] A TREATISE EXCELLENT AND COMPENDIOUS, SHEWING... THE FALLES OF SONDRY MOST NOTABLE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES.

1554

 GBP - 13.10
276 M. Musurus ETYMOLOGICUM MAGNUM GRAECUM.

1499

 GBP - 42.00
277 GOWER JOHN DE CONFESSIONE AMANTIS.

1554

 GBP - 13.00
278 Guevara A. The Dial of Princes.

1568

 GBP - 6.00
279 Jenkins J. The martial achievements of Great Britain.

n. d.

 GBP - 6.05
280 Milton John Pro Populo Anglicano defensio.

1651

 GBP - 2.05
281 Pinedo y Salazar Julian de Historia cle la insigne orden del Toyson de Oro. Madrid

1787

 GBP - 3.05
282 RAWSTORNE LAWRENCE GAMONIA: or, the art of preserving game.

1837

 GBP - 11.00
283 WYSS J. D. THE FAMILY ROBINSON CRUSOE.

1814

 GBP - 225.00
284 Keats John Lamia, Isabella The Eve of St. Agnes.

1820

 GBP - 22.00
285 Smiles Samuel Men of invention and industry.

1884

 GBP - Not Sold
286 Crabbe G. Tales of the Hall.

1819

 GBP - Not Sold
287 Trench R. C. On the Study of Words.

1878

 GBP - 2.00
288 Gilmore J. Storm Warriors.

1875

 GBP - 3.05
289 Heath W. Pickwickian Illustrations.

1837

 GBP - 2.15
290 Sibson T.; Onwhyn T. Sketches of Expeditions from the Pickwick Club.; Twelve Illustrations to the Pickwick Club.

1885

 GBP - 1.15
291 Pailthorpc F. W. 24 Illustrations to the "Pickwick Club".

1886

 GBP - 1.15
292 Shipwreck A set of Four Original Water-Colour Drawings depicting a Shipwreck and Life-Boat going to the rescue.

GBP - 8.00
293 James M. E.; Ward Mrs. Humphrey The Heir of Aylmer's Court.; David Grieve.

GBP - 2.00
295 Hardy Thomas The Woodlanders.

1887

 GBP - 4.05
296 Hardy T. Poems of the Past and the Present.

1911

 GBP - 7.10
297 STEVENSON R. L. TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY in the Cevennes.

1879

 GBP - Not Sold
298 STEVENSON R. L. A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.

1885

 GBP - 21.00
298A Stevenson R. L. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1886

 GBP - 3.00
298B Lawrence T. E. Revolt in the Desert.

1927

 GBP - 0.10
299 Lawrence T. E. Revolt in the Desert.

1927

 GBP - 3.10
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
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    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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    Sotheby’s
    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.
    Sotheby’s
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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.