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,

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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
201 Gusman (Pierre) La gravure sur bois en France au XIXe siecle Paris

[1929

 USD - 14.00
202 Lewis (C. T. Courtney) The story of picture printing in England during the nineteenth century

USD - 16.80
203 Rehder (Alfred) and Ch Sprague Sargent

1911-18

 USD - 100.80
204 Boffito (Giuseppe) Biblioteca Aeronautica Italiana illustrata Florence

1929-37

 USD - 61.60
205 Audin (Marius) Histoire de l'imprimerie par l'image Paris

1929

 USD - 42.00
206 Vindel (Francisco) Mapas de America en los libros Espanoles de los siglos XVI al XVIII Madrid

1955

 USD - 50.40
207 Moeder (Marcel) Les ex-libris Alsaciens des origines a 1890 Strasbourg

1931

 USD - 25.20
208 Hoe Library New York

24 April, 1911-26 November 1912

 USD - 47.60
209 Strong (R. M.) A bibliography of birds

1939-46

 USD - 14.00
210 Bennett (Whitman) A practical guide to American nineteenth century color plate books

USD - 16.80
211 Oldendow (Knud) Begtrykkerkunsten i Groenland

USD - 8.40
212 Piantanida (Sandro) and others Authori Italiani del' 600 Milan

8-51

 USD - 44.80
213 Dahl (Svend) Histoire du livre

USD - 19.60
214 Regent (Elies) i E. Duran Bibliografia de las impressiones Lui-Lianes

1915

 USD - 25.20
215 Verini (G. B.) Luminario

USD - 28.00
216 Magriel (Paul David) A bibliography of dancing New York

1936-41

 USD - 30.80
217 Van Heurck (Emile H.) Les livres populaires Flamands Antwerp

1931

 USD - 11.20
218 Descamps-Scrive. [Sale Catalogue]

USD - 25.20
219 Stillwell (Margaret Bingham) Incunabula and Americana 1450-1800 New York

1961

 USD - 11.20
220 Aymerich Barcelona

1936

 USD - 16.80
221 Tardy Paris

1947

 USD - 19.60
222 Portique (Le) vol. 1-8, edited by Eric de Grolier Paris

1945-51

 USD - 25.20
223 Bowers (Fredson) Studies on bibliography

USD - 8.40
224 Cotarelo y Mori (Emilio) Diccionario biografico y bibliografico de Caligrafos Espanoles Madrid

1913-16

 USD - 36.40
225 Vindel (Francisco) Escudos y marcas de impresores y libreros en Espana Barcelona

1942

 USD - 19.60
226 Furlong (Guillermo, S. I.) Origines del arte tipografico en America Buenos Aires

[1947]

 USD - 16.80
227 Martin (Henry) Joyaux de l'enluminure a la Bibliotheque Nationale Paris & Brussels

1928

 USD - 30.80
228 Holmes (Sir R. R.) Specimens of Royal bookbinding from Windsor Castle

1893

 USD - 50.40
229 Paton (Lucy Allen) Selected bindings from the Gennadius library Cambridge

1924

 USD - 28.00
230 Michel (Marius) Le reliure Francaise Paris

1881

 USD - 61.60
231 Meunier (Charles) Cent reliures de la Bibliotheque Nationale Paris

1914

 USD - 28.00
232 Derome (L.) La reliure de luxe Paris

1888

 USD - 44.80
233 Bosquet (E.) La reliure

USD - 2.80
234 Ledieu (Aldus) Les reliures artistiques et armoriees de la bibliotheque d'Abbeville Paris

1891

 USD - 36.40
235 D'Enghien (H. Dubois) La reliure en Belgique en dix-neuvieme siecle Brussels

1954

 USD - 14.00
236 Morazzoni (Giuseppe) La rilegatura Piemontese nel 700

USD - 14.00
237 Helwig (H.) Handbuch der Einbandkunde Hamburg

1953-55

 USD - 30.80
238 Loubier (Hans) Buch und Bucheinband Leipzig

1923

 USD - 25.20
239 Hannover (Emil) Kunstfaerdige Garnie Bogbind indtil 1850 Copenhagen

1907

 USD - 19.60
240 Rudbeck (Johannes) Svenska Bokband under nyare tidren Bidrag till svensk bokbinderihistoria Stockholm

1910-14

 USD - 42.00
241 Hedberg (Arvid) Stockholms Bokbindare 1460-1880 Stockholm

1949

 USD - 14.00
242 Karlson (William) Bokband och Bokbindare i Lund Lund

1939

 USD - 16.80
243 Larsen (Sofus) and Anker Kyster Danish eighteenth century bindings 1730-1780 Copenhagen

1930

 USD - 30.80
244 Nilsson (Axel) Bokbandsdekorens Stilutveckling Goteborg

1922

 USD - 16.80
245 Archaeologia

USD - 8.40
246 Belin (Th.) Livres des XVe et XVIe siecles dans leurs reliures originales Paris

1914

 USD - 19.60
247 Bibliographica

1895-97

 USD - 42.00
248 Birrell & Garnett

1928

 USD - 19.60
249 Book Collector (The)

USD - 67.20
250 Brassington (W. Salt) A history of the art of bookbinding

1894

 USD - 22.40
251 Roberts (S. C.) Cambridge University Press

USD - 72.80
252 Champollion (M. J. F.) Pantheon Egyptien Paris

1823-25

 USD - 30.80
253 Clements (H. J. B.) Armorial book-stamps and their owners

USD - 14.00
254 Davenport (Cyril) Royal English Bookbindings

1896

 USD - 16.80
255 Davenport (Cyril) English embroidered bookbindings

1899

 USD - 22.40
256 Davenport (Cyril) English heraldic book-stamps

1909

 USD - 67.20
257 Davenport (Cyril) Cameo Book-stamps

1911

 USD - 14.00
258 Dickson (R.) Introduction of the art of printing into Scotland

USD - 28.00
259 Duff (E. Gordon) Early English printing

1896

 USD - 42.00
260 Duff (E. Gordon) A century of the English book trade

1905

 USD - 16.80
261 Duff (E. Gordon) The printers Cambridge

1906

 USD - 25.20
262 Ehrman (A.) The Broxbourne Library

USD - 22.40
263 Fairbairn (James) Book of crests of the families of Great Britain and Ireland

USD - 72.80
264 Fea (Alan) Memoirs of the martyr king

1905

 USD - 11.20
265 Festschrift Ernst Kyriss Stuttgart

1961

 USD - 14.00
266 Fletcher (C. R. L.), H. B. Butler and Emery Walker Historical portraits 1400-1850 Oxford

1909-19

 USD - 14.00
267 Gibson (Strickland) Early Oxford bindings Oxford

1903

 USD - 36.40
268 Goldschmidt (E. P.) Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings

1928

 USD - 123.20
269 Gumuchian & Cie Paris

[c. 1929]

 USD - 28.00
270 Haebler (Konrad) Rollen-und Plattenstempel des XVI Leipzig

1928-29

 USD - 182.00
271 Hayward (J. F.) Silver bindings from the collection of J. R. Abbey

USD - 22.40
272 Hill (W. Henry, Arthur F. and A. E.) Antonio Stradivari

1902

 USD - 126.00
273 Hobson (G. D.) Maioli

1926

 USD - 44.80
274 Hobson (G. D.) Thirty bindings

1926

 USD - 44.80
275 Hobson (G. D.) Bindings in Cambridge Libraries Cambridge

1929

 USD - 72.80
276 Hobson (G. D.) English binding before 1500 Cambridge

1929

 USD - 30.80
277 Hobson (G. D.) English bindings 1490-1940 in the library of J. R. Abbey

1940

 USD - 173.60
278 Hobson (G. D.) Blind-stamped panels in the English book-trade c. 1485-1555

1944

 USD - 30.80
279 Hobson (G. D.) Further notes on the binding of the Haye manuscript

USD - 5.60
280 Home (H. H.) The binding of books

USD - 36.40
281 Hulshof (Dr. A.) and M. J. Schretlen De kunst der oude Boekbinders Utrecht

1921

 USD - 16.80
282 Husung (Max Joseph) Bucheinbande aus der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Leipzig

1925

 USD - 70.00
283 Ker (Neil R.) Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings

USD - 19.60
284 Larsen (Sofus) and Anker Kyster Danish eighteenth century bindings 1730-1780 Copenhagen

1930

 USD - 25.20
285 London Library

1903-09

 USD - 5.60
286 Marinis (Tammaro de) Di alcune legature fatte per Paolo III Milan

1938

 USD - 8.40
287 Mitchell (W. S.) A history of Scottish bookbinding

USD - 5.60
288 Moss (Lt.-Col. WILLIAM E.) THE ENGLISH GROLIER

1941

 USD - 98.00
289 Nixon (Howard M.) Broxbourne library

1956

 USD - 89.60
290 Oldham (J. B.) Lambeth Palace Library

1935

 USD - 89.60
291 Oldham (J. B.) English blind-stamped bindings Cambridge

1952

 USD - 89.60
292 Oldham (J. B.) Blind panels of English binders Cambridge

1958

 USD - 39.20
293 Plomer (H. R.) A short history of English printing

USD - 30.80
294 Pollard (Graham) The English market for printed books (Sandars lectures 1959)

USD - 14.00
295 Powell (Roger) The Stonyhurst Gospel

USD - 39.20
296 Putman (G. H.) Books and their makers in the Middle Ages London

1896-97

 USD - 33.60
297 Quaritch (Bernard) A catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings

USD - 8.40
298 Radclyffe (C. W.) Memorials of Shrewsbury School

1843

 USD - 2.80
299 Ramsden (Charles) London bookbinders 1780-1840

USD - 56.00
300 HOBSON (A. R. A.) ROXBURGHE CLUB Oxford

1953

 USD - 392.00
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