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
601	SHERIDAN (R. B.)	THE RIVALS		1775	GBP -	Unknown
602	SHIRLEY (JAMES)	Poems, &c.		1646	GBP -	Unknown
603	Shirley (Jas.)	Plays: viz., The Sisters (some headlines shaved)...			GBP -	Unknown
604	Smith (John)	The History of Joseph; or a Divine Poem upon Joseph and his Brethren		1677	GBP -	Unknown
605	Smollett (Dr. Tobias)	The History and Adventures of an Atom		1749 (misprint for 1769)	GBP -	Unknown
606	Solomon (Simeon)	A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep		1871	GBP -	Unknown
607	Somervile (William)	The Chace. A Poem...			GBP -	Unknown
608	SOUTHEY (ROBERT)	ODE written during the negotiations with Buonaparte in January			GBP -	Unknown
609	SOUTHEY (ROBERT, POET LAUREATE)	RODERICK, A POEM. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the opening portion		1814	GBP -	Unknown
610	SPENSER (EDMUND)	THE FAERIE QUEENE. Disposed into Twelve books fashioning xii. Morall Vertues...			GBP -	Unknown
611	SPENSER (EDMUND)	COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAINE		1595	GBP -	Unknown
612	Spencer (William Robert)	POEMS			GBP -	Unknown
613	STANLEY (THOMAS)	POEMS	no place	1651	GBP -	Unknown
614		[Stations of the Cross.] Kalendar Volkummen-und Romische Staciones nach dem Kalender, und bewegliche festen des gantzen Jars. Sunderlich nuetz uh noch den-die bullen unnd Indult verselbenn Stacion haben	Leypsick	1516	GBP -	Unknown
615	Stevens (George Alexander)	Songs, Comic and Satyrical	Oxford	1772	GBP -	Unknown
616	Stevenson (R. L.)	THE STORY OF A LIE		1882	GBP -	Unknown
617	STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)	MORAL EMBLEMS, a Second Collection of Cuts and Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Author of Latter-day Arabian Nights		(1882)	GBP -	Unknown
618	Stevenson (R. L.)	Advertisement to Second Collection of Moral Emblems		(1882)	GBP -	Unknown
619	STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)	Virginibus Fuerisque, and other Papers		1910	GBP -	Unknown
620	Stevenson (R. L.)	An Ode of Horace		March, 1916	GBP -	Unknown
621	Stevenson (R. L.)	Poetical Fragments by Robert Louis Stevenson. FIRST EDITION. Original wrapper		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
622	STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)	ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON LITERATURE AND ART, WRITTEN IN THE FORM OF A MOST LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS COUSIN, ROBERT ALAN M. STEVENSON, WITH POSTSCRIPT IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF HIS WIFE, FANNY STEVENSON			GBP -	Unknown
623	Stirling (Wm. Alexander, Earl of)	Aurora. Containing the first fancies of the Author's Youth		1604	GBP -	Unknown
624	Stirling (Sir Wm. Alexander, Earl of)	A Paraenesis to the Prince [Henry], by William Alexander of Menstrie		1604	GBP -	Unknown
625	Stirling (Wm. Alexander, Earl of)	The Monarchick Tragedies [Croesus, Second Edition; and Darius, FIRST EDITION]		1604	GBP -	Unknown
626	STOW (JOHN)	A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER		1720	GBP -	Unknown
627	Sturt (John)	Book of Common Prayer, etc.		1717	GBP -	Unknown
628	SUCKLING (SIR JOHN)	FRAGMENTA AUREA. A Collection of all the incomparable Peaces		1646	GBP -	Unknown
629	[Swinburne (A. C.)]	The Children of the Chapel. A Tale		1864	GBP -	Unknown
630	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	The Devil's Due. A Letter to the Editor of "The Examiner"			GBP -	Unknown
631	Swinburne (A. C)	A Word for the Navy. A Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne		1887	GBP -	Unknown
632	SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES). Poet	The Original Autograph Manuscript of HIS ESSAY ON THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS OF GEORGE CHAPMAN		1874-5	GBP -	Unknown
633	SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES)	ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MS. SIGNED		31st March, 1877	GBP -	Unknown
634	SWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES)	THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED of his famous Essay " VICTOR HUGO: THEATRE EN LIBERTE"		(1886)	GBP -	Unknown
635	SWINBURNE (A. C.)	DEDICATORY EPISTLE (" To Theodore Watts-Dunton, my best and dearest Friend")		1904	GBP -	Unknown
636	T. (R.)	Dives and Lazarus; or rather, Devellish Dives		1628	GBP -	Unknown
637	Tasso (Torquato)	Il Goffredo overo Giervsalemme Liberata, Poema Heroica (Cantos I-XIX.) Con l'Allegoria dell' istesso	In Bassano	1595	GBP -	Unknown
638	TASSONI (ALESSANDRO)	LA SECCHIA RAPITA, Poema Eroicomico	Parigi	1766	GBP -	Unknown
639	TAVERNER (RICHARD)	FLORES ALIQUOT SENTENTIARUM ex varus collecti scriptoribus. The floures of sencies gathered out of sundry wryters by Erasmus in Latine and Englished by Rychard Tauerner		1550	GBP -	Unknown
640	TAYLOR (JOHN, Water-Poet)	THE COMPLAYNT OF CHRISTMAS, AND THE TEARES OF TWELFETYDE		1631	GBP -	Unknown
641	TAYLOR (JOHN, Water Poet)	THE OLDE, OLD, VERY OLDE MAN; OR THE AGE AND LONG LIFE OF THOMAS PAR		1635	GBP -	Unknown
642	Taylor (John, Water-Poet)	The Carrier's Cosmographie, or a Briefe Relation of The Innes, Ordinaries, Hosteries and other lodgings in and neere London, where the Carriers, Waggons		1637	GBP -	Unknown
643	[Taylor (John)]	An Answer to a foolish Pamphlet entituled A Swarme of Sectaries & Schismatics, put forth by John Taylor, the Water-Poet. Wherein is set downe (1) An Epistle to John Taylor...		1641	GBP -	Unknown
644	[TAYLOR (JOHN) Water-Poet]	HEADS OF ALL FASHIONS. Being a Plaine Defection or Definition of diverse and sundry sorts of heads, Butting, Jetting, or pointing at Vulgar Opinion		1642	GBP -	Unknown
645	[Taylor (John, Water Poet)]	The Apprentises Advice to the xii. Bishops lately accused of High Treason		1642	GBP -	Unknown
646	[Taylor (John, Water Poet)]	No Mercurius Aquaticus, But a Cable-Rope		July 19 1644	GBP -	Unknown
647	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	THE SAILOR BOY, BY ALFRED TENNYSON, D.C.L., POET LAUREATE	London	1861	GBP -	Unknown
648	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	IDYLLS OF THE HEARTH		1864	GBP -	Unknown
649	TENNYSON	THE LAST TOURNAMENT		1871	GBP -	Unknown
650	TENNYSON (ALFRED, LORD)	THE FALCON	London	1879	GBP -	Unknown
651	TENNYSON	THE CUP		1881	GBP -	Unknown
652	Tennyson	Carmen Saeculare, an Ode, by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate		1887	GBP -	Unknown
653	TENNYSON	The Throstle		1889	GBP -	Unknown
654	TENNYSON	The Silent Voices		1892	GBP -	Unknown
655	Wise (T. J.)	Tennyson. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson		1908	GBP -	Unknown
656	Terence	Andria, The First Comoedie of Terence		1548	GBP -	Unknown
657		Testamentum Novum, Graece; Ex Regiis aliisque optimis editionibus cum cura expressum		1624	GBP -	Unknown
658		Testament (The New). Authorised Version, Bonham Norton and John Bill...			GBP -	Unknown
659	Textor (Guillermus)	Sermones tres de Passione Christi. (at end) Sermones tres passione dni finiut		(1496)	GBP -	Unknown
660	THACKERAY (W. M.)	VANITY FAIR. A Novel without a Hero. By William Makepeace Thackeray		1848	GBP -	Unknown
661	[THACKERAY (W. M.)]	AN INTERESTING EVENT		1849	GBP -	Unknown
662	THACKERAY (W. M.)	THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS; his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy		1849-50	GBP -	Unknown
663	THACKERAY (W. M.)	ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY		1853	GBP -	Unknown
664	THACKERAY (W. M.)	THE NEWCOMES. Memoirs of a most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq.		1854-5	GBP -	Unknown
665	THACKERAY (W. M.)	THE VIRGINIANS. A Tale of the Last Century		1858-9	GBP -	Unknown
666	THACKERAY (W. M.)	A LEAF OUT OF A SKETCH BOOK		1861	GBP -	Unknown
667		Thackerayana: Notes and, Anecdotes illustrated by hundreds of Sketches by Wm. Ma Kepeace Thackeray		n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
668	THACKERAY (W. M.)	Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera		1822	GBP -	Unknown
669	FIELDING (H.)	ThACKERAY. THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS		1742	GBP -	Unknown
670		THEATRIC TOURIST; being a collection of correct Views with brief and authentic Historical account of the Principal Theatres in the United Kingdom; replete with useful and necessary information to Theatrical Professors		1805	GBP -	Unknown
671	Thevet (And.)	Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctiqve, avtrement nomme Amerique	Anvers	1558	GBP -	Unknown
672	Tilnay (Edmond, Master of the Royal Revels, 1579)	A briefe and pleasant discourse of duties in Mariage. called the Flower of Friendship		1577	GBP -	Unknown
673	Timberlake (Henry)	A True and Strange Discours of the Trauailes of two English Pilgrimes; what admirable accidents befell them in their journey towards Ierusalem, Gaza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and other places		1620	GBP -	Unknown
674	Toison d'Or	Les Ordonnances de l'Ordre de la Thoyson d'or			GBP -	Unknown
675	Turner (William)	A new booke of Spirituall Physik for dyuerse diseases of the nobilitie and gentlemen of Englande	[Basle?]	1555	GBP -	Unknown
676		Ulric & Sympert (SS.). Gloriosorum christii confessorum. Uldarici & Symperti: necno beatissime martyris Aphre Augustane sedis patronorum qm fidelissimorum historie		1516	GBP -	Unknown
677	Ussher, Jas., Archbp. of Armagh	The Principles of Christian Religion, summarily set downe, according to the Word of God...		1649	GBP -	Unknown
678	Veron (John)	A Fruteful treatise of Predestination . . . against the swynyshe gruntings of the Epicures and Atheystes of oure time. Whereunto are added. . . very necessary boke againste the free wyll men		[circa 1563]	GBP -	Unknown
679	Vicary (Thomas, Chyrurgion to Hen. 8, Edw. 6, Q. Mary, Q. Elizabeth)	The Surgions Directorie, for Young Practioners In Anatomie, Woundes, and Cures, &c.		1651	GBP -	Unknown
680	WAKEFIELD (CANON ROBERT)	Roberti Wakfeldi Sacrarum literaru Professoris eximii Oratio de laudibus & utilitate triu linguarum. Arabice, Chaldaicae & Hebraice atq idomatibus hebraicis quae in utroq testamento iventiutur		n. d. (1524)	GBP -	Unknown
681	[Walkington (Thos.)]	The Optick Glasse of Humors: or the touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper	Oxford	n. d. (c. 1605)	GBP -	Unknown
682	Waller (Edmund)	Poems, &c.		1664	GBP -	Unknown
683	Waller (Edmund)	Poems, &c.		1668	GBP -	Unknown
684	Waller (Edmund)	A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector, of the present greatness and joynt interest of His Highness and this Nation		1656	GBP -	Unknown
685	WALPOLE (HORACE) Earl of Oxford	HIS MANUSCRIPT COMMONPLACE BOOK, CONTAINING ANECDOTES OF ART, MEN, WOMEN AND MANNERS			GBP -	Unknown
686	WALTON (IZAAK)	THE LIVES OF DR. JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY WOTTON, MB. RICHARD HOOKER, MR. GEORGE HERBERT		1670	GBP -	Unknown
687	Walton (Isaac)	Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker and Herbert		1670	GBP -	Unknown
688	WALTON AND COTTON	The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation		1815	GBP -	Unknown
689	WALTON (ISAAC) AND CHARLES COTTON	THE COMPLETE ANGLER	Fleet Street	1823	GBP -	Unknown
690	WATSON (WILLIAM) Poet	The autograph MSS., etc., of his collected pieces, entitled " Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems," as prepared by the author for publication		1886-1889	GBP -	Unknown
691	WATSON (WILLIAM)	AUTOGRAPH MS. SIGNED, entitled " Lachrymoe Musarum," an Ode on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson			GBP -	Unknown
692	Webster (John)	A Monumental Columne, erected to the living Memory of the ever-glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales		1613	GBP -	Unknown
693	Wedgwood (Josiah)	An Address to the Workmen in the Pottery on the subject of entering into the service of foreign Manufacturers (contains references to the Potteries in South Carolina and Pennsylvania)		1793	GBP -	Unknown
694	White (Rev. Gilbert)	A Naturalists' Calendar		1795	GBP -	Unknown
695	WHITNEY (GEFFREY)	A CHOISE OF EMBLEMS, AND OTHER DEVISES	Imprinted at Leyden	1586	GBP -	Unknown
696	WHITTINGTON (ROBERT)	GRAMMATICAL WORKS, LATIN AND ENGLISH. ORIGINAL EDITIONS AS FOLLOW (I) De hetero-clitis nomiuibus...			GBP -	Unknown
697	Wilde (OSCAR) RESURGAM	Unpublished letters of Oscar Wilde		1917	GBP -	Unknown
698	Wilde (Oscar)	Apologia pro Oscar Wilde...			GBP -	Unknown
699	[Winstanley (William)]	The Honour of the Taylors: or, the Famous and Renowned History of SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD, Knight			GBP -	Unknown
700	WORDSWORTH (WM.)	THE WAGGONER, a Poem		1819	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.