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
1402	[Defoe (D.)]	The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell		1720	GBP -	Unknown
1403	Maydman (H.)	Naval Speculations, and Maritime Politicks		1691	GBP -	Unknown
1404	Chamberlayne (E.)	Angliae Notitia...			GBP -	Unknown
1405		EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS		1864-1914	GBP -	Unknown
1406		Early English Text Society		1865-91	GBP -	Unknown
1407		[Clarke (W.)] Three Courses and a Dessert...			GBP -	Unknown
1408		Fore-edge Painting. The Book of Common Prayer		1815	GBP -	Unknown
1409	[Defoe (D.)]	An Essay on the History of Parties and Persecution in Britain...			GBP -	Unknown
1410		Shakespeare (W.) Plays...			GBP -	Unknown
1411	Howard (Sir R.)	Poems		1660	GBP -	Unknown
1412	Anglesey (Earl of)	Memoirs of the Bight Honourable Arthur		1693	GBP -	Unknown
1413		Pottery and Porcelain. Descriptions in MS. with pen and ink illustrations of specimens of pottery and porcelain found in various Museums, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
1414		Poetry: Elegant Extracts...			GBP -	Unknown
1415		[Hart (J.)] The Christians Blessed Choice...			GBP -	Unknown
1416	Randolph (T.)	Poems		1643; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1417		Chamberlayne (E.) L'Estat present de l'Angleterre...			GBP -	Unknown
1418		Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Merlin...			GBP -	Unknown
1419	Angelo (H.)	Reminiscences		1904	GBP -	Unknown
1420	Cokayne (G. E.)	The Complete Peerage		1910	GBP -	Unknown
1421		Villon Society. Tales from the Arabic...			GBP -	Unknown
1422		[Care (H.)] The History of the Damnable Popish Plot...			GBP -	Unknown
1423	Dodsley (J.)	A Collection of Poems by several hands		1770; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1424	Burnett (G.)	Specimens of English Prose Writers		1807; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1425	[Defoe (D.)]	A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man		1703; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1426	Mason (W.)	The English Garden	York	1783	GBP -	Unknown
1427		Hamilton (W.) The Exemplary Life and Character of James Bonnell...			GBP -	Unknown
1428	Fielding (H.)	An Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers...			GBP -	Unknown
1429		Burnet (G.) Some Passages in the Life and Death of John...			GBP -	Unknown
1430		[Oldham (J.)] Some new Pieces never before Publisht...			GBP -	Unknown
1431	[Hamilton (Count A.)]	Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Giammont	a Cologne	1713	GBP -	Unknown
1432	[Hamilton (Count A.)]	Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont...			GBP -	Unknown
1433	Cotton (Charles)	The Compleate Gamester		(?1680)	GBP -	Unknown
1434	Carew (T.)	Poems, Songs and Sonnets		1671	GBP -	Unknown
1435		Gattermole (R.) The Great Civil War...			GBP -	Unknown
1436	Charles I	Eικων Bασλκη. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie	Hague	1649	GBP -	Unknown
1437	Brace (g. e.) and Courtney (W. P.)	Bibliotheca Cornubiensis		1874-82	GBP -	Unknown
1438	[Goldsmith (O.)]	Life of Richard Nash of Bath		1762	GBP -	Unknown
1439	Raikes (T.)	A Portion of the Journal kept by Thomas Raikes		1856; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1440	Ellis (H.)	Original Letters illustrative of English History		1825-7 '46	GBP -	Unknown
1441		Quarles (J.) Fons Laohrymarum...			GBP -	Unknown
1442	Cathedrals of England	Handbook to the Cathedrals of England...		1861-79	GBP -	Unknown
1443	Wollstonecraft (M.)	Original Stories from Real Life		1796	GBP -	Unknown
1444		Miscellaneous Books and Odd Volumes			GBP -	Unknown
1445	Anstey (C.)	The New Bath Guide...			GBP -	Unknown
1446		Lewes (C. L.) Memoirs...			GBP -	Unknown
1447		Du Fresnoy (C. A.) The Art of Painting...			GBP -	Unknown
1448		Autographs. A Collection of Autograph Letters, Portraits, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
1449	Menpes (M.)	Whistler as I knew him		1904	GBP -	Unknown
1450	Horborch	Decisiones rote noue et antique	Lugdun.	1509	GBP -	Not Sold
1451		Oxford English Dictionary (The)...			GBP -	Unknown
1452		Shepherd (T. H.) Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century...			GBP -	Unknown
1453	Blair (W.)	The Grave		1808	GBP -	Unknown
1454	Burton (R.)	The History of the House of Orange		1814	GBP -	Unknown
1455	Cruikshank (G.)	Illustrations...			GBP -	Unknown
1456	Hollis (T.)	Memoirs		1780	GBP -	Unknown
1457		Bone (J.) Edinburgh Revisited...			GBP -	Unknown
1458	Britton (J.)	The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain...		1835-6	GBP -	Unknown
1459	Thomas (W.)	A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester		1736	GBP -	Unknown
1460	Peck (F.)	Desiderata Curiosa		1779	GBP -	Unknown
1461	Lucanus (M. A.)	Pharsalia, cum notis H. Grotii et R. Bentleii, vignettes	Strawberry Hill	1760	GBP -	Unknown
1462	Fosbrooke (T. D.)	British Monachism, or Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England		1817	GBP -	Unknown
1463	Watts (W.)	The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry		1774	GBP -	Unknown
1464	Rivers (Lt.-Gen. Pitt)	Excavations in Cranborne Chase, Bokerly and Wansdyke, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
1465	Binns (W. M.)	The First Century of English Porcelain		1906	GBP -	Unknown
1466		Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity		1840-1916	GBP -	Unknown
1467	Scaliger (J. C.)	J. C. Scaligeri. adversus Desid. Erasmum		1621; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1468		European Magazine: Index...			GBP -	Unknown
1469	Charles I	His Majesties Desires and Command to all the Trayned Bands			GBP -	Unknown
1470	Davenant (Sir Wm.)	The Crueltie of the Spaniards in Peru		1658	GBP -	Unknown
1471	J. Gairdner, editor	Paston Letters (The)			GBP -	Unknown
1472	Fletcher (J.)	The Pilgrim, a Comedy...		1700	GBP -	Unknown
1473	Newcastle (William, Duke of)	The Humorous Lovers		1677	GBP -	Unknown
1474	Etherege (George)	The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub		1669	GBP -	Unknown
1475		Plague (The), 1665. London Bills of Mortality, no. 1-52, 20 December, 1664-19 December, 1665...		1665	GBP -	Unknown
1476	[Rhodes (Richard)]	Flora's Vagaries, a Comedy		1670	GBP -	Unknown
1477	Power (Henry)	Experimental Philosophy		1664	GBP -	Unknown
1478	Torriano (Gio.)	New and Easy Directions for the attaining of the Thuscan Italian Tongue	Cambridge	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1479		Ordinances (Two) of the Lords and Commons		1647	GBP -	Unknown
1480	Boyle (Robert)	Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Philosophy	Oxford	1667	GBP -	Unknown
1481	Sprat (Thomas)	The History of the Royal Society of London for the improving of Natural Knowledge		1667	GBP -	Unknown
1482		Palgrave (F. T.) Golden Treasury of the best Songs and Lyrical Poems...			GBP -	Unknown
1483		Jacquemart (Albert) History of the Ceramic Art...			GBP -	Unknown
1484		Henslowe's Diary...			GBP -	Unknown
1485		Boulton (W. B.) The Amusements of Old London...			GBP -	Unknown
1486	Davenant (Sir Wm.)	The Siege of Rhodes, The hist and second Part		1670	GBP -	Unknown
1487	Buckingham (George, Duke of)	The Rehearsal, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal		1672	GBP -	Unknown
1488	GRAY (Thomas)	Strawberry Hill Press. ODES	Printed at Strawberry Hill	1757	GBP -	Unknown
1489		Strawberry Hill Press. A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole...			GBP -	Unknown
1490		Strawberry Hill Press. [Garrick (David)] To Mr. Gray on his Odes [6 verses of 4 lines]...			GBP -	Unknown
1491	Walpole (H. Earl of Orford)	Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill...			GBP -	Unknown
1492		Richardson (Jonathan) Works of	Printed at Strawberry Hill	1792	GBP -	Unknown
1493		Strawberry Hill Press. A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole		1784	GBP -	Unknown
1494		Strawberry Hill Press. Miscellaneous Antiquities, or a Collection of Curious Papers...			GBP -	Unknown
1495		Strawberry Hill Press. Fugitive Pieces...			GBP -	Unknown
1496		St. Serfe (Thomas) Tarugo's Wiles, or the Coffee-House...			GBP -	Unknown
1497	Davenant (Sir William)	The Unfortunate Lovers		1643	GBP -	Unknown
1498	[Carkesse (James)]	Lucida Intervalla, containing divers Miscellaneous Poems		1679	GBP -	Unknown
1499	Brome (Richard)	A Joviall Crew, or the Merry Beggars		1652	GBP -	Unknown
1500	Davenant (Sir Wm.)	The Siege of Rhodes		1656	GBP -	Unknown
1501	Settle (Elkanah)	Herod and Marianme...			GBP -	Unknown

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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