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
99	Ibn Batuta	The Travels...		1829	GBP -	14.00
100	Johnstone (James, editor)	Antiquitates Celto-Normannicae	Copenhagen	1786	GBP -	22.00
101		Johnstone (James, compiler) Antiquitates Celto-Scandicae...			GBP -	22.00
102		Kennet (Basil) Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome...			GBP -	15.00
103		Law. Modern entries...			GBP -	14.00
104		Law List (The) for 1923...			GBP -	9.00
105		Law List (The)...			GBP -	10.00
106	Louis (J. A. H.)	The Gates of Thibet: A Bird's Eye View	Calcutta	1894	GBP -	32.00
107		Markham (Clements R.) A Memoir on the Indian Surveys...			GBP -	16.00
108	[MASERES (FRANCIS, editor)]	Scriptores Logarithmici; or, a Collection of Several Curious Tracts on the Nature and Construction of Logarithms		1791-1807	GBP -	54.00
109	Montaigne (Michel, Sieur de)	Les Essais . . . [edited by] Pierre Coste		1740	GBP -	10.00
110		Muratori (Ludovico) Annali d'Italia . . . all' anno 1750[64]...			GBP -	22.00
111	Muratori (Ludovico)	Disserlationi sopra le Antichita Italiane . . . nuova edizione accrcsciuta ... da Gaetano Cenni	Monaco	1765-66	GBP -	4.00
112	MURRAY (JOHN)	Handbooks for Travellers		1875-1908	GBP -	80.00
113	NEWTON (ISAAC)	OPERA QUAE EXSTANT OMNIA		1779-85	GBP -	105.00
114		Oppenheimer (Sir Francis) Frankish Themes and Problems; The Legend of Ste. Ampoule...			GBP -	13.00
115		Palgrave ([R. H. I.]) Dictionary of Political Economy...			GBP -	26.00
116	PARK (MUNGO)	TRAVELS IN THE; INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA . . . with an Appendix ... by Major Rennell...		1799-1815	GBP -	85.00
117		Petty (William) The History of the Survey of Ireland...			GBP -	30.00
118		Proceedings of the Committee appointed to manage the Contributions begun at London Dec. XVIII MDCCLVIIII for cloathing French Prisoners of War		1760	GBP -	13.00
119		Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) [Opera]...			GBP -	13.00
120	Rogers (James E. Thorold)	A History of Agriculture and Prices in England . . . 1259 . . . 1793	Oxford	1866-1902	GBP -	42.00
121		Rollin ([Charles]) The Ancient History...			GBP -	17.00
122	Rose (George)	Observations on the Historical Work of the late . . . Charles James Fox . . . with a Narrative of . . . the Enterprize of the Earl of Argyle		1809	GBP -	7.00
123		Sanctius (Franc[iscus]) Minerva...			GBP -	13.00
124	Scapula (Joannes)	Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Novum		1637	GBP -	3.00
125		SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW (THE)	Glasgow	1904-33	GBP -	32.00
126	SHARP (GRANVILLE)	The Just Limitation of Slavery . . . compared with The Unbounded Claims of the African Traders and the British American Slaveholders...			GBP -	56.00
127	Sharp (Granville)	The Law of Retribution; or, A Serious Warning to Great Britain . . . against Tyrants, Slave-holders		1776	GBP -	32.00
128	SHARP (GRANVILLE)	A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery		1769	GBP -	58.00
129	Sharp (Granville)	A Tract on the Law of Nature and Principles of Action in Man...			GBP -	30.00
130	Sidney (Sir Philip)	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [A Sixth Booke . . . Written by R. B[eling]]		1627; [1628]	GBP -	20.00
131		Spencer (Herbert) The Principles of Sociology...			GBP -	19.00
132	Starke (Mariana)	Information and Directions for Travellers on the Continent		1824	GBP -	20.00
133		Stephanus (H[enricus]) Thesaurus Graecae Linguae...			GBP -	5.00
134		Taylor (Jeremy, Bishop) The Whole Works...			GBP -	7.00
135	[Tiderman (F.) and others]	Trade and Industry of Finland	Helsinki	[1922]	GBP -	4.00
136	TOURREIL ([JACQUES DE])	Oeuvres	Paris	1721	GBP -	32.00
137	Tuke (D. Hack)	A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine		1892	GBP -	7.00
138	Turner (T. Hudson)	Some account of domestic architecture in England		1851-59	GBP -	18.00
139		Virgilius Maro (Publius) Aeneida . . . [edited by] James Henry...			GBP -	40.00
140		Walpole (Horace, Earl of Orford) Works...			GBP -	17.00
141		Warburton (William, Bishop) The Works...			GBP -	11.00
142	White (Gilbert)	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1813	GBP -	10.00
143		Wise (Thomas A.) History of paganism in Caledonia...			GBP -	30.00
144		Whymper (Edward) The Ascent of the Matterhorn...			GBP -	5.00
145	Bannet (Ivor)	The Amazons		1948	GBP -	17.00
146	Bell (Gertrude)	The Arab War		1940	GBP -	42.00
147		Birth (The) of Christ		1925	GBP -	18.00
148	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial . . . one of 115 copies		1923	GBP -	32.00
149	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Letter to a Friend . . . together with Christian Morals		1923	GBP -	28.00
150	Browne (Sir Thomas)	Religio Medici		1923	GBP -	32.00
151		Calder-Marshall (Arthur) A Crime Against Cania...			GBP -	16.00
152	Clay (Enid)	The Constant Mistress		1934	GBP -	26.00
153	Clay (Enid)	Sonnets and Verses		1925	GBP -	14.00
154	Coppard (A. E.)	Adam & Eve & Pinch-me		1921	GBP -	6.00
155	Coppard (Alfred Edgar)	The Hundreth Story...			GBP -	16.00
156	Gill (Eric)	The Lords Song		1934	GBP -	26.00
157		Johnson (Abraham) Lucina Sine Concubitu...			GBP -	6.00
158	Jones (Gwyn)	The Green Island		1946	GBP -	15.00
159	Mallarme (Stephen)	L'Apres Midi d'un Faune		1956	GBP -	22.00
160		Mathers (E. Powys) Maxims and Considerations of Chamfort...			GBP -	22.00
161	Musaeus	Hero and Leander		1949	GBP -	18.00
162		Pertelote, a sequel to Chanticleer. Being a bibliography of the Press October 1936-April 1943...			GBP -	32.00
163		Quennell (Nancy) The Epicures Anthology, decorations by Osbert Lancaster...			GBP -	20.00
164	Strong (L. A. G.)	The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons		1935	GBP -	9.00
165	Swinburne (Algernon Charles)	Pasiphae		1950	GBP -	22.00
166		Whitfield (Christopher) Together and Alone...			GBP -	6.00
166A		SONG OF SONGS (THE)		1936	GBP -	55.00
167		Anacreon, done into English by Abraham Cowley		1923	GBP -	28.00
168	Apuleius	The Marriage of Cupid and Psyches		1923	GBP -	17.00
169		Beckford (William) Vathek...			GBP -	18.00
170		Bible. Genesis		1924	GBP -	34.00
171		Bible. The Holy Bible according to the Authorized Version		1924-1927	GBP -	55.00
172	Blake (William)	The Illustrations for Thornton's Virgil		1937	GBP -	36.00
173	Blake (William)	The Note-Book called the Rossetti Manuscript		1937	GBP -	30.00
174	Blake (William)	Pencil Drawings		1927	GBP -	44.00
175	BLAKE (WILLIAM)	THE WRITINGS		1925	GBP -	90.00
176	BLAKE (William)	The Writings		1925	GBP -	42.00
177	Bunyan (John)	The Pilgrims Progress and the Life and Death of Mr. Badman		1928	GBP -	16.00
178	BURTON (ROBERT)	The Anatomy of Melancholy		1925	GBP -	78.00
179		Butleriana...			GBP -	11.00
180	Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de)	Don Quixote de la Mancha		1930	GBP -	32.00
181	Coleridge (Samuel Taylor)	Selected Poems		1935	GBP -	20.00
182	CONGREVE (WILLIAM)	The Complete Works		1923	GBP -	55.00
183	DANTE ALIGHIERI	La Divina Commedia		1928	GBP -	64.00
184		Darwin (Bernard and Elinor) The Tale Of Mr. Tootleoo; Tootleoo Two...			GBP -	28.00
185	DICKENS (CHARLES)	WORKS		1937-1938	GBP -	680.00
186		Donne (John) Complete Poetry and Selected Prose...			GBP -	30.00
187	DONNE (John)	Love Poems		1923	GBP -	28.00
188	DONNE (John)	Sermon of Valediction at his going into Germany...			GBP -	30.00
189	Donne (John)	X Sermons		1923	GBP -	18.00
190		Donne (John) The Courtiers Library...			GBP -	16.00
191	DRYDEN (John)	The Dramatic Work		1930-1931	GBP -	175.00
192	Ellis (Havelock)	Chapman		1934	GBP -	14.00
193	Ellis (Havelock)	Chapman		1934	GBP -	10.00
194		Evelyn (John) Memoirs...		1924-1929	GBP -	14.00
195	FARQUHAR (GEORGE)	The Complete Works		1930	GBP -	50.00
196		Greek Portrait (The) An Anthology of Greek Verse Translations with the Greek Texts		1934	GBP -	26.00
197	HARVEY (Dr. William)	The Anatomical Exercises. De motu cordis [etc.]		1928	GBP -	26.00

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.