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
1336	DUNN (JOHN)	History of the Oregon Territory and British North-American Fur Trade; with an Account of the Habits and Customs of the Principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent		1844	GBP -	90.00
1337	[D'Urfey (Thomas)]	Butler's Ghost: or, Hudibras. The fourth part		1682	GBP -	10.00
1338	[A. A. Luce, editor]	DURROW (THE BOOK OF). EVANGELIORUM QUATTUOR CODEX DUR-MACITENSIS	Olten	1960	GBP -	115.00
1339		Duveen Brothers. Loan exhibition of Rare Chinese Porcelains	New York	[n.d.]	GBP -	11.00
1340	Duvet (Jean)	L'Apocalypse figuree		1962	GBP -	5.00
1341	Dyrnovo (T. L. A., editor)	Arevenearmynanskaya Meneatyora	Erevan	1952	GBP -	8.00
1342	Eckardt (Andreas)	A History of Korean Art	London & Leipzig	1929	GBP -	30.00
1343	Edmunds (W. H.)	Pointers and Clues to the subjects of Chinese and Japanese Art		[1934]	GBP -	22.00
1344	Einstein (Lewis)	The Italian Renaissance in England	New York	1902	GBP -	6.00
1345	Ellis (Havelock)	Chapman		1934	GBP -	26.00
1346		English Portrait Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century		[n.d.]	GBP -	10.00
1347	EVELYN (JOHN)	Memoirs, to which is subjoined the Private Correspondence between Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Richard Browne		1818	GBP -	34.00
1348	Falconer (William)	The Shipwreck, a Poem...		1804	GBP -	6.00
1349	Falconer (William)	The Shipwreck, A poem...		1808	GBP -	1.00
1350	Falk (Bernard)	Thomas Rowlandson: His Life and Art	New York	[1952]	GBP -	17.00
1351	Fenollosa (Ernest F.)	Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art: [edited] by [Raphael] Petrucci	London & New York	[1921]	GBP -	14.00
1352	Ferrero (Guglielmo)	The Greatness and Decline of Rome	New York	1909	GBP -	9.00
1353	Fiddes (Richard)	The Life of Cardinal Wolsey		1724	GBP -	20.00
1354	FINBERG (ALEXANDER J.)	The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new catalogue raisonne		1924	GBP -	28.00
1355		Fisher (Richard) Introduction to a catalogue of the early Italian Prints in the British Museum...			GBP -	7.00
1356		Fiske (John) The Discovery of America...			GBP -	7.00
1357	Forbes (James D.)	Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphine	Edinburgh	1853	GBP -	19.00
1358	FOSTER (J. J.)	French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon		1905-07	GBP -	36.00
1359	FOSTER (J. J.)	MINIATURE PAINTERS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN		1903	GBP -	82.00
1360	FOUCQUET (JEHAN)	OEuvre	Paris	1866	GBP -	50.00
1361		Fowler (W. W.) Ten Years in Wall Street...			GBP -	22.00
1362	Fox-Davies (Arthur)	Armorial Families		1929-30	GBP -	24.00
1363	Fox-davies (ARTHUR Charles)	The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopedia of Armory	London & Edinburgh	1904	GBP -	68.00
1364	Froude (J. A.)	Caesar		1879	GBP -	10.00
1365		Fugger News-Letters (The) . . . 1568-1605...			GBP -	5.00
1366	Gardiner (Samuel Rawson)	Oliver Cromwell		1899	GBP -	10.00
1367	Garnett (Richard) and [Sir] Edmund Gosse	English Literature: An Illustrated Record	New York and London	1903-04	GBP -	4.00
1368	GARNIER (EDOUARD)	THE SOFT PORCELAIN OF SEVRES		1892	GBP -	50.00
1369	Garnett (Richard)	The Twilight of the Gods and other Tales		1924	GBP -	11.00
1370	Garnett (Richard) and Edmund Gosse	English Literature	New York	1903-08	GBP -	7.00
1371	GAY ([JOHN])	Fables		1727-28	GBP -	65.00
1372	Gessner (Solomon)	New Idylls. Translated by W. Hooper with a letter to Mr. Fuslin on Landscape painting		1776	GBP -	6.00
1373		Gilbert (William) On the Magnet, Magnetick Bodies also, and the Great Magnet the Earth...			GBP -	60.00
1374	Gilchrist (Alexander)	Life of William Blake	London & Cambridge	1863	GBP -	28.00
1375	Gilchrist (Alexander)	Life of William Blake		1880	GBP -	45.00
1376	Gilchrist (Alexander)	Life of William Blake		1880	GBP -	42.00
1377	Gilliam (Albert M.)	Travels over the Table Lands and Cordilleras of Mexico . . . 1843[-44]...	Philadelphia & London	1846	GBP -	32.00
1378	Goll (Yvan)	Four Poems of the Occult	California	1962	GBP -	48.00
1379	Gorer ([Edgar])	Collection d'Anciennes Porcelaines de Chine et Pierres Dures . . . exposee a l'Hotel Astoria	[Londres]	1912	GBP -	3.00
1380	GORER (EDGAR) AND J. F. BLACKER	Chinese PORCELAIN AND HARD STONES		1911	GBP -	100.00
1381	[Gosse (Sir Edmund)]	Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments		1907	GBP -	9.00
1382	Gotlieb (Howard B.)	William Beckford of Fonthill . . . 1760-1844: A Brief Narrative and Catalogue of an Exhibition . . . with the previously unpublished Journal kept by William Beckford in 1794	New Haven, Conn.	1960	GBP -	1.00
1383	GRANGER (J.)	A Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution		1824	GBP -	42.00
1384	Graux (Dr. Lucien)	Le Tapis de Prieres	Paris	1938	GBP -	12.00
1385	GRAY ([THOMAS])	ODES	Strawberry-Hill	1757	GBP -	120.00
1386	Gray ([Thomas])	Poems		1768	GBP -	26.00
1387		Green (Henry) Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers...			GBP -	20.00
1388	Grimm (Herman)	Life of Michael Angelo	Boston	1896	GBP -	5.00
1389	Guilmard (D.)	Les Maitres Ornemanistes	Paris	1880-81	GBP -	28.00
1390	Hackin (J.) and others	Asiatic Mythology, with an Introduction by Paul-Louis Couchoud		[1932]	GBP -	16.00
1391	Hackney (L. W.) and Yau Chang-Foo	A study of Chinese Paintings in the collection of Ada S. Moore		1940	GBP -	19.00
1392		Hagemeyer (Hans, editor) Gesalt und Wandel des Reiches, ein Bilderatlas zur Deutschen Geschichte...			GBP -	2.00
1393	HAKLUYT (RICHARD)	The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at time within the Compasse of these 1600 Yeeres	Glasgow	1903-05	GBP -	75.00
1394	Hakluyt (Richard)	The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation [and The Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of Foreign Voyagers]		1927-28	GBP -	30.00
1395		HAKLUYT SOCIETY. PUBLICATIONS, SECOND SERIES, vol. I-CXXXV...	London and Cambridge	1899-1968	GBP -	120.00
1396	Hall (Captain Basil)	Account of a Voyage of discovery to the West coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island; with an Appendix . . . And a Vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language		1818	GBP -	26.00
1397	Hall (Capt. Basil)	Extracts from a Journal, written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico . . . 1820[-22]	Edinburgh	1824	GBP -	17.00
1398	Hallam (Henry)	A View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages		1818	GBP -	6.00
1399	HAMERTON (P. G.)	The Graphic Arts. A treatise on the varieties of drawing		1882	GBP -	22.00
1400	Hamerton (Philip Gilbert)	The Graphic Arts		1882	GBP -	16.00
1401	Hamilton (Anthony)	Memoirs of Count Grammont		1811	GBP -	23.00
1402	Hannema (Dr. D.)	Catalogue of the D. G. Van Beuningen Collection	Rotterdam	1940	GBP -	5.00
1403		Harford (John S.) The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti . . . also memoirs of Savanarola...			GBP -	13.00
1404		Harper (Charles G.) English Pen Artists of To-day...			GBP -	2.00
1405	Harrington (H. Nazeby)	The engraved work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden	Liverpool	1910	GBP -	16.00
1406	Harte (Bret)	The Queen of the Pirate Isle		[1886]	GBP -	11.00
1407	Hartman (C. V.)	Archaeological Researches in Costa Rica	Stockholm	1901	GBP -	15.00
1408	Hawarde (John)	Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata		1894	GBP -	5.00
1409	Hawkins (Alfred)	Picture of Quebec, with historical recollections	Quebec	1834	GBP -	36.00
1410	Hawthorne (Nathaniel)	The Scarlet Letter	New York	1928	GBP -	15.00
1411	Hayley (William)	The Life of Milton		1796	GBP -	17.00
1412		Hazlitt (W. Carew) Shakespeare Jest-Books...			GBP -	11.00
1413		Hazlitt (W. Carew) The Venetian Republic . . . 421-1797...			GBP -	10.00
1414		[Head (Richard) and F. Kirkman]. The English Rogue...			GBP -	13.00
1415	Hearn (George A.)	Collection of Carved Ivories	New York	1908	GBP -	14.00
1416	Heam (George A.)	Notable Art Collection	New York	1918	GBP -	4.00
1417	Heath ([Charles])	Gallery of British Engravings		1836-38	GBP -	11.00
1418	Henderson (Harold G.) and Louis V. Ledoux	The Surviving Works of Sharaku	New York	1939	GBP -	16.00
1419	Herberts (K.)	Oriental Lacquer, art and technique	New York	[n.d.]	GBP -	16.00
1420	HERIOT (GEORGE)	TRAVELS THROUGH THE CANADAS, [etc.]		1807	GBP -	110.00
1421	HERRARA (ANTONIO DE)	THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE VAST CONTINENT AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA...		1725-26	GBP -	160.00
1422	Hetherington (A. L.)	The Early Ceramic Wares of China		1922	GBP -	20.00
1423	HIND (ARTHUR MAYGER)	Catalogue of Early Italian Engravings ... in the British Museum		1910-09	GBP -	35.00
1424	Hind (Arthur M.)	The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron		1924	GBP -	8.00
1425	Hind (Arthur M.)	Wenceslaus Hollar and his Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century		1922	GBP -	12.00
1426	Hind (Arthur M.)	Wenceslaus Hollar and his Views of London and Windsor in the Seventeenth Century		1922	GBP -	14.00
1427	HOBSON (R. L.)	A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID		1934	GBP -	240.00
1428	HOBSON (R. L.)	CATALOGUE OF THE LEONARD GOW COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAIN		1931	GBP -	135.00
1429	Hobson (R. L.)	Chinese Art	New York	1927	GBP -	10.00
1430	HOBSON (R. L.)	Chinese Pottery and Porcelain		1915	GBP -	50.00
1431	HOBSON (R. L.)	THE GEORGE EUMORFOPOULOS COLLECTION: CATALOGUE OF THE CHINESE, COREAN AND PERSIAN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN		[1925-28]	GBP -	390.00
1432	Hobson (R. L.)	The Later Ceramic Wares of China	New York	1925	GBP -	16.00
1433	Hobson (R. L.)	The Wares of the Ming Dynasty		1923	GBP -	9.00
1434	HOBSON (R. L.)	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	56.00
1435	Hobson (R. L.) and A. L. Hetherington	The Art of the Chinese Potter from the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming	New York	1923	GBP -	27.00

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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.