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
802		Poggio. Les Contes de Pogge Florentine, avec des Reflexions	Amst.	1712	USD -	2.00
803	Politiano (Angelo)	Stanze, cominciate per la Giostra del Magnifico Giuliano di Piero de Medici	Venet.	1521	USD -	3.38
804	Pollard (A. W.)	Last Words on the History of the Title-page, with Notes on some Colophons and Twenty-seven Facsimiles of Title-pages		1891	USD -	Unknown
805	[Poole (S. R.)]	The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany		1830	USD -	Unknown
806	Pope (Alex.)	Works in Prose and Verse, with Notes and Life by the Rev. Wm. Lisle Bowles		1806	USD -	Unknown
807	Portius (Simon)	An Homo Bonus vel malus volens fiat disputatio; De Dolore Liber; et de Coloribus Oculorum		1551-1550	USD -	2.20
808		Portraits. Physiognomical Portraits. One-hundred distinguished Characters from undoubted originals, engraved in the line manner by the most eminent British Artists		1824	USD -	1.75
809	Postellus (Gul.)	Syriae descriptio	Paris	1540	USD -	2.10
810	Postellus (Guil.)	Eversio Falsorum Aristotelis dogmatum authore D. Justino Martyre, qui Helii Hadriani Caesaris temporibus & vixit & ad eum pro Christianis doctissime scripsit	Paris	1552	USD -	2.20
811	Postellus (Guil.)	La Doctrine du Siecle d'Or, ou de l'Evaugelike (sic) Regne de Jesus Roy des Roys	Paris	1553	USD -	1.55
812	Povey (Chas.)	The Visions of Sir Heister Ryley, with other Entertainments, containing Two-hundred Discourses and Letters representing the Characters of Vertue, Beauty, Affectation, Love and Passion, Wit, Truth and Honour, made conspicuous by Morals, etc		1711	USD -	Unknown
813	[Powell (Thos. Canon of S. Davids)]	Humane Industry; a History of most Manual Arts, deducing the Original Progress and Improvement of them, etc		1661	USD -	1.50
814	Power (John)	A Handy-Book about Books and Book-Lovers, Book-Buyers and Book-Sellers		1870	USD -	Unknown
815	QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1590	PRAYER. A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN-PRAYERS, collected out of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in our time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians, etc		1590	USD -	25.00
816		Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, etc	Oxf.	1749, 1748	USD -	Unknown
817		Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, etc	Cambridge	1761	USD -	Unknown
818		Preston (John, D.D. of Emmanuel College, Camb.) The Doctrine of the Saints Infirmities		1636	USD -	1.35
819	Prime (Dr. W. C.)	Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations, with Tables of Factory and Artists' Marks for the use of Collectors	New York	1878	USD -	2.60
820	[Priorius (P.)]	Animadversiones in Librum Prae-Adamitarum, authore Eusebio Romano		1656	USD -	Unknown
821		Protestants Vade Mecum (The), or Popery display'd in its proper colours in Thirty Emblems, lively representing all the Jesuitical Plots against this Nation (Henry VIII-Charles II) (in verse), etc		1680	USD -	Unknown
822	Prout (Sam.)	Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany		(1833)	USD -	1.55
823	Prout (Sam.)	Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy		(1839)	USD -	Unknown
824		PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS REGIS, cum Canticis, Litania Sanctorum, Vigilia Mortuorum, etc. una cum Calendario			USD -	90.00
825		PSALTERIUM. Psalmorum Codex cum Canticis, Credo, Litania, etc			USD -	70.00
826		Psalter. The Psalms of David, illuminated by Owen Jones		1850	USD -	Unknown
827	Ptolemaeus (Claudius)	Magnae Constructions, id est Perfectae Coelestium Motuum per tractationis lib. XIII, Theonis Alex. in eosdem Commentariorum lib. XI, Graece (edidit S. Grynaeus)	Basil	1538	USD -	1.80
828	PUBLICIUS (JACOBUS)	ORATORIAE ARTIS EPITOMATA; sive quae ad Consumatum spectant Oratorem; ex Antiquo Rhetoz. gymnasio dicendi scribendiq. breves rationes; Artis Memoriae, etc		1482	USD -	15.75
829	Publicius (Jacobus)	Oratoriae Artis Epitoma; vel quae brevibus ad consumatum spectant Oratorem, ex Antiquorum Rhetorum gymnasio dicendi scribendique breves Rationes, etc	Venetiis,	1485	USD -	8.40
830	John Britton	Pugin and Le Keux. Historical and Descriptive Essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy		1828	USD -	Unknown
831	Pugin (A. W.)	Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume, compiled and illustrated from Ancient Authorities and Examples, etc		1844	USD -	1.55
832	Pugin (A. and A. W.)	Examples of Gothic Architecture, selected from various ancient edifices in England		ib. 1850	USD -	2.60
833	Pugin (A. W.)	Photographs from his Sketches by Steph. Ayling		1865	USD -	Unknown
834	Quaritch (B.)	Monuments of Typography and Xylography, of the First Half Century of the Art of Printing		1897	USD -	Unknown
835	Quarles (Francis)	Emblems divine and moral; together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man		1777	USD -	Unknown
836		[Quarles]. The School of the Heart, in Forty-Seven Emblems, by the Author of The Synagogue annexed to Herbert's Poems (with preface by C. de Coetlogon)		ib. 1778	USD -	1.15
837	Quinze Joyes de Mariage (Les)	Techener's facsimile reprint of 136 copies in black letter of the original	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown
838	Redus (Fr.)	Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum	Amst.	1671	USD -	2.15
839	Reed (Talbot Baines)	History of the Old English Letter Foundries, with Notes on the Rise and Progress of English Typography		1887	USD -	Unknown
840	Rees (J. Rogers)	The Brotherhood of Letters		1888	USD -	Unknown
841	Regnier (Sieur Mathurin)	Les Satyres et autres OEuvres, augmentees de diverses pieces cy-devant non imprimees		1652	USD -	Unknown
842	Reimmannus (J. F.)	Idea Systematis Antiquitatis Literariae Generalioris & Specialioris, nunc primum adumbrati	Hillesheim	1718	USD -	Unknown
843	Reisch (Greg.)	Margarita Philosophica; totius Philosophiae Rationalis, Naturalis & Moralis principia dialogice duodecim libris complectens	Friburgi	1503	USD -	4.20
844	Reisch (Greg.)	MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA NOVA	Argentorati,	1505	USD -	8.50
845	Renaldini (Panfilo di)	Innamoramento di Ruggeretto Figliuolo di Ruggero Re di Bulgaria, con ogni rioscimento di tutte le magnanime sue imprese, e con i generosi fatti di Orlando, di Rinaldo e d' altri Paladini, etc	Vinegia	1554	USD -	3.40
846	Renouard (A. A.)	Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de leurs Editions	Paris	1825	USD -	Unknown
847	Renouvier (Jules)	Des Types et des Manieres des Maitres Graveurs, pour servir a l'Histoire de la Gravure en Italie, en Allemagne, dans les Pays-Bas et en France XVe, XVIe et XVIIe Siecles	Montpellier	1853-4	USD -	3.70
848	Renouvier (Jules)	Histoire de l'Origine et des Progres de la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas et en Allemagne, jusqu'a la fin du quinzieme Siecle	Brux.	1860	USD -	Unknown
849	Reusner (Nic.)	Emblemata, partim Ethica et Physica, partim vero historica et hieroglyphica, etc	Francof.	1581	USD -	1.45
850	Reusner (Nic.)	Icones, sive Imagines Virorum literis illustrium quorum fide et doctrina religionis & bonarum literarum studia nostra patrumque memoria, in Germania praesertim in integrum sunt restituta, etc	Argent.	1597	USD -	1.70
851	Richeome (Louis)	Tableaux Sacrez des figuiers mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et Sacrement de l'Eucharistie	Paris	1601	USD -	1.50
852		Rime Scelte da diversi Autori di nuovo corrette et ristampate		1564	USD -	1.30
853	Ripa (Caesar)	Iconologie ou la Science des Emblemes, Devises, etc	Amst.	1698	USD -	Unknown
854	Ritson (Jos.)	Bibliographia Poetica; a Catalogue of English Poets of the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries		1802	USD -	Unknown
855	Robertson (Dr. Wm.)	Historical Works	Oxford	1825	USD -	Unknown
856	Robinson (Henry Crabb)	Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence, selected and edited by Thomas Sadler		1869	USD -	1.90
857	Rogers (Thos.)	A Philosophical Discourse, entituled The Anatomie of the Minde, newly made and set forth		1576	USD -	3.90
858	Rollenhagius (Gabr.)	Nucleus. Emblematum selectissimorum quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant, privata industria studio singulari undiq. conquisitus, etc	Coloniae et Ultrajecti,	1613	USD -	8.50
859		Romain de Hooghe. Spiegel om wel te Sterven; aanwyzende met prent verbeeldingen van het Lyden onzes Zaligmakers Jesu Christi, etc	Amst.	[c. 1700]	USD -	1.50
860	Romain de Hooghe	La Maniere de se bien Preparer a la Mort, par des Considerations sur la Cene, la Passion & la Mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de tres-belles Estampes Emblematiques expliquees par M. de Chertablon	Anvers	1700	USD -	1.50
861	Rondelet (Jean)	Traite Theorique et Pratique de l'Art de Batir	Paris	1838	USD -	Unknown
862	[Rosario (Simeon)]	Antithese des Faicts de Jesus Christ et du Pape mis en Vers francois, ensemble les Traditions & Decrets du Pape opposez aux Commandements de Dieu, etc	Rome	1600	USD -	1.50
863		Rosarium Philosophorum. Secunda Pars Alchimiae, de Lapide Philosophico vero modo praeparando, continens exactam eius Scientiae Progressionem, etc	Francof.	1550	USD -	2.60
864		Roxburghe Club. The Hystorie of the Noble Knight Plasidas, and other Rare Pieces, collected into one Book by Samuel Pepys, and forming part of the Pepysian Library, Cambridge		1823	USD -	2.50
865	Roy (Wm.)	Rede me and be nott wrothe for I saye no thynge but trothe		1845	USD -	Unknown
866		Royal Institute of British Architects		1835-92	USD -	Unknown
867		Royaumont. History of the Old and New Testament			USD -	Unknown
868	RUSKIN (JOHN)	Works, viz.: Modern Painters, vol. I, fourth edition..		1846-55	USD -	19.25
869	Rutter (John)	Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey		1823	USD -	Unknown
870	Saavedra Faxardo (Diego)	Idea Principis Christiano-Politici		1748	USD -	Unknown
871		Sabatelli. Pensieri diversi di Luigi Sabatelli, pubblicati ed incisi da Damiano Pernati	Roma	1795	USD -	Unknown
872	Sacro Busto (Joannes de)	Sphaera Mundi. Sphaerae Mundi Compendium . . cum additionibus, Disputationibus Joannis de Monte Regio contra Cremonensia; nec non Georgii Purbachii de Motu Planetarum	Venetiis,	1490	USD -	5.00
873		Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Francis Bedford and Osterley Park		1884-5	USD -	Unknown
874		Sauctorum Septem Dormientium Historia ex Ectypis Musei Victorii expressa; Dissertatione et Veteribus Monumentis sacris profanisque illustrata	Romae	1741	USD -	Unknown
875	Sandby (Paul, R. A.)	A Collection of Etchings		n. d. (1809)	USD -	3.30
876	Savage (Wm.)	Practical Hints on Decorative Printing, with Illustrations engraved on Wood and printed in Colours at the Type Press		1822	USD -	2.25
877	Savage (Wm.)	Dictionary of the Art of Printing		ib. 1841	USD -	Unknown
878	Scaligeri dalla Fratta (Camillo)	La Nobilta dell' Asino di Attabalippa dal Peru, reformata di Griffagno delli Impacci et accresciuta di molte cose piacevoli, etc	Venez	1598	USD -	3.60
879	Searle (W. G.)	The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum			USD -	Unknown
880		Scheusselle (C. late Professor of Art in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of Philadelphia) 120 Tracings and Drawings of Mediaeval Costume, as used by him for his Compositions in Painting, secured directly from his Executors by R. M. Lindsay		(c. 1850)	USD -	2.50
881	Schoell (Fr.)	Histoire de la Litterature Grecque Profane	Paris	1825-32	USD -	Unknown
882	Schoepflinus (Jo. de)	Vindiciae Typographicae	Argent.	1760	USD -	Unknown
883	Schoonhovius (Florent)	Emblemata, partim moralia, partim etiam civilia, cum latiori eorundem eiusdem Auctoris interpretatione	Amst.	1648	USD -	1.50
884	Schopper (Hartmann)	De Omnibus illiberalibus sive Mechanicis Artibus, humani ingenii sagacitate atque industria jam inde ab exordio nascentio muudi usque ad nostram aetatem adinventis, luculentus atque succinctus liber	Francof. a. M.	1574	USD -	8.00
885	Scott (Leader)	The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild		1899	USD -	Unknown
886	Sears (M. U.)	Specimens of Stereotype Ornaments (24 ll.)	Islington	1826	USD -	Unknown
887	Seemiller (Seb.)	Bibliothecae Academicae Ingoldstadiensis Incunabula Typographica ante Annum 1500	Ingoldstadii	1787-92	USD -	Unknown
888		Seilliere Library. Sale Catalogue of an Important Portion of the Library of Baron Seilliere		1887	USD -	Unknown
889		Sermones preclarissimi viris devotis utiles; cum duobus libris Sancti Crisostomi de Compunctionis Cordis, quorum annotacio sequitur, etc. (cura ac diligentia correcti et emendati per Michaelem Aringo Valentinensem)	Parrhisii	-1506	USD -	1.80
890	Serna Santander (C. de la)	Dictionnaire Bibliographique choisi du quinzieme Siecle, ou description des editions les plus rares du quinzieme Siecle	Brux.	1805	USD -	Unknown
891		Servetus. Historia Michaelis Serveti, auctore Henricus ab Allwoerden	Helmstadii	1727	USD -	Unknown
892	Seyssel (Claude de)	La Grad Monarchie de France, La Loy Salicque, premiere loy des Francoys	Paris	1540-41	USD -	3.20
893		SHAKESPEARE (WM.). Mr. William / Shakespeares / Comedies / Histories and / Tragedies		1632	USD -	42.00
894		SHAKESPEARE (WM.). Mr. William Shakespear's / Comedies, / Histories, / and / Tragedies		1685	USD -	47.00
895		SHAKESPEARE (WM.). PLAYS, from the corrected text of Johnson and Steevens		1807	USD -	9.75
897		SHAKESPEARE. BOYDELL'S SHAKESPEARE GALLERY		1803	USD -	13.00
898	Boaden (Jas.)	Shakespeare Portraits. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare			USD -	3.90
899	Boaden (Jas.)	Shakespeare Portraits. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints offered as Portraits of Shakespeare		1824	USD -	1.00
900	Sharpe (Edm.)	Architectural Parallels; or the Progress of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England through the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries, in a Series of Parallel Examples, selected from the Abbey Churches		1848	USD -	2.00
901	Shaw (Henry)	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the 7th to the 17th Centuries		1840-43	USD -	4.90
902	Shaw (Henry)	Hand Book of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices		ib. 1853	USD -	Unknown

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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.