Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 09May1938,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 09, 1938 - May 09, 1938

Page Size: 820 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300	Serie, J.; Huckell, J.; Armstrong, J.	A Plan of Mr. Pope's Garden; Avon; Art of Preserving Health	Birmingham	1745, 1758, 1744	GBP -	1.00
301	Shakespeare, W.	Works, "Temple Shakespeare"		1894-6	GBP -	1.16
301A	Shakespeare, W.	Songs from the Plays		1899	GBP -	1.08
302	Shakespeare, W.	Tempest; Ingoldsby Legends		1926, 1909	GBP -	1.01
303	Shelley, P. B.	Prometheus Unbound		1820	GBP -	5.00
304	Shelley, P. B.	Essays; Letters from Abroad, etc.		1840	GBP -	0.08
305	Smart, C.	Poems on several occasions		1752	GBP -	2.00
306	Smart, C.	Poems; On the Power of the Supreme Being; On the Omniscience; The Holliad		1752, 1754, 1752, 1753	GBP -	2.05
307	Smith, C. J.	Historical and Literary Curiosities		1852	GBP -	Not Sold
308	Smith, A.	Story of Mount Blanc		1853	GBP -	0.05
309	Somerville, W.	The Chace		1735	GBP -	1.00
310	Somerville, W.	The Chace [and] Hobbinol	Birmingham	1767	GBP -	0.05
311	Somerville, W.	The Chase, with a Sketch of his Life		1816	GBP -	1.12
312	Somerville, W.; Goldsmith, O.; Hunt, J. H. Leigh	The Chase; Vicar of Wakefield; Old Court Suburb		1896, 1914, 1902	GBP -	1.10
313	St. Germain, C.	Dialogues in Englishe, betwene a Doctor of Divinitie and a Student in the lawes		1580	GBP -	1.12
314	Steele, R.	Poetical Miscellanies		1714	GBP -	1.15
315	Sterne, L.	Letters to his most intimate Friends		1775	GBP -	1.00
316	Walpole, H.	Fugitive Pieces, in Verse and Prose		1758	GBP -	2.02
317	Symons, A.; Gray, W. F.; Chesterton, G. K.	Romantic Movement in English Poetry; Poets Laureate of England; Collected Poems		1909, 1914, 1927	GBP -	1.00
318	Taylor, Jeremy; Clarke, W.	Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying; Life and Death of William the Conqueror		1647, 1671	GBP -	0.12
319	Tennyson, A. and C.	Poems		1827	GBP -	4.00
320	Tennyson, A., Lord	Timbuctoo (in Prolusiones Academicae)	Cambridge	1829	GBP -	0.05
321	Tennyson, A., Lord	Poems; chiefly lyrical		1830	GBP -	1.06
322	Tennyson, A., Lord	Poems		1833	GBP -	2.02
323	Tennyson, A., Lord	Poems		1842	GBP -	1.00
324	Tennyson, A., Lord	Ode on the Death of the Duke of Welling-ton, A Welcome		1852, 1863	GBP -	0.05
325	Tennyson, A., Lord	In Memoriam; The Princess; Maud		1850, 1847, 1855	GBP -	0.18
326	Tennyson, C.	Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces; Sonnets		1830, 1864	GBP -	0.05
327	Thompson, F.; Johnson, Lionel	Poems; Poems		1893, 1895	GBP -	1.08
328	Thomson, J.	The Seasons; Notes, etc.		1793	GBP -	0.05
329	Thomson, J.	The Seasons		1802	GBP -	0.08
330	Thomson, J.	The Seasons, to which is prefixed a Life of the Author		1813	GBP -	1.12
331	Thomson, J.; Words worth, W.; Scott, Sir W.	The Seasons; The Excursion; Rokeby		1730, 1814, 1813	GBP -	Not Sold
332	Thomson, J.; Bewick, T.	The Seasons; General History of Quadrupeds		1805, 1807	GBP -	0.05
333	Thomson, J., "B.V."	Poetical Works; The City of Dreadful Night; Biographical and Critical Studies		1895, 1880, 1896	GBP -	0.10
334	Thomson, J.; Goldsmith, O.; Glover, R.	Works, with Life by P. Murdoch; Poetical Works, Leonidas		1788, 1793, 1798	GBP -	0.10
335	Thomson, Hugh	Collection of 37 Books illustrated by him			GBP -	5.15
336	Thornhill, F.	Poems		1814	GBP -	0.14
337	Thornton, R. J.	New Family Herbal		1810	GBP -	1.08
338	Tomkins, C.	Tour of the Isle of Wight		1796	GBP -	1.05
339	Tristram, W. O.	Coaching Days and Coaching Ways		1888	GBP -	0.10
340	Trollope, A.	Last Chronicle of Barset; Noble Jilt		1857, 1923	GBP -	0.10
341	Twamley, L. A.; Wood, W.	Romance of Nature; Index Entomologicus		1836, 1836, 1839	GBP -	2.15
342	Rossetti, D. G.; Arnold, M.	Hand and Soul; Empedocles on Etna		1899, 1896	GBP -	0.08
343	Tennyson, A., Lord	Lyric Poems and In Memoriam		1900	GBP -	Not Sold
344	Wordsworth, W.	Poems		n. d.	GBP -	0.05
345	Victoria, Queen	More Leaves from the Journal of a life in the Highlands		1884	GBP -	1.02
346	Walpole, H.; Herd, D.	Correspondence; Scottish Songs; Heroic Ballads, etc.	Glasgow	1837, 1869	GBP -	1.10
347	Walton, I.	Complete Angler, with Lives of the Authors		1760	GBP -	1.10
348	Walton, I.	Complete Angler		1808	GBP -	2.12
349	Walton, I.	Complete Angler		1822	GBP -	1.10
350	Walton, I.	Complete Angler		1823	GBP -	1.05
351	Walton, I.	Complete Angler		1824, 1825	GBP -	0.10
352	Walton, I.	Life of Mr. Rich. Hooker		1665	GBP -	0.10
353	Walton, I.	Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert		1670	GBP -	0.10
354	Walton, I.	Life of Dr. Sanderson		1678	GBP -	Not Sold
355	Walton, I.	Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert		1825	GBP -	1.02
356	Watts, I.	Psalms of David imitated in the Language of the New Testament		1719	GBP -	1.10
357	Watson, W.	Epigrams of Art, etc.; Wordsworth's Grave; Father of the Forest; Eloping Angels; Excursions in Criticism; Collected Poems		1884, 1890, 1895, 1893, 1893, 1898	GBP -	Not Sold
358	Wesley, S.; Gay, J.; Gay, J.	History of the New Testament; Fables; Poems on several occasions		1701, 1816, 1775	GBP -	1.08
359	White, G.	Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP -	2.02
360	White, G.; Pater, W.; Trelawny, E. J.	Natural History of Selbourne; Miscellaneous Studies; Letters		1877, 1909, 1910	GBP -	0.12
361	Wilkinson, J.	Select Views in Cumberland; Westmoreland and Lancashire		1810	GBP -	0.15
362	Williams, J.; Campbell, J.; Campbell, W.; Wilson, S. S.	Narrative of Missionary Enterprises; Maritime Discovery; British India; Sixteen Years in Malta and Greece		1837, 1840, 1839, n. d.	GBP -	0.18
363	Wilson, O. S.; Berkeley, M. J.	Larvae of the British Lepidoptera; British Fungology		1880, 1860	GBP -	Not Sold
364	Wilson, E.; Harper, C. G.	Memorabilia Cantabrigiae; Cambridge; Ely and King's Lynn Rd.		1801, 1902	GBP -	0.16
365	Wither, G.	Britain's Remembrancer		1628	GBP -	0.10
366	Wither, G.	Letters of Advice		1644	GBP -	0.14
367	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Original Stories from Real Life		1791	GBP -	1.12
368	Wordsworth, Dora	Album of MS. Poems, etc.		July 7th, 1824	GBP -	8.05
369	Wordsworth, W. and S. T. Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads		1798	GBP -	52.00
370	Wordsworth, W. and S. T. Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads		1798	GBP -	16.00
371	Wordsworth, W. and S. T. Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads		1800	GBP -	3.15
372	Wordsworth, W. and S. T. Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads		1800	GBP -	8.10
373	Wordsworth, W. and Coleridge	Lyrical Ballads		1802, 1805	GBP -	0.10
374	Wordsworth, W.	Poems		1807	GBP -	11.10
375	Wordsworth, W.	Poems		1807	GBP -	1.08
376	Wordsworth, W.	Poems		1815	GBP -	3.00
377	Wordsworth, W.	A. L. s., "W. Wordsworth", to Mrs. Clarkson	Rydall Mount	Nov. 25, 1815	GBP -	3.00
378	Wordsworth, W.	Miscellaneous Poems		1820	GBP -	0.12
379	Wordsworth, W.	Miscellaneous Poems		1820	GBP -	0.05
380	Wordsworth, W.	Concerning the Relations of Great Britain; Spain and Portugal		1809	GBP -	7.00
381	Wordsworth, W.	Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, etc.		1809	GBP -	1.15
382	Wordsworth, W.	Guide through the District of the Lakes	Kendal	1835	GBP -	1.08
383	Wordsworth, W.	The Prelude		1850	GBP -	0.10
384	Wordsworth, W.	The Recluse		1891	GBP -	0.10
385	Wordsworth, W.	The Case of the Orphan and Creditors of John Ayliffe		1761	GBP -	2.02
386	Wordsworth, W.	An Evening Walk		1793	GBP -	61.00
387	Wordsworth, W.	The Excursion		1814	GBP -	1.08
388	Wordsworth, W.	White Doe of Rylstone		1815	GBP -	16.00
389	Wordsworth, W.	Thanksgiving Ode, Jan. 18, 1816, with other Short Pieces; A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns		1816, 1816, 1816	GBP -	2.05
390	Wordsworth, W.	Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse		1819	GBP -	2.10
391	Wordsworth, W.	Peter Bell		1819	GBP -	2.08
392	Wordsworth, W.	Peter Bell		1819	GBP -	0.15
393	Wordsworth, W.	The Waggoner		1819	GBP -	2.15
394	Wordsworth, W.	The River Duddon, etc.		1820	GBP -	0.15
395	Wordsworth, W.	Memorials of a Tour on the Continent		1820, 1822	GBP -	1.12
396	Wordsworth, W.	Ecclesiastical Sketches		1822	GBP -	3.00
397	Wordsworth, W.	Kendal and Windermere Railway		1845	GBP -	3.05
398	Wordsworth, W.; Scott, Sir W.	White Doe of Rylstone; Lady of the Lake		1815, 1810	GBP -	0.10

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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.

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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.

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.