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
1636	[Rallies (Sophia, Lady)]	Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles		1830	GBP -	38.00
1637		Ramming (M.) Japan-Handbuch...			GBP -	24.00
1638	Ranke (Leopold von)	History of the Popes	New York	1901	GBP -	5.00
1639	RAPIN DE TMOYRAS ([PAUL DE])	The History of England. Translated into English with additional notes		1732-33	GBP -	50.00
1640	Ravenstein (E. G.)	Martin Behaim, his life and his globe		1908	GBP -	10.00
1641	Raynal (Abbe G. T.)	A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies		1798	GBP -	46.00
1642	Reclus (Elisee)	Nouvelle Geographie Universelle. La Terre et les Homines...	Paris	1876-83	GBP -	10.00
1643	Reeve (Lovell)	Elements of Conchology		1860	GBP -	36.00
1644		Reiner (Imre) Woodcut/Wood Engraving...			GBP -	10.00
1645	Rengger (J. R.) and [M.] Longchamps	The Reign of Doctor Joseph Gaspard Roderick de Francia, in Paraguay; being an Account of a . . . Residence in that Republic . . . 1819[-25]...		1827	GBP -	30.00
1646	RHEAD (G. WOOLLISCROFT)	HISTORY OF THE FAN		1910	GBP -	90.00
1647	[RICHARDSON (SAMUEL)]	Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady...		1748	GBP -	58.00
1648	Richardson (Samuel)	The Correspondence . . . [with] a Biographical Account . . . and Observations on his Writings. By Anna Lsetitia Barbauld		1804	GBP -	24.00
1649	Robert of Gloucester	Chronicle	Oxford	1724	GBP -	12.00
1650	ROBERTS (DAVID)	The Holy Land, Syria . . . Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, with historical descriptions by George Croly		1855	GBP -	62.00
1651	Roberts (Emma)	Hindostan . . . The shores of the Red Sea . . . and the Himalaya Mountains		1845	GBP -	13.00
1652	[Roberts (J. S.) and others]	The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone		[n.d., c. 1875]	GBP -	10.00
1653	Robertson (John W.)	Francis Drake & other Early Explorers along the Pacific Coast	San Francisco	1927	GBP -	28.00
1654	ROBERTSON (WILLIAM)	The History of America		1777-96	GBP -	22.00
1655	Robertson (William)	The History of America	Dublin	1777	GBP -	4.00
1656	Robertson (William)	The History of America		1780	GBP -	10.00
1657		Rogers (Samuel) Italy A Poem...			GBP -	7.00
1658	Rohde (Eleanour Sinclair)	The Old English Gardening Books		1924	GBP -	9.00
1659	[Rolfe] (Frederick, 'Baron' Corvo)	Chronicles of the House of Borgia	New York	1901	GBP -	38.00
1660	Romer (I. F.)	A Pilgrimage to the temples and tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine in 1845-6		1846	GBP -	23.00
1661	Roscoe (William)	The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici		1800	GBP -	20.00
1662		Rosenbaum (Dr. Julius) The Plague of Lust...			GBP -	8.00
1663	Ross (Sir JOHN)	Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829 [to] 1833...		1835	GBP -	44.00
1664	Ross ([Sir John])	Narrative of the second Voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic regions. In the years 1829 [to] 33. Compiled principally from the evidence . . . before the Committee of the House of Commons		1834	GBP -	9.00
1665		Rossetti (Gabriel) His Family-Letters...			GBP -	4.00
1666	Ruskin (John)	The Stones of Venice		1851-53	GBP -	26.00
1667	Ruxton (George F.)	Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains		1849	GBP -	14.00
1668	Sahagun (Fray Bernardino de)	Histoire generale . . . de la nouvelle Espagne	Paris	1880	GBP -	5.00
1669	Sahagun (Fray Bernardino de)	Historia General de las cosas de Nueva Espana	Mexico	1956	GBP -	11.00
1670		St. Albans Psalter (The). 1. The full-page Miniatures by Otto Pacht...		1960	GBP -	5.00
1671	Sakisian (Armenag bey)	La Miniature Persane du XIP au XVIP siecle	Paris and Brussels	1929	GBP -	38.00
1672	Salaman (Malcolm C.)	The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden		1923	GBP -	12.00
1673		Salmony (Alfred) Archaic Chinese Jades from the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein collection...			GBP -	13.00
1674	Santoro (Caterina)	I Codici Miniati delta Bibliotheca Trivulziana	Milan	1958	GBP -	10.00
1675	SAVAGE (WILLIAM)	PRACTICAL HINTS ON DECORATIVE PRINTING		1822 [1823]	GBP -	280.00
1676	[SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)]	DES buchs DER CRONIKEN VND GESCHICHTEN MIT FIGURE [The Nuremberg Chronicle]	Leipzig	1933	GBP -	50.00
1677	Schreiber (Lady Charlotte)	Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics & Antiques. . . 1869-[85]		1911	GBP -	38.00
1678		Secret Court Memoirs...	New York, Paris	[n.d., 1904]	GBP -	10.00
1679	Seidlitz (W. von)	A History of Japanese Colour-Prints		1910	GBP -	14.00
1680	Senefelder (Alois)	The Invention of Lithography	New York	1911	GBP -	15.00
1681	Shackleton ([Sir] E. H.)	The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition		1909	GBP -	9.00
1682	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	Comdies, Histories, & Tragedies		1866	GBP -	42.00
1683	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	SONNETS	Leipzig	1910	GBP -	115.00
1684	BOCCACIO (GIOVANNI)	SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. DECAMERON	Oxford	1934-35	GBP -	60.00
1685	SHAW (HENRY)	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages		1843	GBP -	90.00
1686	Shaw (Henry)	A handbook of the Art of Illumination as practised during the Middle Ages		1866	GBP -	15.00
1687	Shelley ([Jane], Lady)	Shelley Memorials: from Authentic Sources		1859	GBP -	3.00
1688	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Adonais. An elegy on the death of John Keats . . . now reprinted in exact facsimile		1886	GBP -	8.00
1689	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Miscellaneous Poems		1826	GBP -	3.00
1690	Shelley ([Percy Bysshe])	Relics of Shelley		1862	GBP -	6.00
1691	Shelley (Percy B.)	The Works . . . with his Life		1834	GBP -	60.00
1692	Sherman (Stuart C.)	The Voice of the Whaleman	Providence, R.I.	1965	GBP -	5.00
1693		Short (Ernest) The Painter in History...			GBP -	4.00
1694	Sidney (Sir Phillip)	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. The original quarto edition (1590) in facsimile		1891	GBP -	4.00
1695	Simcox (G. A.)	A history of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius		1883	GBP -	7.00
1696	SIREN (OSVALD)	CHINESE PAINTING: Leading Masters and Principles	New York & London	[1956-58]	GBP -	80.00
1697	Skelton (Sir John)	Charles I		1898	GBP -	7.00
1698	Slater (J. Herbert)	Engravings and their Value: A Complete Guide to the Collection and Prices of all Classes of Prints . . . [edited] by F. W. Max-well-Barbour		[n.d., 1929]	GBP -	19.00
1699	Slatin Pasha (Rudolph C.)	Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes		1896	GBP -	7.00
1700		Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...			GBP -	10.00
1701	Smith (Captain John)	Travels and Works of Captain John Smith		1910	GBP -	6.00
1702	Smith (William, editor)	A dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology		1880	GBP -	9.00
1703		Snow (Elliot, editor) The Sea, the Ship and the Sailor: Tales of Adventure from Log Books and Original Narratives...			GBP -	15.00
1704		Somerville (Thomas) The History of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Anne...			GBP -	2.00
1705		SONG OF ROLAND (THE) [translated from the Old French by Isabel Butler]	Cambridge, Mass.	1906	GBP -	62.00
1706	Soto (Fer[di]nando de)	True Relation of the Hardships suffered during the Discovery of the Province of Florida. Now newly set forth by a Gentleman of Elvas	DeLand, Fla.	1932-33	GBP -	17.00
1707	Sparrow (Walter Shaw)	A Book of British Etching		[1926]	GBP -	7.00
1708		Speculum Humanae Salvationis: le plus ancien monument de la Xylographie et de la Typographie reunies. Avec introduction historique et bibliographique par J. Ph. Berjeau	Londres	1861	GBP -	34.00
1709	Speer (William)	The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States	Hartford, Conn., & San Francisco, Calif.	1870	GBP -	15.00
1710	Speltz (Alexander)	The coloured ornament of all historical styles. Antiquity [Middle Ages; Modern times]	Leipzig	[c. 1915]	GBP -	34.00
1711	SPENSER ([EDMUND])	[The] Faerie Queene		[1895-97]	GBP -	30.00
1712	Spielmann (M. H.) and G. S. Layard	Kate Greenaway		1905	GBP -	12.00
1713	Stanley (Henry M.)	In darkest Africa...			GBP -	9.00
1714	Stanley (Henry M.)	Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean	New York	1879	GBP -	16.00
1715	STAUNTON (Sir GEORGE)	AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA . . . taken chiefly from the papers of the Earl of Macartney		1797	GBP -	90.00
1716	STCHOUKINE (IVAN)	La Peinture Indienne	Paris	1929	GBP -	32.00
1717	Stephen (Leslie)	Hours in a Library	New York	1899	GBP -	23.00
1718	Stephens (John L.)	Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan	New York	1841	GBP -	28.00
1719	Stephens (John L.)	Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan		1841	GBP -	28.00
1720	Stephens (John L.)	Incidents of Travel in Yucatan	New York	1843	GBP -	30.00
1721	Sterne (Laurence)	Letters ... to his most Intimate Friends...		1776	GBP -	22.00
1722	[Sterne (Laurence)]	The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy	Basle	1796	GBP -	13.00
1723	Stevenson (Edward Luther)	Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, their History and Construction	New Haven, Conn., & London	1921	GBP -	34.00
1724	Stevenson (R. L.)	The Black Arrow		1888	GBP -	5.00
1725	Stewart (Basil)	Japanese Colour-Prints	New York	1920	GBP -	30.00
1726	Stewart (Basil)	Subjects portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints		1922	GBP -	34.00
1727	Stokes (I. N. Phelps) and Daniel C. Haskell	American Historical Prints, Early Views of American Cities, etc.	New York	1932	GBP -	20.00
1728	Strange (Edward F.)	The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige		[1925]	GBP -	30.00
1729	Stukeley (William)	Stonehenge: A Temple restor'd to the British Druids; Abury, a Temple of the British Druids		1740-43 [c. 1838]	GBP -	19.00
1730	Sue (Eugene)	The Wandering Jew		1889	GBP -	10.00
1731	Suetonius Tranquillus (C.)	The Historie of Twelve Cassars, Emperors of Rome		1931	GBP -	3.00
1732	Swarzenski (Hanns)	The Berthold Missal, the Pierpont Morgan Library MS 710, and the Scriptoruim of Weingarten Abbey	New York	1943	GBP -	12.00
1733	Swedenborg (Emanuel)	A Treatise concerning Heaven and Hell. . . now first translated from the original Latin [by W. Cookworthy and T. Hartley]		1778	GBP -	10.00
1734	Sykes (Sir Percy)	A History of Persia...			GBP -	12.00
1735	Symmons (Charles)	The Life of John Milton		1810	GBP -	11.00

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.
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