Sothebys: MODERN CONTINENTAL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS INCLUDING MANY UNIQUE COPIES ACCOMPANIED BY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS THE PROPERTY OF A CONTINENTAL COLLECTOR, ENSEMBLE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 24, 1983 - January 24, 1983
Page Size: 532 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
396 Aubrey Beardsley The Yellow Book

1894-1897

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
397 Aubrey Beardsley Poster for the Savoy

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 209.00
398 Aubrey Beardsley Poster for The Savoy

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 198.00
399 Aubrey Beardsley The Poster

1898-1901

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 605.00
400 Aubrey Beardsley Poster for The Spinster's Scrip

1895

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
401 Thomas Bewick History of British Birds Newcastle

1797

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 154.00
402 Thomas Bewick Figures of British Land Birds Newcastle upon Tyne

1800

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
403 Thomas Bewick Aesop Fables Newcastle

1818

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 165.00
404 William Blake Jerusalem

[1951]

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 440.00
405 Century Guild Hobby Horse (The)

1886-1891

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 418.00
406 Graham Clarke Balyn and Balan

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
407 Graham Clarke - Birthwhistle (John) The Vision of Wat Tyler Boughton Monchelsea

1972

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 176.00
408 Walter Crane Queen Summer

1891

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 242.00
408A Edward Gordon Craig - Shakespeare William) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of DENMARKE Weimar

1930

GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 1,430.00
409 Maurice and Edward Detmold Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's Jungle Book

1903

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 330.00
410 Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold London

1872

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
411 Richard Doyle - Allingham (William) In Fairyland

1870

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 352.00
412 Edmund Dulac Sinbad the Sailor

[1911]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 352.00
413 Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells and Other Poems

[1912]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
414 Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells and Other Poems

[1912]

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 187.00
415 Edmund Dulac - Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells and Other Poems

[1912]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
416 Edmund Dulac Apuleius The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche New York

1951

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
417 Edmund Dulac Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat

[1907]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 187.00
418 Edmund Dulac Stories from the Arabian Nights

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 165.00
419 Edmund Dulac - Newbolt (Henry) Drake's Drum

1928

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
420 Sir W. Russell Flint The Song of Songs which is Solomon's

1909

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 165.00
421 Birket Foster - Scott (Sir Walter) The Lady of the Lake

1853

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
422 Birket Foster A Book of Modern Ballards

1860

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 308.00
423 Elizabeth Frink - Chaucer (Geoffrey) Canterbury Tales Waddington

1972

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
424 Robert Gibbings Lucian of Samosata

1927

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 231.00
425 Eric Gill The Songs of Songs

1925

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 440.00
426 Eric Gill Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi

1926

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 330.00
427 Eric Gill Wood-Engravings

1924

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 418.00
428 Eric Gill Wood-Engravings

1924

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
429 Eric Gill - Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus and Criseyde

1927

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 1,760.00
430 Eric Gill - Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales

1929-1931

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,045.00
431 Eric Gill The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ

1931

GBP 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 1,540.00
432 Eric Gill - Clay (Enid) Sonnets and Verses

1931

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 198.00
433 Eric Gill Engravings

1934

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 275.00
434 Eric Gill - Pepler (Douglas) The Devil's Devices

1930

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 187.00
435 Anthony Gross Theocritus Sixe Idyllia Clover Hill Editions

1971

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
436 David Hockney - Cavafy (C.P.) Fourteen Poems Editions Alecto

1967

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 825.00
437 Laurence Housman The Blue Moon

1904

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 88.00
438 David Jones - Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

1925

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
439 David Jones - [Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

1925

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 418.00
440 David Jones - Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Bristol

1929

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
441 Owen Jones The Psalms of David

[1861]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
442 Shirley Jones The Same Sun Kenley

[1978]

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
443 Ronald King The Song of Solomon Guildford

1968

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
444 Ronald King - Shakespeare (William) Macbeth

1970

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
445 Ronald King - Shakespeare (William) Macbeth

1970

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
446 Legion Book (The)

1929

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 1,210.00
447 Wyndham Lewis Timon of Athens

[1914]

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 935.00
448 Wyndham Lewis Fifteen Drawings

[1919]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 550.00
449 Wyndham Lewis Thirty Personalities and Self-Portrait

1932

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 242.00
450 Wyndham Lewis Fifteen Drawings

1915

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 132.00
451 John Martin - Milton (John) Paradise Lost

1827

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 825.00
452 John Martin - Milton (John) Paradise Lost Whittingham

1846

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 330.00
453 John Martin Illustrations of the Bible

1839

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 242.00
454 Donald Maxwell - Kipling (Rudyard) Sea and Sussex

1926

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 242.00
455 Thomas Moring One Hundred Book Plates

1936

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
456 Barry Moser - Melville (Herman) Moby-Dick San Francisco

1979

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 495.00
457 Barry Moser Thirteen Botanical Wood Engravings Easthampton

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 264.00
458 Jessica Mycroft-Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Cubla Khan

1978

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
459 Paul Nash - Browne (Sir Thomas) Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus

1932

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 440.00
460 Paul Nash Places

[1925]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 352.00
461 Sir William Nicholson The Book of Blokes

[1929]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 253.00
462 Sir William Nicholson The Pirate Twins

[1930]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 396.00
463 Kay Nielsen In Powder and Crinoline spine

[1913]

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 385.00
464 Kay Nielsen - Grimm (W.C. and J.L.C.) Fleur-de-Neige et d'Autres Contes Paris

1929

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 242.00
465 John O'Connor Schutzer-Weissmann (Michael) In Nomine Domini: Lives of the Composers

1974

USD 175.00 - 225.00 Not Sold
466 Robert Proctor Omerou Odysseia

1909

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
467 Arthur Rackham - Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie

1910-1911

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 264.00
468 Arthur Rackham - Dodgson (C.L.) Lewis Carroll

[1907]

GBP 125.00 - 175.00 143.00
469 Arthur Rackham - Wagner (Richard) Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

1911

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
470 Arthur Rackham Book of Pictures

1913

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 286.00
471 Arthur Rackham - Malory (Sir Thomas) The Romance of King Arthur

1917

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 209.00
472 Arthur Rackham- Walton (Sir Izaak) The Compleat Angler

1931

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
473 Arthur Rackham - Walton (Izaak) The Compleat Angler

1931

GBP 220.00 - 280.00 297.00
474 Arthur Rackham - Swinburne (A.C.) The Springtide of Life

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 143.00
475 Arthur Rackham - Barham (R.H.) The Ingoldsby Legends

[1919]

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 220.00
476 Arthur Rackham - Grimm (J.L.C. and W.C.) Hansel and Gretel

1920

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 462.00
477 E. H. Shepard - Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows

1931

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 440.00
478 E. H. Shepard - Grahame (Kenneth) The Golden Age

1928

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 363.00
479 Lynd Ward God's Man

1930

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 187.00
480 Rex Whistler A Calendar for 1940-41

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 550.00
481 James Brockman - Powys (Llewelyn) The Book of Days

1937

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 495.00
482 Ivor Robinson Aeschylus The Agamemnon Cambridge

1969

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
483 Jeff Clements Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Compensation

1903

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 253.00
484 Jeff Clements Suetonius The Historie of Twelve Caesars

1931

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
485 Jeff Clements- Flinders (Matthew) Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis

1946

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
486 B. PLUMLEY Aesop Four Fables

1972

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
487 R. Andre and others A collection of 24 ink and wash drawings for pictorial initials

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
488 Edward Ardizzone Four ink drawings for illustrations

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 242.00
489 Nicolas Bentley A series of thirty ink drawings for cartoons

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 198.00
490 Nicholas Bentley A series of 62 ink caricatures

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 330.00
491 Nicolas Bentley A series of thirty ink drawings for cartoons

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 198.00
492 Edmund Dulac A fine watercolour drawing of Harlequin and Columbine in a formal garden

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 550.00
493 Eric Gill A fine pencil portrait of a woman

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 154.00
494 Eric Gill Woodblock of a naked man approaching a reclining woman

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 154.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
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