Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
Page Size: 719 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
305 Kipling, Rudyard Songs of the Sea

1927

 GBP - 1.00
306 Lafenestre, G. The Louvre: the Museum and the Master-pieces Paris

GBP - 0.10
307 Rooses, Max; Johnson, A. E.; Gallatin, A. E. Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony van Dyck; The Russian Ballet; Art and the Great War New York

1919; 1900; 1913

 GBP - 0.05
308 Bullen, H. L. The Nuremberg Chronicle San Francisco

1930

 GBP - 2.15
309 CATLIN, GEORGE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO London

1848

 GBP - 32.00
310 Daly, Augustin An International Match

1888

 GBP - 0.10
311 HARRISON, GABRIEL EDWIN FORREST

1889

 GBP - 7.05
312 Harte, Bret The Heathen Chinee

1924

 GBP - 0.05
313 Killigrew, Thomas Comedies and Tragedies

1664

 GBP - 1.15
314 LAFONTAINE, J. DE A COMPLETE SET OF THE 276 ENGRAVINGS by Le Mire Paris

1755-59

 GBP - 2.00
315 M'KENNY, THOMAS, and James Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America Philadelphia

1838-44

 GBP - 23.00
316 Powell, H. M. T. The Santa Fé Trail to California; Journal and Drawings, edited by Douglas S. Watson San Francisco

1931; 1849-1852

 GBP - 2.00
317 Shakespeare, William Works

c.1870

 GBP - 1.05
318 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM COMEDIES

1632

 GBP - 22.00
319 Wilkins, John An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language

1668

 GBP - 0.18
320 Wouvermens, Ph. Oeuvres Gravées d'après ses meilleurs Tableaux

1737

 GBP - 2.02
321 Baker, George The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton

1822-30

 GBP - 2.15
322 Bewick, Thomas History of British Birds Newcastle

1797-1804-1821

 GBP - 1.10
323 Bicknell, C. Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera

1885

 GBP - 1.10
324 Boswell, James Life of Johnson, edited by J. W. Croker

1831

 GBP - 0.05
325 BRAUN, G. AND HOGENBURG F. CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM Cologne

1612-18

 GBP - 16.00
326 Browne, Sir Thomas Pseudodoxia Epidemica

1646

 GBP - 1.15
327 Camden, William Britannia

1722

 GBP - 1.18
328 Chauncy, Sir Henry The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire

1700

 GBP - 2.05
329 Darwin, Charles On the Origin of Species

1859

 GBP - 1.02
330 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall The Bibliographical Decameron

1817

 GBP - 3.03
331 Dibdin, T. F. Bibliomania

1842

 GBP - 1.02
332 Dibdin, T. F. A Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany; A Bibliographical Tour in the Northern Counties; Large Paper

1821; 1838

 GBP - 0.10
333 Doyley, Charles The European in India

1813

 GBP - 1.03
334 DRAYTON, MICHAEL POLY-OLBION

1613-22

 GBP - 5.05
335 Dugdale, Sir William The Antiquities of Warwickshire

1656

 GBP - 1.18
336 Dugdale, Sir William, and Roger Dodsworth Monasticon Anglicanum

1655-61-73

 GBP - 0.10
337 Filhol, Antoine Michel, and Joseph Lavallée Galerie du Musée Napoléon Paris

1804-15

 GBP - 0.10
338 Froissart, Sir John Chronicles

1855

 GBP - 4.00
339 Holbein, Hans Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII

1828

 GBP - 4.04
340 Kip, I. Britannia Illustrata

1707

 GBP - 0.10
341 Lamb, Lady Caroline Verses from Glenarvon

1819

 GBP - 1.15
342 Levaillant, François Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique Paris

1799

 GBP - 2.08
343 LEVAILLANT, FRANÇOIS Histoire Naturelle d'une partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes Paris

1801

 GBP - 5.00
344 Loudon, Mrs. The Ladies Flower Garden

1840

 GBP - 3.10
345 Markham, Francis The Booke of Honour

1625

 GBP - 1.08
346 Mayer, Luigi A Selection of the most interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Collection of Views in Turkey

1812

 GBP - 1.15
347 Morris, F. O. History of British Birds; The Nests and Eggs of British Birds

1851-57; 1853-56

 GBP - 1.12
348 Nash, Treadway Collections for the History of Worcestershire

1781-82-99

 GBP - 1.00
349 Original Water-Colour Drawings of English, Scottish, Welsh and Italian Scenery

c. 1833-95

 GBP - 5.10
350 Petrarch, Francesco; Zincgrefius, I. G. Sonetti; Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria Venice; Heidelberg

1541; 1664

 GBP - 0.10
351 PYNE, W. H. THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES of Windsor Castle

1819

 GBP - 19.10
352 Redouté, P. J. and C. A. Thory Les Roses

1835

 GBP - 15.10
353 Robson, George Fennell Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

1819

 GBP - 2.05
354 SCHEDEL, HARTMANN DAS BUCH DER CHRONIKEN UND GESCHICHTEN Nuremberg

23rd Dec., 1493

 GBP - 15.00
355 Shaw, Stebbing The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire

1798-1801

 GBP - 5.00
356 Shaw, Stebbing The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire

1798-1801

 GBP - Not Sold
357 SIMEONI, GABRIELLO LE IMPRESSE HEROICHE ET MORALI Lyons

1539

 GBP - 5.00
358 Sotheby, Samuel Leigh Principia Typographica

1858

 GBP - 1.18
359 Spenser, Edmund Works

1679

 GBP - 1.04
360 THORNTON, R. J. THE TEMPLE OF FLORA

1812

 GBP - 8.15
361 Walpole, Horace The Royal and Noble Authors of England

1806

 GBP - 0.16
362 AUSTEN, Jane Novels

193[?]

 GBP - 2.00
363 Browning, R. Poetical Works

1888-94

 GBP - 1.15
364 Burns, R. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh

1787

 GBP - 1.05
365 Chaucer, G. Works Oxford

1894-97

 GBP - 3.03
366 Chippendale, T. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director

1762

 GBP - 24.00
367 Dobson, A.; Cory, W.; Crane, W. The Ballad of Beau Brocade; Ionica; Renascence

1892; 1891

 GBP - 1.00
368 Dodgson, C. L. Alice's Adventures Under Ground

1886

 GBP - 1.00
369 Dodgson, C.; Burne-Jones, E.; Kingsley, C.; Andersen, H. The Etchings of Charles Meryon; The Beginning of the World; The Heroes; Stories

1912; 1893; 1921; 1902

 GBP - 1.12
370 Carlyle, T. Sartor Resartus

1907

 GBP - 4.10
371 Milton, J. Areopagitica

1907

 GBP - 3.00
372 Dumas, A. Works

1893

 GBP - 1.00
373 Eragny Press; Essex House Press; Hymn of Bardaisan

1907; 1899

 GBP - 0.10
374 Bunyan, J. The Pilgrim's Progress

1899

 GBP - 1.12
375 Shakespeare, W. Poems

1899

 GBP - 2.05
376 Gray, T. Elegy written in a Country Church Yard

1900

 GBP - 3.10
377 Thomas Hoby Essex House Press

1900

 GBP - 2.15
378 Whitman, W. President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn

1900

 GBP - 2.05
379 Keats, J. Eve of St. Agnes

1900

 GBP - 3.10
380 Spenser, E. Epithalamium

1901

 GBP - 3.00
381 Penn, W.; Woolman, J. Some Fruits of Solitude; Journal of Life and Travels in the Service of the Gospel

1901

 GBP - 2.10
382 Erasmus D. Essex House Press; Praise of Folly

1902; 1901

 GBP - 1.00
383 Keats, J. The Keats Letters

1914

 GBP - 1.15
384 MORRIS, WILLIAM The Story of the Glittering Plain

1891

 GBP - 3.05
385 Morris, W. Poems by the Way

1891

 GBP - 2.00
386 Blunt, W. S. The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus

1892

 GBP - 2.00
387 Ruskin, John The Nature of Gothic

1892

 GBP - 2.00
388 Morris, W. The Defence of Guenevere

1892

 GBP - 2.00
389 Morris, W. A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson

1892

 GBP - 2.05
390 VORAGINE, JACOBUS DE The Golden Legend

1892

 GBP - 4.05
391 LEPEVRE, RAOUL The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, translated by W. Caxton

1892

 GBP - 6.00
392 Mackail, J. W. Biblia Innocentium

1892

 GBP - 1.10
393 CAXTON, W. The History of Reynard the Foxe

1892

 GBP - 4.05
394 Shakespeare, W. The Poems, edited by P. S. Ellis

1893

 GBP - 4.00
395 Morris, W. News from Nowhere

1892 [issued 1893]

 GBP - 2.15
396 F. S. Ellis Order of Chivalry

1892-3

 GBP - 2.00
397 Cavendish, George The Life of Thomas Wolsey

1893

 GBP - 3.15
398 H. H. Sparling History

1893

 GBP - 5.15
399 MORE, SIR THOMAS Utopia, edited by F. S. Ellis

1893

 GBP - 6.15
400 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Maud

1893

 GBP - 1.00
401 Morris, W. Gothic Architecture

1893

 GBP - 0.05
402 MEINHOLD, WILHELM Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Lady Wilde

1893

 GBP - 3.05
403 ROSSETTI, D. G. Ballads and Narrative Poems

1893

 GBP - 2.05
404 ROSSETTI, D. G. Sonnets and Lyrical Poems

1894

 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.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    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.