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
697 WILDE (OSCAR) [Works]

[1908]

GBP - 14.00
698 Thackeray (W. M.) Works

1869

GBP - 1.00
699 Toynbee (A. J.) A Study of History Oxford

1940-45

GBP - 5.00
700 Austen (Jane) Works

1922

GBP - 4.00
701 [Addison (J.) and Sir R. Steele] The Spectator

GBP - 2.00
702 Proust (M.) A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Paris

1919-32

GBP - 3.00
703 Gardiner (J. S.) The Art and Pleasures of Hare-Hunting

1807

GBP - 1.00
704 Bossuet (J. B.) L'Apocalypse avec une Explication Paris

1689

GBP - 1.00
705 Halbeeck (J. van) Figurse Libri Apocalypsis beatis Ioannis Apostoli

GBP - 1.00
706 Temple Classics

GBP - 2.50
707 Cooke (Capt. Edward) A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World

1712

GBP - 13.00
708 Lyly (John) Sixe Court Comedies

1632

GBP - 12.00
709 Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs

GBP - 4.00
710 Anderson (Jos.) The Orkneyinga Saga

GBP - 3.75
711 Barrie (J. M.) The Novels

1896

GBP - 4.50
712 Baring (M.) Russian Essays and Stories

GBP - 4.50
713 Guest (M.) and Boulton (Wm. B.) The Royal Yacht Squadron

GBP - 2.50
714 Guigard (Joannis) Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile Paris

1890

GBP - 13.00
715 Pointer (J.) A Rational Account of the Weather

GBP - 2.50
716 Rosebery (Lord) Napoleon

GBP - 1.00
717 Cardonnel (A. de) Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland

1805

GBP - 1.00
718 Cust (L.) Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary

GBP - 1.00
719 Henderson (J.) Caithness Family History

GBP - 2.50
720 Kay (John) A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

GBP - 1.00
721 Malcolm (J. P.) Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century

GBP - 1.50
722 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 6.00
723 Paul (J. Balfour) The History of the Royal Company of Archers (The Queen's Body-Guard for Scotland)

GBP - 1.75
724 Piano Music

GBP - 3.00
725 Scott (Sir Walter) The Lady of the Lake

GBP - 5.00
726 Scottish Highlands (The)

GBP - 5.00
727 Stevenson (J. H.) Heraldry in Scotland

1882

GBP - 5.00
728 Bulloch (J. M.) The House of Gordon

GBP - 2.25
729 Bell (M.) Rembrandt van Rijn and His Work

GBP - 0.50
730 Cescinsky (H.) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

GBP - 8.00
731 Meyrick (Sir Samuel R.) A Critical Enquiry into Antient Armour

1842

GBP - 22.00
732 Oldham (J. B.) Shrewsbury School Library Bindings

1943

GBP - 12.00
733 Cameron (D. Y.) Etchings

GBP - 1.25
734 Reidemeister (L.) Ming-Porzellane in schwedischen Sammlungen Leipzig

1935

GBP - 6.50
735 International Exhibition of Chinese Art in London

1935

GBP - 13.00
736 Montaigne (M. de) Essays

1923

GBP - 5.00
737 France (Anatole) Oeuvres Completes Paris

1925-35

GBP - 16.00
738 Hasson (J.) The Banquet of the Immortals Edinburgh

1948

GBP - 1.50
739 Howard (E. L.) Chinese Garden Architecture

GBP - 1.50
740 Anthony (G.) and S. Sitwell Leonide Massine

GBP - 2.00
741 Ploss (H. H.) and Barbels (M. and P.) Woman

1935

GBP - 9.50
742 Adams (George) Essays on the Microscope

1787

GBP - 0.50
743 Evelyn (John) Silva

1776

GBP - 1.00
744 Maugham (W. S.) Cosmopolitans

GBP - 0.50
745 Scholes (P. A.) The Great Dr. Burney

GBP - 1.75
746 Rabelais (F.) Oeuvres

GBP - 1.50
747 Browne (Sir Thos.) Works Oxford

1827-28

GBP - 8.00
748 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) The Works

GBP - 2.50
749 Murasaki (Lady) The Tale of Genji

GBP - 2.00
750 Gollan (J. Santos) and Lopez (R. B.) Pajaros sudamericanos

GBP - 4.50
751 Housman (L.) Princess Badonra

GBP - 1.00
752 Wilenski (R. H.) An Introduction to Dutch Art

GBP - 1.00
753 Frohlich-Bume (L.) Ingres

1926

GBP - 2.50
754 Chelsea

GBP - 7.00
755 Mirbeau (O.) Dingo Paris

1924

GBP - 14.00
756 Rollet (M.) De Notre-Dame a Saint-Germain

GBP - 1.00
757 Couche (J.) Galerie du Palais Royale gravee d'apres les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent Paris

1786

GBP - 5.00
758 Bowyer (Robt.) Illustrations to Hume's History of England

1793-1805

GBP - 1.00
759 Sainte Bible (La)

1874

GBP - 1.00
760 Sutherland Gower (Lord R.) Sir Thomas Lawrence

GBP - 1.00
761 Moore (Thos.) and Lindley (J.) The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland

1855-56

GBP - 5.00
762 Shaw (G. Bernard) Saint Joan

1924

GBP - 3.25
763 Gluck (G.) Pieter Breughel le Vieux Paris

1937

GBP - 1.25
764 Burnier (R.) Hindu Medieval Sculpture

1950

GBP - 1.00
765 Borenius (T.) English Painting in the XVIIIth Century

1938

GBP - 1.75
766 Ackermann's Repository of Arts

1810, 11, 14, 16, etc

GBP - 11.00
767 Shaftesbury (Earl of) Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Birmingham

1773

GBP - 3.50
768 Bewick (Thomas) Figures of British Land Birds

1800

GBP - 2.25
769 Bracken (H.) Farriery Improv'd

GBP - 2.25
770 [Combe (Wm.)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

1813

GBP - 4.00
771 Davenport (Cyril) English Heraldic Book-Stamps

GBP - 4.00
772 Decius (Philippus) De Regulis Juris

GBP - 10.00
773 Evelyn (John) Sculptura

GBP - 4.00
774 Fore Edge Painting Book of Common Prayer Paris

1791

GBP - 12.00
775 Fulvius (Andreas) Illustrium Imagines Rome

1517

GBP - 6.00
776 Hobbes (Thomas) Decameron Physiologicum

GBP - 12.00
777 [Kneller] Drawings in water colour

GBP - 70.00
778 Langius Lembergius (J.) Medicinaliuni Epistolarum Miscellanea

GBP - 14.00
779 Milton (John) Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

GBP - 8.00
780 Miscellaneous Books (a large stack)

GBP - 300.00
781 [More (Hannah)] Coelebs in Search of a Wife

1808

GBP - 2.00
782 Pepys (Samuel) Diary

1893-99

GBP - 6.50
783 Rainolds (John) Th' overthrow of Stage Playes

GBP - 7.00
784 Ronaldshay (Earl of) The Life of Lord Curzon

GBP - 1.00
785 Smith (John) A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Dutch

1908

GBP - 3.00
786 Smith (J. C.) British Mezzotint Portraits

1887

GBP - 1.00
787 Barclay (Robert) An Apology

GBP - 2.75
788 Barrow (John) Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa

1806

GBP - 17.00
789 Bemrose (Wm.) Longton Hall Porcelain

1906

GBP - 8.50
790 Bles (Joseph) Rare English Glasses of the XVII and XVIII Centuries

GBP - 3.50
791 Buckley (Francis) A History of Old English Glass

1925

GBP - 5.00
792 Camden Society Publications

GBP - 8.50
793 Cary (John) New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland

1794

GBP - 1.25
794 Cescinsky (Herbert) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

1911

GBP - 8.00
795 Cescinsky (H.) and E. R. Gribble Early English Furniture and Woodwork

1922

GBP - 2.00
796 Chapman (A.) and W. J. Buck Unexplored Spain

1854

GBP - 1.00
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