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
602 [Speed (J.)] A New and Accurat Map of the World

[1676]

GBP - 5.10
603 Hope (W. H. St. John) The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter

1901

GBP - 6.10
604 [Aurifaber (Aegidus)] Speculum Exemplorum

GBP - 20.00
605 Selby (P. J.) Illustrations of British Ornithology

1841

GBP - 76.00
606 Pepusch (Dr. J. C) The Beggar's Opera

GBP - 3.10
607 Boccacio (G.) Decameron Milano

GBP - 6.10
608 Bibliofilia

GBP - 16.00
609 Cochin (H.) (avocat au parlement) Oeuvres Paris

1771-5

GBP - 3.10
610 Rutter (J.) Delineations of Fonthill and It's Abbey

1823

GBP - 8.00
611 Anderson (J.) Royal Genealogies

1736

GBP - 0.10
612 Art de la Mode (L') Reproduction en noir et en couleurs de costumes Paris

1881

GBP - 9.00
613 Bona (Jo. Cardin) Rerum liturgicarum libri 11

GBP - 1.00
614 Coppee (Fr.), Les Mois compositions de H. Giacomelli

GBP - 0.10
615 Foullon (J. E:) Historia Leodiensis per episcoporum et principum series

1735-7

USD - Not Sold
616 Frodoardus (Flodoardus) Metropolis Remensis historia nunc aucta et illustrata

1666-79

GBP - 1.00
617 Johnstone (R.) Historia rerum Britannicarum ut multarum Gallicarum

USD - Not Sold
618 Kraus (J. U.) Historische Bilder-Bibel Alten und Neuen Testaments

GBP - 1.15
619 Meteren (E. van) Meteranus Novus D. 1: Warpafftige Beschreibung aller deuckwurdigen Geschich-Geschichten Amsterdam

1640

USD - Not Sold
620 NEUFFORD (J. F. DE) RECUEIL ELEMENTAIRE D'ARCHITECTURE Paris

1757-80

GBP - 50.00
621 Ovid Metamorphoses Amsterdam

1732

GBP - 6.00
622 Percy (Hugh) A Book of Rules of Arithmetic

1658-62

GBP - 7.00
623 Roccheggiani (L.) Raccolta di (due) cento tavole rappresentanticostumi religiosi Roma

1804

GBP - 1.00
624 Saint Optatus De Schismale Donatistarum Paris

1700

USD - Not Sold
625 Saxius (Chr.) Tubulae genealogicae sive Stemmata deorum Trai ad Rhen

1783

USD - Not Sold
626 Tobiesen Duby (P. A.) Traite des monnoies des barons ou representation et explication de toutes les monnoies d'or, d'argent Paris

1790

GBP - 1.00
627 Thucydides L'Histoire De la guerre qui fut entre les Peleponnesiens et Antheniens Paris

1559

GBP - 1.00
628 Zuinger (Th.), Theatrum humanae vitae Basil

1604

GBP - 1.10
629 Chesterton (G. K.) Gloria in Profundis

GBP - 0.15
630 Morris (Wm.) Some Hints on Pattern Designing

GBP - 1.05
631 Durtain (Luc) Crime a San-Francisco

GBP - 0.10
632 edited by Robert Steele Some Old French and English Ballads

1905

GBP - 1.05
633 Gibbings (Robert) Iorana

1932

GBP - 3.00
634 Gide (Andre) Les Caves du Vatican

1929-30

GBP - 11.00
635 Gill (Eric) Art Nonsense and Other Essays

GBP - 6.00
636 Marston (J.) The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image

1926

GBP - 1.15
637 Chamfort (S. R. N. de) Golden Cockerel Press

1926

GBP - 2.15
638 Coventry (Francis) History of Pompey the Little, or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

1926

GBP - 1.15
639 Mathers (E. Powys) Red Wise

1926

GBP - 1.10
640 Breton (Nicholas) The Twelve Months

1927

GBP - 1.10
641 Coppard (A. E.) Count Stefan

1928

GBP - 1.10
642 Gill (Eric) Art and Prudence, an Essay,

GBP - 4.15
643 Smith (Aaron) Atrocities of the Pirates

GBP - 4.05
644 Fielding (H.) Journey from this World to the Next

1930

GBP - 2.00
645 Powys (T. F.) When Thou Wast Naked

1931

GBP - 2.05
646 Gill (Eric) Clothing without Cloth

1931

GBP - 1.15
647 Coppard (A. E.) Grotty Shinkwin, and the Beauty Spot

1932

GBP - 2.00
648 Walpole (Hugh) The Apple Trees

1932

GBP - 2.05
649 Ovidius (P. N.) The Amores

1932

GBP - 4.10
650 Coppard (A. E.) Rummy, That Noble Game

1932

GBP - 1.10
651 Bates (H. E.) A German Idyll

1932

GBP - 1.15
652 Davies (Rhys) Daisy Mathews and Three Other Tales

1932

GBP - 1.15
653 Fielding (H.) Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild

GBP - 3.15
654 Dunsany (Lord) /book_records/2774300

1933

GBP - 1.15
655 Prospectuses and Specimen pages

GBP - 2.00
656 Penillion Omar Khayyam . . . gan Jan Morris-Jones

1928

GBP - 4.00
657 Herring (R.) Adam and Evelyn at Kew

GBP - 1.00
658 De Fontenelle (B.) A Plurality of Worlds

GBP - 3.00
659 Plato Lysis : a dialogue

1930

GBP - 2.05
660 Sterne (L.) Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

GBP - 1.10
661 Marlowe (C.) and G. Chapman Hero and Leander

1894

GBP - 3.15
662 Bennett (Arnold) Elsie and the Child

1929

GBP - 1.00
663 Cervantes (M. de) The Spanish Ladie

GBP - 2.00
664 Coleridge (S. T.) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

GBP - 1.05
665 Swift (Dean J.) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

1925

GBP - 3.15
666 Browning (R.) Pictor Ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto

1925

GBP - 2.00
667 Song of Songs

GBP - 5.00
668 Earle (J.) Micro-cosmographie or a piece of the World Discovered in Essays and Characters

GBP - 3.00
669 Flaubert (Gustave) Salambo,

1931

GBP - 3.10
670 Llyfr y Pregeth-Wr Abergavenny

1927

GBP - 7.10
671 Beckford (Wm.) Vathek

GBP - 2.10
672 Simon (O.) and J. Rodenberg Printing of To-day

1928

GBP - 1.10
673 The Woodcut

1927-8

GBP - 1.10
674 Voyages Glorieuses Decouvertes des Grands Navigateurs . . . Francais

GBP - 2.15
675 Farquhar (George) The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy

GBP - 1.00
676 edited by J. Isaacs The Chester play of the Deluge,

1927

GBP - 2.15
677 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales

1929-31

GBP - 30.00
678 New Testament, The Four Gospels of The Lord Jesus Christ

1931

GBP - 20.00
679 Shakespeare (Wm.) Twelfth Night

1932

GBP - 4.10
680 Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings

[1932]

GBP - 2.12
681 Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life

1926

GBP - 4.10
682 a'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of England

GBP - 2.00
683 Ablett (J.) Literary Hours

GBP - 1.00
684 Anson (G.) Voyage Round the World

GBP - 6.00
685 Apuleius (L.) Golden Asse

1923

GBP - 3.00
686 Archer (Major) Tours in Upper India

GBP - 3.00
687 Back (Capt.) Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition

GBP - 1.00
688 Bartram (Wm.) Travels through North and South Carolina

1792

GBP - 12.00
689 Beechey (Capt. F. W.) Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole

GBP - 5.00
690 Beltrami (J. C) Pilgrimage in Europe and America

1828

GBP - 2.00
691 Bennett (A.) The Old Wives' Tale

1908

GBP - 12.00
692 Bennett (A.) A Man from the North

GBP - 1.00
693 Berault (P.) Way to Heaven

GBP - 6.00
694 Berry (Mary) Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence

1865

USD - Not Sold
695 Borrow (G.) Wild Wales

1862

GBP - 1.00
696 Boyle (R.) Experiments about the Porosity of Bodies

1684

GBP - 10.00
697 [Bradley (E.)] Glencreggan: by Cuthbert Bede

GBP - 3.00
698 Brinkley (Capt. F.) and others Japan

1901-10

GBP - 6.00
699 Brookshaw (G.) Horticultural Repository

1823

GBP - 22.00
700 Browning (E. B.) Poems

1844

GBP - 1.00
701 Browning (R.) Christmas Eve and Easter Day

GBP - 1.00
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