Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF Valuable Books and Manuscripts BEING THE SECOND AND CONCLUDING PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE P. M. Pittar, Esq., of 14, Cleveland Square, Hyde Park, W. (SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS), COMPRISING, Finely Illuminated Liturgical and other, Nov041918,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 04, 1918 - November 04, 1918

Page Size: 702 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A (G.) PALLAS ARMATA	The Gentleman's Armorie; wherein the right and genuine use of the Rapier and of the Sword		1639	GBP -	Unknown
2	Abdilazi, qui dicitur AEchabitius	Libellas Ysagogicus ad Magisterium Juditiorum Astrorum	Venetiis	1485	GBP -	Unknown
3	ACKERMANN (R.)	HiSTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF WINCHESTER, ETON AND WESTMINSTER		1816	GBP -	Unknown
4		Adamus, Ord. fratrem Predicatorum [Summula Pauperum metrice conscripta] " Summula Pauperum quam nominat plures jurisperitorum versus Decretales"		1494	GBP -	Unknown
5	ADDISON (JOSEPH)	CATO, a Tragedy		1713	GBP -	Unknown
6	Aeneas Silvius	De Euryolo et Lucretia	[Paris]	[circa 1480]	GBP -	Unknown
7		AESOPUS FABULAE & VITA ESOPI: cum fabulis Aviani Alfonsii, Poggij Florentini et aliorum, cumoptimo comento	Antverpiae	1486	GBP -	Unknown
8	AEsopus	Vita et Fabellae Aesopi Graece, cum interpretatione Latina...	Venetiis	1505	GBP -	Unknown
9	A Kempis (Thomas)	De Imitatione Christi	Lugduni	(c. 1653)	GBP -	Unknown
10	Albertanus Cansidicus	Compendiorus tractatus de arte loquendi et tacendi multum ritilis	Antwerpiensi	1484	GBP -	Unknown
11	ALBERTUS (LEO BAPTISTA)	DE RE AEDIFICATORIA. [Fol. ib] Angelus Politianus Laurentio Medici patrono suo. [Fol. 2a] Leonis Baptista Alberti De Re Aedificatoria incipit	Florentiae	[sic, i.e. 1485]	GBP -	Unknown
12	ALBERTUS MAGNUS	OPUS DE MYSTERIO MISSAE	Ulm	1473	GBP -	Unknown
13		ALBUM AMICORUM OF HENRICUS, BARON IN WALPURG, S.R.I. DAPIFER HAEREDITARIUS		XVI CENTURY	GBP -	Unknown
14	Alciatus (Andreas)	Emblematum liber, jam denuo emendatus & recognitus [Editio tertia]	Aug. Vind.	1534	GBP -	Unknown
15	Alciatus	Emblematvm libri dvo	Lvgdvni	1547	GBP -	Unknown
16	Alciatus (Andreas)	Clarissimi viri D. Andreae Alciati Emblematum libri duo. 113 fine woodcuts attributed to le Petit Bernard	Lugduni	1554	GBP -	Unknown
17	Alciatus (And.)	In D. Andreae Alciati Emblemata succincta commentariola, Sebast	Lugduni	1556	GBP -	Unknown
18	Alciatus	Emblematvm Clarissimi Viri D. Andreae Alciati libri II. In eadem succincta commentariola...	Antverpioe	1565	GBP -	Unknown
19		Ale Houses. Articles of Direction touching Alehouses		1608	GBP -	Unknown
20	Aleyn (Charles)	The Historie of that wise and Fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh, King of England		1638	GBP -	Unknown
21	Alexis of Piemont	The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemont		1558	GBP -	Unknown
22	[Allestree (Richard), or Pakington (Lady Dorothy)]	The Lively Oracles given to us; or, the Christians Birthright and Duty	Oxford	1679	GBP -	Unknown
23	[Allestree (Richard)]	The Whole Duty of Man		1735	GBP -	Unknown
24	[ALLOT (ROBERT)]	ENGLAND'S PARNASSUS; OR, THE CHOYSEST FLOWERS OF OUR MODERN POETS		1600	GBP -	Unknown
25	Amadis de Gaule	The Fifth Book of the Most Plaisant and Delectable History of Amadis de Gaule		1664	GBP -	Unknown
26		AMERICA. The Mystery Reveal'd; or Truth brought to Light. Being a Discovery of some Facts in Relation to the Conduct of the late M--y	London	1759	GBP -	Unknown
27		Amours (les) de Charles de Gonzaque, Duc de Mantoue & de Marguerite, Comtesse de Rovere...		1666-67	GBP -	Unknown
28		Anacreon Teius, Poeta Lyricus summa cura & diligentia ad fidem etiam Vt. MS. Vatican Emendatus, etc.	Cantabrigoe	1705	GBP -	Unknown
29	Andreas Hispanus	Modus Confitendi comperitus per Reverendu Andreum hispanu; Sancte Romano ecclesie Penitentiariu	[Romae]	[c. 1499-1500]	GBP -	Unknown
30	[Andreas Hispanus (?)]	Interrogationes & doctrine qbus quilibet Sacerdos debet interrogare suu confitentem	[Romae]	[c. 1500]	GBP -	Unknown
31		ANTIDUELLO: or, a Treatise, in which is discussed the lawfulnesse and unlawfulnesse of single combats		1632	GBP -	Unknown
32	Antoninus, Archiep	Florentiae. Confessionale. Defecerunt. Summula Confessionalis...	[Venet]	[14--]	GBP -	Unknown
33	Aretinus (Leonardus, Brunus)	Opusculum de Nobilitate ad guilanthonium Monteferrati Comitem	[Mediolani]	[14--]	GBP -	Unknown
34	Aretinus (Leonardatus, Brunus)	Tractatulu de duobus amatibus de Guistardo videlicet et Gigismuda. Cum Epistola Sigis-mudi ducis Austrie amatoria pulcherrima (" e greco in latinu traducta ")	[Colonioe]	[14--]	GBP -	Unknown
35		Arie diversi composte da diversi Autori in Canto fermo sopra il Credo		1695	GBP -	Unknown
36	ARIOSTO (LODOVICO)	ORLANDO FVRIOSO; colle l'espositione; et emendato secondo l'originale del proprio authore	In Venetia	1556	GBP -	Unknown
37	Arnold (Sir Edwin)	Poems, Narrative and Lyrical	Oxford	1853	GBP -	Unknown
38	Arrigus (J. B.)	De Beatitvdine Hominis libri tres	Florentiae	1575	GBP -	Unknown
39		ARS MORIENDI. A SERIES OF THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS ON COPPER			GBP -	Unknown
40	ASCHAM (ANTHONY)	A PROGNOSTICATION made for the yere of oure Lord god a thousande fyue hundredth xlviii. Calculed (sic) for the meridian of Yorke	Imprynted in Flete Strete at the sygne of the George, next to Saint Dunstones Church	[1548]	GBP -	Unknown
41	Ascham (Roger)	A Report and Discourse written by Roger Ascham on the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court		[c. 1570]	GBP -	Unknown
42	Ascham (Roger)	Familiarum Epistolarum libri tree, magna orationis elegantia co(n)scripti nunc denuo emendat et ucti		1581	GBP -	Unknown
43	Aubry (Dom. Benoit)	L'Ami Philosophe et Politique Ouvrage ou l'on trouve l'essence, les especes, les principes, les signes, caracteristiques, les avantages, & les devoirs de l'amitie...	A Nancy	1775	GBP -	Unknown
44	Augustine (S.)	Two bokes of the noble doctor and B. S. Augustine thone entiteled of the Predestivation (sic) of Saints	Basle	(1555)	GBP -	Unknown
45	Austin (Samuel B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford)	Austin's Urania, or The Heavenly Muse		1629	GBP -	Unknown
46	Austin (Samuel, the Younger)	Naps upon Parnassus. A sleepy Muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened		1658	GBP -	Unknown
47	Avela y Suniga (Don Lewes de)	Commentaries. . . which treateth of the great Wars in Germany		1554	GBP -	Unknown
48	Avitus	Christiana et Docta Divi Alchimi Aviti Viennensis Archiepiscopi, & Claudii Marii Victoris Oratoris Massitiesis, poemata aliaque non poenitenda. Per Joannem Giagneium Parisi num Theologu e uetustiss	Lugduni	1536	GBP -	Unknown
49	BACON (Sir M.)	ESSAIES. RELIGIOUS MEDITATIONS. PLACES OF PEHSWASION AND DISSWASION. SEENE AND ALLOWED [with the Table of the Colours of Good and Evill]	Printed at London	1612	GBP -	Unknown
50	BACON (SIR FRANCIS)	" THE ESSAIES OF SR. FRANCIS BACONKNIGHT, THE KING'S SOLLICITER GENERALL"		1612	GBP -	Unknown
51	Bacon (Sir Francis)	THE ESSAIES of Sr. Francis Bacon, Knight, the King's Atturney Generall. His Religious Meditations		1613	GBP -	Unknown
52	BACON (Sin FRANCIS, Lord Verulam)	[Novum Organum], In-stauratio Magna [sive Indicia vera de interpretatione Naturae]		1620	GBP -	Unknown
53	Bancroft (Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury)	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februrie		1588	GBP -	Unknown
54		BARBOU CLASSICS, Juvenales, Constelier 1746; Phoedrus Barbou, 1753...	Paris	1746-69	GBP -	Unknown
55	Barrie (J. M.)	My Lady Nicotine		1890	GBP -	Unknown
56		Bartram. The Boke of Barthra Priest	Imprinted in Saynet Andrewes Paryshe, in the Waredrop	(1549)	GBP -	Unknown
57	Batt (Anthony, a Benedictine Monk, for some years in the English monastery at Dieulwart, in Lorraine)	A Hive of Sacred Honie-Combes containing most sweet and Heavenly covnsel	Printed at Doway	Anno 1631	GBP -	Unknown
58	BAXTER (RICHARD)	The Saints' Everlasting Rest; A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints. .. in Glory		1650	GBP -	Unknown
59	BAXTER (RICH.)	The Saints' Everlasting Rest		1650	GBP -	Unknown
60	Beacon (Richard)	Solon His Follie, or a Politique Discourse, touching the Reformation of Commonweales conquered, declined or corrupted	At Oxford	1594	GBP -	Unknown
61	[BECON (THOMAS)]	A Christmas Bankette garnyshed with many pleasaunt and deynty dishes	Imprinted. . . in Botulphe Lane at the sygne of the Whyte Beare	1542	GBP -	Unknown
62	BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) AND FLETCHER (JOHN)	COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES		1647	GBP -	Unknown
63	BEETHOVEN (LUDWIG VON). Musical Composer	A SIGNED LETTER to CHARLES NEATE			GBP -	Unknown
64	BENESE (SIR RICHARD DE)	THIS BOKE SHEWETH THE MANER OF MEASURYNGE OF ALL MANNER OF LANDE	Printed at Southward, in Saint Thomas Hospitall	[c. 1538]	GBP -	Unknown
65	BENNETT (ARNOLD)	Literary Taste, how to form it		1909	GBP -	Unknown
66	Bernard (St.)	[Fol. la] Liber Meditationum beati Bernardi...		1492	GBP -	Unknown
67	BERNARD (St.)	PSALTERIUM BEATAE MARIE VIRGINS. [Fol. la] Psalteriu beate Marie virginis compositu per deuotissimum dootorem Sanctum Bernardum et Psalterium beati Hieronymi presbyteri...	[Venetiis]	1497	GBP -	Unknown
68	Bernard (S.)	A Compedius & a moche fruytefull treatyse of well livynge coteynyng the hole sume and effect of al Vertue	Imprinted in Paules Church Yearde at the Sygne of the Maydens heede	1541	GBP -	Unknown
69	Bertholdus	"Horologiu devotiois"		(c. 1498)	GBP -	Unknown
70	BEZA (Theodore de)	Icones, id est, verae imagines virorum doctrina simvl et pietate illustrium...	Genevoe	1580	GBP -	Unknown
71		Biblia Sacra; Juxta vulgatam editionem maiori quam antehac Doctorum Studio, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
72		Bible, 1646. Authorised Version, printed by William Bentley...			GBP -	Unknown
73		Bible, 1648. Authorised Version, ruled in red, engraved title with view of old London below			GBP -	Unknown
74		BIBLE, 1685 (1681). In IRISH: THE OLD TESTAMENT	London	1681	GBP -	Unknown
75	George Bickham, junr., after HOGARTH, LANCRET, WATTEAU, GRAVELOT, and others	BICKHAM (GEORGE), THE MUSICAL ENTERTAINER. Engraved by George Bickham, junr., after HOGARTH, LANCRET, WATTEAU, GRAVELOT, and others		1737-9	GBP -	Unknown
76		BINDING. Alexander ab Alexandro, Genialium Dierum, Liber sex, cum integris Commentariis		1673	GBP -	Unknown
77		BINDING. THE HOLY BIBLE	Edinburgh	1715	GBP -	Unknown
78		BINDING. Book of Common Prayer		1713-12	GBP -	Unknown
79		BINDING. Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments		1707	GBP -	Unknown
80		BINDING. London Almanack for 1788		1788	GBP -	Unknown
81		BINDING. Memoires de Hollande	Suivant la copie imprimee a Paris	1678	GBP -	Unknown
82	Thomson (Jas.)	BINDING BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE. The Seasons		1842.	GBP -	Unknown
83	Vanierius (Jac.)	BINDING. PRAEDIUM RUSTICUM	Parisiis	1774	GBP -	Unknown
84		Block Woodcut. AN EARLY BLOCK WOODCUT REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT OF THE " QUINDECIM SIGNA," pasted in the front cover of an imperfect MS. Service Book of the century		Saec. XV	GBP -	Unknown
85	Bloomfield (Robert)	Wild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry		1819	GBP -	Unknown
86	BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI)	A TREATISE EXCELLENT AND COMPENDIOUS, SHEWING AND DECLARING, IN MANER OF TRAGEDYE, THE FALLES OF SONDRY MOST NOTABLE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES WITH OTHER NOBLES	London	1554	GBP -	Unknown
87	BOLZANUS (URBANUS, BELLUNENSIS)	INSTITUTIONES GRAECAE GRAMMATICS	Venetiis	1497	GBP -	Unknown
88	Bonner (Edmunde, Bp. of London)	A profitable and necessarye doctryne		[c. 1554]	GBP -	Unknown
89	Bonner (Edm., Bp. of London)	Homelies sette forth by the righte reverende father in God, Edmunde, Byshop of London	Imprinted. .. in Paules Churcheyarde at the Sygne of the Holy Ghost	1555	GBP -	Unknown
90		Book of Common Prayer, The, and Administration of the Sacraments, etc.		1787	GBP -	Unknown
91	BORROW (GEORGE)	EXPEDITION TO THE ISLE OF MAN IN THE YEAR 1855		1855	GBP -	Unknown
92	Borrow (George) Lavengro	The Scholar--The Gypsy--The Priest		1851	GBP -	Unknown
93	Boswell (Jas.)	Account of Corsica, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli	Glasgow	1768	GBP -	Unknown
94	Boucher (Jean)	Sermons de la Simulee Conversion et nullite de la pretendue absolution de Henry de Bourbon, Prince de Bearn	Paris	1594	GBP -	Unknown
95	BRATHWAITE (RICH.)	The English Gentleman...			GBP -	Unknown
96	Brathwaite (Rich.)	A Survey of History: or a Nursery for Gentry		1638	GBP -	Unknown
97		BREVIARIUM AD USUM ROMANUM, cum Calendario	Netherlands	Saec. XV	GBP -	Unknown
98		Breviary. Breviarium seu Portiforium ad Usum Sarum. A fragment (29 leaves) of AN UNIQUE EDITION	Parisiis	(1506)	GBP -	Unknown
99		BREVIARIUM AD USUM SARISBURIENSIS. Portiforium seu Breviarium ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis Castigatum/ Pars Hyemalis./...	Parisiis	1556	GBP -	Unknown
100		BREVIARIUM SECUNDUM RITUM AC MOREM MONACHORUM SANCTI BENEDICTI sacri ordinis montis oliueti. Editum per Bartholomeum de Mantua. (Cum calendario)	Venetiis	1491	GBP -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
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.