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
101		Cambridge Modern History		1902	GBP -	Unknown
102	Morley (Lord)	Eversley Series--voltaire, Rousseau, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
103	Morley (Lord)	Morley (Lord) Works		1921	GBP -	Unknown
104	Carlyle (T.)	Specimens of German Romance...			GBP -	Unknown
105		Wolcot (J.) The Works of Peter Pindar...			GBP -	Unknown
106		Napier (W. F. P.) History of the Peninsular War...			GBP -	Unknown
107	Taylor (Jeremy)	Taylor (Jeremy) Works		1854	GBP -	Unknown
108		Hooker (R.) Works...			GBP -	Unknown
109		Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum...			GBP -	Unknown
110		Library of Liturgiology--The Sarum Missal		1904	GBP -	Unknown
111		Bodleian Library--Catalogue of Western MSS.			GBP -	Unknown
112		British Museum--Books in the Reading Room: Authors and Subjects		1910	GBP -	Unknown
113		British Catalogue of the Thomason Collection of Pamphlets, Newspapers, etc.		1908	GBP -	Unknown
114		Harleian Society--Registers of St. Paul's Church		1906	GBP -	Unknown
115	W. H. Rylands	Harleian Society The Four Visitations of Berkshire, 1532-66		1907	GBP -	Unknown
116		Gentleman's Magazine--Index to the Biographical and Obituary Notices		1891	GBP -	Unknown
117		Gentleman's Magazine Library--English Topography		1891	GBP -	Unknown
118	Copinger (W. A.)	Suffolk: its History as disclosed by Existing Records and other Documents		1904	GBP -	Unknown
119	Spalding (J. T.)	Bibliographical Account of Works relating to English Topography		1912	GBP -	Unknown
120	Green (E.)	Bibliotheca Somersetensis	Taunton	1902	GBP -	Unknown
121		Saga Library--Howard the Halt, The Heimskringla		1891	GBP -	Unknown
122		Houghton (Lord) Poetical Works...			GBP -	Unknown
123	Ray (M. S.)	The Farallones and other Poems of California	San Francisco	1934	GBP -	Unknown
124	Swift (J.)	Voyages de Gulliver			GBP -	Unknown
125	Bradley (K. H.) and E. E. Cooper	Callirrhoe...			GBP -	Unknown
126	Lang (A.)	In the Wrong Paradise, 1886			GBP -	Unknown
127	Davidson (J.)	Earl Lavender			GBP -	Unknown
128		Barrie (J. M.) The Little White Bird...			GBP -	Unknown
129	Conrad (J.)	Tales of Unrest, 1898, The Rescue, 1920, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
130	Galsworthy (J.)	The Man of Property...			GBP -	Unknown
131	Hutchinson (R. C.)	Testament, 1939, and other Novels, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
132	E. Almack, editor	De la More Press--Eikon Basilike			GBP -	Unknown
133	C. Sandford	Golden Cockerel Press--The Garden of Caresses, from the Arabic			GBP -	Unknown
134		Scholartis Press--Milton's Paradise Regained...			GBP -	Unknown
135	Shelley (P. B.)	Shelley (P. B.) Complete Works		1926	GBP -	Unknown
136	DICKENS (C.)	NONESUCH PRESS--DICKENS (C.) WORKS		1937	GBP -	Unknown
137	Dante	Nonesuch Press--La Divina Commedia, in Italian and English		1928	GBP -	Unknown
138		Nonesuch Press--Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, from the First Editions of Pope's Translations		1931	GBP -	Unknown
139	Chaucer (G.)	Riccardi Press--The Canterbury Tales		1913	GBP -	Unknown
140	Chaucer (G.)	Florence Press--The Romaunt of the Rose		1908	GBP -	Unknown
141	Jones (T. Gwynn)	Detholiad O Ganiadau		1926	GBP -	Unknown
142	Thomas (E.)	Thomas (E.) Selected Poems		1927	GBP -	Unknown
143		Llyfr y Pregeth-wr 1588		1927	GBP -	Unknown
144	Omar Khayyam	Penillion		1928	GBP -	Unknown
145	Peacock (T. L.)	The Misfortunes of Elphin		1928	GBP -	Unknown
146		Psalmau Dafydd yn ol William Morgan, 1588		1929	GBP -	Unknown
147		Clych Atgof, gan Owen Edwards		1933	GBP -	Unknown
148	Gruffydd (W. J.)	Caniadau		1932	GBP -	Unknown
149	Greville (Fulke, Lord Brooke)	Caelica		1936	GBP -	Unknown
150		Eragny Press--The Book of Ruth and Book of Esther...			GBP -	Unknown
151		Riccardi Press--The Story of Griselda...			GBP -	Unknown
152		Golden Cockerel Press--The Song of Songs		1925	GBP -	Unknown
153		Golden Cockerel Press--Samson and Delilan...			GBP -	Unknown
154	Mathers (E. P.)	Golden Cockerel Press--Procreant Hymn		1926	GBP -	Unknown
155	Carew (T.)	Golden Cockerel Press--A Rapture...			GBP -	Unknown
156		Nonesuch Press--Cupid and Psyches			GBP -	Unknown
157	Cowley (A.)	Nonesuch Press--The Mistress			GBP -	Unknown
158		Nonesuch Press--Lamartine's Graziella...			GBP -	Unknown
159		St. Dominic's Press--Horae B.V.M.			GBP -	Unknown
160		St. Dominic's Press--Wood-engravings		1924	GBP -	Unknown
161		St. Dominic's Press--Gill (Eric) Art and Love			GBP -	Unknown
162	Pushkin (A.)	Blackamore Press--The Queen of Spades			GBP -	Unknown
163	Davies (W. H.)	Gregynog Press--Poems		1928	GBP -	Unknown
164		Fanfrolico Press--Loving Mad Tom...			GBP -	Unknown
165	Hawthorne (N.)	Grabhorn Press--The Golden Touch			GBP -	Unknown
166	Bates (H. E.)	Furnival Books--The Hessian Prisoner, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
167		Flecker (J. E.) Hassan...			GBP -	Unknown
168		Fraser (Lovat) Pirates...			GBP -	Unknown
169		Noel Douglas Replicas--Poems by Shakespeare		1926	GBP -	Unknown
170		Tuke (Sir S.) The Adventures of Five Hours 1663...			GBP -	Unknown
171		Straus (R.) The Unspeakable Curll...			GBP -	Unknown
172		Navarre Society--The Heptameron of Margaret of Navarre			GBP -	Unknown
173		Voltaire. The White Bull...			GBP -	Unknown
174	Balzac (Honore de)	Balzac (Honore de) Works	Phil.	1896	GBP -	Unknown
175	Balzac (H. de)	The Girl with the Golden Eyes			GBP -	Unknown
176	Flaubert (G.)	Flaubert (G.) Works		1926	GBP -	Unknown
177	Disraeli (B.)	Novels and Tales		1926	GBP -	Unknown
178	France (Anatole)	Joan of Arc		1912	GBP -	Unknown
179	France (Anatole)	The Human Tragedy			GBP -	Unknown
180		Eastern Love: English Versions of Oriental Works		1927	GBP -	Unknown
181		Somadeva. The Ocean of Story		1924	GBP -	Unknown
182		Le Gros (A.)--Souvenirs des Funambles...			GBP -	Unknown
183		Cannon's Historical Record of the Royal Fusiliers		1847	GBP -	Unknown
184	Thomson (Mrs.)	Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745		1845	GBP -	Unknown
185	Tytler (P. F.)	History of Scotland from 1242 to 1603		1828	GBP -	Unknown
186	Wolseley (Visct.)	Life of the Duke of Marlborough to the Accession of Queen Anne		1894	GBP -	Unknown
187		Sharpe's British Theatre			GBP -	Unknown
188	Dickens (C.)	Sketches by Boz			GBP -	Unknown
189	Cruikshank (G.)	Omnibus		1842	GBP -	Unknown
190		Hughes (W. R.) A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land...			GBP -	Unknown
191		Dodgson (C. L.) Phantasmagoria, Presentation Copy, 1869, etc...			GBP -	Unknown
192		Morell (C.) Tales of the Genii...			GBP -	Unknown
193		Byron (Lord) Don Juan: Cantos I-II...		1820	GBP -	Unknown
194		Thomson (A. T.) The Philosophy of Magic...			GBP -	Unknown
195		Sweet (R.) The Florists Guide...			GBP -	Unknown
196		Meerman (G.) Uitvinding der Boekdrukkunst...			GBP -	Unknown
197	H. (C.)	A Philosophical Discourse of Earthquakes		1693	GBP -	Unknown
198	Lockman (J.)	Travels of the Jesuits			GBP -	Unknown
199	Rochefort (C. de)	Histoire des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique...			GBP -	Unknown
200		Naval Pamphlets--Trial of Admiral Mathews (3)...			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.

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