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Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Books and Manuscripts, Medieval to Modern
2 December - 13 December 2022 • London
![R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London, [1807], 3 vols, red morocco gilt by Bedford](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/005852c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Feb%2Ffe%2F14a0cccf48ca975b9425be3782eb%2Fl22408-75fjl-t2-01.jpg)
101. R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London, [1807], 3 vols, red morocco gilt by Bedford
![T. Annan | Glasgow City Improvement Trust: Photographs of Old Closes, Streets, &c., [c.1877], 40 carbon prints, green morocco by R. Nelson](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9eda010/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F4d%2F99%2Ff0be4523429298c12e619715f961%2Fl22408-75fdh-t2-01.jpg)
102. T. Annan | Glasgow City Improvement Trust: Photographs of Old Closes, Streets, &c., [c.1877], 40 carbon prints, green morocco by R. Nelson

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

104. Bindings | Two Scottish wheel bindings and a papal binding, all in red morocco, eighteenth century
![Book of Hours, in Latin and French | Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, later fifteenth century], red morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/929703b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1225+0+0/resize/150x92!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc5%2F7f%2Fec3d40dd4d32bbd798a621adf6e4%2Fl22408-75fbc-t1-01.jpg)
105. Book of Hours, in Latin and French | Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France, later fifteenth century], red morocco

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

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

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

109. Robert Burns | Autograph letter signed, to Rev. George Lawrie, on his new-found fame as a poet, 5 February 1787
![John Chamberlaine, publisher | Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, London, 1792[-98], contemporary russia](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/077ab47/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1546x2000+0+0/resize/150x194!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F6b%2F5f%2F84e9ab7c408c811be6dac2c01296%2Fl22408-75fdc-t2-02.jpg)
110. John Chamberlaine, publisher | Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, London, 1792[-98], contemporary russia

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

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

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

114. Thomas Coryate | Coryat's Crudities, London, 1611, nineteenth century dark green morocco gilt
![W.M. Thackeray | An Essay on George Cruikshank, [n.d.], 3 vols, extensively extra-illustrated](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3243ed4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1573+0+0/resize/150x118!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F53%2Fe4%2F85d9dd6141c38689a33f15726176%2Fl22408-75fkg-t3-02.jpg)
115. W.M. Thackeray | An Essay on George Cruikshank, [n.d.], 3 vols, extensively extra-illustrated

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

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

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

119. William Davies | A true relation of the travailes and most miserable captivitie, 1614, the Beckford copy
![[Daniel Defoe] | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., London, 1719-1720, 3 volumes](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f4cc099/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F8f%2F71%2F08f94b90454780d2c6079a06098b%2Fl22408-75fgv-t1-01.jpg)
120. [Daniel Defoe] | The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe..., London, 1719-1720, 3 volumes

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

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

123. Thomas Frognall Dibdin | An introduction to... rare and valuable editions, 1827, 2 vols, blue morocco, Beckford copy
![Charles Dickens | Works, London, [c.1879], 30 volumes, contemporary maroon half-morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/747a89b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc9%2Ff5%2F12cbbf274dd9bcf2a8b9f472cea8%2Fl22408-75fjf-t3-01.jpg)
124. Charles Dickens | Works, London, [c.1879], 30 volumes, contemporary maroon half-morocco

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

126. Raphael Holinshed | Chronicles, London, 1577, 2 volumes, later diced calf, George Steevens copy
![J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/dac8bdd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1649+0+0/resize/150x124!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F64%2F83%2F142f726a403db18f52c5687ec214%2Fl22408-75fkj-t2-03.jpg)
127. J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco
![La Fontaine | Contes et nouvelles en vers, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762, 2 volumes, red morocco, Wodhull copy](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5c97433/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1507+0+0/resize/150x113!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fda%2Fd4%2Fb361ea994d5ab51ad08f0bbc75a6%2Fl22408-75fdw-02.jpg)
128. La Fontaine | Contes et nouvelles en vers, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762, 2 volumes, red morocco, Wodhull copy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

136. J. Richardson and J.H. Nixon | The Eglinton Tournament, London, 1843, contemporary maroon morocco-backed cloth
![Thomas Rowlandson | Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, [London, 1799], green morocco gilt by Bedford](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a1635b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc7%2Ff8%2Fe12fdd8c48e7be042ce8e3be2865%2Fl22408-75fjq-t2-01.jpg)
137. Thomas Rowlandson | Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, [London, 1799], green morocco gilt by Bedford

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

139. Sir Walter Scott | Series of 10 autograph letters signed, to the antiquary Alexander Macdonald
![[Shakespeare] Boydell | A collection of prints... dramatic works of Shakespeare, 1803, 2 vols, red morocco](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f04b336/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Ff3%2F24%2Ff467623a4f52b6efe2e5aa6d7d4a%2Fl22408-75fhs-t2-01.jpg)
140. [Shakespeare] Boydell | A collection of prints... dramatic works of Shakespeare, 1803, 2 vols, red morocco

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

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

143. John Slezer | Theatrum Scotiae, 1693, contemporary panelled calf gilt
![[Jonathan Swift] | Gulliver's Travels, London, 1726-27, 3 vols, nineteenth century red morocco gilt by F. Bedford](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/513c2ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F19%2Fe8%2F4f3760084feb9816672988197ae3%2Fl22408-75fgt-t2-01.jpg)
144. [Jonathan Swift] | Gulliver's Travels, London, 1726-27, 3 vols, nineteenth century red morocco gilt by F. Bedford

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

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

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

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