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
801 Bourgeois (C.) Vues de la Suisse, Livraison I-VII [Paris]

1822

 USD - Unknown
802 Bourgeois (C.) Views in Switzerland

1822

 USD - Unknown
803 BOYDELX (J. AND J.) AN HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES [text by Wm. Combe]

1794-6

 USD - Unknown
804 BOYDELL (J. and J.) Picturesque Scenery of Norway

1820

 USD - Unknown
805 Boys (T. S.) Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Rouen

1839

 USD - Unknown
806 Boys (T. S.) Original Views of London as it is, with Historical Notices by C. Ollier

n. d. (1842)

 USD - Unknown
807 BRADFORD (Rev. William) Sketches of the Country, Character and Costume in Portugal and Spain

1812-13

 USD - Unknown
808 Brandling (H. E.) Views in the North of France

1848

 USD - Unknown
809 BRAYLEY (E. W.) Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the THEATRES OF LONDON

1826

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810 Browne (Hablot K.) Hunting Bits...

USD - Unknown
811 Burnett (W. H.) Views of Cintra

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
812 Carr (Sir John) The Stranger in Fiance, or a Tour from Devonshire to Paris

1803

 USD - Unknown
813 Carr (John) The Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country

1806

 USD - Unknown
814 Chalon (J.J.) Twenty-four Subjects exhibiting the Costume of Paris

(1820-2)

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815 Chapuy (. ) Promenade de Nice a Genes Paris

n.d.

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816 CHARNOIS (J. C. Le Vacher de) Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Theatres de toutes les Nations taut auciennes que modernes Paris

1790

 USD - Unknown
817 Chiewitz (E.) Scener ur Fredmans Epistlar och Sangar Stockholm

1827

 USD - Unknown
818 Chinese Drawings. Three Books of Coloured Drawings on rice paper, representing Birds, Butterflies, Shells, Flowers, Boats, etc.

USD - Unknown
819 CLARK (I.) VIEWS IN SCOTLAND

n. d. [?1825]

 USD - Unknown
820 Colston (Mariamne) Plates illustrative of a Tour in France

1823

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821 [COMBE (Wm.)] THE WARS OF WELLINGTON

1819

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822 COSTUME. Collection of Forty-one very finely executed ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN WATER-COLOURS of Ladies' Costume

1770-87

 USD - Unknown
823 COSTUME of Great Britain

1808

 USD - Unknown
824 Costume of Yorkshire, with Descriptions in English and French

1814

 USD - Unknown
825 [Peake (R. B.)] Costume. Characteristic Costume of Fiance

1819

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826 COSTUMES CIVILS ET MILITAIRES de la Monarchie Franchise depuis 1200 jusqu'a 1820 Paris

1820

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827 COSTUME (MILITARY) Collection des Uniformes des Armees Francaises de 1791 a 1814 Paris

1822

 USD - Unknown
828 Costume. Mosaique de Costumes ou Alphabet etranger par H. Grovedon Paris

1826

 USD - Unknown
829 Cox (David) A Treatise on Landscape Painting and effect in water colours

(1813-14)

 USD - Unknown
830 DANIELL (WM.) and R. AYTON A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN

1814-25

 USD - Unknown
830* DAUMIER (M. H.) LES CENT ET UN ROBERT MACAIRE Paris

1839

 USD - Unknown
831 Delamotte (W. A.) Views of the Colleges, Chapels and Gardens of Oxford

1842

 USD - Unknown
832 Dodwell (Edward) Views in Greece

1821

 USD - Unknown
833 Dolby (I. E. A.) Italy, Switzerland and Belgium

1836

 USD - Unknown
834 Dubourg (M.) Views of the Remains of Ancient Buildings in Rome and its Vicinity

1820

 USD - Unknown
835 Engravings. Album containing Twelve Portraits of Generals and others

USD - Unknown
836 Fielding (Copley) Picturesque Illustrations of the River Wye

1821

 USD - Unknown
837 Fielding (Theodore) Landscape Scenery in and near Bath Bath

1824

 USD - Unknown
838 Fielding (T. H.) and J. Walton Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes

1821

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839 FLORIAN (J. P. C. DE) GALATEE, Roman pastoral imite de Cervantes Paris

1793

 USD - Unknown
840 FONTHNELLE (Bernard Le Bovyer de) OEUVRES DIVERSES A la Haye

1728-9

 USD - Unknown
841 FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes

1814

 USD - Unknown
842 Forrest (Lieut. Col.) A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India

1824

 USD - Unknown
843 French Revolution. Collection complete de Tableaux historiques de la Revolution francaise Paris

1804

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844 GALERIE DE RUBENS, dite du Luxembourg Paris

1809

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845 Gavarni (Paul, pseud, i.e. S. G. Chevalier) Le Diable a Paris, texte par MM. George Sand, P. J. Stahl, L. Gozlan, etc....

USD - Unknown
846 Gavarni (Paul, pseud, i.e. S. G. Chevalier) Perles et Parures; Les Joyaux; Les Parures, texte par Mery Paris

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
847 Gerning (J. J. von, Baron) A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne

1820

 USD - Unknown
848 GERNING (J. J. von, Baron) A PICTURESQUE TOUR ALONG THE RHINE from Mentz to Cologne

1820

 USD - Unknown
849 Grindlay (Captain R. M.) Scenery, Costumes and Architecture

1830

 USD - Unknown
850 Haghe (Louis) Sketches in Belgium and Germany

1845-50

 USD - Unknown
851 Havell (Robert) [Views of London]

1820-1

 USD - Unknown
852 Historical Narrative of those momentous Events which have taken place in this Country

1823

 USD - Unknown
853 HODGES (William) SELECT VIEWS IN INDIA

(1785-8)

 USD - Unknown
854 Hofbauer (M. F.) etc. Paris a travers les Ages, aspects successifs des Monuments et Quartiers historiques Paris

1875-82

 USD - Unknown
855 Hulley (T.) Views of Cheltenham

1813

 USD - Unknown
856 Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe during the last four years; the Campaign of Waterloo, etc.

1816

 USD - Unknown
857 IRELAND (SAMUEL) Picturesque Views on the River Medway...

1793-1801

 USD - Unknown
858 JANINET (F.) VUES PITTORESQUES DES PRINCIPAUX EDIFICES DE PARIS Paris

n.d. (c. 1789)

 USD - Unknown
859 JANINET (F.) GRAVURES HISTORIQUES des Principaux Evenements depuis l'Ouverture des Etats Generaux (en 1789)

(1789-91)

 USD - Unknown
860 JANINET (F.) VUES PITTORESQUES PES PRINCIPAUX EDIFICES DE PARIS [Paris]

[? 1792]

 USD - Unknown
861 Stadler after Andrewes JAVA. Series of eight Views in coloured aquatint

1799

 USD - Unknown
862 Johnston (Robert) Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland

1815

 USD - Unknown
863 Junot (Madame, Duchesse d'Abrantes) Memoirs of Celebrated Women of all Countries

(1834)

 USD - Unknown
864 LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) LES AMOURS DE PSYCHE ET DE CUPIDON Paris

1791

 USD - Unknown
865 Leech (John) Portraits of Children of the Mobility, with Memoirs by the author of ' The Comic English Grammar," etc.

1841

 USD - Unknown
866 LORY (G. fils) VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE L'OBERLAND BERNOIS Paris

1822

 USD - Unknown
867 LORY (G. fils) SOUVENIRS DE LA SUISSE OU Recueil do Vues pour faire suite au Voyage Pittoresque dans l'Oberland Bernois Neuchatel

1829

 USD - Unknown
868 LORY (G. fils) VOYAGE PITTORESQUE de Geneve a Milan par le Simplon Bale

n. d.

 USD - Unknown
869 LORY (J. and J.) Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan by the way of the Simplon

1820

 USD - Unknown
870 Loutherbourg (P. J. de) Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales

1805

 USD - Unknown
871 Malton (James) Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin Dublin

(1792-97)

 USD - Unknown
872 MALTON (T.) OXFORD

1802-4

 USD - Unknown
873 MAYER (Luigi) Views in Palestine...

USD - Unknown
874 Merigot (I.) A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its vicinity

(1796-8)

 USD - Unknown
875 Manskirsh (J. F.) New Drawing Book, comprising Groupes of Figures

1808

 USD - Unknown
876 NATTES (J. C.) VERSAILLES, PARIS AND ST. DENIS

(1805-9)

 USD - Unknown
877 NATTES (J. C.) PATH

1806

 USD - Unknown
878 NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS of Great Britain...

(1815-17)

 USD - Unknown
879 NEW HOUSE (C. B.) SCENES ON THE ROAD

1834-5

 USD - Unknown
880 Noel (Amelia) [Views in Kent, Margate, Ramsgate, etc.]

1797

 USD - Unknown
881 NORTHERN CAMBRIAN MOUNTAINS, or a Tour through North Wales

1820

 USD - Unknown
882 ORME (Edward) A Picture of St. Petersburgh represented in Views of the City, the Sledges and the People

1815

 USD - Unknown
883 ORME (Edward) HISTORIC, MILITARY AND NAVAL ANECDOTES of the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies in the last War

1819

 USD - Unknown
884 Pallas (P. S.) Travels through the Southern Provinces of the; Russian Empire

1812

 USD - Unknown
885 PAPWORTH (J. B.) SELECT VIEWS OF LONDON, with Historical Sketches of some of its Public Buildings

1816

 USD - Unknown
886 Picturesque Description of North Wales

1823

 USD - Unknown
887 Picturesque Scenery

1816-17

 USD - Unknown
888 Pocock (W. I.) Historical Notices relative to the Country and City of Algier

1817

 USD - Unknown
889 PORTRAITS DES GRANDS HOMMES, FEMMES ILLUSTRES, ET SUJETS MEMORABLES DE FRANCE, graves et imprimes en couleurs Paris

n. d. (1786-92)

 USD - Unknown
890 Price (Lake) Tauromachia, or the Bull-Fights of Spain

1852

 USD - Unknown
891 Prout (Samuel) Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany

n. d. (1833)

 USD - Unknown
892 Prout (S.) Sketches made in Flanders and Germany

n. d. (1833)

 USD - Unknown
893 Prout (S.) Hints on Light and Shadow...

USD - Unknown
894 Prout (S.) Illustrations of the Rhine...

USD - Unknown
895 PYNE (W. H.) HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES

1819

 USD - Unknown
896 [QUERELLES (LE CHEVALIER DE)] HERO ET LEANDRE, Poeme nouveau en trois chants, traduit du Grec (of Musanis) Paris

an x, 1801

 USD - Unknown
897 RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (N. E.) LES CONTEMPORAINES, Ou Avanbures des plus jolies Femmes de Page present Leipsick

1780-5

 USD - Unknown
898 Restif do la Bretonne (N. E.) La Derniere Avanture d'un Homme de Quarantecinq ans Geneve

1783

 USD - Unknown
899 Roberts (David) Picturesque Sketches in Spain

n. d. [c. 1838]

 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.
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    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.