Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 21Feb1974,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 21, 1974 - February 21, 1974
Page Size: 509 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
501 [SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH Sporting Novels], 7 vol.

n.d.

GBP - 65.00
502 Taplin, William The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information upon Every Subject appertaining to the Sports of the Field

1803

GBP - 17.00
503 Thackeray, W[illiam] M[akepiece] The History of Pendennis, parts 2-4, 6-7, 12-23/24 only (of 24) The Newcomes, parts 1, 3-6, 8-10, 12-15 only (of 24) The Virginians, parts 13-20 only (of 24)

1848-50, 1853-54

GBP - 11.00
504 Thakeray, William Makepeace, Lever, Charles The History of Pendennis, 2 vol. The Newcomes, 2 vol. The Daltons, 2 vol.

1849-50, 1854-55, 1852

GBP - 18.00
505 [Thackeray, W. M.] The Newcomes ... edited by Arthur Pendennis

1854-55

GBP - 6.00
506 Trollope, Anthony, Surtees, R. S. Orley Farm, parts 1-5, 7, 10-11, 14 only (of 20) Trollope (Frances) The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, parts 1-3, 5-7 only Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, parts 1-5, 7, 8, 12 only (of 12, with duplicates of parts, 1, 7, 8, that of part 1 with varia

1861-62, 1839, 1864-65

GBP - 34.00
507 Trollope, Anthony Orley Farm, 2 vol. in 1 The Small House at Allington 2 vol. in 1 vol.

1862

GBP - 28.00
508 Williamson, Henry, Moore, George The Village Book Aphrodite in Aulis

1930, 1930

GBP - 7.00
509 Young, Margaret Ferrier, editor, Cook, E. T. The Letters of a Noble Woman Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin

1908

GBP - 5.00
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