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
701	RYMER (Thomas)	FOEDERA		1704-35	USD -	Unknown
702	Saint-Non (R. Abbe de)	Voyage Pittoresque on Description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie	Paris	1781-6	USD -	Unknown
703	SALT (Henry)	VIEWS IN ST. HELENA		1809	USD -	Unknown
704	Salt (H.)	A Voyage to Abyssinia		1814	USD -	Unknown
705	Schlichtegroll (F.)	Choix des Pierres gravees de la Collection du Baron do Stosch...			USD -	Unknown
706	SCHMIDTMEYER (Peter)	TRAVELS INTO CHILE over the Andes		1824	USD -	Unknown
707	Scott (John)	The Christian Life		1681-99	USD -	Unknown
708	Scott (Sir Walter)	Waverley Novels...		1829-36	USD -	Unknown
709		Selection of Facsimiles of Water-colour Drawings from the Works of the most distinguished British Artists		1825	USD -	Unknown
710	SHAKESPEARE (Wm.)	DRAMATIC WORKS		1802	USD -	Unknown
711	SHAKESPEARE (W.)	COLLECTION OF PRINTS from Pictures illustrating the Dramatic Works		1803	USD -	Unknown
712	Shaw (George)	General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History (with Index)		1800-26	USD -	Unknown
713	Sidney (Sir Philip)	The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia		1633	USD -	Unknown
714	Smith (J. E.)	A Tour to Hafod in Cardiganshire		1810	USD -	Unknown
715	Soane (John)	Plans		1785	USD -	Unknown
716		Soane (J.) Sketches in Architecture...			USD -	Unknown
717		Sousa (Luis de) Plans...			USD -	Unknown
718	Stosch (Philippe de)	Pierres Antiques gravees	Amsterdam	1724	USD -	Unknown
719	Stuart (J.) and N. Revett	The Antiquities of Athens		1762-1830	USD -	Unknown
720	Sullivan (Dennis)	A Picturesque Tour through Ireland		1824	USD -	Unknown
721	Tardieu (Ambrose)	La Colonne de la Grande Armee d'Austerlitz...			USD -	Unknown
722	Tatham (C. H.)	Etchings representing the best examples of Ancient Ornamental Architecture		1799	USD -	Unknown
723	Terry (D.)	British Theatrical Gallery		1822	USD -	Unknown
724		Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage	Paris	1713	USD -	Unknown
725	THOMSON (JAMES)	THE SEASONS		1797	USD -	Unknown
726	Tomkins (P. W.)	The Birth and Triumph of Cupid		1795	USD -	Unknown
727	Uibelaker (Franz)	System des Karlsbader Sinters	Erlangen	1781	USD -	Unknown
728		Venice. Delle antiche Statue Greche e Romane che nell' Antisata della Libreria di San Marco	Venezia	1740-3	USD -	Unknown
729		Vetusta Monumenta		n. d.; etc.	USD -	Unknown
730	Vitruvius	Les Dix Livres d'Architecture, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en francois par M. Perrault	Paris	1684	USD -	Unknown
731	Volpato (G.) e R. Morghen	Principi del Disegno tratti dalle piu eccellenti Statue anticlie...			USD -	Unknown
732		Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et Dalmatic		1802	USD -	Unknown
733	WEIROTTER (F. E.)	OEuvre DE	Paris	[1775]	USD -	Unknown
734	Weld (Isaac)	Travels through the States of North America and Upper and Lower Canada		1799	USD -	Unknown
735	Wharncliffe (Lord)	Sketches in Egypt and in the Holy Land		(1855)	USD -	Unknown
736	[Wildman (Lieut. Col.)]	Instructions for the Formations and Movements of Yeomanry Cavalry, diagrams	Nottingham	1831	USD -	Unknown
737	Wilkins (William)	The Antiquities of Magna Grecia	Cambridge	1807	USD -	Unknown
738		Wood (Robert) The Ruins of Palmyra...			USD -	Unknown
739	Zanetti (A. M.)	Varie Pitture a Fresco de'Principali Maestri Veneziani...			USD -	Unknown
740	Zanotti (Giampietro)	Le Pitture di Pellegrino Tibaldi e di Niccolo Abbati existent] nell'Instituto di Bologna	Venezia	1756	USD -	Unknown
741	Baker (John)	Lectures of I. B. upon the XII Articles of our Christian faith		1584	USD -	Unknown
742	Bewick (Thos.)	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1797-1804-21	USD -	Unknown
743	Cruikshank (Geo.)	Fairy Library: Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and Hop-o'-my-Thumb		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
744	Douglas (Capt. R. J. H.)	Cruikshank. Works of George Cruikshank		1803	USD -	Unknown
745	E. (D. Doctor of Physick)	Family Physitian; or Every Man or Woman their own Doctor		1721	USD -	Unknown
746	Schopper (Hartmann)	Opus Poeticum de Admirabili Fallacia et Astutia Vulpeculae Reinekes lib. IV ex idiomate Germanico. . latinitate donatos...	Francof, a. M.	1567	USD -	Unknown
747		Breviary. A Portion of an Ancient English Breviary		SAEC. XIV	USD -	Unknown
748	Lucanus	Pharsalia; containing the Civill Warres between Caesar & Pompey		1614	USD -	Unknown
749	Boisard (M.)	Fables	Paris	1777	USD -	Unknown
750	ARTHUR (KING)	The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britaine...		1634	USD -	Unknown
751	AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)	THE BIRDS OF AMERICA from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories	New York	1840-44	USD -	Unknown
752	Eikon Basilike.	Charles I. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitude and Sufferings		printed Anno Dom. 1648	USD -	Unknown
753	Wordsworth (Wm.)	Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse		1819	USD -	Unknown
754	Ritson (Jos.)	Annals of the Caledonians, Piets and Scots	Edinb.	1828	USD -	Unknown
755	Sterne (L.)	Original Letters		1788	USD -	Unknown
756	Drayton (M.)	Englands Heroieal Epistles		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
757	Chambers (Rob.)	Illustrations of the Author of Waverley...			USD -	Unknown
758	Cruikshank (Geo.)	The Domestic Habits of the People		1852	USD -	Unknown
759		Churchyard (Thos.) A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars...			USD -	Unknown
760		Elston Press, New York. Sonnets of Shakespeare now newly imprinted from the first edition of 1609	New Rochelle, N. Y.	1901	USD -	Unknown
761	Greene (R.)	Elston Press. Pandosto: The Triumph of Time		1902	USD -	Unknown
762	Lodge (T.)	Elston Press. Rosalynde, or Euphues Golden Legacie		1902	USD -	Unknown
763	Twine (T.)	Elston Press. Patterne of Painefull Adventures		1903	USD -	Unknown
764		Elston Press. Select Poems from the Hesperides of Rob. Herrick		1903	USD -	Unknown
765		Bolognese Chap-Books. La Simonia della Sambuca...	In Bologna	s. d.	USD -	Unknown
766		Bible (Holy) Authorised Version [with Apocrypha and Speed's Genealogies]		1613 (N. T. 1612)	USD -	Unknown
767		Stothard (Thos.) Life...			USD -	Unknown
768		Jeunesse Inalterable (La) et la Vie Eternelle Conte populaire traduit literalement du Romain	Amst.	1897	USD -	Unknown
769	Daniell (Wm.)	Voyage round the North and North-West Coast of Scotland, etc.		n. d. (1818-20)	USD -	Unknown
770	Potter (Paul)	Engravings of Wild Beasts, Domestic Cattle, etc.		1664	USD -	Unknown
771	Parker (Capt. Sir Peter)	Biographical Memoir of Sir P. Parker, Bart. Capt. of H.M.S. Menelaus			USD -	Unknown
772		Melange of Humour (The), a Collection of Comic and Humourous Sketches		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
773	Lysons (Rev. D.)	The Environs of London		1810-1800	USD -	Unknown
774	King (Thos. H.)	The Study Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art	Edinburgh	1893	USD -	Unknown
775	LEWIS (SAMUEL)	HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PARISH OF ST. MARY		1842	USD -	Unknown
776		Cookery. The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy		1747	USD -	Unknown
777		Nieuhof (Jo.) Beschryving van't Gesandschap der Nederlandsche Oost indische Compagnie aen den grooten Tartarischen Cham van China...			USD -	Unknown
778		Indian Drawings. Twelve old Indian Paintings in oil...		XVIII CENT.	USD -	Unknown
779	Pyne (W. H.)	Microcosm of London		1803, etc.	USD -	Unknown
780	Delanges (Carle) et C. Borneman	RECUEIL DE FAIENCES ITALIENNES des XV, XVI et XVIIe Siecles, Texte par A. Darcel et Henri Delange Editeur	Paris	1869	USD -	Unknown
781	DANIELL (THOS.)	ORIENTAL SCENERY		1795-7	USD -	Unknown
782	Bunbury (H.)	Illustrations to Shakespeare		1792, etc.	USD -	Unknown
783	HOGARTH (W.)	The Original Works		1790	USD -	Unknown
784	ACKERMANN (R.)	The MICROCOSM Of LONDON, Or London ill Miniature		(1808-10)	USD -	Unknown
785	Ackermann (R.)	Historical Sketch of Moscow		1813	USD -	Unknown
786	ACKERMANN (R.)	HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD		1814	USD -	Unknown
787	Ackermann (R.)	Series of Thirty-three Portraits in coloured aquatint of the Founders of the Oxford Colleges		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
788	ACKERMANN (R.)	A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings		1815	USD -	Unknown
789	ACKERMANN (R.)	HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES of Winchester, Eton and Westminster, with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and Christ's Hospital		1816	USD -	Unknown
790	ACKERMANN (R.)	A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes		1821	USD -	Unknown
791	Adam (Victor)	Histoire du Napoleon et de la Grande Armee; Campagnea de la Republique et de l'Empire de 1792 a 1815	Paris	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
792	Amici (Domenico)	Raccolta delle Principall Vedute di Roma...			USD -	Unknown
793	ATKINSON (J. A.)	Picturesque Representation of the Naval		1807	USD -	Unknown
794	Atkinson (J. A.) and J. Walker	A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians		1803-4	USD -	Unknown
795	Baynes (T. M.)	Twenty Views in the Environs of London		1823	USD -	Unknown
796	BEAUMONT (ALBANIS)	Travels through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons...			USD -	Unknown
797	BEAUMONT (A.)	Travels from France to Italy through the Lepontine Alps		1800	USD -	Unknown
798	BELLANGE (H.)	Uniformes de l'Armee Francaise depuis 1815 jusqu'a ce jour	Paris	1820	USD -	Unknown
799	Bellasis (G. H.)	Views of Saint Helena		1815	USD -	Unknown
800	Bernard (George)	Switzerland: Scenes and Incidents of Travel in the Bernese Oberland		1843	USD -	Unknown

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…
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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.
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.