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
101	Greene, Graham	Stamboul Train, Brighton Rock		1932, 1938	GBP -	6.00
102	Sassoon, S.	Memoirs of a fox-hunting man		1929	GBP -	2.00
103		The voyage of the Bounty's launch		1934	GBP -	18.00
104	Lascaris, Evadne; Lover's Progress, A; Nancy Quennell; Lucas, F. L.; Dorothea Braby	The Golden Bed of Kydno, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, Gilgamesh, King of Erech		1935, 1938, 1948	GBP -	11.00
105	Jonson, Ben; John Wallis	A Croppe of Kisses, selected lyrics		1937	GBP -	11.00
106	Jonson, Ben	A Croppe of Kisses		1937	GBP -	11.00
107	Jonson, Ben	A Croppe of Kisses		1937	GBP -	9.00
108	Symons, A. J. A.	Desmond Flower, Francis Meynell. The Nonesuch Century		1936	GBP -	10.00
109	Morison, Stanley; Fleuron, The	The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico degli Arrighi surnamed Vicentino	Paris, Cambridge and Garden City, N.Y.	1926, 1930	GBP -	9.00
110	William Burton; Bottomley, Gordon; Clinton Balmer	Achilles Tatius. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, translated from the Greek, The Gate of Smaragdus, Riccardi Press. Apuleius. Psyche et Cupido	holland spine	1923, 1904, 1913	GBP -	2.00
111	Casanova di Seingalt, Giacomo; Arthur Machen	The Memoirs, translated into English	Casanova Society	1922	GBP -	11.00
112	Restif de la Bretonne, N.-E.; R. Crowdy Mathers; Havelock Ellis	Monsieur Nicolas, or The Human Heart Unveiled, translated into English		1930-1931	GBP -	12.00
113	Tzara, Tristan	Le Signe de Vie, avec six dessins et une lithographie originale de Henri Matisse		1946	GBP -	8.00
114	Otway, Thomas; Montague Summers	The Complete Works		1926	GBP -	7.00
115	Shaw, G. Bernard	The Works		1930-1938	GBP -	38.00
116	Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Works, Vailima Edition		1922-1923	GBP -	20.00
117	Barrie, J. M.	The Works, Kirriemuir Edition		1913	GBP -	8.00
118	Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord	The Works, Edinburgh Edition		1896-97	GBP -	12.00
119	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley	Edinburgh	1814	GBP -	2.00
120	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	A Wonder Book		n.d.	GBP -	12.00
121	Ibsen, Henrik	Peer Gynt		1936	GBP -	12.00
122	Poe, Edgar Allan	Tales of Mystery and Imagination		1935	GBP -	20.00
123	Thomas Okey; Browning, Robert	The Little Flowers of Saint Francis, The Pied Piper of Hamelin		1919, 1934	GBP -	6.00
124	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; Alfred Tennyson	The Devil and the Lady		1930	GBP -	2.00
125	Arland, Marcel; Major, Emil and Erwin Gradmann; Puyvelde, Leo van	Georges de La Tour, The Flemish Primitives	Paris	1953, 1947, 1948	GBP -	8.00
126		Art, books on			GBP -	5.00
127	Audubon, John James	The Birds of America, The Quadrupeds of North America	New York	1946, 1951	GBP -	5.00
128	Bachofer, Ludwig; Kurth, Julius	Die Kunst der japanischen Holzschnittmeister, Sharaku	Munich's	1922, 1922	GBP -	12.00
129	Barr, Alfred H.; Janis, Harriet and Sidney; Larrea, Juan	Picasso, Fifty Years of his Art, Picasso, Guernica, Pablo Picasso	New York's, Garden City, N.Y.	1946, the Recent Years, 1939-1946, 1946, 1947	GBP -	5.00
130	Beatty, A. Chester Library. Arnold, Sir Thomas W.	A Catalogue of the Indian Miniatures		1936	GBP -	28.00
131	Cartier-Bresson, Henri	Images à la sauvette	Paris's, Verve	1952, 1946-1948	GBP -	7.00
132	Cézanne, Paul; Dorival, Bernard	Carnets de dessins, préface et catalogue raisonné par John Rewald, Cézanne	Paris's	1951, 1948	GBP -	7.00
133	Drucker, Michel; Barr, Alfred H.	Renoir, Matisse, his Art and his Public	Paris, New York	1944, 1951	GBP -	7.00
134	Fenollosa, Ernest F.	Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art		1912	GBP -	9.00
135	Gauguin, Paul	Noa Noa, voyage à Tahiti		1947	GBP -	15.00
136	Gieure, Maurice	G. Braque	Paris	1956	GBP -	5.00
137	Gray, Basil	Iran, Miniatures persanes, Bibliothèque Impériale	New York	1956	GBP -	6.00
138	Gunsaulus, Helen C.	The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints: The Primitives	Chicago	1955	GBP -	18.00
139	Kühnel, Ernst; Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.	Miniaturmalerei im islamischen Orient, Les miniatures orientales de la Collection Goloubew au Museum of Fine Arts de Boston [Ars Asiatica, XIII]	Berlin, Paris and Brussels	1922, 1929	GBP -	20.00
140	Lassaigne, Jacques; Trésors, Les	Toulouse-Lautrec, de la peinture française.		1939, n.d.	GBP -	7.00
141	Lassaigne, Jacques; Wheeler, Monroe	Dufy, Soutine	Geneva, Skira, New York	1954, 1950	GBP -	9.00
142	Malraux, André	Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale	Paris	1952-1954	GBP -	9.00
143	Malraux, André; E. Sackville-West; Beryes, Ignacio de	Goya, Drawings from the Prado, Dibujos y grabados de Goya	Horizon, Barcelona	1947, n.d.	GBP -	7.00
144	Mookerjee, Ajit; Hiss, Philip Hanson	Art of India	Calcutta [etc.], New York	1952, 1941	GBP -	5.00
145	Noguchi, Yone	The Ukiyoye Primitives	Tokyo	1933	GBP -	10.00
146	Goldscheider, L.; Pope-Hennessy, J.	Donatello, The Paintings of Michelangelo, Fra Angelico		1941, 1948, 1952	GBP -	6.00
147	Bodkin, Thomas; Benesch, O.; Cohn, William	The Paintings of Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt, Selected Drawings, Chinese Painting		1942, 1947, 1948	GBP -	9.00
148	POPE, ARTHUR UPHAM and PHYLLIS ACKERMAN	A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART	Oxford	1938-1939	GBP -	360.00
149	Popham, A. E.; Venturi, Lionello and Rosabianca Skira-Venturi	The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, La peinture italienne, les créateurs de la Renaissance	Geneva and Paris	1949, 1950	GBP -	8.00
150	Raynal, Maurice and others	Histoire de la peinture moderne	Geneva	1949-1950	GBP -	13.00
151	Schmalenbach, Werner; Kjersmeier, Carl	L'art nègre, Afrikanske Negerskulpturer	Basle and Paris	1953, 1947	GBP -	11.00
152	Sirén, Osvald	Chinese Paintings in American Collections	Paris and Brussels	1928	GBP -	24.00
153	Stchoukine, Ivan	La peinture indienne à l'époque des Grands Moghols	Paris	1929	GBP -	8.00
154	Stewart, Basil	Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints		1922	GBP -	14.00
155	Tsiu-Sen, Lin	Meisterwerke chinesischer Malerei 12. bis 18. Jahrhundert, Great Heritages (The) of Chinese Art	Zürich	1944	GBP -	8.00
156		Verve	Paris	1937-1957	GBP -	9.00
157	Zervos, Christian	Dessins de Pablo Picasso	Paris	1892-1948, 1949	GBP -	7.00
158	WARNER, Sir GEORGE	DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. W. DYSON PERRINS	Oxford	1920	GBP -	160.00
159		Bibliographie de la France, journal général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie	Paris	1919-1938	GBP -	1.00
160	LORENZ, OTTO and others	CATALOGUE GENERAL DE LA LIBRAIRIE FRANÇAISE	Paris	1867-1945	GBP -	260.00
161	KAYSER, CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB	Vollständiges Bücher-Lexicon, enthaltend alle [seit dem Jahre] 1750 in Deutschland und in den angrenzenden Ländern gedrückten Bücher	Leipzig	1834-1911	GBP -	210.00
162		DEUTSCHES BUCHERVERZEICHNIS, eine Zusammenstellung der im deutschen Buchhandel erschienenen Bücher, Zeitschriften und Landkarten	Leipzig	1916-1937	GBP -	230.00
163		Halbjahrsverzeichnis der Neuerscheinungen des deutschen Buchhandels	Leipzig	1936, 1936-1939	GBP -	1.00
164	Abbey, J. R.	Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography		1770-1860, 1952	GBP -	9.00
165	Jaggard, W.	Shakespeare Bibliography	Stratford-on-Avon	1911	GBP -	6.00
166	Jaggard, W.	Shakespeare Bibliography	Stratford-on-Avon	1911	GBP -	5.00
167	Jaggard, W.	Shakespeare Bibliography	Stratford-on-Avon	1911	GBP -	4.00
168		Handlist of Proclamations, 1714-1910	Wigan	1913	GBP -	3.00
169		Handlist of Proclamations	Wigan	1913	GBP -	3.00
170		A Bibliography of the writings ...	Aberdeen	1911	GBP -	4.10
171		A Bibliography of the writings ... forming the literature of Philately	Aberdeen	1911	GBP -	4.10
172		Catalogue of English Newspapers		1641-1666, 1901	GBP -	9.00
173		Catalogue of English.		1901	GBP -	9.00
174		Bulletin de l'Assemblée Nationale, Bulletin de la Convention Nationale		5-21 Sept., 1792, 22 Sept., 1792-26 Oct., 1795, 1902	GBP -	1.00
175		Bulletin de l'Assemblée Nationale		1902	GBP -	1.00
176	Henry A. Sanders	Deuteronomy and Joshua. Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript in the Freer Collection	Ann Arbor	1910	GBP -	24.00
177	Henry A. Sanders	The Four Gospels Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript in the Freer Collection	Ann Arbor	1912	GBP -	20.00
178	Henry A. Sanders	Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of the Minor Prophets in the Freer Collection and the Berlin Fragment of Genesis	Ann Arbor	1927	GBP -	24.00
179	Venuswagen, Der	Sammlung erotischer Privatdrucke mit original Graphik	Berlin	1919-20	GBP -	40.00
180		Book-Auction Records		1954, 1956 and 1958-61	GBP -	28.00
181	Clement Scott	The Theatre, a Monthly Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts		1880-1882	GBP -	2.00
182	Einstein, Alfred; A. H. Krappe, R. H. Sessions and O. Strunk	The Italian Madrigal	Princeton	1949	GBP -	10.00
183	Freud, Sigmund	Gesammelte Schriften	Leipzig, Vienna, Zürich	1925-1934	GBP -	18.00
184	Uhde-Bernays, Hermann	Deutsche Skizzenmappe, Zeichnungen deutscher Meister des 19. Jahrhunderts	Munich	1919	GBP -	50.00
185	Stix, Alfred	Meisterwerke der Graphik im XVIII. Jahrhundert	Vienna	1921	GBP -	6.00
186	Menzel, Adolph	Illustrations des Oeuvres de Frédéric-le-Grand	Berlin	1882	GBP -	9.00
187	Slevogt, Max	Aquarelle zu Mozarts Zauberflöte, Einführung von Fritz Wichert	Munich	1920	GBP -	8.00
188	Hoffmann, E. T. A.	Die Elixiere des Teufels			GBP -	3.00
189	Menzel, Adolph	Fünfzig Zeichnungen, Pastelle und Aquarelle aus dem Besitiz der Nationalgalerie	Berlin	1921	GBP -	11.00
190		Shakespeare Visionen, eine Huldigung deutscher Künstler, vorrede von Gerhart Hauptmann	Munich	1918	GBP -	18.00
191	Thoma, Hans	Fünf Radierungen	Munich	n.d.	GBP -	2.00
192	Hind, A. M.	The Drawings of Claude Lorrain		1925	GBP -	10.00
193		Early Flemish Paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges, exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition	Burlington House	1927	GBP -	1.00
194	Woodall, Mary	Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings		1939	GBP -	8.00
195	Duhem, Pierre	Etudes sur Léonard de Vinci		1955	GBP -	12.00
196	Symonds, J. A.; C. R. Ashbee	The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture		1888, 1898	GBP -	6.00
197	Lawrence, D. H.	The Paintings		1929	GBP -	24.00
198	Dodgson, Campbell; Bode, Wilhelm von; Mantz, Paul	A Catalogue of Etchings by Augustus John, Studien uber Leonardo da Vinci, Francois Boucher		1920, 1921, 1880	GBP -	4.00
199	Campbell, John, Lord	The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England		1848-69	GBP -	14.00
200	Nott, Stanley Charles	Chinese Jade throughout the Ages		1936	GBP -	22.00

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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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.
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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.

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.

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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.

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