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
101 Lewis (M. G.) Tales of Wonder

1801

 GBP - 0.50
102 Churchill (Winston S.) Lord Randolph Churchill

1906

 GBP - 2.50
103 Fielding (Henry) Works

1766

 GBP - 3.00
104 Shakespeare (William), edited by W. A. Wright Works Works

1891-93

 GBP - 6.00
105 Ruskin (John) Works

GBP - 1.00
106 Pepys (Samuel), edited by H. B. Wheatley Diary

1893-99

 GBP - 5.50
107 Bonhote (J. Lewis) Birds of Britain

GBP - 2.00
108 Prescott (W. H.) History of the Conquest of Peru

GBP - 0.50
109 Guillet (E. C.) Early Life in Upper Canada

GBP - 0.75
110 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries

GBP - 0.50
111 Colins (Wilkie) The Haunted Hotel

GBP - 0.50
112 Trollope (A.) The Small House at Allington

1867

 GBP - 4.00
113 Longstaffe (W. H. D.) History and Antiquities of York

GBP - 2.25
114 Mercier (M.) Fragments of Politics and History

GBP - 1.00
115 Pope (A.) Works

GBP - 1.25
116 Shakespeare (W.), edited by M. Wood Plays

1848

 GBP - 1.50
117 Hamilton (E.) Recollections of Fly Fishing

1884

 GBP - 2.00
118 Stone (L.) Domesticated Trout

GBP - 3.00
119 Shaw (F. G.) Science of Fly Fishing and Spinning

GBP - 2.50
120 Hodgson (W. E.) Trout Fishing

GBP - 1.00
121 Bazley (J. H. R.) The Art of Coarse Fishing

GBP - 2.75
122 Medwin (T.) Angler in Wales

GBP - 1.00
123 Leslie (A. S.)and A. E. Shipley The Grouse in Health and Disease

GBP - 0.50
124 Chesterfield (Earl of) Life of William Pitt

1861

 GBP - 1.00
125 Saint-Pierre (J. B. H. de) Studies of Nature

1796

 GBP - 1.00
126 Gaillard (G.-H.) Histoire de la Rivolite de la France et de L'Angleterre

GBP - 1.00
127 Beeverell (J.) Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne Leyden

1727

 GBP - 2.00
128 Fitzgerald (P.) The History of Pickwick

GBP - 1.25
129 Smith (J. E.) A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent

GBP - 1.00
130 Dickens David Copperfield (C.) Bleak House

GBP - 2.00
131 Gibbon (Edward) History of the Roman Empire

1783-90

 GBP - 0.50
132 Kipling (R.) From Sea to Sea

GBP - 0.50
133 Metastasio (P.) Opere

GBP - 0.50
134 Hone (W.) Table Book

GBP - 2.00
135 Caulfield (James) Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons

GBP - 1.50
136 Tozzetti (O.) Instituzioni Botaniche

GBP - 1.50
137 Greenaway (Kate) Almanacks for 1883-87

1883-1927

 GBP - 5.50
138 Greenaway (Kate) Birthday Book for Children

GBP - 0.75
139 Greenaway (Kate) Birthday Book for Children

GBP - 0.75
140 Greenaway (Kate)-Mavor (W.) The English Spelling-Book

GBP - 0.50
141 [Richardson (S.)] Letters written to and for Particular Friends

1741

 GBP - 11.00
142 Stevenson (R. L.) Kidnapped

1886

 USD - Not Sold
143 Deering (C.) Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova Nottingham

1751

 GBP - 1.75
144 Greenaway (Kate) Under the Window

GBP - 1.00
145 Greenaway (Kate) A Day in a Child's Life

n.d. [1881]

 GBP - 0.75
146 Greenaway (Kate)-Browning (R.) The Pied Piper of Hamelin

n.d. [1888]

 GBP - 1.50
147 Greenaway (Kate)-[Russell (Countess)] The April Baby's Book of Tunes

1900

 GBP - 2.75
148 Greenaway (Kate) Pictures from Originals presented by her to John Ruskin

1921

 GBP - 0.50
149 Greenaway (Kate) Carols 4 cards with coloured illustrations

GBP - 1.75
150 Thomson (J.) The Seasons

1730-37

 USD - Not Sold
151 Bible

GBP - 4.00
152 Calvin (J.) Two and Twenty Lectures upon the five first Chapters of Jeremiah

1620-and others

 GBP - 2.50
153 Porter (T.) Plays

GBP - 2.50
154 [Betterton (T.)] Plays

GBP - 7.50
155 Lacroix (Paul) (Paul) Les Arts au Moyen Age et la Renaissance

1869-77

 GBP - 1.75
156 Lacroix (Paul) Moeurs

GBP - 1.50
157 Miscellaneous

GBP - 1.75
158 [Delolme (J. L.)] The History of the Flagellants

1777

 GBP - 8.00
159 Florilegium Harlemense Haarlem

1901

 GBP - 9.00
160 Plee (F.) Types de Chaque Famille et des Principaux Genres des Plantes croissant spontanement en France Paris

1844-64

 GBP - 6.00
161 Grohmann (J. G.) Recueil d'Idees Nouvelles pour la Decoration des Jardins et des Parcs dans le gqut Anglois Leipzig, Paris

1797, 1806

 GBP - 20.00
162 Williamson (Thomas) and S. Howitt Oriental Field Sports

1819

 GBP - 3.50
163 Indian water-colour drawings

GBP - 9.00
164 Kippis (Andrew) The Life of Captain James Cook

GBP - 1.00
165 Butler (A. G.) and F. W. Frohawk British Birds and their Nests and Eggs

GBP - 0.50
166 Thackeray (W. M.) The Orphan of Pimlico

GBP - 1.50
167 Judson (A.) A Dictionary

1849

 GBP - 1.00
168 Wyatt (Mary) Algae Danmonienses

(c. 1838)

 GBP - 0.50
169 Conway (Sir M.) and C. J. Holmes The World's Famous Pictures

1835-and others

 GBP - 2.50
170 Solomon (W. E. G.) Mural Paintings of the Bombay School

GBP - 0.75
171 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

GBP - 3.00
172 Turner (J. M. W.) Picturesque Delineation of the Southern Coast of England

1814

 GBP - 0.50
173 Hogarth (Wm.) Works

GBP - 0.75
174 Melville (Lewis) The London Scene

GBP - 0.75
175 Harford (Alice) Annals of the Harford Family

GBP - 5.00
176 Culpeper (N.) Complete Herbal

1814

 GBP - 4.00
177 Yule (Capt. H.) Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1855

1858

 GBP - 0.50
178 Symonds (J. A.) Life of Benvenuto Cellini

1888

 GBP - 0.50
179 Arnold (M.) The Strayed Reveller

1849

 GBP - 5.00
180 Arnold (M.) Empedocles on Etna

1852

 GBP - 1.00
181 Arnold (M.) Merope

1858

 GBP - 0.50
182 Theocritus Parma

1792

 GBP - 1.50
183 Boiardo (M. M.) Tutti li Hbri de Orlando Inamorato Milan

1539

 GBP - 9.50
184 [Bronte (C.)] Villette

1853

 GBP - 3.50
185 Bustis (Bernardinus de) Mariale Milan

21 May, 1493

 GBP - 16.00
186 Carpenter (R.) Experience

1642

 GBP - 8.00
187 Hours of the Virgin

GBP - 12.00
188 Jacopone di Todi I Cantici

GBP - 0.50
189 Sannazarius (J.) Opera omnia latine scripta

GBP - 1.75
190 Swinburne (A. C.) Atalanta in Calydon

1865

 GBP - 3.50
191 [Thackeray (W. M.)] Henry Esmond, 3 vol

1852

 GBP - 2.50
192 Valla (L.) Dialogus de libero arbitrio Vienna

1516

 GBP - 2.25
193 Vocabula Amatoria

1896

 GBP - 3.50
194 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone Florence, Venice

1527,1729

 GBP - 12.00
195 Perceau (L.) Bibliographie du Roman Erotique au XIXe Siecle Paris

1930

 GBP - 6.00
196 Cyprianus (Thascius Caecilius ) Opera

GBP - 3.25
197 Harvey (W.) W. R. Lethaby and others The Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem

1910

 GBP - 0.75
198 Horace Poemata omnia: Commentantibus Antonio Mancinello: Acrone: etc., Venice

1536

 GBP - 4.00
199 Schultz (R. W.) and S. H. Barnsley The Monastery of Saint Luke of Stiris

1901

 GBP - 4.00
200 Tasso (T.) La Gerusalemme Liberata Genoa

1617

 GBP - 6.50
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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.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
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