Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING The Property of Charles Easler. Esg The Property of Sir Edward Ellington, B.C.B The Property of Mrs. E. E. James The Property of B. H. fielding Esg The Property of P. G. Goyd, Esg, KNOSSOS,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 19, 1962 - November 19, 1962

Page Size: 598 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Architectural Review (The)		1897-1958	USD -	2.80
2	edited by Robert Harling	Alphabet and Image		1950	USD -	36.40
3	edited by Douglas C. McMurtrie	Ars Typographica			USD -	11.20
4		Arts et Metiers graphiques	Paris	1929-1939	USD -	25.20
5		Ballads		[c. 1800]	USD -	36.40
6	Beardsley (Aubrey)	A collection of 18 pieces			USD -	42.00
7	Besant (Walter)	East London			USD -	14.00
8	Besley (H.)	Views of Devonshire		1830	USD -	14.00
9	Birrell & Garnett Ltd.	Catalogue of typefounders' specimens		1928	USD -	19.60
10	Breton (V.)	Eassais progressifs sur la composition typographique des tableaux et travaux de villes divers	Paris	1876	USD -	19.60
11	Bury (Lady Charlotte)	The three great sanctuaries of Tuscany		1833	USD -	2.80
12	Caslon (H. W.) & Co.	Specimen of printing types of the Caslon and Glasgow letter foundry		1857	USD -	39.20
13	CELLARIUS (ANDREAS)	Harmonia macrocosmica seu Atlas universalis et novus	Amsterdam	1708	USD -	434.00
14	Chettle (G. H.)	The Queen's House Greenwich		1943	USD -	5.60
15		Chromolithograph (The)			USD -	8.40
16	Clay (Richard) & Sons	A book of printing types and ornaments used at the Chaucer Press			USD -	19.60
17	Degering (Hermann)	Lettering		1929	USD -	19.60
18	De Vinne (Thomas Low)	Modern methods of book composition		1897	USD -	28.00
19	Diderot (D.) & J. d'Alembert	[Plates illustrating printing only]		1897	USD -	25.20
20	Earhart (John F.)	The color printer	Cincinnati (Ohio)	1892	USD -	22.40
21		Elf (The)		[c. 1900]	USD -	5.60
22		Embroidery		1817	USD -	67.20
23	Fishenden (R. B.)	A collection of 27 offprints and galleyproofs of articles on printing	New York	1931-32	USD -	19.60
24		Fleuron (The)		1926-1930	USD -	47.60
25		Floricultural Cabinet (The)	Edinburgh	1817	USD -	2.80
26	Fry (Edmund) & Son	Specimen of modern printing type		1820	USD -	72.80
27	Fry (Edmund) & Son	Specimen of modern printing types		1824	USD -	70.00
28	Fry, Steele & Co.	A specimen of printing types		1799	USD -	140.00
29	Griffith (S. Y.)	New historical description of Cheltenham	Cheltenham & London	1826	USD -	28.00
30	Hart (Horace)	Notes on a century of typography at the University Press	Oxford	1900	USD -	28.00
31	Hindley (Charles)	The history of the Catnach Press		1925	USD -	16.80
32	Humphreys (Henry Noel)	The origin and progress of the art of writing		1855	USD -	16.80
33		Imprint (The)		January 1913-November 1913	USD -	28.00
34	Jackson (John)	A treatise on wood engraving	Aberdeen	1885	USD -	14.00
35	Jefferies (Richard)	Summer in the woods	Cambridge	1925	USD -	8.40
36	Johnson (J.)	Two prospectuses for his "Typographia"		January 28, 1822	USD -	11.20
37	Johnson (J.)	Typographia or the printer's instructor		1824	USD -	36.40
38	Jones (Sydney R.)	Posters and their designers		1924-53	USD -	11.20
39	Larwood (J.) and J. C. Hotten	The history of signboards		1860	USD -	8.40
40	[Luckombe (Philip)]	A concise history of the origin and progress of printing		[1770?]	USD -	89.60
41		Maps of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge		1844	USD -	30.80
42		Mechanics' Magazine			USD -	22.40
43	Meynell (Sir Francis)	Typography		1923	USD -	16.80
44	Meynell (Sir Francis)	The typography of newspaper advertisements		1924	USD -	25.20
45	Miller & Richard	Specimens of book, newspaper, jobbing and ornamental types	Madrid	1907	USD -	14.00
46		Monotype Recorder (The)		1939	USD -	44.80
47	Morison (Stanley)	Modern fine printing		1925	USD -	42.00
48	Morison (Stanley)	John Bell		1930	USD -	25.20
49	Morison (Stanley)	The English newspaper	Cambridge	1932	USD -	33.60
50	Morison (Stanley)	Type designs of the past and present	Paris and New York	1932	USD -	16.80
51		Pastonchi	Verona	1928	USD -	16.80
52		Peepshow showing a distant view of Florence	Germany		USD -	67.20
53	Plomer (Henry R.)	English printer's ornaments		1924	USD -	19.60
54		Poster (The)		June 1898-December 1900	USD -	25.20
55		Printing Ephemera			USD -	30.80
56		Printing Ephemera		1880	USD -	16.80
57		Printing Ephemera			USD -	8.40
58		Printing Ephemera			USD -	8.40
59		Printing Ephemera		1829-30	USD -	25.20
60		Psalter			USD -	28.00
61	Rogers (Bruce)	An account of the making of the Oxford Lectern Bible			USD -	30.80
62	Rogers (W. S.)	A book of the poster		1927	USD -	16.80
63	Sagot (Ed.)	Catalogue d'affiches illustrees anciennes et modernes	Paris	1891	USD -	28.00
64	Silius Italicus (Caius)	De bello punico			USD -	14.00
65	Simon (Oliver) and Julius Rodenberg	Printing of to-day		1928	USD -	5.60
66	Steele (Robert)	The revival of printing		1912	USD -	11.20
67	Thomas (Sir Henry)	Evidence that the first English printer learned his craft at Cologne			USD -	36.40
68	Thorowgood & Co.	Designs for ornamental printing			USD -	30.80
69	Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de)	Affiches	Basle	1946	USD -	22.40
70	Tschichold (Jan)	Schatzkammer der Schreibkunst	Basle	1945	USD -	16.80
71		Type specimen		[1896]	USD -	2.80
72		Type specimen		1921	USD -	16.80
73		Type specimens			USD -	14.00
74		Type specimens			USD -	11.20
75		Type specimens			USD -	5.60
76		Valentines			USD -	75.60
77		Victoriana			USD -	28.00
78	Warde (Frederic)	Printers ornaments		1928	USD -	19.60
79	Wood (J. & R. M.)	Typographic Advertiser		1862-65	USD -	56.00
80		Wood & Sharwoods		[1838]	USD -	25.20
81	Dunton (John)	The Young Students Library		1692	USD -	36.40
82	Fabricius (J. A.)	Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica	Hamburg	1718	USD -	5.60
83	Van den Gheyn (J.)	Le Psautier de Peterborough	Haarlem		USD -	28.00
84	Bruck (Robert)	Die Malereien in den Handschriften des Konigreichs Sachsen	Dresden	1906	USD -	30.80
85	Arrighi (Ludovico degli, called Vicentino)	The calligraphic models	Montagnola	1926	USD -	33.60
86	Lacaita (J. P.)	Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth		1879	USD -	39.20
87	Darlow (T. H.) and H. F. Moule	Historical catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture		1857	USD -	72.80
88	Hardie (Martin)	English Coloured Books		1906	USD -	25.20
89		Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst	Leipzig	1927-30	USD -	42.00
90		Archiv fur Buchbinderei herausgegeben von Dr. Erhard Klette und Dr. Hans Knapp	Leipzig	1929	USD -	8.40
91		BOOK AUCTION RECORDS		1907-61	USD -	224.00
92		Book Auction Records		1908-32	USD -	19.60
93		Cambridge History (The)	Cambridge	1933-1934	USD -	28.00
94	Ashbee (E. W.) and J. O. Halliwell-Phillips	Shakespeare			USD -	39.20
95		Engineering: an Illustrated Weekly Journal		1867-1910	USD -	2.80
96		Institute of Mining Engineers		1892-1910	USD -	5.60
97		Journal of the Chemical Society		1875-96	USD -	756.00
98		Encyclopaedia Britannica (The)		1939-1942	USD -	33.60
99		Liber Munerum publicorum Hiberniae or the establishments of Ireland		1852	USD -	50.40
100	Lloyd (John Edward)	A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest			USD -	14.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.