Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps, INCLUDING THE PERFORMING ARTS, LOGIE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 17, 1993 - February 17, 1993
Page Size: 1130 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 NAPOLEON

1794

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 950.00
102 E. NAVILLE Bubastis... eighth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund Egypt

1937

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 170.00
103 NEW TESTAMENT Amsterdam

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
104 SIMON PELLOUTIER Histoire des Celts et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains Vienna

1852

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 400.00
105 WILLIAM PENN AND GEORGE WHITEHEAD The Christian-Quaker, and His Divine Testimony Vindicated

1822

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
106 L.E. DU PIN A Compleat History of the Canon and Writers

1848

USD 220.00 - 260.00 Not Sold
107 PLUTARCH

1888-1904

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 400.00
108 BERNARD QUARITCH Privately Printed Opuscula

1778

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 10.00
109 ROBERT WISSETT A Treatise on Hemp

1808

GBP 180.00 - 250.00 150.00
110 H. WITSIUS Exercitationes sacrae Lyon

1726

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
111 VICTORIA

1884

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
112 J.R. ABBEY Scenery of Great Britain

1898-1907

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 180.00
113 H.M. Colvin ARCHITECTURE Rivington

1893

GBP 400.00 - 450.00 520.00
114 CHRISTIANE AULANIER Histoire du Palais

1950-1971

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 80.00
115 E. BENEZIT Dictionnaire critique

1966

GBP 180.00 - 240.00 160.00
116 E. BENEziT Dictionnaire critique et documentaire

1976

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 240.00
117 FRANK BRANGWYN, Frank Newbolt The Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn

1908

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 420.00
118 CATALOGUE Michigan

1987

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 70.00
119 ROBERT CHIGNELL The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole Munich and London

1877

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 120.00
120 LOYS DELTEIL Le Peintre-graveur illustre

1926

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 650.00
121 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM SEMITICARUM

1881-1911

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 320.00
122 RICHARD DUPPA The Life of Michel Angelo Buonarotti

1807

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 200.00
123 E.F. GERSAINT Catalogue raisonne Paris, Hochereau l'aine & Amsterdam

1751-1756

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
124 HIPPOLYTE CRUZ Motifs de Peinture

1905

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 720.00
125 A.M. HIND A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings

1913

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 180.00
126 A.J. HIPKINS Musical Instruments Historic

1888

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 600.00
127 R.L. HOBSON A Catalogue of the Chinese Pottery Northamptoshire

1934

USD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
128 BERNARD LENS AND G. DE LAIRESSE For the Curious Gentlemen and Ladies Dublin

1778

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 260.00
129 THE LONDON CHAIR-MAKERS

1844

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
130 PERCY MACQUOID AND RALPH EDWARDS The Dictionary of English Furniture

1954

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 250.00
131 Charles MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRE Versailles

1951

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
132 Die Medici-Kapelle Michelangelos

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
133 GEORGES REMON Soixante Planches de Peinture Decorative

1900

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 480.00
134 ROBIOU AND F. LENORMANT Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art antique

1867

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
135 RAYMOND RICHARDS Old Cheshire Churches

1836-1842

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
136 ALAN VICTOR SUGDEN AND JOHN LUDLAM EDMONDSON History of English Wallpaper

1925

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
137 GIORGIO VIGNI Disegni del Tiepolo Rome

1934

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
138 WALPOLE SOCIETY Oxford

1912-1991

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 460.00
139 J.J. WINCKELMANN Atlas vol Leipzig

1894

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
140 AUCTION CATALOGUES

1836-1992

GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 18,000.00
141 C.H. COLLINS BAKER Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters Philadelphia

1968

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
142 CATALOGUES

1870-1919

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 140.00
143 CATALOGUES

1988

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 360.00
144 John CHALONER SMITH British Mezzotinto Portraits

1969

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 260.00
145 C. COROT, Alfred Robaut L'Oeuvre de Corot

1965

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,200.00
146 THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH Studies of Figures

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 320.00
147 WILLIAM DICKES The Norwich School of Painting Norwich

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 280.00
148 Sir WALTER GILBEY Animal Painters of England

1938

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 360.00
149 ALGERNON GRAVES Extensive autograph manuscript

1909

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 220.00
150 ALGERNON GRAVES Art Sales from early in the Eighteenth Century

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 210.00
151 ALGERNON GRAVES The Royal Academy of Arts

1913-1915

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 220.00
152 Colonel M.H. GRANT A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters

1957-1961

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
153 JOHN HASSELL Memoirs of the Life of the late George Morland

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 280.00
154 SAMUEL HOWITT The British Sportsman

1806

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 540.00
155 WILLIAM HAYLEY The Life of George Romney

1924

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
156 Sir EDWIN LANDSEER Library Edition of the Works of Sir Edwin Landseer

1902

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 420.00
157 Princess MARIE LIECHTENSTEIN Holland House

1935-1938

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 180.00
158 FRITS LUGT Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques int, ressant l'Art ou la Curiosit The Hague

1938-1964

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 820.00
159 ANDRE MICHEL Francois Boucher Cleveland

1980

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
160 FREEMAN O'DONOGHUE Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
161 NICOLAS POUSSIN Blunt (Anthony) The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin

1966

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 200.00
162 GEORGE REDFORD Art Sales

1888

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 150.00
163 Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS Graves (Algernon) and William Vine Cronin

1901

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 520.00
164 JOHN SMITH A Catalogue Raisonn, of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch

1977

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 320.00
165 N. NEAL SOLLY Memoir of the Life of William James Muller

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 650.00
166 PAUL SANDBY A Collection of Landscapes drawn by P. Sandby

1777

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
167 J.M.W. TURNER Turner (J.M.W.) and John Ruskin. The Harbours of England

1939

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
168 WALPOLE SOCIETY Oxford

1912-1988

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 240.00
169 GEORGES WILDENSTEIN The Paintings of Fragonard

1961

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 220.00
170 RICHARD WILSON Hastings (Thomas) Etchings from the Works of Richard Wilson with some Memoirs of his Life

1824

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 130.00
171 THOMAS HENRY TAUNTON Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries

1887

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 600.00
172 JOHN YOUNG A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House

1948

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 250.00
173 BOOK AUCTION RECORDS

1974

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 220.00
174 CODEX SINAITICUS Petropolitanus et Friderico-Augustanus Lipsiensis

1911

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 440.00
175 CODEX LINDISFARNENSIS (THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS)

1956-1960

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 480.00
176 GUMUCHIAN & CIE

1929

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
177 SAMUEL HALKETT, JOHN LAING Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature Edinburgh & London

1926-1962

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 340.00
178 G.D. HOBSON Bindings in Cambridge Libraries Cambridge

1929

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
179 ALFRED MORRISON Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison

1833

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 160.00
180 Sir F.G. KENYON The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri Oxford

1886

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 500.00
181 ERIC GEORGE MILLAR The Luttrell Psalter

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 260.00
182 ALFRED MORRISON Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
183 JOSEPH SMITH A Descriptive Catalogue of Friend's Books

1867

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
184 The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray Los Angeles

1982

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 120.00
185 J.O. WESTWOOD Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria

1843-1845

GBP 180.00 - 250.00 150.00
186 J. O. WESTWOOD Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible

1954

GBP 180.00 - 250.00 300.00
187 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery ARCADIA PRESS

1970

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 620.00
188 AUBREY BEARDSLEY The Yellow Book

1894-1897

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 420.00
189 AUBREY BEARDSLEY Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock

January-April 1896

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 300.00
190 WILLIAM BLAKE Illustrations of the Book of Job

1880

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 5,400.00
191 BENJAMIN BRITTEN Children's Crusade

1972

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 360.00
192 EDWARD GORDON CRAIG A Production

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 160.00
193 GEORGE CRUIKSHANK Cohn (Albert) A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank

1924

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 190.00
194 CURWEN PRESS

1929

GBP 200.00 - 220.00 200.00
195 RICHARD DOYLE Allingham (W.) In Fairyland

1875

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 170.00
196 Robert Browning ERAGNY PRESS

1904

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 300.00
197 GILES

1946-1984

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 360.00
198 ERIC GILL The Way of the Cross Sussex

1919

GBP 180.00 - 250.00 150.00
199 Matthew Flinders GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS

1946

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 150.00
200 Jonathan Swift GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS

1925

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 200.00
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