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
508 Moore (G.) Sister Teresa

GBP - 1.25
509 Moore (G.) A Story-Tellers Holiday

GBP - 1.50
510 Moore (G.) Heloise and Abelard

1921

 GBP - 1.50
511 Moore (G.) Memoirs of My Dead Life

GBP - 1.50
512 Moore (G.) Pure Poetry

GBP - 1.00
513 Moore (G.) The Brook Kerith

1929

 GBP - 6.00
514 Moore (G.) Aphrodite in Aulis

1930

 GBP - 0.75
515 Moore (G.) Peronnik the Fool

1933

 GBP - 4.50
516 Moore (T.) Lalla Rookh

1817

 GBP - 1.00
519 Napoleon I Memoirs of France

1823-4

 GBP - 1.00
520 Montaigue (M. de) Navarre Society

1923

 GBP - 5.50
521 Beard (C. R.) Nettlefold Collection

1936

 GBP - 1.00
522 New Mystery (A) in Physick Discovered

1681

 GBP - 7.50
523 Nicolson (H.) English Sense of Humour

GBP - 1.00
524 Hudson (W. H.) Nonesuch Press

1923

 GBP - 0.75
525 Milton (J.) Poems

1926

 GBP - 5.00
526 COPPERPLATES BY STEPHEN GOODEN BIBLE

1924-7

 GBP - 26.00
527 Laver (J.) Nonesuch Press

GBP - 0.75
528 Walton (I.) Complete Angler and The Lives

[1928]

 GBP - 7.50
529 Plutarch. Lives

1929-30

 GBP - 4.00
530 Cervantes (M. de) Nonesuch Press

[1930]

 GBP - 5.00
531 Nott (S. C.) Chinese Jade

1936

 GBP - 5.00
532 Nuchter (Dr. F.) Albrecht Durer

1911

 GBP - 1.00
534 Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat,

1879

 USD - Not Sold
535 Oppe (A. P.) Thomas Rowlandson His Drawings and Water-Colours

1923

 GBP - 4.00
536 Ovid Epistles

1680

 GBP - 1.50
537 Oxford English Dictionary (The) Oxford

1933

 GBP - 26.00
538 Pain (W. and J.) British Palladio

1797

 GBP - 3.50
539 Park (Mungo) Travels in Africa

1799-1815

 GBP - 2.25
540 Parkinson (J.) Paradisi in Sole

1629

 GBP - 26.00
541 Parkinson (J.) Theatrum Botanicum

1640

 GBP - 14.00
542 Pater (Walter) Marius the Epicurean

GBP - 0.50
543 Paxton (Sir Joseph) Magazine of Botany

1834-49

 GBP - 33.00
545 Peacham (H.) The Complete Gentleman

1622

 GBP - 5.50
546 Pennell (E. R. and J.) Life of James McNeil Whistler

1908

 GBP - 0.75
547 Pepys (Samuel) Memoirs

1825

 GBP - 13.00
548 Percy (Bp. T.) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

1765

 GBP - 3.50
549 Pettus (Sir John) Fleta Minor

1683

 GBP - 7.50
550 Story (S.) Rodin [and His Work],

1939

 GBP - 0.75
551 Michelangelo

GBP - 2.50
552 Vermeer (Jan) Paintings of Vermeer (Jan) Description Phaidon Press. Vermeer (Jan) Paintings of, edited by T. Bodkin, reproductions in colour, cloth folio 1940

1940

 GBP - 1.00
553 edited by W. E. Suida Raphael. Painting,

1941

 GBP - 0.75
554 Paintings of Frans Hals

GBP - 2.75
555 Phaidon Press. Leonardo da Vinci, 1943 ; Botticelli, 1937 ; Augustus John, 1944

GBP - 1.75
556 Phillips (R. Randal) Small Family Houses

USD - Not Sold
557 Phillpots (Eden) My Shrubs

GBP - 3.50
558 PICHON (L.) The New Book-Illustration in France

GBP - 1.00
559 Plat (Sir H.) The Jewel House of Art and Nature

1653

 GBP - 5.50
560 Plato Dialogues Oxford

1931

 GBP - 3.50
561 Pliny Historie of the World

1601

 GBP - 7.50
562 Palgrave (F. T.) Golden Treasury

GBP - 1.50
563 [Paltock (Robert)] Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

1751

 GBP - 9.00
564 Poe (E. A.) Mesmersism "In Articulo Mortis"

1846

 GBP - 2.25
565 Poe (E. A.) The Bells and other Poems

USD - Not Sold
566 Pope (A.) An Essay on Man

GBP - 10.00
567 Pope-Hennessy (Una) Early Chinese Jades

1923

 GBP - 5.50
568 [Prynne (Wm.)] A Quench-Coale Amsterdam

1637

 GBP - 1.75
569 Rabelais (F.) Works

1927

 GBP - 1.50
570 Rackham (A.) and J. M. Barrie Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

1906

 GBP - 18.00
571 Rackham (A.) and R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Legends

1907

 GBP - 6.50
572 Rackham (A.) and [R. H. Barham] The Ingoldsby Legends

1907

 GBP - 1.00
573 Rackham (A.) De la Motte Fouque

1909

 GBP - 2.50
574 Rackham (A.) Fairy Tales

1909

 GBP - 8.00
575 Rackham (A.) and F. A. Steel English Fairy Tales

1918

 GBP - 9.00
576 Rackham (A.) Irish Fairy Tales

1920

 GBP - 8.00
577 Rackham (A.) and O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield

1929

 GBP - 7.00
578 Rackham (A.) and Hans Anderson Fairy Tailes

1932

 GBP - 26.00
579 Rackham (A.) and G. Rossetti Gobling Market

1933

 GBP - 3.00
580 Rackham (A.) Fairy Book

1933

 GBP - 14.00
581 Rackham (A.) and R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin

1934

 GBP - 2.50
582 Rackham (A.) and E. A. Poe Tales of Mystery and Imagination

1935

 GBP - 8.00
583 Rackham (A.) and E. A. Poe Tales of Mystery and Imagination

1935

 GBP - 26.00
584 Rackham (A.) and H. Ibsen Peer Gynt

1936

 GBP - 26.00
585 Rackham (A.) and N. Hawthorne A Wonder Book

GBP - 7.00
586 Rackham (A.) and J. Milton Comus

GBP - 3.50
587 Radcliffe (Ann) Mysteries of Adolphe

1794

 GBP - 8.00
588 Raleigh (Sir W.) Arts of the Empire

1692

 GBP - 7.00
589 Ray (John) Collection of English Words

GBP - 5.00
590 Read (C.) White Lies

GBP - 5.50
591 Reade (Charles) A Woman Hater

GBP - 1.50
592 Rey (Robert) Manet

GBP - 1.75
593 Boccaccio (G.) Riccardi Press

1909

 GBP - 0.50
594 Rocheblave (S.) French Painting in the XVIIIth

1937-36

 GBP - 2.00
595 Roux (H.) and M. L. Barre Herculanum et Pompei Paris

1875-7

 GBP - 6.00
596 Rowlandson (T.) Watercolour Drawings New York

1947

 GBP - 2.00
597 Royal Horticultural Society Journal (The) vol. 1-63

1846-1938

 GBP - 26.00
598 Rule (W. H.) History of The Inquisition

GBP - 3.00
599 Russell (C. E.) English Mezzotint Portraits

1926

 GBP - 4.50
600 Rymers' Club

1892-4

 USD - Not Sold
601 Rymers' Club

1892-4

 GBP - 2.50
602 Sabunde (Raymundus de) Theologia Naturalis sive liber creaturarum specialeter de homine et de natura ejus inquantum homo

GBP - 2.50
602A SALT (H. S.) An Examination of Hoggs "Life of Shelley"

1888

 GBP - 1.50
603 [Scargill (W. P.)] Blue Stocking Hall

GBP - 1.50
604 Scarron (P.) The Comical Romance

1775

 GBP - 2.00
605 Fielding (J.) Scholartis Press

1929

 GBP - 1.00
606 Schreiber (Lady C.) Journals

1911

 GBP - 5.50
607 [Schreinar (Olive)] The Story of an African Farm

1883

 GBP - 13.00
608 Scott (Peter) Wild Chorus

1938

 GBP - 9.50
609 SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS Prayers of St Netherlands

GBP - 48.00
610 Shakespeare (W.) Works

1709

 GBP - 9.50
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