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
1736	Symonds (J. A.)	The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti		1911	GBP -	9.00
1737	Symonds (J. A.)	Renaissance in Italy	New York	1882	GBP -	6.00
1738	Symonds (John Addington)	Renaissance in Italy		1901-1898	GBP -	10.00
1739	Symonds (J. A.)	Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece...			GBP -	6.00
1740	Sze (Mai-Mai)	The Tao of Painting, a study of the ritual disposition of Chinese Painting	New York	1956	GBP -	9.00
1741		Taine (H. A.) History of English Literature translated by H. van Laun...			GBP -	10.00
1742	Takekoshi (Yos[a]buro)	The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan		[1930]	GBP -	12.00
1743	Tanner (P. de)	Chinese Jade Ancient and Modern	Berlin	1925	GBP -	52.00
1744	Tavernier (Jean Baptiste, Baron of Aubonne)	Travels in India	London & New York	1889	GBP -	17.00
1745	TENISON (E. M.)	ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND: being the History of this country "In relation to all Foreign Princes"	Leamington	1933-61	GBP -	145.00
1746	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington		1852	GBP -	12.00
1747	Thacher (John Boyd)	Christopher Columbus	New York	1903-04	GBP -	20.00
1748	THANE (J.)	British Autography. A collection of facsimiles of the hand writing of Royal and illustrious personages		[1788]	GBP -	58.00
1749	Thomas (T. H.)	French Portrait Engraving of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries		1910	GBP -	10.00
1750	Thornbury (Walter)	Life in Spain: Past and Present		1859	GBP -	4.00
1751		THREE HUNDRED MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE PAINTING in the Palace Museum	Taichung, Taiwan	1959	GBP -	52.00
1752	Ticknor (George)	History of Spanish Literature		1849	GBP -	11.00
1753	Tilley (Henry Arthur)	Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific; with Notices of other Places comprised in a Voyage of Circumnavigation in the Imperial Russian Corvette "Rynda"		1861	GBP -	14.00
1754	Tolentino (C. R.)	Illustrated catalogue of Gothic and Renaissance Italian and French Art	New York	1924	GBP -	8.00
1755	TOMKINSON (MICHAEL)	A Japanese Collection		1898	GBP -	95.00
1756	Tory (Geofroy)	Champ Fleury	New York	1927	GBP -	34.00
1757	Trollope (Mrs. Frances)	Domestic Manners of the Americans		1832	GBP -	26.00
1758	TULLY (RICHARD)	Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa		1816	GBP -	48.00
1759	UTAMARO	Estampes Japonaises . . . exposees au Musee des Arts Decoratifs en Janvier 1912	Paris	1912	GBP -	65.00
1760	VALENTIA (GEORGE [ANNL-SLEY], Viscount)	Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt		1809	GBP -	40.00
1761	Valentiner (Wilhelm)	Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Old Dutch Masters held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York	1910	GBP -	8.00
1762	VALERY (PAUL), PAUL ELUARD, L.-M. MICHON, and others	Paul Bonet	Paris	1945	GBP -	15.00
1763	Van Moe (Emile-A., editor)	L'Apocalypse de Saint-Sever	Paris	[1943]	GBP -	11.00
1764	VESALIUS (ANDREAS)	ICONES ANATOMICAE	Munich, and New York	1934	GBP -	200.00
1765	Viel-Castel (Comte Horace de)	Statuts de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit . . . Manuscrit du XIVe siecle, avec une notice sur la peinture des miniatures et la description du manuscrit	Paris	1853 [1854]	GBP -	22.00
1766		Vignaud (Henry) Americ Vespuce 1451-1512...			GBP -	16.00
1767	Villari (Pasquale, Prof.)	Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola	New York	1889	GBP -	10.00
1768	Vinycomb (John)	Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art with special reference to their use in British Heraldry		1906	GBP -	4.00
1769	VIRGILIUS [MARO] ([PUBLIUS])	OPERA VIRGILIANA cum decern commends, [etc.]	Lyons	1529	GBP -	56.00
1770	VOLTAIRE (JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)	CANDIDE	New York	1928	GBP -	42.00
1771	Voltaire ([F. M. A.] de)	Candide	New York	1927	GBP -	15.00
1772	Wagner (Henry R.)	The Rise of Fernando Cortes	[Berkeley, Calif]	1944	GBP -	16.00
1773	Wagner (Henry R.)	Sir Francis Drake's Voyage around the World	San Francisco	1926	GBP -	32.00
1774	Wagner (Henry R.)	Spanish Explorations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca	Santa Ana, Calif	1933	GBP -	45.00
1775	Wagner (Henry R.)	Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America	San Francisco, Calif.	1929	GBP -	38.00
1776	WAHLEN (AUGUSTE)	Ordres de Chevalerie et Marques d'Honneur	Brussels	1844	GBP -	46.00
1777	Waley (Arthur)	An introduction to the study of Chinese Painting	New York	1923	GBP -	20.00
1778	Walker (William)	The War in Nicaragua	Mobile, Ala., & New York	1860	GBP -	23.00
1779	Waller (Edmund)	Poems &c. written upon several occasions; The Second Part		1693, 1690	GBP -	24.00
1780		Walter (Richard) Anson's Voyage round the World . . . [edited] by G. S. Laird Clowes...			GBP -	6.00
1781	Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton	The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation		[1927]	GBP -	12.00
1782	Warner (Sir George)	Queen Mary's Psalter		1912	GBP -	22.00
1783		Warton ([Thomas, the Elder and Younger, and Joseph]) The Three Wartons: A Choice of their Verse edited by Eric Partridge...			GBP -	9.00
1784	Wells (William V.)	Explorations and Adventures in Honduras	New York	1857	GBP -	22.00
1785	Wells (William V.)	Explorations and Adventures in Honduras	New York	1857	GBP -	30.00
1786		Westall (William) Drawings...			GBP -	12.00
1787	WESTWOOD (J. O.)	Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts		1868	GBP -	145.00
1788	Whitman (Alfred)	British Mezzotinters, Valentine Green		1902	GBP -	2.00
1789	Wiener (Leo)	Africa and the Discovery of America	Philadelphia, Pa.	1920-22	GBP -	12.00
1790	Wilkes (CHARLES)	Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838 . . . 1842	Philadelphia	1845	GBP -	80.00
1791	Wilkins (Ernest Hatch)	The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio	Chicago	1923	GBP -	5.00
1792	Williams (J. J.)	The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: being the results of a survey for a railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans	New York	1852	GBP -	48.00
1793	WILLIAMSON (G. C.)	THE BOOK OF FAMILLE ROSE		1927	GBP -	70.00
1794	WILLIAMSON (G. C.)	THE HISTORY OF Portrait MINIATURES		1904	GBP -	62.00
1795	Wilson (Mona)	The Life of William Blake		1927	GBP -	10.00
1796	Wilson ([Sir] Robert Thomas)	History of the British Expedition to Egypt; to which is subjoined		1803	GBP -	17.00
1797	Winsor (Justin)	Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical Relations	Boston & New York	1894	GBP -	7.00
1798	WINSOR (JUSTIN)	Narrative and Critical History of America	Boston & New York	1889[-84]-89	GBP -	36.00
1799	Winsor (Justin)	Narrative and Critical History of America	Boston & New York	1889[-84]-89	GBP -	30.00
1800	Wister (Owen)	The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains	New York & London	1902	GBP -	10.00
1801	[WOLLSTONECRAFT, later GODWIN, (MARY)]	Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman		1798	GBP -	100.00
1802	Wordsworth (William)	The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse		1814	GBP -	38.00
1803	Wraxhall (Nathaniel William)	The History of France from the accession of Henry the Third to the death of Louis the Fourteenth		1795	GBP -	5.00
1804	Wright (Andrew)	Court-Hand Restored		1912	GBP -	3.00
1805	Wright (Thomas)	The Life of William Blake		1929	GBP -	11.00
1806	Wyatt ([Sir] M[atthew] D[igby])	The Art of Illuminating as practised in Europe from the Earliest Times		1860	GBP -	24.00
1807	WYATT (M. DIGBY)	The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI		[1851]-53	GBP -	105.00
1808	XENOPHON	CYRUPAEDIA: The Institution and Life of Cyrus, King of Persians	Newton	1936	GBP -	170.00
1809	Yashiro (Yukio)	2000 years of Japanese Art	New York	[n.d.]	GBP -	7.00
1810	Yoshida (Hiroshi)	Japanese Wood-Block Printing	Tokyo & Osaka	1939	GBP -	16.00

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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.