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
600	Turrecremata, J. de	Tractatus de aqua benedicta	Rome	circa 1500	GBP -	1.15
601	Gerson, Jo.	Tractatuli	Augsburg	circa 1495	GBP -	2.00
602		Fragmenta duo e sexto Polybii historiarum libro de diversis rerum publicarum formis	Bononiae	1543	GBP -	Not Sold
603	Cheradamus, J.	Alphabetum linguae sanctae	Paris	1532	GBP -	0.08
604	Modio, G. B.	Il Convito, overo del peso della moglie, etc.		1554	GBP -	0.10
605	Clichtoveus, J.	De vita et moribus sacerdotum opusculum	Paris	1520	GBP -	0.10
606		Statuta concilii Florentini	Florentiae	1564	GBP -	0.08
607		Psalterium Graecum	Parisiis	1543	GBP -	1.08
608	Sadoletus, J.	De bello suscipiendo contra Turcas ad Ludovicum regem Galliarum oratio	Rome	circa 1499	GBP -	2.05
609	Caesar, Caius Julius	Commentarii	Venetiis	1513	GBP -	8.00
610	Markham, G.	The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, etc.		n. d.	GBP -	7.10
611	Leguat, Francis	A New Voyage to the East-Indies... and an Account of the most Remarkable Things in Maurice Island		1708	GBP -	0.08
612	Walpole, H.	Letters	Oxford	1903-5	GBP -	2.00
613	Trevelyan, Sir G. O.	The American Revolution		1899-1914	GBP -	1.12
614	Defoe, D.	Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain		1724-27	GBP -	3.03
615	Sterne, L.	Sentimental Journey through France and Italy		1768	GBP -	12.10
616	Daniel, S.	Certaine Small Poems lately printed		1605, 1603	GBP -	7.00
617	Carew, T.; Fletcher, Giles, the elder	Poems, Of the Russe Common Wealth		1651, 1591	GBP -	2.05
618	Wotton, Sir H.; Charles I; Suckling, Sir J.; Esquemoling, J. and B. Ringrose; Leigh, P.	Reliquiae Wottonianae; Reliquiae sacra Carolinae, or Works; Fragmenta Aurea; History of the Bucaniers of America; North American and West-Indian Gazetteer; Comic English Grammar	Hague	1651, 1651, 1658, 1741, 1778, 1840	GBP -	1.08
619	R. Bernard	Terence in English, fabulae comici, etc.		1614	GBP -	0.14
620		Collection of 55 Plays		1744-1844	GBP -	1.02
621	Spateman, T.; Whincop, T.; Leighton, F.; Gilpin, W.	School-Boy's Mask; Scanderbeg; Muse's Blossoms, or Juvenile Poems; Two Essays		1742, 1742, 1769, 1804	GBP -	0.10
622	Defoe, Daniel	Advice to all Parties		1705	GBP -	0.08
623	Swift, J.	The history of the last four years of the Queen		1758	GBP -	4.10
624	Burns, Robert	Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect	Edinburgh	1787	GBP -	0.14
625	Cowper, William	Poems		1782-5	GBP -	11.00
626	Ruskin, John	The Nature of Gothic		1892	GBP -	1.10
627	Papworth, J. W., F. Wrangham and W. Combe	Poetical sketches of Scarborough		1813	GBP -	5.00
628	Moliere, J. B. P. de	Oeuvres	Paris	1773	GBP -	Not Sold
629	La Fontaine, J. de	Contes et nouvelles en vers	Amsterdam, Paris	1762	GBP -	Not Sold
630	Edgeworth, Maria	Castle Rackrent		1800	GBP -	4.10
631	Wesley, John; Tissot, S. A.	The Desideratum : or, Electricity made Plain and Useful; Primitive Physick; Advices with respect to Health	Bristol	1760, 1768, 1769	GBP -	0.08
632	Steele, Sir R., J. Oldmixon	The Medleys for the year 1711		1712	GBP -	0.05
633	Dickens, Charles; Surtees, R. S.	Our Mutual Friend; Hilling-don Hall		1864-65, 1888	GBP -	1.08
634	Dickens, Charles	The Poor Traveller		1858	GBP -	0.05
635	Dickens, C.	Child's History of England		1852-54	GBP -	0.12
636		World of Fashion		1829-33	GBP -	1.12
637	Scott, Sir W.	Waverley Novels		1893	GBP -	3.00
638		Royal Microscopical Society Journal; Queckett Microscopical Club Journal		1913-15, 1917-22, 1892-1922	GBP -	1.01
639	T. Paynel	Salerno. Regimen sanitatis		n. d.	GBP -	3.03
640	Evans, Sir J.; Wright, Sir A. E.; Smith, W.	Ancient Stone Implements, etc.; Principles of Microscopy; British Diatomaceae		1897, 1906, 1853	GBP -	0.15
641	Gosse, P. H.; Johnston, G.; Lowne, B. T.	British Sea-anemones and Corals; British Zoophytes; The Blow-Fly		1860, 1847, 1893-5	GBP -	1.00
642	Cooke, M. C.; Hassall, A. H.	Handbook of British Fungi; British Desmids; British Freshwater Algae		1871, 1887, 1845	GBP -	1.05
643	Feuillet de Conches, F.; Cellini, B.; Metternich, Prince de	Causeries d'un curieux; Vie, par lui-même; Mémoires		1862-8, 1881, 1880	GBP -	1.04
644	Darwin, Charles	The Descent of Man; Cross and Self-Fertilization of Plants; The Move ments of Plants; Vegetable Mould and Earthworms		1871, 1876, 1880, 1881	GBP -	1.12
645	O'Casey, Sean; O'Sullivan, Seumas; Stephens, James	The Silver Tassie; An Epilogue; Insurrections	Dublin	1930, 1914, 1909	GBP -	0.16
646	Sitwell, Sacheverell	Beckford and Beckfordism		1930	GBP -	0.08
647	Stowe, H. B.; Byron, Lord	Uncle Tom's Cabin; Don Juan [Cantos I and II]		1852, 1819	GBP -	1.04
648	Sir R. F. Burton; L. C. Smithers	The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night		1897	GBP -	2.15
649	Crockett, S. R.	The Stickit Minister and some common men		1894	GBP -	19.10
650	Hudson, W. H.	Birds in London		1898	GBP -	2.00
651	Hudson, W. H.	Birds and Man		1901	GBP -	3.15
652	Hudson, W. H.	A Little Boy Lost		1905	GBP -	3.15
653	Hudson, W. H.	Hampshire Days; A Shepherd's Life; Far Away and Long ago		1903, 1910, 1918	GBP -	1.02
654	Hudson, W. H.	Birds in a Village; El Ombú; Green Mansions		1893, 1902, 1904	GBP -	9.00
655	Herbert, G.	Remains (with Jacula Prudentium, 1651 at end)		1652	GBP -	1.08
656	Taylor, Jeremy	Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy, Unum Neces-sarium	Oxf.	1642, 1655	GBP -	1.02
657	Milton, J.; Latimer, H.	History of Britain; Fruitfull Sermons		1671, 1635	GBP -	0.18
658	Shaw, G. B.	Works		1930-32	GBP -	8.10
659	Shaw, G. B.	Works		1930-32	GBP -	8.05
660	Walpole, Hugh	Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa; Captain Nicholas		1931, 1932, 1933, 1934	GBP -	2.00
661	Moore, G.	Aphrodite in Aulis		1930	GBP -	1.00
662	Terry, Ellen and Bernard Shaw	A Correspondence		1931	GBP -	0.08
663	Synge, J. M.	Works	Dublin	1910	GBP -	0.14
664	Synge, J. M.	Shadow of the Glen; Playboy of the Western World; The Tinker's Wedding		1905, 1907, 1907	GBP -	1.02
665	Clark, G. T.	Mediaeval Military Architecture in England		1884	GBP -	0.05
666	Kipling, Rudyard	Soldier Tales		1896	GBP -	0.10
667	Kipling, R.	Captains Courageous		1897	GBP -	0.16
668	Kipling, R.	Kim, Puck of Pook's Hill		1901, 1906	GBP -	0.17
669	Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP -	0.10
670		Polo Pony Stud Book		1894-1918	GBP -	1.00
671	Swift, J. and A. Pope	Miscellanies in Prose and Verse		1727	GBP -	1.00
672	Romains, J.	Men of Good Will		1933-37	GBP -	1.06
673	Shakespeare, W.	Lucrece		1594, 1915	GBP -	8.05
674	Shakespeare, W.	Hamlet (1604, 1623)		1909	GBP -	5.10
675	Shakespeare, W.	Sonnets		1609, 1909	GBP -	5.15
676		Brief Account of the Origin of the Eragny Press, etc.		1903	GBP -	2.15
677	Flaubert, G.	Herodias		1901	GBP -	0.06
678	Pater, W.	Essays from the "Guardian"		1896	GBP -	1.00
679	Pater, W.	An Imaginary Portrait	Oxford	1894	GBP -	0.15
680	Pater, Walter	Works		1873-96	GBP -	1.15
681	Montagu, H.	The Copper; Tin and Bronze Coinage of England		1885	GBP -	Not Sold
682	Pollard, A. W. and G. R. Redgrave	Short-Title Catalogue of English Books		1475-1640, 1926	GBP -	3.05
683	Hodnett, E.	English Woodcuts		1480-1535, 1935	GBP -	1.10
684	Balch, H. E.	Wookey Hole, its Caves		1914	GBP -	0.12
685	Bond, F.	Introduction to English Church Architecture		1913	GBP -	1.05
686	Stedman, J. G.	Narrative of Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam		1796	GBP -	1.02
687	Hudson, C. T. and P. H. Gosse	Rotifera, or wheel-animalcules		1889	GBP -	2.15
688	Rousseau, J. J.	Oeuvres diverses		1723	GBP -	0.14
689	Woodville, W.; Pratt, A.	Medical Botany; Flowering Plants; Grasses, etc.		1790-4, 1899-1900	GBP -	1.10
690	Evelyn, J.	Sylva	York	1786	GBP -	1.05
691	Porter, R. K.	Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden		1809	GBP -	1.00
692	Binyon, L.	Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Woodcuts		1916	GBP -	1.08
693	Randall-Maciver, D. and A. Wilkin; Woolley, C. L.	Libyan Notes; Development of Sumerian Art		1901, 1935	GBP -	2.02
694	Macpherson, D.	Annals of Commerce		1805	GBP -	2.10
695	Addison, J.	Works	Birmingham	1761	GBP -	0.18
696	Tasso, Torquato	La Gierusalemme liberata	Genova	1590	GBP -	1.12
697	Boswell, James	The Life of Samuel Johnson		1791	GBP -	13.10
698	Goldsmith, O.	Retaliation		1774	GBP -	2.02
699	Hearne, S.	A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean		1795	GBP -	10.05

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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.