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
1000 Malvezzi (Marchese Virgilio) Il Tarquinio Superbo Bologna

1632

 USD - Unknown
1001 Propositioni Overo Considerationi in Materia di Stato, di Fr. Guicciardini et Altri Vinegia

1598

 USD - Unknown
1002 Beda (Ven.) De Temporibus, sive de sex aetatibus huius Seculi Venetiis

1509

 USD - Unknown
1003 Martyrologium Romanum Clement X. auctoritate recognitum Romae

1674

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1004 Guidi Ubaldi e Marchionibus Montis. Planisphaeriorum Universalium Theorica Pisauri

1579

 USD - Unknown
1005 Adimari (Lodovico) Poesie, alla Maesta del Be Lodovico XIV. Ll Grande Firenze

(1693)

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1006 FERRARA Herculis Pigantii I, C. Ferrarien, rerum publicarum Advocati ad Stabuta Ferrariae Lucubrationes Ferrariae

1694

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1007 MILTON (John) PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN TEN BOOKS, THE AUTHOR JOHN MILTON

1668

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1008 MILTON (J.) PARADISE LOST

1669

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1009 MILTON (J.) PARADISE LOST

1669

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1010 MILTON (J.) PARADISE LOST

1669

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1011 Binyon (Laurence) The Art of Botticelli: an Essay in Pictorial Criticism

1913

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1012 Binyon (Laurence) The Art of Botticelli: an Essay in Pictorial Criticism

1913

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1013 Binyon (Laurence) The Art of Botticelli: an Essay in Pictorial Criticism

1913

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1014 CICERO Epistolae Familiares. [Begins] " Marci Tullii Ciceroni's Epistolarum L. I. Cicero P. Lentulo Procos S."

SAEC. XV

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1015 Froissart (Jehan) Histoire et Chronique, reveu et corrige sus divers exemplaires, et suivant les bon auteurs par Denis Sauvage Paris

1574

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1016 Macdonald (John) An Account of Experiments on the Relative Times of Burning of Fuzes driven by a Machine, etc.

USD - Unknown
1017 Cowper (Wm.) Poems

1808

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1018 Office de la Semaine Sainte Paris

1708

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1019 Terentius Comoediae (edidit Jo. Hawkey) Dublin

1745

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1020 Theatrum Morum Artliche Gesprech der thier mit wahren/ historian den menschen zu lehr./

[16--]

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1021 Swauevelt (H.) Cayer d'Animaux Paris

s. d.

 USD - Unknown
1022 Weston (Elizabeth Joan) Parthcnicon lib. III. opera ac studio G. Mart. a Baldhoven Prague

(1605)

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1023 Tasso (T.) Aminta, Favola Boschereccia Parigi

1813

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1024 Bosse (A.) La Maniere Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois por poser l'Essieu, & Placer les heures et autres choses aux Cadrans an Soleil Paris

1643

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1025 Costume. Album des Costumes, Moeurs, et Habillements dans le Royaume des Pays-Bas Amst.

n. d.

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1026 Antoninus Augustus Itinerarium Provinciarum Omnium, cum Fragmento eiusdem necnon indice baud quaq aspernando Venale

s.a. (1512)

 USD - Unknown
1027 Ariosto (L.) Satire, di nuovo ristampate e corrette In Siena

s.a.

 USD - Unknown
1028 Chappuys (Gabriel) Lettres Subtiles et Faceticuses de Caesa Lao d'Alexan, Ville d'Otrante traduites d'ltalien en Francois a Rouen

1610

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1029 Valerianus (Jo. Pet.) De Litteratorum infelicitate, libri duo; Eiusdem Bollunensia Venet.

1620

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1030 Histoire des Vies, Meurs, Actes, Doctrine et Mortdes trois principaux Heretiques de nostre temps, a scavoir Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, & Theodore de Beze...

1616

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1031 La Monnoye (Bern. de) Noei Borguignon de Gui Bardzai, cinquieme edicion, Reveue & augmentee de lai Note de l'Ar de Checun de Noei, etc. Paris

1738

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1032 Costumes. Nouvelle Collection de Costumes Suisses, d'apres les Dessins de Koenig, Lory, etc. Zurich

s. d.

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1033 Oudin (Cesar) Refranes & Proverbios Espanoles tradnzidos en lengua Francesca, con Cartas en Refranes de Blasco de Garay a Lyon

1614

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1034 [ Giustiniano (Lorenzo)] Alcune pratiche del Viver Christiano [item, Oratione al Spirito-Santo del beato Laurentio Giustiniano, primo Patriarcha Venetiano] Vinegia

1540

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1035 Adimari (A.) La Tersicore, o vero scherzi e paradossi Poetici sopra la Belta delle Donne Fiorenza

1637

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1036 Budaeus (Gul.) De Contemptu Rerum fortuitarum lib. III, cut of "Prelum Ascensianum 1520" Paris

s. a.

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1037 Rolli (Paolo) Il Polifemo opera Drammatica, da Rappresentarsi nel Regio Teatro del Buon-Retiro

1748

 USD - Unknown
1038 Binding. A portion of an Italian Printed Breviary beginning with 'Feria II. Ad primam " and ending with "Hymni in dedieatione Ecclesiae," lit. goth. red and black (fol. 185-266)

(16--)

 USD - Unknown
1039 Haex (David) Dictionarium Malaico-Latinum & Latino-Malaicuni, cum aliis quamplurimis Romae

1631

 USD - Unknown
1040 Vigus (J. B.) De Sindone Taurinensi libri duo, ad Carolum Emmanuelem, Sardiniae, Hierusalem et Cypri Regem

1768

 USD - Unknown
1041 Vaenius (Otho) Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa Antwerpiae

1608

 USD - Unknown
1042 Martinez de Espinar (A.) Arte de Ballesteria, y Monteria, escrita con Methodo para excusar la fatiga Madrid

1761

 USD - Unknown
1043 Dentice (Soipione) Canto.Primo Librode Madrigalia Cinque Voce Napoli

1591

 USD - Unknown
1044 Eximines [or Ximenes] (Le Frere Francois) Le Livre des Sainctz Angus

(1518)

 USD - Unknown
1045 Floriani (Pompeo) Discorso della Goletta et del Forte di Tunisi...

USD - Unknown
1046 Julius II. Papa Bulla Monitorii et Declarationis in cursus privationis et aliarum Penarum contra Prelatos Gallice Nationis hic expressos, etc....

USD - Unknown
1047 Merian (Matth.) Novae Regionum aliquot amaenissimarum Delineationes aeri incisae Argent.

1624-5

 USD - Unknown
1048 Mitelli (G. Maria) Caccia Giocosa, invenzioni di Gioseffo Maria Mitelli, Pittore Bolognese Bologna

1745

 USD - Unknown
1049 Engravings. Battle Scenes, Wild-Boar Hunting, etc.

USD - Unknown
1050 Le Roy (H.) La Voliere des Oiseaux

(16--)

 USD - Unknown
1051 Robert (Jean) Caricatures Paris

(17--)

 USD - Unknown
1052 Blomaert (Abraham) Inventiones. " Otia delelant faciuntq,. laboribus aptos," etc. Romae

1629

 USD - Unknown
1053 Fireus (Petrus) Piscium Vivae Icones, in aes incisae et editae

(16--)

 USD - Unknown
1054 Tempesta (Ant.) Four Engravings of the Labours of Hercules

1610

 USD - Unknown
1055 Tempesta (A.) Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium, Pugnae Bestiariorum & mutuae Bestiarum delineatae Romae

1602

 USD - Unknown
1056 Wael (Jo. Bapt. de) Engravings of Rustic Subjects Roma

(16--)

 USD - Unknown
1057 Mazarin (Card.) Pompa Funebre nell'Esequie celebrate in Roma al Card Roma

1661

 USD - Unknown
1058 Bordone (Bened.) Isolario, nel quale si ragiona di tutte le Isole del Mondo Venetia

s. d.

 USD - Unknown
1059 Seneso (Alessandro) Il Vero Maneggio di Spada

USD - Unknown
1060 Raimondi (Eugenio) Dello Caccie, compendiate dal Dottor Francesco Bardi Venetia

1675

 USD - Unknown
1061 Noseret (L. F.) Collection de las Principales Sucrtes de Una Corrida de Toros

(17--)

 USD - Unknown
1062 Machines. Twenty-nine old Italian full-page Engravings of Machines for Raising Water

(16--)

 USD - Unknown
1063 Engravings. Diferentes Pensees d'Ornements...

USD - Unknown
1064 Pillemen (Wm.) Suite de douze Bon Bouquetz de Fleurs, dessines d'apres nature Paris

(17--)

 USD - Unknown
1065 Robert (N.) Variae ac Multiformes Florum Species exprossao ad vivum et aeneis tabulis incisae Romae

1665

 USD - Unknown
1066 Engravings. Outline Engravings of Views in Rome, etc....

USD - Unknown
1067 Cavaleriis (J. B. do) Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Romae

1581

 USD - Unknown
1068 Le Clerc (Seb.) Battles of the Duke de Guise Paris

(s. d.)

 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.