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
501		Gregorius Nazianzenus.	Paris	1532	GBP -	5.00
502	W. Harry Rylands; Burgmair, Hans; Luther, Martin	Holbein Society. Tewrdannckh, a reproduction of the edition printed at Augsburg in 1519, The Triumphs of the Emperor Maximilian I, 2 parts (and a duplicate of part II), A Catechism, reproduction of the Frankfort 1553 edition		1884, 1873, 1892	GBP -	11.00
503	Humphreys, H. N.; Weale, John	Masterpieces of the early printers and engravers, Monograms, old architectural ornament, sacred illustrations, borders and alphabets		1870, n.d.	GBP -	6.00
504		Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X, Codice Original		1881	GBP -	9.00
505	Warner, G. F. and A. E. Bergh	Palaeographical Society. Facsimiles of manuscripts and inscriptions, Facsimiles of National Manuscripts, Part 1 only, The Worlds Great Manuscripts		1873-83, 1865, 1899	GBP -	1.00
506	Pollard, A. W.	Last Words on the History of the Title-Page		1891	GBP -	8.00
507	Milton, John; Berners, Juliana	Reprint of rare books., Comus, A Ttreatyse of Fysshynge with an angle, The Essayes of a Prentise in the divine art of poesie	New York, Edinburgh	1903, n.d., 1814	GBP -	7.00
508		Reprints of rare books.	Cambridge	1909-10, 1560, 1907, 1496, 1907	GBP -	7.00
509	'Herbert, George	Reprints of rare books. The A B C both in Latyn and Englyshe, The Ressoning which was betuix the Abbote of Crosraguell and John Knox	Edinburgh	1889, 1563, 1812, 1876	GBP -	7.00
510	Blavatsky, H. P.; E. A. Wallis Budge	The Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, The Book of the Dead		1888, 1889, 1895	GBP -	7.00
511		Tasso (T.) Aminta favola Boschereccia, [1792, Brooks 380]; Il Bardo della Selva Nera Poema epico-lirico		1789, 1806	GBP -	7.00
512	Braght, T. J. V.	Met Bloedig Toneel, of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-Gesinde of Weereloose Christenen	Amsterdam	1685	GBP -	11.00
513	Capgrave, John; F. C. Hingeston	The Book of the Illustrious Henries, The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville entitled le Pelerinage de l'Homme		1858, 1858	GBP -	3.00
514		CHOIR BOOK, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM 140 ll.			GBP -	32.00
515	Cicero, M. T.	Orationes, Pliny. Naturalis Historia	Paris, Venice	1532, 1536-40	GBP -	10.00
516	Gibbs, James	A Book of Architecture		1739	GBP -	22.00
517	Jovius, Paulus	Vitae illustrium virorum	Basle	1678	GBP -	11.00
518	Knight, F.	Scroll Ornaments designed for the use of Silversmiths, Vases and Ornaments, Minton, Hollins & Co. Manufacturers of encaustic Venetian and Mosaic Pavements, Stoke on Trent		n.d., 1833, n.d.	GBP -	20.00
519		Manuale Chorale ad formam Breviarii Romani	Venice	1765	GBP -	6.00
520		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	11.00
521		Epistolae heroides Ovidii cum commentariis Antonii Volsci et Ubertini Clerici Crescentinatis	Venice	1501	GBP -	6.00
522	Palladio, A; Giacomo Leoni	The Architecture of A Palladio ...		1721	GBP -	28.00
523		An album containing upwards of 270 engraved portraits			GBP -	16.00
524	W. D. Macray	The History of Grifild the second		1875	GBP -	9.00
525	Sedley, Sir Charles; Rogers, Samuel	Miscellaneous Works; Poems on Human Life a Poem		1702, 1697, 1819	GBP -	4.00
526	Spanheim, Ezechiel	Dissertationes de Praestantia et usu Numismatum Antiquorum, Vitalis. Disquisitiones in vitam et miracula Sanctissimi Vitalis ... collectae ex antiquis monimentis	Amsterdam, Salsburg	1671, 1663	GBP -	4.00
527	Bloomfield, Robert	Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm, a Poem		1804	GBP -	1.00
528	Puttenham, George; Joseph Haslewood	The Arte of English Poesie		1589, 1811	GBP -	9.00
529	Butler, Samuel	Hudibras, with Dr. Grey's Annotations		1819	GBP -	16.00
530	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	POETICAL WORKS		1836-7	GBP -	100.00
531	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	SELECT PIECES from the Poems of William Wordsworth	"Rydal Mount	23rd Dec.. 1843, 1843, n.d.	GBP -	90.00
532	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	A small autograph album, presented to Dora Harrison in Dec. 1834			GBP -	110.00
533	Clare, John	The Shepherd's Calendar, with Village Stories, and other Poems		1827	GBP -	9.00
534	Cobbett, William	Rural Rides		1830	GBP -	14.00
535	Hood, Thomas	Works, edited, with Notes, Memorials of Thomas Hood		1862-63, 1860	GBP -	6.00
536	Walpole, Horace	A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland		1806	GBP -	16.00
537	Caulfield, James	Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II		1819	GBP -	18.00
538	Colden, Cadwallader D.	Memoir prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of New York and Presented ... at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals	New York	1825	GBP -	40.00
539	Frisi, Paul	A Treatise of Rivers and Torrents; with the Method of Regulating their Course and Channels		1818	GBP -	8.00
540	Papworth, John Buonarotti	Hints on Ornamental Gardening		1823	GBP -	22.00
541	Knapp, J. L.	Gramina Britannica; or, Representations of the British Grasses		1804	GBP -	13.00
542	Loudon, Mrs	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals		1840	GBP -	28.00
543	Tolkowsky, S.; Wooster, David; Step, Edward	Botany and Gardening., Hesperides, a history of the cultures and use of citrus fruits, Alpine Plants, Trees and Flowers		1938, 1872, n.d.	GBP -	3.00
544	Greenaway, Kate	Language of Flowers, Gradus ad Canta-brigiam, or New University Guide to the Academical Customs, and Colloquial or Cant Terms peculiar to the University of Cambridge		n.d., 1824	GBP -	3.00
545	Mrs. Townshend	Flower Drawings. Twenty-eight water-colour drawings of flowers			GBP -	40.00
546	Williamson, Capt. Thomas and S. Howitt	Oriental Field Sports		1807	GBP -	38.00
547	Astley, Philip; Cook, Col. John	Astley's System of Equestrian Education; Observations on Fox-Hunting		1801, 1826	GBP -	5.00
548	Dubost, A.	Newmarket. Collection d'onze planches lithographiques représentant la vue de Newmarket et la vie du cheval de course	Paris	1818	GBP -	52.00
549	Allen, John	Principles of Modern Riding for Ladies; Principles of Modern Riding for Gentlemen		1825	GBP -	3.00
550	Aure, Vicomte d'	Traité d'Equitation	Paris	1834	GBP -	9.00
551	Herne, Peregrine	Perils and Pleasures of a Hunter's Life	Philadelphia	1856	GBP -	1.00
552	Apperley, Capt. C. J.	Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton		1851	GBP -	6.00
553	SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH	JORROCKS'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES		1843	GBP -	7.00
554	Surtees, Robert Smith	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Handley Cross		1853, 1854	GBP -	13.00
555	Surtees, Robert Smith	Handley Cross, "Ask Mamma," "Plain or Ringlets?", Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour	Bradbury'S	n.d., 1860	GBP -	9.00
556	H. M. Harriman, etc.; Howe, Henry	The Book of Sport, contributors Miss Ruth Underhill, Miss Beatrix Hoyt, Historical collections of the Great West	New York'S, Cincinnati	1903, 1857	GBP -	4.00
557	Bell, Thomas; Bate, G. Spence and J. O. Westwood	A history of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, two other ordinary copies of the same work, A history of British Sessile-eyed Crustacea		1853, 1863-68	GBP -	5.00
558		Musée des dames et des demoiselles.	Paris	n.d. c. 1825	GBP -	22.00
559	Maaskamp, E.	Representations of Dresses, Morals and Customs, in the Kingdom of Holland, at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century	Amsterdam	1808, plates dated 1803-11	GBP -	15.00
560	Harding, Edward	The Costume of the Russian Empire [Text in English and French]		1810	GBP -	9.00
561	YOSY, A.	Switzerland ... Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Swiss		1815	GBP -	22.00
562	Meyrick, Sir S. R. and C. H.	Smith. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands		1815	GBP -	6.00
563	Ackermann, Rudolph	The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures		1809-27	GBP -	200.00
564	Combe, William	The Grand Master or adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan		1816	GBP -	6.00
565	Combe, William	The grand master or adventures of Qui Hi in Hindostan		1816	GBP -	18.00
566	Westmacott, C M., Bernard Blackmantle	The English Spy		1825-26	GBP -	30.00
567	Hardy, J.	A picturesque and descriptive tour in the mountains of the high Pyrenees		1825	GBP -	8.00
568		The Tour of Dr. Syntax through London		1820	GBP -	15.00
569	Ainslie, Sir Robert and Luigi Mayer	Views in Palestine		1804	GBP -	8.00
570		Bengal Troops on the Line of March (The advanced Guard driving in an out post on the Enemy)		n.d., c. 1835	GBP -	30.00
571	Alken, Henry and George Augustus Sala	The Funeral Procession of Arthur Duke of Wellington		1853	GBP -	6.00
572	JENKINS, JAMES	THE MARTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS of Great Britain and her Allies		1814-16 1825	GBP -	125.00
573	JENKINS, J.	The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies		1814-15	GBP -	28.00
574	Wilson, Harriette; Herself	Memoirs		1825	GBP -	18.00
575		Fourteen drawings in water-colour and gold of the collars of Continental Orders of Chivalry			GBP -	16.00
576		Copies of nine miniatures from mediaeval illuminated manuscripts			GBP -	12.00
577	Steel, F. A.	English Fairy Tales		1918	GBP -	19.00
578	De la Mare, Walter; Dodgson, C. L.; Lewis Carroll; Wilde, Oscar	Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, Sylvie and Bruno, The Happy Prince		1930, 1889, 1913	GBP -	1.00
579	Lacroix, Paul	Les Arts, Moeurs, Usages et Costumes, Sciences et Lettres, Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age, XVIIme Siècle. Institutions, Usages et Costumes, Lettres Sciences et Arts	Paris	1873-82	GBP -	40.00
580	Cust, Lionel	La collection royale des peintures du roi Edouard VII	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	10.10
581	Beza, Marcu; Reath, N. A. and E. B. Sachs	Byzantine Art in Roumania, Persian Textiles, L'Antico Tessuto d' Arte Italiano, nella mostra tessile nazionale	Rome	1940, 1937, 1937	GBP -	5.00
582	Pratt, Richard; Crowther, J. and E. B. Chancellor	A Treasury of early American Homes		1949, 1926	GBP -	1.00
583	Lewis, Frank	English Chintz, a History of Printed Fabrics from Earliest Times until the Present Day	Leigh-on-Sea	1942	GBP -	5.00
584	Andersen, Hans Christian	Samlede Skrifter	Copenhagen	1854-55	GBP -	19.00
585	Arne, Thomas Augustine	The Musick in the Masque of Comus.		n.d. c. 1750, n.d. 1762	GBP -	19.00
586	Charles Sandford Terry	Bach's Chorals	Cambridge	1915-21	GBP -	9.00
587	Steele, Robert	Bibliographical Society., The Earliest English Music Printing		1903	GBP -	9.00
588	Brown, H. F.	The Venetian Printing Press		1891	GBP -	10.00
589	Burney, Charles	A General History of Music		1789	GBP -	16.00
590	Burney, Fanny	Cecilia, Stendhal.	Rome, Naples et Florence en	1783, 1817, 1817	GBP -	3.00
591	Camden, William	Britain, or a chorographical description of the most flourishing kingsdmes, England, Scotland and Ireland		1637	GBP -	65.00
592	Sande, Johan van der	The Pourtraicture of his Majesty in his solitude and sufferings, De Wakende Leeu der Nederlanden Historie	Amsterdam	1685, 1663	GBP -	9.00
593	Cowper, William; Thomas Wright; Peats, W. B.; Hindley, Charles	The Correspondence, The History of the Catnach Press		1904, 1899, 1887	GBP -	10.00
594		Dante Divina Comedia	Venice	1564	GBP -	13.00
595	Dryden, John	Plays. The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon; or the two Sofias, King Arthur or the British Worthy, Cleomenes, the Sparton Heroe		1690, 1687, 1691, 1692, 1691, 1691, 1692	GBP -	18.00
596	Ewalds, Johannes	Samtlige Skrifter	Copenhagen	1780-91	GBP -	10.00
597	Holberg, Ludwig	Dannemarks of Norges Beskrivelse	Copenhagen	1729	GBP -	14.00
598	Holberg, Ludwig	Peder Paars, et heroisk-comisk poema	Copenhagen	1772	GBP -	12.00
599	Holberg, Ludwig	Niels Klims Underjordiske Reise	Copenhagen	1789	GBP -	16.00
600	Holberg, Ludwig	Geographie eller Fordbeskrivelse ... og udgivet af Nicolai Jonge, Den Jodiske Historie	Copenhagen'S	1761-63, 1742	GBP -	35.00

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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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.

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.

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