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

Heritage Auctions
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.