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
301	Raffael, Rembrandt, Tizian, Durer, Rubens, Michelangelo, Correggio, Donatello, Van Dyck, Mantegna, Fra Angelico, Watteau, Velasquez, Signorelli, Rembrandt, Handzeichnungen	Klassiker de Kunst.		1904-27	GBP -	18.00
302	Lawrence Gallery, The; Borenius, Tancred; Posse, Hans	Catalogue of Exhibitions, The Picture Gallery of Andrea Vendramin, Die Gemaidegalerie des Kaiser Friedrich Museums, zweite Abteilung, die Germanischen Lander	Berlin	1831-35, 1923, 1911	GBP -	7.00
303	Jasper Mayne	Lucian.	Oxford	1664	GBP -	6.00
304	Malvasia, C. C.	Vite de Pittori Bolognesi	Bologna	1678	GBP -	23.00
305	Osmaston, F. P. B.; Ludwig, G. and P. Molmenti.; Frohlich-Bum, Lili	The Art and Genius of Tintoret, Vittore Carpaccio, Parmigianino und der Manierismus	Milan, Vienna	1915, 1906, 1921	GBP -	9.00
306	Pickard-Cambridge, A. W.	Dithyramb tragedy and comedy, The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens	Oxford's	1927, 1946, 1953	GBP -	7.00
307	Rava, Aldo; Fiocco, Giuseppe; Salaman, Malcolm; Eates, Margot	Pietro Longhi, Francesco Guardi, Anders Zorn, Paul Nash	Florence	1909, n.d., 1925, 1948	GBP -	6.00
308	Rooses, Max; Rooses, Max; Osmaston, F. P. B.	Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, The Paradise of Tintoretto		1904, 1908, 1910	GBP -	2.10
309	Ross, Sir E. Denison; Van de Put, A.; Fechheimer, Hedwig	The Art of Egypt through the ages, Hispano-Moresque Ware of the XV century, Die Plastik der Agypter	Berlin	1931, 1904, 1922	GBP -	7.00
310	Voss, Hermann	Die Malerei des Barock in Rom	Berlin	1924	GBP -	30.00
311	Witt, Sir Robert; Robert and Mary Witt	Catalogue of Painters and draughtsmen represented in the library of reproductions of pictures and drawings formed		1920	GBP -	2.00
312	Adams, W.; Inchbald, Mrs	The Modern Voyager and Traveller, British Theatre		1828, n.d.	GBP -	5.00
313	Burton, Sir R. F.; Lobo, Jerome; Johnson, H. H.; Pearce, F. B.	Africa, Central and East, including Kenya and Abyssinia.; First Footsteps in East Africa; A Voyage to Abyssinia; The Kilima-Njaro Expedition; Mohammed Ibn-Omar El-Tounsy (Le Cheykh) Voyage au Ouaday		1856, 1735, 1886, 1851, 1920	GBP -	135.00
314		Anacreon. Odaria; Horatius. Carmina; Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius.	Parma, Birmingham	1791, 1762, 1772	GBP -	19.00
315	Andersen, Hans	Fairy Tales		n.d.	GBP -	3.00
316	William Aldington; Cecil Roth	The Golden Asse; The Casale Pilgrim		1913, 1929	GBP -	4.00
317	Lawrence, T. E.; Hamilton, C. and S. G. Grady.; Palgrave, W. G.; Rutter, Eldon	Arabia. A collection of books on Arabia, including, Seven Pillars of Wisdom; The Hedaya or guide: a commentary on the Mussulman laws; Narrative of a years journey through central and eastern Arabia; The Holy Cities of Arabia		1935, 1870, 1865, 1928	GBP -	36.00
318		A COMPLETE SET of books from this press			GBP -	85.00
319	Arvieux, Chevalier d'; Vansleb, F.; M.D.	Travels in Arabia ... done into English; The Present State of Egypt ...; La Roque. Voyage de l'Arabie Heureuse		1718, 1678, 1716	GBP -	40.00
320	Bartlett, W. H. and John Carne.; Vincent, Wm.	Syria, the Holy Land Asia Minor, The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea		n.d., 1800	GBP -	20.00
321	Baxter, William	British Phaenogamous Botany, or ... British Flowering Plants	Oxford	1834-43	GBP -	4.00
322	Beerbohm, Max	Cartoons.		1901	GBP -	4.00
323	Beerbohm, Max	Zuleika Dobson		1911	GBP -	8.00
324	Beerbohm, Max	The Poets' Corner, A Book of Caricatures		1904, 1907	GBP -	6.00
325	Beerbohm, Max	More, Yet Again, A Christmas Garland, Seven Men, And Even Now, The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill		1899, 1909, 1912, 1919, 1920, 1928	GBP -	4.00
326	Beerbohm, Max	Fifty Cariacatures, A Survey, Rossetti and his Circle, Things New and Old, Observations, The Happy Hypocrite		1913, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1915	GBP -	12.00
327		Bible, English, Geneva Version		1599	GBP -	11.00
328		Book-Auction Records		1936-45	GBP -	19.00
329	Maddock, James; Curtis, Wm.; Lowe, E. J.; Gifford, Isabella	Botany and Gardening.; The Florist's Directory; Practical Observations on the British Grasses; Beautiful Leaved Plants; The Marine Botanist		1810, 1805, 1866, n.d.	GBP -	7.00
330	Bree, C. R.	A History of the Birds of Europe		1863	GBP -	9.00
331	Bruce, James	Travels to discover the source of the Nile	Edinburgh	1790-1805	GBP -	13.00
332	Butler, Samuel; Zachary Grey; Temple, Sir William; Fielding, Henry	Hudibras, with notes, Miscellanea		1764, 1697	GBP -	6.00
333	Chaucer, Geoffrey; W. W. Skeat; Palgrave, F. T.	Complete Works; The Golden Treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language	Oxford	1890-97, 1890	GBP -	11.00
334	Churchill, Sir Winston S.	Marlborough his life and times		1933-38	GBP -	3.00
335	Churchill, Sir Winston S.	The World Crisis		1923-31	GBP -	9.00
336	Churchill, Sir Winston S.	The River War; The Second World War, A History of the English Speaking People		1900, 1948-54, 1956-58	GBP -	11.00
337	Curtis, Wm.	The Botanical Mapazine; General Index, Lectures on Botany		1803-04	GBP -	85.00
338	Curzon, G. N., Marquis	Persia and the Persian Question		1892	GBP -	19.00
339	Denham, Major Dixon and Capt	Hugh Clapperton. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa		1826	GBP -	19.00
340	Denon, Vivant	Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte		1807	GBP -	10.00
341	Denon, Vivant	Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte		1807	GBP -	5.00
342	Dodgson, C. L.; Lewis Carroll; Lewis Carroll; Haggard, H. Rider	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; King Solomon's Mines		1869, 1872, 1885	GBP -	15.00
343	Donovan, E.	The Natural History of British Insects		n.d.	GBP -	17.00
344	Doughty, Charles M.	Travels in Arabia Deserta	Cambridge	1888	GBP -	40.00
345	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1892-94	GBP -	10.00
346	Doyle, Sir A. Conan	Rodney Stone; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard		1896, 1902, 1899	GBP -	16.00
347	Egypt. Bartlett, W. H.; Belzoni, G.; Wilkinson, J. G.	The Nile Boat; Narrative of the Operations ... in Egypt and Nubia; Manners and Customs of the ancient Egyptians	New York	1851, 1822, 1837	GBP -	80.00
348	Eckhel, Abbé	Museum Odescalchum sive thesaurus antiquarum gemmarum	Rome, Vienna	1751, 1788	GBP -	24.00
349	Engraved Gems. Begero, L.	Thesaurus ex Thesauro Palatino selectus, sive Gemmarum et Numismatum ... commentario, Thesaurus Brandenburgicus slectus sive Gemmarum et Numismatum Graecorum ... commentario	Heidelberg, Berlin	1685, 1696	GBP -	26.00
350	Engraved Gems. Agostini, Leonardo; Gravelle, M. P. L. de	Le Gemme Antiche; Cabinet de Pierres Antiques ... tirées du Cabinet de Gorlée; Recueil de Pierres Gravés Antiques	Rome	1657, 1778, 1732	GBP -	28.00
351	Mariette, P. J.	Engraved Gems.		1780, 1750	GBP -	28.00
352	Engraved Gems. King, C. W.; Spilsbury, John; Davenport, Cyril	Handbook of Engraved Gems; A collection of fifty prints from antique gems; Cameos		1885, n.d., 1900	GBP -	30.00
353	Joseph Harrison	The Floricultural Cabinet conducted		1833-49, 1855 to 1859	GBP -	7.00
354	Frazer, Sir J. G.	The Golden Bough, Folk Lore in the Old Testament		1911-15, 1918-19	GBP -	11.00
355	Fuller, Thomas	A Pisgah sight of Palestine and the confines thereof		1650	GBP -	24.00
356	Edward Fitzgerald; John Buckland-Wright	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayamm		1938	GBP -	18.00
357	Gorlaeus, Abraham; Wilde, Jacob de	Dactyliothecae seu annulorum sigillarium; Gemmae Selectae Antiquae	Amsterdam	1695, 1703	GBP -	13.00
358	Greenaway, Kate; Dodgson, C. L.; Lewis Carroll	Almanacks for 1883 and 1884, The Hunting of the Snark		1876	GBP -	1.00
359		Publications			GBP -	42.00
360	Oric Bates	Harvard African Studies		1917-22	GBP -	22.00
361	Hobson, R. L.	The Wares of the Ming Dynasty		1923	GBP -	11.00
362	Hobson, R. L.	The later ceramic wares of China		1925	GBP -	17.00
363	Mr. Pope; Mr. Pope	Homer. The Iliad, The Odyssey		1715-20, 1725-26	GBP -	5.00
364	Hunt, Leigh; Cory, William	Poetical Works		1832, 1858-77	GBP -	12.00
365	Purcell, Victor; Curzon, G. N., Marquis; Swettenham, Sir Frank	India and Asia.; The Chinese in Southeast Asia; British Government in India; British Malaya		1951, 1925, 1907	GBP -	18.00
366	Jacobs, W. W.	Dialstone Lane; The Lady of the Barge; The Skipper's Wooing		1904, 1902, 1897	GBP -	8.00
367	Jardine, Sir William	The Naturalists Library	Edinburgh	1833-41	GBP -	20.00
368	Kammerer, Albert	La Mer Rouge, l'Abyssinie et l'Arabie depuis l'antiquité	Cairo	1929-35	GBP -	30.00
369	Kinglake, A. W.; Morier, J. J.	Eothen; The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England		1844, 1828	GBP -	5.00
370	Kipling, Rudyard	Soldiers Three; The Story of the Gadsbys; In Black and White, Stalky & Co., The Seven Seas		1895, 1899, 1896	GBP -	4.00
371	Kraeling, Carl H.; Kennedy, Sir A. B. W.	Gerasa, City of the Decapolis		1938, 1925	GBP -	12.00
372	Lewis, Samuel	A Topographical Dictionary of England; The Cambridge Modern History; The Oxford Companion to English Literature	Cambridge, Oxford	1831, 1907, 1938	GBP -	6.00
373	Loudon, Mrs	British Wild Flowers		1847	GBP -	9.00
374	Loudon, Mrs	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials		1849	GBP -	22.00
375	Ludolphus, Job; J. P. gent	A New History of Ethiopia ... made English		1684	GBP -	17.00
376	Lyon, Capt. G. F.	A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa		1821	GBP -	8.00
377	Masefield, John	The Daffodil Fields; A Poem and two plays; Tristan and Isolt		1913, 1919, 1927	GBP -	2.00
378	Maund, Benjamin	The Botanic Garden		1825-n.d.	GBP -	48.00
379	Maund, B.	The Botanic Garden		1825-30, 1825-n.d., n.d.	GBP -	40.00
380		Medical Botany: or history of plants in the materia medica		1821	GBP -	9.00
381		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	42.00
382	Morris, F. O.	A Natural History of British Moths, Culpeper's Complete Herbal		1891, 1817	GBP -	5.00
383	Bechstein, J. M.; Pratt, Anne	Natural History. The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; Natural History of Cage Birds; Our Native Songsters		1799, n.d., n.d.	GBP -	4.00
384	Niebuhr, Carsten	Description de l'Arabie, Voyage en Arabie	Amsterdam and Utrecht	1774, 1776-80, 1774-80	GBP -	16.00
385	Norden, F. L.; Peter Templeman	Travels in Egypt and Nubia		1757	GBP -	8.00
386	Osten, H. H. von der; Petrie, W. M. Flinders	Ancient Oriental Seals in the collections of Mr. Edward T. Newell; Amulets illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College	London	1934, 1914	GBP -	8.00
387	Kendall, Henry; Perowne, Stewart; Belloc, Hilaire; Sidebotham, Herbert	Palestine. A collection of books on Palestine, including:, Jerusalem, the city plan, preservation and development, The One Remains, The Crusade, England and Palestine		1948, 1954, 1937, 1918	GBP -	8.00
388	Pearse, G. E.	Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa		1933	GBP -	9.00
389	Percy, Thomas, Bishop	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry		1765	GBP -	10.00
390	Poncet, L.	A Voyage to Aethiopia, faithfully translated from the French original		1709	GBP -	10.00
391	RALEIGH, Sir WALTER	THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD	colophon	1614	GBP -	105.00
392	Salt, Henry	A Voyage to Abyssinia and travels into the interior		1814	GBP -	9.00
393	Sandivogius, Micheel; J.F.	A New Light of Alchemy ... to which is added A Treatise of Sulphur ... translated out of Latin into the English tongue		1674	GBP -	135.00
394		Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology		1918-41	GBP -	10.00
395	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley Novels		1848	GBP -	15.00
396	SHAW, GEORGE AND F. P. AND R. P. NODDER	THE NATURALISTS MISCELLANY		1790-1813	GBP -	105.00
397		Shorter Oxford English Dictionary	Oxford	1933	GBP -	5.00
398	Smith, Thomas; Shaw, Simeon	The Naturalist's Cabinet, Nature Displayed		1806-07, 1823	GBP -	7.00
399	Smollett, Tobias	The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker		1793	GBP -	7.00
400		Société Asiatique. Macoudi. Les Prairies d'Or.		1861-77	GBP -	46.00

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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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