Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, 19Jun1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 19, 1961 - June 19, 1961

Page Size: 620 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Andersen, Hans	Fairy Tales		n.d.	GBP -	16.00
2	Audsley, George A. and James L. Bowes	Keramic Art of Japan		1881	GBP -	5.00
3	Bahr, A. W.	Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China		1911	GBP -	6.00
4	Barham, Richard H.	The Ingoldsby Legends		1907	GBP -	13.00
5	Barrie, J. M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		1906	GBP -	4.00
6	Barrie, J. M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		1906	GBP -	8.00
7	Basile, Giambattista; Laurence Housman	Stories from the Pentamerone, Stories from the Arabian Nights		1911	GBP -	10.00
8	Bennett, Richard; Gulland, W. G.; T. J. Larkin	Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains, Chinese Porcelain		n.d., 1928-1929	GBP -	8.00
9	Bowes, James L.; Strange, Edward F.	Japanese Enamels; Japanese Illustration		1886, 1904	GBP -	10.00
10	Brereton, Captain F. S.; Strang, Herbert	A Knight of St. John, with Shield and Assegai; Under the Spangled Banner; Boys of the Light Brigade; Tom Burnaby; One of Clive's Heroes		n.d., n.d., n.d., n.d., n.d., n.d.	GBP -	1.00
11	Bryant, G. E.	The Chelsea Porcelain Toys		1925	GBP -	18.00
12		The Chinese Exhibition, a Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition ... 1935-1936		1936	GBP -	14.00
13	Burton, William; Solon, M. L.	A History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware, A Brief History of Old English Porcelain		1904, 1903	GBP -	9.00
14		Chinese Art.		1936	GBP -	22.00
15	Churchill, Sir Winston S.	The Second World War		1948-1954	GBP -	3.00
16	Curtis, Charles H.; Wright, Lewis	Orchids for Everyone, Book of Poultry		1910	GBP -	4.00
17	Earle, Cyril, Major	The Earle Collection of Early Stafford shire Pottery		n.d. c. 1915	GBP -	14.00
18	Fenollosa, Ernest F.	Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art		1912	GBP -	9.00
19	Getz, John; Edward R. Bacon	Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects	New York	1919	GBP -	16.00
20	GORER, EDGAR and J. F. BLACKER	CHINESE PORCELAIN AND HARD STONES		1911	GBP -	72.00
21	Greenaway, Kate	Almanacks for 1883-1894 and the French edition for 1889		1883-1894	GBP -	36.00
22	Greenaway, Kate; Myles B. Foster	Alphabet; Birthday Book for Children; Under the Window; A Day in a Child's Life		n.d.	GBP -	6.00
23	Greenaway, Kate; Taylor, Jane and Ann	Birthday Book for Children; Mother Goose; Under the Window		n.d.	GBP -	6.00
24	Gulland, W. G.; T. J. Larkin	Chinese Porcelain		1928-1929	GBP -	8.00
25	Haggard, H. Rider	Heart of the World, Swallow, The Yellow God, Morning Star, Finished, Moon of Israel, The Virgin of the Sun		1896, 1899, 1909, 1910, 1917, 1918, 1922	GBP -	10.00
26	HAYDEN, ARTHUR	Old English Porcelain, the Lady Ludlow Collection		1932	GBP -	40.00
27	Henty, G. A.	Historical Tales		various years and n.d.	GBP -	48.00
28	Hobson, R. L.	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	20.00
29	Hobson, R. L.	The Later Ceramic Wares of China		1925	GBP -	14.00
30	HOBSON, R. L.	CATALOGUE OF THE LEONARD GOW COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAIN		1931	GBP -	76.00
31	HOBSON, R. L.	A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID		1934	GBP -	88.00
32	HOBSON, R. L.	A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID		1934	GBP -	95.00
33	Hobson, R. L.	Porcelain, Oriental, Continental and British, Chinese Art		1906, 1927	GBP -	7.00
34	Holt, Rosa Belle	Oriental and Occidental Rugs, Romance (The) of Chinese Art	Garden City	1937, n.d.	GBP -	6.00
35	Honey, William Bowyer	European Ceramic Art from the End of the Middle Ages to about		1815, 1949	GBP -	2.00
36	Jenyns, Soame; Gulland, W. G.; T. J. Larkin	A Background to Chinese Painting, Chinese Porcelain		1935, 1829-1929	GBP -	5.00
37	Joly, Henri L. and Kumasaku Tomita	Japanese Art and Handicraft		1916	GBP -	34.00
38	Kendrick, A. F. and C. E. C. Tattersall	Hand-woven Carpets Oriental and European		1922	GBP -	24.00
39	King, William	Chelsea Porcelain		1922	GBP -	8.00
40	Kleykamp, A. J.	Chineesch Aardewerk en Porcelein	The Hague	1928	GBP -	6.00
41	Koop, Albert J.	Early Chinese Bronzes		1924	GBP -	18.00
42	Laufer, Berthold	Jade, a Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion	South Pasadena	1946	GBP -	7.00
43	Tatlock, R. R., Roger Fry, R. L. Hobson and Percy Macquoid	Leverhulme Art Collections (The)., A Record of the Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Cheshire		1928	GBP -	9.00
44	Long, A. L.; Baker, Sir Samuel W.; Ismail	Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, his Military and Personal History, Ismalia, a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Supression of the Slave Trade	Khedive of Egypt	1886, 1874	GBP -	9.00
45	Edward Fitzgerald	Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, rendered into English		n.d.	GBP -	14.00
46	Price, R. K., Captain	Astbury, Whieldon, and Ralph Wood Figures, and Toby Jugs		1922	GBP -	20.00
47	Rackham, Arthur; Wagner, R.; Swift, J.	Books illustrated by : The Land of Enchantment, The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods, Book of Pictures, Gulliver's Travels		1907, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1937	GBP -	14.00
48	Rackham, Bernard and Herbert Read	English Pottery		1924	GBP -	12.00
49	Sitwell, Major-General H. D. W.	The Crown Jewels and other Regalia in the Tower of London		1953	GBP -	3.00
50	Spelman, W. W. R.	Lowestoft China		1905	GBP -	9.00
51	Spielman, M. H. and G. S. Layard	Kate Greenaway, Palace Collections of Egypt. [Sale Catalogues]		1905, 1954	GBP -	3.10
52	Tizac, H. d'Ardenne de	Animals in Chinese Art		1923	GBP -	13.00
53	Trapnell, Alfred	An Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Porcelain and Pottery	Bristol	1901-1906	GBP -	16.00
54	Victoria and Albert Museum. Rackham, Bernard; Charles Schreiber and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber	Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass		1924-1930	GBP -	7.00
55	Svinine, Paul; Spilsbury, F. B.	Sketches of Russia, Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria		1814, 1823	GBP -	11.00
56	Maund, IB.; Lewine, J.	The Botanic Garden, Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books		1827-1833, 1898	GBP -	20.00
57	Perrin, Mrs. Henry and G. S. Boulger	British Flowering Plants		1914	GBP -	5.00
58	Halford, Frederic M.	The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook		1913	GBP -	16.00
59	Grimble, Augustus	The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, Shooting and Salmon Fishing and Highland Sport, The Salmon Rivers of Ireland		1902, 1902, 1903	GBP -	1.00
60	Morris, Rev. F. O.	A Natural History of British Moths, A History of British Butterflies		1891, 1853	GBP -	1.00
61	Strutt, Jacob George	Sylva Britannica, or, Portraits of Forest Trees, distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty		1826	GBP -	18.00
62	Borlase, William	Observations on the Antiquities historical and monumental of the County of Cornwall, The Natural History of Cornwall	Oxford's	1754, 1758	GBP -	8.00
63		Victoria County History. A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight		1900-1912	GBP -	22.00
64	Thomson, -James	Victoria County History. The ... History of the County of Surrey, The IBook of Silchester		1902-1914, 1924	GBP -	16.00
65	Hope, W. H. St. John	Windsor Castle, an Architectural History		1913	GBP -	2.00
66	Whitaker, Thomas Dunham; Pyne, J. B.	An History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York, The English Lake District		1823, 1853	GBP -	14.00
67	Hutchins, John; Moore, John Hamilton	The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels		1774, n.d.	GBP -	8.00
68	Nash, Treadway	Collections for the History of Worcestershire		1781-1782	GBP -	3.00
69	Wesley, Samuel	Gallery of Portraits (The), with Memoirs, The History of the Old [and New] Testament[s] in Verse		1833-1837, 1716-1717	GBP -	3.00
70	Booth, Charles	Life and Labour of the People in London		1902	GBP -	12.00
71	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley	Edinburgh	1814	GBP -	20.00
72	Scott, Sir Walter	Guy Mannering	Edinburgh	1815	GBP -	7.00
73	Scott, Sir Walter	The Antiquary	Edinburgh	1816	GBP -	4.00
74	Scott, Sir Walter	Rob Roy	Edinburgh	1818	GBP -	4.00
75	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe	Edinburgh	1820	GBP -	7.00
76	Scott, Sir Walter	Kenilworth	Edinburgh	1821	GBP -	4.00
77	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	The Last Man		1826	GBP -	16.00
78	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Handley Cross, "Ask Mamma,", "Plain or Ringlets?", Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds		1853, 1854, 1858, 1860, 1865	GBP -	17.00
79	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross, "Ask Mamma"; Handley Cross; "Plain or Ringlets?"; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour;		1843, n.d.	GBP -	5.00
80	Apperley, Charles J.	"Nimrod." Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton		1837	GBP -	7.00
81	Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities		1859	GBP -	14.00
82	Thackeray, William Makepeace; Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; Trollope, Mrs. Frances	The Irish Sketch-Book, Uncle Walter		1843, 1852	GBP -	11.00
83	Ainsworth, W. Harrison	Jack Sheppard, The Star-Chamber, Ovingdean Grange		1839, 1954, 1860	GBP -	16.00
84	Reid, Thomas Mayne	The Forest Exiles, or The Perils of a Peruvian Family, The White Chief, a Legend of Northern Mexico, The Quadroon, or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana, The Maroon		1855, 1855, 1856, 1862	GBP -	13.00
85	Kipling, Rudyard	Plain Tales from the Hills	Calcutta	1888	GBP -	3.00
86	Hardy, Thomas; Conrad, Joseph	Wessex Tales, The Hand of Ethelberta, Tales of Unrest		1888, 1876, 1898	GBP -	17.00
87	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	7.00
88	Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Silverado Squatters, Virginibus Puerisque		1883, 1881	GBP -	5.00
89	Doyle, A. Conan	The Sign of Four		1890	GBP -	16.00
90	Doyle, A. Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1892, 1894	GBP -	28.00
91	Hatton, Thomas and Arthur H. Cleaver	A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens		1933	GBP -	5.00
92	Dickens, Charles	The Pickwick Papers, Master Humphrey's Clock		1837, 1840-1841	GBP -	4.00
93	Rossetti, Dante Gabriel	Poems		1870, 1870	GBP -	28.00
94	Marillier, H. C.	Dante Gabriel Rossetti		1899	GBP -	3.00
95	Dodgson, Rev. C. L., Lewis Carroll	Lize's Avonturen in het Wonderland	Nijmegen	1881	GBP -	14.00
96	Conrad, Joseph	The Works		1921	GBP -	30.00
97	Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Works, Vailima Edition		1922-1923	GBP -	20.00
98	Macgeorge, Andrew	The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Old Glasgow: the Place and the People		1893, 1880	GBP -	10.00
99	Kipling, Rudyard	Plain Tales from the Hills; The Light that Failed; Kim; Puck of Pook's Hill; The Jungle Books, Stalky & Co.; Departmental Ditties		1899-1906	GBP -	18.00
100	Shakespeare, William; Alexander Dyce	Works		1891-93	GBP -	19.00

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December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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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.

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