Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. COMPRISING, A Selection from the Library of George W. Fitzwilliam, Esq. of Milton Hall, Peterborough, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM OK THE XIVTH AND XVTH CENTURIES, INCLUDING MSS. OF THE ABBEY OF PETERBOROU, Apr291918,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 29, 1918 - April 29, 1918
Page Size: 1069 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
900 Roberts (Percy) The Isle of Wight illustrated

1846

 USD - Unknown
901 Rowlandson (Thomas) Sketches from Nature

1809

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902 Sams (William) A Tour through Paris

1822-4

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903 SAUVAN (J. B. B.) PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE SEINE from Paris to the Sea

1821

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904 SAUVAN (J. B. B.) PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE SEINE from Paris to the Sea

1821

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905 Sazerac (M. H.) et G. Engelmann Lettres sur la Suisse, accompagnes de Vues dessinces d'apres nature par M. Villeneuve Paris

1823-7

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906 Selection of Facsimiles of Water-colour Drawings from the Works of British Artists

1825

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907 Sickelmore (C. L. R.) Select Views of Brighton Brighton

n. d. [c. 1830]

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908 Simpson (William) The Seat of War in the East

1855-6

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909 Stan field (Clarkson) Sketches on the Moselle, the Rhine and the Meuse

1838

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910 SVININE (PAUL) SKETCHES OF RUSSIA

1814

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911 Sullivan (Dennis) A Picturesque Tour through Ireland

1824

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912 Switzerland: Picturesque Tour through the Oberland in the Canton of Berne

1823

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913 SWITZERLAND: Voyage Pittoresque de la Suisse dessine et grave par Wetzel-Corrodi, Weber, Burri, Straub, Oppermann, etc. Zurich

n. d.

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914 SWITZERLAND: Vues Remarquables des Montagues de la Suisse, dessinees et peintes d'apres nature Amsterdam

1785

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915 TABLEAUX historiques des Campagnes d'Italie, depuis l'an IV jusqu'a la Bataille de Marengo Paris

1806

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916 Thomas (J. B.) Un An a Rome et dans ses Environs Paris

1823

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917 Timms (W. H.) Select Views of the Borough of Reading and adjacent Scenery Reading

1823

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918 VADE (J. J.) OEUVRES POISSARDES, suivies de celles de l'Ecluse Paris

l'an IV, 1796

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919 VIAGGIO Pittorico e Storico ai tre Laghi: Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como Milano

1818

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920 Vidal (E. E.) Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video

1820

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921 Views of the Rhine Augsburg

n. d.

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922 Views on the Coast of France

n.d.

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923 VOYAGE pittoresque an Lac de Geneve ou Leman; La Chute du Rhin pres de Laufen Zurich

1820

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924 Voyage Pittoresque dans les Ports et sur les Cotes de France; Le Havre [Paris]

n.d.

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925 Wathen (James) Series of Views illustrative of the Island of St. Helena

1821

 USD - Unknown
926 Westall (R.) Victories of the Duke of Wellington

1819

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927 WESTALL (William) and Samuel OWEN Picturesque Tour of the River Thames

1828

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928 WETZEL (I.) Voyage Pittoresque an Lac des Waldstettes on des IV Cantons Zurich

1817

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929 WILLIAMSON (CAPTAIN THOMAS) ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS

1807

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930 [WINSTON (JAMES)] THE THEATRIC TOURIST

1805

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931 WOOD (J. G.) VIEWS IN KENT

n. d. [? 1800]

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932 ZURLAUBEN (BARON DE) Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, moraux, politiques, litteraires de la Suisse Paris

1780, etc.

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933 Arsenius Praeclara dicta Philosophorum, Imperatorum, Oratorumque et Poetarum (Graece)...

USD - Unknown
934 Bacon (Sir Francis) Opera moralia et civilia

1638

 USD - Unknown
935 Barahona de Soto (Luis) Primera Parte [all published] de la Angelica

1586

 USD - Unknown
936 Beroaldus (P.) Libellus de Optimo Statu Impressum Parrhisiis

1501

 USD - Unknown
937 Binding. The New Testament, in XVIth cent Oxford

1779

 USD - Unknown
938 BLEDA (Jayme) Coronica de los Moros de Espana, dividida en ocho libros Valencia

1618

 USD - Unknown
939 Bonaventura (S.) Auotoritates utriusque Testament) [Strassburg]

[c. 1475]

 USD - Unknown
940 CAXTON TYPE SPECIMENS. A Collection of 12 leaves from a copy of the "Golden Legend," printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498...

USD - Unknown
941 Chifney (Samuel) Narrative containing a full Account of the running of bis Royal Highness's horse " Escape " at Newmarket

n. d. (1801)

 USD - Unknown
942 Chifney (S.) Genius Genuine

n. d. (1803)

 USD - Unknown
943 Chifney (S.) Genius Genuine, a reprint of the reputed first edition

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
944 Claudianus (C.) Robo de Proserpina, traduzido por el Doctor Don Francisco Faria Madrid

1608

 USD - Unknown
945 Columna (Francesco) La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, cioe Pugna d'Amore in Sogno In Vinegia

1545

 USD - Unknown
946 Comestor (Petrus) Historia Scholastica [Cologne]

[c. 1478]

 USD - Unknown
947 Dubourg (M.) Views of the Remains of Ancient Buildings in Rome and its Vicinity

1844

 USD - Unknown
948 Durandus (G.) Rationale Officiorum Divinorum [Strassburg]

[not after 1479]

 USD - Unknown
949 Erceldoune (Thomas of) Sir Tristrem, a metrical Romance of the thirteenth century Edinb.

1804

 USD - Unknown
950 ESPINOSA (Pedro de) Primera parto [all published] de las Flores de Poetas illustres de Espana Valladolid

1605

 USD - Unknown
951 Farinator (Matthias) Lumen Animae without place [[Reutlingen]

1479

 USD - Unknown
952 FITZGERALD (Edward) THE TWO GENERALS

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
953 Galilei (Vincentio) Dialogo della Musica antica et della moderna Fiorenza

1581

 USD - Unknown
954 Gerson (Joannes) Traetatus de Symonia, de Probatione Spirituum, etc. [Cologne]

[146--]

 USD - Unknown
955 Herodotus Herodoti libri novem quibus musarum indita sunt nomina (Graece) Venetiis

in domo Aldi theme Septembri, 1502

 USD - Unknown
956 Hugo de S. Victore Soliloquium in modum dialogi [Strassburg]

[c. 1473]

 USD - Unknown
957 KIRCHEN ORDNUNO Getruckt [zu Basel]

1533

 USD - Unknown
958 BEWICK (TITOS.) GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS Newcastle

1790

 USD - Unknown
959 Bewick General History of Quadrupeds

1824

 USD - Unknown
960 Bewick General History of Quadrupeds

1824

 USD - Unknown
961 Bewick History of British Birds [Vol. I: Land Birds]

1797

 USD - Unknown
962 Bewick History of British Birds

1804

 USD - Unknown
963 Bewick History of British Birds Newcastle

1847

 USD - Unknown
964 Bewick Fables of Aesop and others

1818

 USD - Unknown
965 Bewick Select Fables, with Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue

1820

 USD - Unknown
966 Bewick. Memoir of Thomas Bewick...

USD - Unknown
967 Bewick Quadrupeds, the Figures engraved on Wood by Thos. Bewick Newcastle

1818

 USD - Unknown
968 Bewick "The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds, second edition"

1824-7

 USD - Unknown
969 Bewick Vignettes to the Second Edition of the History of Quadrupeds

1827

 USD - Unknown
970 Bewick British Land and Water Birds

1825

 USD - Unknown
971 Bewick British Land and Water Birds

1825

 USD - Unknown
972 Bewick "The Figures of a Supplement to the British Birds" (Land and Water)

1817-21

 USD - Unknown
973 BEWICK BRITISH LAND AND WATER BIRDS [Newcastle]

[1800]

 USD - Unknown
974 Bewick Four large Sheets of Cuts published at Alnwick by W. Davidson--Large and small Cuts of Quadrupeds and Birds, some Foreign Birds

USD - Unknown
975 Percy (Bp. T.) Bewick. The Hermit of Warkworth Alnwick

1807

 USD - Unknown
976 Turner (J. M. W.) Annual Tours for 1833-4-5

1833-4-5

 USD - Unknown
977 Turner (J. M. W.) Harbours of England Greenhart

1856

 USD - Unknown
978 Turner Engravings (19) after Turner

USD - Unknown
979 Tavernier (J. B.) Les Six Voyages, en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans (avec la Nouvelle Relation de l'intirienr du Serail du Grand Seigneur) Imprimee a Paris--Amst

1678

 USD - Unknown
980 Castruccio Le Vite di Castruccio Castracani de gl' Antelminelli Principe di Lucca di Niccolas Tegrimi Lucchese; e del Minore Scipione Africani di Ant. Bendinelli da Lucca Lucca

1556

 USD - Unknown
981 Dante con Nuove et utili Ispositione, aggiuntova una tavola, etc. In Lione

1571

 USD - Unknown
982 Dante (Il) con argomenti & dechiarationi de molti luoghi, novamente revisto & stampata Lione

1547

 USD - Unknown
983 Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, novamente corretto con tre Novelle aggiunte Vinegia

Asolano 1522 mese di Novembre

 USD - Unknown
984 Villani (Giovan et Matteo) Historia Universali de suoi Tempi (colla Continuatione) Venetia

1559-62

 USD - Unknown
985 Pulci (Luigi) Il Morgante Maggiore (dedicato al Signor D. Matteo di Sarno) Firenze

1733

 USD - Unknown
986 Carteromaco (Niccolo) Ricciardetto Parigi

1738

 USD - Unknown
987 Ariosto (L.) Orlando Furioso, Nuovamente adornato di Figure d Rame da Girolamo Porro Venet.

1584

 USD - Unknown
988 DANTE LA COMMEDIA COL COMMENTO DI CHRISTOPHERO LANDINO Bressa

1487

 USD - Unknown
989 Dante Comedia. . col espositione di Christ. Landino, nuovameute impressa Venetia

1529

 USD - Unknown
990 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) WORKS

May 8, 1896

 USD - Unknown
991 Bewick (Thos.) History of British Birds Newcastle

1797-1804

 USD - Unknown
992 Bewick (T.) General History of Quadrupeds

1800

 USD - Unknown
993 Bewick (T.) Fables of AEsop and others

1822

 USD - Unknown
994 Bewick (T. and J.) Select Fables, with Memoir and Descriptive Catalogue

1820

 USD - Unknown
995 S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley, editors Cambridge Natural History (The)

1909

 USD - Unknown
996 Surtees (R. S.) Sporting Novels, " Jorrocks "

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
997 Common Prayer (The Book of), etc.

1662

 USD - Unknown
998 Collinso Furioso, or Matters to Tatters (in Verse)

1825

 USD - Unknown
999 Alken (Henry) The National Sports of Great Britain

1825

 USD - Unknown
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
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    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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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.