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
502	Weber, J. C.; Conway, Sir W. M.; FitzGerald, E. A.; Belloc, Hilaire; Freshfield, D. W.; Cole, Mrs.; Freshfield, Mrs. H.; Fox, Frank; Hulme, F. Edward; Coolidge, W. A. B.; Brockedon, William	MOUNTAINEERING. Die Alpen-Pflanzen, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, The Alps from End to End, The Highest Andes, The Pyrenees, Round Kangchenjunga, A Lady's Tour round Monte Rosa, A Summer Tour in the Grisons, Switzerland, Familiar Sw		1880, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1909, 1903, 1859, 1862, 1917, 1908, 1912, n.d., 1828-9	GBP -	8.10
503	Harris, P. and Lord A. Douglas	Ananga-Ranga: or the Hindu Art of Love, New Preface to " The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde,"		1885, 1925	GBP -	3.10
504		Arabian Nights' Entertainments (The) translated by Sir Richard P. Burton		n.d.	GBP -	4.10
505	Beerbohm, Max	Works		1922-8	GBP -	3.15
506	Sandford, C. and L.	Boar's Head Press. Sappho, Clervis and Belamie		1932, 1932	GBP -	1.05
507	Borrow, George	Romantic Ballads		1826	GBP -	1.00
508	Butler, Samuel	Works		1923-6	GBP -	5.10
509	Davies, W. H.	The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp		1908	GBP -	1.00
510	Doughty, Charles M.	Travels in Arabia Deserta		1921	GBP -	0.10
511	Mackail, J. W.	DOVES PRESS. William Morris		1901	GBP -	7.10
512	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS. HAMLET		1909	GBP -	32.00
513	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS. SONNETS		1909	GBP -	30.00
514	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS. ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA		1912	GBP -	32.00
515	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS VENUS AND ADONIS		1912	GBP -	32.00
516	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS. JULIUS CAESAR		1913	GBP -	30.00
517	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS. CORIOLANUS		1914	GBP -	29.00
518	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	DOVES PRESS LUCRECE		1915	GBP -	36.00
519	Froissart, Sir John	The Chronicle, The Paston Letters		1901-3, 1910	GBP -	2.12
520	Burns, Robert, Coppard, A. E.	Golden Cockerel Press. Songs, The Hundredth Story		1925, 1931	GBP -	1.00
521	Fielding, Henry; Suckling, Sir John	Golden Cockerel Press. Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, A Ballad upon a Wedding		1926, 1927	GBP -	1.05
522	Mathers, E. Powys; Powys, T. F.	Golden Cockerel Press. Procreant Hymn, When Thou Wast Naked		1926, 1931	GBP -	2.15
523	Sterne, Laurence	Golden Cockerel Press. Tristram Shandy		1929-30	GBP -	1.05
524	HARDY, THOMAS	WORKS		1919-20	GBP -	19.00
525	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain		1891	GBP -	8.00
526	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. Poems by the Way		1891	GBP -	4.10
527	Shakespeare, William	Kelmscott Press. Poems		1893	GBP -	6.10
528	More, Sir Thomas	Keimscott Press. Utopia		1893	GBP -	7.05
529	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. Gothic Architecture		1893	GBP -	1.05
530		Kelmscott Press. The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea		1894	GBP -	11.00
531	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The "Wood beyond the World		1894	GBP -	4.10
532	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Pair		1895	GBP -	3.00
533	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Earthly Paradise		1896-7	GBP -	15.10
534	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Sundering Flood		1897	GBP -	3.00
535	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. A Note on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press		1898	GBP -	3.15
536	Milne, A. A.	The Secret, When I Was Very Young	New York	1929, 1930	GBP -	1.05
537	Moore, George; Sassoon, Siegfried; Galsworthy, John	The Brook Kerith, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, A Modern Comedy		1916, 1930, 1929	GBP -	1.05
538	Morley, Lord	Works		1921	GBP -	2.10
539	Morris, William and Eiríkr Magnússon	The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs		1870	GBP -	0.16
540	Milton, John	Nonesuch Press. Poems in English		1926	GBP -	2.15
541	Montaigne, Miguel de.	Nonesuch Press. Essays		1931	GBP -	2.10
542	Raymond, J. P. and C. Ricketts; Tennyson, Lord	Nonesuch Press. Oscar Wilde. Recollections, Butleriana, In Memoriam		1932, 1932, 1933	GBP -	1.05
543	Shakespeare, William	Works		1903-21	GBP -	7.10
544	Shakespeare, William; Boswell, James	Plays, Life of Johnson	Oxford	1765, 1887	GBP -	1.12
545	Jackson, Holbrook	Sancino Press. The Anatomy of Bibliomania, The Fear of Books		1930-1, 1932	GBP -	5.05
546	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Works		1922-3	GBP -	7.15
547	Updike, D. B.	Printing Types: their History, Forms, and Use	Cambridge Mass	1922	GBP -	3.15
548	Walpole, Hugh; Strachey, Lytton	The Cathedral, Eliza beth and Essex		1922, 1928	GBP -	0.10
549	Drake, Sir Francis	Argonaut Press. The World Encompassed		1926	GBP -	1.18
550	MORE, SIR THOMAS	ASHENDENE PRESS. UTOPIA		1906	GBP -	25.00
551	Gwendolen Raverat	Ashendene Press [Longus] Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, Traduction de Messire J. Amyot		1933	GBP -	6.15
552	Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels	Golden Cockerel Press		1925	GBP -	0.15
553	More, Sir Thomas	Golden Cockerel Press. Utopia		1929	GBP -	1.15
554	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain		1894	GBP -	7.10
555		Keimscott Press. The Tale of Beowulf		1895	GBP -	5.10
556	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason		1895	GBP -	12.10
557	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Well at the World's End		1896	GBP -	11.10
558	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. The Water of the Wondrous Isles		1897	GBP -	8.00
559	Morris, William	Kelmscott Press. Love is Enough		1897	GBP -	5.10
560	Rahelais, François	Ceuvres, avec des Remarques Historiques et Critiques de Mr le Duchat		1741	GBP -	5.00
561	Tomkinson, G. S.	A Select Bibliography of Modern Presses		1928	GBP -	1.00
562	MALORY, SIR THOMAS	ASHENDENE PRESS. LE MORTE DARTHUR		1913	GBP -	49.00
563	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	ASHENDENE PRESS. IL DECAMERON		1920	GBP -	12.00
564	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Workes [edited by Thomas Speght]		1602	GBP -	2.15
565		Cresset Press. The Chelsea Song Book		n.d.	GBP -	Not Sold
566	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE		1927	GBP -	62.00
567	Shakespeare, Wm.	Golden Cockerel Press. The Chester Play of the Deluge, Twelfth Night		1927, 1932	GBP -	0.18
568	Keats, John	Golden Cockerel Press. Lamia and other Poems		1928	GBP -	3.00
569	Chaucer, Geoffrey	Golden Cockerel Press. The Canterbury Tales		1929-31	GBP -	10.00
570	Eric Gill, Sangorski and Sutcliffe	Golden Cockerel Press. The Four Gospels		1931	GBP -	8.00
571	Jenkinson, Hilary	The Later Court Hands in England	Cambridge	1927	GBP -	1.10
572	Morris, William	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs		1898	GBP -	24.00
573	M. Casella, H. F. Cary, Botticelli	Nonesuch Press. Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia		1928	GBP -	5.05
574	A. W. Lawrence, Y. Le Campion	Nonesuch Press. Herodotus		1935	GBP -	3.00
575	Collard, A. W.	Shakespeare Folios and Quartos		1909	GBP -	2.05
576		Terentius [Comcediae], cum quinqz cömentis: vz Donati: Guidonis: Calphur. Ascensii et Servii		1515	GBP -	3.05
577	Thomas de Aquino, S.; Sanmicheli, M.	In Tres Libros Aristo. de Anima praeclarissima Expositio, Li Cinque Ordini dell' Architettura Civile		1560, 1735	GBP -	0.10
578	Silvaticus, Matthaeus	Liber Pandectarum Medicinae		1488	GBP -	3.00
579	Christopher Landino	Dante Alighieri. Comedia Divina [with Commentary by Christopher Landino]	Vinegia	1484	GBP -	2.15
580		Arabic MSS. Portions of the Qurán, etc.			GBP -	1.00
581		Miniature. Christ carrying the Cross. Drawing on vellum in pen-and-ink and wash			GBP -	4.00
582	DÜRER, ALBRECHT	De Symmetria, Institutionum Geometricarum libri IV, De Urbibus Castellisque condendis	Paris	1532-4, 1535, 1535	GBP -	2.15
583	Girtin, Thomas	Views in Paris		1803	GBP -	3.05
584	Dürer, Albrecht	Opera, das ist alle Bücher des weit-berühmbten und Kunstreichen Mathematici und Mahlers Albrechten Dürers von Nurenberg		1604	GBP -	2.05
585	Dugdale, Sir William	Monasticon Anglicanum, History of Saint Paul's Cathedral		1817-30, 1818	GBP -	11.00
586		Bible. English		1562	GBP -	4.10
587	Chaucer, G.; Bacon, F.	Works with Life by T. Speght, Sylva Sylvarum		1687, 1670	GBP -	2.05
588	Wallis, John	Opera Mathematica		1695-3-9	GBP -	1.00
589	Wallis, John	Treatise of Algebra		1685	GBP -	Not Sold
590	Howell, James	Survay of the Signorie of Venice		1651	GBP -	0.10
591	Bacon, Sir Francis	Historie of the Reigne of King Henrie the Seaventh		1637	GBP -	6.10
592	Bacon, Sir Francis	Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh		1622	GBP -	3.00
593	Bacon, Sir F.	Resuscitatio, with Life by William Rawley		1657	GBP -	1.05
594	Bacon, Sir F.	Of the Advancement of Learning, Sylva Sylvarum	Oxford	1640, 1658	GBP -	2.00
595	Bacon, Sir P.	Sylva Sylvarum, Resuscitatio, Of the Advancement of Learning		1639, 1671, 1674	GBP -	2.00
596	Jonson, Ben	Workes		1640	GBP -	1.10
597	Shakespeare, W.	Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies		1623, 1807	GBP -	0.10
598	Shakespeare, William	Comedies, Histories and Tragedies		1623, 1866	GBP -	2.15
599	Shakespeare, W.	Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies		1664, 1905	GBP -	3.05
600	Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies		1679	GBP -	1.00
601	Camden, William	Britain		1637	GBP -	4.04

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