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
405	W. Morris	Tale		1893; 1894	GBP -	0.10
406	MORRIS, W.	The Story of the Glittering Plain		1894	GBP -	4.10
407	W. Morris	Friendship		1894	GBP -	0.12
408	KEATS, JOHN	POEMS, edited by F. S. Ellis		1894	GBP -	15.00
409	SWINBURNE, A. C.	Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy		1894	GBP -	3.15
410		Tale		1894	GBP -	0.05
411	Morris, W.	The Wood beyond the World		1894	GBP -	1.10
412	Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba	The Book of Wisdom and Lies		1894	GBP -	3.05
413	SHELLEY, P. B.	POETICAL WORKS		1894-5	GBP -	15.00
414	P. S. Ellis	Psalmi Penitentiales		1894	GBP -	0.10
415	Savonarola, Hieronimo	Epistola de Contemptu Mundi, edited by C. Fairfax Murray from the original Autograph Letter		1894	GBP -	0.10
416	W. Morris and A. J. Wyatt	Tale		1895	GBP -	4.00
417	F. S. Ellis	Syr Perecyvelle of Gales		1895	GBP -	0.15
418	MORRIS, W.	The Life and Death of Jason		1895	GBP -	4.05
419	Morris, W.	Child Christopher and Goldilind the Pair		1895	GBP -	0.05
420	Rossetti, D. G.	Hand and Soul		1895	GBP -	0.10
421	HERRICK, ROBERT	Poems chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick, edited by F. S. Ellis		1895; 1896	GBP -	10.10
422	Coleridge, S. T.	Poems chosen out of the Works of S. T. Coleridge, edited by P. S. Ellis		1896	GBP -	3.00
423	MORRIS, W.	The Well at the Worlds End		1896	GBP -	4.10
424	MORRIS, W.	The Earthly Paradise		1896-7	GBP -	8.00
425		Laudes Beatæ Mariæ Virginis		1896	GBP -	1.14
426	F. S. Ellis	Floure		1896	GBP -	0.10
427	Spenser, Edmund	The Shepheardes Calendar		1896	GBP -	2.05
428	MORRIS, W.	THE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLES		1897	GBP -	21.00
429	F. S. Ellis	Sire Degrevaunt		1896; 1897	GBP -	0.10
430	F. S. Ellis	Syr Ysambrace		1897	GBP -	0.10
431	S. C. Cockerell	Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century		1897; 1898	GBP -	2.15
432	MORRIS, W.	THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG and the Fall of the Niblungs		1898	GBP -	17.00
433	Morris, W.	The Sundering Flood		1897; 1898	GBP -	2.00
434	MORRIS, W.	Love is Enough		1897; 1898	GBP -	4.00
435	Morris, W.	A Note on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press and a list of the Books printed thereat		1898	GBP -	1.15
436	Morris, W.	A nearly complete Collection of the prospectuses		1892-98	GBP -	3.05
437	Malory, Sir T.	Le Morte Darthur		1910-11	GBP -	6.05
438	Meredith, G.	One of Our Conquerors		1891	GBP -	2.10
439	Meredith, G.	One of our Conquerors; Lord Ormont and his Aminta; The Tragic Comedians		1891; 1880; 1894	GBP -	0.05
440	Meredith, G.	Diana of the Crossways; The Amazing Marriage		1885; 1895	GBP -	0.05
441	Morris, W.	Works		1901-02	GBP -	2.00
442	Morris, W.; Ashbee, C. R.	The Roots of the Mountains; An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris		1901; 1890	GBP -	0.05
443	W. C. Ward	MUSES LIBRARY		1891-96	GBP -	3.00
444	Stevenson, R. L.	Works	Edinburgh	1894-98	GBP -	1.00
445	Villon, P.	Poems; Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp		1892; 1889	GBP -	0.10
446	Shaw, G. B.	Works		1930-32	GBP -	3.00
447	Morley, John, Viscount	Works		1921	GBP -	1.10
448	Plutarch	Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans		1928	GBP -	0.18
449	Hudson, W. H.	Idle Days in Patagonia		1893	GBP -	1.04
450	Kipling, Rudyard	They, FIRST EDITION		1905	GBP -	0.05
451	Conrad, Joseph	Almayer's Folly; Youth		1895	GBP -	0.16
452	Conrad, J.; Jefferies, R.	Twixt Land and Sea; The Arrow of Gold; The Rescue; The Gamekeeper at Home		1912; 1919; 1920	GBP -	0.05
453	Hardy, T.	Under the Greenwood Tree		1872	GBP -	4.05
454	Darwin, Charles	The Expression of the Emotions		1872	GBP -	0.10
455	Stevenson, R. L.	An Inland Voyage		1878	GBP -	1.12
456	Stevenson, R. L.	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes		1879	GBP -	1.10
457	Stevenson, R. L.	Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers		1881	GBP -	0.16
458	Stevenson, R. L.	Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Weir of Hermiston		1896; 1882	GBP -	0.16
459	STEVENSON, R. L.	TREASURE ISLAND		1883	GBP -	5.00
460	Dodgson, C. L.; Hardy, T.; Du Maurier, G.	Sylvie and Bruno; Wessex Poems; Trilby		1889; 1898; 1895	GBP -	0.05
461	Phillpotts, Eden	Children of the Mist		1898	GBP -	Not Sold
462	Kipling, Rudyard	Captains Courageous		1897	GBP -	0.10
463	Galsworthy, John	The Dark Flower; The Forsyte Saga		1913; 1922	GBP -	Not Sold
464	Thomas, Edward	Cloud Castle, and other Papers; L'Art d'aimer nouveau poeme en six chants par Monsieur...		1770; 1922	GBP -	Not Sold
465	Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book		1894; 1895	GBP -	2.10
466	Kipling, R.	Songs from Books		1913	GBP -	1.00
467	Kipling, R.	Something of Myself		1937	GBP -	0.15
468	Ros, Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick	Irene Iddesleigh	Belfast	1897	GBP -	0.10
469	Marryat, Captain F.	Masterman Ready		1841-2	GBP -	1.00
470	Meredith, G.	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel		1859	GBP -	3.00
471	Dickens, C.; Thackeray, W. M.	A Collection of FIRST EDITIONS; The Virginians		1837-65; 1858	GBP -	1.00
472	Morris, Rev. F. O.	History of British Birds; Nests and Eggs; British Butterflies		1870; 1875; 1876; 1870-76	GBP -	2.05
473	Dickens, C.; Thackeray, W. M.	Works	Oxford	1868-70	GBP -	0.10
474	Sir R. F. Burton	Arabian Nights		1897	GBP -	2.05
475	Pepys, Samuel	Diary; Correspondence		1893-99; 1893-1926	GBP -	3.00
476	Britten, F. J.	Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers		1922	GBP -	1.05
477	Cripps, W. J.; Burton, W.	Old English Plate; History of English Porcelain		1914; 1902	GBP -	0.10
478	Richard Neale	Music		c. 1725	GBP -	1.15
479	Horatius Flaccus, Q.	Opera Omnia		1660	GBP -	0.10
480	Hall, Joseph	Select Thoughts		1654	GBP -	0.10
481	Erasmus, D.	Stultitiae Laus	Basilieae	1676	GBP -	1.04
482	Villette, François	A Description of the Great Burning Glass...		1718	GBP -	1.02
483	Jonson, Ben	Works		1706	GBP -	1.00
484	Suckling, Sir John	Works. Containing Poems		1709	GBP -	0.10
485		Book of Common Prayer	Cambridge	1664-5	GBP -	0.08
486	Voltaire	Letters Concerning the English Nation		repaired 1733	GBP -	1.05
487	Scot, Thos.	Philomythie or Philomythologie		1616	GBP -	4.10
488		American Army		1806	GBP -	1.00
489	Johnson, S.	Irene		1749	GBP -	0.18
490	Leesconvel, P. de	Relation du Voyage du Prince de Montheraud dans Pile de Naudely	Merinde	1706	GBP -	0.10
491	Mackenzie, Sir Geo.	A Moral Essay		1685	GBP -	0.05
492	Combe, William	The Tour of Doctor Prosody		1821	GBP -	0.05
493	Gay, J.	Fables		1793	GBP -	0.10
494	Cohen, H.	Guide de l'amateur de Livres à Gravures du XVIIIe siècle	Paris	1912	GBP -	5.00
495	Lugt, F.	Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes	Amsterdam	1921	GBP -	5.10
496	Van Praet, J.	Catalogue des Livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothèque du Roi	Paris	1822-8	GBP -	2.00
497	Juan, G. and Antonio de Ulloa; Cobbet, W.; Flint, J.	Voyage to South America; Account of the European Settlements in America; A Year's Residence in the United States of America; Letters from America	Edinburgh	1822; 1758; 1770	GBP -	0.10
498	Richardson, Samuel	A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments		1755	GBP -	0.05
499	Cook, William; Fontonelle	Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs; Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; Doctrinae Substantiarum sive Naturae apertae; A Plurality of Worlds	Edinburgh	1679; 1674; 1669; 1702	GBP -	0.18
500	Wordsworth, W.	Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England		1823	GBP -	2.05
501	Stokes, J. L.; Wallace, A. R.	Discoveries in Australia; Narrative of Travels on the Amazon		1846; 1853	GBP -	0.10
502	O'Connor	Silva Gadelica; Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber		1892; 1822	GBP -	3.05
503	Defoe, D.; Bentham, J.	Pamphlets; Seasonable Expostulation with James Butler; Indications respecting Lord Eldon		1707; 1715; 1825	GBP -	4.00
504	Faraday, Michael; Twining, E.	Chemical History of a Candle; Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants		1861; 1868	GBP -	1.02

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
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.