Sothebys: THE WILLIS KING III LIBRARY THE THIRD PORTION. CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS OF THE 16th to 20th CENTURY. The Property of a Gentleman. ART REFERENCE BOOKS AND BOOKS ON PORCELAIN AND POTTERY, FACSIMILES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, TRAVEL , 1971(SHR2),

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 21, 1971 - October 21, 1971

Page Size: 675 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1135	Abelard and Heloise	The Letters		1925	GBP -	13.00
1136	Aesop	The Fables		1793	GBP -	22.00
1137	AEsop	Fabulas: Reproduction en Facsimile de la Primera Edition de 1489	Madrid	1929	GBP -	6.00
1138	Alcock (Sir Rutherford)	The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan		1863	GBP -	32.00
1139	Alcock (Sir Rutherford)	The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan	New York	1863	GBP -	20.00
1140	Alfonso X (King of Castille)	Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X	Madrid	1881	GBP -	16.00
1141	Allen (B. Sprague)	Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature	Cambridge, Mass.	1937	GBP -	9.00
1142	Anderson (Hans)	Stories		1911	GBP -	15.00
1143	Anderson (William)	The Pictorial Arts of Japan		1886	GBP -	28.00
1144		Andreades (A.) History of the Bank of England 1640-1903...			GBP -	10.00
1145	ANJOU (RENE due d')	Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris. Texte et miniatures publies et commentes par O. Smital et E. Winkler	Vienna	1927	GBP -	60.00
1146	ANNE de Bretagne	LE LIVRE D'HEURES DE LA REINE ANNE DE BRETAGNE	Paris	1841	GBP -	88.00
1147		ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY (THE): a miscellaneous assemblage of Topography		1807-09	GBP -	65.00
1148	Best (George)	The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathay ... by the North-West		1938	GBP -	21.00
1149	Caron (Francois) and Joost Schouten	A true description of the mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam		1935	GBP -	22.00
1150	Caron (Francois) and Joost Schouten	A True Description of the Mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam		1935	GBP -	22.00
1151	Chardin (Sir John)	Travels in Persia		1927	GBP -	13.00
1152	Columbus (Christopher)	The Voyages		1930	GBP -	15.00
1153	Dampier (William)	A new Voyage round the World		1927	GBP -	15.00
1154	Dampier (William)	Voyages and Discoveries		1931	GBP -	14.00
1155	Drake (Sir Francis)	The World Encompassed		1926	GBP -	6.00
1156	Guarmani (Carlo)	Northern Najd. A journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim. Translated from the Italian by Lady Capel-Cure		1938	GBP -	12.00
1157	Hamilton (Capt. Alexander)	A New Account of the East Indies		1930	GBP -	32.00
1158	Hawkins (Sir Richard)	The Observations		1933	GBP -	10.00
1159	Polo (Marco)	The most noble and famous Travels		1929	GBP -	18.00
1160	Rale[i]gh (Sir Walter)	The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana		1928	GBP -	10.00
1161	Raleigh (Sir Walter)	The Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana		1928	GBP -	12.00
1162	Raleigh (Sir Walter)	Ralegh's Last Voyage [edited] by V. T. Harlow		1932	GBP -	13.00
1163		Spanish Voyage (A) to Vancouver and the North-West coast of America		1930	GBP -	33.00
1164	Varthema (Ludovico de)	The Itinerary . . . from 1502-1508 a.s translated ... by John Winter Jones . . . with a discourse on Varthema and his travels in Southern Asia by Sir Richard Carnac Temple		1928	GBP -	14.00
1165	Williamson (James A.)	The Voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII		1929	GBP -	14.00
1166	Armstrong (Sir Walter)	Turner		1902	GBP -	18.00
1167	Arnold (Matthew)	Essays in Criticism [Second Series]		1865-88	GBP -	24.00
1168	APULEIUS (LUCIUS)	ASHENDENE PRESS. THE XI. BOOKES OF THE GOLDEN ASSE CONTAINING THE METAMORPHOSIE . . . WITH AN EXCELLENT NARRATION OF THE MARRIAGE OF CUPID AND PSYCHES...	Chelsea	1924	GBP -	260.00
1169	Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)	ASHENDENE PRESS. Carmina Sapphica; Carmina Alcaica		1903	GBP -	140.00
1170	JAMES (HENRY)	ASHENDENE PRESS. REFUGEES IN CHELSEA	Chelsea	April 1920	GBP -	200.00
1171		ASHENDENE PRESS. OMAR KHAYYAM. RUBAIYAT . . . RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE		1896	GBP -	320.00
1172	ASHTON (Sir LEIGH)	The Art of India and Pakistan: A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts	New York	[n.d., 1950]	GBP -	36.00
1173	Ashton ([Sir] Leigh)	An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture		1924	GBP -	26.00
1174	AUDSLEY (GEORGE ASHDOWN)	The Ornamental Arts of Japan		1882-84	GBP -	55.00
1175	AUDSLEY (G. A.)	The Ornamental Arts of Japan		1882-84	GBP -	58.00
1176	AUDSLEY (G. A.) AND JAMES LORD BOWES	KERAMIC ART OF JAPAN		1875	GBP -	58.00
1177	Audsley (G. A.) and J. L. Bowes	Keramic Art of Japan		1881	GBP -	16.00
1178	Austen (Jane)	The Complete Novels	New York	[1950]	GBP -	15.00
1179	Backhouse (James)	A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonics	London & York	1843	GBP -	35.00
1180	Backhouse (James)	A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa		1843	GBP -	30.00
1181	BACON ([Sir] FRANCIS)	The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall		1928	GBP -	55.00
1182	BAENSCH-DRUGULIN (JOHANNES)	Marksteine aus der Welt-litteratur in originalschriften	Leipzig	1902	GBP -	28.00
1183	Bahr (A. W.)	Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China		1911	GBP -	12.00
1184	Ball (Katherine M.)	Decorative Motives of Oriental Art		1927	GBP -	15.00
1185	Balzac (Honore de)	La Comedie Humaine	New York and Philadelphia	1896-1900	GBP -	32.00
1186	Barrow ([Sir John])	Travels in China		1804	GBP -	16.00
1187	BARTH (HENRY)	TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA: being the journal of an expedition ... in the years 1849-1855		1857-58	GBP -	88.00
1188	BARTLETT (JOHN RUSSELL)	PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS AND INCIDENTS IN TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, SONORA, AND CHIHUAHUA...	New York	1854	GBP -	70.00
1189	BARTSCH (ADAM)	LE PEINTRE GRAVEUR	Leipzig and Vienna	1876-1818	GBP -	170.00
1190	Baxter (James Phinney)	A Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou: His Voyages to the St. Lawrence	New York	1906	GBP -	17.00
1191	Beaumont (Fr Pablo)	Cronica de Michoacan [edited by Rafael Lopez]	Mexico City	1932	GBP -	15.00
1192	Beazley (C. Raymond)	The Dawn of Modern Geography. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the Conversion of the Roman Empire to [the Early Years of the Fifteenth Century]	London and Oxford	1897-1906	GBP -	16.00
1193	Beechey (Captain F. W.)	Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait ... in His Majesty's Ship Blossom	Philadelphia	1832	GBP -	32.00
1194	Belcher (Sir Edward)	Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang . . . 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago . . . with Notes on the Natural History of the Islands		1848	GBP -	48.00
1195		Bell (Malcolm) Edward Burne-Jones...			GBP -	8.00
1196	Bell (T.)	Kalogynomia, or the Laws of Female Beauty		1899	GBP -	5.00
1197	Belly (Felix)	A Travers l'Amerique Centrale: Le Nicaragua et le Canal Interoceanique	Paris	1867	GBP -	14.00
1198	Benesch (Otto)	Die Spatmeister des japanischen Holzschnitts. Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige	Vienna	[n.d., c.1935]	GBP -	14.00
1199	Bernard (Auguste)	Geofroy Tory	Boston and New York	1909	GBP -	50.00
1200	Berners (Dame Juliana)	The Boke of Saint Albans . . . With an introduction by William Blades		1901	GBP -	16.00
1201		BIBLE. LA BIBBIA DI BORSO D'ESTE. Riprodotta per mandato di Giovanni Treccani con documenti e studio storico-artistico di Adolfo Venturi	Milan	1937	GBP -	30.00
1202		[Bible, Die Wiener Genesis. Farbenlichtdruckfaksimile der Griechi-schen Bilderbibel aus dem 6. jahrhundert]	[Vienna]	[1931]	GBP -	19.00
1203	Bickmore (Albert S.)	Travels in the East Indian Archipelago	New York	1869	GBP -	22.00
1204	Binyon (Laurence)	A Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Woodcuts ... in the British Museum		1916	GBP -	17.00
1205		[Binyon (Laurence)] The Chinese Exhibition...			GBP -	22.00
1206	Binyon (Laurence)	The Engraved Designs of William Blake	London and New York	1926	GBP -	28.00
1207	BINYON (LAURENCE)	The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese Frescoes		[1927]	GBP -	60.00
1208	Binyon (Laurence)	Painting in the Far East		1934	GBP -	10.00
1209	BINYON (LAURENCE), J. V. S. WILKINSON AND BASIL GRAY	PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING		1933	GBP -	75.00
1210	BINYON (LAURENCE), J. V. S. WILKINSON AND BASIL GRAY	PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING		1933	GBP -	78.00
1211	BLAKE (WILLIAM)	THE WORKS, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical	Quaritch	1893	GBP -	105.00
1213	BLANCHON-LASSERVE (PAUL)	Ecriture et Enluminure des Manuscrits di IXe au XIIe sieclc, histoire et technique	Sable-sur-Sarthe	[c. 1926]	GBP -	28.00
1214	Bloom (J. Harvey)	English Tracts		1922-23	GBP -	16.00
1215	Blum (Andre)	The origin and early history of Engraving in France	New York	1930	GBP -	28.00
1216	Blum (Andre)	Les Primitifs de la Gravure sur Bois: Etude Historique et Catalogue des Incunables Xylographiques du Musee du Louvre (Cabinet d'estampes Edmond de Rothschild)	Paris	1956	GBP -	10.00
1217	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	Amorous Fiammetta		1929	GBP -	9.00
1218	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	Il Decameron	Florence	1820	GBP -	70.00
1219	BOCCACCIO ([GIOVANNI])	THE DECAMERON	Philadelphia	[1910-11]	GBP -	52.00
1220	Bonnycastle ([Sir] R. H.)	Spanish America; or a[n] . . . Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental & Insular	Philadelphia, Pa.	1819	GBP -	26.00
1221		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (The)	Boston, Mass.	1930	GBP -	54.00
1222	Bordona (J. Dominguez)	Exposicion de Codices Miniados Espanoles: Catalogo	Madrid	1929	GBP -	24.00
1223	Boswell (James)	Letters . . . addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple [edited by Sir Philip Francis]		1857 [1856]	GBP -	11.00
1224		Boswell (James) Letters . . . edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker...			GBP -	11.00
1225	Boswell (James)	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Oxford	1826	GBP -	24.00
1226		BOSWELL (JAMES) PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL FROM MALAHIDE CASTLE...			GBP -	260.00
1227	Bourdichon (Jean)	Les Heures d'Anne de Bretagne. Texte par Emile Male	Paris	1946	GBP -	8.00
1228	Bourdillon (F. W.)	The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose		1906	GBP -	16.00
1229		Bowen (Frank C.) America Sails the Seas...			GBP -	9.00
1230	Bowen (Frank C.)	The Sea, its History and Romance		[n.d., 1924-26]	GBP -	24.00
1231	[BRANDT (SEBASTIAN)]	The Ship of Fools		1874	GBP -	42.00
1232	Branner (John Casper)	Bibliography of Clays and the Ceramic Arts	Washington	1896	GBP -	9.00
1233	BREVIAIRE (LE)	DE PHILIPPE LE BON. Breviaire parisien du XVE siecle. Etude du texte et des miniatures par V. Leroquais	Brussels	1929	GBP -	48.00
1234		BRITISH MUSEUM. REPRODUCTIONS OF PRINTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM		1899-1906, 1907-13, 1893	GBP -	30.00
1235	Brooke (James, Rajah of Sarawak)	Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes . . . together with a narrative of the operations of H.M.S. Iris		1848	GBP -	42.00

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.

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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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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.