Sothebys: Printed Books, 4 Jul 1974,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 04, 1974 - July 04, 1974
Page Size: 332 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
001 BRIDGES (ROBERT) POEMS WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MCMXIII.

1914

 GBP - 220.00
002 DANTE ALIGHIERE LO INFERNO.

1902

 GBP - 190.00
003 DANTE ALIGHIERI LO PARADISO.

1905

 GBP - 240.00
004 ECCLESIASTICUS THE WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH.

1932

 GBP - 310.00
005 FRANCIS OF ASSISI (Saint) I Fioretti.

1922

 GBP - 80.00
006 THUCYDIDES [HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR], translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.

1930

 GBP - 140.00
007 Ovidius Naso (Publius) The Heroycall Epistles; translated into English verse by George Tuberville.

GBP - 12.00
008 [COBDEN-SANDERSON (T.J.)] AMANTIUM IRAE.

1914

 GBP - 140.00
009 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] The City Metropolitan.

1910

 GBP - 27.00
010 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] The City Planned.

[1911]

 USD - Not Sold
011 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] The City Planned, another copy.

[1911]

 GBP - 22.00
012 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] The New Science Museum.

1914

 GBP - 26.00
013 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] The New Science Museum, another copy.

1914

 GBP - 22.00
014 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] On a passage in Julius Caesar.

1913

 GBP - 27.00
015 [Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.)] Shakespearian Punctuation.

1911

 GBP - 27.00
016 MILTON (JOHN) PARADISE LOST; PARADISE REGAINED.

1902--1905

 GBP - 155.00
017 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) THE TRAGICALL HISTORIE OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARKE.

1909

 GBP - 175.00
018 GAUTIER (JUDITH) Album de Poemes Tires du Livre de Jade.

1911

 GBP - 350.00
019 MOORE (T. STURGE) A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE ERAGNY PRESS.

1903

 GBP - 170.00
020 MOORE (T. Sturge) The Little School, a posy of rhymes.

1905

 USD - Not Sold
021 PERRAULT (CHARLES) Histoire de Peau d'Ane.

1902

 GBP - 75.00
022 CASTI[G]LIO[NE] (BALDESSAR) The Courtyer . . . done into English by Thomas Hoby.

1900

 GBP - 26.00
023 LAWRENCE (T. E.) Secret Despatches from Arabia.

[1939]

 GBP - 75.00
024 Stewart (Cecil) Topiary.

[1954]

 GBP - 6.00
025 SONG OF SONGS (THE), NUMBER 8 [OF 30 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND ROBERT GIBBINGS]. Waltham St. Lawrence

1925

 GBP - 320.00
026 SONG OF SONGS (THE) /book_records/866478 Waltham St. Lawrence

1925

 GBP - 85.00
027 STERNE (LAURENCE) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Waltham St. Lawrence

1929--1930

 GBP - 50.00
028 ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA) POEMS, CHOSEN BY WALTER DE LA MARE. N Newtown

1930

 GBP - 38.00
029 Vaughan (Henry) Poems. Newtown

1924

 GBP - 30.00
030 Campbell (Roy) Poems. Paris

1930

 USD - Not Sold
031 HERRICK (ROBERT) POEMS CHOSEN OUT OF THE WORKS [edited by F. S. Ellis.]

1895

 GBP - 180.00
032 MORRIS (WILLIAM) Poems by the Way.

1891

 GBP - 50.00
033 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) THE POEMS [edited by F. S. Ellis.

1893

 GBP - 160.00
034 Anacreon, done into English by Abraham Cowley.

1923

 GBP - 8.00
035 Apocrypha (The)

1924

 GBP - 21.00
036 various various

GBP - 14.00
037 Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha, Motteux translation revised . . . by J. Ozell.

1930

 GBP - 34.00
038 Coleridge ([Samuel Taylor]) Selected Poems.

1935

 GBP - 13.00
039 various various

GBP - 19.00
040 Donne (John) Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Hayward.

1929

 USD - Not Sold
041 DRYDEN (JOHN) The Dramatic Works,...edited by Montague Summers.

1931--1932

 GBP - 90.00
042 Farquahar (George) Complete Works, edited by Charles Stonehill.

1930

 GBP - 32.00
043 HARVEY (Dr. WILLIAM) The Anatomical Exercises . . . edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

1928

 GBP - 28.00
044 HOMER The Iliad [The Odyssey, translated by Alexander] Pope.

1931

 GBP - 65.00
045 Montaigne ([Michel de]) ESSAYS. John Florio's Translation.

1931

 GBP - 38.00
046 various various

GBP - 24.00
047 Plutarch The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romanes . . . translated . . . into French by James Amyot: and . . . into English by Thomas North.

1929--1930

 GBP - 32.00
048 various various

1929--1930

 GBP - 24.00
049 Pope (Alexander) and others Pope's Own Miscellany.

1935

 GBP - 10.00
050 Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of) Collected Works . . edited by John Hayward.

1926

 USD - Not Sold
051 Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) The Confessions ... edited by A. S. B. Glover.

1938

 GBP - 30.00
052 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) THE WORKS, edited by Herbert Farjeon.

1929--1933

 GBP - 190.00
053 Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler, The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and Sanderson, edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

1929

 GBP - 35.00
054 Warlock (Peter, editor) Songs of the Garden.

1925

 GBP - 14.00
055 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) THE WORKS, [edited by A. W. Pollard]. Stratford-upon-Avon

1928--1929

 GBP - 170.00
056 FROISSART ([Sir JOHN]) CRONYCLES, translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners. Oxford

1927--1928

 GBP - 160.00
057 [Bradley (K. H.)] Fair Rosamund by Michael Field.

1897

 GBP - 11.00
058 Browning (Robert) Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.

1899

 GBP - 24.00
059 Guerin (Maurice de) The Centaur. The Bacchante, translated . . . by T. S. Moore.

1899

 GBP - 125.00
060 [Marlowe (Christopher)] Doctor Faustus.

1903

 GBP - 34.00
061 Parables (The) from the Gospels.

1903

 GBP - 100.00
062 [Shakespeare (William)] The Passionate Pilgrim.

1896

 GBP - 40.00
063 various various

GBP - 28.00
064 Blake (William) Pencil Drawings [First Series] . . . edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

1927

 GBP - 32.00
065 Blake (William) Pencil Drawings [First Series] . . . edited by Geoffrey Keynes, another copy.

1927

 GBP - 34.00
066 various various

GBP - 28.00
067 Great Exhibition of 1851 (The) Remembrances of the Great Exhibition. Paris

[1852]

 GBP - 58.00
068 Heal (Sir Ambrose) The Signboards of Old London Shops ... during the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries.

1947

 GBP - 26.00
069 various various

GBP - 14.00
070 various various

GBP - 34.00
071 Panorama Illustrated London News (The). Panorama of London and the River Thames.

[c. 1850]

 GBP - 52.00
072 various various

GBP - 26.00
073 Brangwyn ([Sir] Frank)---Barman (Christian) The Bridge: A Chapter in the History of Building.

1926

 GBP - 30.00
074 various various

GBP - 32.00
075 various various

GBP - 24.00
076 Lawrence (T. E.) Oriental Assembly . . . edited by A. W. Lawrence.

1939

 GBP - 11.00
077 LAWRENCE (T. E.) T. E. Lawrence to his Biographer, Robert Graves; T. E. Lawrence to his Biographer, Liddell Hart.

1938

 GBP - 80.00
078 Rackham (Arthur) various

GBP - 28.00
079 Schaldach (William J.) Fish by Schaldach. Collected Etchings, Drawings, and Water Colours of Trout, Salmon, and other Game Fish.

[1937]

 GBP - 21.00
080 Strange (Edward F.) The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige.

1925

 GBP - 22.00
081 Thomson (William M.) The Land and the Book; . . . Central Palestine and Phoenicia.

1883

 GBP - 7.00
082 [Venturi (Lionello)] Botticelli. Vienna & London

[1937]

 GBP - 4.00
083 WILLIAMSON (G. C.) The Book of Famille Rose.

1927 [1926]

 GBP - 62.00
084 Bertram (Charles) various

GBP - 6.00
085 various various

GBP - 8.00
086 Circus Poster Miss Cashmore Sport Act. Copenhagen

[c. 1890]

 GBP - 12.00
087 CIRCUS PROGRAMMES A collection of approximately 80 programmes, mostly for Hengler's Grand Cirque.

c. 1880

 GBP - 125.00
088 [HILL (AARON)] The Actor: or, a Treatise on the Art of Playing.

1755

 GBP - 60.00
089 various various

GBP - 30.00
090 Lewis (William Thomas, called 'Gentleman Lewis', actor) A.L.s. [Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]

30 Oct. 1805, to John Wilkinson

 GBP - 2.00
091 Lloyd (Miss Marie) Coloured photograph of Marie Lloyd with Charlie and Will Edgar

1895

 GBP - 2.00
092 Various Various

GBP - 28.00
093 Various Various

GBP - 1.00
094 Playbills A collection 24 playbills, mostly of provincial theatres

[1757?--1827]

 GBP - 68.00
095 Playbills Two playbills printed on silk Boston

GBP - 7.00
096 Play-Pictorial (The), [incorporting The Play].

GBP - 80.00
097 Pollock's Toy Theatre Victoria Theatre.

[n.d.]

 GBP - 20.00
098 Powell (W., prompter) A.L.s.. Lyceum Theatre

6 March 1810

 GBP - 6.00
099 Programmes A collection of approximately 500 theatre programmes

c. 1885--1913

 GBP - 38.00
100 Programmes A collection of approximately 200 theatre programmes

GBP - 20.00
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