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
501		" Ordo Baptism! parvulorum preguntas en la Lengua Guarani para Baptizar quid potis, &c.		Saec XVI	GBP -	Unknown
502		ORTUS VOCABULORUM. Ortus vocabuloru Alphabetico ordine fere omnia q in Catholicon			GBP -	Unknown
503	OVIDIUS	LES METAMORPHOSES D'OVIDE, GRAVEES SUR LES DESSEINS DES MEILLEURS PEINTRES FRANCAIS PAR LES SEINS DES SRS LE MIRE ET BASAN GRAVEURS	Paris	1767	GBP -	Unknown
504	P. (S.) [Sam Pepys]	The Portugal History, or, a Relation of the Troubles that happened in the Court of Portugal in the years 1667 and 1668		1677	GBP -	Unknown
505	[PADILLA (JUAN DE)]	LOS OOZE TRIUPHOS DELOS DOZE APOSTOLES		(1521)	GBP -	Unknown
506	Akenside (Dr. Mark)	PAINTED BINDING. Poems		(1780)	GBP -	Unknown
507	[Paltock (Robert)]	The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins		1751	GBP -	Unknown
508	PARASOLE (ISABETTA CATANEA)	Specohio delie virtvose donne. Doue si vedono bellissimi lauori di ponto in aria, reticella, di maglia, & piombini	In Roma	1598	GBP -	Unknown
509	PARKER (MATTHEW, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury)	" A Booke wherein is conteined most necessary prayers, and comfortable meditations to be vsed with ernest zeale often to be said of a godly & christian person, collected by M. P"		16th Century	GBP -	Unknown
510	[Parsons (Robert)]	A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Trovbles, pre-svpposed to be intended against the realme of England			GBP -	Unknown
511		PASSIO DOMINI NOSTRI JESUS CHRISTI ex Evangelistarum textu deprompta edidit PIGMANNUS PHILESIUS	Argent	1508	GBP -	Unknown
512	PASSIO CHRISTI	Dye passie ons heeren als ons die vier ewangeliste bescriuen met der epistelen en met den auontmael En eerst die ons Mathe' beschrijft den figueren		(c, 1510)	GBP -	Unknown
513	PAYNELL (THOMAS)	THE ASSAUTE AND CONQUEST OF NEVEN	Imprinted...in flete strete, in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cudite at the sygne of Lucrece	1529	GBP -	Unknown
514	PEELE (G.)	MERRIE CONCEITED IESTS, OF GEORGE PEELE GENTLEMAN		(About 1620)	GBP -	Unknown
515	Petrarch	De Remediis utriusque Fortunae Libri II	Lugduni	1584	GBP -	Unknown
516	Petronius	T. Petronii Arbitri Satyricon, cui accedant diversorum Poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Errones Venerei, Pervigilium Veneris, Floridi de Qualitate, Vitae	Paris	1677	GBP -	Unknown
517	Pezzi da Cologna (R. D. Lorenzo)	La Vigna del Signore, nella quale si dichiarano in Santissimi Sacramenti	In. Venetia	1599	GBP -	Unknown
518	P[hilips] (K[atherine])	Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs. K. P.		1664	GBP -	Unknown
519	Piozzi (MRS. H. L., FORMERLY MRS. THRALE) Friend of Dr. Johnson	A MEMENTO OF THE LAST DAYS OF MRS. PIOZZI			GBP -	Unknown
520		Plague. A Dialogue betwixt a Citizen and a poore Countrey man and his Wife, in the Countrey		1626	GBP -	Unknown
521		PLAYING CARDS, temp. William III. Love Mottoes. COMPLETE PACK of 52 cards		circa 1690	GBP -	Unknown
522	Plinius Secundus	Epistolarum libri X. et Panegyricus Accedunt variantes Lectiones		1640	GBP -	Unknown
523	Poole (Joshua, M.A.)	The English Parnassus: or A Helpe to English Poesie		1657	GBP -	Unknown
524	POPE (ALEXANDER)	Windsor Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown		1713	GBP -	Unknown
525	Pope (A.)	The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem		1714	GBP -	Unknown
526	Pope (A.)	An Essay on Man, addressed to a Friend		N.D.	GBP -	Unknown
527	POPE (A.) AN ESSAY ON MAN	The 4 Parts Complete		(1733)	GBP -	Unknown
528	Pope (A.)	Choruses of Athenians, Youths and Virgins, Romans and Soldiers, well written Manuscript		XVIII CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
529	Powell (Thomas)	Humane Industry: or a History of most Manual Arts, Deducing the Original Progress, and Improvement of them		1661	GBP -	Unknown
530		" Precordial Deuotorum"	Argentorati	1489	GBP -	Unknown
531		PRELUDIA diuersarum notarum secundum modernum modum subtiliter et diligenter collecta cum mensuris diuersis hic inferius annexis per fratrem Adam Heborgh Anno Domini 1448		XV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
532	Prestwich (Edmund)	Hippolitus translated out of Seneca		1651	GBP -	Unknown
533		PRIMER. THIS PRYMER OF SALYSBURY USE is set out a long wont (sic) any serchyng/WITH MANY PRAYERS/and GOODLY PICTURES in the kalender/in the matyns of our lady/in the houres of the Crosse/in the vii. psalmes/& in the dyryge	Parisiis	1532	GBP -	Unknown
534		Primer. The Primer, or Office of the Blessed Virgin Marie			GBP -	Unknown
535	Prynne (William)	Histrio-Mastix, the Player's Scourge; or, Actor's Tragoedie, wherein it is largely evidenced by divers Arguments...		1633	GBP -	Unknown
536		Psalms. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meter by Tho. Sternhold		1637	GBP -	Unknown
537		PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS REGIS, cum Canticis, Credo. Litania Sanctorum, etc.		XIV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
538		PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS, CUM CALENDARIO, HYMNIS ECCLESIAE, LITANIA, ETC.		XIV CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
539		Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum ad fidem veterum exemplarium atquae adeo codicis Grasci manuscripti D. Victoris	Parisiis	1559	GBP -	Unknown
540		Psalme-Bog Eller en Samling af gamle og nye Psalmer	Kiobenhavn	1790	GBP -	Unknown
541		Punch Artists and Others. A Collection of Signed Quotations, etc.		1858 and 1680	GBP -	Unknown
542	Quarles (Francis)	Hadassa, or the History of Queene Ester		1621	GBP -	Unknown
543	Quarles (Francis)	Iob Militant: with Meditations Divine and Morall. By Fra. Qvarles		1624	GBP -	Unknown
544	Quarles (Francis)	Sions Sonets. Sung by Solomon the King, and Pariphras'd by Fra		1625	GBP -	Unknown
545	RAINOLDES [Reynolds] (Dr. J.)	TH' OVERTHROW OF STAGE-PLAYES		1599	GBP -	Unknown
546	Randolph (Thos.)	Poems with The Muses Looking-Glasse; and Armyntas	Oxford	1638	GBP -	Unknown
547	Reade (Chas.)	Kate Peyton: or Jealousy. A Drama in a Prologue and Four Acts		1872	GBP -	Unknown
548	Reade (Chas.)	Foul Play. Drama		1883	GBP -	Unknown
549	Reade (Chas.)	Dora: A Pastoral Drama, in three Acts		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
550	Reade (Chas.)	Drink. [A Drama in 7 Acts.]		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
551	Reade	(Chas.). Two Loves and a Life. A Drama in four Acts	New York	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
552	RECORD (ROBERT, M.D.)	THE GROUND OF ARTES: teaching the perfect worke and practise of Arithmetike both in whole numbers and fractions		1586	GBP -	Unknown
553		Regla de-el gran Patriarcha S. Benito. Con las Licencias necessarias		1792	GBP -	Unknown
554		Regles de la Vie Chretienne tirees de l'Escriture Sainte	A Bruxelles	1675	GBP -	Unknown
555	Renneville (Constantin de)	Recueil de Poesies Chretiennes composees de la Basille de Paris	A la Haye	1715	GBP -	Unknown
556		RITUALE ROMANUM CUM OFFICIIS. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		XV. Cent.	GBP -	Unknown
557		Road-Book. The Traveller's Pocket-Book; or Ogilby and Morgan's Book of the Roads improved and amended		n. d. (1758)	GBP -	Unknown
558	Robinson (John, "A Lover of Truth and Unity")	The Triumph and Unity of Truth, in Two Treatises		1657	GBP -	Unknown
559	ROBINSON (RICHARD)	An Homelye or Sermon of Good and Euill Angels: preached by the Reuereud D. Vrbanus Rhegius...at. Zelle in Saxony. Anno Do. 1537. Newly translated into English by Ric. Ro....			GBP -	Unknown
560	[Rolewinck (Werner)]	Fasciculus Temporum [ad Annum 1474]. [Fol. 1a] Tabula brevis et utilis super libello quod a q. dicitur fasciculus temporum...	Impressa Venetiis	1479	GBP -	Unknown
561	Rollenhagius (Gabriel)	Nucleus Emblematum selectissimorumque Itali vulgo impressas vocunt... non paucis ven-ustis inventionibus auctus	Coloniae	(1611)	GBP -	Unknown
562	Rolli (Paolo)	Raccardo I. Re d'Inghilterra. Melo Drama, per la Reale Accademia di Musica (Italian-Eng.)		1727-34-5	GBP -	Unknown
563		Roma. [Mirabilia Urbis Roma] (begins): " In isto opusculo dicitur quomodo Romulus & Remus nati sunt & educati"	Romae	1499	GBP -	Unknown
564		Rosario della gloriosa Virgine Maria	[Venetiis]	[1521]	GBP -	Unknown
565	Rossetti (Dante Gabriel)	The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo d'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) in the original metres		1861	GBP -	Unknown
566	Rous (Francis)	Thule, or Vertues Historie		1598	GBP -	Unknown
567	Rowlands (Samuel)	The Famous Historie of Guy Earle of Warwick (62 ll.); Equestrian figure of Guy on title and large cuts in the text; margins cut into		[1609]	GBP -	Unknown
568	Ruffus (Sertus)	De Hostoria Romana libellus ex recognition Tiphernatis	Romae	1492	GBP -	Unknown
569		Rump Songs. Rump: or an exact collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times. By the most eminent Wits		1662	GBP -	Unknown
570	Ruskin (John)	Letters on Art and Literature		1894	GBP -	Unknown
571	Ruskin (John)	Letters to Ernest Chesnau		1894	GBP -	Unknown
572	Ruskin (John)	Letters to Rev. J. A. Malleson		1896	GBP -	Unknown
573	Ryves (Bruno)	Mercurius Rusticus. The Country's Complaint Recounting the Sad Events of this unparralled Warr [printed title]; Angliae Ruina: or England's Ruine		1647-48	GBP -	Unknown
574	Sales (Francis de, Bishop of Geneva)	Delicious Entertainments of the Soule	Imprinted at Douay	1632	GBP -	Unknown
575	Sallustius	Belli Catilinarii et Jugurthini Historiae		1739	GBP -	Unknown
576	Samuel (Rabbi)	Epistola Rabbi Samuelis Israhelite Missa ad Rabbi Ysaac Magistru Synagoge in Civitate Regis Marochorum. Qua judens ille Catecuminas aridam Judeoru d'Messia spem stimulans ipsos		Anno 1498	GBP -	Unknown
577	WM. HONE AND OTHERS	SATIRICAL TRACTS		1819-21	GBP -	Unknown
578	Savonarola (Girolamo)	Reverendi Patris Fratris Hieronymi Sauonarolae in Orationem Dominicam Quadruplex Expositio. Reliqua	Venetiis	1535	GBP -	Unknown
579	Scarron (P.)	The Comical Romance, or a Facetious History of a company of Stage-players		1665	GBP -	Unknown
580		Scarron. Scarron's City Romance, made English	In the Savoy	1671	GBP -	Unknown
581		Scotland's Opposition to the Popish Bill. A Collection of all the Declarations against the Repeal of the Statutes. Bound in mottled calf	Edinburgh	1780	GBP -	Unknown
582	Scott (Sir Walter)	Waverley Novels. "BORDER EDITION," with Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang	Nimmo	1892-4	GBP -	Unknown
583		Seneca. Scenecae (sic) Tragoediae, Edith Aldina	Venetiis	1517	GBP -	Unknown
584	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES		1632	GBP -	Unknown
585	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES		1685	GBP -	Unknown
586	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	[HENRY VI.] THE / TRUE TRAGEDIE OF / RICHARDE DUKE OF / YORKE, AND THE DEATH OF GOOD / KING HENRIE THE SIXT		1600	GBP -	Unknown
587	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	THE / TRAGEDY / OF / HAMLET / PRINCE OF DENMARKE. / NEWLY IMPRINTED AND INLARGED		n. d. (c 1607 ?)	GBP -	Unknown
588	SHAKESPEARE	THE LATE, AND MUCH-ADMIRED PLAY, CALLED Pericles, Prince of Tyre		1635	GBP -	Unknown
589	[Shakespeare]	THE LAMENTABLE AND TRUE TRAGEDY OF MASTER ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM in Kent			GBP -	Unknown
590	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS		1914	GBP -	Unknown
591	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	POEMS; WRITTEN by WIL. SHAKESPEARE, Gent		1640	GBP -	Unknown
592	SHAKESPEARE	An exceedingly rare SHAKESPEAREAN SILVER PASS			GBP -	Unknown
593	[Sharpe (Chas. Kirkpatrick)]	A Ballad Book	Webster	1823	GBP -	Unknown
594	Shelley (P. B.)	Promotheus Unbound		1820	GBP -	Unknown
595	Shelley (P. B.)	Miscellaneous Poems		1826	GBP -	Unknown
596	SHELLEY (P. B.)	Poems. THE BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED DOVES PRESS EDITION (privately printed by Cobden Sanderson)		1914	GBP -	Unknown
597	SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)	AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED, addressed to his publisher Ollier, and being His DEFENCE OF " LAON AND CYTHNA "	Marlow	11th December, 1817	GBP -	Unknown
598	[Shenstone (Wm.)]	The Judgment of Hercules, a Poem		1741	GBP -	Unknown
599	Shenstone (W.)	The School-Mistress, a Poem in imitation of Spenser		1742	GBP -	Unknown
600	SHERIDAN (R. B.)	The School for Scandal. A Comedy			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.