Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. INCLUDING, BOOKS ON NATURAL HISTORY INCLUDING BONAPARTE'S Iconographie despigeons, 1857; JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE'S Plantes de la France, 1808-09; LEVAILLANT'S Oiseaux d'Afiique, , 1972(Eden),

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 1972 - October 23, 1972

Page Size: 544 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	TEN RHYNE (WILHELM)	SCHEDIASMA DE PROMONTORIO BONAE SPEI..	Schaffhausen	1686	GBP -	450.00
102	Trattinnick (L.)	Fungi Austriaci	Vienna	1830	GBP -	60.00
103		Vaucher (J. P.) Histoire des Conferves d'Eau douce...			GBP -	48.00
104	VIEILLOT (L. J. P.)	LA GALERIE DES OISEAUX	Paris	1834	GBP -	550.00
105		VUES SUISSES. A Collection of Views of Switzerland	[Zurich]	[c. 1830-40]	GBP -	260.00
106	Weese (A.)	Die Bildniss Albreclit von Hallers		1909	GBP -	1.00
107	Weiditz (H.)	Pllanzenaquarelle . . . aus dem Jahre 1529		1936	GBP -	12.00
108	WAINMANN (J. W.)	PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA	Regensburg	1737-45	GBP -	1,000.00
109	WILSON (A.) AND C. L. BONAPARTE	American Ornithology	London & Edinburgh	1832	GBP -	140.00
110	Wrisberg (H. A.)	Observationum de Animalculis infusoriis Satura	Gottingen	1765	GBP -	32.00
111	Wyder (J. E.)	Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle des Serpens de la Suisse	Lausanne	1823	GBP -	16.00
112		BARRETT (CHARLES) The lepidoptera of the British Islands...			GBP -	85.00
113	CLERCK (C.)	Svenska Spindlar	Stockholm	1757	GBP -	80.00
114	GOULD (JOHN)	Asiatic Birds: Fifty-four Specimens selected from 'The Birds of Asia' . . . with descriptive text		1890	GBP -	700.00
115	HARRIS (MOSES)	An exposition of English Insects		1781	GBP -	60.00
116	Hoffmann (G. F.)	Enumeratio lichenum iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata	Erlangen	1784[-86]	GBP -	65.00
117	LINNE (CARL VON)	Flora Svecica	Leiden	1745	GBP -	120.00
118	Palmstruch (J. W.), C. Quensel, O. Swartz and others	Svensk Zoologi	Stockholm	1806-13	GBP -	38.00
119	Partington (C. F.)	The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History		1835-37	GBP -	10.00
120	PASS (CRISPIN DE)	JARDIN DE FLEURS: HORTUS FLORIDUS	Arnhem & Utrecht	1614 & n.d.	GBP -	400.00
121	PAXTON (JOSEPH)	MAGAZINE OF BOTANY and register of flowering plants		1834-1849	GBP -	240.00
122	Sulzer (J. H.)	Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des . . . Putters . . . Karl Linnaeus	Zurich	1761	GBP -	65.00
123	White (Adam)	The instructive Picture Book...			GBP -	60.00
124	Wright (M. W. and F. von) and E. Lonnberg	Svenska Foglar efter naturen och pa sten ritade	Stockholm	1927	GBP -	2.00
125	Yarrell (William)	A history of British birds		1871-85	GBP -	7.00
126	GREENOUGH (GEORGE BELLAS, geographer and geologist)	AUTOGRAPH JOURNAL written in a lively style of a peregrination from Gottingen to Dresden and back			GBP -	140.00
127	GREENOUGH (GEORGE BELLAS)	Autograph Note-book primarily concerned with notes about maps and atlases and containing the addresses of continental map-sellers (also horologists and jewellers)		1848	GBP -	50.00
128	[Greenough (G. B.)]	[A Geological Map of England and Wales]		[1818?]	GBP -	16.00
129	GREENOUGH (G. B.)	A Geological Map of England and Wales		Jany. 1st 1819	GBP -	100.00
130	Greenough (G. B.)	A Geological Map of England and Wales		1819	GBP -	50.00
131	Greenough (G. B.)	A Geological Map of England and Wales...			GBP -	Not Sold
132	Greenough (G. B.)	Colors, manuscript notebook on paper		[c. 1835-40?; paper watermarked 1831]	GBP -	150.00
133	[Greenough (G. B.)]	Remarks on the Vestiges of Creation		c. 1844-45 [one leaf watermarked 1844]	GBP -	280.00
134	Greenough (G. B.)	General Sketch of the Physical and Geological Features of British India		c. 1850-53	GBP -	150.00
135	Greenough (G. B.)	The Collection of Greenough's certificates of Membership of various Societies		1798-1840	GBP -	32.00
136	Callcott (Maria)	A Letter to the President and Members of the Geological Society in Answer to certain Observations contained in Mr. Greenough's Anniversary Address		1834	GBP -	12.00
137	Delkeskamp (E. W.)	Malerisches Relief des klassischen Bodens der Schweiz	Zurich	[c. 1830]	GBP -	48.00
138		Delkeskamp (E. W.) Relief pittoresque du Sol classique de la Suisse...			GBP -	38.00
139		Egypt. A Series of Drawings of Egyptian scenery and animals			GBP -	8.00
140	Gemmellaro (G. G.)	A copy by Greenough of Gemmellaro's geological map of Sicily		c. 1840?	GBP -	1.00
141		India. S.D.U.K. Map of India		[c. 1840]	GBP -	18.00
142	Madler (J. H.)	General-Karte der sichbaren Seite der Mondoberflache zugleich als Ubersichts-blatt zur grossern Mondkarte von W. Beer und J. H. Madler	Berlin	1837	GBP -	1.00
143	Morris (John)	A Catalogue of British Fossils		1843	GBP -	100.00
144		Scientific Portraits. A fine collection of portraits		c. 1820-40	GBP -	42.00
145	Williams (D. H.)	Map of the Damoodah and Adji great Coalfield in the Zillahs . . . Bengal...		[c. 1840?]	GBP -	3.00
146	[Aiken (Henry)]	[Military discoveries; or the miseries of campaigning]		[1819]	GBP -	24.00
147	Beattie (William)	The Waldenses		1838	GBP -	32.00
148	BERG (JOHAN AUGUST)	SVERIGE FRAMSTALDT I TAFLOR	Gothenburg	[1856]	GBP -	70.00
149	[COMBE (WILLIAM)]	Journal of sentimental travels in the Southern provinces of France		1821	GBP -	55.00
150	Descamps (J. B.)	Voyage pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant	Paris	1769	GBP -	16.00
151	DUBOURG (M.)	VIEWS OF THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS IN ROME, and its vicinity		1820 [c. 1838]	GBP -	140.00
152	FIELDING (T. H.) AND J. WALTON	A PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKES		1821	GBP -	150.00
153	GERMING (J. J. VON. Baron)	A PICTURESQUE TOUR ALONG THE RHINE, FROM MENTZ TO COLOGNE		1820	GBP -	350.00
154	GREEVEN (H.)	Collection des costumes . . . du Royaume des Pays-Bas	Amsterdam, [but n.p.]	1828 [n.d.]	GBP -	22.00
155	HUMBOLDT (ALEXANDER VON) AND A. BONPLAND	VUES DES CORDI-LLERES ET MONUMENS DES PEUPLES INDIGENES DE L'AMERIQUE	Paris	1810	GBP -	600.00
156	LEAR (EDWARD)	VIEWS IN THE SEVEN IONIAN ISLANDS		1863	GBP -	420.00
157	Le Capelain (J.)	The Queen's Visit to Jersey	Jersey	1847	GBP -	70.00
158	Meyrick (S. R.) and C. H. Smith	The Costume of the original Inhabitants of the British Islands		[c. 1830]	GBP -	38.00
159	Morris (Rev. F. O.)	A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland		n.d. and 1880	GBP -	45.00
160	CRUIKSHANK (ISAAC ROBERT)	PANORAMA. GOING TO A FIGHT: the Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst	Sherwood	1819	GBP -	75.00
161	PAPWORTH (JOHN B.)	RURAL RESIDENCES		1818	GBP -	150.00
162	SAMS (WILLIAM)	A TOUR THROUGH PARIS		n.d. [some plates watermarked 1824-25]	GBP -	110.00
163	[DAHLBERG (Count E. J.)]	SWEDEN. SUECIA ANTIQUA ET HODIERNA	[Stockholm]	n.d. (imprints 1690-1715)	GBP -	480.00
164	SWINBURNE (HENRY)	TRAVELS THROUGH SPAIN...			GBP -	38.00
165		Switzerland. Album vom Berner-Oberland	Basle	n.d. [c. 1850]	GBP -	100.00
166	Tombleson (W.)	Views of the Rhine...			GBP -	100.00
167	Williamson (Capt. Thomas)	The Costume and Customs of modern India		[watermarked 1823]	GBP -	35.00
168	ASCHAM (ROGER)	THE SCHOLEMASTER		1570	GBP -	1,900.00
169	BUNYAN (JOHN)	THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS		1681	GBP -	480.00
170	Bunyan (John)	The Holy war made by Christ upon the devil		1684	GBP -	110.00
171	Bunyan (John)	Grace abounding to the chief sinners in a faithful account of the life and death of John Bunyan		1716	GBP -	30.00
172	Erasmus (Desiderius)	Colloquia	Amsterdam	1644	GBP -	18.00
173		PLAYS: (Dryden, John) The Indian emperour or the conquest of Mexico...			GBP -	300.00
174	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF ROMEO AND JULIET		1637	GBP -	2,300.00
175	HENRY VIII	LITERARUM QUIBUS INVICTISSIMUS PRINCEPS, HENRICUS OCTAVUS . . . respondit ad quandam epistolam Martini Lutheri ad se missam et ipsius Lutherane quoque epistole exemplum		10 February, 1527	GBP -	140.00
176	Meier (Albert)	Ce[rtaine briefe, and] speciall instructions for gentlemen, merchant[s, students, souldiers,] marriners, &c. Emp[ployed in seruices] abrode...		1589	GBP -	18.00
177	UBALDINI (PETRUCCIO)	A discovrse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuading Englande in the yeare 1588		1590	GBP -	22.00
178	BROUGHTON (HENRY)	A concept of scripture...			GBP -	32.00
179	WEBBE (EDWARD)	THE RARE AND MOST WONDERFUL THINGS WHICH EDWARD WEBBE . . . HATH SEENE and passed in his troublesome trauailes...			GBP -	65.00
180		INIUNCTIONS GIUEN BY THE QUEENES MAISTIE...		1600-05	GBP -	60.00
181		[SOMERSET. &C.]. 1607. A TRUE REPORT OF CERTAINE WONDERFULL OUERFLOWINGS OF WATERS...		1607	GBP -	100.00
182	BADDELEY (RICHARD)	THE BOY OF BILSON, or a True Discovery of the late notorious Impostures of certain Romish Priests in their pretended Exorcisme		1622	GBP -	70.00
183	Carpenter (Nathanael)	Geographie delineated forth in two bookes . . . The second edition corrected	Oxford	1635	GBP -	4.00
184	FOSTER (SAMUEL)	THE ART OF DIALLING		1638	GBP -	130.00
185	HOBBES (THOMAS)	LEVIATHAN		1651	GBP -	80.00
186	Hermes Trismegistus	Divine Pymander... together with ... Asclepius		1657	GBP -	55.00
187	[Baxter (Richard)]	A Petition for Peace with the Reformation of the Liturgy		1661	GBP -	14.00
188	Cotton (Sir Robert)	An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry [&c]		1665 [1675]	GBP -	26.00
189	Chaucer (G.)	Works		1687	GBP -	65.00
190	LOCKE (JOHN)	Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money...			GBP -	170.00
191	[ASTELL (MARY)]	A SERIOUS PROPOSAL TO THE LADIES for the advancement of their true and greatest interest by a lover of her sex		1694	GBP -	230.00
192	AUBREY (J.)	Miscellanies		1696	GBP -	140.00
193	Muggleton (Lodowick)	The acts of the witnesses of the spirit		1699	GBP -	38.00
194	HARRIS (JOHN)	LEXICON TECHNICUM		1704-10	GBP -	95.00
195	Nieuwentyt (Bernard)	The religious philosopher		1721-20-21	GBP -	16.00
196	[Swift (Jonathan)]	Travels into several remote nations of the world		1726	GBP -	42.00
197	HOUBRAKEN (J.)	The Heads of illustrious Persons of Great Britain		1747	GBP -	38.00
198	FIELDING (HENRY)	THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES		1749	GBP -	120.00
199		ARTIST'S VADE MECUM (THE)		1762	GBP -	15.00
200	[Johnston (Charles)]	Chrysal		1766	GBP -	12.00

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.
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