Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, WALNUT,

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
201 Coppard (A. E.) The Hundredth Story

1931

GBP - 1.15
202 Curtis's Botanical Magazine

1808-16

GBP - 28.00
203 Dickens (C) Little Dorrit

1856-7

GBP - 2.10
204 Dickens (C) Bleak House

1852-3

GBP - 1.05
205 Dickens (C) Nicholas Nickelby

GBP - 1.05
206 Doughty (C. M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta Cambridge

1888

GBP - 26.00
207 HALKETT (S.) AND J. LAING Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature

1926-34

GBP - 10.00
208 Keynes (G.) Bibliography of William Hazlitt

GBP - 2.15
209 Kipling (R.) The Light that Failed (with advts. dated Feb., 1891)

GBP - 2.10
210 Macaulay (Lord) The History of England

GBP - 0.10
211 Marmontel Contes Moraux

1819

GBP - 0.15
212 Miniature Library

1825-35

GBP - 1.00
213 Shakespeare (W.) Works

1929-33

GBP - 40.00
214 Thackeray (W. M.) The English Humourists of the 18th Century

1853

GBP - 1.00
215 Trollope (A.) The Last Chronicle of Barset

1867

GBP - 23.00
216 Trollope (A.) An Editor's Tales

GBP - 8.10
217 Trollope (A.) The Way we Live Now

1875

GBP - 22.00
218 Van Duzer (H. S.) A Thackeray Library New York

1919

GBP - 7.00
219 Virgilius Opera Leipzig

1800

GBP - 1.00
220 [Armstrong (J.)] The Art of Preserving Health

1744

GBP - 0.10
221 Audubon (J. J.) The Birds of America

GBP - 9.00
222 Barrie (Sir J. M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

1925

GBP - 5.00
223 Bridges (R.) First Draft of the Testament of Beauty

Oct., 1929

GBP - 0.10
224 Cohn (A. M.) George Cruikshank: a Catalogue Raisonne

1924

GBP - 5.00
225 Exchange Ware at Second Hand

1615

GBP - 7.00
226 Laver (J.) Love's Progress

GBP - 0.10
227 [Middleton (T.)] A Game at Chaess

[1625]

GBP - 11.00
228 Milne (A. A.) Toad of Toad Hall

1929

GBP - 1.05
229 Milton (J.) Comus

GBP - 3.10
230 Quaritch's Catalogue of Illuminated MSS

1931

GBP - 3.10
231 Rackham (A.) The Sleeping Beauty

1920

GBP - 6.00
232 [Wanostrocht (N.)] Felix on the Bat

1845

GBP - 1.15
233 WISE (T. J.) THE ASHLEY LIBRARY

1922-36

GBP - 56.00
234 Agricola (G.) De Re Metallica

1912

GBP - 22.00
235 MACQUOID (P.) A History of English Furniture

1925-28

GBP - 27.00
236 Phillips (P. A. S.) Paul de Lamerie

1935

GBP - 18.00
237 Bone (D. W.) Merchantmen-at-Arms

1919

GBP - 2.15
238 Societe des Aqua-Fortistes Francais Paris

1886-8

GBP - 1.00
239 Delstanche (A.) The Little Towns of Flanders

1515

GBP - 1.00
240 Album containing Engraved Portraits and a few Autograph Letters

GBP - 1.00
241 Oriental Ceramic Society

1928-39

GBP - 13.00
242 Bligh (William) A Voyage to the South Sea

1792

GBP - 9.10
243 King -(W.) Chelsea Porcelain

GBP - 9.00
244 Buckley (F.) A History of Old English Drinking Glass

1925

GBP - 8.00
245 Bles (J.) Rare English Glasses of the XVII and XVIII Centuries

GBP - 9.10
246 McDonald (A.) A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening

1807

GBP - 14.00
247 Hobson (R. L.) The Later Ceramic Wares of China

1925

GBP - 8.00
248 GORER (E.) AND BLACKER (J. F.) Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones

1911

GBP - 38.00
249 Loudon (Mrs.) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants

1848

GBP - 14.00
250 Loudon (Mrs.) The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials

GBP - 14.00
251 Planche (J. R.) A Cyclopaedia of Costume [vol. 2 only]

GBP - 11.00
252 Kipling (Rudyard) Poems

1929

GBP - 12.00
253 Morris (F. O.) History of British Butterflies and Moths

GBP - 2.15
254 Morris (F. O.) History of British Birds

1891

GBP - 5.00
255 Lodge (E.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

1823 [-34]

GBP - 1.00
256 Goldsmith (O.) The Deserted Village

GBP - 0.15
257 Digges (Dudley) Unlawfulnesse of subjects Taking up Armes against Their Soveraigne

1647

GBP - 1.10
258 Parkinson (Sydney) Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas

1784

GBP - 6.00
259 Jenner (Edward) Inquiry into the Cow Pox

GBP - 80.00
260 Carew (Thomas) Coelum Britanicum

GBP - 2.10
261 Bridgens (R.) Sketches of the Manners and Costumes of France

1821

GBP - 6.10
262 Lyon (Capt. G. F.) Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa Northern Africa

1821

GBP - 2.10
263 Park (M.) Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa

GBP - 0.10
264 Clark (W. A.) Library of Wilde and Wildeiana San Francisco

1922

GBP - 6.00
265 Erasmus Praise of Folly Essex House Press

1901

GBP - 8.00
266 Blake (W.) Illustrations of the Book of Job

1906

GBP - 2.00
267 Wise (T. J.) Bibliography of John Ruskin

1889-93

GBP - 0.15
268 Pope (A.) Rape of the Lock

1896

GBP - 1.05
269 Caxton (W.) Game of Chesse

GBP - 2.00
270 Congreve (Wm.) Way of the World

1928

GBP - 2.05
271 Ackermann (R.) The Microcosm of Lond Methuen

1904

GBP - 5.00
272 Rutherston (A.) Sixteen Designs for the Theatre

1928

GBP - 4.00
273 Shepherd (E. H.) Fun and Fantasy

GBP - 1.00
274 Bennett (Arnold) Elsie and the Child

1929

GBP - 1.00
275 Yeats (W. B.) Three Things

GBP - 2.00
276 De la Mare (W.) Ariel Poems

GBP - 3.00
277 Sassoon (S.) Ariel Poems

GBP - 2.10
278 Chamberlayne (J.) The Present State of Great Britain Great Britain

1745

GBP - 1.10
279 Shakespeare (W.) Poems and Sonnets

GBP - 3.10
280 Chesterton (G. K.) Woburn Books

GBP - 3.05
281 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat

GBP - 5.00
282 Quiller-Couch (Sir A.) The Sleeping Beauty

GBP - 5.10
283 Shakespeare (W.) A Midsummer-Night's Dream

GBP - 8.00
284 Wagner (R.) Tannhauser

1930

GBP - 3.10
285 Wagner (R.) The Ring of the Niblung

1910-11

GBP - 4.00
286 Zoete (B. de) and Spies (W.) Dance and Drama in Bali

1938

GBP - 2.00
288 Quiller-Couch (Sir A.) The Sleeping Beauty

1911

GBP - 9.00
289 Bible

31st July, 1481

GBP - 6.00
290 MAPS

GBP - 34.00
291 Semple (Miss) The Costume of the Netherlands

1817

GBP - 19.00
292 REDOUTE (P. J.) ALBUM DE REDOUTE Paris

GBP - 125.00
293 Commines (Philippe de) The Historie England

[1601]

GBP - 2.00
294 Baker (G. P.) Calico Painting and Printing in the East Indies in the 17th and 18th Centuries

1921

GBP - 38.00
295 Houghton Gallery Russia, Houghton in Norfolk

1788

GBP - 30.00
296 Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture

1904-8

GBP - 30.00
297 Boys (Thomas Shotter) Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc.,

1839

GBP - 48.00
298 SPEED (JOHN) THE THEATRE OF THE EMPIRE OF GREAT BRITAINE

1614

GBP - 160.00
299 Stubbs (George) The Anatomy of the Horse

1766

GBP - 26.00
300 Etchings

GBP - 1.00
301 Blome (R.) The Gentleman's Recreation

1686

GBP - 19.00
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