Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 01Feb1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 01, 1937 - February 01, 1937

Page Size: 963 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ANNALS OF SPORTING AND FANCY GAZETTE (THE)		1822-28	GBP -	32.00
2	Apperley, C. J.	The Life of a Sportsman		1874	GBP -	2.02
3	Apperley, C. J., Surtees, R. S.	Life of John Mytton, Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities		1899, 1901, 1901	GBP -	1.08
4		Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes (The)		1889-96	GBP -	3.00
5		Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes		1860-92	GBP -	7.10
6	Campbell, John, Lord	Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Chief Justices of England		1868-74	GBP -	2.05
7	Bgan, Pierce, Lawrence, J.	Book of Sports, British Field Sports		1847, 1820	GBP -	1.10
8		Fores' Sporting Notes and Sketches		1885-1912	GBP -	2.10
9	Goethe, J. W. von	Werke		1866-8	GBP -	0.12
10	Hallam, Henry	Works		1878-84	GBP -	1.15
11	James, William	The Naval History of Great Britain		1886	GBP -	1.18
12	Kaye, Sir John and Col. Malleson	History of the Indian Mutiny		1888-9	GBP -	1.05
13	Kent, John and Francis Lawley, Custance, H., Radcliffe, J. B.	Racing Life of Lord George Cavendish Bentinck, Riding Recollections and Turf Stories, Ashgill or the Life and Times of John Osborne		1892, 1894, 1900	GBP -	3.00
14	Kinglake, A. W.	The Invasion of the Crimea		1888-91	GBP -	1.18
15	Lever, Charles	Novels		n.d.	GBP -	2.10
16	McCarthy, Justin	History of Our Own Times		1886-7	GBP -	0.08
17	Motley, J. L.	Historical Works		1875-89	GBP -	2.08
18	Prescott, W. H.	Historical Works		1849-67	GBP -	3.05
19	Radcliffe, F. P. Delmé, Strutt, J.	The Noble Science, revised by W. C. A. Blew, Sports and Pas times		1893, 1845	GBP -	0.16
20	Sir Herbert Maxwell	Sportsman's Library (The)		1896-8	GBP -	0.10
21		SPORTING MAGAZINE (THE) OR MONTHLY CALENDAR OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE TURF, THE CHACE		1792-1870	GBP -	60.00
22	Strickland, Agnes, Green, M. A. E.	The Queens of England, The Queens of Scotland, The Bachelor Kings of England, The Last Four Princesses of the House of Stuart, Life of Agnes Strickland, The Princesses of England, Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria		1844-8, 1850-9, 1861, 1872, 1887, 1857, 1857	GBP -	7.10
23	Surtees, R. S.	Sporting Novels		n.d.	GBP -	4.02
24	Thom, Walter, Barclay, Capt	Pedestrianism, Agricultural Tour in the United States and Canada	Edinburgh	1813, 1842	GBP -	0.12
25	Bourke, Algernon	History of White's		1892	GBP -	Not Sold
26	Evelyn, John	Diary		1882	GBP -	0.16
27	Fox-Davies, A. C.	Armorial Families	Edinburgh	1899	GBP -	0.10
28	Grego, Joseph	Rowlandson the Caricaturist		1880	GBP -	1.15
29		Gun at Home and Abroad (The) 4 vol		1912-15	GBP -	5.00
30	Maxwell, Sir Herbert	Fishing at Home and Abroad		1913	GBP -	0.10
31	Wycherley, William	Nonesuch Press. Complete Works		1924	GBP -	2.00
32	Stillman, J. D. B. and L. Stanford, Custance, H.	The Horse in Motion, Riding Recollections		1882, 1894	GBP -	0.10
33	Taunton, T. H.	Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses		1887-88	GBP -	0.10
34	Frankau, Julia	William Ward, A.R.A., James Ward, R.A.		1904	GBP -	1.12
35	Gordon, Sir Robert, of Gordonstoun	Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland	Edinburgh	1813	GBP -	1.08
36	Lyndsay, Sir David	Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay	Edinburgh	1542, 1822	GBP -	2.10
37	Sir E. J. Poynter	National Gallery (The), The National Portrait Gallery		1899-1900, 1901-2	GBP -	1.15
38	Nisbet, Alexander	A System of Heraldry	Edinburgh	1722-42	GBP -	1.18
39		Miniature Books		1801, 1802, 1803, 1807	GBP -	1.10
40	WALTON, I.	The Compleat Angler		1810	GBP -	6.00
41	Scott, Sir Walter	Guy Mannering, Tales of My Landlord [First Series], The Antiquary		1815, 1816, 1816	GBP -	1.05
42	Scott, Sir Walter	Tales of My Landlord, Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Fortunes of Nigel, The Pirate, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St. Roman's Well, Redgauntlet	Edinburgh	1819, 1820, 1820, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1822, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1824	GBP -	5.15
43	Shelley, P. B.	Poetical Works		1876-7	GBP -	2.10
44	Samuel Butler	Tracts. The Earl of Pembroke's Speech ..., The Faithfull Souldier, The Lord Digbie's Speech ...		1648, 1649	GBP -	2.15
45	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds		n.d.	GBP -	1.05
46	Jones, G. H., Harte, F. Bret	Account of the Murder of Mr. William Weare		1824, 1880-1	GBP -	1.08
47	Hakluyt, Richard	The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation	Glasgow	1903-5	GBP -	6.15
48	Galt, John	Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees	Edinburgh	1821, 1821	GBP -	0.15
49	Galt, John	The Provost	Edinburgh	1822	GBP -	0.10
50	Galt, John	The Member		1832	GBP -	0.16
51	Pater, Walter	Emerald Uthwart	Canterbury	1905	GBP -	Not Sold
52	Castiglione, Baldassare	The Book of the Courtier		1900	GBP -	2.05
53	Shakespeare, William	Essex House Press. Poems		1899	GBP -	2.10
54	Bunyan, John	Essex House Press. The Pilgrim's Progress		1899	GBP -	1.12
55	Cowper, William	Correspondence, arranged by Thomas Wright, Unpublished Letters		1904, 1925	GBP -	2.10
56	Ainsworth, W. Harrison	Cardinal Pole		1863	GBP -	1.12
57		Holy Bible (The)	Grolier Society	1899	GBP -	1.12
58	Thackeray, W. M.	Vanity Fair		1848	GBP -	1.02
59	Valois de La Motte, Comtesse de.	Memoires Justificatifs, Life of the Countess de La Motte		1788, 1791	GBP -	1.18
60	Campan, Madame	Mémoires sur la Vie Privée de Marie-Antoinette, Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand	Paris	1823, 1848	GBP -	1.08
61	Charpentier	La Bastille Dévoilée, Correspondance Secrete de plusieurs Grands Personnages Illustres	Paris	1789-90, 1802	GBP -	0.15
62	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Dombey & Son, David Copper-field, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend		1837, 1839, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1853, 1857, 1865	GBP -	5.10
63	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Handley Cross, " Ask Mamma,", "Plain or Ringlets?", Hillingdon Hall		1853, 1854, 1858, 1865, 1888	GBP -	17.00
64	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The Decameron	Villon Society	1886	GBP -	0.12
65	Apperley, C. J., Courcelles, Marquise de.	Life of John Mytton, Mémoires	Paris	1837, 1869	GBP -	1.05
66	Dickens, Charles	Works, Plays and Poems		1881-2	GBP -	1.15
67	Gibbon, E.	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1854-62	GBP -	0.18
68	Sowerby, James	English Botany		1790 -1829	GBP -	3.10
69	Thorburn, A.	British Birds		1925-6	GBP -	2.05
70	Harold Wheeler	Waverley Children's Dictionary (The)		circa 1930	GBP -	1.15
71	Kipling, Rudyard	Many Inventions		1893, 1904	GBP -	0.12
72	Barrie, J. M.	The Little White Bird		1902	GBP -	0.10
73	Moore, George, Barrie, J. M.	Esther Waters, Tommy and Grizel		1894, 1900	GBP -	1.10
74	Brontë, Charlotte	The Professor		1857	GBP -	0.10
75	Whyte-Melville, G. J.	The White Rose		Feb. 1868, 1868	GBP -	0.16
76	Borrow, George	Lavengro		1851	GBP -	0.08
77	Surtees, R. S., Dickens, C.	Hillingdon Hall, Master Humphrey's Clock		1888, 1840-1	GBP -	1.10
78	S. Watts, M. Hart	Coloured Flower Plates (66)		1803-30	GBP -	1.15
79	Ruskin, John	Kelmscott Press. The Nature of Gothic		1892	GBP -	3.00
80	Julia Boyd	Bewick Gleanings		1886	GBP -	1.00
81	Lewis, C. T. Courtney	George Baxter the Picture Printer		1924	GBP -	0.15
82	Galsworthy, John	Two Forsyte Interludes, Swan Song, On Forsyte 'Change		1927, 1928, 1930	GBP -	1.15
83	Kipling, Rudyard	The Absent-Minded Beggar			GBP -	Not Sold
84	Casanova, J.	Memoires, Louvet de Couvray. Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas		1871, 1825	GBP -	1.05
85	Cervantes, Miguel de.	Los Trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda		1617	GBP -	2.00
86	Vega Carpio, Lope Felix de.	Arcadia Prosas y Versos		1605	GBP -	1.10
87	Whitney, Geffrey	A Choice of Emblemes, and other Devises		1586	GBP -	0.10
88	Talbot, E. A.	Five Years' Residence in the Canadas		1824	GBP -	0.10
89	Marmontel, J. F.	Ceuvres Complettes		1777	GBP -	1.15
90	Cervantes, M. de.	Don Quixote, nueva edicion corregida por D. Juan Antonio Pellicer		1797-8	GBP -	3.05
91	Molière, J. B. P. de, Fronde, J. A.	Ceuvres Complètes, Short Studies	Paris	1875, 1877	GBP -	1.08
92	Gihhon, B., Boswell, J.	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Life of Johnson		1802, 1799	GBP -	0.10
93	Balzac, H. de.	Scenes of Parisian and Private Life		1897-9	GBP -	Not Sold
94	Wilde, Oscar	A House of Pomegranates		1891	GBP -	2.05
95	Roquelaure, Duc de.	Secret Memoirs		1896-7	GBP -	1.12
96	Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer	Novels		1862-4	GBP -	0.05
97	La Fontaine, J. de.	Tales and Novels, Catullus. Carmina		1896, 1894	GBP -	1.15
98	Voltaire, F. M. A. de.	La Pucelle	Lutetian Society	1899	GBP -	0.15
99	Clarke, Mary Anne, Clarke, W.	The Rival Princes, Life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke		1810, 1809	GBP -	0.05
100	Gautier, T., Fin de Siècle Library--Voltaire, F. M. A. de.	King Candaules, Candide		1898, 1898	GBP -	1.05

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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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