Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 11Dec1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 1934 - December 11, 1934

Page Size: 636 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	APPERLEY, C. J.	Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod		1874	GBP -	2.10
2	Apperley, C. J.	Life of a Sportsman, by Nimrod			GBP -	0.15
3	Apperley, C. J.	Nimrod's Northern Tour, half morocco		1870	GBP -	0.15
4		ARABIAN NIGHTS.		1885-8	GBP -	14.00
5	Beckford, Peter	Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting		1796	GBP -	3.00
6	Blew, W. C. A.	History of Steeple-chasing, 1901		1901	GBP -	0.10
7	Burton, William	History and Description of English Porcelain		1902	GBP -	1.05
8	Cook, Col. John	Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds		1826	GBP -	1.15
9	Johnson, T. B.	Hunting Directory		1875	GBP -	0.16
10	Radcliffe, F. P. D.; Blew, W. C. A.	The Noble Science ... Fox Hunting; History of Steeple-Chasing, 1901			GBP -	0.15
11	Seebohm, Henry	History of British Birds		1883-5	GBP -	1.00
12	Somerville, William	The Chase, A Poem, to which is added Hobbinol		1767	GBP -	0.05
13	Surtees, R. S.	Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities		1903	GBP -	1.01
14	Surtees, R. S.	Hillingdon Hall		1888	GBP -	0.10
15	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron, Translated by J. Payne		1893	GBP -	1.02
16	Bryden, H. A., Editor	Great and Small Game of Africa		1899	GBP -	2.12
17		Flora and Sylva		1903-04	GBP -	0.10
18	Foley, Edwin	The Book of Decorative Furniture		1910-11	GBP -	1.01
19	Fox-Davies, A. C.; Turner, J. M. W.; Weaver, L.	Armorial Families; Rivers of France; The House and Its Equipment			GBP -	0.14
20	Huish, M. B.; Heath, D.	Samplers; Miniatures		1913, 1905	GBP -	0.12
21		Humphreys Royal Library.; Horace Walpole; Cicero. De Officiis; Emerson (R. W.)		1909, 1903, 1902	GBP -	6.10
22		Masuccio.; Straparola		1895, 1894	GBP -	1.15
23	Osbaldeston, Squire George; Simpson, C.	Autobiography; Leicestershire and its Hunts		1926, 1926	GBP -	0.18
24	Surtees, R. S.; Custance, H.	Hunts with Jorrocks; Riding Recollections		1908	GBP -	0.16
25	Ward, Rowland; Bradley, C.	Records of Big Game; Good Sport seen with some famous packs		1899	GBP -	1.00
26	Latham, C.; Mawson, T. H.; Elgood, G. S. and G. Jeky ll	In English Homes; Art and Craft of Garden Making; Some English Gardens			GBP -	1.12
27	MASEFIELD, JOHN	SALT-WATER BALLADS		1902	GBP -	10.10
28	Stevenson, R. L.	Treasure Island		1883	GBP -	11.00
29	STEVENSON, R. L.; Stevenson, R. L. and Ll. Osbourne;	The Master of Ballantrae		1889, 1892, 1894	GBP -	1.10
30	Cobbett, W.	Rural Rides		1830	GBP -	1.10
31	Longfellow, H. W.	The Courtship of Miles Standish, and other poems		1858	GBP -	Not Sold
32	Kipling, Rudyard	Captains courageous		1897	GBP -	0.10
33	Kipling, R.	From Sea to Sea			GBP -	0.10
34	Cibber, Colley	Papal Tyranny.			GBP -	0.08
35	Haydon, B. R. and W. Hazlitt	Painting, and the fine arts	Edinburgh	1838	GBP -	0.05
36	Smeeton, G.; Byron, Lord; Thackeray, W. M.	Doings in London; Sardana-palus, etc. Pendennis		1821, 1849-50	GBP -	Not Sold
37	Darwin, Charles; Masefield, John	Expression of the emotions; Captain Margaret		1872	GBP -	0.05
38	Sallust	Opera omnia		1789	GBP -	Not Sold
39		SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY.		1896-1933	GBP -	0.10
40		DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY		1885-1912	GBP -	14.10
41	Hassell, John	Tour of the Grand Junction		1819	GBP -	2.15
42	Surtees, R. S.	Sporting Novels		n. d.	GBP -	6.05
43	Browne, James; Cruikshank, G.	History of the Highlands, and of the Highland Clans; Comic Almanacks		1845, 1835-53	GBP -	0.10
44	Hunter, John	An Historical Journal of the Transactions of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island		1835-8	GBP -	0.05
45	James Gairdner; Cumston, C. G.	Paston Letters Edited by James Gairdner; Introduction to the History of Medicine		1897	GBP -	0.10
46	Atkinson, T. W.; Webb, E. A.	Oriental and Western Siberia; History of Chislehurst		1858	GBP -	1.00
47	Planche, J. R.; Cook, Sir E.	Recollections and Reflections; Life of Florence Nightingale		1872	GBP -	0.05
48	La Perouse, J. F. G. de	A Voyage Round the World		1807	GBP -	2.05
49	Chastellux, Marquis de	Travels in North America		1787	GBP -	1.15
50	Borrow, George	Lavengro		1851	GBP -	1.05
51		British Classics		1804-14	GBP -	2.10
52	Lemaire, C.	L'Illustration Horticole		1865-9	GBP -	4.00
53	Las Cases, Count de	Journal of the Private Life and Conver-sations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena		1823	GBP -	2.00
54	Bourienne, M. de	Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte		1836	GBP -	1.00
55	Viollet-Le-Duc	Dictionnaire Raisonne de 1'Architecture fran-caise du XI au XVI siècle	Paris	1767-8	GBP -	1.15
56	Walpole, H.	Anecdotes of Painting in England		1726-28	GBP -	0.18
57		Clarendon	Oxford	1760-1807	GBP -	1.18
58	Gibbon, E.	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1820	GBP -	2.15
59	Young, A.	Six Months' Tour through the North of England			GBP -	3.15
60	Buxton, T. F.	The African Slave Trade; Bible	Oxford	1810	GBP -	0.12
61	HAVELL, R.	PICTURESQUE SCENERY		1814-17	GBP -	25.00
62	Loutherbourg, P. J. de	Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales		1805	GBP -	6.15
63	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE		1854	GBP -	1.05
64	Surtees, R. S.	Plain or Ringlets ?		1860	GBP -	1.00
65	Burnet, Gilbert	Some Passages of the Life and Death of John		1680	GBP -	Not Sold
66	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1860	GBP -	0.10
67	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross		n. d.	GBP -	1.00
68	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds		1804-21	GBP -	2.12
69	Brough, R. B.	Life of Sir John Falstaff		1858	GBP -	4.10
70	Macaulay, T. B.	Lays of Ancient Rome		1842	GBP -	3.05
71	Browning, Robert	Dramatic Romances and Lyrics		1899	GBP -	0.14
72	Cervantes, M. de	Don Quixote		1818	GBP -	2.02
73	T. Medwin	The Shelley Papers Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley		1833	GBP -	2.05
74	Cory, W. J.	Ionica	Oxford	1897	GBP -	0.15
75	Anstey, W.; Motherwell, W.	The New Bath Guide; Minstrelsy		1827, 1830	GBP -	0.12
76	Shelley, P. B.	Essays	Moxon	1840	GBP -	0.08
77	Campbell, J.	Lives of the Admirals		1747	GBP -	1.10
78	Lauder, W.	Milton's use of the moderns			GBP -	1.08
79	Selden, J.	Hoyle's Games, De Dis Syris Syntagmata II		1807, 1778	GBP -	1.05
80	Clemens, S. L.	A tramp abroad			GBP -	2.02
81	Melville, Herman	Typee Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands	Murray	1846	GBP -	0.15
82	King, W. Ross; Baldwin, W. C.	The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada; African hunting		1866	GBP -	1.08
83	Tatham, William; Beltrami, J. C.	An historical and practical essay on the culture and commerce of tobacco; A pilgrimage in Europe and America		1828, 1800	GBP -	1.00
84	Newman, J. H.	Apologia pro vita sua		1864	GBP -	1.02
85	Scott, W.	The Abbot		1820	GBP -	0.10
86	Malthus, Rev. T. R.	An inquiry into the nature and progress of Rent		1815	GBP -	2.00
87	Wrangham, F.; Kelly, J.	The British Plutarch; A complete collection of Scotish proverbs		1721	GBP -	1.05
88	Vecellio, Cesare	Habiti antichi		1598	GBP -	2.15
89	Vere, A. de	Proteus and Amadeus		1708	GBP -	0.05
90		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. IN FLEMISH. WITH CALENDAR.			GBP -	22.00
91	HORAE. B. V. M.	Use of Rome	Paris	1505	GBP -	2.10
92	Ferne, John	The Blazon of Gentrie		1586	GBP -	1.05
93	Walton, I.; C. Cotton	The Complete Angler		1797	GBP -	0.10
94	MELANCTHON & LUTHER	Bible.		1535	GBP -	5.00
95		New Testament			GBP -	3.10
96	WATTS, ISAAC	PRAYERS composed for the use and imitation of Children		1728	GBP -	10.00
97	Luther, M.	A treatise	Bynneman	1579	GBP -	1.05
98	Southey, R.	The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo		1816	GBP -	0.10
99		Sanctorius Sanctorius Medicina statica : or, rules of health		1686	GBP -	6.10
100	Nicols, Thomas	A Lapidary or the History of Pretious Stones		1632	GBP -	1.05

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