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 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 08May1961,

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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
299	RUSKIN JOHN	Characteristic Series of 9 A.Ls.s.		10 November, 1881-29 January, 1885	GBP -	110.00
300	FYNNEY WILLIAM, of Fynney, co. Staffs	Autograph Manuscript Copy-Book of calligraphy		1647-1729	GBP -	55.00
301	Blake William	Songs of Innocence and Experience	Liverpool	1923, 1906	GBP -	9.00
302	BOYLE Hon. ROBERT	THE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST: or Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes, touching Experiments ...	Oxford	1680 1679	GBP -	100.00
303	BOYLE Hon. ROBERT	NEW EXPERIMENTS PHYSICO-MECHANICAL, TOUCHING THE SPRING OF THE AIR [whereunto is added a Defence of the Author's Explication of the Experiments, against the Objections of Franciscus Linus and, Thomas Hobbs], A CONTINUATION OF NEW EXPERIMENTS PHYSICO-MECHA	Oxford	1669	GBP -	34.00
304	Boyle Hon. Robert	Tracts ... containing New Experiments betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions [&c]		1673	GBP -	24.00
305	Boyle Hon. Robert	Medicinal Experiments: or, a Collection of Choice Remedies		1693	GBP -	1.00
306	Boyle Hon. Robert	A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing.		1695	GBP -	22.00
307	Lavater J. C.; Vasari Giorgio	Aphorisms on Man, Le Vite de' più eccellenti Pittori, etc.	Florence	1788, 1768	GBP -	1.00
308	Ross Sir John	A Voyage of Discovery ...		1819	GBP -	9.00
309	Sibly E.; Worcester Marquis of; Jennings Hargrave	A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions [etc.], Nature Worship : an Account of Phallic Faiths and Practices		1810, 1786, 1891	GBP -	4.00
310	Geber	La Espositione di Geber philosopho di misser Giovanni Bracescho da lorci novi, nella quale si dichiarano molti nobilissimi secreti della natura	Venice	1544	GBP -	3.00
311	Vassaeus Lodovicus	In anatomen corporis humani tabulae IV	Venice	1549	GBP -	32.00
312	Euclid	Les six premiers livres des elements, traduicts et commentez par Pierre Forcadel de Bezies	Paris	1564	GBP -	28.00
313	Euler Leonard	Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimi proprietate gaudentes, sive solutio problematis isoperimetrici		1744	GBP -	52.00
314		Theatrum Chemicum, praecipuos selectorum auctorum tractatus de chemiae et lapidis philosophici antiquitate	Strassburg	1613-22-61	GBP -	45.00
315	Stelluti Francesco	Persio, tradotto in verse sciolto	Rome	1630	GBP -	36.00
316	Pascal Blaise	Traitez de l'Equilibre des liqueurs et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air	Paris	1664	GBP -	16.00
317	Boyle Robert	Tracts ... containing New Experiments, touching the Relation betwixt Flame and Air. And about Explosions. An Hydrostatical Discourse [etc.]	London	1673	GBP -	18.00
318	Descartes René	L'Homme et la formation du foetus, on a ajouté le monde ou traité de la lumière	Paris	1677	GBP -	12.00
319	NEWTON Sir ISAAC	OPTICKS OR A TREATISE OF THE REFLEXIONS, REFRACTIONS, INFLEXIONS AND COLOURS OF LIGHT		1704	GBP -	80.00
320	Wolf Christian; Rutherforth T.	Psychologia empirica, editio novissima emendatior, A System of Natural Philosophy	Verona, Cambridge	1736, 1748	GBP -	1.00
321	Lavater J. C.	A collection of 32 pieces (engravings, woodcuts, etc.)			GBP -	22.00
322	SMEATON JOHN	A Narrative of the building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone		1793	GBP -	10.00
323	Genet Edmond Charles	Memorial on the upward forces of fluids and their applicability to several arts, sciences and public improve ments for which a patent has been granted by the government of the United States	Albany	1825	GBP -	38.00
324	BEAUMONT WILLIAM	EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION	Plattsburgh	1833	GBP -	95.00
325	Smith William	A synopsis of the British Diatomaceae		1853-56	GBP -	1.00
326	Zeppelin Ferdinand, Graf von	Erfahrungen beim Bau von Luftschiffen	Berlin	1908	GBP -	30.00
327	CROONE Dr. WILLIAM	DE RATIONE MOTUS MUSCULORUM		1664	GBP -	210.00
328	Bartholini Jean; Gautier Théophile; Coppée Francois	A collection of six works bound in 1 vol., Mademoiselle de Maupin, Oeuvres	Geneva, Paris, Paris	1917-1920 and n.d., 1914, n.d. and 1907	GBP -	5.00
329		Bible, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New	Edinburgh	1726	GBP -	6.00
330	Browning Robert; Greenaway Kate	The Pied Piper of Harnelin, Under the Window		n.d., n.d.	GBP -	2.00
331	Byron George Gordon Noël, Lord	English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers		1809	GBP -	2.00
332	Byron George Gordon Noël, Lord	The Corsair		1814	GBP -	11.00
333	Byron George Gordon Noël, Lord	The Prisoner of Chillon		1816	GBP -	12.00
334	Byron George Gordon Noël, Lord	The Corsair, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage		1814, 1818	GBP -	8.00
335	Cervantes Miguel de	The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote, of the Mancha		1652	GBP -	15.00
336	CHIARI LUCA	Delli onori ecclesiastici della nobilità fiorentina	Florence	15 September, 1640	GBP -	32.00
337	Goldsmith Oliver	The Vicar of Wakefield		1823	GBP -	16.00
338	Hardy Thomas	Life's Little Ironies		1947	GBP -	4.00
339	Heredia José-Maria de	Les Trophées	Paris	1893	GBP -	35.00
340	Kipling Rudyard	Barrack-Room Ballads, Captains Courageous, Five Nations		1892, 1897, 1903	GBP -	5.00
341	La Fontaine Jean de	Contes et nouvelles en vers	Paris	1874	GBP -	8.00
342	Locker Frederick	London Lyrics		1881	GBP -	6.00
343	Maurois André	La vie de Disraëli	Paris	1928	GBP -	11.00
344	Thackeray William Makepeace; Seymour Robert	The Book of Snobs, Sketches		1848, n.d., 1835	GBP -	5.00
345	Voltaire F.-M. Arouet de	La Pucelle d'Orléans, avec les notes de M. de Morza		1775	GBP -	16.00
346	VOLTAIRE F.-M. AROUET DE	SERIES OF TWENTY-TWO PENCIL DRAWINGS BY DUPLESSI-BERTAUX ILLUSTRATING "LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS"		1780	GBP -	280.00
347	Voltaire F.-M. Arouet de	Les vraies lettres à l'abbé Moussinot, publiées pour la première fois sur les autographes de la Bibliothèque Nationale par Courtat, Stendhal. La Chartreuse de Parme	Paris, Paris	1875, 1911	GBP -	5.00
348	Caro Oxenford	Wild Flower Folk, and what Poets say about Them		1906-1933	GBP -	1.00
349	Wilde Oscar	Salomé, drame en un acte	Paris and London	1893	GBP -	38.00
350	Wilde Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Privately Printed	1890	GBP -	16.00
351	ZOLA EMILE	NANA	Paris	1864, 1880	GBP -	42.00
352	STENDHAL HENRI BEYLE	L'ABBESSE DE CASTRO	Paris	1890	GBP -	40.00
353	Balzac Honoré de; Schulze Ernst	Les contes drolatiques, La rose enchantée, traduction de E. La Forgue	Paris, Paris	1855, n.d.	GBP -	18.00
354	Noguchi Yone	Keepsake illustré du chemin du fer de Paris à Bordeaux, Hiroshige	New York	n.d., 1921	GBP -	4.00
355	Galitzin Prince Michel	Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque du Prince Michel Galitzin, rédigé d'après ses notes autographes par Ch. Gunzbourg	Moscow	1866	GBP -	26.00
356	Byron George Gordon Noël, Lord	The Works, including the Supressed Poems	Paris	1826	GBP -	32.00
357	Berquin Armand	Idylles	Paris	1775	GBP -	11.00
358	Boccaccio Giovanni	Le Décaméron de Jean Boccace	Londres, Paris	1757-61	GBP -	22.00
359	DIDEROT DENIS AND J. D'ALEMBERT	ENCYCLOPEDIE ou DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES METIERS	Paris and Neufchatel	1751-72	GBP -	240.00
360	Picart Bernard and others	Le Temple des Muses	Amsterdam	1733	GBP -	14.00
361		Recueil contenant les edits et declarations du roy sur l'etablissement et confirmation de la jurisdiction des consuls en la ville de Paris	Paris	1705	GBP -	6.00
362	Choisy l'abbé de	Histoire de Charles cinquième, roi de France	Paris	1689	GBP -	24.00
363	Lully Louis and Jean Louis de	Zephire et Flore, Opéra en Musique [Text by M. Duboulay]	Paris	1688	GBP -	13.00
364	LULLY JEAN BAPTISTE	ARMIDE		late 17th century or early 18th century	GBP -	26.00
365	Lully Jean Baptiste	Ballet du Temple de la Paix	Paris	1685	GBP -	32.00
366	VOLTAIRE FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET DE	OEUVRES COMPLETES		1784-89	GBP -	55.00
367	Stradanus Johannes and Ph. Gallaeus; Tempesta Antonius	Mediceae Familiae rerum feliciter gestarum victoriae et triumphi, Imagines acierum ac preliorum veteris testamenti		1583, 1613	GBP -	55.00
368	Bonfinius Antonius	Rerum Ungaricarum Decades Quatuor, cum Dimidia	Frankfurt	1581	GBP -	22.00
369	Aringhus P.	Roma subterranea novissima	Arnhem	1671	GBP -	50.00
370	Mennenius Francisais; Pignorius Laurentius	Militarium Ordinum Origines, Statuta, Symbola, De Servis		1623	GBP -	7.00
371	Charles VII Emperor	Vollständiges Diarium von den merck würdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der höchst-beglückten Wahl und Crönung, des ... Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Carls des VII	Frankfurt on the Main	1742-43	GBP -	26.00
372	Bardi Giovanni de; Bini Lorenzo; Aubert Giuseppe	Discorso sopra il giuoco del Calcio, the same, the same, Memorie del Calcio Fiorentino tratte da diversi scritture, Discorso sul Calcio Fiorentino d'onde si ha l'origine del Calcio in generale	Florence, Giunta, Florence, Florence, Livorno	1580, 1615, 1674, 1688, 1766	GBP -	65.00
373	Campo Antonio	Cremona Fedelissima Citta et Nobilissima de Romani rappresentata in Disegno col suo Contado	Cremona	1585	GBP -	65.00
374	Gorlaeus Abraham	Dactyliotheca seu annulorum sigillarium quorum apud Priscos tarn Graecos quam Romanos usus	Venice	1621	GBP -	4.00
375	Buomattei Benedetto	Descrizione delle feste fatte in Firenze per la canonizzazione di Santo Andrea Corsini	Florence	1632	GBP -	32.00
376	Perucci Dr. Francesco	Pompe Funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo	Verona	1639	GBP -	5.00
377	Aringhus Paulus	Roma Subterranea	Rome	1651	GBP -	19.00
378	Dugdale Sir William	The Antiquities of Warwickshire		1730	GBP -	35.00
379	Corte Claudio	Il Cavallerizzo	Venice	1573	GBP -	6.00
380	Caracciolo Pasqual	La Gloria del Cavallo ...	Venice	1608	GBP -	12.00
381	Mazzuchelli Federigo	Scuola Equestre	Milan	1805	GBP -	9.00
382	Occioni Giuseppe	Nel solenne ingresso di sua Eccellenza il Signor Giannantonio Gabriel	Venice	1785	GBP -	3.00
383		Poesie per le fauste nozze della nobil donna Andriana Barbaro col nobil uomo Nicolo Foscarini	Venice	n.d. 17--	GBP -	7.00
384		Componimenti Poetici in occasione del solenne ingresso di sua Eccellenza Mss. Zorzi Pisani alla dignità di Procuratore di S. Marco	Venice	1780	GBP -	16.00
385		Poesie pel solenne ingresso dell' illustrissimo e reverendissimo Monsignore Federico Ma. Giovanelli alla sede di Patriarca di Venezia	Venice	1776	GBP -	20.00
386		Poesie pel solenne ingresso di sua Eccellenza il Signor Alessandro Albrizzi alla dignità di Procuratore di San Marco	Venice	1792	GBP -	13.00
387	Franceschinis Franc. Maria	A sua eccellenza il signor Cavaliere Antonio Cappello nel giorno del suo solenne ingresso alla dignità di Procuratore di San Marco	Venice	1796	GBP -	10.00
388	Adorni G.	Per l'esaltamento alla sacra porpora di Monsignor Remigio Crescini, Gran Priore del ordine Constantiniano di S. Giorgio ..., Alli nobilissimi sposi Marchese Antonio Amorini e Contessa Marianna Ranuzzi per le loro acclamatissime nozze, Per le Nozze del Sig	Parma, n.p., Parma	1829, 1792, n.d., 1833	GBP -	5.00
389	A Kempis Thomas	De imitatione Christi libri IV	Parma	1807	GBP -	1.00
390	Albertelli Luigi; Fantastici-Rosellini Massimina; Tansillo Luigi	Ore libere, Ero e Leandro, poemetto di Ternira Parraside, II Podere	Parma	1818, 1802	GBP -	3.00
391		Anacreon. Odaria	Parma	1791	GBP -	6.00
392	Benvenuti Don Giuseppe	Instituzioni di mineralogia	Parma	1790	GBP -	9.00
393	Bernis Fr. J., Cardinal de; Adorni G.; Callimachus; Guarnieri Emilio	La religion vengée, poème, Le Poesie volgarizzate da Gius., Xenophon. Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome e Anzia, tradotti da A. M. Salvini, Sul debito che presumono alcuni aver i Parrochi ed i Curati della Campagna d'istruier i Contadini	Parma	1795, 1809, 1798, 1794, 1804	GBP -	3.00
394	Boethius A. M.; Theophrastus; Lama G. de; Tambroni Cl.	De consolatione philosophiae, Characterum ethicorum capita duo, Elogio storico del Conte Cesare Ventura, Al Ferdinando Mareschalchi Fava ...	Parma, Parma	1798, 1786, 1828, 1794	GBP -	5.00
395	Bondi Clemente	Giornata Villereccia, poemetto in tre canti	Parma	1773	GBP -	6.00
396		Brevi Osservazioni di un Piemontese intorno alcune inesattezze di quatro racconti venuti in luce sopra la tentata rivoluzione del Piemonte nel 1821			GBP -	10.00
397	Caluso Tommaso Valperga di; Cerati Greg.; Melloni Giovambatista; Sanvitale Luigi; De-Rossi G. B.	Omaggio Poetico alla Giuseppina Terese di Lorena, Saggio di discorsi familiari, Saggio di Novelle, I Salmi di Davidde tradotti	Parma	1792, 1807, 1796, 1803, 1808	GBP -	10.00
398	Cassoli Fr.	Versi	Parma	1802	GBP -	10.00

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December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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.

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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.