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
1236	Browne (Sir Thomas)	The Works		1928-31	GBP -	19.00
1237	Brusonius (L. Domitius)	Facetiarum cxcmplorumque . . . opera ac studio Conradi Lycosthenis	Lyon	1562	GBP -	21.00
1238	Bryan (Michael)	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers	London and New York	1903-05	GBP -	36.00
1239	Budge (E. A. Wallis, editor)	[The Book of the Dead]. The Papyrus of Ani		1913	GBP -	19.00
1240	Bullock (W.)	Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico; containing Remarks on the Present State of New Spain		1824	GBP -	35.00
1241		Bunbury (E. H.) A History of Ancient Geography...			GBP -	7.00
1242	BURKE (EDMUND)	Reflections on the Revolution in France		1790	GBP -	36.00
1243	Burke (Edmund)	Thoughts and Details on Scarcity		1800	GBP -	32.00
1244		BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain		1910	GBP -	14.00
1245	Burns (Robert)	Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect		1787	GBP -	32.00
1246	Burns (Robert)	Songs and Lyrics		1920	GBP -	10.00
1247	Burroughs (John) and others	Alaska	New York	1902	GBP -	26.00
1248	[Burton (Robert)]	The Anatomy of Melancholy		1676	GBP -	30.00
1249	Burton (Robert)	The Anatomy of Melancholy . . . embodied in an All-English Text edited by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith	New York	1927	GBP -	13.00
1250	Burton (William)	A General History of Porcelain		1921	GBP -	16.00
1251	Bushell (S. W.)	Chinese Art		1905-06	GBP -	12.00
1252	Butler (Samuel)	Hudibras, a poem . . . prefixed, a Life of the		1819	GBP -	11.00
1253	BUTLER (SAMUEL)	Shakespeare's Sonnets reconsidered		1899	GBP -	20.00
1254	Butsch (A. F.)	Die Bucher-Ornamentik der Renaissance	Leipzig	1878-81	GBP -	36.00
1255	Byron ([George Gordon], Lord)	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems	Philadelphia, Pa.	1812	GBP -	19.00
1256	Byron ([George Gordon], Lord)	The Corsair, a Tale...	Philadelphia, Pa.	1814	GBP -	19.00
1257	Byron ([George Gordon], Lord)	The Deformed Transformed; a Drama . . . First American from the Second London Edition	Philadelphia, Pa.	1824	GBP -	19.00
1258	Byron ([George Gordon], Lord)	English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire		1809	GBP -	5.00
1259	Byron ([George Gordon], Lord)	Letters and Journals		1830	GBP -	11.00
1260	BYRON ([GEORGE GORDON], Lord)	Works		1815	GBP -	30.00
1261	Byvanck (A. W.)	La Miniature dans les Pays Bas Septentrionaux, traduit du necrlandais par Adrienne Haye	Paris	1937	GBP -	13.00
1262	CABECA DE VACA (ALVAR NUNEZ)	Relation of what befel the armament in the Indias whither Panphilo de Narvaez went for Governor (from the years 1527 to 1537) . . . printed from the Buckingham Smith translation of 1871	San Francisco	1929	GBP -	55.00
1263	Caesar (Caius Julius)	Quae extant tabulis aeneis ornata		1712	GBP -	125.00
1264	Calvert (Albert F.)	Moorish Remains in Spain	London & New York	1906	GBP -	18.00
1265		Cartwright (Julia) Beatrice D'Este Duchess of Milan...			GBP -	8.00
1266	Casati (Gactano)	Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha	London & New York	1891	GBP -	15.00
1267	Castiglione (Conte Baldassar)	IL Cortegiano, or The Courtier		1727	GBP -	24.00
1268	Cather (Willa)	Death comes for the Archbishop	New York	1929	GBP -	23.00
1269	[Caulfield (James)]	Cromwelliana, a chronological detail of events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged from 1642 to 1658		1810	GBP -	16.00
1270	Cave (William)	Apostolici: or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death and Martyrdoms ... as also the Most Eminent of the Primitive Fathers...		1671	GBP -	5.00
1271	Cellini (Benvenuto)	The Life	New York	1906	GBP -	15.00
1272	[CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE)]	Don Quixote	Edinburgh	1879-84	GBP -	40.00
1273	Cervantes (Miguel de)	L'ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Mancha, traduction Louis Viardot	Paris	[1926-27]	GBP -	20.00
1274		Chanson de Roland	Tours	1872	GBP -	11.00
1275		Charavay (Etienne) Lettres Autographs composant la collection de M. Alfred Bovet...			GBP -	3.00
1276	Charlevoix (Rev. P. F. X. de, S.J.)	History and General Description of New France. Translated	New York	1866	GBP -	42.00
1277	Chatterton (E. Keble)	Sailing Ships...			GBP -	18.00
1278	Chaucer (Geoffrey)	The Canterbury Tales	New York	1935	GBP -	17.00
1279	Chaucer (Geoffrey)	The Works		[1905]	GBP -	34.00
1280	[CHAUCER (GEOEEREY)	The Ellesmere Chaucer reproduced in facsimile]	[Manchester]	[1911]	GBP -	25.00
1281	Chesterfield (P. D. Stanhope, Earl of)	Miscellaneous Works		1777	GBP -	10.00
1282	Chishull (Edmund)	Travels in Turkey and back to England...			GBP -	36.00
1283	Chorier (Nicolas)	The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (de arcanis Amoris et Veneris)	Paris	1890	GBP -	15.00
1284	CLAVIGERO (D. F. S., Abbe)	THE HISTORY OF MEXICO		1787	GBP -	52.00
1285	Cobden-Sanderson (Thomas James)	The Journals	New York	1926	GBP -	34.00
1286	Cobden-Sanderson (Thomas James)	The Journals	New York	1926	GBP -	28.00
1287		COLECCION DE DOCUMENTOS para la Historia de Mexico publicada por Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta	Mexico	1858-66	GBP -	40.00
1288	Collingridge (George)	The Discovery of Australia: A Critical, Documentary and Historic investigation concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans before the Arrival of Lieut	Sydney	1895	GBP -	28.00
1289		[COLONNA (FRANCESCO)] Hypnerotomachia Poliphili...		1963	GBP -	52.00
1290	COEONNA (FRANCESCO]	POLIPHILI HYPNEROTOMACHIA, ubi Humana Omnia non nisi Somnium esse ostendit		1904	GBP -	44.00
1291	Columbus (Christopher)	His own book of Privileges 1502. Facsimile of the manuscript		1893	GBP -	36.00
1292		Columbus--Cristoforo Colombo, documenti & prove della sua appartenenza a Genova	Genoa	1931	GBP -	20.00
1293	[COOK (Captain JAMES)]	[ATLAS to his Third Voyage only]		[1784]	GBP -	190.00
1294	Cook (Capt. James)	The Voyages		1842	GBP -	24.00
1295	Coomaraswamy (Ananda K.)	Ars Asiatica XIII. Les Miniatures Orientales de la collection Goloubew au Museum of Fine Arts de Boston	Paris and Brussels	1929	GBP -	32.00
1296		Corbett ([Sir] Julian S.) The Successors of Drake...			GBP -	16.00
1297		Cortes Society. New Series numbers I, II and IV	Pasadena	1942-50	GBP -	24.00
1298	Coryat (Thomas)	Coryat's Crudities	Glasgow	1905	GBP -	8.00
1299		Coulton (G. G.) The Chronicler of European Chivalry...			GBP -	5.00
1300	Courboin (Francois) and Marcel Roux	La Gravure Francaise, essai de bibliographie	Paris	1927	GBP -	15.00
1301	Cowley (Abraham)	The Works		1700	GBP -	11.00
1302		Cox (Warren) The Book of Pottery and Porcelain...			GBP -	12.00
1303	Creighton (Mandell)	Queen Elizabeth	London and Paris	1896	GBP -	10.00
1304	Curzon (G. N., Marquess)	Kedleston Church...		1922	GBP -	5.00
1305	Curzon (Hon. Robert)	A visit to the monasteries in the Levant	New York	1852	GBP -	11.00
1306	Cuvelier (Jean)	Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Duguesclin from a manuscript of about 1400 A.D. in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson		1909	GBP -	26.00
1307	Dampier (William)	Voyages . . . edited by John Masefield		1906	GBP -	5.00
1308	DANTE ALIGHIERI	THE COMEDY...	San Francisco	1929	GBP -	95.00
1309		Davenport (Cyril) Mezzotints...			GBP -	13.00
1310	DAVENPORT (CYRIE)	Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II	Chicago	1906	GBP -	58.00
1311	Davies (George R.)	Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by George R. Davies...	New York	1913	GBP -	7.00
1312	Defoe (Daniel)	The Life & strange surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner	New York	[n.d.]	GBP -	24.00
1313	DeLong (George W.)	The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. DeLong . . . Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-81	Boston & New York	1884	GBP -	20.00
1314	Dennistoun (James)	Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the Arms, Arts & Literature of Italy, 1440-1630...	London & New York	1909	GBP -	6.00
1315	Dennistoun (James)	Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino	London & New York	1909	GBP -	7.00
1316	DE RICCI (SEYMOUR)	Catalogue of a collection of Mounted Porcelain belonging to E. M. Hodgkins	Paris	1911	GBP -	38.00
1317	De Ricci (Seymour)	A Catalogue of Early Italian Majolica in the collection of Mortimer L. Schiff	New York	1927	GBP -	32.00
1318	De Vigny (Alfred)	Daphne	Paris	1924	GBP -	13.00
1319		DIALOGUES OF CREATURES MORALISED	Kentfield, Calif.	1967	GBP -	48.00
1320	Diaz del Castillo (Bernal)	The true history of the Conquest of Mexico . . . Translated from the original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge		1800	GBP -	26.00
1321	Dibdin (Tho[ma]s Frognall)	Reminiscences of a Literary Life		1836	GBP -	17.00
1322	Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, editors	DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (THE)			GBP -	100.00
1323	DIXON (Captain GEORGE)	A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; BUT MORE PARTICULARLY TO THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA: performed ill 1785 [to] 1788		1789	GBP -	130.00
1324	Dodgson (Campbell)	The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler		1922	GBP -	12.00
1325	[Dodgson (C. L.)]	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...			GBP -	15.00
1326	Donne (John)	Complete Poetry and Selected Prose	New York	1929	GBP -	21.00
1327	Douce (Francis)	The Dance of Death . . . with a dissertation on the several representations of that subject		1833	GBP -	13.00
1328	Dow (George Francis)	Slave Ships and Slaving	Salem, Mass.	1927	GBP -	26.00
1329	Dow (George Francis)	Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History of Whaling during Three Centuries	Salem, Mass.	1925	GBP -	17.00
1330	Dowden (Edward)	The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley		1886	GBP -	17.00
1331	Doyle (James E.)	A Chronicle of England		1864	GBP -	13.00
1332		Dryden (John) The Poetical Works...			GBP -	11.00
1333	DUFT (JOHANNES) AND PETER MEYER	THE IRISH MINIATURES IN THE ABBEY LIBRARY OF ST. GALL	New York and Lausanne	1954	GBP -	160.00
1334	Dugdale (Sir William)	Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the ancient Abbies		1718	GBP -	15.00
1335	Dumas (Alexandre, the Elder)	The Borgias		1911	GBP -	10.00

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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.
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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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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.