Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT LIBRARY. FORMED BY THE LATE H. B. WHEATLEY, ESQ. F.S.A., Author of "Pepysiana," and Editor of "Pepys' Diary." FIRST AND SECOND DAYS' SALE. PART I. AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS, ENG, Apr081918,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 08, 1918 - April 08, 1918

Page Size: 1534 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1302	Campbell (John, Lord)	Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal		1856-7	GBP -	Unknown
1303		Muses'Library (Drummond, Herrick, Marvel, Keats, Vaughan, Coleridge)		v.y.; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1304	Hone (Wm.)	Every-Day Book and Table Book...			GBP -	Unknown
1305		Hill (G. B.) Talks about Autographs...			GBP -	Unknown
1306		Hunter (W. W.) A Life of the Earl of Mayo...			GBP -	Unknown
1307		Le Neve (John) Fasti Ecclcsiae Anglicanae...			GBP -	Unknown
1308		Lambarde (Wm.) A Perambulation of Kent...			GBP -	Unknown
1309		Edwards (Edward) Lives of the Founders of the British Museum...			GBP -	Unknown
1310		Jusserand (J. J.) English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages...			GBP -	Unknown
1311		Wilmot (E. P. E.) and E. C. Streatfeild: Charterhouse...			GBP -	Unknown
1312	Milnes (R. M. afterwards Lord Houghton)	Memorials of a Residence on the Continent and Historical Poems		1838	GBP -	Unknown
1313	[WORDSWORTH (W.) and S. T. COLERIDGE]	LYRICAL BALLADS, with a few other Poems		1798	GBP -	Unknown
1314		Routh (E. M. G.) Tangier...			GBP -	Unknown
1315		Library of Congress. A.L. A. Portrait Index...			GBP -	Unknown
1316		Hume (M. A. S.) The Spanish People...			GBP -	Unknown
1317		Edwards (H. S.) The Lyrical Drama...			GBP -	Unknown
1318		Ashton (John) Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne...			GBP -	Unknown
1319	Chappell (W.)	The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1320		Hedges (J. K.) History of Wallingford...			GBP -	Unknown
1321		Newton (A.) and H. Gadow: A Dictionary of Birds...			GBP -	Unknown
1322	Camden (W.)	Reges, Beginae, Nobiles et alia in Ecclcsia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti		1619 1606	GBP -	Unknown
1323		Omar Khayyam: Rubaiyat...			GBP -	Unknown
1324		Wright (Thos.) Uriconium...			GBP -	Unknown
1325	Ebsworth (J. W.)	Westminster Drolleries...			GBP -	Unknown
1326		Defoe (D.) The Compleat English Gentleman...			GBP -	Unknown
1327		Pike (L. O.) A History of Crime in England...			GBP -	Unknown
1328		Dircks (Henry) Life...			GBP -	Unknown
1329		Clark (J. W.) The Care of Books...			GBP -	Unknown
1330		Ferrey (B.) Recollections of A. N. Welby Pugin and his Father...			GBP -	Unknown
1331		Jcitold (B.) The Life of George Cruikshank...			GBP -	Unknown
1332		Willson (B.) TheGreat Company...			GBP -	Unknown
1333		Liveing (H. G. D.) Records of Romsey Abbey...			GBP -	Unknown
1334	Bewick (Thos.)	A General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1807	GBP -	Unknown
1335		Perry (W. C.) Greek and Roman Sculpture...			GBP -	Unknown
1336		Brand (J.) Popular Antiquities of Great Britain...			GBP -	Unknown
1337	Nashe (Thomas)	Works		1904-10	GBP -	Unknown
1338		Searle (W. G.) Onomastieon Anglo-Saxonicum...			GBP -	Unknown
1339		Pitt (Wm. Earl of Chatham) by A. von Ruville...			GBP -	Unknown
1340		Stanley (A. P.) Life and Correspondence of...			GBP -	Unknown
1341		Bayliss (Sir Wyke) Oliver, The Reminiscences of a President...			GBP -	Unknown
1342		Oliphant (Mrs.) William Blackwood and his Sons. 3 vol. portraits...			GBP -	Unknown
1343		Coleridge (H.) Lives of Northern Worthies...			GBP -	Unknown
1344	Hogarth (William)	Biographical Anecdotes...			GBP -	Unknown
1345		Morgan (Augustus de) A Budget of Paradoxes...			GBP -	Unknown
1346		Ashton (John) Bomance of Chivalry...			GBP -	Unknown
1347		Round (J. H.) Feudal England...			GBP -	Unknown
1348	Maitland (S. R.)	The Dark Ages...			GBP -	Unknown
1349		Story (R. H.) William Carstares...			GBP -	Unknown
1350		Wyon (F. W.) History of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne...			GBP -	Unknown
1351		Lyte (H. C. M.) History of the University of Oxford...			GBP -	Unknown
1352	Greenwood (James)	In Strange Company...			GBP -	Unknown
1353	Macaulay (Lord)	History of England from the Accession of James the Second		1913-15	GBP -	Unknown
1354		Chronicles of the White Rose of York...			GBP -	Unknown
1355		Welsh (C.) A Bookseller of the last century...			GBP -	Unknown
1356		Gibbon (Edward) Memoirs of the Life of...			GBP -	Unknown
1357	Stirling-Maxwell (Sir W.)	Don John of Austria		1873	GBP -	Unknown
1358	COLERIDGE (S. T.)	Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep		1816	GBP -	Unknown
1359		Dobson (Austin) William Hogarth...			GBP -	Unknown
1360	Doyle (J. E.)	The Official Baronage of England		1886	GBP -	Unknown
1361		Hubback (J. H. and E. C.) Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers...			GBP -	Unknown
1362		Fitzgerald (Percy) Memoirs of an Author...			GBP -	Unknown
1363		Hayward (Abraham) Selection from the Correspondence of...			GBP -	Unknown
1364		Round (J. H.) The King's Serjeants and Officers of State...			GBP -	Unknown
1365		Wither (George) The Poetry of...			GBP -	Unknown
1366	Lady T. Lewis, editor	Berry (Miss) Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of			GBP -	Unknown
1367	Tabart (Benjamin)	Popular Fairy Tales		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1368		Kelmscott Press. The Tale of King Coustans; The Story of Over Sea		1894	GBP -	Unknown
1369	Coleridge (S. T.)	Sibylline Leaves		1817	GBP -	Unknown
1370	Hogarth (Wm.)	Hogarth moralized		1831; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1371	Coleridge (S. T.)	Poems on Various Subjects		1796	GBP -	Unknown
1372	JORDAN (THOMAS)	DEATH DIS-SECTED; or a Fort against Misfortune. . . digested into severall Poems by T. I. some margins cropped and, several of the typographical ornaments cut into in top margins		1649	GBP -	Unknown
1373	Nichols (John)	Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century...			GBP -	Unknown
1374		Gaussen (A. C. C.) Percy: Prelate and Poet...			GBP -	Unknown
1375		Scott (Wm. Bell) Autobiographical Notes...			GBP -	Unknown
1376		Walpole (Horace) Anecdotes of Painting in England...			GBP -	Unknown
1377		Register of Letters, etc. of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies...			GBP -	Unknown
1378		Curiosities of the Search-Room...			GBP -	Unknown
1379		Eitzmaurice (Edmond...			GBP -	Unknown
1380		Fliickiger (F. A.) and D. Hanbury. Pharmacographia, a History of Drugs...			GBP -	Unknown
1381	Scott (Sir Walter)	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1886-7	GBP -	Unknown
1382	Chalmers (Alexander)	General Biographical Dictionary		1812-17	GBP -	Unknown
1383		D'Alviella (G, Count) The Migration of Symbols....			GBP -	Unknown
1384		Halliwell (J. O.) Catalogue of an unique collection of English broadside Ballads...			GBP -	Unknown
1385		Jackson (Sir G.) Naval Commissioners from 12 Charles II to 1 George III...			GBP -	Unknown
1386		Foote (Samuel) Table-Talk and Bon-Mots...			GBP -	Unknown
1387		Oswald (James) Memorials of the Public Life and Character of...			GBP -	Unknown
1388		Parkes (J.) History of the Court of Chancery...			GBP -	Unknown
1389	Hentzner (Paul)	Strawberry Hill Press. A Journey into England in the year M.D.XC.VIII (edited by H. Walpole)	Printed at Strawberry Hill	1757	GBP -	Unknown
1390	[Fuselier (L.) et J. Henault]	Strawberry Hill Press. Cornelie Vestale, Tragedie		1768	GBP -	Unknown
1391	[Cornbury (Henry Hyde, Viscount)]	The Mistakes, or the Happy Resentment		1758	GBP -	Unknown
1392		Pack (R.) Miscellanies in Prose and Verse...			GBP -	Unknown
1393		Biographical Dictionary. A New General Biographical Dictionary		1853	GBP -	Unknown
1394	Delany (Mrs.)	The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany		1861-2	GBP -	Unknown
1395	Robinson (H. C.)	Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson		1869	GBP -	Unknown
1396	Rogers (S.)	Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers		1887	GBP -	Unknown
1397		Doyle (Sir F. H.) Reminiscences and Opinions...			GBP -	Unknown
1398	Smith (John)	Capt. John Smith of Willoughby by Alford, Lincolnshire, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England, Works		1884	GBP -	Unknown
1399		Chaucer Society Publications, series I, no. 1-99 [wanting no. 48, 56, 62, 66, 69, 70, 74, 98, a few numbers in duplicate)			GBP -	Unknown
1400		Philological Society. Transactions, 1860-1914			GBP -	Unknown
1401	[Defoe (D.)]	Reasons why this Nation ought to put a Speedy End to this Expensive War		1711	GBP -	Unknown

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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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.