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
602	Spenser, Edmund	Works, whereunto is added an Account of his Life		1679	GBP -	1.08
603	Jonson, Ben	Works, to which is added a Comedy called The New Inn		1692	GBP -	2.02
604	Cavanilles, A. J.	Observaciones sobre la Historia Natural, etc., del Reyno de Valencia		1795-7	GBP -	1.10
605	Guzman, F. P. de; Pulgar, H. del, Awam, Zacaria el	Crónica del Señor Rey Don Juan II, Crónica de los Señores. Reyes Católicos, Libro de Agricultura [Arabic and Spanish]	Valencia	1779, 1780	GBP -	1.00
606		Almanac Historique de la Revolution Francoise redigé par M. J. P. Rabaut		1792	GBP -	1.10
607		Breviarium Lingonense		1731	GBP -	1.10
608	Lucrezio, Tito	Delia Natura delle Cose		1754	GBP -	0.18
609	M. Neville	Old Children's Books and Games, The Con sequences of a Lie, Wallis's New Geographical Game		1825, c. 1830, 1802	GBP -	2.00
610		Sappho. La Faoniade. Inni ed Odi di Saffo tradotti in metro Italiano da S.I.P.A.		1792	GBP -	0.05
611	Spenee, Rev. J.	A Parallel in the manner of Plutarch between a most celebrated Man of Florence and one ... in England		1758	GBP -	0.18
612		Voltaire. La Pueelle d'Orléans	Paris	1780	GBP -	1.01
613	Westwood, T.; Prideaux, S. T.	The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler, Aquatint Engraving, Short-title Catalogue of Books		1883, 1909, 1470-1600, 1924	GBP -	1.12
614	J. Macfarlane	Bibliographical Society. Antoine Vérard		1900	GBP -	1.10
615	Byron, Lord, Green, S. A.	Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions of Lord Byron, John Poster the Earliest American Engraver and the first Boston printer	Boston	1925, 1909	GBP -	0.10
616	Harrisse, H.	Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima	New York	1866 reprint	GBP -	3.00
617	Hobson, G. D.	Thirty Bindings selected from the First Edition Club's Exhibition		1926	GBP -	1.10
618	Holländer, E.; Johnson, A. F.	Die Medizin in der Klassischen Malerei, One Hundred Title Pages	Stuttgart	1913, 1928	GBP -	1.00
619	Kristeller, Paul	Andrea Mantegna		1901	GBP -	0.16
620	L'Heremite, Jaques	Journael van de Nassausche Vloot of te Beschrijvingh van de Voyagie om den gantrchen Aert-Kloot		1648	GBP -	1.10
621	Machievelli, N.; Boccaccio, G.	Tutte le Opere, Il Decamerone		1550, 1527	GBP -	0.15
622	Osler, Sir William	Bibliotheca Osleriana	Oxford	1929	GBP -	3.05
623	Scott, Temple	Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered	New York	1928	GBP -	3.05
624	Tuer, A. W.; Plomer, H. R.	History of the Horn Book, Wynkyn. de Worde		1897, 1925	GBP -	0.18
625	Wise, T. J.	A Shelley Library		1924	GBP -	2.02
626		BRITISH MUSEUM		1908-24	GBP -	21.00
627	Delia Valle, Pietro	Travels into Bast India and Arabia Deserta		1665	GBP -	0.15
628	Hobson, G. D.	English Binding before 1500	Cambridge	1929	GBP -	1.05
629		Marine Prints. Twenty-one tinted lithographs of ships including H.M. Steam Frigate Gorgon			GBP -	9.10
630	Lillywhite, F.	"BAT." The Cricketer's Manual, The English Cricketers' trip to Canada and the United States		1851, 1860	GBP -	0.12
631	Beldam, G. W. and C. B. Fry; Barlow, R. G.	Great Batsmen, Great Bowlers and Fielders, Forty-Seasons of First-Class Cricket		1905, 1906, n.d.	GBP -	3.00
632	Bentley, Henry	A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches ...		1823	GBP -	4.10
633	Boxall, T.	Rules and Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket ...		1803	GBP -	43.00
634	Catton, J. A. H.	Dictionary of Cricketers		1915	GBP -	11.10
635	Chapman, A. P. P. and Others	The Game of Cricket		1903	GBP -	4.00
636	Ashley-Cooper, P. S.	County Cricket, Nottinghamshire. Nottingham Cricket Matehes from 1771 to 1853, Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers		1853, 1923	GBP -	3.15
637		County Cricket Club Annual Reports: Surrey, Kent, Lillywhite Cricketers Annual		1884, 1935, 1893, 1936, 1895, 1935, 1872-1900	GBP -	4.04
638	Ford, W. J.; Pullin, A. W.; Alverstone, Lord and C. W. Alcock	County Cricket. Middlesex County Cricket Club, History of Yorkshire County Cricket, Surrey Cricket		1900, 1924, 1902	GBP -	2.05
639	Gordon, Sir Home; Waghorn, H. T.	Cricket Statistics. Cricket Form at a Glance, Cricket Scores		1902 and 1924, 1730-1773, 1899	GBP -	3.05
640	Lord Harris, P. Norman	County Cricket. Kent. History of Kent County Cricket, Scores and Annals of the West Kent Cricket Club		1907-10-24, 1897	GBP -	0.12
641		Cricket Periodicals. Cricket		1907-12	GBP -	0.06
642		Cricket Booklets and Pamphlets			GBP -	15.00
643		Cricket Reports. A Large Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to important matches			GBP -	2.10
644	Denison, W.	Cricket. Sketches of the Players		1846	GBP -	1.01
645	Gale, F.	Practical Hints on Cricket by a Wykhamist, Lillywhite's Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket, Cricketer's Hand-Book		1843, 1844, 1841	GBP -	5.15
646	Grace, W. G.	Cricket, Memorial Biography of Dr. W. G. Grace Edited by Lord Hawke and Others		1891, 1919	GBP -	2.05
647	Harris, Lord and P. S. Ashley-Cooper; Daft, R., Box, C.	Lords and the M.C.C. illustrations, Kings of Cricket, The English Game of Cricket		1914, 1893, 1877	GBP -	1.08
648	Harris, Lord, Sorabjee, S.	A Pew Short Runs, A Chronicle of Cricket amongst the Parsees	Bombay	1921, n.d.	GBP -	3.10
649	Hawke, Lord; Pyecroft, Rev. J.	Recollections and Reminiscences, Cricketana, The Cricket Field		1924, 1865, 1851	GBP -	2.10
650	Lillywhite, Frederick	Cricket Scores and Biographies of Celebrated Cricketers from 1746		1862-1925	GBP -	10.10
651	Lillywhite, John and James	Cricketers Companion		1865-86	GBP -	1.15
652	LILLYWHITE, WM. AND FREDERICK	The Guide to Cricketers (vol. I is entitled The Young Cricketers Guide) from the Commencement to 1866		1849-66	GBP -	16.10
653	Love, James	Cricket an Heroic Poem		1770	GBP -	2.15
654		Marylebone Cricket Club. Matches with full scores from 1912 to 1926		1912-26	GBP -	1.01
655	Nyren, J.	The Young Cricketer's Tutor		1833	GBP -	2.00
656	Ford, W. J.; Gordon, Sir H.	Public Schools and Universities Cricket, History of the Cambridge University Cricket Club, Eton v. Harrow at Lords		1902, 1926	GBP -	1.08
657	Pyeroft, Rev. J.	The Principles of Scientific Batting ...	Oxford	1835	GBP -	6.05
658	Pyeroft, Rev. J.	The Cricket Field: or, The History and the Science of Cricket		1851	GBP -	1.05
659	Pyeroft, Rev. J.; Warner, P. F.; Ashley-Cooper, F. S.	The Cricket Field, My Cricketing Life, The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle		1922, n.d., 1924	GBP -	2.05
660	Pyeroft, Rev. J.; Knight, A. E.	Quid. Jerks in from Short Leg, The Cricket Tutor, The Complete Cricketer		1866, 1862, 1906	GBP -	2.05
661	Ranjitsinhji, K. S.; Thorpe, J.; Bettesworth, W. A.	The Jubilee Book of Cricket, A Cricket Bag, Chats on the Cricket Field		1897, n.d., n.d.	GBP -	2.10
662	Taylor, A. D.	Annals of Lords, The Cricket Bat and how to Use it by an Old Cricketer, Feltham's Cricketer for 1877	Bristol	n.d., 1861	GBP -	3.07
663	Warner, P. F.; Hobbs, J.	Test Matches, How we Recovered. the Ashes, The Fight for the Ashes in 1934 etc....	Melbourne	1862, 1904	GBP -	6.00
664	Wanostrocht, N.	Felix on the Bat; being a scientific inquiry into the use of the Cricket Bat		1845	GBP -	1.15
665	Warner, P. F.	Imperial Cricket		1912	GBP -	1.15
666	WISDEN, JOHN	CRICKETERS ALMANACK		1864-1936	GBP -	33.00
667	CATTON, J. A. H.	The Four Georges, the Men England Needs, The Drum by J. A. H. C. Unpublished Manuscript on 10			GBP -	10.00
668	Creek, F. N. S.; Sewell, E. H. D.; Jack, D.; Capel-Kirby, W. and F. W. Carter	FOOTBALL. A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON FOOTBALL, History of the Corinthian Football Club, The Book of Football, Soccer, The Mighty Kick		1933, 1911, 1934, 1933	GBP -	21.00
669	Desborough, Lord and A. C. M. Croome	Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford and Cambridge		1913	GBP -	Not Sold
670	Osbaldeston, Squire	Autobiography, Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton		1926, 1925	GBP -	0.12
671	Morgan, J. E.	Sylvanus. Pedestrian and Other Reminiscences at Home and Abroad, University Oars		1846, 1873	GBP -	0.18
672	James Dean; Joseph Grey; F. P. Miller	Portraits of Cricketers, Wisden		1853, 1857, 1853, n.d.	GBP -	2.10
673	Alfred Mynn; Charles George Taylor; George L. Langdon; Roger Kynaston	Portraits of Cricketers, Fuller Pilch		1841, 1841	GBP -	4.00
674	G. Hunt, Robert Cruikshank, T. McLean	Football			GBP -	1.10
675	Hardy, Thomas	A Pair of Blue Eyes		1873	GBP -	1.05
676	Galsworthy, John	The Forsyte Saga		1922	GBP -	0.12
677	Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book		1894	GBP -	2.10
678	Maugham, W. Somerset	Of Human Bondage		1915	GBP -	4.15
679	Milton, John	Nonesuch Press. Poems		1926	GBP -	3.15
680	Donne, John	Nonesuch Press. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose Edited by John Hayward		1929	GBP -	1.08
681	Tomlinson, H. M.	All Our Yesterdays		1930	GBP -	0.10
682	Moore, George	The Brook Kerith with twelve engravings by Stephen Gooden		1929	GBP -	4.15
683	Moore, George; Gissing, George	Mike Fletcher; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft		1889, 1903	GBP -	5.15
684	Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist by "Boz,"		1838	GBP -	2.05
685	Dodgson, C. L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark		1866, 1876	GBP -	12.10
686	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers		1837	GBP -	1.18
687	Dickens, C.	Oliver Twist		1838	GBP -	3.05
688	Dickens, C.	A Tale of Two Cities		1859	GBP -	1.12
689	Dickens, C.	Great Expectations		1861	GBP -	5.00
690	Dickens, C.	American Notes		1852-4	GBP -	0.10
691	Dickens, C.	David Copperfield		1850	GBP -	1.10
692	Dickens, C.	Master Humphrey's Clock, Our Mutual Friend, Edwin Drood		1840-1, 1850-67, 1865, 1870	GBP -	1.00
693	Eliot, George, Scott, Sir W.	Novels; Poetical Works	Edinburgh	1891-2, 1851	GBP -	2.10
694	De Morgan, W.; Milne, A. A.	It Never Can Happen Again, Winnie-the-Pooh		1909, 1926	GBP -	0.05
695	Law, E.; Dillmont, T. de.	History of Hampton Court Palace, Encyclopedia of Needlework		1888-91, n.d.	GBP -	1.00
696	DICKENS, C.	PICKWICK PAPERS		1836, 1836-37	GBP -	5.10
697	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit		1843-44	GBP -	1.15
698	Dickens, C.	Master Humphrey's Clock, Edwin Drood, Eight Christmas [and 1 Summer] Numbers of All the Year Round		1840-41, 1870, 1865	GBP -	1.00
699	Maturin, C. R.	Women; or Pour et Contre, A Tale	Edinb.	1818	GBP -	2.10
700	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield		1837, 1850	GBP -	0.10
701	Dickens, C.	Bleak House, Little Dorrit		1853, 1857	GBP -	0.10

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December 15, 2025

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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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.

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