Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS, INCLUDING HOFSTEDE DE GROOT'S Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Eminent Dutch Painters, 10 VOL., Esslingen, etc. 1908-28; SAKISIAN'S La Miniature Persane, Paris and Brussels, 1929; ASPLUND'S Zorn's Engraved Works, 2 , SHR15,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 10, 1979 - May 10, 1979

Page Size: 558 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Bellier de la Chavignerie (Emile) and Luois Auvray	Dictionnaire General des Artistes de l'Ecole Francaise	Paris	1882-85 & n.d.	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
2	Bellier de la Chavignerie (Emile) and Louis Auvray	Dictionnaire General des Artistes de l'Ecole Francaise	Paris	1882-85 & n.d.	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
3	Benezit (E.)	Dictionnaire. .. des Peintres	Paris	1949-55	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
4	Berenson (Bernard)	Italian Pictures of the Renaissance		1957-63	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	95.00
5	Bernt (Walther)	Die Niederlandischen Maler des 17 Jahrhunderts	Munich	1948	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
6	Binyon (Laurence)	Painting in the Far East		1913	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	26.00
7	Binyon (Laurence)	Painting in the Far East		1913	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
8		Bryan (Michael) A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ....			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	42.00
9		Bryan (Michael) Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ....			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	122.00
10	Caw (James L.)	William McTaggart	Glasgow	1917	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
11	Cole (Timothy)	Old English Masters	New York	1902	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	30.00
12	Constable (W. G.)	Canaletto	Oxford	1962	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
13	Constable (W. G.)	Canaletto	Oxford	1962	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
14	Constable (W. G.)	Canaletto	Oxford	1962	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	38.00
15	Crowe (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle	A History of Painting in North Italy			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	52.00
16	Cust (Lionel)	Notes on the authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots		1903	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	28.00
17	DELTEIL (LOYS)	Le Peintre Graveur Illustre	Paris	1922	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	135.00
18	Dickes (W. F.)	The Norwich School of Painting		n.d.	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	150.00
19	Dimier (Louis)	Le Primatice	Paris	1928	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	20.00
20	DUBUISSON (A.)	Richard Parkes Bonington		1924	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	125.00
21		Field (George) Chromatics ....			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
22	Fierens (Paul)	Les Le Nain	Paris	1933	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	38.00
23	Fischel (Oskar)	Raphael		1948	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	30.00
24		Florisoone (Michel) Renoir ....			GBP 12.00 - 18.00	16.00
25	FOSTER (J. J.)	Miniature Painters British and Foreign		1903	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	65.00
26		Fry (Roger) Cezanne ....			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	38.00
27	Gower (Lord Ronald)	Three Hundred French Portraits. .. by Clouet		1875	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	32.00
28		Grillon's Club. Portraits of the Members ....			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	95.00
29	Hannema (D.)	Catalogue of the D. G. van Beuningen Collection	Rotterdam	1949	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
30	Hevesy (Andre de)	Jacopo de Barbari	Paris and Brussels	1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
31	HOFSTEDE DE GROOT (C.)	A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORKS OF THE MOST EMINENT DUTCH PAINTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	Esslingen, Paris & Stuttgart	1926-28	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	310.00
32	Hofstede de Groot (C.)	A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century		1908-27	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	30.00
33	KAY (JOHN)	A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings		1877	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	65.00
34		Longhi (Roberto) Piero della Francesca Frescoes ....			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	25.00
35	Macfall (Haldane)	A History of Painting: The French Genius		n.d.	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
36	[Martine (Charles)]	Honore Fragonard	Paris	1927	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
37		Memorial Catalogue of the French and Dutch Collection	Edinburgh	1888	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	10.00
38	Monkhouse (W. Cosmo)	The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer		n.d.	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
39	Morgan (J. Pierpoint)	Pictures at Princes Gate and Dover House; Modern Schools only		1907	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	60.00
40	Morrison (Arthur)	The Painters of Japan		1911	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	85.00
41		Royal Academy. Exhibition of British Primitives	Oxford	1924	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	18.00
42	SAKISIAN (ARMENAG B.)	La Miniature Persane du XII au XVII Siecle	Paris & Brussels	1929	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
43		Salmi (Mario) Italian Miniatures ....			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
44	SIREN (OSWALD)	Early Chinese Paintings from the A. W. Bahr Collection		1938	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
45		Smith (John Thomas) Nollekens and his Times ....			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	140.00
46	Sparrow (Walter Shaw)	Angling in British Art		1923	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	62.00
47	Sparrow (Walter Shaw)	A Book of Sporting Painters		1931	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	58.00
48	Sparrow (Walter S.)	George Stubbs and Ben Marshall		1929	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	42.00
49	Spielmann (M. H.)	British Portrait Painting		1910	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	38.00
50	Stricldand (W. G.)	A Dictionary of Irish Artists		1913	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	120.00
51	TATLOCK (R. R.), ROGER FRY and others	The Leverhulme Collection		1928	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	140.00
52		Thornbury (Walter) The Life of J. M. W. Turner ....			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
53	Warner (Ralph)	Dutch and Flemish Flower and Fruit Painters of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries		[1928]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	62.00
54	Williamson (George C.)	Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer; Miniature Painters		1903	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	42.00
55	Williamson (G. C.)	Life and Works of Ozias Humphry		1918	GBP 35.00 - 40.00	35.00
56	Willumsen (J.-F.)	La Jeunesse du Peintre El Greco	Paris	1927	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
57	Zervos (Christian)	Les Oeuvres du Greco en Espagne	Paris	1939	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
58	Anderson (William)	The Pictorial Arts of Japan		1886	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	9.00
59	Anderson (William)	The Pictorial Arts of Japan		1886	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	68.00
60	Asplund (Karl)	Anders Zorn		1921	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	25.00
61	ASPLUND (KARL)	Zorn's Engraved Work	Stockholm	1920-21	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	500.00
62	Audubon (John James)	The Birds of America		1937	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
63		Barnard (George) Drawing from Nature ....			GBP 35.00 - 50.00	50.00
64	Beaumont (Cyril W.) and Sacheverell Sitwell	The Romantic Ballet		1938	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
65	Binyon (Laurence)	The Poems of Nizami		1928	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
66	BINYON (LAURENCE)	The Poems of Nizami		1928	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	25.00
67	Binyon (Laurence)	The Poems of Nizami		1928	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	Not Sold
68	BIRCH (THOMAS)	The Heads of Illustrious Persons		1747-52	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	110.00
69	Bliss (Douglas P.)	A History of Wood-Engraving		1928	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	22.00
70	BODE (WILHELM) and C. HOFSTEDE DE GROOT	REMBRANDT. BESCHREIBENDES VERZEICHNISS SEINER GEMALDE MIT DEN HELIOGRAPHISCHEN NACHBILDUNGEN	Paris	1897-1905	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
71	Bourcard (Gustave)	Dessins, Gouaches, Estampes et Tableaux	Paris	1893	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	3.00
72	Bourcard (Gustave)	Dessins, Gouaches, Estampes et Tableaux du Dix-huitieme Siecle	Paris	1893	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	5.00
73	Brangwyn (Frank)	Catalogue of the Etched Work		1912	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
74	Bunt (Cyril G.)	The Water-Colours of Sir Frank Brangwyn	Leigh-on-Sea	1958	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
75		Catalogues de l'Exposition de Gravures anciennes et modernes ....			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	20.00
76		Caulfield (James) Portraits [etc.] of Remarkable Persons ....			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
77	Chatto (William Andrew)	A Treatise on Wood Engraving		n.d.	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	28.00
78	Clarke (H. G.)	Baxter Colour Prints		1920-21	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	52.00
79	Cooke (G.)	Animals after First Masters		[1829]	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
80	Cundall (H. M.)	Birket Foster		1906	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	120.00
81		Cundall (J.) A Brief History of Wood-Engraving ....			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
82	Delteil (Loys)	Le Peintre-Graveur Illustre	Paris	1913	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	45.00
83	Delteil (Loys)	Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes des XIXe et XXe Siecles	Paris	1925	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	38.00
84	Dodgson (Campbell)	Old French Colour-Prints		1924	GBP 50.00 - 75.00	40.00
85	Dodgson (Campbell)	Old French Colour Prints		1924	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	60.00
86	DUNTHORNE (GORDON)	FLOWER AND FRUIT PRINTS of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries	Washington	1938	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	210.00
87	Evans (Edward)	Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits		[1836-53]	GBP 35.00 - 50.00	95.00
88	Fairholt (Frederick W.)	Miscellanea Graphica		1857	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	18.00
89	FRIEDLANDER (MAX. J.)	Handzeichnungen Deutscher Meister in der Herzogl. Anhaltschen Behorden-Bibliothek zu Dessau	Stuttgart	1914	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	60.00
90		Furst (Herbert) The Modern Woodcut ....			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
91	Gaunt (W.)	The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn		1926	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	35.00
92		Gilbey (Walter) Pictures in Old Sporting Magazines ....			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
93	GRAY (JOHN M.)	James and William Tassie	Edinburgh	1894	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	70.00
94	Grego (Joseph)	Rowlandson the Caricaturist		1880	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
95	HADELN (DETLEV VON)	HANDZEICHNUNGEN VON G.B. TIEPOLO	Florence and Munich	1927	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
96	Hadeln (Detlev von)	Zeichnungen von Tizian	Berlin	1924	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
96A	Hamerton (P. G.) and Laurence Binyon	The Etchings of Rembrandt		1896	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	5.00
97		Hamerton (P. G.) The Etcher's Handbook ....			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	25.00
98	Harding (J. D.)	Elementary Art, or the Use of the Lead Pencil ....			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	115.00
99	HEGI (G.)	ILLUSTRIERTE FLORA VON MITTEL-EUROPA	Munich	1908-31	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	55.00

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