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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 406 | Horticultural Society of London Transactions | 1820-48 |
GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 407 | Horticultural Society Transactions | 1812-20 |
GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 408 | Housman (A. E.) | A Shropshire Lad | 1896 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 409 | Howard (Edward) | The Usurper | 1668 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 410 | Hudson (W. H.) | British Birds | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 411 | Hudson (W. H.) | Green Mansions | 1904 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 412 | Hulme (F. E.) and S. Hibberd | Familiar Garden Flowers | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 413 | Hunt (J. H. L.) | Men, Women, and Books | 1847 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 414 | Hunt (Leigh) | The Town | 1848 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 415 | Humphreys (H. N.) | Masterpieces of the Early Printers and Engravers | 1870 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 416 | Imperato (Ferrante) | Dell' historia naturale lib xxviii | Naples | 1599 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 417 | [Irving (W.)] | Bracebridge Hall by Geoffrey Crayon | 1822 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 418 | James (Henry) | The American | GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 419 | James (H.) | Princess Casamassima | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 420 | Jefferies (Richard) | Bevis: The Story of a Boy | 1882 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 421 | Jefferies (R.) | Hodge and His Masters | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 422 | Jefferies (R.) | Amaryllis at the Fair | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 423 | Johnson (S.) | The Rambler | 1752 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 424 | Johnson (S.) | The Idler | 1761 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 425 | Johnson (S.) | Johnsoniana: or a Supplement to Boswell | 1836 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 426 | JOHNSON (S.) | VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES | 1749 |
GBP - | 50.00 | |
| 427 | Johnson (S.) | Dictionary of the English Language | 1755 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 428 | Johnson (S.) | Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare's Plays | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 429 | Johnson (S.) | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 1775 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 430 | [Johnson (S.)] | The Convict's Address to His Unhappy Brethren | Newcastle | [1777] |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 431 | Johnson (S.) | Prayers and Meditations | 1785 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 432 | Kampen (Nicolas van) | Traite des Fleurs a Oignons | Haarlem | 1760 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 433 | Voragine (J. de) | Kelmscott Press | 1892 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 434 | Tennyson (Lord) | Keimscott Press | 1893 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 435 | Kelmscott Press | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 436 | Morris (W.) | Kelmscott Press | 1932 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 437 | Orbeliani (S.) | Kelmscott Press | 1894 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 438 | King (Wm.) | Chelsea Porcelain | 1922 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 439 | Kingsley (C.) | The Water-Babies | 1863 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 440 | Kingsley (C.) | Westward Ho! | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 441 | Kipling (R.) | Soldiers Three | Allahabad | 1888 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 442 | Kipling (R.) | Plain Tales from the Hills | Calcutta | 1888 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 443 | Kipling (R.) | In Black and White | Allahabad | [1888] |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 444 | Kipling (R.) | The Phantom Rickshaw | Allahabad | [1889] |
GBP - | 4.50 |
| 445 | Kipling (R.) | Letters of Marque | Allahabad | 1891 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 446 | Kipling (R.) | Jungle Book | 1894-5 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 447 | Kipling (R.) | Just So Stories | 1902 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 448 | Kipling (R.) | Wee Willie Winkie | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 449 | Knight (T. A.) | Pomona Herefordiensis | 1811 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 450 | Koran (The) Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed | 1734 |
GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 451 | La Fontaine (J.) | Fables | 1931 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 452 | Lamb (C.) | Works | 1818 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 453 | [Lamb (C.)] | Book of Ranks and Dignities | [1805] |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 454 | Lamb (C.) | Adventures of Ulysses | 1808 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 455 | Lamb (C.) | Elia | 1823 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 456 | Lamb (C.) | Elia and The Last Essays of Elia | 1929 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 457 | [Lamb (C.)] | Satan in Search of a Wife | 1831 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 458 | Lands of Cazembe | GBP - | 0.50 | |||
| 459 | Laufer (B.) | Jade | Chicago | 1912 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 460 | Lauremberg (P.) | Horticultura | Frankfort | [1631] |
GBP - | 2.25 |
| 461 | Lauremberg (P.) | Horticultura libri II | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 462 | Laver (James) | History of British and American Etching | 1929 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 463 | Lawrence (H. W.) and B. L. Dighton | French Line Engravers | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 464 | Lawrence (T. E.) | Revolt in the Desert | 1927 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 465 | Lee (S.) | Life of William Shakespeare | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 466 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Notebooks | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 467 | Leonardus Aretinus (Brunus) | Historia Florentina [translated into Italian by Donato Acciaioli] | Venice | 1476 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 468 | Leurich (Mlld. de) | Entertaining Travels | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 469 | Lewis (Sinclair) | Main Street | New York | GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 470 | LIBELLUS SOPHISTARU AD USU OXONIENZ | April 15th, 1510 |
GBP - | 250.00 | ||
| 471 | Aesop. | Fables | Oxford | 1933 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 472 | Lindsay (P.) | Morgan in Jamaica | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 473 | Longfellow (H. W.) | The Song of Hiawatha | Boston | 1855 |
GBP - | 5.50 |
| 474 | Longfellow (H. W.) | Tales of a Wayside Inn | Boston | 1863 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 475 | Longhurst (M. H.) | English Ivories | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 476 | Lutyens (E. L.) | Houses and Gardens | 1913 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 477 | Lydgate (J.) | The Horse | Cambridge | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.50 |
| 478 | Lytton (E. B.) | The Last Days of Pompeii | 1834 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 479 | MacKenna (F. Severne) | Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain | 1946 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 480 | Rev. Montague Summers | Malleus Maleficarum | 1928 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 481 | Malory (Sir T.) | Le Morte Darthur | 1893-4 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 482 | Mansfield (K.) | The Doves Nest | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 483 | Marbecke (John) | The Lyves of holy Sainctes | 1574 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 484 | Marguerite de Valois | The Heptamaron | 1894 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 485 | Marryat (Capt. F.) | Poor Jack | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 486 | Martinus Strepus Polonus | Sermones de Tempore et de Sanctis | Strassburg | 1488 |
GBP - | 13.00 |
| 487 | Masefield (J.) | The Country Scene | 1937 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 488 | Maund (B.) | Botanic Garden | 1825-32 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 489 | Maugham (W. Somerset) | Of Human Bondage | 1915 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 490 | Meehan (J. F.) | Famous Houses of Bath | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 491 | Mercatus (M.) | Metallotheca | Rome | 1719 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 492 | Meredith (G.) | The Tale of Chloe | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 493 | Mew (Egan) | Battersea Enamels | GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 494 | Michel (E.) | Flemish Painting in the XVIIth Century | 1939 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 496 | Miller (P.) | The Gardeners Dictionary | Paris | 1548 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 497 | Milton (J.) | Paradise Lost | 1674 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 498 | Milton (John) | Paradise Regained A Poem | 1671 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 499 | Miner (H. S.) | Orchids | 1885 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 500 | Miyoshi (M.) | Iris Laevigate Fisch | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 502 | Montaigne (M. de) | Essayes | 1613 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 503 | Moore (G.) | Flowers of Passion | 1878 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 504 | Moore (G.) | A Mere Accident | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 505 | Moore (G.) | Mike Fletcher | 1889 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 506 | Moore (G.) | Vain Fortune | 1890 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 507 | Moore (G.) | Impressions and Opinions | GBP - | 1.00 |
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