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
201	Pope-Hennessy, Dame Una	Early Chinese Jades		1923	GBP -	14.00
202	Joly, Henri L.	Legend in Japanese Art		1908	GBP -	26.00
203	Gorer, Edgar and J. F. Blacker	Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones		1911	GBP -	75.00
204	Bainbridge, Henry Charles	Peter Carl Fabergé		1949	GBP -	19.00
205	Joly, Henri L. and Kumasaku Tomita	Japanese Art and Handicraft		1916	GBP -	37.00
206	WEBER, V. F.	"Ko-Ji HO-TEN." Dictionnaire à l'Usage des Amateurs et Collectionneurs d'Objets d'Art Japonais et Chinois	Paris	1923	GBP -	62.00
207	Joly, Henri L.	Japanese Sword Fittings : a Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of G. H. Naunton		1912	GBP -	24.00
208	HOBSON, R. L.	A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID		1934	GBP -	88.00
209	Tomkinson, Michael	A Japanese Collection		1898	GBP -	32.00
210	Sirén, Oswald	Early Chinese Paintings from A. W. Bahr Collection		1938	GBP -	11.00
211	Audsley, George Ashdown	The Ornamental Arts of Japan		1882-84	GBP -	23.00
212		Oriental Ceramic Society.		1946-57	GBP -	22.00
213	Latham, Charles; Britten, F. J.	In English Homes, Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers		1907-1909, 1911	GBP -	4.00
214	Waring, J. B., Editor	Examples of Weaving and Embroidery, selected from the Royal and other Collections		n.d.	GBP -	6.00
215	Achdjian, Albert	A Fundamental Art: the Rug [Text in English and French], French Art of the Eighteenth Century	Paris	1949, 1957	GBP -	4.00
216	Hansford, S. Howard	The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art		1957	GBP -	4.10
217	Hansford, S. Howard; Hobson, R. L.	Chinese Jade Carving; Laurence Binyon, and others.; The Romance of Chinese Art	New York	1950, 1936	GBP -	11.00
218	Siren, Osvald	Early Chinese Paintings from the A. W. Bahr collection		1938	GBP -	10.00
219	Baker, C. H. Collins	Lely and the Stuart portrait painters		1912	GBP -	25.00
220	Getty, Alice	The gods of Northern Buddhism	Oxford	1914	GBP -	27.00
221	Gordon, Antoinette K.	The iconography of Tibetan Lamaism	Rutland (Vermont) and Tokyo	1959	GBP -	4.00
222	Cousens, Henry; Goetz, Hermann	The Chalukyan architecture of the Kanarese districts; The art and architecture of Bikaner state	Calcutta, Oxford	1926, 1950	GBP -	15.00
223	Roget, J. L.; Charrington, John; Saville Gallery	A history of the old water-colour society; A catalogue of the engraved portraits in the library of Samuel Pepys, Drawings by old masters	Cambridge	1891, 1936, 1929-30	GBP -	9.00
224	Hara, Shinkichi	Die Meister der Japanischen Schwertzierarten	Hamburg	1931-32	GBP -	13.00
225	Joly, Henri L.	Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trower collection of Japanese Art		1913	GBP -	22.00
226	Poncetton, Francois	Les Gardes de Sabres Japonaises (sale catalogue)	Paris	1929	GBP -	6.00
227	Poncetton, F. and A. Portier	Les Arts sauvages, Océanie	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	14.00
228	Portier, A. and F. Poncetton	Les arts sauvages, Afrique	Paris	1956	GBP -	7.00
229	Marquart, Jos	Die Benin-Sammlung des Reichsmuseums fuer Voelkerkunde in Leiden	Leiden	1913	GBP -	18.00
230		Burlington Fine Arts Club.		1914	GBP -	4.00
231	Adams, P. W. L.	A history of the Adams family of North Staffordshire		1914	GBP -	5.00
232	Pitt-Rivers, Lt.-General A.	Antique works of art from Benin		1900	GBP -	22.00
233	Brenchley, Julius L.	Jottings during the cruise of H.M.S. Curacao among the South Sea islands in 1865		1873	GBP -	14.00
234	Sande, G. A. J. van der	Nova Guinea	Leiden	1907	GBP -	12.00
235	Spencer, Sir Baldwin	Native tribes of the northern territory of Australia		1914	GBP -	5.00
236	Roth, Walter E.	Ethnological studies among the north-west-central aborigines, Skilled handwork of the Maori, being the Oldman collection of Maori artifacts	Brisbane and London, Wellington	1897, 1946	GBP -	9.00
237	Smith, Vincent A.	A history of fine art in India and Ceylon	Oxford	1911	GBP -	14.00
238		Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity		1904-1955	GBP -	32.00
239		Museum Britannicum, or, a Display ... in Antiquities and Natural Curiosities, in ... the British Museum		1791	GBP -	10.00
240	Pembroke Thomas Herbert	Earl of Numismata antiqua	Sydney Herbert	1853, n.d.	GBP -	8.00
241	Cescinsky, Herbert and E. R. Gribble	Early English furniture and woodwork		1922	GBP -	5.00
242		Le Musée du Louvre	Paris	1935-38	GBP -	22.00
243	Hartshorne, A.	Old English Glasses		1897	GBP -	9.00
244	Francis, G. R.	Old English Drinking Glasses		1926	GBP -	12.00
245	Jones, E. Alfred	The Old Silver of American Churches	Letchworth	1913	GBP -	22.00
246	King, William	Chelsea Porcelain		1922	GBP -	8.00
247	Symonds, Mary and Louisa Preece	Needlework through the Ages		1928	GBP -	18.00
248	Cescinsky, Herbert	English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century		n.d.	GBP -	13.00
249	Cescinsky, Herbert and E. R. Gribble.; Smith, H. Clifford	Early English Furniture and Woodwork; Buckingham Palace		1922, 1931	GBP -	8.00
250	Carrington, John Bodman and George Ravensworth Hughes	The Plate of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths	Oxford	1926	GBP -	8.00
251	Tatlock, R. R., Roger Fry, R. L. Hobson and Percy Macquoid	A Record of the Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Cheshire		1928	GBP -	10.00
252	P. Nelson and W. L. Hildburgh	Alabasters, a collection of extracts, off-prints, etc.		1913-1937	GBP -	1.00
253		English Medieval Paintings, a collection of extracts, Medieval Matters, a collection of extracts		1850-1948, 1905-1938	GBP -	1.00
254	Francis Wormald	English Benedictine Kalendars after A.D. 1100		1939-1946	GBP -	3.10
255	Cescinsky, Herbert and Ernest R. Gribble	Early English Furniture and Woodwork		1922	GBP -	8.00
256	Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William	Annals of the Artists of Spain, The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V; Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses		1891	GBP -	8.00
257	Westlake, N. H. J.; Dumas, F. G.	History of Design in Mural Painting from the Earliest Times to the Twelfth Century, Modern Artists, a Series of Illustrated Biographies	Virtue	1902-1905, n.d.	GBP -	6.00
258	Trübner, Wilhelm	Handzeichnungen, ausgewählt und mit einer Einleitung herausgegeben von Julius Elias		n.d.	GBP -	6.00
259	Jungnickel, L. H.; Liebermann, Max	Tiere der Fabel, Dreiszig Holzschnitt-Zeichnungen	Vienna, Berlin	1917, 1922	GBP -	4.00
260	Rodin, Auguste	Les cathédrales de France	Paris	1914	GBP -	7.00
261	Symonds, R. W.	English Furniture from Charles II to George II		1929	GBP -	7.00
262	Tipping, H. Avray	English Homes, early Tudor		1485-1558, 1924	GBP -	3.00
263	Britten, F. J.	Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers		1904	GBP -	4.00
264	Lacroix, Paul	Les Arts, Moeurs, Usages et Costume, etc., au Moyen Age	Paris	1875-85	GBP -	24.00
265	Coëtlogon, Comte A. de and L.-M. Tisserand	Les armoiries de la ville de Paris	Paris	1874-1875	GBP -	1.00
266	Clouzot, H. et Ch. Follot	Histoire du Papier peint en France		1935	GBP -	16.00
267	Argenti, P. P.	The Costumes of Chios		1953	GBP -	6.00
268	John Leyland	Gardens Old and New, The Country House and its Garden Environment		n.d.	GBP -	15.00
269	MACQUOID, PERCY and RALPH EDWARDS	The Dictionary of English Furniture		1954	GBP -	52.00
270	Latham, Charles	In English Homes		1907-1909	GBP -	28.00
271	TIPPING, H. AVRAY	English Homes		1920-1928	GBP -	70.00
272	Nash, Joseph; J. Corbet Anderson	The Mansions of England in the Olden Times		1869-1872	GBP -	5.00
273	Lenygon, Francis; Weaver, Lawrence	Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770		n.d. 1914, 1914	GBP -	3.00
274	Ayrton, Maxwell and Arnold Silcock	Wrought Iron and its Decorative Use		1929	GBP -	4.00
275	Wheater, W.	Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire and their Associations	Leeds	1888	GBP -	8.00
276	Berenson, Bernhard; Moore, T. Sturge; Cruttwell, Maud	Lorenzo Lotto, Corregio, Antonio Pollaiuolo		1901, 1906, 1911	GBP -	2.00
277	Blake, William; Gilchrist, Alexander	Life of William Blake		1880	GBP -	2.10
278	Blake, William; A. G. B. Russell	The Engravings of William Blake		1912	GBP -	3.00
279	Blake, William	Burlington Fne Arts Club Catalogue.		1927	GBP -	9.00
280	Blake, William; John Sampson; A. G. B. Russell	Songs of Innocence, Poetical Works of William Blake, The Letters of William Blake	Oxford	1926, 1905, 1906	GBP -	4.00
281	Blake, William; Symons, Arthur; Wilson, Mona	William Blake, The Life of William Blake		1907, 1932	GBP -	1.00
282	Blake, William	Catalogues of Exhibitions, auction sale catalogues of the Linnell collection and the George C. Smith collection			GBP -	5.00
283	Bode, Wilhelm	Die Kunst der Fruhrenaissance in Italien	Berlin	1926	GBP -	5.00
284	Bond, Francis; Walker, J. W.; Fletcher, W. Y.	Gothic Architecture in England, Wakefield, its history and people		1906, 1939, 1894	GBP -	6.00
285	Borenius, Tancred	Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House		1936	GBP -	7.00
286		Catalogue of a collection of objects of British Heraldic Art to the end of the Tudor Period, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Italian Art of the seventeenth century		1916, 1923, 1925	GBP -	15.00
287	Clapp, F. M.	Les Dessins de Pontormo		1914	GBP -	13.00
288	Clark, Kenneth	A Catalogue of the Drawings of Leonardo de Vinci in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle	Cambridge	1935	GBP -	19.00
289	Damerini, Gino; Graber, Hans	L'Arte Francesco Guardi, Phaidon Press. Donatello, Velasquez, Piero della Francesca	Venice, Basel	1912, 1941, 1943, 1922	GBP -	4.00
290	Ede, H. E.; Popham, A. E.; Parker, K. T.	Florentine Drawings of the quattrocento, Drawings of the early Flemish School, North Italian Drawings of the quattrocento		1926, 1926, 1927	GBP -	11.00
291	Fiocco, Giuseppe	Paolo Veronese	Bologna	1528-1588, 1928	GBP -	24.00
292	Gluck, Gustav and F. M. Haberditzl	Die Handzeichnungen von Peter Paul Rubens	Berlin	1928	GBP -	7.00
293	Hadeln, Detlev, Baron von	Zeichningen des Giacomo Tintoretto		1922	GBP -	8.00
294	Hadeln, D., Baron von	Handzeichnungen von G. B. Tiepolo	Florence and Munich	1927	GBP -	48.00
295	Hadeln, D., Baron von	Titian's Drawings		1927	GBP -	9.00
296	Hadeln, D., Baron von; Campbell Dodgson	The Drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto		1929	GBP -	10.00
297	Hadeln, D., Baron von	Venezianische Zeichnungen des Quattrocento, Venezianische Zeichnungen der Hochrenaissance, Venezianische Zeichnungen der Spatrenaissaince		1925, 1925, 1926	GBP -	30.00
298	Hekler, Anton; Pfuhl, Ernst; Beazley, J. D.	Die Bildniskunst der Griechen und Romer, Masterpieces of Greek Drawing and Painting, Attic red-figured vases in American museums		1912, 1926, 1918	GBP -	9.00
299	Heslop, L. R. P.; Hoffmeyer, Skat	New Bilingual Catalogue of the British Lepidoptera, De Danske Maalere		1938, 1952	GBP -	18.00
300	Hind, A. M.	A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings		1923	GBP -	18.00

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