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
802	Borrow, George	Wild Wales		1862	GBP -	3.00
803	Burton, Sir R. F.; Kingsley, Charles	Vikram and the Vampire, Alton Locke		1870, 1850	GBP -	0.18
804	Dampier, Capt. Wm	Voyages Edited by John Masefield		1906	GBP -	1.02
805	Dickens, Charles	Master Humphrey's Clock, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit		1840-41, 1848, 1857	GBP -	1.01
806	Dickens, C.	A Tale of two cities, David Copperfield		1859, 1850	GBP -	2.05
807	Dickens, C.	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	2.05
808	Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss		1860	GBP -	4.05
809	Eliot, G.	Silas Marner, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The Spanish Gypsy		1861, 1879, 1868	GBP -	0.05
810	Eliot, G.	Felix Holt		1866	GBP -	2.15
811	A. E. T. Watson	Fur Feather and Fin Series		1893-1906	GBP -	1.15
812	James, G. P. R.	Works		1844-49	GBP -	0.05
813	Jefferies, Richard	Works; The Amateur Poacher, Bevis, Hodge and his Masters, The Dewy Morn, Greene Fern Farm		1879, 1882, 1880, 1884, 1880, 1879-92	GBP -	7.05
814	Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book		1894-95	GBP -	8.10
815	Smollett, T.	Lamotte-Fouqué. Peter Schlemihl from the German, Peregrine Pickle		1824, 1831	GBP -	0.14
816	Lytton, Lord	Novels, Poems and Dramas		1852-62	GBP -	Not Sold
817	Mayhew, A.	Paved With Gold, Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations		1858, 1823	GBP -	0.15
818		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	1.00
819	Poe, E. A.	Works		1895	GBP -	0.16
820	Sala, G. A.	Twice Round the Clock, Gaslight and Daylight		1862, 1859	GBP -	0.18
821	Scott, Michael	Tom Cringle's Log		1833	GBP -	3.05
822	SCOTT, SIR WALTER	Works; Waverley Novels, Notes and Illustrations, and Poetical Works	Edinb.	1821-33	GBP -	26.00
823	Shakespeare, Wm	Works		1886	GBP -	0.08
824	Shelley, P. B.; Butler, Samuel	Poetical Works, Hudibras	Cambridge	1840, 1744	GBP -	0.18
825	Smedley, Prank	Frank Fairleigh, Harry Coverdale's Courtship, Lewis Arundel		n.d., n.d., 1852	GBP -	0.10
826	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1853	GBP -	2.15
827	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds		1865	GBP -	0.10
828	Surtees, R. S.	Hillingdon Hall		1888	GBP -	2.02
829	Thackeray, W. M.	Pendennis, The Newcomes, The Virginians		1850, 1854, 1858	GBP -	2.10
830	Thackeray, W. M.	Lovel the Widower, English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century		1861, 1853	GBP -	0.05
831	Thackeray, W. M.	The Adventures of Philip		1862	GBP -	3.03
832	Green, J. R.	Short History of the English People		1892-94	GBP -	0.15
833	Halford, F. M.; Apperley, C. J.	Dry-Fly Fishing, Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton		1889, 1899	GBP -	2.10
834	Hall, Mr. and Mrs. S. C.	Ireland		1840-43	GBP -	1.12
835	Seiden, John	Historie of Tithes		1618	GBP -	0.12
836	Beerbohm, Max	Works, More		1896, 1899	GBP -	1.12
837	Beerbohm, Max	The Happy Hypocrite, And Even Now		1897, 1920	GBP -	0.10
838	Belloc, Hilaire	Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts		n.d., n.d.	GBP -	0.18
839	Bunyan, John, Collier, John	The Pilgrim's Progress, Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin		1775, 1818	GBP -	0.14
840	Carpenter, Edward	Narcissus, Towards Democracy, Love's Coming of Age		1873, 1883, 1896	GBP -	1.12
841		Chap-Books, etc. Extreme Cruelty to Children, Murder! The Trial of Esther Hibner, etc		1829	GBP -	1.10
842	Dickens, Charles	The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth		1845, 1846	GBP -	0.05
843	Dodgson, C. L.; Barrie, J. M.; Henley, W. E. and R. L. Stevenson	Rhyme? and Reason?, Margaret Ogilvie, Three Plays		1883, 1896, 1892	GBP -	0.05
844		English Theatre (The)		n.d.	GBP -	1.02
845	Ford, Richard	Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain		1845	GBP -	1.00
846	Galsworthy, John; Richardson, Henry Handel	Plays [First Series], The Getting of Wisdom		1909, 1910	GBP -	0.15
847	Gilbert, Sir W. S.	The Sorcerer, Patience, Iolanthe, Princess Ida, The Mikado		n.d., n.d., n.d., n.d., n.d.	GBP -	0.05
848	James, Henry	A Passionate Pilgrim	Boston	1875	GBP -	2.00
849	James, Henry	Stories Revived, Essays in London		1885, 1893	GBP -	1.08
850	Keats, John	Poetical Works and other Writings		1883	GBP -	2.00
851	Matteis, Nicola	Ayres for the Violin ... the Third and Fourth Parts		1685	GBP -	13.00
852	MEREDITH, GEORGE	POEMS		1851	GBP -	20.00
853	Moore, George	A Mere Accident, Sister Teresa, The Lake, Lewis Seymour and Some Women		1887, 1901, 1905, 1917	GBP -	0.10
854	Moore, George	Memoirs of My Dead Life		1906	GBP -	1.02
855	Moore, George	A Story-Teller's Holiday, Avowals		1918, 1919	GBP -	1.10
856	Moore, G.	Esther Waters, The Coming of Gabrielle		1920, 1920	GBP -	0.06
857	Moore, G.	Héloïse and Abélard, In Single Strictness		1921, 1922	GBP -	1.04
858	Moore, G.	Conversations in Ebury Street, Hail and Farewell !		1924, 1925	GBP -	1.04
859	Moore, George	The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe, Pure Poetry		1924, 1924	GBP -	0.10
860	Moore, George	Ulick and Soracha		1926	GBP -	1.02
861	Pelham, Camden, Jones, G. H.	The Chronicles of Crime, Account of the Murder of William Weare, Trial of William Palmer		1886, 1824, 1856	GBP -	1.00
862	Pepys, Samuel, Evelyn, John	Diary, with Life and Notes by Lord Braybrooke, Diary		1848-9, 1854	GBP -	0.14
863	Roscoe, T.	Railways. Drake's Railroad Maps of the entire Line of Route from London to Liverpool and Manchester, The Book of the Grand Junction Railway, The London and Birmingham Railway		1839, 1839, 1839	GBP -	0.12
864	Sassoon, Siegfried, Henley, W. E. and R. L. Stevenson	Counter-Attack, Three Plays		1918, 1892	GBP -	0.05
865	Robert John Blesard	Seventeenth Century Heraldic MS.		1834	GBP -	1.00
866	Shakespeare, William	Plays		1823	GBP -	2.04
867	Sharp, Samuel, Culpeper, N.	The Operations of Surgery, Directory for Midwives		1747, 1777	GBP -	0.18
868	Shaw, G. B.	Fabian Essays, the Perfect Wagnerite, The Irrational Knot, Press Cuttings		1889, 1898, 1905, 1909	GBP -	1.02
869	Shaw, George Bernard	Works		1930-4	GBP -	8.10
870	Shaw, G. B.	The Quintessence of Ibsenism, The Perfect Wagnerite		1891, 1898	GBP -	0.18
871	Shaw, G. B.	Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant		1898	GBP -	0.18
872	Shaw, G. B.	Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant		1898	GBP -	4.00
873	Shaw, G. B.	Three Plays for Puritans, Man and Superman		1901, 1903	GBP -	0.10
874	Shaw, G. B.	John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Androcles and the Lion, Heartbreak House		1907, 1911, 1916, 1919	GBP -	1.04
875	Shaw, G. B.	Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, etc.	New York	1931, 1928	GBP -	1.12
876	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	Works in Verse and Prose		1880	GBP -	2.02
877	Shelley, P. B.	Queen Mab	New York	1821	GBP -	0.05
878	Smith, J. T.; Ellis, J.	An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, Map of London		1846, 1775	GBP -	2.10
879	Smith, John	Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters		1908	GBP -	0.10
880	Stevenson, R. L.	A Child's Garden of Verses		1885	GBP -	5.10
881	Stevenson, R. L.	A Child's Garden of Verses		1885	GBP -	9.10
882	Whistler, J. McN	Eden versus Whistler	Paris	1899	GBP -	1.18
883	WHITMAN, WALT	Leaves of Grass		1882	GBP -	3.15
884	Whitman, Walt	Calamus	Boston	1897	GBP -	1.00
885	Wilde, Oscar	Poems		1881	GBP -	3.00
886	Wilde, Oscar Houghton, Lord	Life and Letters of John Keats		1867	GBP -	4.00
887	Wilde, Oscar	Ravenna	Oxford	1878	GBP -	1.18
888	Wilde, Oscar, Sherard, R. H.	The Happy Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde		1888, 1925, 1902	GBP -	2.05
889	Wilde, Oscar	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Intentions		1891, 1894	GBP -	1.02
890	Wilde, Oscar	Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance		1893, 1894	GBP -	0.18
891	Wilde, Oscar	The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., De Profundis		1898, 1905	GBP -	1.12
892	Wilde, Oscar	The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband		1899, 1899	GBP -	2.10
893	Aubrey Beardsley and others	Yellow Book (The)		1894-7	GBP -	1.10
894	Beardsley, Aubrey	A Book [& a Second Book] of Fifty Drawings, Under the Hill		1897-9, 1904	GBP -	2.08
895	Beardsley, Aubrey	The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser		1907	GBP -	1.18
896		Bindings. The Holy Bible, The Book of Common Prayer	Oxford	1810, 1811	GBP -	1.02
897	Bliss, D. P.; Hind, A. M.	History of Wood-Engraving, Giovanni Battista Piranesi		1928, 1922	GBP -	1.18
898	Bryan, M.	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1913-15	GBP -	2.12
899	Graves, Algernon	Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited Works in the principal London Exhibitions (1760-1893)		1901	GBP -	1.00
900	Manners, Lady Victoria and G. C. Williamson, Dubuisson, A.	Angelica Kauffmann, Richard Parkes Bonington		1924, 1924	GBP -	0.10
901	Mundy, Major R. G.; Mew, E.; Boyne, Wm	English Delft Pottery, Battersea Enamels, Yorkshire Tokens		1928, 1926, 1858	GBP -	1.10

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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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