Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Maud | 1893 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |
| 302 | William Morris | Gothic Architecture | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 303 | William Shakespeare | Poems | 1893 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | |
| 304 | Lord Alfred Tennyson | Maud | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 305 | William Morris | The Story of the Glittering Plain | 1894 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 572.00 | |
| 306 | Psalmi Penitentiales | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |||
| 307 | Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani | The Book of Wisdom and Lies | 1894 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 242.00 | |
| 308 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetical Works | [1894-1895] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 | |
| 309 | William Morris | Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair | 1895 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | |
| 310 | Tale of Beowulf (The) | 1895 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 311 | William Morris | The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | 1898 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 902.00 | |
| 312 | William Morris | A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press | 1898 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | |
| 313 | Book (The) of Ruth and the Book of Esther | 1896 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 880.00 | ||
| 314 | Book (The) of Ruth and the Book of Esther | 1896 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 315 | John Keats | La Belle Dame Sans Merci | 1906 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 770.00 | |
| 316 | Pierre de Ronsard | Choix de Sonnets | 1902 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 317 | Robert Browning | Men and Women | 1908 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 318 | Francis of Assisi (Saint) I Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello | 1922 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 319 | CR. and Janet Ashbee | The Essex House Song Book | 1903-1905 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 320 | CR. and Janet Ashbee | The Essex House Song Book | 1903-1905 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 | |
| 321 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Flower and the Leaf | 1902 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 322 | Book of Jonah (The) | 1926 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 935.00 | ||
| 323 | Jean de Lacombe | A Compendium of the East | 1937 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 | |
| 324 | W.O.E. Oesterley | Roses of Sharon | 1937 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 385.00 | |
| 325 | T. E. Lawrence | Men in Print | 1940 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 495.00 | |
| 326 | John Keats | Endymion | 1947 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 572.00 | |
| 327 | Francis Beaumont | Salmacis and Hermaphroditus | 1951 |
USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 328 | Ben Jonson | A Croppe of Kisses | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 329 | Michel Montaigne | Essays | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 462.00 | ||
| 330 | F. L. Lucas | The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 331 | Eric Gill | Id Quod Visum Placet | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 332 | Katherine Mansfield | The Garden Party | 1939 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 990.00 | |
| 333 | Giovanni Boccaccio | The Nymphs of Fiesole | Verona | 1952 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 |
| 334 | Nikolay Gogol | The Overcoat | Verona | 1975 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 |
| 335 | Bernardino Barduzzi | A Letter in Praise of Verona | Verona | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 336 | T.Gwynn Jones | Detholiad o Ganiadau | 1926 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 770.00 | |
| 337 | Aesop | 1931 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,265.00 | ||
| 338 | John Milton | Four Poems: L'Allegro | 1932 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 | |
| 339 | Xenophon | 1936 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 704.00 | ||
| 340 | Caneuon Ceiriog | Detholiad | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 341 | Charles Lamb | Elia and the Last Essays of Elia | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 342 | Edward Thomas | Chosen Essays | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 343 | Book of Jonah (The) | 1979 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,050.00 | ||
| 344 | Chester Play of the Deluge (The) | 1977 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 345 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 1976 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 935.00 | |
| 346 | J. G. Lubbock | Perceptions of the Earth | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 347 | Anthony Gross | The Very Rich Hours of Le Boulve | 1980 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 418.00 | |
| 348 | Charles Dickens | The Works | 1937-1938 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,640.00 | |
| 349 | Charles Dickens | The Works | 1937-1938 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,860.00 | |
| 350 | Charlotte, Anne, Emily and Branwell Bronte | The Works | 1931-1932 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,760.00 | |
| 351 | T.J. Cobden-Sanderson | The City Planned | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 352 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 353 | Daisy and Margueritte | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 354 | Daniel Defoe | The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York | 1979 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 462.00 | |
| 355 | First Book of Moses Called Genesis (The) | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 682.00 | |||
| 356 | Anatole France | At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque | Chicago | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 357 | Doves | San Francisco | 1929, 1916-1929 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |
| 358 | Eric Gill | The Lord's Song | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 359 | Reginald Hallward | Vox Humana | Shorne | 1900 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 |
| 360 | Holy Bible (The) | 1935 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 361 | Homer | San Francisco | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 362 | Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |||
| 363 | James Kirkup | Zen Gardens | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 364 | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 365 | Lilac Tree Press | Cheshire | 1957-1975 |
USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 366 | William Morris | Gothic Architecture | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 367 | William Morris | The Roots of the Mountains | 1901-2 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 825.00 | |
| 368 | Stanley Morison | Fra Luca de Pacioli | New York | [1934] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 |
| 369 | Edgar Allen Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | Maastricht | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 418.00 | |
| 370 | James Reeves | Arcadian Ballads | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 371 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Duineser Elegien | 1931 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 550.00 | |
| 372 | Pierre de Ronsard | Abrege de l'Art Poetique Frangois | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 373 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Hand and Soul | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 374 | Luigi Santucci | La Donna con la Boceo Aperta | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 375 | Song of Roland (The) | Cambridge | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 376 | Sette of Odd Volumes (Ye) | 1880-1927 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,420.00 | ||
| 377 | Frank Wedekind | Felix und Galathea | Berlin | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 378 | Henricus Cornelius Agrippa | De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres | Cologne | 1533 |
USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 379 | George Armstrong | The publisher's file copies of over 60 volumes | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 380 | S. W. Clarke and Adolphe Blind | The Bibliography of Conjuring | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 484.00 | ||
| 381 | Conjuror's Magazine (The) | Devonport | [c. 1860] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 528.00 | |
| 382 | Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant | Our Magic | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 383 | Henry A.A. Whiteley | Memories of Circus Variety etc. | 1908 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | |
| 384 | Photographs | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 385 | Posters and handbills | [c.1882] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 386 | Astrological Tables | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 330.00 | |||
| 387 | Matthew Buchinger | A fine calligraphic specimen with the family tree and arms of Thomas Bancks above panel dated Belfast June the 3rd | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 682.00 | ||
| 388 | Fireworks and Ballooning | GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | 1,870.00 | |||
| 389 | Photographs | 1933-1955 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 390 | Rabbi Solomon | The Clavis or Key to unlock the Mysteries of Magic | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 495.00 | ||
| 391 | Herr Chiariny | Handbill listing various equestrian feats performed by Herr Chiariny | GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 396.00 | ||
| 392 | Rope Dancers | Wurtzburg | 1810-1833 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 393 | Mademoiselle Mariani | Handbill for the rope dancer and her company | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | ||
| 394 | Astley's Royal Amphitheatre | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 682.00 | |||
| 395 | Six handbills featuring the Tourniaire troupe | Munich | 1816-1829 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 440.00 | |
| 396 | Two large letterpress posters | Bern | 1848 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 397 | Eleven large handbills featuring a troupe of Arabs and Moroccans | Wurtzburg and Munich | 1849-1871 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 935.00 | |
| 398 | Fouraux Troupe | Wurtzburg | Jan. 2-15, 1822 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 399 | Alfred Morissy | New York | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 400 | Animal Acts | Madrid | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
