Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, BERRY,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 14, 1947 - April 14, 1947
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R. F. Burton | ARABIAN NIGHTS | 1897 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 2 | Barrie (J. M.) | Novels | 1896 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 3 | Bocchius (Achilles) | Symbolicarum Quaestionum | Bologna | 1574 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 4 | Bullen (A. H.) | Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 5 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | Complete Works Edited by Rev. W. W. Skeat | Oxford | 1894-97 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 6 | Conrad (Joseph) | Youth | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 7 | Doughty (C. M.) | Travels in Arabia Deserta | 1926 |
GBP - | 3.25 | |
| 8 | S. R. Hole | Our Gardens | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 9 | Hardy (Thomas) | A Group of Noble Dames | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 10 | Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson | History | 1862 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 11 | Kipling (Rudyard) | The Second Jungle Book | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 12 | Kipling (R.) | Stalky & Co | GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 13 | Lang (Andrew) | A Collection of many of his Works | GBP - | 7.50 | ||
| 14 | Liceti (Fortunio) | De Ortu Humani Libri III in quibus multa arcana ac secretae Naturae tum de Semine | Frankfurt | 1606 |
GBP - | 4.25 |
| 15 | MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS | GBP - | 6.00 | |||
| 16 | Moore (George) | Pagan Poems | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 17 | Plato | The Dialogues | Oxford | 1875 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 18 | Skeat (W. W.) and C. O. Blagden | Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsular | 1906 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 19 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Kidnapped | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 20 | Symonds (J. A.) | Life of Michelangelo | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 21 | Travels and Topography | GBP - | 22.00 | |||
| 22 | Wilde (Oscar) | The Picture of Dorian Gray | GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 23 | Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland | Edinb | 1892 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 24 | Johnston (Sir Harry) | The Uganda Protectorate | 1902 |
GBP - | 3.25 | |
| 25 | Marillier (H. C.) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1899 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 26 | Tristram (W. O.) | Coaching Days and Coaching Ways | 1888 |
GBP - | 3.75 | |
| 27 | Wells (H. G.) | The First Men in the Moon | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 28 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Memories and Portraits, slightly soiled | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 29 | Clemens (S. L.) | Mark Twain | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 30 | Clemens (S. L.) | The Prince and the Pauper | 1881 |
GBP - | 3.25 | |
| 31 | Barrie (Sir J. M.) | My Lady Nicotine | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 32 | Phillpotts (E.) | Children of the Mist | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 33 | Doyle (Sir A. Conan) | Uncle Bernac | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 34 | Masefield (J.) | The Street of To-day | GBP - | 2.75 | ||
| 35 | [Bronte (A.)] | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 36 | Almanacks for 1702 | GBP - | 1.00 | |||
| 37 | Kipling (R.) | Stalky & Co | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 38 | Kipling (R.) | Many Inventions | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 39 | Kipling (R.) | Traffics and Discoveries | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 40 | Dickens (C.) | [Works] | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 41 | Lytton (Lord) | [Works] | 1896-8 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 42 | [Surtees (R. S.)] | Handley Cross | Methuen | 1903-4 |
GBP - | 2.25 |
| 43 | Balzac (H. de) | [The Human Comedy] | New York | 1901 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 44 | Thackeray (W. M.) | Works | 1891-2 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 45 | Hugo (V.) | Novels | Edinburgh | 1903 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 46 | Glasenapp (C. F.) | Life of Richard Wagner | 1900-8 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 47 | Byron (Lord) | Works | 1898-1904 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 48 | Scott (Sir W.) | Waverley Novels | Edinburgh | 1898-9 |
GBP - | 4.75 |
| 49 | [Wilde (O.)] | The Importance of Being Earnest | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 50 | D'Artagnan | Memoirs, | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 51 | Macaulay (T. B., Lord) | Works | 1879 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 52 | Gibbon (Edward) | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1848 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 53 | Evelyn (John) | Diary | 1879 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 54 | De Quincey (Thomas) | Works | Edinb | 1878-71 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 55 | Thackeray (W. M.) | Works | 1882-81 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 56 | Hawthorne (Nathaniel) | Complete Works | 1883 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 57 | Longfellow (H. W.) | Writings | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 58 | Byron (Lord) | Poetical Works | 1873 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 59 | Lamb (Charles) | Works | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 60 | Arabian Nights | 1883 |
GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 61 | Rabelais (F.) | Works | 1807 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 62 | Catlin (George) | Illustrations of the Manners | 1857 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 63 | [Thackeray (W. M.)] | Henry Esmond | 1852 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 64 | [Shelley (M. W.)] | Frankenstein | 1818 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 65 | Coleridge (S. T.) | Table Talk | 1835 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 66 | [Browning (E. B.)] | Prometheus Bound | 1833 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 67 | [Lamb (C.)] | Satan in Search of a Wife | 1831 |
GBP - | 1.75 | |
| 68 | [Johnson (S.)] | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 1775 |
GBP - | 3.75 | |
| 69 | Historical MSS | 1883-1909 |
GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 70 | Anderson (H. C.) | The Improvisatore or Life in Italy | GBP - | 1.25 | ||
| 71 | Miller (J.) | Origin of the Distinction of Ranks | GBP - | 1.25 | ||
| 72 | Winsor (Justin) | Christopher Columbus | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 73 | Champlain (S.) | Voyages and Explorations | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 74 | Monypenny (W. F.) and C. E. Buckle | Life of Benjamin Disraeli | 1910-20 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 75 | Bronte Sisters | Novels | Edinb. | 1905 |
GBP - | 14.00 |
| 76 | Longacre (J. B.) and J. Herring | The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 77 | Milne (A. A.) | When we were very Young | 1924 |
GBP - | 1.75 | |
| 78 | Edited by G. Manners | Satirist (The) | 1808-09 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 79 | [Gait (John)] | George the Third | GBP - | 0.75 | ||
| 80 | La Quintinye | The Complete Gardner | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 81 | [Dickens (Charles)], edited by Boz | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | 1838 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 82 | Ovid | Opera Omnia | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 83 | Lytton (Sir E. Bulwer) | The Caxtons | 1849 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 84 | Scott (Sir Walter) | Works | Edinb | 1830-34 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 85 | Scott (Sir W.) | Works | Edinb | 1833-36 |
USD - | Not Sold |
| 86 | ARABIAN NIGHTS | 1897 |
GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 87 | Arabian Nights | 1897 |
GBP - | 12.00 | ||
| 88 | Smollett (T.) | Works | 1899-1901 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 89 | Surtees (R. S.) | Sporting Novels | GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 90 | Byron (Lord) | Works | 1832-3 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 91 | Herrick (R.) | Works | Edinburgh | 1823 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 92 | Sterne (L.) | Tristram Shandy | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 93 | Combe (W.) | The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax | 1813[-21] |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 94 | Goldsmith (O.) | Works | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 95 | Thackeray (W. M.) | An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank | 1883 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 96 | Kipling (R.) | Puck of Pook's Hill | GBP - | 1.25 | ||
| 97 | Cobbett (W.) | Rural Rides | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 98 | Roquelaure (Due de) | Secret Memoirs | 1896-7 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 99 | Cox (W. E.) | The Book of Pottery and Porcelain | New York | 1944 |
GBP - | 4.50 |
| 100 | Caradoc Press | GBP - | 3.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
