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
702	Mitford, J.	The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome		1816	GBP -	0.12
703	Papworth, J. B.; F. Wrangham and W. Combe	Poetical Sketches of Scarborough		1813	GBP -	1.05
704	Combe, William	The Life of Napoleon		1817	GBP -	4.15
705	Collingwood, Adam	Anecdotes of Nelson, A Volume of 13 Pamphlets by William Hone		1806	GBP -	0.15
706	Arnott, A.; Charming, W. E.; Mackenzie, E.	Napoleon. The Last Illness, etc. of Napoleon, The Character of Napoleon, The Most Striking and Wonderful Events in the Life of Napoleon, The Military Carriage of Napoleon		1822, 1828, 1816, 1816	GBP -	2.10
707	Barnes, Capt. J.; Cory, R.	Napoleon. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon, Tour through St. Helena, Life of Napoleon, Narrative of Jean Horn, Military Coachman to Napoleon, Narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth		n.d., 1817, n.d., 1816, 1814	GBP -	1.05
708	Fielding, Henry	Works		1898-9	GBP -	1.14
709	Walpole, Horace	Letters		1861-6	GBP -	0.18
710	Hugo, Victor	Novels	Edinburgh	1903	GBP -	2.05
711	Clemens, Samuel L.	The Writings of Mark Twain		1899-1903	GBP -	1.00
712	Prescott, W. H.	Complete Works		n.d.	GBP -	0.18
713	Trollope, Anthony	The Small House at Allington		1864	GBP -	0.12
714	Gaskell, Mrs. E. C.	The Moorland Cottage, Ruth, North and South, Sylvia's Lovers		1850, 1853, 1855, 1863	GBP -	0.05
715	Brontë, Charlotte	Jane Eyre		1848	GBP -	Not Sold
716	Bullen, Frank T.	The Log of a Sea-Waif, The Palace of Poor Jack, The Men of the Merchant Service		1899, 1900, 1900	GBP -	2.10
717	Martin, Violet, Shorthouse, J. H.	All on the Irish Shore, The Little Schoolmaster Mark		1903, 1885	GBP -	0.08
718	Walpole, Horace, Smith, Charlotte	The Castle of Otranto, Elegiac Sonnets		1791, 1797	GBP -	0.05
719	Herrick, Robert	Hesperides		1890	GBP -	0.08
720	Ireland, Samuel	EDWARDS OF HALIFAX BINDING		1790	GBP -	8.10
721	Donne, John	Letters to severall Persons of Honour		1651	GBP -	0.15
722	Donne, John	Poems		1669	GBP -	1.00
723	Scott, Sir Walter	The Fortunes of Nigel, Quentin Durward, Redgauntlet	Edinburgh	1822, 1823, 1824	GBP -	0.05
724	Percy, Bishop T.	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry		1765	GBP -	3.03
725	W. Hunt and R. L. Poole	Political History of England (The)		1905-26	GBP -	1.05
726	Molière, J. B. P. de.	Ceuvres, avec des Remarques par M. Bret		1788	GBP -	2.00
727	Gardiner, S. R.	History of England (1603-42)		1883-4	GBP -	2.00
728	Molière, J. B. P. de; Thiers, L. A.	Ceuvres, Histoire de la Révolution Française	Paris	1750, 1834	GBP -	1.01
729	Kipling, R.; Milne, A. A.	Kim, Winnie-the-Pooh		1901, 1926	GBP -	0.10
730	Lord Acton, A. W. Ward and others	Cambridge Modern History (The)	Cambridge	1907-12	GBP -	3.10
731	Lamb, Charles and Mary	Works		1903-1905	GBP -	4.05
732	Frazer, Sir J. G.	The Golden Bough		1911-14	GBP -	1.15
733	Boswell, James	Life of Johnson		1901	GBP -	0.10
734	Keats, John	Poetical Works		1841	GBP -	0.08
735	Barrie, J. M.	Margaret Ogilvy, The Little White Bird		1896, 1902	GBP -	0.05
736	Watts, I.	Moral and Divine Songs, The Public-House keeper's Monitor		1823, 1793	GBP -	0.12
737	Milne, A. A. and E. H. Shepard	When We Were Very Young Note Paper			GBP -	0.05
738	Moore, George	The Brook Kerith		1916	GBP -	0.12
739	Kotzebue, Otto von	A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering's Straits for the purpose of exploring a North-East Passage		1821	GBP -	8.00
740	Curtis, William	The Botanical Magazine		1787-1805	GBP -	8.00
741	CURTIS, WILLIAM	THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; or Flower-Garden Displayed		1787-1840	GBP -	20.00
742	Smith, Sir J. E.; Linnaeus, C.	The English Flora, Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland		1824-8, 1811	GBP -	0.10
743	Sweet, Robert	The Florist's Guide		1827-9	GBP -	2.10
744	Catlin, George	The North American Indians		1841	GBP -	1.08
745	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers		1837	GBP -	0.05
746	Lover, Samuel	Handy Andy		1842	GBP -	0.05
747		Chinese Coloured Drawings of Fish			GBP -	0.18
748	Swift, J.	Gulliver's Travels		1726	GBP -	Not Sold
749	T. Bewick	Chap-Books. A Cabinet of Natural History		1809	GBP -	2.15
750	Ware, R.	Frost Pairs. Two Specimens of Printing on the Thames when frozen, Engraved Invitation Ticket to a Dinner at the Guildhall, Two Menus printed on Satin, Pope Joan		1684, 1795, 1827 and n.d., 1689	GBP -	4.10
751	P. S. Dinneen, D. Hyde, G. Henderson and others	IRISH TEXT SOCIETY. Publications		1899-1918	GBP -	10.10
752	Prichard, Rees	The Welshman's Candle		1771	GBP -	Not Sold
753	Walton, I. and C. Cotton, Bainbridge, G. C., Salter, T. P.	The Complete Angler, The Fly Fisher's Guide, The Angler's Guide		1792, 1816, 1825	GBP -	0.18
754	Walton, I. and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler		1815	GBP -	0.12
755	Dr. Powell, W. Wynne	Caradoc of Lhancarvan. History of Wales		1774	GBP -	0.05
756	Scrope, William	The Art of Deer-Stalking, Days and Nights of Salmon Pishing		1839	GBP -	2.00
757	Morris, F. O.	A History of British Birds		1851-7	GBP -	1.00
758	Walton, I. and C. Cotton, Walton, I.	The Complete Angler, Lives of Donne, Wotton, etc.		1824, 1825	GBP -	1.10
759	James, Dr. M. R.	Manuscripts in the Library of Clare College		1905, 1925	GBP -	1.10
760	Bacon, Lord, Burnet, G.	Works, History of the Reformation		1853, 1850	GBP -	0.10
761	Bowlker, C.; Hall, Mr. and Mrs. S. C.	The Art of Angling, The Book of the Thames		n.d., 1859	GBP -	0.10
762	Eckel, J. C.	The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens, Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed at the Doves Press		1913, 1908	GBP -	0.10
763		English Dramatists. Dramatic Works of Wycherley		1838-53	GBP -	1.01
764	Gwynn, S. and G. M. Tuckwell	Greville Diary, Life of Sir Charles Dilke		1927, 1917	GBP -	0.10
765	Rushmore, D. B. and E. A. Lof, Palmer, Sir P. B.	Hydro-Electric Power Stations, Company Law	New York	1923, 1924	GBP -	Not Sold
766		Asburnham Library, Catalogue of the Browning Collections		1897-1901, 1913	GBP -	1.10
767	Sir G. Holford	Holford Library		1927-28	GBP -	3.05
768	Beatty, A. Chester	Auction Sale Catalogue of Western Manuscripts		1932-33	GBP -	0.18
769	S. R. Christie-Miller	Britwell Library		1916-27	GBP -	10.00
770	Byssh, Sir E.	A Copy of Sr Edward Byssh's Visitation of Norfolk, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments	London	1664, 1924-28	GBP -	3.08
771		Catalogue of Prints, Drawings, Pictures and Armour at Wilton House Salisbury [Earl of Pembroke]		1917	GBP -	1.05
772	Havard, Henry	Dictionnaire de l'Ameublement et de la Décoration		n.d.	GBP -	0.10
773		Hutli Library. Auction Sale Catalogues of the Collection of Henry Huth		1911-20	GBP -	6.10
774	Jackson, C. J.	Illustrated History of English Plate		1911	GBP -	8.00
775	Ricci, S. de.	A Census of Caxtons, Chatsworth Library		1909, n.d., n.d.	GBP -	1.18
776	Salaman, M. C.; Lavery, F., Holme, G.	Old English Mezzotints, Raphael, British Water Colour Painting of To-day		1910, 1921, 1921	GBP -	0.08
777	Thompson, H. Yates	Illustrations from one hundred manuscripts, Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts	Cambridge	1918, 1898-1902	GBP -	2.00
778	Thompson, H. Yates	Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books		1919-21	GBP -	3.03
779		Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths Work of European Origin		1901	GBP -	1.15
780	Gosse, Edmund	British Portrait Painters and Engravers of the Eighteenth Century, Kneller to Reynolds		1906	GBP -	0.10
781	Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the D'Urbervilles		1926	GBP -	2.15
782	Hardy, T.	The Dynasts		1927	GBP -	1.10
783		Nonesuch Press. Dante. La Divina Commedia		1928	GBP -	5.00
784		Anti-Jacobin (The) or Weekly Examiner		1797-8	GBP -	0.10
785	Milne, A. A.	Winnie-the-Pooh		1926	GBP -	0.10
786	Beardsley, Aubrey Malory, Sir Thomas	Le Morte Darthur		1893-4	GBP -	3.00
787	Beardsley, Aubrey, Lamb, C.; D. Jerrold and others	The Savoy, Bon-Mots		1896, 1893-8	GBP -	0.18
788	Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley and others	Savoy (The)		1896	GBP -	1.00
789	Lilford, Lord	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood		1895	GBP -	1.00
790	Stonham, Charles	The Birds of the British Islands		1906-11	GBP -	2.10
791	Grimble, Augustus	The Salmon Rivers of Ireland, The Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers of England and Wales		1903, 1904	GBP -	1.08
792	Morris, B. R.; Kirby, W. F.	British Birds and Wildfowl, European Butterflies and Moths		1864, 1882	GBP -	1.00
793	Pye, H. J.; Britton, J.	The Sportsman's Dictionary, Picturesque Antiquities		1807, 1830	GBP -	0.05
794	Baker, R. T.	The Hardwoods of Australia and their Economics	Sydney	1919	GBP -	1.10
795		Woodcut Initials			GBP -	2.05
796		Coloured Panorama of London		c. 1850	GBP -	5.05
797	MUDFORD, WILLIAM	An Historical Account of the Cam-paign in the Netherlands in 1815		1817	GBP -	6.10
798	Ainsworth, W. H.	Sir John Chiverton, Rookwood		1826, 1836	GBP -	1.01
799	Ainsworth, W. H.	The Tower of London		1840	GBP -	2.05
800	Ainsworth, W. H.	Ballads, The Star Chamber, Mervyn Clithero, Ovingdean Grange		1855, 1857, 1858, 1860	GBP -	1.05
801	Beloe, Wm.; Walton, I.	Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, The Compleat Angler		1807-12, 1653, n.d.	GBP -	1.15

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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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