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
298		Fox (Henry, Lord Holland) Letters to Henry Fox...			GBP -	7.00
299	Freytag (Frider[ich] Gotthilf)	Apparatus litterarius ubi libri partim antiqui partim rari recensentur	Leipzig	1752-53	GBP -	10.00
300	Goldschmidt (E. P.)	Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings		1928	GBP -	26.00
301		Goss (Charles W. F.) The London Directories...			GBP -	13.00
302		Hardy (W. J.) The Handwriting of the Kings & Queens of England...			GBP -	11.00
303		Harmsworth (Sir R. Leicester) Harmsworlh Trust Library [Catalogue]...			GBP -	28.00
304		Harris (Hendel) and Stephen K. Jones. The Pilgrim Press: A Bibliographical & Historical Memorial of the Books printed at Leyden by the Pilgrim Fathers...			GBP -	11.00
305	Harrsen (Meta) and George K. Boyce	Italian Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library	New York	1953	GBP -	21.00
306	Hayward (John)	English Poetry: An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions exhibited in 1947		1950	GBP -	30.00
307		Heber (Richard) Catalogue of the Library...			GBP -	7.00
308		Herrmann (Carl Heinrich) Bibliotheca Orientalis et Linguistica: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum et Graecorum et Latinorum...			GBP -	5.00
309	Horblit (Harrison D.)	One Hundred Books Famous in Science	New York	1964	GBP -	36.00
310	Johnstone (J. F. K.) and Robertson (A. W.)	Bibliographia Aberdonensis	Aberdeen	1929-1930	GBP -	13.00
311		Kelchner (Ernst) Die Marienlhaler Drucke der Stadt-Bibliothek zu Frankfurt am Main...			GBP -	7.00
312	Leighton (J. and J.)	Catalogues of early-printed, and other interesting Books, Manuscripts and Fine Bindings...			GBP -	14.00
313	Libri ([Guglielmus-Brutus-Icilus-Timoleon, Count])	Catalogue de la partie reservee et la plus precieuse de la collection...			GBP -	5.00
314	Lipperheide ([Franz Joseph], Freiherr von)	Katalog der . . . Kostumbibliothek	New York	1963	GBP -	26.00
315		London Catalogue (The) of Books . . . that have been printed in Great Britain		1773	GBP -	28.00
316		Lott (Walter) and others, editors. Musikwissenschaftliche Beitrage: Festschrift fur Johannes Wolf...			GBP -	17.00
317		Marinelli (Angello) La Stampa della "Divina Commedia" nei sec. XVI e XVII...			GBP -	4.00
318		Marinis (Tammaro de) Religature veneziane del XV e XVI secolo...			GBP -	11.00
319	Martinez Reguera (Leopoldo)	Bibliografia Hidrologico-medica Espanola	Madrid	1892-97	GBP -	2.00
320	Morrison (Alfred)	Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison		1883-92	GBP -	68.00
321	MUNBY (A. N. L.)	Phillipps Studies	Cambridge	1951-60	GBP -	20.00
323	Perins (C. W. Dyson)	The Dyson Perrins Collection		1958-60	GBP -	13.00
324	Perrins (C. W. Dyson)	The Dyson Perrins Collection		1958-60	GBP -	10.00
325		Philargyrie. The Fable of Philargyrie		1931	GBP -	10.00
326	Phillipps (Sir Thomas)	Bibliotheca Phillippica...			GBP -	64.00
327	Pilling (James Constantine)	Bibliography of the Eskimo Language...	Washington, D.C.	1887-94	GBP -	30.00
328	Placcius (Vincentius)	Theatrum Anonymorum et Pseudonymorum	Hamburg	1708	GBP -	22.00
329	Praz (Mario)	Studies in Seventeenth-century Imagery	Warburg Institute	1939-47	GBP -	16.00
330		Putnam (Geo[rge] Haven) Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages...			GBP -	8.00
331	[Rath (Erich von, editor)]	Der Buchdruck des 15. jahrhunderts: Eine Bibliographische ubersicht herausgegeben von der Wiegendruck-gesell-schaft	Berlin	1929-36	GBP -	18.00
332		Reuvens [C. J. C] Bibliotheca Reuvensiana. Descripsit atque edidit C. Leemans...			GBP -	5.00
333		Robinson (William H., Ltd.) Catalogue 81: A Selection of Precious Manuscripts, Historic Documents, and Rare Books...			GBP -	4.00
334		Robinson (William H, Ltd.) Catalogue 83: Rare Books and Manuscripts...			GBP -	6.00
335	Roger-Miles (L.)	Comment discerner les styles du VIIIe au XIXe siecle	Paris	[1896]	GBP -	2.00
336		Ross (Robert) Aubrey Beardsley...			GBP -	10.00
337	Salmon (William)	The Family-Dictionary or, household companion		1705	GBP -	21.00
338		Sassoon (David Solomon) Catalogue of the Sassoon Collection of . . . Hebrew Printed Books...			GBP -	3.00
339	Schmid (Anton)	Literatur des schachspiels	Vienna	1847	GBP -	12.00
340	Schullian (Dorothy M.) and Francis E. Sommer	A Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts in the Army Medical Library	New York	[1948]	GBP -	6.00
341	Schullian (Dorothy M.) and Francis E. Sommer	A Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts in the Army Medical Library	New York	[1948]	GBP -	5.00
342	Serna Santander ([Carlos Antonio] de la)	Dictionnaire biblio-graphique choisi du quinzieme siecle	Paris	1805-07	GBP -	45.00
343	Solar (Felix)	Catalogue de la bibliotheque de M. Felix Solar	Paris	1860	GBP -	1.00
344	Teerink (H[erman])	A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift	The Hague	1937	GBP -	14.00
345		Vicaire (Georges) Bibliographic Gastronomique...			GBP -	12.00
346		Vieyra (Anthony) A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages...			GBP -	1.00
347		Voullieme (E.) Die Deutschen Drucker des Funfzehnten Jahrhunderts...			GBP -	16.00
348		Weil (Ernst) Die Wiegendrucke Munchens...			GBP -	5.00
349		Welsh (Doris Varner) A Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History and Literature ... in the Newberry Library...			GBP -	5.00
350		Wroth (Lawrence C.) The First Century of the John Carter Brown Library: A History with a Guide to the Collections...			GBP -	7.00
351		Book of Common Prayer, English. The Book of Common Prayer		1903	GBP -	21.00
352	Bowen (Frank C.)	The Sea. Its History and Romance		1924-26	GBP -	27.00
353	Finberg (Alexander J.)	The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum		1924	GBP -	48.00
354	Gebarowicz (M.) and Hans Tielze	Albrecht Durers Zeichnungen in Lubomirski-Museum in Lemberg	Vienna	1929	GBP -	7.00
355	Grazzini (Antonio Francesco)	Les Nouvelles...	Berlin	1776	GBP -	2.00
356		Hautecoeur (Louis) Van Gogh...			GBP -	9.00
357		Leonardo Da Vinci. Notebooks...			GBP -	8.00
358	Rostand (Edmond)	Chaniecler, piece en quatre actes, en vers	Paris	1910	GBP -	21.00
359	Shakespeare (William)	Der Sturm, ubersekt von U. W. von Schlegel	Leipzig	1919	GBP -	1.00
360	Shakespeare (William)	Venus and Adonis; Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; Sonnets; Pericles	Oxford	1905	GBP -	26.00
361	Symonds (Robert Wemyss)	Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks		1940	GBP -	21.00
362		Vasari Society (The): Reproductions		1906-15	GBP -	12.00
363		Vayer (Lajos) Master Drawings from the Collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts...			GBP -	8.00
364		Wilkinson (C. A.) and Walter Wood. Fishing Boats and Barges from the Thames to Lands End...			GBP -	6.00
365	Wilkinson (J. V. S.)	The Lights of Canopus: Anvar i Suhaili		[1929]	GBP -	17.00
366	Williams (Iola A.)	Early English Watercolours and Some Cognate Drawings by Artists born not later than 1785		1952	GBP -	11.00
367	Baker (E. C. Stuart)	The Indian ducks and their allies		1908	GBP -	14.00
368	[Ball (Charles)]	The history of the Indian Mutiny		[ 1858-59]	GBP -	7.00
369		Beveridge (Henry) A comprehensive history of India...			GBP -	48.00
370		Big-game hunting. L[everson] (H. A.) The hunting grounds of the old world . . . First series...			GBP -	20.00
371	Blatter (Elhelbert)	Beautiful flowers of Kashmir		1927-28	GBP -	13.00
372	Camoens (Luis de)	The Lusiad: or, the discovery of India		1798	GBP -	6.00
373		Cunningham (J. D.) A history of the Sikhs...			GBP -	38.00
374	Dow (Alexander)	The history of Hindostan; translated from the Persian...			GBP -	32.00
375		East India Company. A genuine account of some transactions in the East Indies		1753	GBP -	11.00
376		[Edwardes (Emma)] Memorials of . . . Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwards...			GBP -	25.00
377	Elliot (Robert)	Views in the East; comprising India, Canton, and the shores of the Red Sea		1833	GBP -	10.00
378		George (Ernest) Sketches, German and Swiss...			GBP -	14.00
379		Gleig (G. R.) The life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro...			GBP -	13.00
380		Hakluyt Society...		1887-1961	GBP -	34.00
381	[Halhed (Nathaniel Brassey, translator)]	A code of Gentoo laws . . . from a Persian translation		1777	GBP -	6.00
382	Hanway (Jonas)	An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea...		1753	GBP -	36.00
383	Hedin (Sven)	My life as an explorer			GBP -	11.00
384	Hodges (William)	Travels in India		1793	GBP -	36.00
385	Holwell (J. Z.)	Evenemens historiques interessans, relatifs aux provinces de Bengale, & a l'Empire de l'Indostan	Amsterdam and Paris	1768	GBP -	13.00
386		India, 23 vol., including: Power (Maud) Wayside India...		1878-1966	GBP -	16.00
387		Indian history. A collection of 61 vol., including: Danvers (Frederick Charles) The Portuguese in India...		1872-1971	GBP -	40.00
388	Ives (Edward)	A voyage from England to India		1773	GBP -	48.00
389	Jackson (A. V. Williams, editor, and others)	History of India		1906-07	GBP -	46.00
390		Jones (Oliver J.) Recollections of a winter campaign in India: in 1857-58...			GBP -	16.00
391		Kaye (Sir J. W.) A history of the Sepoy War in India...		1870-96	GBP -	46.00
392		Kipling (Rudyard) A collection of 27 vol....			GBP -	32.00
393		Landor (A. H. S.) Across coveted lands, or a journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta...			GBP -	22.00
394	Michaud (J.)	Histoire des progres et dc la chute de l'empire de Mysore	Paris	1801-09	GBP -	16.00
395		Mountaineering. Bruce (C. G.) The assault on Mount Everest: 1922...			GBP -	15.00
396		Mountaineering. Finch (G. I.) The making of a mountaineer...			GBP -	22.00
397		Oates (E. W.) and W. T. Blanford. The fauna of British India...			GBP -	21.00
398	H. Caunter and T. Bacon, editors	Oriental Annual (The)...			GBP -	24.00

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.