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
101	Programmes	A collection of 9 Souvenir programmes			GBP -	2.00
102	Purdom (C. B.)	Two note-books			GBP -	4.00
103	Sadler (John Kendal)	The House of Life [a tragedy].			GBP -	3.00
104	Siddons (Mrs. Sarah)	A collection of 6 playbills of performances at the Theatre Royal, Dublin			GBP -	46.00
105	Various	Various			GBP -	12.00
106		Various			GBP -	16.00
107		Theatre Royal, Covent Garden		c. 1797	GBP -	42.00
108	Theatre Royal, York	A collection of approximately 100 playbills.			GBP -	115.00
109		Theatrical Observer (The); and daily bills of the Play			GBP -	5.00
110		Theatrical Photographs			GBP -	45.00
111	Various	Various			GBP -	14.00
112	A'Beckett (Gilbert Abbott)	The Comic History of England.		1847--1848	GBP -	26.00
113	[Combe (William)]	The Tour [Second Tour] of Doctor Syntax.		1815--1820	GBP -	40.00
114	Egan (Pierce)	Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic.		[n.d.]	GBP -	36.00
115	ACKERMANN (R[UDOLPH])	A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.		1815	GBP -	1,350.00
116	Anacreon	Odes, translated into English Verse, with Notes by Thomas Moore.		1800	GBP -	13.00
117	AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)	THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. A selection of plates facsimile		1972	GBP -	70.00
118	Badger (George Percy)	Description of Malta and Gozo.	Malta	1838	GBP -	46.00
119	Bewick (Thomas)	Bewick Gleanings: being Impressions from Copperplates and Wood Blocks engraved in the Bewick Workshop . . .	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1886	GBP -	36.00
120	Blake (William)	The First Book of Urizen, number 15 signed by Wm. Muir.		1888	GBP -	22.00
121	BLAKE (W[ILLIAM])	Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience.		[1885]	GBP -	55.00
122	Blake (William)	There is no Natural Religion.		[1886]	GBP -	21.00
123	Browning (Robert)	The Works with introductions by F. G. Kenyon.		1912	GBP -	11.00
124	various	various			GBP -	16.00
125	various	various			GBP -	11.00
126	various	various			GBP -	21.00
127	various	various			GBP -	14.00
128	Cruikshank (George)	The Comic Almanack for 1835[-47] . . . by Rigdum Funnidos, Gent..		[1834--1846]	GBP -	40.00
129	Cruikshank (George)	Points of Humour, part I and II, in 1 vol..		1823--1824	GBP -	50.00
130	D'Arblay (Madame [Frances])	Diary and Letters as edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett.		1893	GBP -	11.00
131	Dickens (Charles)	various			GBP -	21.00
132	[Dodgson (C. L.)]	Le Avventure d'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie.		1872	GBP -	14.00
133	DORE (GUSTAV) AND BLACHARD, JERROLD	London. A Pilgrimage.		1872	GBP -	85.00
134	Edgeworth (Maria)	Belinda.		1821	GBP -	15.00
135	[Evans (Mary Ann] George Eliot)	Daniel Deronda.	Edinburgh and London	1876	GBP -	40.00
136	[Fane (John, Earl of Westmoreland)]	Memoir of the Early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain.		1820	GBP -	28.00
137	Feasey (Henry John)	Westminster Abbey.		1909	GBP -	6.00
138	various	various		1695--1720	GBP -	19.00
139	Galsworthy (John)	various			GBP -	42.00
140	various	various			GBP -	75.00
141	Greenwood (C. and J.)	Map of the County of Cumberland, from an Actual Survey, made in the Years 1821, and 1822 ... corrected to the Present Period.		24th February 1830	GBP -	30.00
142	Greenwood (C. and J)	Map of the County of Lancaster, from an Actual Survey made in the Year 1818...corrected to the Present Period.		24th February 1830	GBP -	32.00
143	Greenwood (C. and J)	Map of the County of Surrey, from an actual Survey made in the Years 1822 and 1823 . . . corrected to the Present Period.		4th July 1829	GBP -	30.00
144	Greenwood (C. and J.)	Map of the County of Westmorland, from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1822 and 1823 . . . corrected to the Present Period.		24th February 1830	GBP -	32.00
145	Hardy (Thomas)	The Return of the Native.		1929	GBP -	19.00
146	various	various			GBP -	30.00
147	Ireland (W. H.)	England's Topographer, or, A New and Complete History of the County of Kent.		1828--1830	GBP -	80.00
148	Kaye (G. R., editor)	The Bakshali Manuscript: A Study in Medieval Mathematics.	Calcutta & Delhi	1927--1933	GBP -	38.00
149	KIPLING (RUDYARD)	THE COMPLETE WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE.		1937--1939	GBP -	1,350.00
150	various	various			GBP -	45.00
151	Lamb (Charles)	Specimens of English Dramatic Poets.		1808	GBP -	16.00
152	Lynch (Bohun)	The Prize Ring.		1925	GBP -	20.00
153	various	various			GBP -	24.00
154	Moss (W. G.)	The History and Antiquities of the Town and Port of Hastings.		1824	GBP -	14.00
155	Neale (John Preston) and John Le Keux	Views of the most interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain.		1824--1825	GBP -	32.00
156	Newman (John Henry [Cardinal])	Apologia pro Vita Sua.		1864	GBP -	24.00
157	various	various			GBP -	38.00
158	various	various			GBP -	20.00
159	PATMORE (COVENTRY)	Amelia, Tamerton Church-Tower, etc., with Prefatory Study on English Metrical Law.		1878	GBP -	18.00
160		Practical Hints on Pyrotechny, and the Art of Making Balloons, for the Use of Amateurs.	Dublin	1850	GBP -	30.00
161	various	various			GBP -	16.00
162	various	various			GBP -	17.00
163	Roscoe (Thomas)	various			GBP -	48.00
164	Ruskin (John)	Frondes Agrestes. Readers in Modern Painters.	Orpington	1875	GBP -	8.00
165	various	various			GBP -	40.00
166	various	various			GBP -	14.00
167	Shaw ([George] Bernard)	The Works		1930--1932	GBP -	40.00
168	SMITH (JOHN THOMAS)	Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Traders and other Persons of Notoriety in London and its Environs.		1815	GBP -	32.00
169		various			GBP -	22.00
170	Swinburne (Algernon Charles)	The Ballade of Villon and Fat Madge.		1910	GBP -	28.00
171	various	various			GBP -	18.00
172	Tombleson ([William])	Views of the Rhine, edited by W. G. Fearnside.		1830	GBP -	90.00
173	Townshend (Chaucy Hare)	Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It.		1844	GBP -	12.00
174	Waite (Arthur Edward)	Strange Houses of Sleep.		1904	GBP -	6.00
175	Walton (Izaac) and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler [edited] by Sir Harris Nicolas.		1860	GBP -	34.00
176	various	various			GBP -	30.00
177	WILDE (OSCAR)	[WORKS].		1908	GBP -	280.00
178	Wilson (John Marius, editor)	The Imperial Gazeteer of Scotland or Dictionary of Scottish Topography.	Edinburgh	[n.d.]	GBP -	28.00
179	[Akenside (Mark)]	Odes on Several Subjects.		1745	GBP -	26.00
180	Various	Various			GBP -	18.00
181	Anstey (C.)	Epistola Poetica Familiaris . . . [pertaining to a poem] cui Titulus An Election Ball.	Bath	1776	GBP -	24.00
182	various	various			GBP -	22.00
183	ARABIAN TALES	Being a Continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments . . . translated . . . into French by Dom Chavis and M. Cazotte, and now translated into English	Edinburgh	1792	GBP -	22.00
184	[ARMSTRONG (JOHN)]	The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem.		1744	GBP -	40.00
185	Augustine (Saint)	A Precious Booke of Heavenly Meditations . . . [edited] by Tho. Rogers.		1629	GBP -	17.00
186	Baker (Henry)	The Microscope made Easy.		1742	GBP -	46.00
187	Beaumont (Joseph)	Original Poems in English and Latin.	Cambridge	1749	GBP -	26.00
188	Bebel (Heinrich)	various			GBP -	45.00
189	Bennett (Mrs. [Agnes Maria])	The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors.	Dublin	1798	GBP -	24.00
190	Various	Various			GBP -	16.00
191	Bentham (Jeremy)	Defence of Usury.		1790	GBP -	34.00
192	[Bentley (Richard)]	Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free-Thinking [by Anthony Collins] in a Letter to F[rancis] H[are] D.D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis.		1713	GBP -	5.00
193	BIBLE, French and Latin	La Saincte Bible, Latine-Francoise.	Lyons	1560	GBP -	52.00
194	BIBLE, Latin	Biblia Sacra Vtriusque Testamenti [edited by Johannes Rudelius]	Cologne	1527	GBP -	72.00
195	[BIGNON (JEAN PAUL)]	The Adventures of Abdalla . . . sent by the Sultan of the Indies, to make a Discovery of the Island of Borico . . . translated into French . . . by Mr. de Sandisson [pseud.] and now done into English by William Hatchett.		1729	GBP -	85.00
196	Binning (Captain Thomas)	A Light to the Art of Gunnery.		[? early eighteenth century]	GBP -	10.00
197	[Blackwell (Thomas)]	An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer.		1735	GBP -	20.00
198	[Blaeu (Jan)]	Leicestrensis Comitatus. Leicester Shire.	[Amsterdam]	[1645]	GBP -	34.00
199	Book	(The) of Common Prayer . . . together with the Psalter.	Cambridge	1761	GBP -	32.00
200	Bourne ([Henry])	Observations on Popular Antiquities; including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares . . . as also, an Appendix . . . by John Brand.	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1777	GBP -	26.00

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