Sothebys: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY The Property of Derck Spence, Esq. Halsall House, Ormskirk, Lanes., FERN,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 27, 1949 - June 27, 1949
Page Size: 872 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BECKETT (G. A.) Comic History of England

GBP - 3.00
2 A'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of Rome

GBP - 6.00
3 Accum (F.) Treatise on Adulterations of Food

1820

 GBP - 1.25
4 Ackermann (R.) Microcosm of London

1808-10

 GBP - 80.00
5 Ackermann (R.) Reposatory of Arts

1816-21

 GBP - 11.00
6 Adams (R. and J.) Works in Architecture Paris

1900-2

 GBP - 4.50
7 Addison (J.) A. Pope and Sir R. Steele

1758-75

 GBP - 6.00
8 Aesop Fables

1793

 GBP - 0.50
9 Aesop Fables

1936

 GBP - 9.00
10 Agricola (G.) De re Metallica libri XII Basle

1556

 GBP - 42.00
11 Agricola (G.) De -re Mettalica

1912

 GBP - 12.00
12 Ainsworth (W. Harrison) Jack Sheppard

1839

 GBP - 7.50
13 Albin (Eleazar) Natural History of English Insects

1724

 GBP - 9.50
14 Euripides Euripidis tragoediae septendecim Venice

1503

 GBP - 20.00
15 Dialogi di Amore, Composti per Leone Medico Venice

1541

 GBP - 6.00
16 Tre libri di Lettere volgari di Paolo Manutio Venice

1556

 GBP - 2.00
17 Aldrovandus (U.) Musaeum Metallicum in libros IIII distributum B. Ambrosinus in patrio Bonon Bononia

1648

 GBP - 4.00
18 [Amory (T.)] The Life of John Buncle

GBP - 8.50
19 Anderson (Hans C.) A Poets Bazaar

1846

 GBP - 2.00
20 Anderson (H. C.) The Shoes of Fortune

1847

 GBP - 2.50
21 Arabian Nights with Supplemental Nights

1885-8

 GBP - 19.00
22 ARGONAUT PRESS [PUBLICATIONS]

GBP - 30.00
23 Aucassin et Nicolette Paris

1878

 USD - Not Sold
24 Audubon (J. J.) Birds of America

1937

 GBP - 4.00
25 [Austen (Jane)] Northanger Abbey

1818

 GBP - 5.50
26 Austen (R. A) Observations upon some part of Sir Francis Bacon's Naturall History

1658

 GBP - 3.00
27 Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh

1622

 GBP - 4.50
28 Bacon (Sir F.) The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh

1622

 GBP - 3.50
29 Baillon (Prof. H.) Histoire des Plantes Paris

1867-94

 GBP - 3.50
30 Baillon (H.) Natural History of Plants

1871-88

 GBP - 5.50
31 Balbis (Dr. J. B.) Flore Lyonnaise Lyons

1827

 GBP - 6.50
32 Blankart (G. P.) Art of the Plasterer Batsford

1908

 GBP - 2.00
33 Barham (R. H.) Ingoldsby Legends

1840-42-47

 GBP - 30.00
34 Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum

1491

 GBP - 24.00
35 Virgilius Maro (P.) Bucolica Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis Birmingham

1757

 GBP - 13.00
36 Addison (J.) Works, Birmingham

1761

 GBP - 1.00
37 Horatius Flaccus (Q.) Opera Birmingham

1770

 GBP - 15.00
38 Terentius (P.) Comoediae Birmingham

1772

 GBP - 2.00
39 Ariosto (L.) Orlando Furioso Birmingham

1773

 GBP - 15.00
40 Bauhinus (J.) and J. C. Cherlerus Historia Plantarum Yverdon

1650-51

 GBP - 2.00
41 Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting Salisbury

1781

 GBP - 9.00
42 Becon (T.) A new Postil

1566

 GBP - 6.00
43 Beerbohm (Sir Max) A Survey

1921

 GBP - 2.25
44 Beerbohm (Sir M.) Rossitti and His Circle

[1922]

 GBP - 3.50
45 Beerbohm (Sir M.) Things New and Old

1923

 GBP - 2.50
46 Beerbohm (Sir M.) plates, parts loose, cloth, 1907- Cairns (H.) and J. Walker. Masterpieces of Painting New York

1944

 GBP - 0.75
47 Bennett (Arnold) A Man from the North

1898

 GBP - 1.00
48 Bennett '(A.) The Old Wives' Tale

1908

 GBP - 3.50
49 Berry (W. Turner) and A. F. Johnson Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types Oxford

1935

 GBP - 1.00
50 Besterman (T.) World Bibliography of Bibliographies Oxford

1939-40

 GBP - 15.00
51 Besterman (T.) World Bibliography of Bibliographies

1947

 GBP - 4.50
52 Bewick (T.) History of British

1805

 GBP - 6.00
53 Bible Nuremberg

1477

 GBP - 12.00
54 Bible Venice

1489

 GBP - 5.50
55 Biblia Venice

1494

 GBP - 5.00
56 Bible Nuremberg

1494

 GBP - 14.00
57 Bible Venice

1483

 GBP - 22.00
58 Bible Excudebant

1593-2

 GBP - 1.00
59 Bible

1549

 GBP - 6.50
60 Bible

1589

 GBP - 6.50
61 Bible

[1553]

 GBP - 4.50
62 Bibl

1596

 GBP - 1.00
63 Bible Cambridge

1632

 GBP - 2.00
64 Bible

1639

 GBP - 4.00
65 Bible

1609-10

 GBP - 22.00
66 Bible

1899

 GBP - 9.00
67 Bible Edinburgh

1902

 GBP - 4.00
68 [Bierce (Ambrose)] The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile

GBP - 3.50
69 Binyon (L.) Drawings and Engravings of William Blake

1922

 GBP - 4.50
70 Blacker (Wm.) Art of Fly Making

1855

 GBP - 3.00
71 Blair (R.) The Grave, a Poem

1813

 GBP - 0.50
72 Blake (Stephen) Compleat Gardeners Practice

1664

 GBP - 6.50
73 Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of the Book of Job

1825

 GBP - 38.00
74 Blake (Wm.) Illustrations of The Book of Job New York

1935

 GBP - 17.00
75 Blake (Wm.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience

1839

 GBP - 5.00
76 Blake (Wm.) and A. Gilchrist Life of William Blake

1880

 GBP - 5.50
77 Blake (Wm.) America, a Prophecy, facsimilied at Edmonton

1887

 GBP - 5.00
78 Blake (Wm.) Book of Thel

1897

 GBP - 1.50
79 Bligh (Wm.) Narrative of the Mutiny

1790

 GBP - 15.00
80 Boccaccio (G.) The Tragedies

[1555]

 GBP - 24.00
81 Boccaccio (G.) The Tragedies

[1555]

 GBP - 5.50
82 Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron translated

1893

 GBP - 1.25
83 Baccaccio (G.) Amorous Fiammetta

1929

 GBP - 0.50
84 Boccaccio (G.) The Decameron

1930

 GBP - 4.00
85 Boccone (P.) Museo di Plante Rare della Sicilia Venice

1697

 GBP - 3.00
86 Le Piu Insigni Pitture Parmensi Parma

1809

 GBP - 4.00
87 Bois (D.) Atlas des Plantes de Jardins Paris

1896

 GBP - 1.00
88 Borrow (G.) Romantic Ballads Norwich

1826

 GBP - 1.00
89 Borrow (G.) Bible in Spain

1843

 GBP - 6.50
90 Borrow (G.) Lavengro

1851

 GBP - 3.50
91 Borrow (G.) The Romany Rye

1857

 GBP - 5.00
92 Borrow (G.) Wild Wales

1862

 GBP - 6.00
93 Boswell (James) Life of Samuel Johnson

1791

 GBP - 22.00
94 Boswell (J.) Life of Samuel Johnson

GBP - 46.00
95 Boswell (J.) and S. Johnson Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides New York

1936

 GBP - 1.50
96 Boyle (F.) The Woodlands Orchids

GBP - 4.50
97 Boyle (R.) Experiments and Considerations Touching colours

1664

 GBP - 6.50
98 [Braddon (M. E.)] Thou Art the Man

1891

 GBP - 1.00
99 British Classics (The)

1810-14

 GBP - 13.00
101 Hobson (R. L.) British Museum

1905

 GBP - 2.25
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    Book Week
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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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.