Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, including Byron, Poems on his domestic circumstances, 1816; T. E. Lawrence, Eight letters [to Harley Granville-Barker], 1939, 1972(SHR5),

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 14, 1972 - December 14, 1972

Page Size: 524 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Alencar (J. de) and J. M. Pereira de Silva	Iracema or The Honey Lips		1886	GBP -	30.00
2		Arabian Nights. The Thousand and One Nights translated by Edward William Lane...			GBP -	9.00
3	Barrie (J. M.)	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		[n.d.]	GBP -	14.00
4	Beerbohm (Max)	Zuleika Dobson		1911	GBP -	Not Sold
5	Brantome (Pierre De Bourdeille, Seigneur de)	The Lives of Gallant Ladies		1924	GBP -	16.00
6	Bronte (Sisters)	The Novels	Edinburgh	1924	GBP -	85.00
7	Burton (Sir Richard)	Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration		1924	GBP -	28.00
8	BYRON ([GEORGE GORDON], Lord)	POEMS ON HIS DOMESTIC CIRCUMSTANCES. I. Fare thee well!		1816	GBP -	45.00
9	Cervantes (Miguel de)	The History of Don Quixote	Edinburgh	1902	GBP -	7.00
10	Churchill ([Sir] Winston S.)	Liberalism and the Social problem		1909	GBP -	28.00
11	[Collier (John)]	Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems...			GBP -	13.00
12	[Dr Quincey (Thomas)]	Klosterheim or the Masque	Edinburgh	1832	GBP -	10.00
13	DICKENS (CHARLES)	The Works		1910-11	GBP -	75.00
14	Galsworthy (John)	The Works		1923	GBP -	11.00
15		Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson) The Web of Life...			GBP -	4.00
16		Greenaway (Kate) The language of flowers...			GBP -	17.00
17	Hemingway (Ernest)	The Spanish War	"Fact"	1938	GBP -	13.00
18		Housman (A. E.) More Poems...			GBP -	9.00
19		Hughes (Richard) A High Wind in Jamaica...			GBP -	1.00
20	Klein (Rudolph)	Felicien Rops	Paris	[n.d.]	GBP -	16.00
21	La Harpe ([Jean Francois] de)	Three Gifts . . . after the French version entitled "Tangu et Felime" [translated] by Sir Frank Swettenham		1928	GBP -	3.00
22	L[AWRENCE] (T. E.)	EIGHT LETTERS [to Harley Granville-Barker]		1939	GBP -	150.00
23		Mackenzie (Compton) The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett...			GBP -	1.00
24	Mac Orlan (Pierre)	Felicien Rops, essai critique de Jean-Dubray	Paris	1928	GBP -	15.00
25	Malet (Captain H. E.)	Annals of the Road		1876	GBP -	16.00
26	Maupassant (Guy de)	The Tellier House translated by Desmond Flower		1964	GBP -	10.00
27	Parkman (Francis)	Works		1899	GBP -	18.00
28		Penguin Books. King Penguins		1939-1959	GBP -	36.00
29	Rabelais (Francois)	All the extant Works translated by Samuel Putman	New York	1929	GBP -	22.00
30	Rabelais (Francois)	The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel	Sydney	1952	GBP -	12.00
31	Rabelais (Francois)	The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel	Sydney	1952	GBP -	11.00
32		Rabelais (Francois) The Works...			GBP -	12.00
33		[Scott (Sir Walter)] Ivanhoe; a romance...			GBP -	3.00
33A		Scott (Sir Walter) The Lady of the Lake...			GBP -	5.00
34		Song (A) in favour of Bundling [Forward by Douglas Martin]...	Leicester	[1961]	GBP -	26.00
35	Talmud (Der Babylonische)	neu Ubertragen durch Lazarus Goldschmidt	Berlin	1930-1936	GBP -	62.00
36	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington			GBP -	20.00
37		Thomas (Dylan) Collected Poems...			GBP -	56.00
38	Turquan (Joseph)	The Empress Josephine		1913	GBP -	18.00
39	[by John Mason]	Visitors Book			GBP -	10.00
40		Woolf (Leonard) Sowing...			GBP -	1.00
41	Abbot (Charles)	Flora Bedfordiensis	Bedford	1798	GBP -	19.00
42	Addison (Charles G.)	Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the State and Prospects of Syria		1838	GBP -	20.00
43	Aeschylus	The Tragedies...			GBP -	12.00
44		American Law--American Maritime Cases...			GBP -	7.00
45		American Law--Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory...			GBP -	1.00
46	[Anderson (Adam)]	An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, from the Earliest Accounts		1787-89	GBP -	11.00
47		Archacoloaia Cantiana...			GBP -	20.00
48		Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso...			GBP -	5.00
49		Ayala (Balthazar) De iure et officiis et disciplina libri III edited by John Westlake...			GBP -	11.00
50	BARROW ([Sir] JOHN)	Travels in China		1804	GBP -	44.00
51	Beldam (Joseph)	Recollections of Scenes and Institutions in Italy and the East		1851	GBP -	16.00
52	[Bellegarde (J. B. M. de)]	Reflexions upon Ridicule		1707	GBP -	16.00
53	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	Decameron	Milan	1803	GBP -	7.00
54		Bohn's Antiquarian Library...			GBP -	16.00
55		Boileau Despreaux ([Nicolas]) Oeuvres Completes...			GBP -	10.00
56	Botfield (Beriah, editor)	Praefationes et Epistolae Editionibus Princibus Auctorum Veterum	Cambridge	1861	GBP -	16.00
57	Brereton (William H.)	The Truth about Opium		1883	GBP -	11.00
58	BROCKEDON (WILLIAM)	Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps		[n.d.]	GBP -	65.00
59	BRUCE (JAMES)	Travels to discover the Source of the Nile	Edinburgh	1805	GBP -	50.00
60		Bucknill (John Charles) and Daniel Hack Tuke. A Manual of Psychological Medicine...			GBP -	5.00
61	BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LE CLERC, Conte de)	HISTOIRE NATURELLE, GENERALE ET PARTICULIERS, AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DU CABINET DU Roi	Paris	1749-1804	GBP -	150.00
62		Bunbury (E. H.) A History of Ancient Geography...	Edinburgh	1822-33	GBP -	10.00
63		B[urton] (H[enry]) Babel no Bethel...			GBP -	20.00
64	Cadell (W. A.)	A Journey in Carniola. Italy	Edinburgh	1820	GBP -	7.00
65	Callis (Robert)	The Reading ... of Sewers		1686	GBP -	13.00
65A	Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de)	Don Quixote de la Mancha . . . nueva edicion . . . por Juan Antonio Pellicer	Madrid	1797-98	GBP -	11.00
66	Cervantes de Saavedra (Miguel de)	Don Quixote de la Mancha		1837-39	GBP -	12.00
67	Chabot (Charles) and Edward Twisleton	The Handwriting of Junius		1871	GBP -	7.00
68		Chambers' Encyclopedia...			GBP -	2.00
69	Chilton (Cha[rle]s)	The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand	Wellington, N.Z.	1909	GBP -	17.00
70		Clarke (William) The Connection of the Roman...			GBP -	16.00
71	COOK (JAMES)	A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD		1777	GBP -	125.00
72	Coxe (William)	Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark		1792	GBP -	30.00
73	COXE (WILLIAM)	Travels in Switzerland		1789	GBP -	18.00
74	Cuvier (Baron Georges)	Histoire des progres des sciences naturelles . . . jusqu'a ce jour...			GBP -	55.00
75		CUVIER (Baron GEORGES L. C.) ICONOGRAPHIE DU REGNE ANIMALE...	Paris	1829-44	GBP -	85.00
76	Cuvier (Baron Georges)	Lecons d'Anatomic Comparee		1835-46	GBP -	24.00
77	CUVIER (Baron GEORGES)	RECHERCHES SUR LES OSSEMENTS FOSSILES		1834-36	GBP -	95.00
78		Cuvier (Baron G[eorges]) Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux...			GBP -	60.00
79	CUVIER (Baron GEORGES) and [A.] VALENCIENNES	HISTOIRE. NATURELLE DES POISSONS	Paris	1828-49	GBP -	560.00
80		Daniel (G.) Histoire de France, depuis l'Etablissement de la Monarchic francoise dans les Gaules...			GBP -	38.00
81	Dantine (Francois), C. Clemencet, and U. Durand	L'Art de verifier les dates	Paris	1783-1830	GBP -	11.00
82		Daru ([Pierre A. N. B.]) Histoire de Bretagne...			GBP -	12.00
83		Description Geographique et Historique de la Haute Normandie	Paris	1740	GBP -	11.00
84	Elphinstone (Mountstuart)	An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies, in Persia, Tartary, and India		1842	GBP -	11.00
85		Encyclopaedia Britannica...	Chicago, etc.	[1945-46]	GBP -	3.00
86		English Historical Review		1913-31	GBP -	95.00
87		English Justice...			GBP -	11.00
88		Fleetwood (William, Bishop) Chronicon Preciosum: or an Account of English Gold and Silver Money...			GBP -	9.00
89	Foreman (John)	The Philippine Islands . . . embracing the whole Period of Spanish Rule		1906	GBP -	95.00
90		Frazer (Sir James George) The Native Races of Africa and Madagascar . . . edited ... by Robert Angus Downie...			GBP -	14.00
91	Gibbon (Edward)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1896-1900	GBP -	8.00
92	Gsell-Fels (Dr. [Theodor])	Switzerland: its Scenery and People		1881	GBP -	24.00
93		Hall (Basil) Extracts from a Journal...			GBP -	26.00
94	Hall (Basil)	Travels in North America	Edinburgh	1830	GBP -	22.00
95		Heath (J. B.) Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers...			GBP -	21.00
96		Heeren (A. H. L.) A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and its Colonies...			GBP -	26.00
97	[Henderson (Alexander)]	The History of Ancient and Modern Wines		1824	GBP -	18.00
98		Hopkins (E. J.) The organ, its history and construction...			GBP -	18.00

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.