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
402 Illuminated Address presented to the Archduke Rainier and Archduchess Marie of Austria on the occasion of their golden wedding

1902

 GBP - 11.00
403 A'Beckett G. A. The Comic History of England

GBP - 6.00
404 Ainsworth W. Harrison Jack Sheppard

1839

 GBP - 13.00
405 Ainsworth W. Harrison Old Saint Paul's

GBP - 10.00
406 Ainsworth W. Harrison Boscobel The Royal Oak

GBP - 13.00
407 Austen Jane Emma

1816

 GBP - 20.00
408 Barrie James M. Margaret Ogilvy

1896

 GBP - 2.00
409 Barrie James M. Sentimental Tommy

GBP - 1.00
410 Bates H. E. The Two Sisters

GBP - 9.00
411 Beerbohm Max Zuleika Dobson

1911

 GBP - 6.00
412 BEERBOIIM MAX WADHAM WISDOM a watercolour caricature showing

1913

 GBP - 36.00
413 Beerbohm Max Fifty Caricatures

GBP - 5.00
414 Bennett Arnold The Old Wives' Tale

1908

 GBP - 10.00
415 Bronte Charlotte The Professor

GBP - 2.00
416 Clemens S. L. Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1876

 GBP - 9.00
417 Clemens S. L. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884

 GBP - 9.00
418 Coppard A. E. Ninepenny Flute

GBP - 2.00
419 Coppard A. E. Fishmonger's Fiddle

GBP - 3.00
420 Coppard A. E. Silver Coins

GBP - 3.00
421 Coppard A. E. Crotty Shinkwin The Beauty Spot

GBP - 3.00
422 Coppard A. E. Clorinda Walk in Heaven

GBP - 6.00
423 Dickens Charles Sketches by "Boz"

GBP - 5.00
424 Dickens Charles The Pickwick Papers

1837

 GBP - 6.00
425 Dickens Charles Oliver Twist

1838

 GBP - 5.00
426 Dickens Charles Nicholas Nickleby FIRST EDITION

1838-1839

 GBP - 30.00
427 Dickens Charles A Christmas Carol

1843

 GBP - 6.00
428 Dickens Charles The Battle of Life

GBP - 1.00
429 Dickens Charles Dornbey and Son

1846-1848

 GBP - 30.00
430 Dickens Charles Bleak House

1852-1853

 GBP - 18.00
431 Dickens Charles Little Dorrit

1855-1857

 GBP - 15.00
432 Dickens Charles Our Mutual Friend

1864-1865

 GBP - 15.00
433 Dickens Charles The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1870

 GBP - 6.00
434 Dickens Charles Sunday under Three Heads

GBP - 1.00
435 Dickens Charles Master Humphrey's Clock

GBP - 2.00
436 Dickens Charles The Uncommercial Traveller

GBP - 1.00
437 Du Maurier George Peter Ibbetson 2 vol., First English Edition

1892

 GBP - 9.00
438 Evans Martin "George Eliot"

1860

 GBP - 22.00
439 Ferrier Susan Marriage

GBP - 11.00
440 GREENAWAY KATE A sheet of watercolour drawings of children

GBP - 40.00
441 Greenaway Kate Almanacks for 1883-1886, 1891, 1894, 1895.

1883-1895

 GBP - 16.00
442 Greenaway Kate Under the Window

GBP - 5.00
443 Haggard H. Rider King Solomon's Mines

1885

 GBP - 2.00
444 Haggard H. Rider She

1887

 GBP - 2.00
445 Hardy Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891

 GBP - 22.00
446 Hatton Thomas Arthur H. Cleaver A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens

1933

 GBP - 5.00
447 Kipling Rudyard Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. Lahore

1886

 GBP - 13.00
448 Kipling Rudyard In Black and White

GBP - 22.00
449 Kipling Rudyard The Jungle Book

1894-1895

 GBP - 3.00
450 Kipling Rudyard With Number Three

1900

 GBP - 40.00
451 Kipling Rudyard Plain Tales from the Hills

GBP - 19.00
452 Kipling Rudyard Captains Courageous

GBP - 4.00
453 Kipling Rudyard Stalky & Co.

GBP - 22.00
454 Lawrence D. H. The Rainbow

1915

 GBP - 22.00
455 Mayhew Henry George Cruikshank 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family

GBP - 14.00
456 Morgan Charles Portrait in a Minnor

GBP - 3.00
457 RACKHAM ARTHUR The Ingoldsby Penance

GBP - 32.00
458 Rackham Arthur Pen and ink drawing of two men

GBP - 22.00
459 Surtees R. S. Handley Cross Plain or Ringlets?

GBP - 26.00
460 Thackeray William Makepeace The History of Pendennis

1848-1850

 GBP - 10.00
461 Thackeray William Makepeace The Virginians

1857-1859

 GBP - 12.00
462 Thackeray William Makepeace Vanity Fair

GBP - 13.00
463 Trollope Anthony The Macdermots of Ballycloran, a historical Romance

1848

 GBP - 50.00
464 Trollope Anthony Barchester Towers

1857

 GBP - 22.00
465 Trollope Anthony The Small House at Allington

1864

 GBP - 22.00
466 Trollope Anthony Can You Foregive Her?

1864-1865

 GBP - 28.00
467 Trollope Anthony He Knew He was Right

1868-1869

 GBP - 22.00
468 Wood Mrs. Henry The Channings

1862

 GBP - 16.00
469 DOVES PRESS.

1903-05

 GBP - 135.00
470 Barrie J. M. Margaret Ogilvy

GBP - 1.00
471 Stevenson Robert Louis The Master of Ballantrae

GBP - 1.00
472 Thackeray William Makepeace The Newcomes

GBP - 1.00
473 Bullen A. H. Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age

GBP - 1.00
474 Browning Robert Asolando original cloth

GBP - 4.00
475 Stow John A Survay of London

GBP - 4.00
476 Benson A. C. The Book of Job

GBP - 5.00
477 Pepys Samuel Diary edited by H. B. Wheatley

1904-05

 GBP - 10.00
478 Trollope Anthony The Novels

1929

 GBP - 36.00
479 Frazer Sir J. G. The Golden Bough

1926-27

 GBP - 9.00
480 Delamotte Edward Eight views of the new churches and chapels in the Isle of Man

GBP - 13.00
481 DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

1908-1937

 GBP - 56.00
482 Thorburn A. British Birds

1915-1918

 GBP - 19.00
483 Thorburn A. British Mammals

1920-1921

 GBP - 4.00
484 Lydekker Richard Wild Life of the World

GBP - 4.00
485 Kirkman F. B The British Bird Book

1910-1914

 GBP - 1.00
486 Kelmscott Press.

1897

 GBP - 13.00
487 Carteret L. Le Tresor du Bibliophile

1924-28

 GBP - 19.00
488 Solon L. M. The Art of the Old English Potter

GBP - 4.00
489 Alfassa Paul J. Guerin Porcelain Franchise du XVIIe au milieu XIXe siecle

GBP - 22.00
490 Hodgson Mrs. Willoughby Old English China

GBP - 4.00
491 Luxmore C. F. C. Saltglaze

1924

 GBP - 20.00
492 Hobson R. L. Catalogue of the collection of English pottery ... in the British Museum

1903

 GBP - 4.00
493 Burton William A history and description of English Porcelain

GBP - 1.00
494 Schreiber Lady Charlotte Journals

1911

 GBP - 10.00
495 Rhead G. W. Staffordshire Pots and Potters

GBP - 1.00
496 Litchfield F. Pottery and Porcelain

GBP - 3.00
497 Anderson William The Pictorial Arts of Japan

1886

 GBP - 6.00
498 Siltzer Frank The Story of British Sporting Prints

1929

 GBP - 7.00
499 Sparrow Walter Shaw British Sporting Artists from Barlow to Herring

1922

 GBP - 5.00
500 Russell Charles E. English Mezzotint Portraits and their States

GBP - 4.00
501 Benezit E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres Paris

1924

 GBP - 11.00
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    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.
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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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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.
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