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Sale Name
VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS.
Auction Date
05/08/1961 - 05/08/1961
Year of Sale
1961
Sale Number
#08May1961
Total Lots
510
Sold Lots
510
Lots Sold
100.0%
Unsold Lots
0
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
34,196.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
2,045,670.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
489 CICERO M. T. DE OFFICIIS ET PARADOXA, PRINTED ON VELLUM

1465-66

 GBP - 3,400.00
495 HOMER OPERA, GRAECE

not before 13 January, 1488/9

 GBP - 1,200.00
491 COLONNA FRANCESCO HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI

December, 1499

 GBP - 1,150.00
502 PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS COMOEDIAE

1472

 GBP - 1,150.00
478 Tomic PERE HISTORIAS E CONQIIESTAS DE CATHALUNYA

4 June, 1495

 GBP - 1,100.00
468 VORAGINE JACOBUS DE DER HEYLIGEN LEBEN DAS SUMMERTEYL

18 October, 1477

 GBP - 1,050.00
483 Leonardo Bruni Aretino ARISTOTELES. ETHICA, POLITICA, OECONOMICA

before 10 April, 1469

 GBP - 950.00
100 Desbarres Lieut.-Col. J. F. W. A Statement submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Desbarres, for Consideration., The Utility of his Surveys and Publications of the Coasts and Harbours of North America

n.d. 1795

 GBP - 850.00
480 APULEIUS L. OPERA

28th February 1469

 GBP - 820.00
444 TORY GEOFROY CHAMP FLEURY, AU QUEL EST CONTENU LART & SCIENCE DE LA DEUE & VRAYE PROPORTIO[N] DES LETTRES ATTIQUES

28 April, 1529

 GBP - 780.00
506 SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES, PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES

1632

 GBP - 780.00
492 Jacopo della Lana DANTE ALIGHIERI. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA

1477

 GBP - 700.00
498 JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS DE ANTIQUITATE JUDAICA. DE BELLO JUDAICO

28 June-23 August, 1470

 GBP - 700.00
103 DE BRY THEODORE AND JOHANN THEODORE GRAND VOYAGES, PETITS VOYAGES

1590-1613

 GBP - 620.00
485 BIBLIA LATINA

10 November, 1478

 GBP - 500.00
82 TASMANIAN (THE), AND PORT DALRYMPLE ADVERTISER

5 January-11 May, 1825

 GBP - 480.00
505 SCHEDEL HARTMANN LIBER CHRONICARUM

12 July 1493

 GBP - 470.00
507 SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINAL COPIES

1685

 GBP - 400.00
65 MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED-NEUWIED VOYAGE DANS L'INTERIEUR DE L'AMERIQUE DU NORD

1840-43, n.d.

 GBP - 380.00
462 BERNARD SAINT SERMONES IN DUYTSSCHE

27th May, 1495

 GBP - 360.00
85 PITT MOSES THE ENGLISH ATLAS

1680-1683

 GBP - 340.00
482 ARISTOPHANES. COMOEDIAE NOVEM

15 July 1498

 GBP - 340.00
463 BONNOR HONORE L'ARBRE DES BATAILLES

8 June, 1493

 GBP - 340.00
486 BRANT S.; Locher Jacobus; Honorius NAVIS STULTIFERA ... ab Jacobo Lochero philomuso latinitate donata et demum ab Jodoco Badio Ascensio vario carminum genere ..., Opuscula, Dialogus philosophiae de ritu omni verborum venustate edius, Elucidarius dialogicus theologie tripertitus

15 March, 1507, 16 December, 1506, 1509

 GBP - 290.00
346 VOLTAIRE F.-M. AROUET DE SERIES OF TWENTY-TWO PENCIL DRAWINGS BY DUPLESSI-BERTAUX ILLUSTRATING "LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS"

1780

 GBP - 280.00
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  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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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  • <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.
    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.