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Auction Details

Auction Date
June 24, 1946 - June 24, 1946
Page Size: 1015 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ALDINE Poets

1835-66

GBP - 4.00
2 Austen (Jane) Novels

1866-71

GBP - 9.00
3 Balzac (Honore de) Oeuvres Completes Paris

1870-87

GBP - 15.00
4 Shaftesbury (Earlof) Characteristicks Birmingham

1773

GBP - 3.10
5 Beaumont (F.) and Fletcher (J.) Works

GBP - 4.00
6 Beerbohm (Sir Max) And Even Now

GBP - 3.15
7 Belloc (H.) Richelieu

GBP - 19.00
8 Borrow (George) The Bible in Spain

GBP - 9.00
9 Boswell (James) Life of Johnson Oxford

1887

GBP - 4.00
10 Burke (Edmund) Works and Correspondence

1852

GBP - 5.00
11 Byron (Lord) Works

GBP - 7.00
12 Cambridge Modern History (The) Cambridge

1902-12

GBP - 20.00
13 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

GBP - 4.10
14 Churchill (Winston) Lord Randolph Churchill

GBP - 34.00
15 Churchill (Winston) The World Crisis

1923-31

GBP - 40.00
16 Churchill (Winston) Marlborough

1933-6

GBP - 6.10
17 Churchill (Winston) Marlborough

1933-8

GBP - 80.00
18 Corbett (J. S.) Drake and the Tudor Navy

GBP - 5.00
19 Herrick (Robert) Poetical Works

1928

GBP - 6.00
20 D'Arblay (Madame) Diary and Letters

GBP - 2.15
21 De Quincey (Thomas) Works Edinburgh

1862-71

GBP - 4.00
22 Dickens (C) The Chimes

GBP - 6.00
23 Disraeli (B.) Novels and Tales

GBP - 5.10
24 Dumas (Alexandre Pere) [Romans]

1869-77

GBP - 5.00
25 Eliot (George) Scenes of Clerical Life

1858

GBP - 2.10
26 Eliot (George) Adam Bede

GBP - 3.10
27 Fielding (Henry) Works

1871-2

GBP - 9.10
28 Freeman (E. A.) History of the Norman Conquest Oxford

1875-9

GBP - 0.10
29 Galsworthy (John) Plays New York

1931

GBP - 7.00
30 Galsworthy (John) Loyalties

GBP - 5.10
31 Gardiner (S. R.) History of England

GBP - 5.00
32 Grands Ecrivains Francais (Les) Paris

1889-1900

GBP - 3.05
33 Hamilton (Count A.) Memoirs of Count Grammont

GBP - 7.00
34 Hazlitt (W. C) History of the Venetian Republic

GBP - 2.00
35 Helps (Sir A.) The Spanish Conquest in America

1855-61

GBP - 3.00
36 Hours of the Virgin

GBP - 22.00
37 Hugo (Victor) CEuvres Paris

1860-87

GBP - 9.10
38 Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World

GBP - 6.10
39 Irving (Washington) Works

1866

GBP - 1.10
40 Kaye (Sir J. W.) and Malleson (Col. G. B.) History of the Sepoy War and Indian Mutiny

1880-8

GBP - 0.10
41 Kinglake (A. W.) The Invasion of the Crimea

1863-87

GBP - 0.10
42 Kipling (R.) Soldiers Three

1845-55

GBP - 2.00
43 La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables

1931

GBP - 11.00
44 Landor (Walter Savage) Imaginary Conversations

1883

GBP - 2.05
45 Lawrence (T. E.) T. E. Lawrence to his Biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart

1938

GBP - 6.00
46 Lecky (W. E. H.) Rationalism in Europe

GBP - 5.00
47 [Lockhart (J. G.)] Life of Sir Walter Scott

GBP - 1.10
48 Longfellow (H. W.) Poetical Works

GBP - 5.00
49 Lytton (Lord) [Novels]

1853-64

GBP - 1.15
50 Masefield (J.) The Hawbucks

GBP - 1.15
51 Masson (D.) Life of Milton

GBP - 0.10
52 Michelet (J.) Histoire de France Paris

1879-84

GBP - 2.10
53 Milton (J.) Poetical Works

1882

GBP - 6.00
54 Monypenny (W. F.) and Buckle (G. E.) Life of Disraeli

1910-20

GBP - 2.05
55 Moore (George) Hail and Farewell

GBP - 3.00
56 Moore (G.) The Brook Kerith

GBP - 12.00
57 Morris (F. O.) A Natural History of British Moths

1871

GBP - 3.10
58 Nevill (R.) London Clubs

1911

GBP - 2.10
59 edited by G. Keynes The Compleat Walton

1929

GBP - 6.10
60 Shakespeare (William) Works

1929-33

GBP - 40.00
61 DICKENS (CHARLES) [WORKS],

1937-8

GBP - 70.00
62 O'Hara (K.) Tom Thumb

GBP - 0.15
63 Peacock (Thomas Love) Works

1875

GBP - 4.10
64 Pepys (Samuel) Diary

1900-4

GBP - 15.00
65 Plato Dialogues Oxford

1871

GBP - 1.15
66 Ranke (L. von) A History of England Oxford

1875

GBP - 2.00
67 Rawlinson (G.) The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World

1904-9

GBP - 1.00
68 Reiss (E.) Miniatures of the Middle Ages

GBP - 4.00
69 Rothenstein (Sir W.) Contemporaries

GBP - 3.00
70 Saint (L. B.) and Arnold (H.) Stained Glass

GBP - 3.15
71 Sainte-Beuve (C.-A.) Causeries du Lundi Paris

1862-70

GBP - 3.10
72 [Sassoon (Siegfried)] Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

1928-36

GBP - 6.00
73 Schiller (F. von) Werke

GBP - 1.00
74 [Scott (Sir Walter)] Waverley Novels Edinburgh

1857

GBP - 2.05
75 Seebohm (H.) The Eggs of British Birds

1896

GBP - 4.00
76 Sidney (Sir P.) Astrophel and Stella

GBP - 5.00
77 Smollett (Tobias) Works

1872

GBP - 1.10
78 Sorel (A.) L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise

GBP - 2.15
79 Sterne (Laurence) Works

1798

GBP - 3.00
80 Strachey (L.) Queen Victoria

GBP - 6.10
81 Symonds (J. A.) Renaissance in Italy

1897-1902

GBP - 2.05
82 [Thackeray (W. M.)] Henry Esmond, 3 vol.

GBP - 1.10
83 Thorburn (A.) British Birds

1925-6

GBP - 8.10
84 Traill (H. D.) Social England

1893-7

GBP - 4.10
85 Trollope (Anthony) [Barsetshire Novels]

1925

GBP - 11.00
86 Tennyson (Lord) Poems, and In Memoriam

1900

GBP - 1.00
87 Vasari (G.) Lives of the most eminent Painters

1890-2

GBP - 5.00
88 Villon (F.) OEuvres

GBP - 5.00
89 Wordsworth (William) Poetical Works

1836-7

GBP - 4.00
90 Bache Collection New York

1929

GBP - 4.00
91 Bond (Francis) An Introduction to English Church Architecture

1913

GBP - 5.00
92 Borenius (T.) Catalogue of the Pictures

1923

GBP - 5.00
93 Boswell (James) Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson New York

1936

GBP - 4.00
94 Dilke (Lady) French Painters

1899-1902

GBP - 5.10
95 Hamerton (P. G.) Etching and Etchers

1880

GBP - 4.00
96 Homer The Odyssey

1932

GBP - 5.00
97 Italian Drawings exhibited at Burlington House

GBP - 5.10
98 Kipling (Rudyard) Poems

1929

GBP - 14.00
99 Laurence (T. E.) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

GBP - 9.00
100 Laurence (T. E.) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

GBP - 3.10
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