Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 1LEAD,

Auction Details

Auction Date
November 03, 1952 - November 03, 1952
Page Size: 859 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Wise (T. J.) and J. P. Smart A Complete Bibliography of John Ruskin

1893

GBP - 5.50
102 Allen (Commr. W.) Picturesque Views on the River Niger

1840

GBP - 2.50
103 Blackwell (E) Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum [text in Latin and German] Nuremberg

1754-73

GBP - 40.00
104 British Hunts and Huntsmen

1908-11

GBP - 1.00
105 PINE (J.) The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords

1739

GBP - 40.00
106 Plot (R.) The Natural History of Oxford-shire Oxford

1705

GBP - 2.00
107 ROWLANDSON (T.) HUNGARIAN AND HIGHLAND BROAD SWORD

1799

GBP - 28.00
108 Rushworth (J.) Historical Collections

1721

GBP - 0.50
109 Swarbreck (S. D.) Sketches in Scotland

1845

GBP - 7.00
110 WESTALLL (W.) AND S. OWEN PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE RIVER THAMES

1828

GBP - 88.00
111 Bronte (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) [Works] Oxford

1931-38

GBP - 34.00
112 Hudson (W. H.) Collected Works

1922-23

GBP - 26.00
113 Melville (Herman) Works

1922-24

GBP - 34.00
114 D'Arblay (Fanny, nee Burney) Diary and Letters (1778-1840)

1904-05

GBP - 10.00
115 Collins (Wm. Wilkie) [Novels]

1885-97

GBP - 7.00
116 Milton (John) Works New York

1931-40

GBP - 24.00
117 Gosse (Sir Edmund) The Life and Letters of John Donne

1899

GBP - 5.50
118 Drayton (Michael) Works Oxford

GBP - 14.00
119 Dorine (John) Works

1839

GBP - 19.00
120 Lyly (John) Complete Works Oxford

1902

GBP - 2.50
121 Lyndsay (Sir David) Poetical Works

GBP - 3.50
122 Spenser (Edmund) Works

GBP - 4.50
123 Pater (Walter) [Works]

GBP - 5.00
124 Pepys (S.) Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers

1926-29

GBP - 2.50
125 Clare (John) Poems

GBP - 4.00
126 Dumas (Alexandre) [Historical Romances and Celebrated Crimes]

GBP - 14.00
127 Du Boisgobey (Fortune)

1885-91

GBP - 5.00
128 Scottish Text Society

1884-1944

GBP - 44.00
129 Crockett (S. R.) The Stickit Minister and Some Common Men

GBP - 2.50
130 Mitford (Mary R.) Our Village

GBP - 1.00
131 Dickens (Chas.) Nicholas Nickleby

GBP - 4.50
132 Arabian Nights (The)

GBP - 0.75
133 [Holmes (Oliver W.)] Over the Teacups

1890

GBP - 3.50
134 [Dodgson (C. L.)] "Lewis Carroll."

GBP - 3.50
135 Boswell (J.) The Life of Samuel Johnson Dublin

1792

GBP - 2.00
136 Tarantula (The)

GBP - 4.00
137 Green (J. R.) A Short History of the English People

1902-03

GBP - 1.50
138 Gissing (George) By the Ionian Sea

GBP - 2.00
139 Dickens (Chas.) Dombey and Son FIRST EDITION

GBP - 9.50
140 [Swift (J Dean)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

1726

GBP - 2.50
141 Ross-of-Bladensburg (Lt.-Col. Sir J.) The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918

GBP - 1.00
142 Society of Antiquaries of London

GBP - 1.50
143 Seiden (J.) De Dis Syris Syntagmata II

GBP - 1.00
144 Cuvier (Baron G. L. C.) and P. Latreille The Animal Kingdom

1834-37

GBP - 1.00
145 Sowerby (Jas.) English Botany

GBP - 10.00
146 Wooster (D.) Alpine Plants

1874

GBP - 1.50
147 Harrison (J.) The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine

GBP - 8.50
148 CURTIS (WM.) THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

1793-1846, 1874-96

GBP - 270.00
149 Fellowes (W. D.) A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817

1823

GBP - 3.50
150 Lawrence (T. E.) Shaw-Ede T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede 1927-35

GBP - 8.50
151 [Rolfe (F. W. S.)] "Baron Corvo."

1951

GBP - 5.00
152 Saltus (Edgar) The Anatomy of Negation

1886

GBP - 3.50
153 Baudelaire (Ch.) Les Epaves Bruxelles

1874

GBP - 5.50
154 D[ulaure] (J. A.) Des divinites generatrices

GBP - 5.00
155 Quinque illustrium poctarum

GBP - 3.00
156 [Saint-Pierre (J.-H. B. de)] Voyage a l'Isle de France

GBP - 4.50
157 Grandville (J. J.) Scenes de la vie privee et publique des animaux

GBP - 1.00
158 Perrault (Ch.) Les Contes

GBP - 4.00
159 Rouveyre (E.) Connaissances necessaires a un bibliophile

GBP - 2.25
160 Allen (H. Warner) The Wines of France

GBP - 3.50
161 HUNTERIAN CLUB ISSUES

1873-1902

GBP - 125.00
162 Breton (N.) Chertsey Worthies' Library

1879

GBP - 16.00
163 Beaumont (Dr. Jos.) Chertsey Worthies' Library

1880

GBP - 12.00
164 Sylvester (J.) Chertsey Worthies' Library

1880

GBP - 11.00
165 Cowley (A.) Chertsey Worthies' Library

1881

GBP - 9.00
166 Southwell (R.) Fuller Worthies' Library

GBP - 15.00
167 Crockett (S. R.) Sweetheart Travellers

GBP - 1.00
168 Ponting (H. G.) In Lotus-Land Japan

GBP - 0.50
169 Shepherd (T. H.) London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century

1829

GBP - 4.50
170 Fox-Davies (A. C.) Armorial Families

1929-30

GBP - 11.00
171 Fox-Davies (A. C.) Armorial Families

GBP - 3.00
172 Strickland (W. G.) A Dictionary of Irish Artists

1913

GBP - 7.00
173 Cescinsky (H.) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

1911

GBP - 10.50
174 Mawe (Thos.) and Abercrombie (J.) The Universal Gardener and Botanist

GBP - 6.50
175 Shakespeare (Wm.) Venus and Adonis

GBP - 3.50
176 McArthur (J.) The Army and Navy Gentleman's Companion

1784

GBP - 3.50
177 Batty (E. F.) Fore-edge Painting

1820

GBP - 2.00
178 Society of Antiquaries of London

1912-45

GBP - 7.00
179 Burlington Fine Arts Club

1919-32

USD - Not Sold
180 Ordinances and Regulations (A Collection of) for the Government of the Royal Household

GBP - 0.50
181 Wilde (O.) The Happy Prince and Other Tales

1888

GBP - 15.00
182 Phillips (Stephen) Eremus

GBP - 1.00
183 Hooker (Sir Wm. J.) Filices Exoticae

GBP - 6.00
184 Eaton (D. C.) The Ferns of North America

1879-80

GBP - 5.50
185 Loudon (Mrs.) The Ladies' Flower-Garden

GBP - 46.00
186 Blondel (A.) and Mirabaud (P.) Rodolphe Topffer

GBP - 0.50
187 Goncourt (E. and J. de) Madame de Pompadour Paris

1888

GBP - 1.75
188 Rousseau (J.-J.) Les Confessions Paris

1889

GBP - 1.50
189 Grand-Carteret (J.) Les moeurs et la caricature en France Paris

1888

GBP - 6.00
190 Carteret (J.) Grand Paris

1893

GBP - 4.00
191 Louys (Pierre) Aphrodite Paris

GBP - 1.50
192 Louys (P.) Les Chansons de Bilitis

1931

GBP - 5.00
193 Courteline (G.) Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir Paris

1927

GBP - 3.25
194 Hobbes (Thos.) Leviathan

1651

GBP - 9.00
195 Ariosto (L.) Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse by Sr. John Harrington

1607

GBP - 5.00
196 Hugenius (Chr.) Horologium Oscillatorium sive de Motu Pendulorum ad Horologia aptato Paris

1673

GBP - 62.00
197 [Cox (David)] A Series of Progressive Lessons intended to elucidate the Art of Landscape Painting in Watercolours

1828

GBP - 3.00
198 Kaempfer (E.) The History of Japan

GBP - 1.00
199 Fuller (Thomas) The History of the Worthies of England

1662

GBP - 4.00
200 Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain

GBP - 6.00
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