Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW WESTERN AND ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, STEEL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 26, 1952 - May 26, 1952
Page Size: 1413 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Baily (J. T. H.) George Morland

GBP - 2.00
101 Purbach (G.) Theoricae Novae Planetarum

GBP - 1.00
102 Baker (C. H. C.) Pieter de Hooch

GBP - 1.00
102 Meyer (Dr.) and Wolf (Dr.) Taschenbuch der deutschen Vogelkunde Frankfurt

1810

GBP - 14.00
103 Ball (Katherine M.) Decorative Motives of Oriental Art

1927

GBP - 4.00
103 Paxton (Sir Jos.) Magazine of Botany

1834-49

GBP - 36.00
104 Bemrose (William) Longton Hall Porcelain

1906

GBP - 8.00
104 Harvey (Wm. H.) Phycologia Britannica

1846-51

GBP - 1.00
105 Bennett (Richard) Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by Richard Bennett

GBP - 3.05
105 Darwin (Chas.) On the Origin of Species

1859

GBP - 22.00
106 Bibliographical Society

1926

GBP - 2.15
106 Darwin (Chas.) Geological Observations on South America

GBP - 9.00
107 Binns (W. Moore) The First Century of English Porcelain

1906

GBP - 3.15
107 Herbert (Hon. and Rev. Wm.) Amaryllidaceae

1837

GBP - 7.00
108 Binyon (Laurence) and J. J. O'Brien Sexton Japanese Colour Prints

1923

GBP - 6.00
108 Johnson (Dr. Samuel) The Poetical Works

1785

GBP - 1.00
109 Bode (Wm.) Florentine Sculptors of the Renaissance

GBP - 2.10
109 Dickens (Chas.) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

1837

GBP - 9.50
110 Bossert (Helmuth) An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration

1928

GBP - 8.10
110 Dickens (Chas.) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

1837

GBP - 14.00
111 Bouchot (Henri) The Book

GBP - 3.10
111 Carr (Sir J.) The Stranger in France

GBP - 3.00
112 Bourgoing (Jean de) English Miniatures

1928

GBP - 5.00
112 Conrad (Joseph) Works

1925

GBP - 1.75
113 Bowes (J. L.) Japanese Pottery

1890

GBP - 3.10
113 Impartial History (An) of the War in America Carlisle

1780

GBP - 7.00
114 Bowes (J. L.) Japanese Marks and Seals

1884

GBP - 3.10
114 Kingsley (Charles) Westward Ho Cambridge

1855

GBP - 1.00
115 Bredius (A.) The Paintings of Rembrandt

[1937]

GBP - 2.00
115 Hewitson (W. C.) British Oology Newcastle

GBP - 1.50
116 Dalton (O. M.) British Museum

1909

GBP - 2.15
116 [Combe (William)] The Tour of Doctor Prosody

1821

GBP - 8.50
117 [compiled by Herbert Collmann], Britwell (The) Handlist

1933

GBP - 2.05
117 Erasmus (D.) Morias Encomium Basle

1676

GBP - 1.25
118 Brongniart (A.) and D. Riocreux Description Methodiques du Musee Ceramique de la Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine de Sevres

1845

GBP - 10.00
118 Sterne (L.) Sermons

USD - Not Sold
119 Burch (R. M.) Colour Printing and Colour Printers

GBP - 4.00
119 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 4.00
120 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Early English Earthenware

1914

GBP - 4.10
120 De La Mare (W.) Desert Islands

GBP - 1.00
121 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Chinese Art,

1915

GBP - 7.00
121 Berquin (A.) Romanes Paris

1776

USD - Not Sold
122 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Art

1922

GBP - 5.10
122 Defoe (D.) The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinso'n-Crusoe

GBP - 5.00
123 Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory

1923

GBP - 4.00
123 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 1.00
124 Burton (William) A General History of Porcelain

1921

GBP - 5.10
124 edited by George Gilfillan British Poets Edinburgh

1854-60

GBP - 0.50
125 Burton (William) Josiah Wedgwood and his Pottery

1922

GBP - 6.10
125 Worcestershire Historical Society

1893-1915

GBP - 4.50
126 Bryan (Michael) Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

1903-05

GBP - 17.00
126 Racine (Jean) Oeuvres Paris

1768

GBP - 2.50
127 Caldicott (J. W.) The Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate

1906

GBP - 4.00
127 Gibbon (E.) Miscellaneous Works

GBP - 1.25
128 edited by W. D. Whitney Century (The)

[1904]

GBP - 1.00
128 Kipling (R.) The Irish Guards in the Great War

GBP - 0.50
129 Cescinsky (H.) and E. R. Gribble Early English Furniture and Woodwork

1922

GBP - 4.00
129 Godwin (William) History of the Commonwealth of England

GBP - 0.50
130 Champlin (J. D.) and C. C. Perkins Cyclopaedia of Painters and Paintings

1888

GBP - 2.15
130 Dickens (Charles) Novels

1841-64

GBP - 4.00
131 Chatterton (E. Keble) Old Sea Paintings

1928

GBP - 3.00
131 Scott (Sir W.) Poetical Works

1814

USD - Not Sold
132 Chinese Art Exhibition in London Shanghai

1936

GBP - 13.00
132 Rabelais (F.) Oeuvres

1732

GBP - 1.00
133 Chinese Exhibition. A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art

1936

GBP - 7.10
133 Johnson (Samuel) Easselas Birmingham

1898

GBP - 1.00
134 Clouston (K. W.) The Chippendale Period of English Furniture

1897

GBP - 4.10
134 Riefstap (J. B.) Armorial General

GBP - 7.00
135 Cotterell (H. H.) Old Pewter its Makers and Marks in England

1929

GBP - 13.00
135 Justinian Digestorum seu Pandectarum Juris Civilis Volumen Primum Paris

1527

GBP - 2.50
136 Cotterell (H. H.) Pewter down the Ages

1932

GBP - 4.00
136 Budge (Sir E. A. W.) Cleopatra's Needle and other Egyptian Obelisks

GBP - 7.50
137 Cox (David) A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours

GBP - 1.00
137 Collier (Bishop Jeremy) A Short View of the Immorality

1698

GBP - 3.50
138 Crawford (Earl of) Catalogue of English Broadrides

GBP - 4.15
138 Evelyn (John) Sculptura

GBP - 3.00
139 Cripps-Day (F. H.) A Record of Armour Sales

1925

GBP - 2.00
139 Exact Collection (An) of all Remonstrances

GBP - 1.00
140 Crisp (F. A) Armorial China

1907

GBP - 6.10
140 Frazer (Sir J. G.) Folk-Lore in the Old Testament

1918

GBP - 2.00
141 Dalton (O. M.) Byzantine Enamels in Mr. Pierpont Morgan's Collection

GBP - 4.10
141 Gent (Thos.) The Ancient and Modern History of the Famous City of York

GBP - 5.00
142 Deane (Ethel) The Collector

GBP - 4.15
142 [Marvell (Andrew)] The'Rehearsal Transpros'd

GBP - 1.00
143 Dodgson (Campbell) The Etchings of Charles Meryon

1921

GBP - 1.00
143 Narborough (Sir J.) Tasman (J.), Wood (J.) and Marten (F.) An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North

1694

GBP - 13.00
144 Dodgson (C.) The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler

1922

GBP - 1.05
144 Poulson (G.) Beverlac

GBP - 1.25
145 Dodgson (C.) Old French Colour-Prints

1924

GBP - 2.05
145 Primrose (Dr. Jas.) Popular Errottrs

GBP - 8.00
146 Earle (Major Cyril) The Earle Collection of early Staffordshire Pottery

[1915]

GBP - 9.00
146 Scott (Sir W.) The Abbot

GBP - 1.00
147 Edouart (August) Ancestors in Silhouette

1921

GBP - 1.15
147 Shackleton (Sir E.) South

GBP - 1.00
148 Encyclopaedia (an) of Textiles from the earliest times Berlin

[1927]

GBP - 5.10
148 Staley (Edgcumbe) The Guilds of Florence

GBP - 1.00
149 Foley (Edwin) The Book of Decorative Furniture

1910-11

GBP - 4.10
149 Steevens (G.) [Sale] Cataloguent the Curious and Valuable Library

GBP - 2.00
150 Fry (Roger) and Others Chinese Art

1925

GBP - 2.10
150 Swinburne (H.) Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776

GBP - 3.50
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