Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, BERRY,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 14, 1947 - April 14, 1947
Page Size: 951 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Wilde (O.) The Picture of Dorian Gray

1925

GBP - 3.25
102 Wilde (O.) De Profundis

1905

GBP - 1.00
103 Dictionary of National Biography

1885-1906

GBP - 28.00
104 Avisa di Quanto e Successe

1589

GBP - 5.00
105 Updike (D.P.) Printing Types Cambridge

1937

GBP - 6.00
106 La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables

1931

GBP - 12.00
107 Updike (D. P.) Printing Types Cambridge

1937

GBP - 5.50
108 Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (The)

GBP - 2.00
109 NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY

1895-1911

GBP - 9.00
110 Morris (F. O.) British Birds

GBP - 6.00
111 Clowes (Sir W. L.) and others The Royal Navy

1897-1903

GBP - 1.00
112 Schenk (P.) Hecatompolis engraved title and 93 views of cities

1702

GBP - 26.00
113 Cookery Book

GBP - 2.75
114 Marioni (S.) Costumi di Roma

[circa 1833]

GBP - 4.00
115 Kipling (R.) An Almanac of Twelve Sports

GBP - 2.25
116 Kipling (R.) Just So Stories

1902

GBP - 0.75
117 Pitois (G. A.) Nuova Libro di Caratteri diversi

GBP - 1.75
118 Austin (S.), J. Harwood and G. le Pyne Lancashire Illustrated

1831

GBP - 0.50
119 Basan (Sr. F.) Recueil d'estampes gravees d'apres les Tableaux du Cabinet de Monsieur le Duc de Choiseul Paris

1771

GBP - 6.00
120 Basan (Sr. F.) Collection de Cent Vingt Estampes gravees d'apres les Tableaux Paris

1781

GBP - 6.00
121 Marshall (C. F. Dendy) History of the British Railways down to the Year 1930

1938

GBP - 2.00
122 D. Fernando Colon [Harisse]

GBP - 0.50
123 Nevil (R.) Old English Sporting Prints

1923

GBP - 5.50
124 Konody (P. G.) and others The National Gallery

1909

GBP - 3.00
125 Fox-Davies (A. H.) Armorial Families

1929-30

GBP - 10.00
126 Wagner (R.) The Ring of the Niblung

1910-11

GBP - 10.50
127 Marot (J.) Le Magnifique Chasteau de Richelieu, plans and elevations

GBP - 1.00
128 [Longus]

GBP - 2.75
129 Durer, 473 reproductions

1929

GBP - 5.00
130 Scott (Rev. Dr.) and S. Davey Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents

1891

GBP - 3.50
131 Pichon (Baron J.) Grolier Club

1899

GBP - 7.00
132 Churchill (W. A.) Watermarks in Paper in Holland

1935

GBP - 11.00
133 HOBSON (G. D.) Les Reliures a la Fanfare Le Probleme de L'S Ferme

1935

GBP - 23.00
134 Sluzhebrik (Russian Liturgies) Chernigov

1747

GBP - 15.00
135 MORE (SIR T.) ASHENDENE PRESS

1906

GBP - 44.00
136 H[eseltine] (J. P.) Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School forming part of the Collection

1913

GBP - 1.25
137 Crowdy (W. M.) Burgundy & Morvan

1925

GBP - 1.75
138 Hassell (J.) Memoirs of the Life of George Morland

1806

GBP - 0.50
139 Pepys (Samuel) Memoirs

1825

GBP - 20.00
140 Cats (Jacob) Alle de Wercken portrait Dordrecht

1659

GBP - 3.00
141 Wagner (R.) Rackham Illustrations

1910

GBP - 5.50
142 White (Gleeson) English Illustrations of the Sixties

GBP - 2.50
143 Edwards (Lionel) Huntsmen Past and Present

1929

GBP - 1.75
144 Bower (Archibald) History of the Popes

1749-66

GBP - 0.50
145 Play (The)

GBP - 0.50
146 Philips (Mrs. Katherine) Poems by . . . the Matchless Orinda

GBP - 1.25
147 Sheridan (R. B.) The School for Scandal and The Rivals

GBP - 3.00
148 Green (J. R.) A Short History of the English People

1898

GBP - 1.75
149 Fielding (H.) Works

1882

GBP - 4.00
150 Anglo-Saxon Review (The)

1899-1901

GBP - 5.50
151 Rabelais (F.) Gargantua & Pantagruel

1892

GBP - 2.50
152 Giovanni (Ser) The Pecorone

1897

GBP - 1.00
153 Masuccio The Novellino

1895

GBP - 2.25
154 Straparola The Nights

1894

GBP - 4.00
155 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

GBP - 1.50
156 Fashion Plates

GBP - 22.00
157 Langley (Batty) Pomona: or the Fruit Garden

1729

GBP - 7.50
158 Wattier (Emile) L'Oeuvre de Boucher

1825

GBP - 3.00
159 Raoul-Rochette Choix de Peintures de Pompei

1844-53

GBP - 5.00
160 [Doyle (J.)] Political Sketches

GBP - 4.00
161 Meyer (G.) Portraits of the Hungarians

1743

GBP - 3.00
162 Thomas (H.) and Morison (S.) Andres Brun Calligrapher of Saragossa Paris

1929

GBP - 5.00
163 Rajon (P.) Twelve Etchings

1889

GBP - 1.50
164 Il Funerali dell Imperatore Napoleone

1845

GBP - 5.50
165 Holbein (H.) Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII

1884

GBP - 8.50
166 JANSSON (J.) NOVUS ATLAS Amsterdam

1647

GBP - 41.00
167 Swift (J.) Cresset Press

1930

GBP - 29.00
168 Sloane (W. M.) Life of Napoleon Bonaparte New York

1906

GBP - 2.00
169 Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci, plates

GBP - 2.50
170 Pagano (J. L.) Riganelli Buenos Aires

1943

GBP - 1.75
171 Verve Paris

[1938]

GBP - 6.00
172 Hobson (R. L.) Catalogue of Chinese Pottery & Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David

1934

GBP - 19.00
173 Antoninus (M. A., Emp.) Thoughts Concerning His Education

1897

GBP - 95.00
174 Berners (Dame J.) Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle

1903

GBP - 17.00
175 Horatius Flaccus (Q.) Carmina Alcaica

1903

GBP - 24.00
176 Hortius Flaccus (Q.) Carmina Sapphica

1903

GBP - 24.00
177 Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha'

1904

GBP - 24.00
178 Drinkwater (John) Loyalties, a Book of Poems

GBP - 1.75
179 Aldington (R.) Images of War

GBP - 3.75
180 Wilde (Oscar) After Berneval : Letters to Robert Ross

GBP - 4.00
181 Lloyd (Robert) The Actor; a Poem

GBP - 4.00
182 Blunden (Edmund) A Summer's Fancy

GBP - 2.25
183 Pater (Walter) An Imaginary Portrait

1894

GBP - 4.00
184 Patmore (Henry) Poems

GBP - 6.00
185 Francis of Assisi (St.) Laudes Creaturarum

1910

GBP - 6.00
186 Gray (T.) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

1900

GBP - 5.00
187 Whitman (Walt.) Hymn on the Death of President Lincoln

1900

GBP - 4.50
188 Spenser (E.) Epithalamion,

1901

GBP - 5.50
189 Chaucer (G.) The Flower and the Leaf

1902

GBP - 7.50
190 Milton (J.) Comus, A Mask

1902

GBP - 5.50
191 Burns (R.) Tarn O'Shanter

1902

GBP - 4.00
192 Heine (H.) Ausgewaehlte Lieder

1903

GBP - 0.50
193 Rust (Margaret) Queen of the Fishes

GBP - 12.50
194 Laforgue (Jules) Moralites Legendaires

GBP - 5.00
195 Flaubert (G.) La Legende de St. Julien l'Hospitalier

GBP - 3.00
196 Villon (F.) Ballades

GBP - 7.50
197 Ronsard (P. de) Choix de Sonnets

GBP - 5.50
198 Moore (T. Sturge) Brief Account of the Origin of the Eragny Press

GBP - 10.00
199 Binyon (L.) Dream Come True

GBP - 27.00
200 Chanticleer; A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press

GBP - 4.50
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    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.
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