Sothebys: Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Ancient and Modern Printed Books and Illuminated and other Manuscripts. Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge at their House, No. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Monday, 13th Dec. 1909., 13Dec1909,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 13, 1909 - December 13, 1909
Page Size: 1019 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABELARD ET HELOISA Lettres d'Heloise et d'Abailard, edition ornee de huit figures gravees par les meilleurs artistes de Paris, d'apres les dessins et sous la direction de MOREAU LE JEUNE Paris

1796

 USD - 2.50
2 Abrahams (N. C. L.) Description des Manuscrits du Moyen Age de la Bibliotheque Royale de Copenhague Copenhague

1844

 USD - Unknown
3 Ackermann (R.) History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments Ackermann

1812

 USD - 3.00
4 Allen (Ch. Dexter) American Book-plates, a Guide to their Study, with Examples, with a Bibliography by E. N. Hewins New York and London

1894

 USD - 1.50
5 Adamus de Montaldo Januensis Augustiniani. Carminibus beroicis edita Passio Domini nri Jesu Christi Szm. Quatuor Evangelia & Szm. Nicodemum [Romae]

[c. 1475]

 USD - Unknown
6 AEsopus. Fabulae, Gr. et Lat. nunc denuo selectae; Eae item quas Avienus Carmine expressis, etc. ex decreto D.D. Hollandiae Ordinum in usum Scholarum

1632

 USD - Unknown
7 AEsop. Dat Wonderliche Leven Esopi met syn Ghenuechlijche Fabulen, etc

1585-6

 USD - 1.50
8 Agrippa (H. Cornelius) De Occulta Philosophia lib. III

1533

 USD - 2.25
9 Agrippa (H. C.) Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences

1575

 USD - 2.60
10 Agrippa (H. C.) Female Pre-eminence, or the Dignity and Excellency of that Sex above the Male, done into English (from the Latin), with additional advantages by H. C. (Henry Care)

1670

 USD - 1.90
11 Albertus Magnus. Opus de Laudibus Beatae Mariae Virginia, Expositio Materiae quam tractatur in quatuor libros Sententiarum

USD - 3.15
12 Albumasar. Flores Albumasaris [these two words of title cut out and mounted on a blank leaf]. Incipit Tractatus Albumasaris Florum Astrologie, Venetiis

1488

 USD - 2.80
13 Albumasar de Magnis Conjunctionibus.... Venetiis

1489

 USD - 5.50
14 Alciatus (Andreas) De Verborum Significatione libri quatuor, eiusdem in tractatum eius argumenti Veterum Jureconsultorum Commentaria Lugduni, S. Gryphius

1530

 USD - 2.90
15 ALCIATUS (ANDREAS) Viri Clarissimi Andree Alciati Jurisconsultiss. Mediol. ad D. Chronradum Peutingerum Augustauum Jurisconsultum, EMBLEMATUM LIBER, EDITIO PRIMA

1531

 USD - 6.25
16 Alciat. Viri Clarissimi D. Andree Alciati Jurisconsultiss. Mediol. ad D. Chronadum Peutingerum Augustanum Jurisconsultum, EMBLEMATUM LIBER, (EDITIO SECUNDA)

1531, 6 Apr.

 USD - 1.75
17 Alciat. Emblematum Libellus...

USD - 1.75
18 Alciat. Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus, vigilanter & ab ipso jam authore locupletatus Paris

1542

 USD - Unknown
19 Alciat. Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus....

USD - 4.20
20 Alciat. Andrcae Alciati Emblematum libellus Lugduni

1544

 USD - 2.40
21 Alciat. Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alceati Emblematum libellus, vigilanter recognitus & ab ipso jam authore locupletatus Paris

1544

 USD - Unknown
22 Alciat. Andreae Alciati Emblematum libellus, nuper in lucem editus, EDITIO ALDINA, anchor on title and on separate leaf at end Venetiis

1546

 USD - 7.25
23 Alciat. Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alciati Emblematum libri duo Lugduni

1547

 USD - 2.60
24 Alciat. Emblemata D. A. Alciati denuo ab ipso Autore recognita . . accesserunt nova aliquot ab Autore Emblemata suis quoq. eiconibus insignita Lugduni

1551

 USD - 1.60
25 Alciat. Emblematum Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alciati libri II, in eadem succincta Commentariola, nunc multum, quam antea castigatiora & longe locupletiora Seb. Stockhamero Germano, auctore Antwerpiae

1565

 USD - 3.75
26 Alciat, etc. Liber Emblematum D. Andreae Alciati, nunc denuo collatis exemplaribus...

USD - 3.15
27 Alciat. Emblemata, postremo ac ultimo ab ipso auctore recognita; adjecta sunt insuper perelegantia ac docta Epimythia seu Affabulationes, etc Francof. a. M.

1567

 USD - 2.80
28 Alciat. Emblemata, cum Comment. Francisci Sanctii Brocensis, nunc denuo multis in locis accurate recognita & quamplurimis figuris illustrata Lugduni

1573

 USD - Unknown
29 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata . . nunc primum adjecta sunt Epimythia, etc Lugduni

1574

 USD - Unknown
30 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata cum Commentariis Claudii Minoei Antwerpiae

1577

 USD - Unknown
31 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata, cum Commentariis, etc Antwerpiae

1581

 USD - Unknown
32 Alciat. Emblemata Omnia cum Commentariis per Cl. Minoem; postremo hac editione in meliorem formam redacta, & multis sublatis mendis summa cum diligentia excusa Paris

1583

 USD - Unknown
33 Alciat. Emblemata Andreae Alciati postremo ab autore recognita; adjuncta sunt Epimythia Francoforti

1583

 USD - 1.60
34 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata cum Commentariis Claudii Minoei Paris

1589

 USD - Unknown
35 Alciat. Emblemata cum Cl. Minoei ad eadem Commentariis & Notis posterioribus Lugduni

1600

 USD - Unknown
36 Alciat. Omnia Andreae Alciati Emblemata, cum Commentariis (Cl. Minoei); adjectae novae appendices nusquam antea editae Paris

1601

 USD - Unknown
37 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata cum Commentariis per Cl. Minoem; adjecta novae appendices nusquam antea editae Paris

1608

 USD - Unknown
38 Alciat. Emblemata, cum Cl. Minois Commentariis ad postremam Auctoris editionem auctis & recognitis (Antwerpiae)

1608

 USD - Unknown
39 Alciat. Emblemata; Elucidata doctissimis Claudii Minois Commentariis Lugduni

1614

 USD - Unknown
40 Alciat. Omnia Emblemata, cum Commentariis per Claud. Minoem Paris

1618

 USD - Unknown
41 Alciat. Emblemata cum Commentariis Cl. Minois, Fr. Sanctii Brocensis & Notis L. Pignorii: Opera et Vigiliis Jo. Thuilii Mariaemontani Patavii,

1621

 USD - Unknown
42 Alciat. Diverse Imprese accomodate a diverse moralita, con Verse che i loro significati dichiarano; tratto da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato in Lione

1549

 USD - 1.90
43 Alciat. Diverse Impresse accomodate a diverse moralita, con Versi che i loro significati dichiarano, etc. nella lingua Italiana non piu tradotte, tratte da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato Lione

1564

 USD - 1.30
44 JEAN LE FEVRE Alciat. LIVRET DES EMBLEMES de Maestre Andre Alciat mis en rime francoyse et presente a mon seigneur Ladmiral de France (par JEAN LE FEVRE) Paris

1536

 USD - 12.00
45 JEHAN LE FEVRE Alciat. LES EMBLRMES DE MAISTRE ANDRE ALCIAT mis en rime Francoyse & puis nagueres reimprime avec curieuse correction (par JEHAN LE FEVRE) Paris

1539

 USD - 6.75
46 Jehan le Fevre Alciat. Les Emblemes de Maistre Andre Alciat mis en rime Francoyse (par Jehan le Fevre)

[1540]

 USD - 2.80
47 Alciat. Emblemes d'Alciat de nouveau traslatez en Fracois vers pour vers jouxte les Latins, avec brefves Expositions, etc Lyon

1549

 USD - 2.60
48 Alciat. Emblemata, Latinogallica, una cum succinctis argumentis, etc. Les Emblemes Latin-Francois avec arguments; la Version Francoise non encor Veue cy devant Paris

1587

 USD - Unknown
49 Alciat. Los Emblemas, traducidos en rhimas Espanolas (por Bernardius Duza Pinciano) Lyon

1549

 USD - 2.30
50 Lopez (Diego) Alciat. Declaration Magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato con todas las Historias, Antiquedades y Doctrina tocante a las buenas Costumbres

1615

 USD - Unknown
51 Alciat. Fountains of Alciat.... Trubner

1870

 USD - Unknown
52 Duplessis (Geo.) Alciat. Les Emblemes d'Alciat (Bibliotheque International d'Art) Paris

1884

 USD - Unknown
53 Aldobrandinus. Liber qui dicitur Scala, compositus super Symbolum Apostolum...

USD - 4.00
54 Allan Collection of Silver Medals: Sale Catalogue, Sold by Auction in New York by Leavitt & Co. May, 1870 New York

1870

 USD - Unknown
55 Ames (Jos.) Typographical Antiquities, being an historical Account of Printing in England, etc

1749

 USD - Unknown
56 Ames (Jos.) Typographical Antiquities, considerably augmented by Wm. Herbert

1785-90

 USD - 3.25
57 Amman (Jost) Im Frauwenzimmer wirt vermeldt von allerley schonen Kleidungen und Trachten der Weiber, etc Franckf. a. M.

1586 (reprinted 1880)

 USD - Unknown
58 Amman (Jost) Stande und Handwerker, mit Versen von Hans Sachs Franckf. a. M.

1568-1884

 USD - Unknown
59 Amman (Jost) Zeichner und Formschneider, Kupferatzer und Stecher, von C. Becker Leipz.

USD - Unknown
60 Andrews (Wm. Loring) Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War, etc New York

1896

 USD - 3.50
61 Andrews (Wm. Loring) Bibliopegy in the United States, and Kindred Subjects New York

1902

 USD - 1.30
62 Andrews (Wm. Loring) An English XIXth Century Sportsman, Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books (T. Gosden) New York

1906

 USD - 4.70
63 Edw. Walford, M.A. Antiquary (The): Magazine devoted to the Study of the Past, edited by Edw. Walford, M.A. etc

1880-89

 USD - Unknown
64 ANGELUS (JOHANNES) ASTROLABIUM PLANU in tabulis Ascendens cotinens qualibet hora atq3. mito. Equationes domoruz celi, Mora nati in utero matris cuz quoda tractatu nativitatu utili ac ornato, etc

1488

 USD - 7.38
65 A. Pauli Antonius a Burgundia. Des Wereldts Proef-Steen, ofte de Ydelheydt door de Waerheyd Schuldighight ende Overluyght van Valscheydt; met neder-landtsche Dichten verlicht door Petrus Geschier Antwerp,

1643

 USD - Unknown
66 Arabic New Testament...

USD - Unknown
67 Archaica, containing a Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts

1815

 USD - 4.90
68 Architecture. Diverses Inventions des Temples, Epitaphes, Sepultures et Ornements des Autels, le tout apres les Vrays desseings des plus Celebres Architectes de Rome tant de Michel Ange, etc Paris

1631

 USD - Unknown
69 Architectural Publication Society's Papers for 1848-49

USD - Unknown
70 Arembergb (R. P. Carolus de) Flores Seraphici sive Icones, Vitae et Gestae Virorum Illustrium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum Munich

1640

 USD - 2.00
71 Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, tutte ricorretto, al quale di nuovo sono aggiunte, le Annotationi...

1556

 USD - 1.70
72 Arnold (Thos. D. D.) History of Rome and of the later Roman Commonwealth, etc

1843-5

 USD - 1.50
73 [ARS MEMORANDI]. Rationarium Evangclistarum, omnia in se evangelia, prosa, versu, imaginibusqz. qz. mirifice complectens (Thomas Badensis cognomento Anshelmi tradidit)

1507

 USD - 8.75
74 Ars Moriendi; Editio princeps; Photographisches Facsimile des Unicum im Besitze von T. O. Weigel in Leipzig Leipz.

1869

 USD - Unknown
75 Ascham (Roger) The Scholemaster, or plaine and perfite way of teaching Children to understand, write and speake, the Latin tong, etc

1571

 USD - 4.20
76 Astle (Thos.) Origin and Progress of Writing as well hieroglyphic as elementary; Origin and Progress of Writing as well hieroglyphic as elementary; also some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing

1803

 USD - 1.00
77 Astry (Sir Ja.) The Royal Politician represented in One Hundred Emblems

1700

 USD - Unknown
78 Atkyns (Rich.) Original and Growth of Printing...

USD - 1.30
79 Audifredi (J. B.) Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum Editionum Saec. XV, etc Romae

1783

 USD - Unknown
80 Audifredi (J. B.) Specimen Historico-Criticum Editionum Itcalicarum Saeculi XV, etc

ib. 1794

 USD - Unknown
81 Audsley (G. A.) and J. L. Bowes Keramic Art of Japan

1881

 USD - Unknown
82 Ausonins. EDITIO ALDINA PRIMA Venet.

1517

 USD - 1.55
83 Avery Architectural Library, Columbia College, New York (Catalogue of the). A Memorial Library of Architecture, Archaeology, and Decorative Art (1139 pp.) N. Y.

1895

 USD - Unknown
84 Avienus (Rufus Festus) Opera; scilicet Arati Phaenomena lat. vers. reddita, et Orbis Terrae descriptio... Venet.

1488

 USD - 4.30
85 Ayres (Philip) Emblems of Love

(1687?)

 USD - Unknown
86 Basil Montague BACON (LORD) WORKS, a new edition by Basil Montague, Esq

1825-34

 USD - 7.25
87 Bale (John) The Pageant of Popes; contayninge the lyves of all the Bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the Yeare of Grace 1555, etc

1574

 USD - 1.60
88 Bale (John) Les Vies des Evesques et Papes de Rome, depuis la Dispersion des Disciples de Jesus Christ.... Geneve,

1561

 USD - 3.25
89 BANGESE DEL AQUILA (JACOBO) LO SEPTENARIO (POEMA) [at end] Aquila,

1482

 USD - 15.50
90 Barber (J. W.) United States Book; or Interesting Events in the History of the United States, with Biographical Sketches New Haven

1834

 USD - Unknown
91 Barbier (A. A.) Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonymes Paris

1822

 USD - Unknown
92 Baringius (D. E.) Clavis Diplomatica; specimina Veterum Scripturarum tradens, Alphabeta nimirum Varia, etc Hanoverae

1754

 USD - Unknown
93 Barnard (Geo.) Drawing from Nature; a Series of Progressive Instructions in Sketching, with examples from Switzerland and the Pyrenees

1865

 USD - Unknown
94 Barnard (Geo.) Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours Routledge

1871

 USD - Unknown
95 Barrois (J.) Bibliotheque Prototypographique, on Librairies des Fils du Roi Jean, Charles V, Jean de Berri, Philippe de Bourgoyne et les Siens Paris

1830

 USD - 2.00
96 Barry (Chas.) The Travellers' Club House [Studies and Examples of the Modern School of English Architecture],

1839

 USD - Unknown
97 Beloe (Rev. Wm.) Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books Rivington

1814-1812

 USD - Unknown
98 Berjeau (J. Ph.) Geschiedenis van het heylighe Cruys; or the History of the Holy Cross, reproduced in facsimile from the original edition printed by Veldener in 1483

1863

 USD - Unknown
99 Berjeau (J. Ph.) Early Dutch, German and English Printers' Marks

1866

 USD - 1.20
100 Berjeau (J. Ph.) The Bookworm, edited and illustrated by J. Ph. Berjeau

1866-70

 USD - 1.50
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.