Sothebys: Printed Books, WOODSTOCK,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 03, 1950 - July 03, 1950

Page Size: 598 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Bakewell (R.)	Travels ... in the Tarentaise . . . and in Switzerland and Auvergne			GBP -	1.00
2	Bourrit (M. T.)	Description des Glacieres, Glaciers et amas de Glace du Duche de Savoye			GBP -	5.00
3	Coryate (Thomas)	Crudities			GBP -	3.00
4	Coryate (Thomas)	Coryat's Crudities	Glasgow	1905	GBP -	2.25
5	Edgeworth (G. Sneyd)	Memoirs of the Abbe Edgeworth, boards, uncut, 1816-Book of Common Prayer			GBP -	1.75
6	edited by Shirley Hibberd	Floral World (The) and Garden Guide		1870 and 1871	GBP -	0.50
7	Hardy (J.)	A Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees		1825	GBP -	5.50
8		HORAE B. V. M. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	Flemish		GBP -	11.00
9	Keller (H.)	Cinquante Vues Suisses			GBP -	17.00
10	Koenig (F. N.) J. Lory and others	Nouvelle Collection de Costumes Suises des XXII Cantons	Zurich		GBP -	19.00
11		L'Etat et les Delices de la Suisse			GBP -	3.00
12	Marmier (Xavier)	Voyage en Suisse			GBP -	1.00
13	[Sansom (Jos.)]	Travels from Paris through Switzerland and Italy by a Native of Pennsylvania			GBP -	0.75
14	Stanyan (A.)	An Account of Switzerland			GBP -	1.00
15	Stael-Holstein (A. L. G. Baronne de)	Delphine	Paris	1819	GBP -	4.00
16	[Walpole (H.)]	Strawberry Hill Press	Strawberry Hill	1758	GBP -	1.25
17	Weber (J. C.) and C. A. Kranz	Kranz, The Alpen-Pflanzen		1880	GBP -	2.50
18	Wyss (Rud.)	Reise in das Berner Oberland			GBP -	3.50
19	Yosy (A.)	Switzerland . . . with Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Swiss		1815	GBP -	12.00
20	Young (Arthur)	A Six Months Tour through the North of England			GBP -	3.00
21	Allom (Th.) Pickering (G.), etc	Westmorland			GBP -	0.50
22	Alt (I.) Bilder	aus den Alpen der Oesterreischen Monarchie	Vienna	1833	GBP -	20.00
23	Beattie (Wm.)	Switzerland Illustrated			GBP -	1.00
24		Chinese Flower-Paintings on rice paper			GBP -	11.00
25	Edwards (Sydenham)	The New Botanic Garden		1812	GBP -	9.50
26	Fellows (Charles)	A Narrative of an Ascent to the 'Summit of Mont Blanc		1827	GBP -	1.00
27	Fellows (Charles)	A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc		1827	GBP -	5.50
28	FIELDING (T. H.) AND J. WALTON	A PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKES		1821	GBP -	32.00
29	Grouner (M.)	Histoire Naturelle des Glacieres de Suisse	Paris	1770	GBP -	3.50
30	Hawes (Wm.) and Fellows (Charles)	A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc			GBP -	1.00
31	Herrliberge (David)	Neue und vollstandige Topographie der Eydgeno-ssenschaft	Zurich	1754	GBP -	18.00
32	Meyer (J. J.)	Voyage Pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons en Suisse			GBP -	1.00
33	Pennant (Thomas)	A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides			GBP -	0.50
34		Picturesque Description of North Wales		1823	GBP -	11.00
35	Richter (E.)	Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen	Berlin	1893-94	GBP -	1.00
36	Saussure (H.-B. de)	Voyages dans les Alpes		1779-96	GBP -	4.25
37	Scheuchzer (J. J.)	Helveticus		1708	GBP -	2.75
38	Scheuchzer (J. J.)	Helveticus	Lyons	1723	GBP -	7.00
39	SCHOBERL (F.) AND LORY (J. AND J.)	PICTURESQUE TOUR FROM GENEVA TO MILAN		1820 and 1823	GBP -	26.00
40		A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole . . .	Strawberry-Hill	1784	GBP -	4.00
41	Wooster (David)	Alpine Plants		1872	GBP -	1.00
42	BIRMANN (SAMUEL)	SOUVENIRS DE LA VALLEE DE CHAMONIX	Basle	1826	GBP -	38.00
43	Brockedon (William)	Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps		1828-9	USD -	Not Sold
44	Cockburn (Major) and Hullmandel (C.)	Views to illustrate the Route of Mont Cenis (and Simplon)			GBP -	3.00
45	Daniell (Wm.)	Interesting Selections from Animated Nature			GBP -	0.50
46	FIELDING (T. H.)	CUMBERLAND		1822	GBP -	35.00
47	FRASER (J. B.)	Views in the Himalaya Mountains		1820	GBP -	24.00
48	Hamerton (Phil. G.)	Landscape		1885	USD -	Not Sold
49	LORY (J. AND J.)	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE GENEVA A MILAN	Paris	1811	GBP -	52.00
50	LORY (J. AND J.)	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE AUX GLACIERS DE CHAMOUNI	Paris	1815	GBP -	44.00
51	Omar Khayyam	The Rubaiyat			GBP -	2.75
52	Robson (G. F.)	Scenery in the Grampian Mountains		1819	GBP -	9.00
53		Swiss Views		1773-1774	USD -	Not Sold
54		SWISS VIEWS			GBP -	26.00
55	(by A. V. Haller and Wyttenbach),	VUES REMARQUABLES DES MONTAGNES DE LA SUISSE	Amsterdam	1785	GBP -	50.00
56	Walton (Elijah) and T. G. Bonney	Peaks and Valleys of the Alps		1867	GBP -	0.50
57	Walton (Elijah)	Alpine Flowers			GBP -	0.50
58	Yosy (A.)	Switzerland		1815	GBP -	11.00
59	Cepio (Coriolanus)	Gesta Petri Mocenici			GBP -	35.00
60		Manuale ad usum insignis ecclesie Sarum	Antwerp	1542	GBP -	3.50
61	[Bonner] (E.)	Bishop		1555	GBP -	19.00
62	Calvin (J.)	Commentaries upon the Actes		1585	GBP -	3.00
63	Calvin (J.)	A Commentarie upon the Epistle to the Colossians			GBP -	0.50
64	Calvin (J.)	Sermons upon the Epistle of Sainct Paule to the Galathians		1574	GBP -	0.50
65	Calvin (J.)	Commentaires sur toutes les Epistres de l'Apostre S. Paul	[Geneva]	1561	GBP -	0.50
66	Ursinus (Z.)	The Summe of Christian Religion	Oxford	1587	GBP -	1.00
67	[Johnson (C.)]	Chrysal			GBP -	0.75
68		Selkirk (Earl of) Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland			GBP -	2.75
69	Morgan (S.)	Armilogia		1666	GBP -	1.50
70	Shelley (G. E.)	A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt		1872	GBP -	5.50
71	Peacham (H.)	The Gentleman's Exercise		1612	GBP -	0.50
72	[Vaughan (T.)]	A Hermeticall Banquet		1652	GBP -	7.50
73	Vasari (G.)	Lives of the Most Eminent Painters			GBP -	1.75
74		Foreign topography and travel			GBP -	1.50
75		English Topography			GBP -	1.00
76	Fielding (Henry)	The History of Tom Jones			GBP -	1.50
77	D'I[mry] (M. le C.)	Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Amour	Paris	1894-1900	GBP -	12.00
78	Horace	Opera		1733-37	GBP -	7.50
79	Steele (Sir R.) and J. Addison	The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff			GBP -	1.25
80	Heydon (J.)	The Harmony of the World		1662	GBP -	7.00
81	Johnston (C.)	Chrysal			GBP -	1.00
82		Thirsis Minnewit			GBP -	0.75
83	Pope (A.)	Works			GBP -	1.50
84	[Tickell (R.)]	Anticipation (for the year 1779)			GBP -	1.00
85	Smollett (T.)	Travels through France and Italy			GBP -	1.50
86	Debrett (J.)	The Baronetage of England			GBP -	3.00
87	Bowen (E.)	Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd		1724	GBP -	4.00
88		Cuisiniere Bourgeoise (La)	Paris	1824	GBP -	2.00
89	[Wordsworth (W.) and S. T. Coleridge]	Lyrical Ballads		1798	GBP -	34.00
90		Poetical Magazine		1809[-11]	GBP -	8.50
91	Combe (Wm.)	Tours of Doctor Syntax			GBP -	3.50
92	Partington (C. F.)	National History and Views of London			GBP -	8.50
93	Edwards (S.) and others	The Botanical Register		1815-25	GBP -	30.00
94		Harleian Miscellany (The)		1808-11	GBP -	11.00
95	Updike (D. B.)	Printing Types	Cambridge	1937	GBP -	8.00
96	Nagler (G. K.)	Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Kunstler aller Schuler	Munich	1858-79	GBP -	8.50
97	Phillips (P. L.)	A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress	Washington	1909-20	GBP -	8.00
98	Tornbleson (W.), edited by W. G. Fernside	Views of the Rhine		1832	GBP -	0.50
99	Vicars (John)	Magnalia Dei Anglicana		1641-46	GBP -	0.50
100	[Defoe (D.)]	The Life ... of Robinson Crusoe		1790	GBP -	0.50

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.