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
201 LAWKS (HENRY AND WILLIAM) CHOICE PSALMES put into Musick for Three Voices

1648

 USD - Unknown
202 LEO (John) A GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF AFRICA

1600

 USD - Unknown
203 Lilly (John) Euphues the Anatomy of Wit

1617

 USD - Unknown
204 Lindley (John) Sortum Orchidaceum

1838

 USD - Unknown
205 LIVIUS (TITUS) Le Decho delle Historie Romane, tradotto nuovamente nella lingua Toscana da Jacopo Nardi Venetia

1540

 USD - Unknown
206 LUCANUS (M. Annaeus) Civilis Belli Libri X Venetiis

mense Julio, 1515

 USD - Unknown
207 Lucanus (M. A.) Pharsalia, cum notis H. Grotii et R. Bentlei Strawberry Hill

1760

 USD - Unknown
208 Lucianus Dialogi et alia multa opera; Imagines Philostrati, etc. Venetiis

1522 Mense Octobri

 USD - Unknown
209 Lysons (Daniel) The Environs of London (with Supplement)...

1792-1811

 USD - Unknown
210 Mackenzie (Alex.) Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Lawrence

1801

 USD - Unknown
211 MAFFEI (Gio. Pietro) Le Histoire delle Indie Orientali Venetia

1589

 USD - Unknown
212 Magna Charta, cum statutis tum antiquis, tum recentibus

1576

 USD - Unknown
213 Mahon (Lord) History of England

1836-54

 USD - Unknown
214 Malmesbury (James, 1st Earl of) Diaries and Correspondence

1844

 USD - Unknown
215 Manwood (John) A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest

1598

 USD - Unknown
216 Manwood (J.) A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest

1665

 USD - Unknown
217 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Proces de Marie Antoinette de Lorraine-d'Autriche, Veuve Capet

1793

 USD - Unknown
218 Marivaux (P. C. de) OEuvres complettes Paris

1781

 USD - Unknown
219 MARKHAM (Gervase) MARKHAM'S MASTER-PEECE, OR WHAT DOTH A HORSEMAN LACKE

1610

 USD - Unknown
220 Marsden (William) The History of Sumatra (with folio vol. of plates)

1811

 USD - Unknown
221 Marot (Clement). Oeuvres, reveues et augmentees de nouveau...

USD - Unknown
222 Martins (C. F. P. de) Nova genera et species Plantarum Brasiliensium Monachii

1824-9

 USD - Unknown
223 MAYER (Luigi) VIEWS IN EGYPT

1801

 USD - Unknown
224 Memoires concernant l'Histoire Paris

1776-82

 USD - Unknown
225 Merian (M. S.) Dissertation sur la Generation et les Transformations des Insectes de Surinam La Haye

1726

 USD - Unknown
226 Milles (Thomas) The Catalogue of Honor

1610

 USD - Unknown
227 MOLIERE (J. B. P. de) OEUVRES Paris

1734

 USD - Unknown
228 MOLL (Herman) ATLAS

1717

 USD - Unknown
229 Moll (H.) A New Map of the whole World

(1729)

 USD - Unknown
230 Monti (Vincenzo) Opero Milano

1839-42

 USD - Unknown
231 Moro (Marco) e G. N. Fontana Venezia, Monumentale Pittoresca Venezia

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
232 Mullala (James) The Political History of Ireland Dublin

1793

 USD - Unknown
233 MUSEE FRANCAIS Recueil complet des Tableaux, Statues et Bas Reliefs qui composent la Collection Nationale, avec l'explication des sujets, etc. Paris

1807

 USD - Unknown
234 Museo Bresciano illustrato Brescia

1838

 USD - Unknown
235 MUSEO PIO-CLEMENTINO, descritto da Giambattista Visconti Roma

1782-92

 USD - Unknown
236 Museum Florontinum exhibens insigniora vetustatis monumonta quae Florentiae sunt Florentiae

1732-42

 USD - Unknown
237 Napier (W. F. P.) History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France

1828-40

 USD - Unknown
238 Natura Brevium in Fronche

1557

 USD - Unknown
239 NEWCASTLE (William, Duke of) Methode et Invention nouvelle de dresser les Chevaux Londres

1737

 USD - Unknown
240 NEW TESTAMENT

LATE XIV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
241 Oppianus De Piscatu libri V...

USD - Unknown
242 Ortelius (A.) Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Antwerpiae]

[1585]

 USD - Unknown
243 Ottley (W. V.) The Italian School of Design

1823

 USD - Unknown
244 Ovidius Opera Venetiis

1502-33

 USD - Unknown
245 Ovid Metamorphosis Oxford

1632

 USD - Unknown
246 Ovid's Metamorphoses

1717

 USD - Unknown
247 Palairet (J.) Description abregee des Possessions Angloises et Francoises du Continent septentrional de l'Amerique

1755

 USD - Unknown
248 Palairet (J.) Pocket Map of the English and French Dominions in NORTH AMERICA

1755

 USD - Unknown
249 Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell' Arehitettura Venetia

1601

 USD - Unknown
250 [PALTOCK (R.)] THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS

1751

 USD - Unknown
251 Parismus, Prince of Bohemia. Most famous, delectable and pleasant History of

1696

 USD - Unknown
252 PARKINSON (John) PARADISI IN SOLE, PARADISUS TERRESTRIS, or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers, etc.

1629

 USD - Unknown
253 [PARSONS (Robert)] A Defence of the Censure gyven upon two Bookes of William Charke and Meredith Hanmer, Ministers, whiche they wrote against M. Edmond Campian preest

1582

 USD - Unknown
254 Peck (Francis) Academia tertia Anglicana, or the Antiquarian Annals of Stanford

1727

 USD - Unknown
255 PETERBOROUGH. Fundatio Ecclesiae de Burgo Sancti Petri Fratris Walteri de Witilstye Commonachi de Burgo Sti Petri,. . . cum magnis cartis reguni Angliae, et cum gestis Abbatum Abbathiae Burgi cum Cronicis appertinentibus

XIV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
256 PETERBOROUGH, ABBEY OF. Copies of twenty-one Charters granting Lands in various Parishes to the Abbey

XV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
257 PETERBOROUGH, ABBEY OF "Liber feodorum cum aliis rebus Fratris Henrici de Pygthysle"

XV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
258 Pinto (F. M.) Voyages and Adventures during his Travels in Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, etc.

1653

 USD - Unknown
259 Plague of London. Certain necessary Directions as well for the cure as for preventing the infection...

USD - Unknown
260 PLATO OPERA OMNIA Venetiis

mense Septembri, 1513

 USD - Unknown
261 Playfair (Wm.) British Family Antiquity, vol. I, II, 2 vol. only

1809

 USD - Unknown
262 Plutarch Opera (Graece), cum Latina interpretatione Parisiis

1572

 USD - Unknown
263 Plutarch Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines

1603

 USD - Unknown
264 Pond (John) Sporting Kalendar...

USD - Unknown
265 Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America

1733

 USD - Unknown
266 Porcacchi (Thomaso) Funerali antichi di divers Popoli et Nationi Venetia

1591

 USD - Unknown
267 Porta (Gio. B. della) Delia Fisionomia dell' Huomo, Libri sei Venetia

1544

 USD - Unknown
268 Pownall (Thomas) The Administration of the British Colonies...

USD - Unknown
269 Prescott (W. H.) History of the Conquest of Mexico...

USD - Unknown
270 Present State of the West Indies

1775

 USD - Unknown
271 Pulton (Ferdinand) An Abstract of all the Penall Statutes which be generall

1600

 USD - Unknown
272 Purchas (Samuel) Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered

1613

 USD - Unknown
273 Quintilianus (M. F.) Institutionum Oratoriarum, libri XII Venetiis

mense Januario, 1521 (really 1522)

 USD - Unknown
274 RAFFLES (T. S.) HISTORY OF JAVA

1817

 USD - Unknown
275 Rainsford (Marcus) Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti; a view of the Revolution of Saint Domingo

1805

 USD - Unknown
276 Repton (H.) Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening

(1794)

 USD - Unknown
277 Repton (H.) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

1805

 USD - Unknown
278 Repton (H. and J. A.) Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

1816

 USD - Unknown
279 Richardson (George) A Book of Ceilings

1776

 USD - Unknown
280 [ROBERTS (JOHN)] The Trades Increase [contains references to VIRGINIA, Newfoundland, etc.]

1615

 USD - Unknown
281 Robertson (Wm.) The History of America

1777

 USD - Unknown
282 Robertson (W.) History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI

1762

 USD - Unknown
283 Roemer (J. J.) Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata

1789

 USD - Unknown
284 Rossi (Domenico di) Raccolta di Statue antiche e modorne Roma

1704

 USD - Unknown
285 Rousseau (J. J.) Emile on de l'Education La Haye

1762

 USD - Unknown
286 Roxburghe Club: New Interlude of the World and the Child...

USD - Unknown
287 Ruppell (Eduard) Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika Frankfurt am Main

1826-35

 USD - Unknown
288 Rymer (Thomas) Foedera, Conventiones, Literae et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae

1727-35

 USD - Unknown
289 Sallustius: De Conjuratione Catalinae Historia, ejusdem de Bello Jugurthino...

USD - Unknown
290 Sallustius: Belli Catilinarii et Jugurthini Historiae...

USD - Unknown
291 Savage (John) Some account of New Zealand...

USD - Unknown
292 [Scot (Thomas)] Vox Populi, or Newes from Spayne...

USD - Unknown
293 SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE (scilicet: M. P. Cato; M. T. Varro; et L. J. Moderatus Columella, ex recensione Georgii Alexandrini, studio F. Coluciae) Venetiis

1472

 USD - Unknown
294 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES

1623

 USD - Unknown
295 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES Printed at London

1632

 USD - Unknown
296 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Dramatic Works

1802

 USD - Unknown
297 Shakespeare (W.) Works

1844

 USD - Unknown
298 Shaw (G.) and F. P. Nodder The Naturalist's Miscellany

1790-1813

 USD - Unknown
299 Shorthand. Gurney (T.) Brachygraphy, or Short Writing made easy to the meanest capacity...

USD - Unknown
300 SIBTHORP (JOHN) FLORA GRAECA, sive Plantarum rariorum historia quas in Provinciis ant Insulis Graecia...

1806-40

 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>
    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…
  • <b><center>Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!</center></b>
    Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • <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.