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
103 Britton (N., Lord) Flora of Bermuda

GBP - 2.50
104 [Bronte (C.)] Jane Eyre

1847

 GBP - 8.00
105 [Bronte (C.)] Villette

1853

 GBP - 1.50
106 [Bronte (C.)] The Professor

1857

 GBP - 12.00
107 [Bronte (C.)] The Professor

1857

 GBP - 2.50
108 Bronte (C.) Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel

GBP - 4.50
109 Bronte (Emily) Wuthering Heights

1847

 GBP - 13.00
110 Brooke (Mrs.) Juliet Grenville

GBP - 4.00
111 Brooke (Rubert) Five Sonnets, wrappers

GBP - 0.50
112 Broughton (Rhoda) Nancy

GBP - 1.00
113 Browning (E. B.) An Essay on Mind

1826

 GBP - 3.50
114 Browning (R.) The Ring and the Book

1868-9

 GBP - 2.00
116 Bruno (V.) Teatro de Gl'Inventori di Tutte le Cose

1603

 GBP - 2.00
117 Bryan (M.) Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

1909-10

 GBP - 16.00
118 Buchanan (F.) journey from Madras

1807

 GBP - 1.50
119 Buckley (W.) Art of Glass

1939

 GBP - 2.25
120 Bullen (F. T.) Cruise of the "Cachalot"

1898

 GBP - 1.75
121 Burlington Fine Arts Club

1911

 GBP - 6.00
122 Burnett (F. H.) Little Lord Fauntleroy

GBP - 2.00
123 Burney (C.) Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey

1785

 GBP - 1.50
124 Burns (R.) Poetical Works

GBP - 1.00
125 Burton (Sir R. F.) Works

GBP - 4.00
126 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Blue Mountain

1851

 GBP - 3.00
127 Burton (Sir R. F.) Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mecaa

1855-6

 GBP - 5.50
128 [Burton (Sir R. F.)] Stone Talk

1865

 GBP - 10.00
129 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Kasidah of Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi

1894

 GBP - 2.50
130 Burton (Sir R. F.) Lake Regions of Central Africa

GBP - 6.50
131 Burton (Sir R. F.) Ultima Thule

GBP - 4.00
132 Burton (Sir R. F.) Mission to Gelele

GBP - 4.00
133 Burton (Sir R. F.) Book of the Sword

GBP - 4.00
134 Bussy-Rabutin (R. Comte de) The Amourous History of the' Gauls

1725

 GBP - 2.00
135 Butler (Samuel) Hudibras

1822

 GBP - 3.50
136 Butler (S.) Erewhon

1872

 GBP - 4.50
137 T. Raven Hill and A. Galsworthy Butterfly (The)

GBP - 1.00
138 Byron (Lord G. G.) The Corsair

1814

 GBP - 1.25
139 Byron (Lord) Prisoner of Chilon

GBP - 1.00
140 Byron (Lord) Sardanapalus

1821

 USD - Not Sold
141 Cabell (J. B.) Something About Eve

GBP - 1.75
142 Caldecott (Ralph) Picture Books and Books

GBP - 1.50
143 Cambridge History of English Literature Cambridge

1932

 GBP - 6.00
144 [Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books]

GBP - 1.00
145 Caracciolus, Robertus, de Licio Quadragesimale de poenitentia

1473

 GBP - 5.50
146 [Cavendish (George)] Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey

1641

 GBP - 2.50
147 Cervantes (M. de) Dialogue between Scipio and Bergansa

1787

 GBP - 1.50
147A Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote de la Mancha

1819

 GBP - 2.75
148 Cescinsky (H.) and M. R. Webster English Domestic Clocks

1914

 GBP - 12.00
149 Cescinsky (H.) and E. R. Gribble Early English Furniture and Woodwork

1922

 GBP - 6.00
150 Cescinsky (H.) English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century

GBP - 13.00
151 Cescinsky (H.) Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks

1938

 GBP - 1.50
152 Cherry-Garrard (A.) The Worst Journey in the World

GBP - 8.00
153 Chatterton (T.) Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

GBP - 2.00
154 Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope, Earl of) Miscellaneous Works

1778

 GBP - 0.50
155 Chinese Art

1936

 GBP - 6.00
156 Morant (G. Soulie de) Chinese Art

GBP - 6.00
157 Cibber (Colley) Apology for the Life of

1740

 GBP - 5.50
158 CLEMENS V Constitutiones cum apparatu Joannis Andreae Strassburg

1471

 GBP - 50.00
159 Cobbett (Wm.) Rural Rides

1830

 GBP - 18.00
160 Cobbett (Wm.) Rural Rides

1930

 GBP - 9.00
161 Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.) Journals

1926

 GBP - 2.00
162 Collins (W. Wilkie) The Frozen Deep

GBP - 3.00
163 Combe (W.) English Dance of Death

1815-16

 GBP - 6.00
164 [Combe (Wm.)] The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi

1816

 GBP - 3.50
165 Combe (Wm.) Tours of Doctor Syntax [First, Second and Third]

GBP - 4.00
166 Congreve (Wm.) Works

1710

 GBP - 7.00
167 Conrad (Joseph) Almayer's Folly

1895

 GBP - 3.00
168 Conrad (J.) An Outcast of the Islands

1895

 GBP - 1.00
169 Conrad (J.) Tales of Unrest

1898

 GBP - 1.00
170 Conrad (J.) Lord Jim

GBP - 2.00
171 Conrad (J.) Nostromo

GBP - 2.00
172 Conrad (J.) Arrow of Gold

GBP - 1.50
173 Conway (M. D.) Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock

1929

 GBP - 2.25
174 Cook (Capt. James) Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere

1773

 GBP - 5.00
175 Corot (J. B. C.) Paintings and Drawings

1929

 GBP - 2.50
176 Coryate (T.) Coryat's Crudities Glasgow

1905

 GBP - 1.00
177 Costume. Military Costume of Europe

1812

 GBP - 10.00
178 Crane (Walter) Slate and Pencil-vania

GBP - 1.25
179 Crane (W.) Legends for Lionel

GBP - 3.00
180 Crouse (Russel) Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives New York

1930

 GBP - 2.50
181 Cuming (E. D.) British Sport

1909

 GBP - 1.50
182 CURTIS (WM.) BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

1787-1872

 GBP - 36.00
183 Cyclopaedia of Botany

1829

 GBP - 2.50
184 Daniel (Samuel) Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke

1609

 GBP - 2.00
185 D[aniel (S.[amuel]) The Collection of the History of England

1621

 GBP - 0.75
186 D'Arblay (F.) The Wanderer

1814

 GBP - 2.00
187 D'Ardenne de Tizac (H.) Animals in Chinese Art

GBP - 8.00
188 D'Ardenne de Tizac (H.) La Sculpture Chinoise

GBP - 3.50
189 Darwin (C.) On The Origin of Species

1859

 GBP - 9.50
190 Darwin (C.) Variation of Animals and Plants

1868

 GBP - 0.50
191 Darwin (C.) On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects

GBP - 2.25
192 Davenport (C.) Roger Payne

1929

 GBP - 8.50
193 De Foe (D.) The Consolidator: or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon

1705

 GBP - 1.25
194 Defoe (D.) The Consolidator

1705

 GBP - 0.50
194A [Defoe (D.)] Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

1719

 GBP - 22.00
195 [Defoe (Daniel)] The Fortunate Mistress

1724

 GBP - 70.00
196 De Foe (D.) A New Voyage Round the World

1725

 GBP - 3.00
197 Defoe (D.) Tour Thro' Great Britain

1869

 GBP - 5.50
198 [De La Mare (W.)] Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal

1902

 GBP - 7.00
199 De La Mare (W.) Peacock Pie

GBP - 2.00
200 Machiavelli (N.) De La Mare Press

1929

 GBP - 8.00
201 De Quincey (Thomas) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

1822

 GBP - 16.00
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    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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    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.
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