Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING In Property of the late C. Palry Scott, End., K.C. The Property of the late J. B. Oldham, Esq. The Property of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, PARACELSUS,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 29, 1963 - April 29, 1963
Page Size: 904 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Aristophanes

1896

 USD - 117.60
2 Descriptive Bibliography (A)

1935

 USD - 154.00
3 Austen (Jane) Lady Susan

USD - 19.60
4 Milton (John) Paradise Lost

1758

 USD - 30.80
5 Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book

1897-1899

 USD - 61.60
6 Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse

1904

 USD - 30.80
7 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Early Work

USD - 33.60
8 Beardsley (Aubrey) The Early Works

USD - 25.20
9 Beardsley (Aubrey) A Portfolio of Drawings illustrating "Salome" by Oscar Wilde

USD - 14.00
10 Beardsley (Aubrey) Six Drawings illustrating Theophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin

USD - 44.80
11 Beardsley (Aubrey) A Book

USD - 28.00
12 Beardsley (Aubrey) A collection of posters

USD - 61.60
13 Beerbohm (Sir Max) The Works

1922-1924

 USD - 112.00
14 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Things New and Old

1923

 USD - 30.80
15 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Observations

1926

 USD - 25.20
16 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Fifty Caricatures

USD - 22.40
17 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Seven Men

USD - 14.00
18 Beerbohm (Sir Max) Rossetti and his Circle

1922

 USD - 44.80
19 Belloc (Hilaire) The Emerald

USD - 44.80
20 Bennett (Arnold) Don Juan de Marana

USD - 16.80
21 Bewick (Thomas) A History of British Birds

USD - 42.00
22 Bewick (Thomas) Figures of British Land Birds

USD - 14.00
23 Blair (Robert) The Grave

USD - 36.40
24 Bronte (Charlotte) The Professor

1857

 USD - 28.00
25 Burdett (Osbert) The Beardsley Period

USD - 16.80
26 Butterfly (The)

USD - 22.40
27 Caldecott (Randolph) Picture Books Routledge

USD - 44.80
28 Combe (William) The English Dance of Death

1815-1816

 USD - 145.60
29 Combe (William) The Dance of Life

1817

 USD - 78.40
30 Craig (E. Gordon) Nothing or The Bookplate

USD - 22.40
31 Herrick (Robert) The Poetical Works

1928

 USD - 39.20
32 The Apocrypha

1929

 USD - 16.80
33 SWIFT (JONATHAN) GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

1930

 USD - 364.00
34 Johnson (A. F.) Decorative Initial Letters

1931

 USD - 16.80
35 O'Connor (Frank) Three Tales

USD - 22.40
36 Cyprian (Saint) Opera recognita & illustrata per Joannem Oxoniensem Episcopum Oxford

1682

 USD - 22.40
37 De la Mare (Walter) Peacock Pie

USD - 14.00
38 Dickens (Charles) The Battle of Life

USD - 33.60
39 Dodgson (Campbell) The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler

USD - 2.80
40 Dodgson (Campbell) An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden

1944

 USD - 22.40
41 Dodgson (C. L.) Lewis Carroll Rhyme? and Reason?

USD - 50.40
42 ENGLISH BIBLE (THE)

1903-1905

 USD - 476.00
43 Dowson (Ernest) Verses

USD - 25.20
44 Dowson (Ernest) The Pierrot of the Minute

1897

 USD - 22.40
45 Dowson (Ernest) The Pierrot of the Minute

1897

 USD - 78.40
46 Drake (Francis) Eboracum

1736

 USD - 42.00
47 Dunsany (Lord) The Sword of Welleran

USD - 42.00
48 English (Thomas H.) An Introduction to the Collecting and History of Whitby Prints Whitby

1931

 USD - 19.60
49 Herondas

USD - 16.80
50 Catullus (Gaius Valerius) The Complete Poetry

1926

 USD - 28.00
51 Heal (Ambrose) London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIII Century

1925

 USD - 25.20
52 Hewitt (Graily) The Pen and Type-Design

1928

 USD - 19.60
53 Tomkinson (G. S.) A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in Great Britain and Ireland

1928

 USD - 19.60
54 Morison (Stanley) John Bell

1930

 USD - 36.40
55 First Edition Club

USD - 14.00
56 First Edition Club

USD - 16.80
57 Koch (Rudolf) The Book of Signs

USD - 22.40
58 Fraser (Claud Lovat) Pirates plates and decorations

USD - 14.00
59 Gallatin (A. E.) Aubrey Beardsley's Drawings and a List of Criticisms

USD - 16.80
60 Galsworthy (John) The Forsyte Saga

USD - 16.80
61 Garnett (David) Lady into Fox

USD - 25.20
62 Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake

1880

 USD - 30.80
63 Gill (Eric) Engravings

1934

 USD - 39.20
64 Gill (Eric) Clothing Without Cloth

USD - 16.80
65 Song of Songs (The)

1925

 USD - 28.00
66 Fielding (Henry) An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

USD - 19.60
67 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) TROILUS AND CRISEYDE

1927

 USD - 196.00
68 Lucian

1927

 USD - 28.00
69 Keats (John) Lamia

1928

 USD - 30.80
70 More (Sir Thomas) Utopia

1929

 USD - 36.40
71 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) THE CANTERBURY TALES

1929-1931

 USD - 224.00
72 Plato

1930

 USD - 22.40
73 FOUR GOSPELS (THE) OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

1931

 USD - 210.00
74 Goldsmith (Oliver) and Thomas Parnell Poems

1795

 USD - 33.60
75 Grahame (Kenneth) The Headswoman

USD - 14.00
76 Grahame (Kenneth) The Golden Age

USD - 53.20
77 Shaw (George Bernard) Shaw Gives Himself Away

1939

 USD - 84.00
78 Wadsworth (Edward) and Bernard Windeier Sailing-Ships and Barges of the Western Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas

USD - 25.20
79 Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of) The Poetical Works [Manchester]

1933

 USD - 33.60
80 Suckling (Sir John) Poems

USD - 30.80
81 Housman (A. E.) Last Poems

USD - 8.40
82 Huxley (Aldous) Antic Hay

USD - 42.00
83 Jonson (Ben) Volpone

1898

 USD - 61.60
84 Jonson (Ben) Volpone

USD - 22.40
85 Morris (William) The Earthly Paradise

1896-1897

 USD - 112.00
86 Farr (Florence) The Dancing Faun

USD - 44.80
87 Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories

1902

 USD - 11.20
88 Kipling (Rudyard) Poems 1886-1929

1929

 USD - 33.60
89 Kipling (Rudyard) Barrack-Room Ballads

USD - 8.40
90 Kipling (Rudyard) The Seven Seas

USD - 16.80
91 Kipling (Rudyard) They, 1905; Sea Warfare

USD - 11.20
92 Kipling (Rudyard) Sea and Sussex

1926

 USD - 16.80
93 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

USD - 11.20
94 Locke (John) The Works

1722

 USD - 2.80
95 Lucian

USD - 28.00
96 Lucian

USD - 25.20
97 Macfall (Haidane) Aubrey Beardsley

USD - 22.40
98 Malory (Sir Thomas) Le Morte Darthur

1893-1894

 USD - 28.00
99 Malory (Sir Thomas) Le Morte Darthur

1893-1894

 USD - 72.80
100 Malory (Sir Thomas) Le Morte Darthur

USD - 36.40
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
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