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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
101 R. Ackermann, publisher | The Microcosm of London, [1807], 3 vols, red morocco gilt by Bedford
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
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
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
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
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
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
127 J. Jenkins, publisher | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. London, [1817], nineteenth-century red half morocco
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
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
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
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