Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AND A FEW ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND MINIATURES, ETC, PALM,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 30, 1952 - July 30, 1952

Page Size: 612 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401	Masefield (John)	Sard Harker			GBP -	4.50
402	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Works			GBP -	0.50
403	Bewick (Thomas)	A History of British Birds			GBP -	1.75
404	Hodgkin (Thomas)	Italy and her Invaders	Oxford	1880-99	GBP -	4.50
405	Creichton (M.)	A History of the Papacy during the Reformation			GBP -	4.50
406	Masefield (John)	Midsummer Night			GBP -	1.50
407	Forster (E. M.)	A Passage to India			GBP -	3.00
408	Stevenson (R. L.)	The Graver and the Pen	Edinburgh	1882	GBP -	13.00
409	Joyce (James)	Verbannte		1919	GBP -	0.50
410	Coleridge (S. T.) [and R. Southey]	The Fall of Robespierre	Cambridge	1794	GBP -	7.50
411	Browning (R. B.)	Ferishtah's Fancies		1884	GBP -	3.00
412	Whittier (J. G.)	Poetical Works	Boston	1868	GBP -	0.75
413	Beerbohm (Max)	Works		1896	GBP -	6.50
414	Rossetti (D. G.)	Hand and Soul	Strangeways and Walden	[1850]	GBP -	1.50
415	Gilbert (W. S.)	The "Bab" Ballads		1869	GBP -	9.00
416	Stevenson (R. L.)	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde		1886	GBP -	6.50
417	[Dodgson (C. L.)]	The Songs from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"			GBP -	1.50
418	Dickens (C.)	The Village Coquettes		1836	GBP -	6.00
419	Blew (W. C. A.)	Brighton and Its Coaches		1894	GBP -	1.75
420	Tierney (Rev. M. A.)	The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel			GBP -	4.25
421	[Lee (Wm.)]	Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston			GBP -	7.00
422	Conrad (Jos.)	Lord Jim			GBP -	4.50
423	Conrad (J.)	The Mirror of the Sea			GBP -	2.00
424	Conrad (J.)	Under Western Eyes			GBP -	2.00
425	Conrad (J.)	Within the Tides			GBP -	2.50
426	Stanley (H. M.)	Through the Dark Continent		1878	GBP -	11.00
427	[Craigie (P. M. T.)]	The Ambassador			GBP -	0.50
428	Blackmore (R. D.)	Bible			GBP -	3.50
429	Lowndes (W. T.)	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature		1834	GBP -	1.75
430	Dibdin (Rev. T. F.)	The Bibliographical Decameron		1817	GBP -	10.50
431	Williamson (Dr. G. C.)	The Miniature Collector			GBP -	1.25
432	Hulme (F. Edward)	Familiar Wild Flowers			GBP -	1.25
433	Pratt (Anne)	The Flowering Plants			GBP -	0.50
434	Swaysland (W.)	Familiar Wild Birds		1883	GBP -	2.25
435	Lewis (G. G.)	The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs	Philadelphia	1920	GBP -	3.75
436	Boccaccio (G.)	The Decameron		1903	GBP -	1.00
436A	Cowden-Clarke (Mrs.)	The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare			GBP -	1.00
436B	[Clemens (S. L.)]	"Mark Twain"		1884	GBP -	2.25
436C		Horn-Book made of wood		1674	GBP -	4.50
437		SURTEES SOCIETY. PUBLICATIONS,		1835-1943	GBP -	70.00
438		Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society. Publications		1879-97	GBP -	11.00
439	Salt (William)	Archaelogical Society	Birmingham, Newcastle	1948	GBP -	34.00
440		Alpine Journal (The)		1863-1936	GBP -	9.00
441		Yorkshire Archaeological Society		1885-1949	GBP -	29.00
442		Society for Psychical Research		1882-1950	GBP -	18.00
443		Catholic Record Society		1905-49	GBP -	62.00
444		Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual		1895-1949	GBP -	11.00
445		Numismatic Journal (The)		1836-67	GBP -	36.00
446	Alison (Sir A.)	History of Europe		1859-60	GBP -	1.00
447	Baker (H.)	Of Microscopes		1744-53	GBP -	2.25
448	Bancroft (G.)	History of the United States	Boston	1874-75	GBP -	9.00
449	Bullock (W.)	Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico		1824	GBP -	6.50
450	Burton (Sir R. F.)	Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah		1855-56	GBP -	5.75
451	Catlin (G.)	The North American Indians		1876	GBP -	12.00
452	Chaffers (W.)	Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate		1905	GBP -	0.50
453	Johnson (S.)	Works		1810	GBP -	5.50
454	Josephus (F.)	Works		1875	GBP -	4.75
455	Livingstone (D.)	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa			GBP -	3.50
456	Plutarch, Translation called Dryden's, corrected by A. H. Clough	Lives,		1874	GBP -	6.00
457	Scott (Sir W.)	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1876-77	GBP -	10.00
458	Shakespeare (W.)	The Family Shakespeare			GBP -	2.00
459	Vecellio (C.)	Costumes Anciens et Modernes [Text in French and Italian]	Paris	1859-60	GBP -	2.00
460	Bartlett (W. H.) and N. P. Willis	American Scenery		1840	GBP -	5.50
461	Grandville (J. J.)	Les Fleurs Animees	Paris, Gamier Freres		GBP -	7.00
462	Marshall (J.)	The Life of George Washington		1804-1807	GBP -	6.50
463	Plato, translated by F. Sydenham and T. Taylor	Works		1804	GBP -	12.00
464	Richards (T. A.)	The Romance of American Landscape			GBP -	5.00
465	Wood (J. G.)	The Illustrated Natural History		1874-76	GBP -	1.00
466	REDOUTE (P. J.)	CHOIX DES PLUS BELLES FLEURS			GBP -	360.00
467	Rousselet (L.)	L'Inde des Rajahs	Paris	1875	GBP -	1.00
468	THORNTON (R. J.)	FIFTEEN COLOURED PLATES OF FLOWERS FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF "THE TEMPLE OF FLORA"		1798-1802	GBP -	140.00
469	Wood (R.)	The Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec		1753-57	GBP -	3.00
470		Auction Catalogues			GBP -	4.50
471		Chosen [Korea]			GBP -	5.00
472	Fujita (Baron)	Collection	Osaka	5 April 1934	GBP -	3.50
473		Matsumoto Collection, Sale Catalogue			GBP -	4.50
474	Okuda Minora	[Designs on the Gosu-Akaye Ware]	Toky	1933	GBP -	3.00
475		Chosen Meiga Shu	Tokyo	1933	GBP -	11.00
476		Chosen Meiga Shu	Tokyo	1933	GBP -	11.00
477	Hakkaku-jo	Catalogue of the Collection of Kano Jihei			GBP -	13.00
478	Huang Wen-pi	Kao-ch'ang t'ao chi [Report on the Pottery found by the Sino-Swedish Expedition]		1932	GBP -	11.00
479	Kwen (F. S.)	Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient and Genuine Chinese Painting	Shanghai	1916	GBP -	4.00
480		Okuda Seiichi Toyo Toji Shu sei [Catalogue of Oriental Ceramics, part 1 only, in Japanese']			GBP -	3.00
481		Peip'ing		1936	GBP -	5.50
482		Pei'ping		1937	GBP -	2.00
483		Pei'ping		1937	GBP -	5.00
484		Pei'ping			GBP -	6.50
485	Ri-O Ke Hakubutsukan	Shosoin Shashin cho [Catalogue of the Prince Ri (or Li) Household Collection	Tokyo	1933	GBP -	10.00
486	Sun Hai-po	Hsin-cheng i-ch'i [Bronzes from Hsin-cheng],	Kaifeng	1937	GBP -	5.50
487	Yamanaka	Toso Seikwa. Selected Relics, of T'ang and Sung from European and American Collections	Osaka	1928	GBP -	13.00
488	Grimm (J. L. and W. K.), translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas	Fairy Tales		1909	GBP -	4.50
489	Broughton (U. H. R.)	The Dress of the First Regiment of Life Guards in Three Centuries		1925	GBP -	4.00
490	Chalmers (P. R.)	Gun-Dogs			GBP -	0.50
491	Simpson (Chas.)	The Harboro' Country			GBP -	0.50
492	Lawrence (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom			GBP -	3.75
493	Lawrence (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Widom			GBP -	1.75
494	Tuer (A. W.)	History of the Horn-Book		1897	GBP -	4.00
495	Pease (A. E.)	Travel and Sport in Africa		1902	GBP -	4.50
496	Macquoid (Percy)	A History of English Furniture			GBP -	5.00
497	Heeley (Sybil)	Two Plays in Typescript		1920	GBP -	0.50

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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