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
611	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Works		1709-10	GBP -	17.00
612	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Works		1709-10	GBP -	52.00
613	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Dramatic Works	Chiswick	1814	GBP -	6.00
614	SHAKESPEARE (WM.)	COMEDIES		1685	GBP -	160.00
615	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Comedies	Oxford	1902	GBP -	6.50
616	Shakespeare (Wm.)	A Collection of Poems		1709	GBP -	5.50
617	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Comedy of The Tempest			GBP -	1.00
618	Shelley (P. B.)	Shakespeare Head Press		1921	GBP -	1.50
619	Bede (Venerable)	Shakespeare Head Press		1930	GBP -	4.00
620	Spenser (E.)	Shakespeare Head Press	Oxford	1930-32	GBP -	6.00
621	Bronte (Sisters)	Shakespeare Head Press	Oxford	1931-2	GBP -	9.00
622	Shaw (G. B.)	Widowers' Houses		1893	GBP -	3.00
623	Shaw (G. B.)	Love Among the Artists	Chicago	1900	GBP -	1.75
624	Shelley (P. B.)	Revolt of Islam		1818	GBP -	5.00
625	[Shelley (P. B.)]	St. Irvyne		1811	GBP -	34.00
626	Shelley (P. B.)	Posthumous Poems		1824	GBP -	3.00
627	Shirley (James)	The Gamester		1637	GBP -	2.50
628	Simoneta (Joannes)	Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae	Milan	[1482]	GBP -	16.00
629	Singer (C.)	Studies in The History and Method of Science	Oxford	1917-21	GBP -	16.00
630	Singer (C.)	From Magic to Science			GBP -	2.50
631	Smollett (S.)	The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle		1715	GBP -	18.00
632	Smollett (T.)	Complete History of England		1757-8	GBP -	4.00
633	Smollett (T.)	Travels Through France and Italy		1766	GBP -	4.00
634	Solvyns (B.)	Costume of Hindustan		1807	GBP -	7.00
635	Sparrman (Andrew)	Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope		1785	GBP -	13.00
636	Spenser (Edmund)	The Faerie Queen		1611-13	GBP -	8.00
637	Walpole (H.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1758	GBP -	2.00
638	Lucanus (M.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1760	GBP -	4.00
639	Herbert of Cherbury (E.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1764	GBP -	3.00
640	Herbert of Cherbury (E.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1765	GBP -	2.50
641	Walpole (H.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1764	GBP -	12.00
642	Walpole (H.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1765-71	GBP -	12.00
643	Walpole (H.)	Strawberry Hill Press		1772	GBP -	1.00
644	[Sterne (L.)]	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy		1760-67	USD -	Not Sold
645	[Sterne (L.)]	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy		1768	GBP -	20.00
646	Sterne (L.)	Letters ... to his most intimate Friends		1775	GBP -	2.00
647	Stevenson (R. L.)	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes		1879	GBP -	2.50
648	Stevenson (R. L.)	Virginibus Puerisque			GBP -	3.00
649	Stevenson (R. L.)	New Arabian Nights		1882	GBP -	16.00
650	Stevenson (R. L.)	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	7.50
651	Stevenson (R. L.)	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	3.50
652	Stevenson (R. L.) and F. van de Grift	Stevenson The Dynamiter		1885	GBP -	4.00
653	Stevenson (R. L.)	Strange Case of Dr		1886	GBP -	5.50
654	Stevenson (R. L.)	Strange Case of Dr			GBP -	2.50
655	Stow (J.)	The Abridgement of the English Chronicle		1611	GBP -	3.50
656	Suckling (Sir J.)	[Fragmenta Aurea (part of)]		1648	GBP -	0.75
657	Surtess (R. S.)	Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds		1865	GBP -	10.00
658	Swarbrick (J.)	Robert Adam and His Brothers		[1915]	GBP -	3.00
659	Sweet (R.)	British Flower Garden		1823-38	GBP -	42.00
660	[Swift (J.)]	Miscellanies in Prose and Verse		1711	GBP -	2.75
661	Swift (J.)	On Poetry a Rapsody		1733	GBP -	1.00
662	Swinburne (A. C.)	The Queen Mother Rosamond		1860	GBP -	2.75
663	Swinburne (A. C.)	Poems and Ballads		1866	GBP -	6.50
664	Symonds (J. A.)	Life of Benvenuto Cellini		1888	GBP -	2.75
665	Taylor (G. C.)	The Modern Garden			GBP -	2.00
666	Tennyson (Alfred)	Idylls of the Hearth		1864	GBP -	4.50
667	[Thackeray (W. M.)]	Comic Tales and Sketches		1841	GBP -	4.00
668	Thackeray (W. M.)	The Adventures of Philip		1862	GBP -	0.50
669	Thackeray (W. M.)	The Viginians		1853-5	GBP -	8.00
670	Thackeray (Wm. M.)	The Newcomes		1853-55	GBP -	8.00
671	Thomas (Wm.)	The historie of Italie		1549	GBP -	5.50
672	THOMSON (JAMES)	THE SEASONS	London	1778	GBP -	78.00
673	THORNTON (ROBERT JOHN)	NEW ILLUSTRATION OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM OF CAROLUS VON LINNAEUS		1799-1807	GBP -	190.00
674	Thornton (R. J.)	British Flora		1812	USD -	Not Sold
675	Thunberg (C. P.)	Flora Japonica	Leipzig	1784 [1933]	GBP -	2.50
676	Tod (George)	Plans		1823	GBP -	2.00
677	Tournefort (P.)	Compleat Herbal		1719-30	GBP -	0.50
678	Tournefort (J. P.)	Institutiones Rei Herbaria		1770	GBP -	1.00
679	Trevelyan (Sir G. 0.)	American Revolution		1899-1914	GBP -	1.75
680	Trollope (A.)	The Kellys and The O'Kellys		1848	GBP -	13.00
681	Trollope (A.)	The Warden		1855	GBP -	2.00
682	Trollope (A.)	The Three Clerks		1858	GBP -	17.00
683	Trollope (A.)	Castle Richmond		1860	GBP -	2.25
684	Trollope (A.)	Orley Farm		1861-2	GBP -	4.50
685	Trollope (A.)	Orley Farm		1862	GBP -	6.50
686	Trollope (A.)	North America			GBP -	3.50
687	Trollope (A.)	The Last Chronicle of Barset		1866-7	GBP -	4.00
688	Trollope (Anthony)	He Knew He Was Right		1869-70	GBP -	10.00
689	Trollope (A.)	The Vicar of Bullhampton		1870	GBP -	7.00
690	Trollope (A.)	Ralph the Heir		1871	GBP -	4.00
691	Trollope (A.)	Sir Harry Hotspur			GBP -	4.00
692	Trollope (A.)	Lady Anna		1874	GBP -	6.00
693	Trollope (A.)	How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland		1878	GBP -	8.50
694	Trollope (A.)	The Way we Live Now			GBP -	7.00
695	Trollope (A.)	An Eye for an Eye		1879	GBP -	27.00
696	Trollope (A.)	The Fixed Period		1882	GBP -	8.00
697	Tusser (T.)	Five hundred Points of Good Husbandry		1931	GBP -	2.50
698	Tyndale (Wm.)	The Parable of the Wycked Mammon			GBP -	36.00
699	Guerin (M. de)	Vale Press		1899	GBP -	8.00
700	Valerian (J. P.)	Pro Sacerdotum Barbis	Paris	1531	GBP -	2.50
701		Variorum Pontificum ad Petrum Cnapheum Eutychianum	Ingoldstadt	1616	GBP -	16.00
702	Walton (I.) and C. Cotton	Complete Angler	Pickering	1836	GBP -	8.00
703	Wathen (James)	Voyage to Madras and China		1814	GBP -	3.00
704	Watson (T.)	Holsome Catholyke doctryne		1558	GBP -	2.50
705	Weaver (Sir L.) and R. Randal Phillips	Small Country Houses of To-day 3 vol		1922-25	GBP -	1.50
706	Wentworth (Lady)	The Authentic Arabian Horse		1945	GBP -	12.00
707	Whistler (Jas. A. McN.)	Gentle Art of Making Enemies			GBP -	3.00
708	White (Gilbert)	Natural History of Selborne		1789	GBP -	7.50
709	White (G.)	Natural History of Selborne		1900	GBP -	1.50
710	Wilde (Oscar)	Lady Windermere's Fan			GBP -	9.00

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.
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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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