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
101 Masefield (John) The Faithful

USD - 28.00
102 Milne (A. A.) Winnie-the-Pooh

USD - 42.00
103 Morris (William) Art and the Beauty of the Earth

USD - 50.40
104 Moore (George) Esther Waters

USD - 19.60
105 Anacreon

1923

 USD - 14.00
106 Congreve (William) The Complete Works

1923

 USD - 72.80
107 Donne (John) Love Poems

USD - 19.60
108 Secundus (Johannes) Kisses

USD - 16.80
109 Holy Bible (The)

1924-1927

 USD - 78.40
110 Milton (John) Poems in English

1926

 USD - 28.00
111 Blake (William) Pencil Drawings

1927

 USD - 25.20
112 Voltaire (F.-M. Arouet de) The Princess of Babylon

USD - 16.80
113 Wilson (Mona) The Life of William Blake

1927

 USD - 11.20
114 Dante Alighieri

1928

 USD - 67.20
115 Harvey (William) The Anatomical Exercises

1928

 USD - 44.80
116 Beckford (William) Vathek

USD - 22.40
117 Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler

1929

 USD - 36.40
118 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) THE WORKS

1929-1933

 USD - 145.60
119 Homer

1931

 USD - 47.60
120 Montaigne (Michel de) Essays

1931

 USD - 36.40
121 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) In Memoriam

USD - 19.60
122 Herodotus

1935

 USD - 67.20
123 Symons (A. J. A) Desmond Flower and Francis Meynell

1936

 USD - 44.80
124 Milton (John) and Henry Lawes The Mask of Comus

1937

 USD - 22.40
125 Rousseau (J.-J.) The Confessions

1938

 USD - 53.20
126 White (Gilbert) The Writings

1938

 USD - 47.60
127 Nicholson (William) An Alphabet

USD - 11.20
128 Owl (The)

USD - 2.80
129 Papworth (J. B.), F. Wrangham and W. Combe Poetical Sketches of Scarborough

1813

 USD - 39.20
130 Peacock (Thomas Love) Rhododaphne: or The Thessalian Spell

1818

 USD - 61.60
131 Peacock (Thomas Love) The Misfortunes of Elphin

1829

 USD - 78.40
132 Pepys (Samuel) Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England

1690

 USD - 106.40
133 Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock

1896

 USD - 67.20
134 Poster (The)

June, 1898-May, 1901

 USD - 33.60
135 Southey (Robert) A Vision of Judgement and The Vision of Judgement by Lord Byron

USD - 8.40
136 Raymond (Jean Paul) Beyond the Threshold

1929

 USD - 28.00
137 Reid (Forrest) Illustrators of the Sixties

USD - 28.00
138 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales

1913

 USD - 50.40
139 Savoy (The)

January-December, 1896

 USD - 56.00
140 Savoy (The)

January-December, 1896

 USD - 61.60
141 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Shakespeare Head Press Oxford

1928-1929

 USD - 168.00
142 Sitwell (Sacheverell) Narrative Pictures

USD - 5.60
143 Stevenson (Robert Louis) The Works

1922-1923

 USD - 61.60
144 Stevenson (R. L.) Island Nights' Entertainments

USD - 16.80
145 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Works

1884-1893

 USD - 56.00
146 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Enoch Arden

USD - 5.60
147 Thackeray (William Makepeace) The History of Pendennis

USD - 28.00
148 Thackeray (William Makepeace) Mrs. Perkins's Ball

USD - 44.80
149 Thompson (Francis) Sister-Songs

USD - 8.40
150 Whistler (J. A. McNeill) Eden versus Whistler

USD - 8.40
151 Wilde (Oscar) Salome

1894

 USD - 33.60
152 Wilde (Oscar) Salome

1894

 USD - 16.80
153 Wilde (Oscar) De Profundis

USD - 28.00
154 Kelmscott Press

1892-3

 USD - Not Sold
155 More (Sir Thomas) Kelmscott Press

1893

 USD - Not Sold
156 Meinhold (W.) Kelmscott Press

1893

 USD - Not Sold
157 Swinburne (A. C.) Kelmscott Press

1894

 USD - Not Sold
158 Haberly (Loyd) Gregynog Press

1934

 USD - 44.80
159 Golden Cockerel Press

1938

 USD - 42.00
160 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Golden Cockerel Press

1942

 USD - 19.60
161 Golden Cockerel Press

1948

 USD - 19.60
162 Golden Cockerel Press

USD - 16.80
163 Golden Cockerel Press

USD - 14.00
164 Goethe (W. von) Faust

1908

 USD - 2.80
165 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) The springtide of life

1918

 USD - 30.80
166 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat

USD - 30.80
167 Boccaccio (Giov.) The Decameron

USD - 5.60
168 Malleus Maleficarum

1928

 USD - 22.40
169 Cocteau (Jean) Orphee

1933

 USD - 61.60
170 Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley novels Edinburgh

1886-87

 USD - Not Sold
171 Hawthorne (Nathaniel) Works Boston and New York

1900

 USD - 30.80
172 Eliot (George) Works Boston and New York

1909

 USD - 36.40
173 Hugo (Victor) Works Boston

1894-1904

 USD - 16.80
174 Bain (F. W.) Indian stories

1903-12

 USD - 2.80
175 Bronte (Sisters) Novels

1898

 USD - 53.20
176 Smollett (Tobias) Works

1899-1901

 USD - 39.20
177 Gibbon (Edward) The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire

1838

 USD - 72.80
178 Graetz (H.) History of the Jews

1891-92

 USD - 19.60
179 Jewish Encyclopedia (The)

1901-06

 USD - 78.40
180 Hartley (John) Catalogus universalis librorum

1699

 USD - 117.60
181 Saldenus (Guilelmus) De libris varioque eorum usu et abusu libri duo Amsterdam

1688

 USD - 19.60
182 Osmont (J. B. L.) Dictionnaire typographique Paris

1768

 USD - 22.40
183 Cohn (Albert M.) George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonne

1924

 USD - 19.60
184 Douglas (R. J. H.) The works of George Cruikshank

USD - 2.80
185 Browne (Edgar) Phiz and Dickens

1913

 USD - 14.00
186 White (Gleeson) English illustration

1906

 USD - 19.60
187 Ongania (F.) L'art de l'imprimerie a Venise Venice

1896-97

 USD - 30.80
188 Karpinsky (Louis C.) Bibliography of mathematical works printed in America through 1850 Ann Arbor, Mich

1940

 USD - 30.80
189 Bitting (Katherine Golden) Gastronomic bibliography San Francisco

1939

 USD - 30.80
190 Tuer (Andrew) Pages and pictures from forgotten children's books

1898-99

 USD - 30.80
191 Massachusetts Horticultural Society Cambridge

1918-20

 USD - 33.60
192 Nisard (Charles) Histoire des livres populaires ou de la litterature de colportage Paris

1854

 USD - 25.20
193 Nielsen (Birger Frank) H. C. Andersen Bibliografi Copenhagen

1942

 USD - 47.60
194 Thibaudeau (F.) La lettre d'imprimerie Paris

[1927]

 USD - 19.60
195 Jessen (Peter) Meister der Schreibkunst aus drei Jahrunderten Stuttgart

1923

 USD - 25.20
196 Goldschmid (Edgar) Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung Leipzig

1925

 USD - 36.40
197 Pauly (A.) Bibliographie des sciences medicales Paris, London

1874, 1954

 USD - 5.60
198 Stevens (Henry N.) The first delineation of the new world and the first use of the name America on a printed map

1928

 USD - 19.60
199 Hunter (Dard) Papermaking through eighteen centuries New York

1930

 USD - 33.60
200 Nicolai (Alexandre) Histoire des moulins a papier du Sud-Ouest de la France 1300-1800 Bordeaux

1935

 USD - 25.20
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