Sothebys: Printed Books: The Property of the Rt. bon. Lord Dynebor., 11Oct1965,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 11, 1965 - October 11, 1965
Page Size: 879 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
701 Friedell (Egon) Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit

1924

GBP - 1.00
702 Durer (Albert) Friedlander (Max J.) Albrecht Diirer

GBP - 1.00
703 Durer (Albert) Pfister (Kurt) Der junge Durer

GBP - 1.00
704 Glaser (Kurt) Lukas Cranach

GBP - 2.00
705 Graul (Richard, Editor) Rembrandts Zeichnungen

1921

GBP - 3.00
706 Rolland (Romain) Des Leben Michelangelos

GBP - 1.00
707 Waldmann (Emil) Edouard Manet

GBP - 2.00
708 Kitton (F. G.) John Leech Artist and Humourist

1883

GBP - 20.00
709 Beardsley (Aubrey) Early Work

1899

GBP - 6.00
710 Symonds (R. W.) Old English Walnut & Lacquer Furniture

1943

GBP - 2.00
711 Jourdain (M.) and F. Lenygon English Decoration and Furniture 1500-1820

1922-27

GBP - 16.00
712 Bell (J. M.) and A. Hayden The Furniture Designs of Thomas Chippendale, George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton

1910

GBP - 5.00
713 Cescinsky (Herbert) and Malcolm R. Webster English Domestic Clocks

1914

GBP - 20.00
714 Haslem (J.) The old Derby china factory

1876

GBP - 2.00
715 Nance (E. Morton) The pottery and porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw

1942

GBP - 48.00
716 Fitzgerald (Edward, Translator), Cave (Thomas) John Baskerville, Rhodes (R. C.), Knight (Charles) William Caxton, Simon (Oliver), Jay (Leonard), Rudland(E. M.), Chaucer (Geoffrey) CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF PRINTING

1927-53

GBP - 80.00
717 Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler St. Dominic's Press

GBP - 8.00
718 Carlyle (Thomas) Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions Herr Teufelsdroeckh

1907

GBP - 18.00
719 Gregynog Press

1926

GBP - 7.00
720 Rousseau (J. J.) The Confessions, in an anonymous English version

1938

GBP - 12.00
721 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Lucretia Borgia, edited by Randolph Hughes

1942

GBP - 32.00
722 Keats(John) Endymion

1947

GBP - 22.00
723 Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes and other Poems

1928

GBP - 16.00
724 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) KELMSCOTT PRESS

1893

GBP - 75.00
725 Timperley (C. H.) The printer's manual

1838

GBP - 12.00
726 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall) A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour of the northern counties of England and in Scotland

1838

GBP - 36.00
727 Lowndes (W. T.) The bibliographer's manual of English literature

GBP - 10.00
728 Jackson (Holbrook) The anatomy of bibliomania

1930-31

GBP - 12.00
729 Sadleir (Michael) Excursions in Victorian bibliography

GBP - 11.00
730 Elworthy (F. T.) The evil eye

1900

GBP - 6.00
731 Blades (William) Life and Typography of William Caxton

1861-63

GBP - 26.00
732 Arber (Edward) The Term Catalogues

1903-06

GBP - 34.00
733 Wise (Thomas James) A Shelley Library: A Catalogue

1924

GBP - 16.00
734 Wise (Thomas James) A Byron Library: A Catalogue

1928

GBP - 12.00
735 Wise (Thomas James) A Conrad Library: A Catalogue

1928

GBP - 12.00
736 Wise (Thomas James) A Landor Library: A Catalogue

1928

GBP - 12.00
737 Wise (Thomas James) A Bronte Library: A Catalogue

1929

GBP - 12.00
738 Carter (John) and Graham Pollard An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets

1934

GBP - 10.00
739 Maggs Bros

1921

GBP - 4.00
740 Hill("Sir" John) The Family Herbal

GBP - 15.00
741 Recreations in Natural History

1843

GBP - 2.00
742 Furber (Robert) [and Richard Bradley] The flower-garden display'd

1734

GBP - 32.00
743 Brookshaw (George) Groups of Flowers; Groups of Fruit; Six Birds

1819

GBP - 42.00
744 Sowerby (James) and others English botany, edited by J. T. Boswell Syme

1899

GBP - 25.00
745 Sowerby (John E.) and C. Pierpoint Johnson British Wild Flowers

1876

GBP - 14.00
746 Maund (B.) The Botanic Garden

1825-36

GBP - 80.00
747 Cotton (John) The Song Birds of Great Britain

1836

GBP - 45.00
748 Kirkman (F. B., Editor) The British Bird Book

1911-13

GBP - 3.00
749 Nicoll (M. J.) Birds of Egypt, edited by Col. R. Meinertzhagen

1930

GBP - 24.00
750 Morris (F. O.) A History of British Moths

1896

GBP - 1.00
751 Rice (William) Tiger-Shooting in India

1857

GBP - 10.00
752 Arkwright (William) The Pointer and his Predecessors

1902

GBP - 5.00
753 Belany (James Cockburn) A treatise upon falconry

GBP - 10.00
754 White (E.) A practical treatise on the game of billiards

1810

GBP - 11.00
755 Cardus (Neville) Cricket

1907

GBP - 3.00
756 Richardson (T. D.) Modern Figure Skating

GBP - 1.00
757 Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

1934

GBP - 1.00
758 NORGAY (TENZING) AND J. R. ULLMAN The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest as told to James Ramsey Ullman

GBP - 24.00
759 Agrippa (Henry Cornelius) Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, Englished by Ja[mes] San[ford]

1575

GBP - 8.00
760 Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, translated by Sir John Harington

1634

GBP - 1.00
761 Ayre (William) Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope

1745

GBP - 32.00
762 Beaumont (Francis)and John Fletcher Works

1679

GBP - 4.00
763 Bible (The) that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament

1599

GBP - 5.00
764 Bible (The) that is the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament

1611-12

GBP - 5.00
765 Brooke (Fulke Greville, Lord) Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes

1633

GBP - 12.00
766 Brooke (Fulke Greville, Lord) The Life of the renowned Sr Philip Sidney

1652

GBP - 32.00
767 Browne (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica: whereunto are now added Two Discourses

1669

GBP - 7.00
768 Browne (Sir Thomas) Religio Medici

1669

GBP - 12.00
769 Browne (Sir Thomas) Religio Medici

1682

GBP - 8.00
770 Burnet (Bishop Gilbert) Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honorable John, Earl of Rochester

1680

GBP - 5.00
771 Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy Oxford

1624

GBP - 3.00
772 Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy Oxford

1624

GBP - 5.00
773 Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy Oxford

1652

GBP - 14.00
774 Cartwright (William) Poems

1651

GBP - 10.00
775 Cavendish (George) The Life and Death of Thomas Woolsey

1667

GBP - 1.00
776 Charles I, King of England Works, with his Life and Martyrdome

1662

GBP - 1.00
777 Chatterton (Thomas) Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and others

1777

GBP - 13.00
778 Cibber (Theophilus), [Robert Shiels, and others] The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the time of Dean Swift

1753

GBP - 7.00
779 Cleveland (John) Works, containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, with life of the author

1687

GBP - 26.00
780 Collier (Jeremy) A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage

GBP - 6.00
781 Corbet (Richard) Poems

1672

GBP - 40.00
782 Cotton (Charles) Poems on Several Occaisions

1689

GBP - 18.00
783 Cotton (Charles) The Genuine Works, containing Scarronnides, Lucian Burlesqued, The Wonders of the Peake, The Planters Manual

1715

GBP - 10.00
784 Cowley (Abraham) Works

1681-82

GBP - 13.00
785 Crashaw (Richard) Steps to the Temple

1670

GBP - 26.00
786 Crashaw (Richard) Steps to the Temple

1670

GBP - 18.00
787 DANIEL (SAMUEL) The Whole Workes in Poetrie

1623

GBP - 18.00
788 Defoe (Daniel) A Collection of Writings of the author of the True-Born Englishman

1703

GBP - 8.00
789 Dickens (Charles) David Copperfield

GBP - 15.00
790 Donne (John) Poems by J.D. with Elegies on the Authors Death

1633

GBP - 18.00
791 Donne (John) Poems on Several Occasions

1719

GBP - 2.00
792 Drayton (Michael) Poems

1619

GBP - 14.00
793 DRAYTON (MICHAEL) THE BATTAILE OF AGINCOURT

1631

GBP - 80.00
794 Drummond (William) Works

GBP - 20.00
795 Dryden (John) and others Miscellany Poems

1684

GBP - 8.00
796 Dryden (John) and others Examen Poeticum: being the third part of Miscellany Poems

1693

GBP - 2.00
797 Dryden (John) and others Poetical Miscellanies: the Sixth Part

1709

GBP - 9.00
798 Dryden (John) and others Miscellany Poems

1727

GBP - 2.00
799 Dyer (John) Poems

1761

GBP - 10.00
800 Edwards (Richard) and others The Paradise of Dainty Devices, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges

1815

GBP - 11.00
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