Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 08May1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 08, 1961 - May 08, 1961

Page Size: 510 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99		Ballooning-. Boston Magazine, excerpts for February, May, June, July, August and September 1784	Boston	1784	GBP -	11.00
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.p.	n.d. 1795	GBP -	850.00
101	Turnbull Robert J., of South Carolina	A Visit to the Philadelphia Prison		1797	GBP -	5.00
102		CARTA EXECUTORIA.	Mexico	1735	GBP -	30.00
103	DE BRY THEODORE AND JOHANN THEODORE	GRAND VOYAGES, PETITS VOYAGES	Frankfurt	1590-1613	GBP -	620.00
104	BOURNE WILLIAM	A REGIMENT FOR THE SEA: conteynyng most Profitable Rules		n.d., 1576	GBP -	260.00
105		PRAYERS, SERMONS and other religious texts, in Maya Quiché with Spanish equivalents	Guatemala	dated 15'55 and 1567	GBP -	180.00
106	Burgo Joannes de	Pupilla Oculi omnibus Presbyteris precipue Anglicanis summe necessaria		25th June, 1510	GBP -	6.00
107	Guevara Antonio de, Bishop	The Diall of Princes ... Englyshed ...		1557	GBP -	10.00
108	Chaucer Geoffrey	Woorkes		1561	GBP -	32.00
109	Walther Rudolph	An Hundred, Threescore and Fiftene Homelyes or Sermons, uppon the Actes of the Apostles ...		1572	GBP -	8.00
110	Price Sir John	Historiae Brytannicae Defensio		1573	GBP -	14.00
111	Tacitus	The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba.	Oxford	1591	GBP -	40.00
112	Gierke William	The Triall of Bastardie		1594	GBP -	22.00
113	Dering Edward	Workes		1597	GBP -	12.00
114	Hayward Sir John; Cotton Sir Robert	The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie the IIII, An Answer to the First Part of a Certaine Conference, The Lives of the III. Norman Kings of England, Of Supremacie in Affaires of Religion, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, A Short	n.p.	1599, 1603, 1613, 1624, 1630, 1627	GBP -	18.00
115	Alexander William, Earl of Stirling	Aurora. Containing the First Fancies of the Authors Youth		1604	GBP -	5.00
116	Markham Gervase	Cavelarice, or the English Horseman : contayning all the Arte of Horse-manship		1607	GBP -	12.00
117	MORLEY THOMAS	A PLAINE AND EASIE INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL MUSICKE		1608	GBP -	110.00
118	Augustine St., Bishop of Hippo	Of the Citie of God ..., Brutum Fulmen : or the Bull of Pope Pius V		1610, 1681	GBP -	10.00
119	James Amiot	Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, compared together		1612	GBP -	11.00
120	Carew Lady Elizabeth	The Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Iewry		1613	GBP -	90.00
121		NEW TESTAMENT		1613, 1610, 1615	GBP -	36.00
122	Seneca Lucius Annaeus	Workes, both morall and naturall.		1614	GBP -	85.00
123	Godwin Thomas	Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia. An English Exposition of the Romane Antiquities ...	Oxford	1616	GBP -	8.00
124	Jonson Ben	Workes		1616	GBP -	24.00
125	Aelfric Abbot	A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament		1623	GBP -	24.00
127	Scott Thomas	Certaine Reasons and Arguments of Policie, why the King of England should ...	n.p.	1624	GBP -	13.00
128	Camden William; Craig Sir Thomas	Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, engraved title	Leyden, Elzevir	1625, 1695	GBP -	6.00
129	Burges Dr. John	An Answer reioyned to that much applauded Pamphlet ... viz.		1631, 1631	GBP -	6.00
130	Nabbes Thomas	Microcosmus. A Morall Maske		1637	GBP -	20.00
131	Gray Thomas de	The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier		1639	GBP -	8.00
132	L. D.; Harrison Henry	The Scots Scouts Discoveries by their London Intelligencer, The Last Words of a Dying Penitent		1642, 1692	GBP -	15.00
133	Lilly William, Student in Astrologie	Merlinus Anglicus Junior : the English Merlin Revived, The Starry Messenger		1644, 1645	GBP -	20.00
134	John Jones	Ovid. Invective or Curse against Ibis ...	Oxford	1658	GBP -	14.00
135	Sprat Thomas	Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England		1665	GBP -	10.00
136	Whitcombe Robert	Janua Divorum, or the Lives and Histories of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses		1678, 1638	GBP -	4.00
137	O'Flaherty Roderic	Ogygia : seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia		1685	GBP -	4.00
138	Pepys Samuel	Memories relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, determin'd December 1688		1690	GBP -	40.00
139	LOCKE JOHN	AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING		1694	GBP -	60.00
140	Rodriguez Alphonsus	The Practice of Christian Perfection		1697-99	GBP -	5.00
141	Guillim John	A Display of Heraldry		1677-1679	GBP -	7.00
142	Guillim John	A Display of Heraldry		1724	GBP -	14.00
143	Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp	Visitation of England and Wales		1893-1902	GBP -	2.00
144	Tull Jethro; Dugdale Sir William	The Horse-Hoing Husbandry, or, An Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, The History of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London		1723, 1716	GBP -	8.00
145	Johnson Captain Charles	A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the most famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc., to which is added ...		1734	GBP -	48.00
146	POPE ALEXANDER; Gerard Mr.; Swift Jonathan; Swift Jonathan	Of the Use of Riches, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Lord Visct. Cobham, The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace, Imitated, An Epistle to the Egregious Mr. Pope, in which the Beauties of	Dublin, London	1732, 1733, 1737, 1737, 1734, 1736, 1739	GBP -	50.00
147	Bickham George	The Universal Penman		1733	GBP -	26.00
148	Bickham George	The Universal Penman		1743	GBP -	40.00
149	Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis	Virgil.	Birmingham	1757	GBP -	26.00
150		Book of Common Prayer [with Psalms]	Oxford	1774-1775	GBP -	10.00
151	Du FRESNOY CHARLES ALPHONSE	THE ART OF PAINTING	York	1783	GBP -	80.00
152	Laclos P.-A.-F. Choderlos de	Dangerous Connections		1784	GBP -	38.00
153	Shoberl Frederic	The World in Miniature : Africa		plates dated 1821	GBP -	8.00
154	I. Vitalba	Chesterfield (Earl of) Letters ... to his Son		1774	GBP -	26.00
155	BRONTË CHARLOTTE, Morlet L. C.	Les Beautés de l'Histoire		1774	GBP -	170.00
156	Wordsworth William; Kerr W. S. R., Marquis of Lothian	The Excursion, Fragment of a Parallel between the History, Literature, and Art of Italy in the Middle Ages	Edinburgh	1836, 1863	GBP -	16.00
157	Scott Sir Walter	Tales of My Landlord, Second Series	Edinburgh	1818	GBP -	30.00
158	Stowe Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin		1852	GBP -	42.00
159	Browning Elizabeth Barrett	The Seraphim, and Other Poems		1838	GBP -	22.00
160	Wordsworth William	The White Doe of Rylstone		1815	GBP -	24.00
161	Philipotts Eden	A Dish of Apples			GBP -	11.00
162	Craik née Mulock Mrs. Dinah M. John Halifax	Gentleman		1856	GBP -	30.00
163	Galsworthy John "John Sinjohn."	From the Four Winds		1897	GBP -	22.00
164	Galsworthy John "John Sinjohn."	A Man of Devon		1901	GBP -	20.00
165	Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft	Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus		1818	GBP -	48.00
166	Lamb Charles	Specimens of English Dramatic Poets		1808	GBP -	5.00
167	Dickens Charles	A small two-bladed pen-knife			GBP -	24.00
168	Kingsley Charles	Westward Ho !	Cambridge	1855	GBP -	19.00
169	Doyle Sir Arthur Conan	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP -	20.00
170	Dickens Charles	David Copperfield	New York	1903	GBP -	50.00
171	Dodgson Campbell	An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden		1944	GBP -	11.00
172	LAMB CHARLES	THE NEW YEAR'S FEAST ON HIS COMING OF AGE		1824	GBP -	48.00
173	Barrie Sir J. M.	The Greenwood Hat, being a Memoir of James Anon		1885-1887, 1930	GBP -	9.00
174	Cooper J. Fenimore; Reid Capt. Mayne; Henty G. A.	Home as Found, The Bandolero, The Bravest of the Brave, At Agincourt, eight others by the same author	Philadelphia	1838, 1866, 1887, 1897	GBP -	5.00
175	Stevenson Robert Louis	New Arabian Nights		1882, 1882	GBP -	30.00
176	Stevenson Robert Louis	The Dynamiter (with Fanny van de Grift Stevenson), The Silverado Squatters		1882, 1883	GBP -	6.00
177	Jefferies Richard; Barrie Sir J. M.; Guthrie F. Anstey	Bevis, the Story of a Boy		1882, 1888, 1890	GBP -	8.00
178	FÜSSLI R. H.	Les costumes suisses les plus origineaux et les plus intéressants	Zürich	n.d.	GBP -	28.00
179	Carter Charles	The Complete Practical Cook		1730	GBP -	24.00
180	Dalvimart Octavien	The Costume of Turkey		1804 plates watermarked 1820	GBP -	9.00
181		Costume of the Russian Empire (The)		1803 plates watermarked 1822	GBP -	5.00
182A	Alexander William; Dalvimart Octavien	Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese, Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians, Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians			GBP -	14.00
182	Solvyns B.	The Costume of Hindostan		1804	GBP -	5.00
183	Alexander William; Dalvimart Octavien	Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians, Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Picturesque Repre sentations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians		plates dated 1813	GBP -	16.00
184	Lacoste Eugène and Draner	Costumes du Directoire	Paris	1874	GBP -	9.00
185	Sault Léon	L'Art du Travestissement	Paris, n.d.	second half of the 19th Century	GBP -	4.00
186	Gell William	The Topography of Troy and its Vicinity		1804	GBP -	13.00
187	Westall Richard	Victories of the Duke of Wellington		1819	GBP -	8.00
188	Meyrick Samuel Rush and Charles Hamilton Smith	The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands	Dowding	n.d.	GBP -	7.00
189	Busby T. L.	Costume of the Lower Orders of the Metropolis, Costume of the Lower Orders of Paris	n.p., n.p.	n.d., n.d., 1820	GBP -	15.00
190		Costumes Français depuis Clovis jusqu'à nos Jours	Paris	1835-39	GBP -	52.00
191	Bowles John, Publisher	Britannia Illustrata., Several Prospects of the Royal Palaces, and Publick Buildings of England [etc.]		n.d. 17--, n.d. 17--	GBP -	6.00
192	SMITH GEORGE	A COLLECTION OF DESIGNS FOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE		1808	GBP -	70.00
193	ACKERMANN RUDOLPH	The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster		1816	GBP -	65.00
194		Itinerant (The), A Select Collection of Interesting and Picturesque Views in Great Britain and Ireland		1799	GBP -	38.00
195	ACKERMANN R.	The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster		1812	GBP -	24.00
196	TURNER J. M. W.	VIEWS IN SUSSEX		1819	GBP -	55.00
197	Egan Pierce	Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry and Logic, in their Pursuits through Life in and out of London		1830	GBP -	9.00
198	Sotheby W.	A Tour through Parts of Wales		1794	GBP -	10.00

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.
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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.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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