Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 16Nov1959,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 16, 1959 - November 16, 1959

Page Size: 604 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Ahlberg Hakon	Swedish Architecture of the Twentieth Century		1925	GBP -	3.00
2	Ashton Leigh	An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture		1924	GBP -	15.00
3	Bakst Leon	Designs for the Sleeping Princess		1923	GBP -	16.00
4	Binyon Laurence, J. J. O'Brien Sexton	Japanese Colour Prints		1923	GBP -	11.00
5		Bossert (H. T.) Ornament		1924	GBP -	11.00
6	Brackett O.	An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, plates, cloth		1926	GBP -	7.00
7		Bremer Press.	Munich	1924	GBP -	8.00
8	Butler A. J.	Islamic Pottery		1926	GBP -	15.00
9		Cambridge Modern History (The)		1902-12	GBP -	9.00
10	Cescinsky Herbert	Chinese Furniture		1922	GBP -	15.00
11		Codrington (K. de B.) Ancient India		1926	GBP -	26.00
12		Drawings of the Great Masters.		1926	GBP -	6.00
13	Hobson R. L.	EUMORFOPOULOS COLLECTION (THE).			GBP -	72.00
14	Figgis Darnell	The Paintings of William Blake		1925	GBP -	8.00
15	Frazer Sir James George	The Golden Bough, 13 vol.		1936-37	GBP -	11.00
16		Graves (Ida) Epithalamion, a Poem			GBP -	8.00
17		Hannover (Emil) Pottery and Porcelain		1925	GBP -	28.00
18	Hetherington A. L.	The Early Ceramic Wares of China		1922	GBP -	11.00
19	Hobson G. D. Maioli	Canevari and others		1926	GBP -	13.00
20	Hobson R. L.	Chinese Art			GBP -	10.00
21	Hobson R. L.	The Later Ceramic Wares of China		1925	GBP -	12.00
22	Hobson R. L.	The Wares of the Ming Dynasty		1923	GBP -	11.00
23		[Igor (Prince) The Tale of the Band of Igor (in Russian)]	Moscow	1934	GBP -	7.00
24	Jessen P.	Rococo Engravings			GBP -	2.00
25	Kendrick A. F., C. E. C. Tattersall	Hand-Woven Carpets Oriental and European		1922	GBP -	22.00
26	Kendrick A. F.	Fine Carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum		1924	GBP -	7.00
27	Koop Albert J.	Early Chinese Bronzes		1924	GBP -	10.00
28	Kowalczyk G., A. Koster	Decorative Sculpture		1927	GBP -	6.00
29	Lehmann Walter, Heinrich Doering	The Art of Old Peru, plates, some coloured, and other illustrations		1924	GBP -	10.00
30	Ramsay S. C.	Masters of Architecture.		1923-27	GBP -	9.00
31	Meier-Graefe Julius Degas	rendered into English by J. Holroyd-Reece		1923	GBP -	5.00
32	Meinhold W.	The Amber Witch, woodcut border by C. S. Ricketts			GBP -	9.00
33	Nasse H.	Meister der Graphik.		1919-23	GBP -	6.00
34	Morison Stanley	Four Centuries of Fine Printing		1924	GBP -	44.00
35	Morison Stanley	Modern Fine Printing		1925	GBP -	38.00
36	Nash John, W. Dallimore	Poisonous Plants	New York	1926	GBP -	5.00
37		Nouveau Recueil de Vues des plus beaux Edifices de Rome Moderne et des plus beaux Restes de Rome Ancienne	Rome	1787	GBP -	15.00
38	Palladio Andrea	The Architecture of A. Palladio . . . revis'd ... by Giacomo Leoni		1721	GBP -	18.00
39	Rivoira G. T.	Lombardic Architecture		1910	GBP -	1.00
40	Salmony A.	Sculpture in Siam		1923	GBP -	12.00
41		Shakespeare Head Press.		1923-27	GBP -	32.00
42		Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Works	Paris	1928	GBP -	1.00
43	Shepherd J. C., G. A. Jellicoe	Italian Gardens of the Renaissance		1925	GBP -	9.00
44	Siren Osvald	La Sculpture Chinoise du Ve au XIVe Siecle	Paris and Brussels	1926	GBP -	1.00
45	Thomas Dylan	18 Poems	Dublin	1918	GBP -	2.00
46		Tilke (Max) The Costume of Eastern Europe		1926	GBP -	5.00
47	Waley Arthur	An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting		1923	GBP -	11.00
48	Yerbury F. R.	Georgian Details of Domestic Architecture, plates, cloth, 1926			GBP -	7.00
49	Brown Capt Thomas	Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland		1827	GBP -	16.00
50	Hipkins A. J., William Gibib	Musical Instruments	Edinburgh	1888	GBP -	12.00
51	Feret Charles James	Fulham Old and New		1900	GBP -	3.00
52		History of the Great War.		1923-1938	GBP -	4.00
53	Brassey Lord	The Naval Annual	London	1928	GBP -	11.00
54	Shakespeare W.	Works		1901-4	GBP -	3.00
55		Royal Horticultural Society (The) Dictionary of gardening		1951	GBP -	5.00
56	Macquoid Percy, Ralph Edwards	The dictionary of English furniture		1924-7	GBP -	23.00
57	Beruete y Moret A. de	Goya as portrait painter, plates, cloth		1927	GBP -	3.00
58	Laufer Berthold	Chinese Clay Figures		1910	GBP -	32.00
59	Hartman C. V.	Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica	Wellington	1925	GBP -	13.00
60	Buckley Wilfrid	The Art of Glass		1939	GBP -	4.00
61	Williamson G. C.	The Book of Famille Rose		1927	GBP -	29.00
62	Dodgson Campbell	Old French Colour-Prints		1924	GBP -	2.00
63	Millais Sir J. G.	The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais		1927	GBP -	1.00
64	Butler A. J.	Islamic Pottery		1926	GBP -	17.00
65	Binyon Laurence, J. J. O'Brien Sexton	Japanese Colour Prints		1923	GBP -	12.00
66	Fredstrup S. B.	Figurer og Andre Plastiske Arbejder.	Copenhagen	1939	GBP -	4.00
67	Fisher Richard	Catalogue of a collection of engravings	morocco	1872	GBP -	1.00
68	Binstead H. E.	English Chairs, plates, cloth		1923	GBP -	4.00
69	St. John Spenser	Life in the Forests of the Far East		1862	GBP -	6.00
70	Roth H. L.	The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo	morocco	1896	GBP -	22.00
71	Coomaraswamy A. K.	Indian Drawings		1925	GBP -	3.00
72	Gangoly O. C.	South Indian Bronzes	morocco	1915	GBP -	20.00
73	Binyon Laurence	The Engraved Designs of William Blake		1926	GBP -	8.00
74	Le May Reginald	A Concise History of Buddhist Art in Siam		1938	GBP -	10.00
75	P. H. Rivers Lieut-Gen	Antique Works of Art from Benin.		1900	GBP -	12.00
76	Roget J. L.	A History of the "Old Water-Colour" Society		1891	GBP -	1.00
77	Buckley Wilfred	European Glass		1926	GBP -	8.00
78	Moore Sir Alan	Sailing Ships of War 1800-1860		1926	GBP -	8.00
79	Parker Captain H., Frank C. Bowen	and Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century		1928	GBP -	7.00
80	Parker Captain H., Frank C. Bowen	Mail and Passenger Steamships of the Nineteenth Century		1924	GBP -	5.00
81	Nance R. Morton	Sailing-Ship Models, plates, coloured frontispiece, cloth, gilt, t.e.g.		1924	GBP -	5.00
82	Jonas F. M. Netsuke	coloured frontispiece		1928	GBP -	27.00
83	Brockhous Albert Netsukes	translated by M. F. Watty	New York	1924	GBP -	17.00
84	Coomaraswamy A. K.	Indian Drawings			GBP -	16.00
85	Volker T.	The Animal in Far Eastern Art and especially in the Japanese Netsuke	Leiden	1950	GBP -	7.00
86	Dupont Maurice	Kunstgewerbe der Hindu	Zurich	1941	GBP -	6.00
87	Scherjon W., J. de Gruyter	Vincent van Gogh's Great Period			GBP -	7.00
88	Smith V. A.	A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon		1911	GBP -	11.00
89	Hyde J. A.	Oriental Lowestoft		1950	GBP -	8.00
90	Toda Kenji	Japanese Scroll Painting, plates, cloth, Chicago	Pekin	1936	GBP -	9.00
91	Regnier Henri de La Canne de Jaspe	illustrations by Drian		1931	GBP -	6.00
92	Hobson R. L.	The Wares of the Ming Dynasty		1923	GBP -	9.00
93	HOBSON R. L.	Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain		1931	GBP -	60.00
94	GOKER EDGAR, J. F. BLACKER	CHINESE PORCELAIN AND HARD STONES		1911	GBP -	55.00
95	Armstrong Sir W.	Gainsborough illustrations, cloth, folio		1909	GBP -	5.00
96	Baillie G. H.	Watches: their History		1929	GBP -	12.00
97	Bond Francis	English Church Architecture from the 11th to the 16th Century		1906	GBP -	6.00
98	Bradbury Frederick	History of Old Sheffield Plate		1912	GBP -	28.00
99	Bryant G. E.	The Chelsea Porcelain Toys		1925	GBP -	16.00
100	Caldicott J. W.	The Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate, plates, loose, buckram		1926	GBP -	6.00

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Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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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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.