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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
602	Plutarch	Lives	1683-6	GBP -	Unknown
603	St. Evremont (Sr. de)	Miscellaneous Essays...		GBP -	Unknown
604		Dryden (J.) Original Poems and Translations...		GBP -	Unknown
605	Dryden (J.)	The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works, and a collection of his Letters	1800	GBP -	Unknown
606	Lucretius (T.) and Manilius (M.)	Lucretius his six books of Epicurean Philosophy, and Manilius his five books	1700	GBP -	Unknown
607	Ovid	Epistles	1680	GBP -	Unknown
608	Ovid	Epistles	1680	GBP -	Unknown
609		Oldham (J.) Works...		GBP -	Unknown
610		Dryden (John) Essays...		GBP -	Unknown
611	Dryden (J.)	Works	1882-93	GBP -	Unknown
612	Dryden (J.)	Amphitryon, or the two Sofias...		GBP -	Unknown
613		Dryden (J.) The Hind and the Panther...		GBP -	Unknown
614	Dryden (J.)	The Vindication, or the Parallel of the French Holy League and the English League and Covenant	1683	GBP -	Unknown
615		M[arvel] (A.) A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State...		GBP -	Unknown
616	Dryden (J.)	The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (altered from Shakespeare)...		GBP -	Unknown
617		Dryden. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State...		GBP -	Unknown
618	Dryden (J.)	Works	1695	GBP -	Unknown
619	[Shadwell (T.)]	The Medal of John Bayes...		GBP -	Unknown
620	Killigrew (A.)	Poems	1686	GBP -	Unknown
621		Dryden (J.) The Hind and the Panther...	v. y.	GBP -	Unknown
622	[Pordage (S.)]	Dryden. The Medal Revers'd...		GBP -	Unknown
623		New Atlantis (The)	1687	GBP -	Unknown
624	Du Fresnoy (C. A.)	De Arte Graphica	1695	GBP -	Unknown
625	Dryden (J.)	Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon	1692	GBP -	Unknown
626	Dryden (J.)	Britannia Rediviva	1688	GBP -	Unknown
627	Dryden (J.)	Amboyna, a Tragedy	1673	GBP -	Unknown
628	Dryden (John, junior)	The Husband his own Cuckold	1696	GBP -	Unknown
629	Dryden (J.)	The Hind and the Panther	1687	GBP -	Unknown
630	Dryden (J.)	The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery	1673	GBP -	Unknown
631	Dryden (J.)	Amboyna, a Tragedy	1673	GBP -	Unknown
632	Dryden (J.)	The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham, a Comedy	1680	GBP -	Unknown
633	Dryden (J.)	Marriage a-la-Mode	1673	GBP -	Unknown
634	Dryden (J.)	The Medall, a Satyre against Sedition...		GBP -	Unknown
635	Dryden (J.)	Amboyna, a Tragedy	1673	GBP -	Unknown
636	[Dryden (J.)]	The Medall, a Satyre against Sedition	1682	GBP -	Unknown
637	Dryden (J.)	Love Triumphant, or Nature will prevail, a Tragi comedy	1694	GBP -	Unknown
638	Dryden (J.)	An Evening's Love, or the Mock Astrologer	1671	GBP -	Unknown
639	Dryden (J.)	Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay	1668	GBP -	Unknown
640	Dryden (J.) and N. Lee	The Duke of Guise, a Tragedy	1683	GBP -	Unknown
641	Dryden (J.)	Marriage a-la-mode, a Comedy...		GBP -	Unknown
642		Dryden (J.) Absalom and Achitophel...		GBP -	Unknown
643		Dryden (J.) and N. Lee. The Duke of Guise...		GBP -	Unknown
644		Dryden (J.) Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith...		GBP -	Unknown
645	Dryden (J.)	Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe, a Tragedy	1692	GBP -	Unknown
646	Dryden (J.)	Absalom and Achitophel...		GBP -	Unknown
647	Dryden (J.)	Aureng-Zebe...		GBP -	Unknown
648	Dryden (J.)	Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith	1683	GBP -	Unknown
649	[Dryden (J.)]	The Hind and the Panther	1687	GBP -	Unknown
650	Dryden (J.)	The Mistaken Husband, a Comedie	1675	GBP -	Unknown
651	Dryden (J.)	Amphitryon, or the Two Sosia's	1690	GBP -	Unknown
652	Dryden (J.)	Amphitryon, or the Two Sosia's, a Comedy	1690	GBP -	Unknown
653	Fletcher (John)	The Pilgrim	1700	GBP -	Unknown
654	Dryden (J.)	The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards	1672	GBP -	Unknown
655	Dryden (J.)	Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, a Tragedy	1690	GBP -	Unknown
656	Dryden (J.)	The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards	1667	GBP -	Unknown
657	Dryden (J.)	The Indian Emperour	1668	GBP -	Unknown
658	Dryden (J.)	Shakespeare. The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island	1674	GBP -	Unknown
659	Dryden (J.)	Eleonora, a Panegyrical Poem dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon	1692	GBP -	Unknown
660	Dryden (J.)	The Rival-Ladies, a Tragi-Comedy...		GBP -	Unknown
661	Dryden (J.)	The Wild Gallant	1669	GBP -	Unknown
662	Dryden (J.)	Secret Love, or the Maiden-Queen...		GBP -	Unknown
663	Dryden (J.)	Sr Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence	1669	GBP -	Unknown
664	Dryden (J.)	Marriage-a-la-Mode...		GBP -	Unknown
665	Dryden (J.)	The Rival Ladies...		GBP -	Unknown
666	Dryden (J.)	Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy...		GBP -	Unknown
667	Dryden (J.)	The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery...		GBP -	Unknown
668	Dryden (J.)	The Rival Ladies	1669	GBP -	Unknown
669	Dryden (J.)	Tyranniek Love, or the Royal Martyr, a Tragedy...		GBP -	Unknown
670	Dryden (J.)	A Poem upon the Death of Oliver, Lord Protector	1659	GBP -	Unknown
671	Dryden (J.)	The Hind and the Panther	1687	GBP -	Unknown
672	Dryden (J.)	The Wild Gallant...		GBP -	Unknown
673	Dryden (J.)	Secret Love, or the Maiden-Queen	1668	GBP -	Unknown
674	Dryden (J.)	Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found too late, a Tragedy	1679	GBP -	Unknown
675	DRYDEN (J.)	MACFLECKNOE, or a Satyr upon the Trew-Blew Protestant Poet	1682	GBP -	Unknown
676	Dryden (J.)	The State of Innocence and Fall of Man	1677	GBP -	Unknown
677	Dryden (J.)	The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery	1673	GBP -	Unknown
678	Dryden (J.)	Eleoriora, a Panegyrical Poem	1692	GBP -	Unknown
679	Dryden (J.) and N. Lee	The Duke of Guise, a Tragedy	1683	GBP -	Unknown
680	Dryden (J.)	An Evening's Love, or the Mock Astrologer	1671	GBP -	Unknown
681	Dryden (J.)	Of Dramatic Poesie, an Essay	1668	GBP -	Unknown
682	Dryden (J.)	The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham, a Comedy...		GBP -	Unknown
683	Dryden (J.)	King Arthur, or the British Worthy	1691	GBP -	Unknown
684	Dryden (J.)	All for Love, or the World well lost	1678	GBP -	Unknown
685	Dryden (J.)	Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy	1676	GBP -	Unknown
686	Dryden (J.)	The State of Innocence and Fall of Man	1677	GBP -	Unknown
687	[Dryden (John)]	Sr Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence	1668	GBP -	Unknown
688	Dryden (J.)	SHAKESPEARE. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found too late, a Tragedy	1679	GBP -	Unknown
689	Dryden (J.)	Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, a Tragedy	1670	GBP -	Unknown
690	DRYDEN (J.) [and Sir Wm. Davenant]	SHAKESPEARE. THE TEMPEST, or the Enchanted Island	1670	GBP -	Unknown
691	Dryden (J.) and Sir W. Davenant	SHAKESPEARE. The Tempest, a Comedy	1670	GBP -	Unknown
692	Dryden (J.)	The Rival Ladies	1664	GBP -	Unknown
693	Dryden (J.)	Threnodia Augustalis, a Furteral-Pindarique Poem	1685	GBP -	Unknown
694	Dryden (J.)	Religio Laici, or a Layman's Faith, a Poem...		GBP -	Unknown
695	Dryden (J.)	A Poem upon the Death of. . . Oliver	1659	GBP -	Unknown
696	Dryden (J.) and N. Lee	OEdipus, a Tragedy...		GBP -	Unknown
697	[Dryden (J.)]	Satyr to his Muse	1682	GBP -	Unknown
698	Dryden (J.)	Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth found too late, a Tragedy	1679	GBP -	Unknown
699	Dryden (J.)	The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards...	1672-3	GBP -	Unknown
700	Dryden (J.)	Works	1701	GBP -	Unknown
701	Dryden (J.)	Works	1701	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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