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Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern

Name: Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern | 2022 | Sotheby's
Start: 2022-12-02T14:00:00Z
End: 2022-12-13T14:00:00Z
Location: London

13 December 2022•14:00 GMT

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Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern

2 December - 13 December 2022 • London

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101. R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London, [1807], 3 vols, red morocco gilt by Bedford

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

102. T. Annan | Glasgow City Improvement Trust: Photographs of Old Closes, Streets, &c., [c.1877], 40 carbon prints, green morocco by R. Nelson

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

103. Bible, Latin | Biblia sacra, Lyon, 1542, later red morocco gilt by Carss

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

104. Bindings | Two Scottish wheel bindings and a papal binding, all in red morocco, eighteenth century

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

105. Book of Hours, in Latin and French | Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, later fifteenth century], red morocco

Estimate:

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

106. James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, London, 1791, 2 vols, nineteenth-century brown morocco gilt by Riviere

Estimate:

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Bidding is closed

107. John Bulwer | Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, the artificiall changling, 1653

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

108. Robert Burns | Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock, 1786, near-contemporary half calf

Estimate:

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

109. Robert Burns | Autograph letter signed, to Rev. George Lawrie, on his new-found fame as a poet, 5 February 1787

Estimate:

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

110. John Chamberlaine, publisher | Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, London, 1792[-98], contemporary russia

Estimate:

2,400 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

111. Fletcher Christian | Letters from Mr. Fletcher Christian, London, 1796, nineteenth-century polished calf gilt

Estimate:

2,400 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

112. John Clerk | Etchings, 1825-1855, 3 vols, contemporary bindings

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

113. Captain Cook | Voyages and Life, 1773-88, 11 volumes, contemporary red morocco, Beckford copy

Estimate:

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

114. Thomas Coryate | Coryat's Crudities, London, 1611, nineteenth century dark green morocco gilt

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

115. W.M. Thackeray | An Essay on George Cruikshank, [n.d.], 3 vols, extensively extra-illustrated

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

116. George Cruikshank—Brothers Grimm | German Popular Stories, London, 1823-26, blue morocco gilt by Bedford

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

117. Daniell—Ayton | Voyage Round Great Britain... with A Series of Views, 1814-25, 8 text vols in 2 and 2 boxes of plates

Estimate:

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

118. Thomas and William Daniell | Oriental Scenery, 3 volumes, London, 1816, nineteenth-century green morocco gilt

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

119. William Davies | A true relation of the travailes and most miserable captivitie, 1614, the Beckford copy

Estimate:

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

120. [Daniel Defoe] | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., London, 1719-1720, 3 volumes

Estimate:

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

121. Thomas Frognall Dibdin | The bibliographical Decameron, 1817, 3 volumes, red morocco, the Beckford copy

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

122. Thomas Frognall Dibdin | A bibliographical tour in France and Germany, 1821, 4 volumes, calf, Beckford copy

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

123. Thomas Frognall Dibdin | An introduction to... rare and valuable editions, 1827, 2 vols, blue morocco, Beckford copy

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

124. Charles Dickens | Works, London, [c.1879], 30 volumes, contemporary maroon half-morocco

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

125. Elzevir Press | A collection of 17 miniature volumes, in eighteenth-century red morocco bindings

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

126. Raphael Holinshed | Chronicles, London, 1577, 2 volumes, later diced calf, George Steevens copy

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

127. J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco

Estimate:

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

128. La Fontaine | Contes et nouvelles en vers, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762, 2 volumes, red morocco, Wodhull copy

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

129. Las Casas | Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum, Oppenheim, 1614

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

130. Leslie | De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, Rome, 1578, later olive morocco by Clarke & Bedford

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

131. William Lithgow | The totall discourse of the rare adventures, 1632, contemporary calf, Lord North's copy

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

132. James Logan | The clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845-1847, 2 volumes, red pictorial cloth

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

133. Lucretius | Della natura delle cose, Amsterdam, 1754, 2 volumes, red morocco gilt by Louis Douceur

Estimate:

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Bidding is closed

134. John B. Papworth | Select Views of London, London, 1816, later red morocco gilt by Birdsall

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

135. Pierre de Paschal | Henrici II... Elogium, Paris, 1560, in a binding by Claude de Picques for Mary, Queen of Scots

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

136. J. Richardson and J.H. Nixon | The Eglinton Tournament, London, 1843, contemporary maroon morocco-backed cloth

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

137. Thomas Rowlandson | Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, [London, 1799], green morocco gilt by Bedford

Estimate:

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

138. Reginald Scot | The discoverie of witchcraft, London, 1584, later calf tooled in period style, Sutherland copy

Estimate:

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

139. Sir Walter Scott | Series of 10 autograph letters signed, to the antiquary Alexander Macdonald

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

140. [Shakespeare] Boydell | A collection of prints... dramatic works of Shakespeare, 1803, 2 vols, red morocco

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

141. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Frankenstein, London, 1818, 3 volumes in one, later polished calf

Estimate:

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

142. H. Shields and J. Meikle | Famous Clyde Yachts, 1880-87, Glasgow, 1888, 2 copies, original cloth gilt

Estimate:

2,400 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

143. John Slezer | Theatrum Scotiae, 1693, contemporary panelled calf gilt

Estimate:

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

144. [Jonathan Swift] | Gulliver's Travels, London, 1726-27, 3 vols, nineteenth century red morocco gilt by F. Bedford

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

145. Sir William Hamilton | Series of five letters to his nephew Charles Greville, 1779-99

Estimate:

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

146. Charles Greville and Sir William Hamilton | Five letters by various correspondents, 1770s-1800s

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

147. Emma, Lady Hamilton | A lock of her hair said to be hers, 1790-91

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

148. Emma, Lady Hamilton | Autograph letter signed, to Cornelia Knight, on preparations to flee Naples, 1798

Estimate:

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Bidding is closed