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Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTSCOMPRISINGThe Property of the Royal college of PhysiciansThe property of the Artists' SocietyThe Property of the Rt. Hon. Discount EmlynThe Property of H. S. Hudson, Esq.The Property of Major S. N. C. WebbThe Property of Dr. S. E. L. Morris, B. Sr., M.B.The Property of the late C. K. Ogden, Esq., WILSON,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
283 M. Anneus Lucanus Pharsalia cum notis H. Grotii et R. Bentleii Strawberry Hill

1760

 USD - 36.40
284 Thomas Malton [Views of Oxford] Abbey

1802[-1803]

 USD - 5.60
285 Jean F. Marmontel Les Incas ou la destruction de l'Empire du Perou

USD - 16.80
286 Philip Miller The gardener's dictionary

1759-60

 USD - 378.00
287 J. P. B. de Moliere Oeuvres Paris

1788

 USD - 112.00
288 Alexander Pope Works

1797

 USD - 61.60
289 Jean Racine Oeuvres Paris

1784

 USD - 98.00
290 Sir Joshua Reynolds Works

USD - 19.60
291 George Roland A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing

USD - 2.80
292 Sir Walter Scott Waverley novels Edinburgh

1814-26

 USD - 39.20
293 Sir Walter Scott Waverley novels Edinburgh

1842-47

 USD - 2.80
294 William Shakespeare Works

1793

 USD - 39.20
295 Thomas H. Shepherd and James Elmes London and its environs in the nineteenth century

1827

 USD - 2.80
296 Thomas H. Shepherd Modern Athens displayed in a series of views or Edinburgh in the nineteenth century

1829

 USD - 8.40
297 Tobias Smollet Works

1797

 USD - 33.60
298 William M. Thackeray Vanity Fair

USD - 5.60
299 Thomas Thomson Travels in Sweden

USD - 22.40
300 John Toland The life of John Milton

1761

 USD - 36.40
301 Horace Walpole Works (with Correspondence)

1798-1818

 USD - 61.60
302 Ralph Willett A description of the library at Merly in Dorset

1785

 USD - 16.80
303 George Herbert Poems [selected by Sir H. Walford Davies]

1923

 USD - 33.60
304 Henry Vaughan Poems [selected by Ernest Rhys]

1924

 USD - 22.40
305 Caneuon Ceiriog: Detholiad

1925

 USD - 22.40
306 Caneuon Ceiriog: Detholiad

1925

 USD - 22.40
307 T. Gwynn Jones Detholiad o Ganiadau

1926

 USD - 11.20
308 Edward Thomas Chosen Essays

1926

 USD - 19.60
309 Edward Thomas Selected Poems

1927

 USD - 25.20
310 Saint David The Life of Saint David [based upon the Latin Life by Rhygyfarch

1927

 USD - 89.60
311 Llyfr y Pregeth-wr

1927

 USD - 44.80
312 Lord Edward Autobiography

1928

 USD - 30.80
313 Richard Davies An Account of the Convincement

1928

 USD - 16.80
314 W. H. Davies Selected Poems

1928

 USD - 22.40
315 Thomas Love Peacock The Misfortunes of Elphin

1928

 USD - 25.20
316 Omar Khayyam Penillion wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg gan John Morris-Jones

1928

 USD - 117.60
317 Omar Khayyam Penillion wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg gan John Morris-Jones

1928

 USD - 30.80
318 Psalmau Dafydd yn ol William Morgan 1588

1929

 USD - 61.60
319 Thomas Jones and E. T. Jones Elphin Lloyd Jones wood-engravings

USD - 22.40
320 Christina Rossetti Poems

1930

 USD - 36.40
321 Stealing of the Mare (The)

1930

 USD - 44.80
322 Charles Lamb Elia and the Last Essays of Elia

1929-30

 USD - 44.80
323 Euripides Plays

1931

 USD - 39.20
324 John Milton Cornus

1931

 USD - 33.60
325 Aesop The Fables of Esope

1931

 USD - 72.80
326 W. J. Gruffydd Caniadau

1932

 USD - 22.40
327 Sir Robert Vansittart The Singing Caravan

1932

 USD - 42.00
328 Samuel Butler Erewhon

1932

 USD - 30.80
329 Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The)

1932

 USD - 56.00
330 Owen Edwards Clych Atgof

1933

 USD - 14.00
331 Owen Edwards Clych Atgof

1933

 USD - 14.00
332 John Milton Four Poems

1933

 USD - 44.80
333 John Sampson XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales

1933

 USD - 61.60
334 Jeremiah

1933

 USD - 56.00
335 W. H. Davies The Lover's Song-Book

1933

 USD - 22.40
336 Thomas Jones A Theme with Variations

1933

 USD - 14.00
337 Salvador de Madariaga Don Quixote: an Introductory Essay in Psychology

1934

 USD - 39.20
338 Loyd Haberly Anne Boleyn and other Poems

1934

 USD - 36.40
339 Lope Felix de Vega The Star of Seville: a Drama in Three Acts and in Verse

1935

 USD - 39.20
340 Robert Bridges Eros and Psyche

1935

 USD - 44.80
341 Xenophon Cyrupsedia

1936

 USD - 168.00
342 Hon. J. W. Fortescue The Story of a Red-Deer

1935

 USD - 22.40
343 Fulke Greville Brooke Caelica

1936

 USD - 28.00
344 Joinville (Jean, Sire de) The History of Saint Louis

1937

 USD - 123.20
345 John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

1937

 USD - 33.60
346 Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch The Lovers of Teruel

1938

 USD - 33.60
347 Antonio de Guevara The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life

1938

 USD - 39.20
348 George Bernard Shaw Shaw Gives Himself Away

1939

 USD - 56.00
349 Ellis Wynne Gweledigeatheu v Bardd CWSC

1940

 USD - 53.20
350 Lascelles Abererombie Lyrics and Unfinished Poems

1940

 USD - 30.80
351 The Mabinogion

1948

 USD - 50.40
352 Charles Dickens The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

1843-44

 USD - 67.20
353 C. Dickens The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

1844

 USD - 28.00
354 Charles Dickens Bleak House

[1852-53]

 USD - 50.40
355 Charles Dickens The Chimes

USD - 8.40
356 C. L. Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" The Hunting of the Snark

USD - 2.80
357 Lord Alfred Douglas Nine Poems

1926

 USD - 2.80
358 William Makepeace Thackeray The Four Georges

USD - 1.40
359 Dodgson (C. L., "Lewis Carroll") Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1877

 USD - 50.40
360 Dodgson (C. L., "Lewis Carroll") Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there

1877

 USD - 61.60
361 Anthony Trollope Ralph the Heir

1871

 USD - 72.80
362 Henry Glapthorne The plays and poems of Henry Glapthorne

1874

 USD - 28.00
363 Arabian Nights

USD - 84.00
364 Thomas Carlyle The Works

1896-1899

 USD - 16.80
365 Joseph Conrad The Works

1925

 USD - 44.80
366 Marian Evans "George Eliot" The Works

USD - 2.80
367 Michel de Montaigne Essays

USD - 16.80
367a T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

USD - 2.80
368 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

USD - 2.80
369 William Shakespeare Works

USD - 16.80
369a John Addington Symonds Renaissance in Italy

1897-1898

 USD - 16.80
370 Cambridge Modern History (The) Cambridge

1902-1917

 USD - 14.00
370a Sir Winston S. Churchill The Second World War

1948-1954

 USD - 11.20
371 Sir Winston S. Churchill The Great War

USD - 19.60
371a Sir Winston S. Churchill Savrola

USD - 50.40
371b Sir Winston S. Churchill Marlborough

USD - 22.40
372 Samuel Pepys The Diary

1903-1910

 USD - 53.20
373 George Grote History of Greece

1851-1856

 USD - 39.20
374 E. Renan Histoire des origines du Christianisme Paris

USD - 2.80
375 Kate Greenaway The Quiver of Love

USD - 33.60
376 Kate Greenaway A Day in a Child's Life

USD - 11.20
377 Kate Greenaway Almanacks for 1883-1895 and 1897

USD - 196.00
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
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