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
201 Calvin (John) Of the Life or Conversation of a Christian Man, a right godlie treatise

1549

 USD - 2.00
202 Calvin (John) Two Godly and notable Sermons Preached . . in the yere 1555

n. d. (c. 1560)

 USD - 1.40
203 Camerarius (Joachimus) Symbolorum et Emblematum ex Herbaria, Animalibus, Quadrupedibus, Volatilibus et Insectis, Aquatilibus et Reptilibus desumptorum, Centuriae quatuor, EDITIONES PRIMAE Norimb.

1590-1604

 USD - 3.75
204 Camerarius. Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae quatuor

1668

 USD - Unknown
205 Camerarius. Symbolorum ac Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuriae quatuor

ib. 1697

 USD - Unknown
206 Campbell (M. F. A. G.) Annales de la Typographie Neerlandaise au XVe Siecle, half morocco, t. e. g La Haye,

1874

 USD - Unknown
207 Campbell (Thos.) Gertrude of Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian Tale, and other Poems, FIRST EDITION (with Original Versions of Ye Mariners of England, Battle of the Baltic, Hohenlinden, Lothiel's Warning, etc.)

1809

 USD - Unknown
208 Capel (Edw.) Prolusions; or Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry; containing The Notbrowne Mayde, etc

1760

 USD - Unknown
209 Cartwright (Wm.) Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems

1651

 USD - 1.25
210 Castermans (Aug.) Parallele des Maisons de Bruxelles et des Principales Villes la Belgique, construites depuis 1830 jusqu'a nos Jours Paris et Liege

-1854

 USD - Unknown
211 Catalogues. Catalogue of a Splendid Collection of English Literature..

USD - Unknown
212 Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Hon. G. H. Holliday..

USD - Unknown
213 Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Coins, Paintings, Antiquities, etc. the Collection of the late J. C. Walker, Author of the Memoirs of the Irish Bards, etc Dublin

1817

 USD - Unknown
214 Catalogue of Valuable Duplicate Books in the British Museum..

USD - Unknown
215 Catalogue de l'Exposition de Gravures, anciennes et modernes, 4 Juillet, 1881 Paris

1881

 USD - Unknown
216 Catherine de Medicis. C'est l'Ordre et Forme qui a este tenue au Sacre & Couronnement de tres-hault.. Paris

1549

 USD - 1.70
217 Cats (Jacob) Self-Stryt, dat is Krachtighe beweginghe van Vleesch ende Geest (Joseph and Potiphar's Wife) [Amst.]

[1660?]

 USD - 1.20
218 CAULFIELD (JAS.) PORTRAITS, MEMOIRS AND CHARACTERS OF REMARKABLE PERSONS..

USD - 4.00
219 Caumont (A. de) Abecedaire ou Rudiment d'Archeologie, religieuse, civile et militaire, 3e edition Paris, etc.

1854-8

 USD - Unknown
220 Caveler (Wm.) Select Specimens of Gothic Architecture (Canterbury Cathedral, S. Augustine's Monastery, Temple Church, Westminster Abbey)

-1830

 USD - Unknown
221 HIGDEN (RANULPH) CAXTON. THE POLYCHRONICON (TRANSLATED OUT OF LATIN INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN OF TREVES)

-1482

 USD - 165.00
222 Caxton. Life and Typography of William Caxton, with evidence of his typographical Connection with Colard Mansion

1863

 USD - 3.90
223 Price (F. C.) Caxton. Facsimiles illustrating the Labours of William Caxton at Westminster, and the Introduction of Printing into England, with a Memoir and Biographical Particulars

1877

 USD - Unknown
224 Caxton Celebration, 1877. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities and Appliances connected with the Art of Printing, South Kensington

1877

 USD - Unknown
225 Cercle de la Librairie. Premiere Exposition Paris

1880

 USD - Unknown
226 Chambers (Sir Wm.) Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, with illustrations and notes by Jos. Gwilt

1825

 USD - Unknown
227 Chartarius (Vincent) Imagines Deorum qui ab Antiquis colebantur, una cum earum declarations & Historia, etc

USD - Unknown
228 Chatto (W. A.) Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

1848

 USD - Unknown
229 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) WORKES, newly printed, with divers additions: with the Siege and Destruction of Thebes, compiled by John Lidgate (edited by JOHN STOW)

1561

 USD - 8.25
230 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Workes; with the Siege of Thebes by John Lidgate; with Life and a Table of Obscure Words (Speght's edition)

1687

 USD - 1.30
231 Cheron (Elizabeth Sophia) A Series of Designs illustrating Greek and Roman Mythology from Ancient Gems engraved by Tardieu, Picart, Thomassin, Simmoneau, Cochin, etc Paris

1714

 USD - Unknown
232 Chiffletius (J. J.) De Linteis Sepulchralibus Christi Servatoris Crisis Historica Antw.

1624

 USD - Unknown
233 Chinese. Sketches of Chinese Princesses and Ladies, B.C. 368-A.D. 1333 Canton

1836?

 USD - Unknown
234 Chippendale (Thos.) Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director (German reissue of the edition of 1762) Berlin

USD - 2.40
235 CHRONICON NUREMBERGENSE. THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Libri Chronicarum cum figuris et Ymaginibus ab inicio Mundi (auctore Hartmanno Schedel) Impressit Nurenbergae

1493

 USD - 13.75
236 Cicero. De Natura Deorum; De Divinatione; De Fato; De Legibus; Liber ad Hortensium; De Disciplina Militari; de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum; De Petitione Consulatus; de Universitate et de Somno Scipionis

1498-1499

 USD - 3.88
237 Cicero. In hoc volumine haec continentur; Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib... Venet.

1514

 USD - 4.75
238 Cicero. Le Lettere familiari Latine, commentate in Lingua Volgare Toscana da Giovanni Fabrini di nuovo ristampate, etc Venet.

1576

 USD - Unknown
239 Clarke (J. B. B.) Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic MSS. in the Library of Dr. Adam Clarke

1835

 USD - Unknown
240 Clarke (Wm) Repertorium Bibliographicum; or some Account of the most celebrated British Libraries..

1819

 USD - 2.30
241 Clayton (John) A Collection of the Ancient Timber Edifices of England

1846

 USD - Unknown
242 Cleaveland (John) Poems by John Cleavland (sic)..

USD - Unknown
243 Cleaveland (John) Clievelandi Vindiciae; or Clievelands genuine Poems, Orations. Epistles, etc

1677

 USD - Unknown
244 COBBETT (WM.) HISTORY OF THE REGENCY AND REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE FOURTH

1830

 USD - 12.25
245 Cohen (Henry) Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Figures et a Vignettes du XVIIIe Siecle, 3e Edition entierement refondue et considerablement augmentee par Chas Paris

1876

 USD - 1.30
246 Collier (J. P.) Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I Edinb.

1820

 USD - Unknown
247 Collier (J. P.) Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language New York

1866

 USD - Unknown
248 [COLUMNA (FR. DE)] LA HYPNEROTOMACHIA di Poliphilo, cioe' pugna d' Amore in Sogno; dov' egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che Sogno; etc

1545

 USD - 20.00
249 Joseph de Filippi Contant (Clement) Parallele des Principales Machines Theatrales modernes de l'Europe, texte par Joseph de Filippi Paris

1864

 USD - Unknown
250 Copinger (W. A.) Incunabula Biblica, or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible, 1450-1500, a Bibliographical Account

1892

 USD - 3.60
251 Coriate. Thomas Coriate Traveller for the English Wits; Greeting; from the Court of the Great Mogul, etc

1616

 USD - Unknown
252 Cotton (Rev. H.) Editions of the Bible and Parts thereof in English, 1505-1850..

USD - Unknown
253 Coussemaker (E. de) Memoire sur Hucbald et sur ses Traites de Musique; suivi de Recherches sur la Notation, et sur les Instruments de Musique Paris

1841

 USD - 2.40
254 Cresy (Edw.) and G. L. Taylor Architecture of the Middle Ages in Italy, illustrated by Views, Plans, Elevations, Sections and details of the Cathedral, Baptistery, Leaning Tower, and Campo Santo at Pisa

1829

 USD - Unknown
255 AROWE (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle History of Painting in North Italy

1871

 USD - 3.60
256 Crowley (Robert) The Confutation of the Mishapen Aunswer to the misnamed wicked Ballade called the Abuse of the blessed Sacrament of the Aultare, etc

1548

 USD - 3.15
257 Cundall (Jos.) On Bookbindings Ancient and Modern

1881

 USD - Unknown
258 [Curio (C. S.)] Pasquine in a Traunce. A Christian and learned Dialogue (contayning wonderfull and most strange newes out of Heaven, Purgatorie and Hell), wherein . . . ye shall also find a number of pleasaunt histories, etc

n.d. (1576?)

 USD - 2.50
259 Daly (Cesar) L'Architecture Privee au XIX Siecle, sous Napoleon III. Nouvelles Maisons de Paris et des Environs Paris

1863

 USD - Unknown
260 DANCE OF DEATH. [Basle]. Todten-tanz der loblisehen Statt Basil, als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenbeit, etc Franckfurt

1649

 USD - 3.25
261 Dance of Death. Basle. Todten-Tanz der Stadt Basels, nach dem Original in Kupfer gebracht und herausgegeben durch M. Merians Erben Franckfurt

1696

 USD - 1.75
262 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Dance des Morts telle qu'on la voit depeinte dan la celebre Ville de Basle; traduite de l'Allemand en Francois par les soins des Heritiers de feu Matthieu Merian Berlin

1697

 USD - 1.60
263 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Danse des Morts, comme elle est depeinte dans la louable et celebre Ville de Basle; dessinee et gravee sur l'Original de feu Matthieu Merian; avec une Description de la Ville de Basle, etc Basle

1744

 USD - 1.45
264 Dance of Death. [BASLE]. La Danse des Morts pour servir de Miroir a la Nature Humaine..

USD - 5.50
265 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Der Totden-Tantz wie derselbe in der weitberuhmten Stadt Basel ... zu sehen ist Basel

1796

 USD - Unknown
266 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Der Todten-Tantz der Stadt Basel. La Dance des Morts Bale

1843

 USD - Unknown
267 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Emblems of Mortality represented by numerous engravings of Death seizing all Ranks and Conditions of People Charleston and New Haven

1846

 USD - Unknown
268 Maszmann (H. F.) Dance of Death. [Basle]. Die Baseler Todtentanze in getreuen Abbildungen; sammt einem Anhange; Todtentanz in Holzschnitten des funfzehnten Jahrhunderts Stuttgart and Leipzig

1847

 USD - 1.20
269 Massmann (H. F.) Dance of Death. [Basle]. Die Baseler Todtentanze in getreuen Abbildungen, nebst geschichtlicher Untersuchung, so wie vergleichung mit den ubringen deutchen Todtentanzen ihrer Bilderfolge und ihren gemeinsamen Reimtexten Leipz

1847

 USD - 1.10
270 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Text in English, German and French Basel

1858

 USD - Unknown
271 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Todtentanz der Stadt Basel, a reproduction of Merian's plates, with descriptions in German, French and English Basel

-1860

 USD - Unknown
272 Borup (T. L.) Dance of Death. [Danish]. Det menneskelige Livs Flugt, eller Dode-Dands, afbildet ved haerige Stykker, etc Kiobenhavn

1814

 USD - Unknown
273 Dance of Death. [Lucerne]. Todten-Tanz oder Spiegel menschlicher Hinfulligkeit in acht Abbildungen welche, von von Wyl gemahlt inn chmaligen Jesuitenkloster in Luzern getreu nach den Originalien lithographirt Lucerne

1838

 USD - Unknown
274 Dance of Death. [Macabre]. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, historiee & renouvellee de Vieux Gaulois en language le plus poli de notre temps Troyes

-1728

 USD - 2.30
275 Dance of Death. Trois Dances des Morts, soizante deux gravures en bois, epreuves de l'Artiste, on india paper Paris

1856

 USD - Unknown
276 Dance of Death. La Grant Danse Macabre des homes et des femes, nouvellement imprime a Paris, XVII C Paris

1858

 USD - Unknown
277 Dance of Death. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, etc Paris

s. d. (c. 1850)

 USD - Unknown
278 Vallardi (Giuseppe) Dance of Death. Danse Machabre. Trionfo e Danz delle Morte, O Danza Macabra a Clusone, Dogma della Morte a Pisogne nella provincia di Bergamo, con osservazione storiche ed artistiche Milano

1859

 USD - Unknown
279 Dance of Death. Danse Machabre. Chorea ab eximio Macabro Versibus alemanicis edita et a Petro Defrey trecacio quoda oratore nuper emendata, etc [Paris]

[reprinted 1868]

 USD - 4.20
280 l'Abbe V. Dufour Dance of Death. La Danse Macabre peinte en 1425 au Cimetiere des Innocents; Facsimile del'Editionde 1484 precede de Recherches par l'Abbe V. Dufour Paris

1875

 USD - 1.00
281 Dance of Death. La Dance Macabre composee par Maistre Jean Gerson, 1425..

USD - Unknown
282 Dance of Death. [HOLBEIN]. Imagines Mortis; his accesserunt Emblemata e Gallico..

USD - 5.50
283 Dance of Death. [Holbein]. Imagines Mortis; his accesserunt Epigrammata e Gallico idiomate a Geo. AEmylio in Latinum translata; ad haec Medecina Animae, etc Colon

1567

 USD - 2.00
284 Dance of Death. [Holbein, etc.] Valvasor (Jo. Weichard) Theatrum Mortis Humanae..

1682

 USD - 9.75
285 Dance of Death. [Holbein]. Les Images de la Mort, avec quelles sont adjoustees douze figures; davantage La Medicine de l'Ame, La Consolation des Malades, etc Lyon

1547

 USD - 17.75
286 Dance of Death. [Holbein]. Les Images de la Mort, aux-quelles sout adjoustees dix-sept figures Lyon

1562

 USD - 9.00
287 [Holbein] Dance of Death. OEuvre de Jean Holbein premiere partie. Le Triomphe de la Mort Basel

1780

 USD - Unknown
288 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Le Triomphe de la Mort, grave d'apres les Dessins Originaux de Holbein par chretien de Mechel a Bale Paris

1860

 USD - 2.20
289 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Le Triomphe de la Mort, grave d'apres les Dessins de Holbein par W. Hollar (avec les explications) Lond.

1794

 USD - Unknown
290 [Holbein] Dance of Death. La Danse des Morts dessinee par Hans Holbein, gravee sur pierre par Jos. Schlotthauer, expliquee par H. Fourtoul Paris

-1842

 USD - Unknown
291 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Simolachri, Historie e Figure de la Morte; ou si contiene la Medicina de l'Anima; Sermoni de SS. Cypriano et Giovano Chrisostomo, etc Venet

1545

 USD - 5.75
292 [Holbein, etc.] Dance of Death. GLISSENTI (S. FABIO) Discorsi Morali.. Venet

1596

 USD - 3.20
293 [Holbein] Dance of Death. L'Alphabet de la Mort de Hans Holbein, publies d'apres les Manuscrits par Anatole de Montaiglon Paris

1866

 USD - Unknown
294 [Holbein] Dance of Death. L'Afabeto della Morte di Hans Holbein, Scelte di Anatole de Montaiglon Parigi

1866

 USD - Unknown
295 Holbein (H.) Dance of Death. Der Todtendantz durch alle Stende uund Geschlecht der Menschen, etc

1560

 USD - 5.50
296 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Wolsschaten (Geeraerdt Van) De Doodt. Vermaskert met des weerelts Ydelheyt afghedaen t'Antwerpen,

1654

 USD - 1.10
297 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Todten Dantz durch alle Stande und Geschlecht der Menschen, etc Franckfort

(c. 1600)

 USD - 2.00
298 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Der Todtentanz. Ein Gedicht von Ludwig Beckstein Leipz

1831

 USD - Unknown
299 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Hans Holbein's Todtentanz in 53 getreu nach den Holzschnitten lithographirten Blattern, herausg. von J. Schlotthauer Manchen

1832

 USD - Unknown
300 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Der Todtentanz von Hans Holbein, nach dem exemplar der ersten Ausgabe in Kgl. Kupferstichcabinet zu Berlin in Lichtdruck nachgebildet herausg. von Fr. Lipmann Berlin

1879

 USD - Unknown
  • 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.