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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Circus Busch | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 | ||
| 402 | Circus Maxo: Young Atlas | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 | ||
| 403 | S. F. Cody | Two lithographed posters for the Trotting Club Levallois and Velodrome de la Seine | Paris | [1893] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 330.00 |
| 404 | S. F. Cody | Four lithographed pictorial posters for the "Klondyke Nugget" | [c. 1900] |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 572.00 | |
| 405 | S. F. Cody | Two lithographed posters printed in colour | [c.1905] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 | |
| 406 | Equestrian Acts | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | |||
| 407 | Gabriel and Miss Hollya | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 408 | Hagenbeck's India Show: stock poster with elephant act | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 | ||
| 409 | Merian's New Dog Comedy Sketch | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 396.00 | ||
| 410 | Sarrasani's Cowboys: two stock posters depicting a group of riders and a cowboy in a tug of war with his horse | Hamburg | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 411 | Dorothy Kilner | [The Holiday Present | [1781] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 412 | Dorothy Kilner | [Little Stories for Little Folks in Easy Lessons of One | [1783?] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 660.00 | |
| 413 | Dorothy Kilner | [The Village School | [17857] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 605.00 | |
| 414 | Dorothy Kilner | [The Village School | [1785?] |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 415 | Dorothy Kilner "M. Pelham" | Jingles | 1806 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |
| 416 | Dorothy Kilner "M. Pelham" | The Rational Brutes | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 638.00 | ||
| 417 | Lady Eleanor Fenn | [Fables in Monosyllables; Morals to a Set of Fables | 1783 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | |
| 418 | Lady Eleanor Fenn | [Fables in which Morals are drawn incidentally in various ways | [1784?] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | |
| 419 | Virtue in a Cottage | [c.1790] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 420 | Lucy Peacock | [The Knight of the Rose | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 421 | Poetical Description of Beasts (A) | 1777 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 3,300.00 | ||
| 422 | Set of Cuts for Children (A) | 1797 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 1,155.00 | ||
| 423 | Wren (The) | 1787 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 424 | S. W. | A Puzzle for a Curious Girl | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 425 | Adventures of Valentine and Orson | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 385.00 | |||
| 426 | Alphabet | Lyon | 1555-[?1558] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 427 | Anecdotes for Good Children | Banbury | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 428 | Eleanor Vere Boyle---B. (M.L.) and W.M.C. | A Children's Summer | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 528.00 | ||
| 429 | F. J. Bertuch | Bilderbuch fur Kinder | Weimar | 1798-1821 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 430 | Edward Clark | The Protestant School-Master | 1680 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 770.00 | |
| 431 | George Cruikshank | A Comic Alphabet | Tilt | [1837] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 495.00 |
| 432 | Leonard Culman | Sententiae Pueriles pro Primis Latinae | London | 1680 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 748.00 |
| 433 | Curiosities of London and Westminster Described (The) | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 286.00 | |||
| 434 | Roald Dahl | The Gremlins | New York | 1943 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 |
| 435 | Dandy's Perambulations (The) 16pp. | 1819 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 308.00 | ||
| 436 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | ["Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | New York | 1866 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 437 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | ["Lewis Carroll" . Alices's Adventures in Wonderland | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 | ||
| 438 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Through the Looking-Glass | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 572.00 | ||
| 439 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | The Game of Logic | 1887 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 1,980.00 | |
| 440 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | The Game of Logic | 1886 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 770.00 | |
| 441 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | The Nursery Alice | 1889 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 770.00 | |
| 442 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | "The Sea Dirge" in College Rhymes vol. II | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 1,045.00 | ||
| 443 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. "Lewis Carroll" | An Index to "In Memoriam" | Oxford | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | |
| 444 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Phantasmagoria and other Poems | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 418.00 | ||
| 445 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Aventures d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 446 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll"---Leathes (E. Stanley) | Alice's Wonderland Birthday Book | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 447 | Charles Lutwidge Dodsgon "Lewis Carroll"---Freiligarth-Kroeker (Kate) | Alice thro' the Looking-Glass and other Fairy Plays for Children | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 448 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll"---Tasso (Torquato) | La Gerusalemme Liberata | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 449 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll"---King (Gerald) | The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Wonderland | Oxford | 27 January, 1982 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 440.00 |
| 450 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll"---Lewis (Caroline) | Clara in Blunderland | 1902 |
USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 451 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll"---Boyd (William) | The Songs from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"; The Songs from "Through the Looking-Glass"; and another volume by the same composer | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 452 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1868-1872 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 | |
| 453 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Through the Looking-Glass | New York and London | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 454 | C.L. Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1866-1872 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 455 | Famous Curiosities Lodged in the Tower of London (The) | London | [inscription dated 1771] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 | |
| 456 | Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 1,650.00 | |||
| 457 | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 1908 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 682.00 | |
| 458 | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | 1908 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 495.00 | |
| 459 | Kate Greenaway---Jeune (Margaret S.) | My School Days in Paris | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | ||
| 460 | Kate Greenaway | A Day in a Child's Life | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 461 | Kate Greenaway---Spielmann (M.H.) and G.S. Layard | Kate Greenaway | 1905 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 | |
| 462 | J.L.C. and W.C. Grimm | German Popular Stories | 1825-1826 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 | |
| 463 | Happy Courtship | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | |||
| 464 | Happy Courtship | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |||
| 465 | History of Goody Two Shoes | [watermarked 1794] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 660.00 | ||
| 466 | Kleines Bilder-Cabinet | Augsburg | 1735 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 | |
| 467 | La Mothe, (Marie Catherine, Countess d'Aulnoy) | The Celebrated Fairy Tales of Mother Bunch | 1817 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 462.00 | |
| 468 | Sarah Catherine Martin | The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog | GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 440.00 | ||
| 469 | A. A. Milne | The House at Pooh Corner | 1928 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 | |
| 470 | A. A. Milne | When We Were Very Young | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | ||
| 471 | A. A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 | ||
| 472 | A. A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | 1926 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 660.00 | |
| 473 | Mrs. Norton's Story Book | [inscription dated 1797] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | ||
| 474 | New History of England (A) from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the end of George II | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 475 | New History of England (A) | Gainsborough | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 476 | New Royal Primer (The) | [inscription dated 1765] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,650.00 | ||
| 477 | Pantomime Posters | Waddington | [c.1910] |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 880.00 | |
| 478 | Charles Perrault | Histories | 1741 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 4,180.00 | |
| 479 | Beatrix Potter | Changing Pictures | Nister | [inscription dated 1894] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 330.00 |
| 480 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | February 1902 |
GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 481 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | 1902 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 482 | Beatrix Potter | The Tailor of Gloucester | December 1902 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 | |
| 483 | Beatrix Potter | The Tailor of Gloucester | December 1902 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 484 | Beatrix Potter | The Pie and the Patty Pan | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 485 | Beatrix Potter | The Pie and the Patty-Pan | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 486 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 487 | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Jeremy Fisher | GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 484.00 | ||
| 488 | Beatrix Potter | The Fairy Caravan | 1929 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,210.00 | |
| 489 | William Brighty Rands | Lilliput Levee | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 490 | William Roscoe | The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 491 | Sluggard (The); The Kite | [c.1820] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 308.00 | ||
| 492 | School Mistress (The) | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 493 | Saint-Pierre (Jacques-Bernardin-Henri de) | La Chaumiere Indienne | Paris | 1791 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 494 | B.A.T. | Cobler! Stick to your Last | 1807 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | 660.00 | |
| 495 | J.R.R. Tolkein | The Hobbit | 1937 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 3,080.00 | |
| 496 | Tom Thumb's Great Alphabet | [c.1805] |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 286.00 | ||
| 497 | Andrew Tuer | History of the Horn-Book | 1896 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 275.00 | |
| 498 | Tragical History of the Children in the Wood (The) | London and York | [inscription dated 1793] |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 286.00 | |
| 499 | Isaac Watts | Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language for the use of Children | 1784 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 715.00 | |
| 500 | Wren (The) | Darlington | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.")
