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
401 Quebec. Tagebuch der See-Reise von Stade nach Quebee in Amerike, durch die zweyte Division Herzoglicher Braunsweigischer Hulfsvolker Frankfurth und Leipzig

1776

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402 Joutel (Monsieur) Journal Historique du Dernier Voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique Paris

1713

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403 Thevenot (M.) Recueil de Voyage de Mr. Thevenot Paris

1681

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404 Medina (J. T.) Bibliografia de las Islas Filipinas 1523-1810 (only 100 copies separately printed) Santiago de Chile

1898

 USD - Unknown
405 NODAL. RELACION DEL VIAGE que por Orden de Su Mag.d. y Acuerdo del Real Consejo de Indias En Madrid

1621

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406 Spilbergen (George de) Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres Navigations faictes es Annees 1614-1018 Amst.

1621

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407 Recueil de Divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique Paris

1674

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408 Chabert (M. de) Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751 Paris

1753

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409 Veer (Gerard Le) Vraye Description de Trois Voyages de Mer tres admirables, faits en trois Ans par les Navires d'Hollande et Zelande, au Nord par derriere Norwege Amst.

1609

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410 Saint-Pierre (J. H. Bernardin de) Paul et Virginie; et la Chaumiere Indienne Paris

1838

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411 Shakespeare (Wm.) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies

(1807)

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412 HORAE B. V. M., SANCTI CRUCIS, DE PASSIONE DOMINI, etc.

EARLY Saec. XV

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413 EVANGELIA QUATUOR. "In pnti libro ponut ea que sut legenda l claustro de eor. evageliis"

USD - Unknown
414 Psalterium Davidis cum Glossis (S. Turrecrematae?) [Psalms L-LXXI only; the beginning of Psalm L missing]

SaEC. XIV

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415 MISSAE PARVAE PRO DIEBUS DOMINICIS--PASSIO DOMINI JESU CHRISTI SECUNDUM MATHAEUM MARCUM ET LUCAM--FESTIVALES SANCTORUM, etc.

SAEC. XIV-XV

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416 COMMON PRAYER. THE BOKE OF THE COMMON PRAIER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THEE SA=CRA=MENTES, AND OTHER RYTES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCHE, AFTER THE USE OF THE CHURCHE OF ENGLANDE

USD - Unknown
417 PETRARCHA (FR.) I TRIONFI. [Begins]: "F. Potrarce Amoris Triumphi primus incipit"

SAEC. XV

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418 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR'S/ COMEDIES,/ HISTORIES, / AND TRAGEDIES

1685

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419 CICERO (M. T.) EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES

SAEC. XIV

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420 Elizabeth (Queen) A Pardon of Alienation uppon the laste will of Thomas Mills

1597

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421 Elizabeth (Queen) Smaller Seal

XVI CENT.

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422 James I (King) A Pardon of Alienation for George Kirk, Esq.

1604

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423 Large Seals of King George II

USD - Unknown
424 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) WORKS

1853-65

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425 Koran (The)

SAEC. XVII

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426 Hattige, or the Amours of the King of Tamaran Amsterdam

1680

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427 FREDERICK OF JENNEN THIS MATER TREATETH OF A MERCHANTES WYFE THAT AFTERWARDS WENT LYKE A MA AND BECAM A GREAT LORDE and was called FREDERYKE OF JENNEN afterwarde

in the Yere of our lorde God a. M.CCCCC. and XVIII

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428 Virgilius THIS BOKE TREATH (sic) OF THE LYFE OF VIRGILIUS AND OF HIS DETH AND MANY MARVAYLES THAT HE DYD IN HIS LYFE TYME BY WHYCHCRAFT and Nygramansy thorowgh the helpe of the devyls of hell

n.d. (c. 1505)

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429 CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE) EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA...

1605-15

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430 Cespedes and Meneces (Don Goncalo do) Gerardo the Unfortunate Spaniard, or A Patterne for Lascivious Lovers

1622

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431 PRAYER. A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN PRAYERS

1590

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432 Boke OF COMMON PRAYER (THE), AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCHE OF ENGLANDE

Anno 1552

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433 Walton (I.) Cotton (C.) and Venables (R.) THE UNIVERSAL ANGLER

1676

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434 Stevenson (Robert Louis) An Inland Voyage

1878

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435 Stevenson (R. L.) Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

1879

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436 Dante (A.) Dante con l'espositione di M. Bernardino Daniello da Luca. sopra la sua Comedia. . . 3 engravings In Venetia

1568

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437 STRADANUS (JOANNES) America. AMERICAS RETECTIO Probably Antwerp

(c. 1590)

 USD - Unknown
438 Philip, Second Earl of Hardwicke WALPOLIANA [or a Few Anecdotes of Sir Robert Walpole]

1781

 USD - Unknown
439 Coombe (W.) Tour of Doctor Syntax through London

1820

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440 Lee (Nat.) Sophonisba...

USD - Unknown
441 Devis et Recreations sur les OEuvres de N. S. [FRENCH MANUSCRIPT XVTH CENT.]

XV CENT.

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442 Offieium B. V. Marie. ... (at end) Impressum Venetiis Venetiis

1523

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443 The Months: A set of 12 engravings on vellum

1500

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444 Koran: ARABIC MANUSCRIPT

1803-4

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445 Horae B. V. M. cum Oalendario

XV CENT.

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446 SACRAMENTA: DE SEPTEM SACRAMENTIS TRACTATUS, AB AUCTORE ANONYMO

XIV CENT.

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447 Persian Cosmography. MANUSCRIPT on paper

XVIII CENT.

 USD - Unknown
448 POESIE: LAUSTRASI-CAPUCINADE. POEME BURLESQUE

USD - Unknown
449 Biblia. Die Apostel Geschichte. Das Ander Thayl des Evangel S. Lucas von der Apostel Geschichte

1521

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450 Heures nouvelles tirees de la Sainte Ecriture ecrites et gravees par P. Senault Paris

s. d.

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451 Lorens, on Laurent (Frere, de l'Ordre des Precheurs) La Sommo des Vices etdes Vertus

XIII CENT.

 USD - Unknown
452 Tractatus Varii: 1. Tractatus Usurarum Francisci de Platea...

XIV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
453 Les Ditz des Philosophes

XV CENT.

 USD - Unknown
454 Horae B. M. V. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

XVTH CENT.

 USD - Unknown
455 Albertus Magnus De Adhaerendo Vero Deo [Ulm]

[1474]

 USD - Unknown
456 A Collection of Eight Latin Manuscripts of the XVth Century, written on paper in Roman characters, comprising: (1) A Collection of Notes on Canon Law...

XV CENT.

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457 English Metrical Homilies. MANUSCRIPT of the XIVth, or commencement of the XVth Century

circa 1400

 USD - Unknown
458 Albumasar: Introduction in Astronomiam Albumasaris abalachi octo continens partiales...

USD - Unknown
459 Pomerius (Julianus, Episc. Toletanae) Liber Prognosticorum

XIITH CENT.

 USD - Unknown
460 Zenders de Werdt (Gul.) Lilium Grammatice Magistri Wilhelmi Weest Colonia

(c. 1505)

 USD - Unknown
461 Dionysius Areopagita De Coelesti Hierarchiae, translata de Greco in Latinam per R. do Chesney Episeopum Lincolniensis et com-mcntata ab codem

SAEC. XIII

 USD - Unknown
462 Durer (Albrecht) Passio Christi

USD - Unknown
463 Hese (Joannes de, Presbyter) Itinerarius Johannis de Hese Presbyteri a Jherusalem per diversas partes Mundi... Colon

(c. 1495 ?)

 USD - Unknown
464 Psalterium Davidis Regis, Cum Calendario

XVTH CENT.

 USD - Unknown
465 Guido de Monte Rocher sive Rotherii (Fol. 1A. Manipulus Curatorum Officia Sacerdotum lym ordiuez septem Sacramentorum per-breviter complectens)...

USD - Unknown
466 CROMWELLIAN BIBLE. The Holy Bible

1653

 USD - Unknown
467 Horae dive Virginis Marie secundum ritum ac cosuetudinem insignis ecclesie Romane Parisius

(1524)

 USD - Unknown
468 The Koran

written in the year 1264

 USD - Unknown
469 Sibbs The Soules Conflict

1636

 USD - Unknown
470 New Testament, title, etc.

1658

 USD - Unknown
471 Benefite of Christs Death, or the glorious Riches of Gods free Grace

1633

 USD - Unknown
472 Collins (Wilkie) No Name, a Drama in Four Acts

1870

 USD - Unknown
473 Meredith (George) The Shaving of Shagpat

1856

 USD - Unknown
474 Collins (Wilkie) The Moonstone: a Dramatic Story in Three Acts

1877

 USD - Unknown
475 Scott (Sir Walter) Thoughts on proposed change of Currency...

USD - Unknown
476 Shelley (P. B.) Queen Mab

[1813]

 USD - Unknown
477 Lindsay (Robert) History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565 Glasgow

1749

 USD - Unknown
478 JOHNSON (DR.) AND MRS. THRALE, including Mrs. Thrale's Unpublished Journal of the Welsh Tour made in 1774

1910

 USD - Unknown
479 Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of) Miscellaneous Works, to which are added Memoirs of his Life...

USD - Unknown
480 Kipling Allahabad

USD - Unknown
481 D'Arblay (Madame) Diary and Letters

1904-6

 USD - Unknown
482 Calfhill (James) An Answer to the treatise of the Cross

1565

 USD - Unknown
483 Nowell (Alexander) A reproof of a book entitled A proof of certain articles

1565

 USD - Unknown
484 Passio magistralis dui nri iesu christi ex diversis sctorm ecclesie doctorm sententiis postillata cu glosa Interlineari viri undecuq3 doctissimi venerabil' Colonie

1505

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485 Augustin (St.) Fol. la: Aurelij Augustini Episcopi Ipponensis/ Incipit Soliloquiu Liber Pmus feliciter./ Fol. 11a: Augustini Epi Hipponens. Incipit Soliloqo Liber Scd's./ Fol. 24a: Incipit Speculum Peccatoris [Augsburg]

[1473]

 USD - Unknown
486 Biblia Sacra Latina Ulm

1480

 USD - Unknown
487 Bible (La), qui est Toute la Saincte Escriture Geneva

1567

 USD - Unknown
488 Bernard (St.) Espitole devotissimi doctoris beati. Bernardi abbotis Clarevollis numero, zoi Milan

1495

 USD - Unknown
489 Biblia Latina. Textus Biblie Hoc in oppere hec insunt Lyons

1529

 USD - Unknown
490 Breviarium Romanum Venice

1550

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491 Calvin Rudimenta Fidei Christianae Libellus apprime utilis Geneva

(1551)

 USD - Unknown
492 Calvin Advertissement tres utile, du Grand Profit qui reviendroit a la Chrestiente, s'il faisoit inventaire de tous les corps saincts & Reliques

1563

 USD - Unknown
493 Evangelium Secundum Matthaeum Secundum Marcum Secundum Lucam Secundum Johannem. Acta Apostolorum Breves variarum tralationu annotationes, adiecta, veterum Latinoru exemplarium manu scriptorum diversa lectione Parisiis

1541

 USD - Unknown
494 Luther Das Neu Testament Augsburg

(1522 or 1523)

 USD - Unknown
495 Luther Dat Nye Testament, mit Nyen Summarien. . . dorch Johannem Bugenhagen Wittenberg

1530

 USD - Unknown
496 Missale Leodiesis (Liege) ecclesie (cum Kalendario)

1502

 USD - Unknown
497 Missale Ordinis Cistercien-quibusius ? eo requisilis exuberantissimu p queda Cistercij religiosum bachalareu in theologia formatu ad vera matrio Cistercij forma multa cu sedulitate redactu Paris

1555 (1545)

 USD - Unknown
498 Neon Anthologion NEON ANΘOΛOΓION ΓΛHPE Σ TATONTE KAI AKPIBEΣTATON EIΣ TO TAΣ NυXΘHMEPOϒΣ Romae

1598

 USD - Unknown
499 Peniteas cito, libellus iste nucupatur, tractans copendiose de penitentia et eius circustantijs ac vitam peccatis depravatam emendare cupientibz Impressi Colonie

1507

 USD - Unknown
500 Passio petri et pauli apostolorum ac disputatio eorundem contra Symonem quendaz

[c. 1505]

 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.