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
711	Wilde (O.)	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime			GBP -	6.00
712	Wilkins (Bp. John)	Discovery of a World in the atoone		1638	GBP -	7.50
713	Wilkinson (H.)	Sketches of Scenery in the Basque Provinces of Spain		1838	GBP -	13.00
714	Wiliamson (Dr. G. C.)	Book of Famille Rose			GBP -	8.00
715	Willatott (Ellen)	The Genus Rosa		1914	GBP -	18.00
716	Wilson (E. H.)	Plant Hunting			GBP -	7.50
717	Wilson (E. H.)	Aristocrats of the Trees	Boston	1930	GBP -	0.50
718	Wiss (M.)	The Family Robinson Crusoe		1816	GBP -	3.50
719	Wollstonecraft (Mary)	Original Stories from Real Life		1791	GBP -	4.50
720	Wordsworth (Wm.)	The Excursion		1814	GBP -	3.50
721	Wright (H. Myles)	Small Houses		1937	GBP -	0.50
722		Yellow Book (The)		1894-7	GBP -	5.50
723		Year Books			GBP -	380.00
724	Young (Edward)	The Complaint		1797	GBP -	2.00
725	Young (E.)	The Complaint		1797	GBP -	2.75
726	Abbot (W. C.)	Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell, portrait	Cambridge, U.S.A.	1929	GBP -	4.00
727	Arber (Prof. E.)	The Term Catalogues		1903-6	GBP -	7.50
728	Ashbee (H. S.)	An Iconography of Don Quixote		1895	GBP -	1.50
729		Descriptive Bibliography of Ashendene Press		1935	GBP -	22.00
730		Beckford and Hamilton Libraries. Sale Catalogues		1882-3	GBP -	3.50
731		Bibliographic Index			GBP -	5.50
732		Bibliographical Society			GBP -	9.00
733	Claudin (A.)	The First Paris Press			GBP -	3.00
734	Gibson (S.)	Early Oxford Bindings			GBP -	2.25
735	Bourdillon (F. W.)	Early Editions of The Roman de la Rose			GBP -	4.00
736	Esdaile (A.)	Bibliographical Society			GBP -	7.00
737	A. W. Pollard	Bibliographical Society		1920-42	GBP -	14.00
738	Osier (Sir Wm.)	Incunabula Medica		1923	GBP -	6.50
739	Pollard (A. W.) and G. R. Redgrave	Bibliographical Society		1926	GBP -	8.00
740	Plomer (H. R.)	Bibliographical Society. Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers			GBP -	6.50
741	McKerrow (R. B.) and F. S. Ferguson	Bibliographical Society			GBP -	2.50
742	Johnson (A. F.)	Engraved and Etched Title-pages			GBP -	4.00
743	Thomas (H.)	Early Spanish Bookbindings		1939	GBP -	2.75
744		Bibliographical Society (The) 1892-1942			GBP -	2.00
745		Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Earl of Crawford,		1887-89	GBP -	1.50
746		Book-Auction Records			GBP -	22.00
747	edited by D. Flower and A. J. A. Symons	Book-Collectors Quarterly (The)		1930-35	GBP -	3.50
748	edited by H. B. Wheatley	Book-Lover's Library		1886-98	GBP -	3.00
748A	edited by H. B. Wheatley	British Museum. Remarkable Bindings in the B.M.,		1889	GBP -	4.00
749		British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books		1892	GBP -	1.00
750		Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books Bequeathed by Alfred H. Huth		1912	GBP -	1.00
750A		British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books in the XVth Century		1908-35	GBP -	72.00
751		British Museum. Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in France ...			GBP -	3.50
752		Britwell Handlist (The)		1933	GBP -	2.00
753		Brotherton Library (The)	Leeds	1931	GBP -	1.50
754	Bouchot (Henri)	The Book : Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, facsimiles		1890	GBP -	2.75
754A	Brunet (J. C.)	Manuel du Libraire	Paris	1842-44	GBP -	4.00
755	Brussel (T. R.)	Anglo-American First Editions		1935-6	GBP -	3.00
756	Cannon (C. L.)	American Book Collectors and Collecting			GBP -	5.50
757	Quaritch (B.)	Catalogues			GBP -	2.50
758	Hoym (Cte de)	Catalogues			GBP -	15.00
759		Printed Books in the Library of The Duke of Portland,			GBP -	9.00
760		National Library of Wales, Manuscripts and Rare Books Exhibited			GBP -	4.00
761		Catalogues. Maggs Bros			GBP -	4.00
762	Hoepli (U.)	Catalogues			GBP -	2.25
763		Catalogues. Pickering and Chatto			GBP -	4.00
764	Chaucer (G.)	The Ellesmere Chaucer	Manchester	1911	GBP -	22.00
765	Clark (J. W.)	The Care of Books			GBP -	7.00
766	Cohn (A. M.)	George Cruikshank a Catalogue Raisonne		1924	GBP -	3.50
767	Collier (J. P.)	Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language			GBP -	9.00
768	Copinger (W. A.)	Incunabula Biblica or The First Half Century of the Latin Bible		1892	GBP -	14.00
769	Corson (J. C.)	Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott			GBP -	1.75
770	Cross (W. L.)	History of Henry Fielding	New Haven	1918	GBP -	7.00
771	Cross (W. L.)	Life and Times of Laurence Sterme	New Haven	1925	GBP -	2.50
772	Daniel (C. H. O.)	Daniel Press	Oxford	1921	GBP -	1.75
773	Danielson (H.)	Bibliographies of atodern Authors			GBP -	1.00
774	Davenport (C.)	Thomas Berthelet			GBP -	6.00
775	De Bure (G. F.)	Bibliographie Instructive	Paris	1763-9	GBP -	3.00
776	Dibdin (T. F.)	The Bibliographical Decameron		1817	GBP -	13.00
777	Dibdin (T. F.)	Typographical Antiquities		1810-19	GBP -	8.50
777A	Dibdin (T. F.)	Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany		1821	GBP -	1.50
778	Dibdin (Rev. T. F.)	The Library Companion		1824	GBP -	1.25
778A	Dibdin (Rev. T. F.)	Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany			GBP -	2.00
779	Eckel (J. C.)	Prime Pickwicks in Parts			GBP -	2.50
780	Eckel (J. C.)	First Editions of Charles Dickens		1932	GBP -	2.50
780A		Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke	Leipzig	1925-38	GBP -	15.00
780B		Gibson Craig Library		June, 1887-Nov., 1888	GBP -	2.00
781	Gosse (P.)	My Private Library	U.S.A.	1936	GBP -	1.75
782		Grolier Club			GBP -	3.50
783		Gumucian et Cie. Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe Siecle	Paris		GBP -	3.00
783A	Halkett (S.) and J. JLaing	Dictionary of Anonyatous and Pseudonyatous English Literature		1926-34	GBP -	8.50
784	Hatton (T.) and A. H. Cleaver	Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens		1933	GBP -	3.00
785	Hazen (A. T.)	Bibliography of The Strawberry Hill Press	New Haven	1942	GBP -	2.50
786	Hazen (A. T.)	Bibliography of The Strawberry Hill Press	New Haven	1942	GBP -	2.25
787	Heber (Richard)	Bibliotheca Heberiana		1834-37	GBP -	19.00
788	Hill (N.)	Guillaume de Guileville's Le Pelerinage de l'Homme			GBP -	0.50
789		Historia Literaria		1731-2	GBP -	2.50
789A	Hobson (G. D.)	Thirty Bindings		1926	GBP -	1.50
789B	Hobson (G. D.)	Maioli		1926	GBP -	3.50
790	Hodgkin (J. E.)	Rariora		1902	GBP -	4.00
791	Humphreys (H. N.)	History of the Art of Printing		1867	GBP -	4.50
792	Humphreys (H. N.)	Masterpieces of Early Printers and Engravers		1870	GBP -	2.50
793	Huth (Henry)	Illustrated Sale Catalogues of Printed Books		1911-20	GBP -	10.00
794		Imprint (The)		1913	GBP -	3.50
795	Jackson (Holbrook)	The Annatomy of Bibliomania		1930	GBP -	5.00
796	Jacobi (C. T.)	Gesta Typographica or a Medley for Printers and Others		1897	GBP -	1.25
797	James (Philip)	Children's Books of Yesterday			GBP -	1.75
798	Johnson (J.)	Typographia or the Printers Instructor			GBP -	6.00
799	Junk (W.)	Rara Historico-Naturalia et Mathematica	Berlin	1900-36	GBP -	6.00
800	Keynes (G.)	Bibliography of Dr. John Donne			GBP -	3.00

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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