Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts including an important Manuscript Map of Southeastern North America, 1721., 07Apr1978,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 07, 1978 - April 07, 1978

Page Size: 383 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	FULLERTON, Lady GEORGIANA	Grantley Manor	London	1847	USD 100.00 - 150.00	66.00
102	GASKELL, Mrs. ELIZABETH CLEGHORN	Ruth	London	1853	USD 150.00 - 200.00	99.00
103	GASKELL, PHILIP	A Lion among the Ladies	London	1888	USD 40.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
104	GISSING, GEORGE	New Grub Street	London	1891	USD 400.00 - 500.00	825.00
105	GRAND, SARAH	The Heavenly Twins	London	1893	USD 150.00 - 200.00	99.00
106	GRANT, JAMES	Ducie Carlyon	London	1886	USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
107	HAGGARD, Sir HENRY RIDER	King Solomon's Mines	London	1885	USD 100.00 - 150.00	187.00
108	HARRADEN, BEATRICE	Ships that Pass in the Night.	London	1893	USD 200.00 - 250.00	143.00
109	HARRADEN, BEATRICE	Ships that Pass in the Night		1893	USD 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
110	HARDING, CLAUD, Commander, R. N.	The Bo's'un of The Psyche	London	1892	USD 75.00 - 100.00	71.50
111	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Marble Faun	Boston	1860	USD 80.00 - 100.00	132.00
112	HEXHAM, LIONEL J. F.	Harry Roughton	London	1859	USD 40.00 - 50.00	16.50
113	HOPPUS, MARY A. M. Mrs. Alfred Marks	A Great Treason	London	1883	USD 80.00 - 120.00	88.00
114	HUDSON, W. H.; Henry Harford	Fan	London	1892	USD 450.00 - 550.00	440.00
115	HUGHES, THOMAS	Tom Brown's School Days	Cambridge	1857	USD 900.00 - 1,100.00	880.00
116	HUME, FERGUS	The Island of Fantasy	London	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 250.00	143.00
117	JAMES, CHARLES T. C.	A Bird of Paradise	London	1889	USD 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
118	JAMES, HENRY	The Princess Casamassima	London	1886	USD 250.00 - 300.00	440.00
119	JAMES, MONTAGUE RHODES	Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary	London	1904	USD 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
120	JENNINGS, LOUIS J.	The Millionaire	Edinburgh and London	1883	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
121	JERROLD, DOUGLAS. Mrs	Caudle's Curtain Lectures	London	1866	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
122	KINGSLEY, CHARLES	Westward Ho!	Cambridge	1855	USD 200.00 - 250.00	286.00
123	KINGSLEY, HENRY	Austin Elliot	London and Cambridge	1863	USD 150.00 - 250.00	374.00
124	KIPLING, RUDYARD	Captains Courageous	London	1897	USD 60.00 - 80.00	143.00
125	LAWRENCE, GEORGE A.	Guy Livingstone	London	1857	USD 100.00 - 125.00	55.00
126	LAWRENCE, GEORGE A.	Maurice Dering	London	1864	USD 100.00 - 125.00	154.00
127	LAWRENCE, GEORGE A.	Silverland	London	1873	USD 40.00 - 50.00	16.50
128	LEVER, CHARLES	Lord Kilgobbin	London	1872	USD 100.00 - 120.00	55.00
129	LUCY, HENRY W.	East by West	London	1885	USD 60.00 - 80.00	44.00
130	LYTTON, E. G. BULWER, Lord	The Caxtons	Edinburgh and London	1849	USD 40.00 - 60.00	38.50
131	LYTTON, E. G. BULWER, Lord	The Caxtons	Edinburgh and London	1849	USD 30.00 - 40.00	55.00
132	MASON, ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY	The Turnstile	London	1912	USD 20.00 - 25.00	22.00
133	MATHERS, HELEN	Sam's Sweetheart	London	1883	USD 100.00 - 150.00	308.00
134	MAXWELL, WILLIAM HAMILTON	The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran	London	1843	USD 80.00 - 100.00	77.00
135	MELVILLE, G. J. WHYTE	Sarchedon	London	1871	USD 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
136	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Narrative of Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life	London	1846	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,100.00
137	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life	New York, London	1847	USD 80.00 - 100.00	121.00
138	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Redburn: His First Voyage	New York	1849	USD 350.00 - 400.00	352.00
139	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Redburn: His First Voyage	New York	1849	USD 200.00 - 250.00	165.00
140	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Mardi: and a Voyage Thither	New York	1849	USD 200.00 - 250.00	187.00
140A	MELVILLE, HERMAN	The Whale	London	1851	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,650.00
141	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale	New York	1851	USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
142	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick; or, The Whale	New York	1851	USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00	3,960.00
143	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Pierre; or, The Ambiguities	New York	1852	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,640.00
144	MELVILLE, HERMAN	The Piazza Tales	New York	1856	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
145	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Battle-Pieces and Aspects of The War	New York	1866	USD 250.00 - 350.00	352.00
146	MELVILLE	The Hampden Post.	Springfield	Wednesday April 10, 1850	USD 50.00 - 75.00	27.50
147	MELVILLE. POTTER, ISRAEL R.	Life and Remarkable Adventures of...	Providence	1824	USD 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
148	MELVILLE, HURTON, WILLIAM	Hearts of Oak or Naval Yarns	London	1862	USD 300.00 - 400.00	187.00
149	MEREDITH, GEORGE	Emilia in England	London	1864	USD 550.00 - 650.00	770.00
150	MEREDITH, GEORGE	The Egoist	London	1879	USD 300.00 - 350.00	770.00
151	MERRIMAN, HENRY SETON	From One Generation to Another	London	1892	USD 125.00 - 150.00	154.00
152	MERRIMAN, HENRY SETON	The Slave of the Lamp	London	1892	USD 125.00 - 150.00	110.00
153	MERRIMAN, HENRY SETON	With Edged Tools	London	1894	USD 175.00 - 200.00	99.00
154	MILLS, JOHN	The Old English Gentleman	London	1841	USD 350.00 - 400.00	286.00
155	MUSGRAVE, Mrs. H.; Mrs. J. Harriette Beadon	Illusions	London	1887	USD 80.00 - 100.00	121.00
156	QUILLER-COUCH, Sir ARTHUR THOMAS. Q.	Dead Man's Rock	London	1887	USD 60.00 - 80.00	44.00
157	RAMEE, LOUISE DE LA Ouida	Ariadne	London	1877	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
158	RAMÉE, LOUISE DE LA Ouida	In Maremma	London	1882	USD 200.00 - 300.00	121.00
159	RAMÉE, LOUISE DE LA Ouida	Princess Napraxine	London	1884	USD 300.00 - 400.00	308.00
160	RAMÉE, LOUISE DE LA Ouida	Othmar	London	1885	USD 400.00 - 500.00	418.00
161	RAMÉE, LOUISE DE LA Ouida	Ruffino	London	1890	USD 80.00 - 100.00	60.50
162	READE, CHARLES	The Cloister and the Hearth	London	1861	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	825.00
163	READE, CHARLES	A Woman-Hater	Edinburgh and London	1877	USD 100.00 - 150.00	154.00
164	RUSSELL, W. CLARK	The Wreck of the "Grosvenor"	London	1877	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	935.00
165	SCOTT, MICHAEL	Tom Cringle's Log	Edinburgh, London	1833	USD 150.00 - 200.00	121.00
166	SCOTT, MICHAEL	The Cruise of the Midge	Edinburgh, London	1836	USD 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
167	SEDGWICK, CATHARINE MARIA	Redwood	New York	1824	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
168	SOMERVILLE, EDITH Œ. and MARTIN ROSS	Through Connemara in a Governess Cart	London	1893	USD 100.00 - 125.00	55.00
169	SOMERVILLE, EDITH Œ. and MARTIN ROSS	Through Connemara in a Governess Cart		1893	USD 100.00 - 125.00	66.00
170	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Kidnapped	London	1886	USD 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
171	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Underwoods	London	1887	USD 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
172	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS and LLOYD OSBOURNE	The Wrong Box	London	1889	USD 80.00 - 100.00	44.00
173	STOKER, BRAM	Dracula	Westminster	1899	USD 60.00 - 75.00	264.00
174	STOKER, BRAM	The Lair of The White Worm	London	1911	USD 30.00 - 50.00	132.00
175	STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER	Dred	Boston	1856	USD 300.00 - 350.00	165.00
176	STRETTON, HESBA Sarah Smith	Paul's Courtship	London	1867	USD 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
177	TAYLOR, Captain PHILIP MEADOWS	Tara	Edinburgh and London	1863	USD 100.00 - 120.00	121.00
178	TAYLOR, Captain PHILIP MEADOWS	Tara		1863	USD 50.00 - 75.00	88.00
179	TAYLOR, Captain PHILIP MEADOWS	Ralph Darnell	Edinburgh and London	1865	USD 80.00 - 100.00	88.00
180	TAYLOR, Captain PHILIP MEADOWS	Ralph Darnell		1865	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
181	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	An Autobiography	Edinburgh and London	1883	USD 100.00 - 120.00	275.00
182	TROLLOPE, FRANCES	A Summer in Brittany.	London	1840	USD 80.00 - 100.00	66.00
183	VON BOTHMER, Countess M.	Aut Caesar aut nihil	London	1883	USD 50.00 - 60.00	55.00
184	WARREN, SAMUEL	Ten Thousand A-Year	Edinburgh and London	1841	USD 60.00 - 80.00	88.00
185	WEYMAN, STANLEY J.	The New Rector	London	1891	USD 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
186	WEYMAN, STANLEY J.	A Gentleman of France	London	1893	USD 100.00 - 150.00	165.00
187	WEYMAN, STANLEY J.	Under the Red Robe	London	1894	USD 200.00 - 250.00	506.00
188	WEYMAN, STANLEY J.	The Abbess of Vlaye	London	1904	USD 80.00 - 100.00	44.00
189	WEYMAN, STANLEY J.	Starvecrow Farm	London	1905	USD 20.00 - 30.00	44.00
190	WOOD, Mrs. HENRY	Mildred Arkell	London	1865	USD 180.00 - 200.00	198.00
191	BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL	Three Autograph letters signed, to his wife	1. N.p., 2. Queens Hotel, 3. Postmarked Edinburgh	or d., 1871, 21 March 1871	USD 80.00 - 100.00	66.00
192	COLLINS, W. WILKIE	Autograph letter signed, to James T. Fields	90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London	17 June, 1869	USD 80.00 - 100.00	396.00
193	D'ISRAELI, ISAAC	Autograph letter signed, to John Wilson Croker, at this time Secretary to The Admiralty	6 Bloomsbury Square	7 May 1828	USD 75.00 - 100.00	49.50
194	HARRADEN, BEATRICE	Ships that Pass in the Night.	London	1893	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	1,540.00
195	HARRISON, MARY ST. LEGER	Lucas Malet, daughter of Charles Kingsley.			USD 100.00 - 150.00	132.00
196	LE FANTJ, J. SHERIDAN	Autograph letter signed, to E. Routledge, 18 Merrion Square South	Dublin	7 September 1871	USD 80.00 - 120.00	99.00
197	MOORE, GEORGE	Autograph letter signed, to Lady Sackville	121 Ebury Street	December 24, n.y.	USD 30.00 - 50.00	77.00
198	RALPH, JULIAN	journalist, foreign correspondent			USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
199	RAMEE, LOUISE DE LA	Ouida	n.p.	17 January 187	USD 20.00 - 40.00	44.00

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