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
600 Hugo (Hermannus) Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrum illustrata Antwerpiae,

1628

 USD - 1.55
601 Humphreys (A. L.) The Private Library, New York, Bouton, 1897-Bouchot (H.) The Printed Book..

USD - Unknown
602 Humphreys (H. Noel) A Record of the Black Prince; a selection of such passages of his life as have been most quaintly and strikingly narrated by chroniclers of the period

1849

 USD - 2.50
603 Humphreys (H. N.) Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing

1854

 USD - Unknown
604 Humphreys (H. N.) Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers, a Series of Facsimiles from Rare and Curious Books

1870

 USD - 1.35
605 Hunter (John) Poems

1805

 USD - 1.50
606 Huth Library. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings, collected by Henry Huth, with Collations and Bibliographical Descriptions (by F. S. Ellis and W. C. Hazlitt)

1880

 USD - 3.00
607 Hutton (Chas.) Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

USD - Unknown
608 Hutton (Chas.) Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary

1815

 USD - Unknown
609 Hyginus. Clarissimi Viri Iginii Poeticon Astronomicon opus utilissimum; de Mundi & Spherae ac utriusq Venetiis,

1482

 USD - 5.50
610 Andrews (W. Loring) Iconophile Society. A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savart, Grateloup, etc New York

1899

 USD - 3.75
611 Noel Humphreys editor Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1846 and 1849, from the Hours of the Duke of Anjou, King of Sicily and Jerusalem (1380), now in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris (edited by Noel Humphreys)

1846-1849

 USD - Unknown
612 IMITATIO CHRISTI. Gerson de Ymitatione Cristi cum tractatulo de Meditatione Cordis

1487

 USD - 7.75
613 Imitatio. A'Kempis. De Imitatio Christi lib. IV (cum Vita Auctoris, etc.) Lugduni

-1635

 USD - 1.15
614 Imitatio. De l'Imitation de Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ, par Jean Gerson, Edition Polyglotte, publiee sous la Direction de J. B. Monfalcon Lyon

1841

 USD - Unknown
615 Imitatio. L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ traduction et reflexions par l'Abbe de Lammenais; suivee de l'Ordinaire de la Messe Le Mans

1843

 USD - Unknown
616 Imitatio. De Imitatione Christi, printed in pearl type, on india paper Paris

1858

 USD - 1.50
617 Imitation de Jesus-Christ (L') Traduction de Michel de Marillac, Preface par E. Caro Paris

1875

 USD - Unknown
618 Imitatio. L'Imitation de Jesus Christ traductio de Michel de Marillac Paris

1878

 USD - Unknown
619 Ireland (Alex.) The Book-Lover's Enchiridion, Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of Books, third edition, with additions Boston

1883

 USD - Unknown
620 Jackson (John) Treatise on Wood Engraving, historical and practical

1832

 USD - Unknown
621 Jacquemart (Albert) History of the Ceramic Art, translated by Mrs. Bury Palliser New York & London

1877

 USD - 1.60
622 Jamblichus In Nicomachi Fraseni Arithmeticam introductionem et de Fato, nune primum editum, cum notis S. Tennulii, etc Arnhemiae

1668

 USD - Unknown
623 Jansen Essai sur l'Origine de la Gravure en Bois et en Taille Douce et sur la Connoissance des Estampes des XV et XVI siecles; ou il est parle aussi de l'Origine des Cartes a Jouer, etc Paris

1808

 USD - 1.65
624 Johnson (J.) Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor, including an Account of the Origin of Printing, and Notices of English Printers from Caxton to the end of the 16th Century

1824

 USD - Unknown
625 Johnson (R. J.) Specimens of Early French Architecture, selected chiefly from the Churches of the Ile de France Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1864

 USD - Unknown
626 Jones (Inigo) Designs; consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings, published by Wm. Kent, with some additional designs

1770

 USD - 2.30
627 Jorand (J. B. J.) Grammatographie du IX Siecle; Types calligraphiques tires de la Bible de Charles-le-Chauve Paris

1837

 USD - Unknown
628 Jovius (Paulus) Elogia Virorum bellica Virtute illustrium septem libris jam olim ab Authore compreheusa; et nunc ex eiusdem Musaeo ad Vivum expressio imaginibus exornata Basil

1575-77

 USD - 2.70
629 Judocus Isennachcensis. Summa in tota Physicen; hoc est philosophiam naturalem conformiter si quidem vere sophie; que est Theologia in Gymnasio Erphordiensis elucubrata et edita Erfordie

1514

 USD - 2.20
630 Junius (Hadrianus) Emblemata; ad Arnoldum Cobelium; ejusdem aenigmatum Libellus ad D. ArnoldUm Rosenbergum Antwerpiae

1565

 USD - 1.50
631 Juvenalis. Persius; EDITIO PRIMA ALDINA Venet.

1501

 USD - 1.50
632 Kendall (H. E.) Designs for Schools and School Houses, Parochial and National

1853

 USD - Unknown
633 King (Thos. H.) The Study-Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art; being a Series of Working Drawings of the Principal Monuments of the Middle Ages, etc

1858-9

 USD - Unknown
634 Klemm (Heinrich) Beschreibender Catalog seines Bibliographischen Museum Dresden

1884

 USD - Unknown
635 Knight (Chas.) The Gallery of Portraits; with Memoirs

1833-37

 USD - 1.45
636 Knight (Chas.) London, ORIGINAL EDITION, many hundred illustrations

ib. 1841

 USD - Unknown
637 Knight (H. G.) Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, from the time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century

1843

 USD - 1.30
638 Koran (The) Arabic MS. XIXth Century

USD - Unknown
639 Krufft (J. Ch.) Traite sur l'Art de Charpente, Plans, Coups, Elevations de diverses productions Paris

1840

 USD - Unknown
640 Laborde (Leon de) Debuts de l'Imprimerie a Mayence et a Bamberg, ou Description des Lettres d'Indulgence du Pape Nicholas V imprimees en 1454 Paris

1840

 USD - 1.50
641 Lackington (John, Bookseller) Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of his Life, new edition corrected and much enlarged

1794

 USD - Unknown
642 Lackington (Jas. Bookseller) Confessions, in a Series of Letters to a Friend

USD - Unknown
644 Laing Library. Sale Catalogue of the extensive Library of David Laing, Esq. LL.D. Librarian of the Signet Library (3 parts), sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1879-80

1879-80

 USD - Unknown
645 La Marra (Cav. Fr.) Raccolta di Cinquanta Disegni Originali degli Pittori Napoletani Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano e Francesco Solimena incisi in rami Napoli

1792

 USD - Unknown
646 Lambarde (Wm.) Archaionomia; sive de priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico, etc

1588

 USD - Unknown
647 Lambinet (Pierre) Recherches Historiques Litteraires et Critiques sur l'Origine de l'Imprimerie, particulierement dans la Belgique Bruxelles

-1799

 USD - Unknown
648 Lambinet (Pierre) Origine de l'Imprimerie d'apres les titres authentiques; l'opinion de M. Daunou et celle de M. Van Praet Paris

1810

 USD - Unknown
649 Langlois (E. H.) Essai sur la Calligraphie des Manuscrits du Moyen-Age et sur les Ornements des premiers Livres d'Heures Imprimes Rouen

1841

 USD - 1.35
650 LAVATER (J. C.) ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY, translated from the French by H. Hunter, D.D

1810

 USD - 1.65
651 Leighton (John, F.S.A.) Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages and Proverbs of all Ages and Nations

1860

 USD - Unknown
652 Lempertz (Heinrich) Bilder-Hefte zur Geschichte des Bucherhandels und der mit demselben verwandten Kunste und Gewerbe Coln

1853-65

 USD - 1.50
653 Leveil (J. A.) Vignole. Traite Elementaire Pratique d'Architecture, ou Etude des Cinq Ordres, d'apres Jacques Barozzio de Vignole Paris

s. d.

 USD - Unknown
654 Libanius. Declamatio Libanii Oratoris Atheniensis de Uxore loquace Leipz

-1511

 USD - 1.50
655 Libri MSS. Catalogue of the splendid Collection of MSS. chiefly upon vellum formed by M. Guglielmo Libri, sold by auction by Sotheby, March and April, 1859 (8 days' sale)

1859

 USD - Unknown
656 Liechtenberger (Jo.) Prognosticatio; quam olim scripsit super magna illa Saturni ac Jovis conjunctione, quae fuit Anno M.CCCCLXXXIII. usque ad 1567, etc

USD - 3.20
657 Lilly (Wm.) A Short Introduction of Grammar, etc

1830

 USD - Unknown
658 Linton (W. J.) History of Wood-Engraving in America Boston

1882

 USD - Unknown
659 Linton (W. J.) The Masters of Wood Engraving New Haven, Conn.

1889

 USD - 2.10
660 Lipmann (Fr.) The Art of Wood Engraving in Italy in the Fifteenth Century

1888

 USD - Unknown
661 Livius. Historiarum quod extat ex recensione J. F. Gronovii Amst.

1678

 USD - Unknown
662 Livre (Le) Revue Mensuelle. Bibliographie Ancienne et Moderne Paris

1880

 USD - Unknown
663 LODGE (EDM.) PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions

1823-34

 USD - 4.20
664 Lloyd (Humphrey) The Historie of Cambria now called Wales; written in the Brytysh language above two hundreth years past, translated into English by H. Lloyd, corrected, augmented and continued by David Powel

1584

 USD - 20.00
665 London and its Environs (Select Views of), containing a Collection of Highly finished Engravings from Original Paintings and Drawings, by Storer and Greig

1804

 USD - Unknown
666 Longolius (Chr.) Epistolarum lib. III. Doctorum aliquot Epistolarum ad eundem Longolium lib. I, etc Basil

1563

 USD - Unknown
667 Los-Rios (Fr. de) Bibliographie Instructive, ou Notice de quelques Livres Rares, singuliers et difficiles a trouver, avec des Notes Avignon, etc.

1777

 USD - Unknown
668 Louisy (M. P.) Le Livre et les Arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe Siecle Paris

1886

 USD - Unknown
669 Loudon (J. C.) Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, new edition by Mrs. Loudon

USD - Unknown
670 Lowndes (W. T.) Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, new edition, revised, corrected and enlarged by H. G. Bohn roxburghe

1869

 USD - 1.40
671 Lowndes (W. T.) The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature

1871

 USD - Unknown
672 Luckombe (P.) History and Art of Printing, woodcut portrait of Coster and plates...

USD - Unknown
673 Luther (Martin) Enchiridion Piarum Precationum, cum Passionali, ut vocant; quibus accessit novum Calendarium cum cisio jano vetere & novo, etc Wittembergae

1543

 USD - 4.00
674 Luykens (J.) Afbeelding der menschelyke Bezighsden bestaande in Hondert onder-scheiden Printverbeeldingen, etc Amst.

-1694

 USD - 4.50
675 Mac-Carthy Reagh. Catalogue des Livres Rares et Precieux de la Bibliotheque de feu Comte de Mac-Carthy Reagh Paris

1815

 USD - Unknown
676 Macray (Rev. W. D.) Annals of the Bodleian Library, 1598-1867

USD - Unknown
677 G. Otto Trevelyan Macaulay (Lord) Life and Letters

1876

 USD - 1.00
678 Magnus (Olaus) Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalis earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, etc Romae

1555

 USD - 5.00
679 Magnus (Olaus) De Wonderlijcke Historie vande Noordersche landen . . nu eerst overghestelt toten Latijns in ons Nederlandtsche duytsche sprake Tantwerpen

1562

 USD - 1.50
680 Maior (D. Georg. von Neuremburg) Trost Wedder dat Schreckendes Dodes Olden und Jungen thoweten van noden Bremen

1585

 USD - Unknown
681 Maistre (Xavier de) A Journey round my Room, translated from the French in its Entirety by E. Goldsmid Edinb.

1885

 USD - Unknown
682 Mallinkrot (Bern. a) De Ortu ac Progressu Artis Typographiae, Dissertatione Historica

1639-40

 USD - 1.50
683 Malton (Jas.) Essay on British Gothic Architecture

1798

 USD - Unknown
684 Mandeville (Joannes de) Johannis de Monte Villa Itinerarius in Partes Jhierosolimitanas et in ulteriores transmarinas

[14-]

 USD - 10.00
685 Mandeville (Jo. de) Qual tratta delle piu maravegliose cose e piu notabile chi si trovino; e come presentalmente ha cercato tutte le parte habitabile del mondo, etc Venet

1534

 USD - 1.80
686 Maundevile (Sir John) Voiage and Travaile, which treateth of the Way to Hierusalem, etc

1839

 USD - Unknown
687 Mansion (Colard) Van Praet (J. B. B.) Notice sur Colard Mansion Libraire et Imprimeur de la Ville de Bruges en Flandre dans le quinzieme Siecle Paris

1829

 USD - 1.50
688 [Marcellus (Christophorus)] Sacrarum Caeremoniarum sive Ritum Ecclesiasticorum S. Rom. Ecclesiae lib. III, hac postrema editione magno studio, etc. recogniti, red and black, numerous fine woodcuts of Ceremonies, etc Venetiis,

1582

 USD - 1.50
689 Marchand (Prosper) Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers progres de l'Imprimerie, 2 parts and Supplement La Haye et Paris

1740-73

 USD - Unknown
690 Marius-Michel (MM.) La Reliure Francaise depuis l'Invention de l'Imprimerie jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe Siecle

USD - 1.90
691 Marius-Michel (MM.) L'Ornementation des Reliures Modernes Paris

1889

 USD - 1.50
692 Marlianus (Barth.) Urbis Romae Topographia nunc denuo mendis omnibus, castigatissime in lucem edita

1588

 USD - 1.10
693 Marolles (Abbe de) Catalogue de Livres d'Estampes et de Figures en taille douce, avec un denombrement des Pieces qui y sont contenues fait a Paris en l'annee 1666 Paris

1666

 USD - 1.50
694 Martialis Venet. i

1501

 USD - 1.60
695 Marvin (J. G.) Legal Bibliography; a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish and Scotch Law Books, etc Philadelphia

1847

 USD - Unknown
696 Mass. Incipit Tractatus de Defectibus Missae, etc

USD - 1.10
697 Mathias (T. J.) The Pursuits of Literature, a Satirical Poem in four Dialogues, with notes, eleventh edition, with the Citations translated, 63 PORTRAITS AND VIEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

1801

 USD - 1.95
698 Maximilianus II. DuxBavariae... Monachii

1715

 USD - Unknown
699 Maximus (Valerius) cum Selectis Variorum Observationibus et nova recensione A. Thysii

1660

 USD - 2.25
700 Meduna (R. P. F. Barth.) Vita della Gloriosa Vergine Maria, Madre di Dio, Regina di I Cieli, con 1' Humanita del Redentore del Mondo, etc

USD - 1.30
  • 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.