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
501 Psalms. I sette Salmi Penitentiali Imitati in Rimi dall'Eccellentiss. Dott. Agostino, et I sette Salmi della Misericordia In Anversa

1595

 USD - Unknown
502 Novum Testamentum (Graece) Lutetiae

1550

 USD - Unknown
503 New Testament. Les Choses contenues en ce present livre une Epitre exhortatoire... Paris

1524

 USD - Unknown
504 St. Thomas (Aquinas) Super Tertio Libro sententiarum Petri Lombardi Venice

1490

 USD - Unknown
505 Biblia cum summariis concordantiis divisionibus; quattuor repertoriis ppositis; numericqb foliorum distinctione: terse et sidelit impssa Lyons

1497

 USD - Unknown
506 St. Thomas Aquinas Catena Aurea Esslingen

1470 or earlier

 USD - Unknown
507 The New Testament of Jesus Christ Printed at Rhemes

1582

 USD - Unknown
508 Rufus (Sextus) De historia Romana libellns Rome

(1474)

 USD - Unknown
509 Discipulus de eruditoe christifidelium copediosus: nobus predicate volentibus utilis: verumetia cunctis fidei xpiane cultoribus summe necessarius. Cum thematibus sermonu dnica-liu et de sctis in generali ac d'beata virgine Impressus Argetine

1509

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510 [Aylmer (John)] An harborowe for faithful and true subjects Strasburgh

1559

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511 Da Branteghem (G.) La Vie do nostre Seigneur, selon les quatres Evangelistes Antvers

1541

 USD - Unknown
512 Ricius (Alphonsus) Eruditiones Christianae religionis plurimum utiles et cuilibet christiano ad modum necessarie Paris

(1512)

 USD - Unknown
513 Charlier de Gerson De Ecclesiastica Potestate [Parisiis]

[1484]

 USD - Unknown
514 Bonaventura (S.) Speculum Beatae Virginia Mariae

(1477)

 USD - Unknown
515 Pontificale Secundum Ritum Sacrosancte Romans ecclesie: cum multis additionibus opportuniis ex Apostolica bibliotheca sumptis Lugduni

1542

 USD - Unknown
516 Pontificale. [Colophon]: Finit liber Pontificalis emedatus diligetia Reverendi in xpo patrius dni Jacobi de Lutiis utriusqb Juris doctoris Epi Caiacon et dni Joannis Burckardi Capelli Rome

1497

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517 Missale Speciale (Strasburg) Item Cautele circa defectus vel casus in celebratione missi: et consecratione sacramenti Eucharistie: occurrentes Strasburg

1508

 USD - Unknown
518 Missale Benedictine religionis Monachorum cenobij Mellicensis (Molk) Nuremberg

[1495 ?]

 USD - Unknown
519 Maillard (Oliver) Passio Domini nostri Jesu christi a reveredo, p. Oliverii Maillard Parisins declamata Paris

c. 1513

 USD - Unknown
520 Huss (John) Processus consistorialis, cum correspondentia Legis Gratiae [Strassburg]

[1525]

 USD - Unknown
521 Adam (R. and J.) Works in Architecture: Number II, Designs of Lord Mansfield's Villa

1774-5

 USD - Unknown
522 Agostini (G.) Dialoghi intorno alle Medaglie...

USD - Unknown
523 Alberti (Leon B.) Architecture

1726

 USD - Unknown
524 Alken (Henry) Symptoms of Being Amused

1822

 USD - Unknown
525 ALKEN (H.) SPECIMENS OF RIDING near London

1823

 USD - Unknown
526 PRICE (William) AMERICA. A New Plan of ye Great Town of BOSTON in New England in America Boston

(1743)

 USD - Unknown
527 AMERICAN MAPS. Jefferys (Thomas) Map of the most inhabited part of New England...

USD - Unknown
528 ANBUREY (Thomas) Hindoostan Scenery...

USD - Unknown
529 Anne, Queen Gratulatio Academiae Cantabrigiensis do Pace Reginae Annae auspiciis feliciter constituta anno MDCCXIII Cantabrigiae

(1713)

 USD - Unknown
530 [Anstis (John)] Register of the most noble Order of the Garter

1724

 USD - Unknown
531 Architecture, Peinture et Sculpture de la Maison de Ville d'Amsterdam Amsterdam

1719

 USD - Unknown
532 Astle (Thomas) Origin and Progress of Writing

1803

 USD - Unknown
533 Ballard (L. P.) Paris et ses Monumens avec des descriptions par le cit. Amaury-Duval

1803

 USD - Unknown
534 Beaumont (Albanis) Travels through the Rhaetian Alps

1792

 USD - Unknown
535 Beaumont (A.) Travels through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons

1795

 USD - Unknown
536 Beauties of the Dutch School

1793

 USD - Unknown
537 Bellorius (J. P.) Veteres Arcus Augustinorum Triumphis insignes ex reliquis quae Romae ad huc supersunt...

USD - Unknown
538 Berettinus (Petrus) Barberini Aulae Fornix Romae...

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
539 Berretinus (Petrus) Heroicae virtutis Imagines...

USD - Unknown
540 Bible. [English.] The Holy Bible

1701

 USD - Unknown
541 Bible. [English, Macklin's] Holy Bible

1800-16

 USD - Unknown
542 Billings (R. W.) The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland

1845-52

 USD - Unknown
543 BINDING. Le Grand Escalier de Versailles n.pl.

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
544 Patrick (Simon) BINDING. The Proverbs of Solomon paraphrased...

USD - Unknown
545 BINDING. Scries of Fifteen large Plates (folded) representing Views of portions of the Church of the Hotel des Invalides (three torn slightly) n. pl.

d. n. d.

 USD - Unknown
546 Sherlock (Wm.) BINDING. A Practical Discourse concerning Death...

USD - Unknown
547 BINDING. Tableaux du Cabinet du Roy Paris

1677

 USD - Unknown
548 BLAGDON (F. W.) A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India

1805

 USD - Unknown
549 Book of Common Prayer

1715

 USD - Unknown
550 Book of Common Prayer

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
551 Bowdich (T. E.) Mission from Capo Coast Castle to Ashantee

1819

 USD - Unknown
552 Boydell (John) Collection of Prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England

1769

 USD - Unknown
553 Boydell's Picturesque Scenery of Norway

1820

 USD - Unknown
554 BRAYLEY (E. W.) A Topographical History of Surrey

1841

 USD - Unknown
555 Brettingham (Matthew) Plans, Elevations and Sections of Holkham in Norfolk

1773

 USD - Unknown
556 British Gallery of Pictures

1818

 USD - Unknown
557 Browne (John) History of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter

1847

 USD - Unknown
558 BUONAROTTI (Michelangelo) [Title] Michael Angelus Bonarotus pinxit: Adam Sculptor Mantuanus incidit n. pl.

no date (1645)

 USD - Unknown
559 Campbell (Colin) Thec British Architect

1715-23

 USD - Unknown
560 Carraccio (Annibal) Galeriae Farnesiane Icones Romanae in aedibus...

USD - Unknown
561 Carracci (Annibale) Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis Romae

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
562 Carter (John) Plans, Elevations, Sections and Specimens of the Architecture of the Cathedral Church of Gloucester...

USD - Unknown
563 Castoll (Robert) The Villas of the Ancients illustrated

1718

 USD - Unknown
564 Caveler (William) Select Specimens of Gothic Architecture

1836

 USD - Unknown
565 Cocehi (J. B.) and B. Eredi. Bonarum artium splendori Tabulas a praestantissimis Etrurise pictoribus expressas...

USD - Unknown
566 Cheron (Elisabeth S.) Volume containing Portrait and forty-eight Plates

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
567 [Choiseul-Gouffier (Comte de)] Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece Paris

1782-3

 USD - Unknown
568 Cipriani (G. B.) Collection of Prints engraved by Richard Earlom

1789

 USD - Unknown
569 Clayton (John) Collection of the Ancient Timber Edifices of England

1846

 USD - Unknown
570 Clerisseau ( ) Antiquiti's de France Paris

1778

 USD - Unknown
571 Commemoration of the four great Naval Victories obtained by the English during the late War

1803

 USD - Unknown
572 Cook (James) Voyage Round the World

1777

 USD - Unknown
573 Corbould (Henry) Outline Engravings and Descriptions of the Woburn Abbey Marbles

1822

 USD - Unknown
574 Correggio Pinturas de Antonio Allegri nombrado El Correggio en el Monasterio de San Pablo Parma

1800

 USD - Unknown
575 COSTUME. A Series of finely executed Original Drawings in watercolours

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
576 Costume. Dames de la Cour des XIIe-XVIe siecles Paris

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
577 COSTUME. Recueil de cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant...

USD - Unknown
578 Coypel (Antoine) L'Eneide de Virgile, peinte dans la Gallerie du Palais Royal Paris

1757

 USD - Unknown
579 Dalmeny (Lady) The Spanish Ladye's Love

1846

 USD - Unknown
580 D'Alton (John) The History of Drogheda...

USD - Unknown
581 Dalton (Richard) Antiquities and Views in Greece and Egypt

1791

 USD - Unknown
582 DANIELL (SAMUEL) AFRICAN SCENERY AND ANIMALS (First Part)

1804-5

 USD - Unknown
583 DANIELL (THOMAS) HINDOO EXCAVATIONS in the Mountains of Ellora near Aurungabad

1803-4

 USD - Unknown
584 DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM) ORIENTAL SCENERY: VIEWS IN HINDOOSTAN

1795-1801

 USD - Unknown
585 DANIELL (T. AND W.) ANTIQUITIES OF INDIA

1799

 USD - Unknown
586 DANIELL (T. AND W.) ANTIQUITIES OF INDIA

1804

 USD - Unknown
587 Daniell (T. and W.) Twenty-four Landscapes (Fourth Series): Views in Hindoostan (with letterpress descriptions, 8vo tract)

1807

 USD - Unknown
588 DANIELL (T. AND W.) A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO INDIA by way of China

1810

 USD - Unknown
589 Delafosse (J. C.) Nouvelle Iconologie historique on Attribute hieroglyphiques Paris

1768

 USD - Unknown
590 Description des Bains de Titus on Collection des Peintures trouvees dans les Ruines de Thermes...

USD - Unknown
591 Desgodetz (Antoine) Les Edifices antiques de Rome Paris

1682

 USD - Unknown
592 Dietrich (C. G. E.) OEuvre Dresde

1742-63

 USD - Unknown
593 DODWELL (EDWARD) VIEWS IN GREECE

1821

 USD - Unknown
594 DUGDALE (W ILLIAM) Antiquities of Warwickshire

1730

 USD - Unknown
595 Du Halde (J. B.) Description de la Chine Paris

1735

 USD - Unknown
596 Eckhel (Abbe) Choix des Pierres gravees du Cabinet Imperial des Antiques Vienne

1788

 USD - Unknown
597 Eden (E.) Portraits of the Princes and People of India

1844

 USD - Unknown
598 Edmondson (Joseph) Baronagium Gonealogicum, or the Pedigrees of the English Peers

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
599 Edwards (I.) A Collection of Flowers drawn after Nature

1794

 USD - Unknown
600 Falda (Gio. B.) Li Giardini di Roma con le loro Piante Alzatee Vedute in prospettiva...

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.