Hodgson & Co.: A CATALOGUE OF Books from Various Sources. COMPRISING, INCUNABULA--TURNER'S HERBAL, AND COVERDALE'S HOMISH APOTHECARY, 1551-62 AND OTHER INTERESTING 16TH-17TH CENTURY BOOKS--FIRST EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, 2 VOLS--BLOMEFIELD'S NORFOLK, 11 VOLS, 19451025,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 25, 1945 - October 25, 1945

Page Size: 649 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Everyman's Library (15)...			GBP -	Unknown
2	Meredith (G.)	Richard Feverel, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
3		Morgan (C.) The Fountain...			GBP -	Unknown
4		Hardy (T.) Short Stories...			GBP -	Unknown
5		Lawrence (T. E.)....			GBP -	Unknown
6		Correvon (H.) Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants...			GBP -	Unknown
7		Cathedrals of England...			GBP -	Unknown
8		Palmer (R. L.) English Monasteries of the Middle Ages...		1927	GBP -	Unknown
9		Gardner (A.) Theodore of Studium...			GBP -	Unknown
10		Dante. La Divina Commedia...			GBP -	Unknown
11		More (Sir T.) Utopia...			GBP -	Unknown
12		Comenius (J. A.) The Great Didactic...			GBP -	Unknown
13	Herbart (J. F.)	Sammtliche Werke, von G. Hartenstein	Leipzig	1850	GBP -	Unknown
14		Herbart (J. F.) Kleinere philosophische Schriften...			GBP -	Unknown
15		Herbart (J. F.) Text-Book of Psychology...			GBP -	Unknown
16	Steiner (R.)	Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
17		Stout (G. F.) Analytic Psychology...			GBP -	Unknown
18		Bergson (H.) Creative Evolution, etc.....			GBP -	Unknown
19		Davies (Randall) Six Centuries of Painting...			GBP -	Unknown
20		Mozart, von O. Jahn...			GBP -	Unknown
21		Jolizza (W. K.) Das Lied und seine Geschichte...			GBP -	Unknown
22		Music--Facsimile of the MS. of Mozart's Trio in E-Major...			GBP -	Unknown
23		Spohr (L.) Autobiography...			GBP -	Unknown
24		Hughes (R.) Love Affairs of Great Musicians...			GBP -	Unknown
25		Brahms (J.) im Briefwechsel mit Joseph Joachim...			GBP -	Unknown
26		Grieb (C. F.) German Dictionary...			GBP -	Unknown
27		Goethe's Werke, fronts			GBP -	Unknown
28		India Society--Architectural Antiquities of Western India		1926	GBP -	Unknown
29		Botticelli, illus., Newnes' Art Library...			GBP -	Unknown
30		Macdonell (A.) Touraine and its Story...			GBP -	Unknown
31		Book of Old Ballads...			GBP -	Unknown
32		Green (Mrs. J. R.) Town Life in the 15th Century...			GBP -	Unknown
33		Lotze (H.) Metaphysic...			GBP -	Unknown
34		Aristotle's Ethics...			GBP -	Unknown
35		Plutarch's Lives...			GBP -	Unknown
36		Lagrange (J. L.) Fonctions Analytiques...			GBP -	Unknown
37		Burns (R.) Poetical Works...			GBP -	Unknown
38	Kipling (R.)	Kipling (R.) Verse, Inclusive Edition			GBP -	Unknown
39		Barrie (Sir J. M.) The Little Minister, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
40		Aldine Edition of the British Poets		1866	GBP -	Unknown
41	Shakespeare (W.)	Shakespeare (W.) Works			GBP -	Unknown
42	Jardiner (S. R.)	History of England 1603-1642		1894	GBP -	Unknown
43	Napier (Sir W. F. P.)	The Peninsula War			GBP -	Unknown
44		Strickland (A.) The Queens of England...			GBP -	Unknown
45	Prescott (W. H.)	The Conquest of Mexico			GBP -	Unknown
46		George Eliot's Works--Scenes of Clerical Life			GBP -	Unknown
47	Kingsley (C.)	Westward Ho, Essays, Poems, etc.		1873	GBP -	Unknown
48	Frazer (Sir J. G.)	The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion		1932	GBP -	Unknown
49	Stein (M. Aurel)	Ruins of Desert Cathay		1912	GBP -	Unknown
50		Duncan (J. E.) Through Western Tibet...			GBP -	Unknown
51	W. L. Newman	Aristotle's Politics			GBP -	Unknown
52	Tissot (J. J.)	Life of Jesus Christ			GBP -	Unknown
53	Leigh (C.)	Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, etc.		1700	GBP -	Unknown
54	Ross (Sir J. C.)	Voyage of Discovery in the Southern and Antarctic Regions		1847	GBP -	Unknown
55		Marco Polo's Travels...			GBP -	Unknown
56		Grey (Visct.) Fly Fishing...			GBP -	Unknown
57		Macandrew (R.) Encyclopaedia of Sex Technique...			GBP -	Unknown
58	Thompson (Francis)	Thompson (Francis) Works		1913	GBP -	Unknown
59	Stevenson (R. L.)	Kidnapped, Footnote to History, etc.		1886	GBP -	Unknown
60		Bennett (A.) The Old Wives Tale...			GBP -	Unknown
61		Galsworthy (J.) Soames and the Flag...			GBP -	Unknown
62		Shaw (B.) John Bull's Other Island, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
63		Newdigate (B.) Michael Drayton and his Circle...			GBP -	Unknown
64	J. Payne	Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron			GBP -	Unknown
65		Dufferin (Lord) Letters from High Latitudes...			GBP -	Unknown
66		Real Life in Ireland			GBP -	Unknown
67		Foreman (J.) The Philippine Islands...			GBP -	Unknown
68		Goebel (K.) Morphology of Plants...			GBP -	Unknown
69	Hardie (M.)	Connoisseur s Library--English Coloured Books	Methuen	1900	GBP -	Unknown
70	POLLACD (G. S.)	Fine Books' illus.		1912	GBP -	Unknown
71	Tomkinson (G. S.)	Bibliography of Modern Presses			GBP -	Unknown
72	Woolnough (C. W.)	The Whole Art of Marbling as applied to Paper Book-Edges		1881	GBP -	Unknown
73	Sonnenschein (W. S.)	The Best Books...	Chicago	1911	GBP -	Unknown
74		Boyne (W.) The Yorkshire Library...			GBP -	Unknown
75		Maudslay (A.) Highways and Horses...			GBP -	Unknown
76	Johnson (S.)	Lives of the English Poets		1897	GBP -	Unknown
77		Greville Memoirs (The)...			GBP -	Unknown
78		Restoration Broadside Ballads...			GBP -	Unknown
79	Mitford (Miss)	Our Village		1828	GBP -	Unknown
80		Douce (F.) Illustrations of Shakespeare...			GBP -	Unknown
81		Chaucer (G.) Canterbury Tales...			GBP -	Unknown
82		King's Pictures (The)			GBP -	Unknown
83	Surtees (R. S.)	Sporting Novels--Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1929	GBP -	Unknown
84	Farmer (J. S.)	Slang and its Analogues: a Dictionary of Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society		1890	GBP -	Unknown
85	C. P. Johnson	Sowerby (J. E.) British Wild Flowers		1882	GBP -	Unknown
86		Bean (W. J.) Hardy Trees and Shrubs...			GBP -	Unknown
87		Catlin (G.) The North American Indians...			GBP -	Unknown
88		Esquemeling (J.) Buccaneers of America...			GBP -	Unknown
89	Mullens (W. H.) and Kirke Swann	Bibliography of Ornithology		1917	GBP -	Unknown
90		Cook (E. T.) Gardening for Beginners...			GBP -	Unknown
91	Humphreys (A. L.)	Handbook to County Bibliography		1917	GBP -	Unknown
92	Lane Poole (Mrs. R.)	Catalogue of Portraits in the possession of the University Colleges, etc.	Oxford	1912	GBP -	Unknown
93		Oxford--Magdalen College Register...			GBP -	Unknown
94		Cox and Ford. Parish Churches of England...			GBP -	Unknown
95		Berenson (B.) Lorenzo Lotto...			GBP -	Unknown
96		Cambridge Medieval History...			GBP -	Unknown
97		Hume (M.) The Wives of Henry viii...			GBP -	Unknown
98		Chatham: his Early Life...			GBP -	Unknown
99		Glover (T. R.) Progress in Religion to the Christian Era, 1922...			GBP -	Unknown
100		Encyclopaedia Britannica	N.Y.	1910	GBP -	Unknown

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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.

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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.