Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 28Mar1960,

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Auction Date
March 28, 1960 - March 28, 1960
Page Size: 552 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ALABASTER, WILLIAM ROXANA TRAGAEDIA.

1632

GBP - 42.00
2 Alabaster, William Roxana tragaedia.

1632

GBP - 8.00
3 Petrarca, Francesco Aldine Press.

1545

GBP - 30.00
4 Aleman, Mateo The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache.

1622

GBP - 19.00
5 Bandello, Mateo La prima [seconda, terza e quarta] parte de le novelle. Lucca, Lyon

1554, 1573

GBP - 2.00
6 Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies.

1647

GBP - 55.00
7 Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher The Elder Brother: A Comedie.

1651

GBP - 6.00
8 Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher The Beggars Bush.

1661

GBP - 32.00
9 Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher The Works.

1843-46

GBP - 16.00
10 Boccaccio, Giovanni Il Decameron. London

1527, 1725

GBP - 2.00
11 Boccaccio, Giovanni Il Decamerone. Florence, Venice

1527, 1729

GBP - 3.00
12 Brooke, Ralph A Discoverie of certaine errours.

1596

GBP - 7.00
13 Browne, Sir Thomas Pseudodoxia Epidemica:.

1646

GBP - 15.00
14 Browne, Sir Thomas Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

1647

GBP - 8.00
15 Cartwright, William The Royall Slave, A Tragi-Comedy. Oxford

1640

GBP - 18.00
16 Cartwright, William Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems.

GBP - 15.00
17 Chapman, George The Tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany.

1654

GBP - 10.00
18 Hermann, Deimling Chester Plays (The).

1893-1916

GBP - 17.00
19 D. J. The Knave in Graine, New Vampt, A witty Comedy.

1640

GBP - 26.00
20 Dekker, Thomas The Dramatic Works. Cambridge

1953-58

GBP - 5.00
21 Doves Press.

1911

GBP - 5.00
22 EDDA SNORRA STURLUSONAR EDDA.

GBP - 62.00
23 Fletcher, John La fida pastora, comoedia pastoralis.

1658

GBP - 60.00
24 Ford, John The Works.

1869

GBP - 13.00
25 Goose-Cappe Sir, Gyles Sir Gyles Goose-Cappe Knight, A Comedy.

1636

GBP - 36.00
26 Gower, John De confessione amantis.

1532

GBP - 10.00
27 Greene, Robert The Dramatic Works.

1829

GBP - 13.00
28 Gualteruzzi, Carlo Libro di novelle. Florence

1572

GBP - 11.00
29 Guarini, Battista II pastor fido, The faithfull Shepherd, A Pastorall.

1647

GBP - 22.00
30 Gwinne, Matthew Vertumnus, sive annus recurrens.

1607

GBP - 3.00
31 Hayward Sir, John The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII.

1599

GBP - 8.00
32 HEYWOOD, THOMAS THE FOURE PRENTISES OF LONDON, WITH THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM.

1615

GBP - 55.00
33 HEYWOOD, THOMAS Loves Maistresse: or, The Queens Masque.

1636

GBP - 2.00
34 Heywood, Thomas The Rape of Lucrece, The fifth Impression.

1638

GBP - 8.00
35 Heywood, Thomas or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerning Women.

GBP - 3.00
36 JONSON, BEN The Workes.

1616

GBP - 50.00
37 Jonson, Ben [Works], edited by C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson Oxford

1925-52

GBP - 48.00
38 Rossetti Dante, Gabriel Hand and Soul.

GBP - 8.00
39 J. O., Halliwell Ludus Coventriae.

1841

GBP - 15.00
40 Macchiavelli, Niccolo The Florentine History.

1595

GBP - 26.00
41 Massinger, Philip The Duke of Millaine.

1638

GBP - 22.00
42 Massinger, Philip Plays, with notes critical and explanatory.

1813

GBP - 8.00
43 May, Thomas The Tragedy of Antigone, The Theban Princesse.

1631

GBP - 50.00
44 May, Thomas The Heire, A Comedie.

1633

GBP - 6.00
45 MIDDLETON, THOMAS A Mad World my Masters: A Comedy.

1640

GBP - 16.00
46 Middleton, Thomas A Tragi-Coomodie, called The Witch.

GBP - 6.00
47 Nashe, Thomas The Works.

1904-1910

GBP - 16.00
48 Pedantius.

GBP - 12.00
49 Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

1765

GBP - 10.00
50 Piccolomini, Enea, Silvio Hystoria de duobus amantibus.

GBP - 4.00
51 Randolph, Thomas Aristippus, or The Joviall Philosopher.

1630

GBP - 34.00
52 Randolph, Thomas The Jealous Lovers. Cambridge

1632

GBP - 22.00
53 Randolph, Thomas Cornelianum dolium, comoedia lepidissima.

1638

GBP - 4.00
54 Randolph, Thomas Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas. Oxford

1638

GBP - 22.00
55 Randolph, Thomas The Jealous Lovers. Cambridge

1640

GBP - 13.00
56 Russell, Bertrand The Principles of Mathematics. Cambridge

1903

GBP - 6.00
57 Shakespeare, William The Plays and Poems.

1821

GBP - 22.00
58 Shakespeare, William The Works.

1863-66

GBP - 1.00
59 Shakespeare, William The Works.

1891-93

GBP - 18.00
60 Shirley, James The Triumph of Peace.

1633

GBP - 6.00
61 Shirley, James The Dramatic Works and Poems.

1833

GBP - 18.00
62 Shirley, James The Triumph of Beautie.

GBP - 16.00
63 SIDNEY Sir, PHILIP The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.

1598

GBP - 6.00
64 Suckling Sir, John Fragmenta Aurea.

1646

GBP - 42.00
65 Towneley Plays.

1897

GBP - 11.00
66 Valerius Flaccus, C. Argonautica, diligenter accurateque emendata.

GBP - 9.00
67 Voragine, Jacobus de The Golden Legend. Westmynster

1498

GBP - 4.00
68 Baker, David Erskine Isaac Reed and Stephen Jones.

1812

GBP - 4.00
69 Bailey, D. R. Shackleton Propertiana. Cambridge

1956

GBP - 6.00
70 Bartlett, Henrietta C. and Alfred W. Pollard A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto. New Haven

1939

GBP - 6.00
71 Bentley, Gerald Eades The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. Oxford

1941-56

GBP - 8.00
72 Duff E., Gordon A Century of the English Book Trade.

GBP - 24.00
73 McKerrow, Ronald B. Bibliographical Society.

1913

GBP - 2.00
74 Bibliographical Society.

1920-December 1958

GBP - 50.00
75 Bibliographical, Society McKerrow R. B. and F. S. Ferguson. Title page Borders used in England and Scotland.

1932

GBP - 2.00
76 Masson Sir, Irvine Bibliographical Society.

1954

GBP - 4.00
77 Jackson, William A. Bibliographical Society.

1957

GBP - 2.00
78 Haselden, R. B. Bibliographical Society.

GBP - 4.00
79 John, Pendred Bibliography.

GBP - 20.00
80 Bowers, Fredson Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton

1949

GBP - 310.00
81 British Academy.

1939-57

GBP - 30.00
82 Chambers E. K., William Shakespeare A Study of Facts and Problems.

GBP - 7.00
83 Craig, Hardin English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages.

GBP - 5.00
84 Early English Text Society.

1955-59

GBP - 11.00
85 English Literature.

GBP - 30.00
86 Fleay, Frederick Gard A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare.

GBP - 36.00
87 Herbert, Sir Henry The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert.

GBP - 7.00
88 Johan, Gerritsen Honest Man's Fortune (The), a critical.

GBP - 8.00
89 Langbaine, Gerard Mornus Triumphans The Plagiaries of the English Stage.

GBP - 18.00
90 McKerrow, Ronald B. An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students.

GBP - 6.00
91 Miller, Simon List of books printed for.

GBP - 18.00
92 Milton, John Complete Poetical Works. Urbana

1943-45

GBP - 1.00
93 THE MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW. Cambridge

October 1905 -January 1959

GBP - 190.00
94 J. Johnson and S. Gibson Oxford Bibliographical Society. Oxford

1923-57

GBP - 38.00
95 Partridge, A. C. The Accidence of Ben Jonson's Plays.

GBP - 9.00
96 The Review of English Studies.

January 1925-February 1959

GBP - 125.00
97 Shakespeare, William Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.

1902

GBP - 29.00
98 Shakespeare, William Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim; Pericles; Sonnets;.

1905

GBP - 7.00
99 Shakespeare, William Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, a facsimile. New Haven

1955

GBP - 2.00
100 Shakespeare, William A collection of various reprints of the plays.

GBP - 26.00
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