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
903	Shaw (Henry)	Handbook of the Art of Illumination as practised during the Middle Ages		1866	USD -	Unknown
904	Shaw (R. Norman)	Sketches for Cottages and other Buildings designed to be constructed in the Patent Cement Slab System of W. H. Lascelles		1878	USD -	Unknown
905	Sheraton (Thomas)	The CABINET-MAKER and UPHOLSTERER'S DRAWING BOOK, in Four Parts		1802	USD -	7.00
906	[Singer (S. W.)]	Some Account of the Book Printed at Oxford in MCCCCLVII under the title of Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum; in which is examined its claim to be considered the First Book Printed in England		1812	USD -	1.40
907	Singer (S. W.)	Researches into the History of Playing Cards; with illustrations of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood		1816	USD -	1.90
908	Singer (S. W.)	Text of Shakespeare Vindicated, from J. P. Collier's Interpolations, etc			USD -	1.10
909	Skeen (Wm.)	Early Typography	Colombo	1872	USD -	Unknown
910	Smids (L.)	Pictura Loquens, sive Heroicarum Tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck, ennaratio et explicatio	Amst.	1695	USD -	1.50
911	Smith (Wm.)	History of the Holy Jesus: with the Lives and Deaths of the Holy Evangelists and Apostles, fourteenth edition	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
912	Soane (Geo.)	New Curiosities of Literature, and Book of the Months		1849	USD -	Unknown
914		Soane Museum. Description of the House and Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields		1835	USD -	Unknown
915		Syston Park Library. Sale Catalogue of the Important Library of Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart		1884	USD -	Unknown
916	Soleil (Felix)	Les Heures Gothiques et la Litterature Pieuse, au XV et XVI Siecles	Rouen,	1882	USD -	1.80
917	Sonnius (Fr. Canonicus Ultrajectensis)	Examen Tyronum Militiae Christianae an Christiane instituti sunt	Ultrajecti,	1554	USD -	Unknown
918	Spence (Jos.)	Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men, from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, etc		1820	USD -	Unknown
919	Stephens (Leslie)	Hours in a Library, series I and II		1874-76	USD -	Unknown
920	Stevens (Henry)	Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana: a Descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America		1853-62	USD -	Unknown
921	Stevens (Henry)	The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1867: a Bibliographical Description		1878	USD -	Unknown
922	Stevens (Henry)	Benjamin Franklin's Life and Writings: a Bibliographical Essay on the Stevens' Collection of Books and MSS. relating to Doctor Franklin		1881	USD -	Unknown
923	Stewart (C. J.)	Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Ashton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire		1833	USD -	Unknown
924	Stothard (Thos.)	Life, with Personal Reminiscences by Mrs. Bray		1851	USD -	1.95
925	Stothard (Thomas)	Life, with Personal Reminiscences by Mrs. Bray		1851	USD -	3.25
926	Stowe (John)	Chronicles of England from Brute unto this Present Yeare of Christ		1580	USD -	Unknown
927	Sturt (John)	The Book of Common Prayer, etc. according to the Use of the Church of England, with the Psalter, Special Forms of Prayer, etc		1717	USD -	1.70
928	Sturt (John)	The Orthodox Communicant, by Way of Meditation, or the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper		(1721)	USD -	Unknown
929	Suckling (Sir John)	Works, containing his Poems, Letters and Plays		1709	USD -	Unknown
930	Suckling (Sir John)	Works, containing his Poems, Letters and Plays		ib. 1719	USD -	Unknown
931	Sucquet (Ant. S.J.)	Via Vitae AEternae iconibus illustrata per Boetium a Bolswert	Antwerpiae,	1620	USD -	1.30
932	Symeoni (Gab.)	Les Illustres Observations Antiques en son dernier Voyage d'Italie l'an 1557	Lyon	1558	USD -	5.25
933	Everat (AEg.)	Tobacco. De Herba Panacea quam alii Tabacum alii Petum...		1644	USD -	Unknown
934	Taine (H. A.)	History of English Literature, translated by H. Van Laun		1877	USD -	4.90
935	Talbert (B. J.)	Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metal-work, Tapestries, Decorations, etc	Batsford	1876	USD -	Unknown
936	Tarbuck (E. L.)	Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentery and Joinery	Leipz and Lond.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
937	Tasso (Bernardo)	Rime, divise in cinque libri nuovamente stampate	Vinegia,	1560	USD -	3.60
938	Taylor (Chas.)	A Familiar Treatise on Drawing, for Youth, being an Elementary Introduction to the Fine Arts		1822	USD -	Unknown
939	Taylor (G. L.) and Edw. Cresy	Architectural Antiquities of Rome		1821-2	USD -	Unknown
940	TAYLOR (JOHN, Water Poet)	ALL THE WORKES; being Sixty and three in Number; collected into one volume by the Author; with Sundry New Additions, corrected, revised and newly imprinted		1630	USD -	4.00
941	Taylor (John, Water Poet)	The Pennyles Pilgrimage, or the Moneylesse Perambulation; How he travailed on foot from London to Edinburgh, not carrying any money to and fro, etc		1618	USD -	1.40
942	J. O. Halliwell	Taylor (John, Water Poet) A Short Relation of a Journey through Wales made in the Year 1652		1859	USD -	Unknown
943	Ternaux-Compans (H.)	Bibliotheque Asiatique et Africaine, ou Catalogue des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Asie et a l'Afrique, qui ont paru depuis la Decouverte de l'Imprimerie jusqu'en 1700	Paris	1841	USD -	Unknown
944	Ternaux-Compans (H.)	Notice sur les Imprimeries qui existent ou ont existe en Europe (avec les Nouvelles Additions et Supplement), half morocco..	Paris	1851	USD -	Unknown
945		Testament. [Luther, 1522.] Das Neue Testament deutsch von Martin Luther, nachbildung der zu Wittenberg 1522 erchienenen ersten Ausgabe; mit einer Einleitung von Julius Kostlin	Berlin	1883	USD -	Unknown
946	Thomas (Fr.)	Historia Illust. Romanorum a Jano usq. ad Criptam a Gotthis urbem jam pridem edita	Romae	1510	USD -	3.15
947	Thomson (Jas.)	De Courci; a Tale in two cantos, with other Poems, and commemorative Festival Addresses		1817	USD -	Unknown
948	Toovey (Jas.)	Catalogue of an Extensive and Extraordinary Assemblage of the Productions of the Aldine Press, with the Lyonese and Venetian Counterfeits and the Giunta Series, etc			USD -	Unknown
949	Tory (Geoffrey)	Peintre et Graveur, Premier Imprimeur Royal, etc	Paris	1865	USD -	1.30
950		Tractatus Variis. Augustinus de Ancona; de Amori Spiriti Sancti-Conrad Zolkow..		1420-23	USD -	2.70
951		Triumphus Amoris, de Cunctis Universi hujus Incolis Actus, Emblematibus ac Symbolis Latinis, Italicis, Gallicis, Germanicis oculis exhibitus; oder; die uber den gantzen Erd-Craisz Triumphirende Liebe, etc	Augspurg,	1695	USD -	Unknown
952		Trissino. La Italia Liberata da Gotthi	Roma	1547-48	USD -	4.20
953	Truefitt (George)	Designs for Country Churches		1850	USD -	Unknown
954	Turner (Dawson)	Synopsis of the British Fuci	Yarmouth	1802	USD -	3.15
955	Twining (Louisa)	Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art		1852	USD -	Unknown
956	Typotius (Jac.)	Symbola Divina & Humana Pontificum, Imperatorum, Regium; accessit brevis et facilis Isagoga	Francof.	1642	USD -	1.10
957	Upjohn (Rich.)	Rural Architecture: Designs, Working Drawings and Specifications for a Wooden Church and other Rural Structures	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
958		Urines. Here begynneth the Seynge of Urynes, of all the Coloures that Urynes be of, with the Medicynes annexed, etc	Fletestrete	1548	USD -	4.50
959	Uzanne (O.)	Nos Amis les Livres. Causeries sur la Litterature Curieux et La Librairie			USD -	1.60
960	Vacquer (Th.)	Maisons Remarquables de Paris construites pendant les trois dernieres Annees	Paris	-1862	USD -	Unknown
961	Vaenius (Otho)	Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa	Antwerpiae,	1608	USD -	Unknown
962	Vaenius (Otho)	Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa		ib. 1608	USD -	Unknown
963	Vaenius (Otho)	Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa. Emblems of Love with Verses in Latin, English and Italian		ib. 1608	USD -	Unknown
964	Vaenius (Otho)	Amoris Divini Emblemata	Antwerpiae,	1615	USD -	1.50
965	Vaenius (Otho)	Les Emblemes de l'Amour Humain	A Brusselles,	1668	USD -	1.50
966	Vaenius (Otho)	Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata Imaginibus in aes incisis notisq	Antwerpiae,		USD -	1.20
967	Vaenius (Otho)	Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, imaginibus in aes incisis notisque illustrata, Editio nova correctior & SS. Patrum, Senecae atque Aliorum Philosophorum & Poetarum Sententiis, novisque versibus aucta	Bruxellis,	1683	USD -	1.15
968	Vallee (Leon)	Bibliographie des Bibliographies divisee en deux Parties	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
969	Van Praet (Jos.)	Catalogue des Livres Imprimes sur Velin de la Bibliotheque du Roi; et des Bibliotheques tant Publiques que Particulieres	Paris	1822-28	USD -	2.10
970	Varin (A. et E.)	L'Architecture Pittoresque en Suisse ou Choix de Constructions Rustiques	Paris	1861	USD -	Unknown
971	Vatout (J.)	Histoire Lithographiee du Palais Royal	Paris	1836	USD -	Unknown
972	VECELLIO (CESARE)	HABITI ANTICHI ET MODERNI, di tutto il Mondo, di nuovo accresciuti di molte figure	Venetia	1598	USD -	5.00
973		Velleius Paterculus. Historia Romana, cum notis ad usum Delphini	Paris	1675	USD -	2.30
974	Velserus (Marcus)	Conversio et Passio SS. Martyrum Afrae, Hileriae, Dignae, Eunomiae, Eutropiae; quae ante annos Paullo minus MCCC Aug. Vind. passae sunt cum commentario	Venet.	1591	USD -	1.00
975	Vergilius (Polidorus, Urbinatis)	De Inventoribus rerum prior editio, tribus primis complexa libris, ab ipso auctore recognita et locupletata; cui editioni adglutinavit Instituta omnia nostrae Christianae religionis, etc	Paris	1528	USD -	1.80
976	Vergilius (Polydorus)	De Rerum Inventoribus lib. VIII et de Prodigiis lib. III, cum indicibus	Amst.	1671	USD -	1.60
977	Vernes (M.)	Le Voyageur Sentimental, ou ma Promenade a Yverdun	a Londres (edition Cazin)	1786	USD -	1.40
978	Versor (Joannes)	Versons sup. Octo Partes Orationis Donati pulcherrimu comentu cum optimis Argumentis ac Replicis eidem adiectis	Colonie	1507	USD -	2.70
979	Verstegan (R.)	A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities, concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation	Antwerp,	1605	USD -	Unknown
980	Vicus (AEneas)	Ex-libris XXIII Commentariorumin Vetera Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata	Venet.	1560	USD -	2.25
981		VIOLLET-LE-DUC. DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DE L'ARCHITECTURE FRANCAISE du XI au XVI Siecle	Paris	1867-70	USD -	6.25
982	Viollet-le-Duc (E. E.)	Discourses on Architecture translated, with an Essay by H. Van Brant	Boston	1875	USD -	1.55
983		Virgilius. Carmina Omnia, perpetuo Commentario explieuit Fr. Dubner			USD -	1.50
984	Vivaldus (J. Lud.)	Opus Regale in quo continentur infra-scripta opuscula. [Epistola Consolatoria; De Pugna Partes sensitive et intellective; de laudibus et triumphas Triorum Liliorum; de duodecim Persecutionibus Ecclesiae Dei; de magnificentia Gloriae Salomonis; etc.]	Lugduni	1508	USD -	6.25
985	Vives (Lodovicus)	De Anima & Vita lib. III ejusdem Argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima lib. IIII Ph. Melancthoni liber unus; accedit nunc primum C. Gesneri de Anima liber, etc		[c. 1566]	USD -	2.40
986	Vives (Lodovicus)	An Introduction to Wysedome, translated into Englyshe by Rycharde Morysyne		1540	USD -	7.75
987	Walpole (Horatio, Earl of Orford)	Works, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION		1798-1825	USD -	2.20
988	Walpole (H.)	Anecdotes of Painting in England, and Catalogue of Engravers, with considerable additions by Jas. Dallaway		1828	USD -	4.12
989	Walpole (H.)	Letters, edited by Peter Cunningham, now first chronologically arranged		1857-9	USD -	8.25
990	Waring (J. B.)	The Arts connected with Architecture illustrated by examples in Central Italy from the 13th to the 15th Century		1858	USD -	Unknown
991	Warrington (Wm.)	History of Stained Glass, from the earliest Period to the Present Time		1848	USD -	2.20
992		Washington (President George) Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain		1795	USD -	Unknown
993		Washington (George) Facsimile of Washington's Accounts with the United States from June, 1775, to June, 1783		-1833	USD -	Unknown
994	Watelet (C. H.)	L'Art de Peindre, Poeme, avec des Reflexions	Paris	1760	USD -	Unknown
995	Wazin (P. Joannes)	Christliche Leichpredig mit acht ehreukrantzen gehalten zu Munchen in S. Michaelis Kirchen der Societer Jesu, nach dem seeligisten Ableiben de Frawen Maria Renata Pfalsgrafin bey Rhein, etc			USD -	1.25
996	Weale (John)	Quarterly Papers on Architecture		1844	USD -	Unknown
997	Weigel (J. C.)	Sinnbild-Kunst oder Hieroglyphische Bilder, Vorstellung der Tugenden, etc	Nurnberg	(c. 1710)	USD -	Unknown
998	Weigel (K.)	Holzschnitte beruhmter Meister; eine Auswahl von schonen, characteristichen und seltenen Original-Formschnitten, etc	Leipz	1851-7	USD -	1.00
999	Weigel	Katalogue fruhester Erzeugnisse der Druckerkunst de T. O. Weigel'schen Sammlung	Leipz	1872	USD -	Unknown
1000	[Westmacott (C. Molloy)]	Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures, etc		1839	USD -	2.00
1001	Westwood (J. O.)	Palaeographra Sacra Pictoria: a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible		1843-1845	USD -	3.15
1002	Westwood (J. O.)	Palaeographia Sacra, another issue		n. d. (1845)	USD -	2.20
1003	Westwood (J. O.)	Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible copied from select MSS. of the Middle Ages		1846	USD -	3.00

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Rare Books Signature Auction
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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

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.

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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.