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
301	HALL (JOSEPH, successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich)	Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes, First Three Bookes, of Toothlesse Satyrs...			GBP -	Unknown
302	HALL (JOSEPH, Bishop of Norwich)	MEDITATIONS AND VOVVES DIUINE AND MORALL. Deuided into two Bookes		1605	GBP -	Unknown
303	HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERIC)	Autograph Note signed (in full) concerning his intention to produce the Oratorio "Theodora" at Covent Garden (circa 1749); also the MS. Libretto of the Oratorio in the hand of Dr. Thomas Morell		(1749)	GBP -	Unknown
304	HANDEL (GEORGE FREDERICK)	HOLOGRAPH WILL; (WITH FOUR CODICILS,' SIGNED BY HIM)			GBP -	Unknown
305	Harding (Thomas)	A Confvtation of a Booke intitvled an Apologie of the Chvrch of England	Imprinted at Antwerpe	1565	GBP -	Unknown
306	Hardy (Thomas)	The Woodlanders		1903	GBP -	Unknown
307	Hardy (Thos.)	"To Shakespeare after Three hundred Years"		1916	GBP -	Unknown
308	Hardy (Thos.)	"When I Weekly Knew"		1916	GBP -	Unknown
309	Hardy (Thos.)	"A Call to National Service; An Appeal to America: Cry of the Homeless"		1917	GBP -	Unknown
310	Hardy (Thos.)	" England to Germany. The Pity of it I Met a Man. A New Year's Eve in War Time"		1917	GBP -	Unknown
311	Hardy (Thos.)	The Fiddler's Story, A Jingle on The Times		1917	GBP -	Unknown
312	[Harpsfield (Nic.)]	Dialogi Sex contra Summi Pontificatus, Monasticae Vitae	Antw.	1566	GBP -	Unknown
313	HARVEY (GABRIEL)	A VOLUME or EXCESSIVELY BAKE ENGLISH TRACTS		1549-93	GBP -	Unknown
314	HARVEY (GABRIEL)	Euripides. Hecuba, & Iphigenia in Aulide. .. in Latinum translate, Erasmo Rotero-damo interprete	Venetiis	1507	GBP -	Unknown
315	Harvey (Wm.)	Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium	Amst.	1651	GBP -	Unknown
316		Hell broke Loose; or The notorious Design of the Wicked Ranters		1651	GBP -	Unknown
317	HERBERT (GEORGE)	THE TEMPLE. / Sacred Poems / and / Private Eja- / dilations. / By Mr. George Herbert		1633	GBP -	Unknown
318	HERBERT (GEORGE)	THE TEMPLE. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations	Cambridge	1641	GBP -	Unknown
319	HEROLT (JOANNES)	SERMONES. [2 vol.] [Title of Vol. 1. begins]: Sermones Discipuli de tempore de sanctis: et quadragesimale eiusdem	London	1510	GBP -	Unknown
320	Heywood (Thomas)	The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the most Worthy Women of the World		1640	GBP -	Unknown
321	Heywood (Thomas)	The Actors Vindication, containing Three brief Treatises, viz.: I. Their Antiquity. II. Their Antient Dignity. III. The True Use of their Quality		[1658]	GBP -	Unknown
322	HIERONIMUS (S.)	EPISTOLAE	Argentorati	(1468)	GBP -	Unknown
323	Hoddeson (John)	Sion and Parnassus, or Epigrams on Severall texts of the Old and New Testament		1650	GBP -	Unknown
324	HOLLAR (Wenceslaus)	Butterflies and Moths. Muscarm Scarabeorum Verimumque varie figure	Antw.	1646	GBP -	Unknown
325	HOLLAR (Wenceslaus)	A collection of Eighty-eight Plates of Female Costume		1643-4, etc.	GBP -	Unknown
326		Hollis Binding. Lettres de M. le Marechal Duc de Belleisle		1759-60	GBP -	Unknown
327	Lindsey (Theophilus)	Hollis Binding. A Farewell Address to the Parishioners of Catterick		1774	GBP -	Unknown
328	Wallis (Jo.)	Hollis Binding. Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae. . . Editio Sexta		1765	GBP -	Unknown
329	HOOPER [OR HOPES] (JOHN. Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester)	A Declaration of Christe and of His Offyce	Zurych	1547	GBP -	Unknown
330	Hooper (Bp.)	A Declaration of the X Holye Commandements of Almighty God		1550	GBP -	Unknown
331	Hooper (Bp.)	A Declaration of the Ten Holy Commaundements of Almyghtie God	London	1550	GBP -	Unknown
332	Hooper (Bp.)	A Godly Confession and Protestacion of the Christian Faith		1550	GBP -	Unknown
333	Hooper (Bp.)	An Oversighte and Deliberation Upon the Holy Prophet Jonas		[1550]	GBP -	Unknown
334	Hooper (Bp.)	Whether Christian Faith Maye be Kepte Secret in the Heart without confession theof openly to the worlde as occasion shall serve. Roman letter	Roane	1553	GBP -	Unknown
335	Hopton (Arthur)	Speculum Topographicum; or the Topographicall Glasse. Containing The Use of the Topo-graphicall Glasse, Theodelitus, Plaine Table, and Cir-cumferentor		1611	GBP -	Unknown
336		Horae Beatae Mariac Virginia ad Usum Romanum, cum Calendario		XV. Century	GBP -	Unknown
337		Horae BEATAE MARLAE VIRGINIS, cum Calendario		XV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
338		Horae BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS AD USUM ECCLESIAE GALLICANAE, CUM CALENDARIO		XV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
339		HORAE B. V. M. [sine Calendario] [FRENCH LATE XVTH CENTURY]		late XV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
340		HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS, CUM CALANDARIO		XV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
341		Horae B. V. M. ad Usum Sarum	[London]	[1555 (?)]	GBP -	Unknown
342		HORAE B.V.M. cum Calendario. . . HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROMAE tout au long sans riens requirir. Avec ung commun antiennes suffrages et Oraisos de plusieurs saints et sainctes selon le dit usaige			GBP -	Unknown
343		HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM ROMANUM CUM CALENDARIO. " Hore dive Virginis Mariae secundum usum Romanum totaliter ad longum cum multis Suffragiis "		(almanack, 1510-30)	GBP -	Unknown
344		HORAE B.V.M. A L'USAGE DE PARIS, CUM CALENDARIO	Paris	s. d. [Almanack 1497-1520]	GBP -	Unknown
345		Horae B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO. "Hore beate Marie Virginis secudu usu Romanum absque requisitione aliqua cum pluribus orationibus in gallico et latino"	Paris	s. d. [Almanack 1502-20]	GBP -	Unknown
346		HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO. " Hore in laudem beatissime Virginia Marie; secundum consuetudinem Ecclesie Parisiensis"		1527	GBP -	Unknown
347		HORAE B.V.M. ENSUIVENT LES HEURES DE NOSTRE DAME A LUSIAGE DANGERS	Paris	1530	GBP -	Unknown
348	HORAE	[Greek.] Horse in Laudem Beatiss		[circa 1517]	GBP -	Unknown
349		HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO. LAS HORAS DE NUESTRA SENORA co muchos otros oficios y oraciones			GBP -	Unknown
350	HORATIUS	Opera: aeneis Tabulis Incidit JOHANNES FINE		1833	GBP -	Unknown
351	Howell (James)	Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren: divided into Six Sections		1645	GBP -	Unknown
352	[Hughes (Thos.)]	Tom Brown's School Days	Cambridge	1857	GBP -	Unknown
353	Hughes (Thomas)	The Scouring of the White Horse; or the Long Vacation Kamble of a London Clerk		1859	GBP -	Unknown
354	Hugo (Hermanno)	Pia Desideria. Engraved title and 45 full page copperplate engravings of Emblems	Antverpiae	1668	GBP -	Unknown
355	Hunt (Leigh)	Tho Palfrey: A Love Story of Old Times		1842	GBP -	Unknown
356		ILLUMINATIONS. Four LEAVES FROM A FRENCH ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS		c. 1510	GBP -	Unknown
357		ITALY (MESSINA EARTHQUAKE). AN UNIQUE COLLECTION of about 200 Autograph Letters, Poems, etc.		1909	GBP -	Unknown
358	James I	The Peace-Maker: or, Great Brittaines Blessing		An. Dom. 1619	GBP -	Unknown
359	JAMES I	A COLLECTION OF RARE TRACTS		1615-1625	GBP -	Unknown
360	James II	Royal Tracts, in two parts. The first containing all the select Speeches, Orders, Messages, Letters, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
361	Jests	Joe Miller's Jests: or, The Wits' Vade Mecum		1739	GBP -	Unknown
362	Johnson (Chas., Dramatist, 1679-1748)	The Force of Friendship: A Play. Original MS. copy		(1710)	GBP -	Unknown
363	[Johnson (Dr. Sam.)]	Marmor Norfolciense; or an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme		1759	GBP -	Unknown
364	JOHNSON (DR. SAMUEL)	IRENE: A TRAGEDY. AS it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By MR. SAMUEL JOHNSON		1749	GBP -	Unknown
365	JOHNSON (DE. SAMUEL)	A MEMENTO			GBP -	Unknown
366	Johnson (Dr. S.) Lucas (Richard C). Sculptor, executed statue of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield and other famous statues and medallion portraits	Autograph MS. signed on Dr. Samuel Johnson and his early days of poverty		14th September, 1875	GBP -	Unknown
367	JONSON (BEN)	THE WORKES OF BENJAMIN JONSON		1616-40	GBP -	Unknown
368	[JONSON (BEN.)]	JONSONUS VIRBIUS: or The Memorie of Ben		1638	GBP -	Unknown
369	JONSON (BEN.)	Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry		1640	GBP -	Unknown
370		Justinianus Imperatoris Institutionum libri IIII. Adjecti sunt ex digestis Tituli de verborium significatione et de Regulis Juris	Amstelodami	1659	GBP -	Unknown
371		Juvenal. The First Six Satyrs of Juvenal: with Annotations clearing the obscurer places out of the History	Oxford	1644	GBP -	Unknown
372	KEATS (JOHN)	POEMS AND SONNETS. DOVES PRESS EDITION (Privately Printed by Cobden Sanderson)		1914	GBP -	Unknown
373	Keats (John)	Letters to Fanny Brawne. Written in the years 1819 and 1820		1878	GBP -	Unknown
374	KEATS (JOHN)	LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE written in the years MDCCCXIX. and MDCCCXX. and now given from the Original Manuscripts		(1878)	GBP -	Unknown
375	Morris (Wm.)	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems by the Way	Hammersmith	1891	GBP -	Unknown
376	Meinhold (William)	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Sidonia the Sorceress		1893	GBP -	Unknown
377	CHAUCER (GEOFFREY)	KELMSCOTT PRESS. WORKES	Hammersmith	May 8 1896	GBP -	Unknown
378	F. S. Ellis, after the Edition printed by J. O. Halliwell, editor	Kelmscott Press. Sire Degrevaunt	Hammersmith	1896	GBP -	Unknown
379	F. S. Ellis, after the Edition printed by J. O. Halliwell, editor	Kelmscott Press. The Romance of Syr Ysambrace	Hammersmith	1897	GBP -	Unknown
380	King (Henry, Bp. of Chichester)	Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets			GBP -	Unknown
381	Kipling (Rudyard)	The Fringes of the Fleet. (1 & 2) The Auxiliary Fleet	New York	1915	GBP -	Unknown
382	Knox (John)	A Godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London	Rome	1554	GBP -	Unknown
383	Knox (John)	An Answer to a great number of blasphemous Cavillations written by an Anabaptist, and Adversarie to God's Eternal Predestination	[Geneva]	1560	GBP -	Unknown
384		Ladies Losse (The) at the Adventures of Five Hours		1668	GBP -	Unknown
385	Lamb (Chas.)	The Works of Charles Lamb		1818	GBP -	Unknown
386	LAMB (CHAS.)	JOHN WOODVIL, A TRAGEDY		1802	GBP -	Unknown
387	[LAMB (CHARLES)]	PRINCE DORUS; or Flattery, put out of countenance		1811	GBP -	Unknown
388	Lamb (Chas.)	Album Verses, with a few others		1830	GBP -	Unknown
389	[Landor (Walter Savage)]	Poetry by the Author of Gebir		1802	GBP -	Unknown
390	Lang (Andrew) XXII. and X. of XXXII	Ballades in Blue China		1881	GBP -	Unknown
391	Lang (Andrew)	The most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche	Nutt	1887	GBP -	Unknown
392	Lapide (Joannes de)	Resolutorium dubiorum cira celebrationem Missarum occurrentium. Summa dubiorum in hoc opere resolutoorum Clxvi		1497	GBP -	Unknown
393	LATIMER (BP. HUGH)	THE FYRSTE (TO THE SEVENTH) SERMON		(1549)	GBP -	Unknown
394	Latimer (Bp. Hugh)	Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the Right Reverend Father and constant martyr		1584	GBP -	Unknown
395	Lavater (Lewes)	Of Ghostes and spirites walking by nyght and of strange noyses		1572	GBP -	Unknown
396	Lavender (Theophilus)	The Travels of Fovre English Men and a Preacher into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea		1612	GBP -	Unknown
397	LECHFORD (THOMAS, of Clements Inne, in the County of Middlesex, Gent.)	PLAIN DEALING: OR NEVVES FROM NEW-ENGLAND. A short view of New-Englands present Government		1642	GBP -	Unknown
398	Lecky (W. E. Hartpole)	Poems		1891	GBP -	Unknown
399	Lee (Samuel)	The Triumph of Mercy in the Chariot of Praise. A Treatise of preventing secret and unexpected mercies with some mixt Reflexions: Israel Redux or the Restauration of Israel		1677	GBP -	Unknown
400	Leighton (Alexander, Divine and Physician)	An Appeal to the Parliament: or Sions Plea against the Prelacie, The Summe whereoff is delivered in a decade of Positions, In the handling whereoff		1628	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.