Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY INCLUDING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND NATURAL HISTORY. COMPRISING, The Property , 1977(OMEGA),

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 25, 1977 - July 25, 1977
Page Size: 625 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Alexander (William) The History of Women

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 110.00
2 Anderson (A.) A Journal of the Forces. .. in the Mediterranean and Egypt...

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 260.00
3 Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 85.00
4 Bernier (F.) Histoire de la derniere revolution des Estats du Grand Mogol...

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 35.00
5 BIZOT (P.) Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande Paris

1687

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 100.00
6 Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim's Progress...

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 130.00
7 Burges (Sir James Bland) The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem

1796

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 26.00
8 [Burton (John, M. D., of York)] Ascanius: or, the Young Adventurer; a True History

1746

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 60.00
9 Burton (William) A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary. .. so far as it concerneth Britain...

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 120.00
10 CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS) [Opera] Quae Extant

1712

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
11 CALEDONIAN MERCURY (THE) Edinburgh

1745-69

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 420.00
12 Cato (Marcus Porcius) Libri de re rusticam. Catonis, Marci Terentii Varronis, L. Iunii Moderati Columellae, Palladii Rutilii, quorum summam pagina sequeti reperies

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 160.00
13 Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius [Opera] Antwerp

1569

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 65.00
14 Cavaleriis (J. B. de) Pontiflcum Romanorum Effigies [Rome]

1585

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 60.00
15 Chantrey (Sir F. L.) Engravings and Drawings. A small Collection

1796-1818

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 80.00
16 Cicero (M. T.) Opera omnia...

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 110.00
17 COCLES (BARTHOLOMALUS) Physiognomiae & Chiromanti; e Compendium Strassburg

1536

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 160.00
18 DICKSON (WILLIAM) Letters on Slavery

1789

GBP 75.00 - 100.00 110.00
19 Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus and others. [Opera]...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 75.00
20 Edwards ([B.]) An Abridgement of. . . [the] Civil and Commercial History of the British West Indies...

GBP 50.00 - 75.00 80.00
21 Ekins (C.) Naval Battles, from 1744 to the Peace in 1814...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 95.00
22 Escribano (Jose Matias) Itinerario espanol o guia de caminos para ir desde Madrid a las ciudades y villas mas principales de Espana Madrid

1767

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 5.00
23 Evelyn (John) Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, ancient and modern

1697

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 100.00
24 [FLEURIMONT (G. R.)] Medailles du regne de Louis XV [Paris]

[c. 1749]

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 110.00
25 Gemelli Careri (G. F.) A Voyage round the World...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 60.00
26 General Collection (A) of Treatys, Declarations of War, Manifestos, and other Publick Papers...

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 24.00
27 Gerard ([-], publisher and lithographer) [Douze vues de Waterloo]

[map dated 20 November 1845]

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 20.00
28 Histoire entiere & veritable du Procez de Charles Stuart, Roy d'Angle-terre a Londres

1650

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 120.00
29 [Hoadly (Benjamin)] Reasons against receiving the Pretender, and restoring the Popish Line

1710

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 50.00
30 [Jebb (Samuel)] The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots...

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 280.00
31 JOHN BULL, vol. I-XV...

Dec. 1820-Dec. 1835

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 120.00
32 Josephus (Flavius) Dell' Antichita' de' Giudei [-Della Guerra de' Giudei] Venice

1582

GBP 50.00 - 60.00 55.00
33 [Jurin (James)] An Expostulatory Address to John Ranby. .. Occasioned by his Treatise on Gunshot-Wounds...

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 240.00
34 La Morliere (Adrian de) Les Antiquitez... d'Amiens...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 220.00
35 Le Roy (J. D.) La Marine des Anciens Peuples, expliquee et considered. . . pour perfectionner la Marine moderne Paris

1777

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 95.00
36 Leusden (Johannes) Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus, una cum Spicilegio Philologico Leiden and Utrecht

1699

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 130.00
37 LONDON CHRONICLE (THE)

1758-78

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 1,000.00
38 Lopez de Ayala (I.) Historia de Gibraltar...

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 48.00
39 [Lyall (Alfred)] Rambles in Madeira, and in Portugal. .. 1826

1827

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 35.00
40 MERCURIALIS (HIERONYMUS) De Arte Gymnastica, libri sex. . . Secunda editione aucti, & multis figuris ornati Paris

1577

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 220.00
41 Nonnus (Ludovicus) Commentarius in nomismata Iuli. Augusti. et Tiberi Antwerp

1644

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 140.00
42 [Numan (Philips)] Miracles lately wrought by the intercession of the glorious virgin Marie, at Montaigu... Antwerp

1606

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 40.00
43 Pamphlets. A small Collection of 6 Naval or Military Pamphlets and 1 Manuscript

[1794]-1810

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 85.00
44 Pomponius Mela and C. Julius Solinus De orbis situ, libri III. et. .. Polyhistor Basle

April 1576

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 360.00
45 Pomponius Mela. De situ Orbis. C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor. AEthici Cosmographia cum Notis Variorum...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 170.00
46 PRAETORIUS (JOHANN) Ludicrum Chiromanticum. . . seu Thesaurus Chiromantise Leipzig

1661

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 160.00
47 Present State (The) of the Sugar Plantations consider'd; but more especially that of.. . Barbadoes...

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 190.00
48 Preston (John) Life eternall or, a Treatise of the knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 130.00
49 [Prevost d'Exiles (A. F.)] The Life and Entertaining Adventures of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell

1741

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 45.00
50 Proclus...., Diadochus. Compendiaria de Motu disputatio, posteriores quinque Aristotelis de auscultatione naturali libros, mira breuitate complectens...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 120.00
51 RELATION (A) IN FORM OF JOURNAL, of the Voiage and Residence which. . . Charls the II King of Great Britain, &c. hath made in Holland... The Hague

1660

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 240.00
52 Roberts (David) Picturesque Sketches in Spain. . . 1832 & 1833

1837

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 220.00
53 Rossi (Jacques) Le Maitre Aise & Rejouissant: ou Nouvelle Methode Agreable pour Apprendre sans peine la Langue Italienne a Londres

1710

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 110.00
54 Salmon (Thomas) An Essay concerning Marriage

1724

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 50.00
55 Sambucus (Joannes) Emblemata, et aliquot nummi antiqui operis...

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 150.00
56 Santos (F. de los) A Description of.. . the Escurial.. . translated. .. by George Thompson...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 40.00
57 [Scott (Sir W.)] Border Antiquities of England & Scotland...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 75.00
58 SCOTTISH BOOK OF COMMON ORDER. The CL. Psalmes of David, in Prose and Meeter... Edinburgh

1615

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 160.00
59 Serres (Jean de) A Generall Historie of France...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 100.00
60 [Shirley (John)] The Life of the Valiant & Learned Sir Walter Raleigh...

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 220.00
61 Sidney (Algernon) Discourses concerning Government

1698

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 45.00
62 Skene (Sir John) Regiam Majestatem Scotia? Veteres Leges et Constitutiones Edinburgh

1609

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 320.00
63 Slave Colonies of Great Britain (The): or a Picture of Negro Slavery drawn by the Colonists themselves

1825

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 50.00
64 Smith (C. J.) Historical and Literary Curiosities...

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 35.00
65 Stopford (Joshua) The Wayes and Methods of Romes Advancement, or whereby the Pope and his Agents have endeavoured to propagate their Doctrines [York]

Printed in the Year, 1672

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 75.00
66 Strutt (J.) The Chronicle of England...

GBP 50.00 - 75.00 300.00
67 Suchet (L. G, Marechal, Duc d'Albufera) Memoires. . . sur ses Cam-pagnes en Espagne...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 45.00
68 [Theveneau de Morande (Charles)] La Gazette Noire par un homme qui n'est pas blanc; ou oeuvres posthumes du Gazetier Cuirasse

1784

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 110.00
69 Tobago Gazette (The) [Scarborough]

11 September 1807-16 December 1808

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 50.00
70 Turnbull (George) A Treatise on Ancient Painting

1740

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 38.00
71 URSINUS (FULVIUS) Familiae Romanae quae reperiuntur in antiquis numismatibus Rome

1577

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 100.00
72 Vaillant (D.) Selectiora Numismata Paris

1694

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 55.00
73 [Verstegan (Richard)] Theatrum Crudelitatum Hsreticorum Nostri Temporis Antwerp

1587

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 160.00
74 [Voltaire (F. M. A. de)] Fragments sur l'Inde, sur le General Lalli, et sur le Comte de Morangies...

GBP 75.00 - 100.00 120.00
75 Weber (Joseph) Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta

1805-12

GBP 70.00 - 80.00 220.00
76 Wilberforce (W[illiam]) A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade

1807

GBP 50.00 - 75.00 140.00
77 [Wilkinson (J.)] [Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire]...

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 45.00
78 Witt (J. de) The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friesland...

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 180.00
79 Wright (Edward) Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c....

1730

GBP 35.00 - 50.00 55.00
80 YUSUF IBN RAFI, called Ibn Shaddad Vita et Res Gesta:.. . Saladini. . . Auctore Bohadino F. Sjeddadi Leiden

1755

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 350.00
81 T[OOKE] (G[EORGE]) THE BELIDES Elegie or Eulogie of that truly Honourable Iohn Lord Harrington...

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
82 SPENSER (EDMUND) THE FAERIE QUEEN: THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDAR: TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER WORKS

1611-13 [1615?]

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
83 Valeriano (Giovanni Pierio) Poemata Basle

March 1538

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 55.00
84 WILLIAMSON (THOMAS) THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT TO SMITE IN PIECES THAT ANTICHRISTIAN GOLIAH

1613

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 200.00
85 Woolton (John) A Treatise of the Immortalitie of the Soule

1576

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 40.00
86 Bense Dupuis (P.) Grammaire allemande et francoise Paris

1658

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 50.00
87 CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Institutio Grxas Grammaices Compendiaria, in Usum Regias Scholar Westmonasteriensis

1656

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 60.00
88 [Howell (James)] A New English Grammar. . . also another Grammar of the Spanish or Castilian Toung

1662

GBP 50.00 - 60.00 80.00
89 [Le Maistre (F.)] Frederic Latimer: or, the History of a Young Man of Fashion

1799

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 65.00
90 [Lily (William)] A short Introduction of Grammar, generally to be used Oxford

1653

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 90.00
91 More (Sir Thomas) Utopia, a mendis vindicata Oxford

1663

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 42.00
92 Pattern Book. A series of 100 engraved plates (of 127) of articles manufactured for gas, oil or candles

[c. 1850]

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 60.00
93 Read (Sir Herbert) Staffordshire Pottery Figures

1929

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 12.00
94 Schickard (W.) Horologium Ebraeum, a few catchwords shaved Utrecht

1661

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 130.00
95 F[ALCONER] (J[OHN]) Cryptomenysis Patefacta: or the Art of Secret Information disclosed without a Key

1685

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
96 [Floyd (John)] A Paire of Spectacles for Sir Humfrey Linde to see his way withall. Or an Answeare to his booke called, Via Tuta... [Rouen]

1631

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 55.00
97 Fortescue (Sir John) De Laudibus Legum Angliae

1616

GBP 25.00 - 35.00 130.00
98 [Gracian y Morales (B.)] The Heroe, of Lorenzo, or the way to Emi-nencie and Perfection

1652

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 28.00
99 HUGHES (WILLIAM) The Flower Garden and Compleat Vineyard

1683

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 130.00
100 Johannes, Geometra Hortus Epigrammatum...

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 30.00
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
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    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000