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
Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages
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
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