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
200	NEWTON, SIR ISAAC	PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA	London	1687	GBP -	42.10
201		ACKERMANN (R.) HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE		1815	GBP -	49.10
202	ACKERMANN, R.	THE MICROCOSM OF LONDON		1808-10	GBP -	33.00
203	JENKINS, J.	The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817		1816-17	GBP -	10.10
204	Fraser, C. Lovat	Seven water-colour Drawings			GBP -	2.05
205	Taunton, T. H.	Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses		1887	GBP -	2.15
206	Rhead, G. W., Murphy, W. S.	History of the Fan; The Textile Industries		1910, 1910	GBP -	0.12
207	Fox-Davies, A. C.; Gould, R. F.	Armorial Families; History of Freemasonry		1902, 1882	GBP -	0.12
208	Graves, Algernon	The Royal Academy of Arts		1905-06	GBP -	5.05
209	Le Pautre, J.; Robson, W.	115 Designs for Vases, Chimney Pieces, Pulpits, Ceilings, etc.; Grammigraphia		1670, 1799	GBP -	2.05
210	W. H. Willshire	British Museum.		1879-83	GBP -	Not Sold
211		Manuscript Fragments on vellum			GBP -	5.10
212	Backhouse, James	Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies		1843	GBP -	Not Sold
213	Bronte, C.	The Professor, by Currer Bell		1857	GBP -	0.05
214	Darwin, C.	The Descent of Man		1871	GBP -	0.05
215	Dickens, C.; Lever, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit; Roland Cashel		1844	GBP -	0.05
216	Dickens, C.	Hard Times		1854	GBP -	0.08
217	Dodgson, C. L.; Barrie, J. M.	Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893; The Little White Bird		1889, 1893	GBP -	0.12
218	Doyle, A. Conan	The Tragedy of the Korosko, 1898		1899, 1898	GBP -	0.12
219	Hales, S.; Maundrell, H.; Hassell, J.	A Description of Ventilators; A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem; Excursions on the Thames	Oxford	1743, 1703, 1823	GBP -	6.00
220	Hardy, T.; Galsworthy, J.; Wells; H. G.	Time's Laughing Stock; The Burning Spear; Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island		1909, 1919	GBP -	0.07
221	Kipling, R.	The Light that Failed			GBP -	0.12
222	Pope, A.	Works		1751	GBP -	Not Sold
223	Rogers, S.; Tennyson, A.	Italy, a Poem		1864	GBP -	Not Sold
224	Scott, Sir W.	Life of Napoleon Buonaparte	Edinburgh	1827	GBP -	Not Sold
225	Sterne, L.; Pennant, T.; Boswell, J.	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Tours in Wales; Life of Samuel Johnson		1794, 1810, 1819	GBP -	0.06
226	Stevenson, R. L.	Kidnapped			GBP -	0.05
227	Southey, R.; Hunt, Leigh	Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae; Table-Talk		1826	GBP -	0.05
228	Yarrell, W.	Works		1836-43	GBP -	0.05
229	Berners, Dame Juliana; Wiel, A.	A Treatyse of Fishing wyth an Angle; Two Doges of Venice		1880, 1891	GBP -	0.08
230	Greard, V. C. O.	Meissonier, His Life and Art			GBP -	0.08
231	Pennant, T.	London		1790	GBP -	Not Sold
232	Shakespeare, W.; Lee, N.; Joyner, W.; Dryden, J.; Porter, T.; Settle, E.	Hamlet; Sophonisba; The Roman Empress; Tyrannick Love; Ibrahim		1676, 1676, 1675, 1671, 1672, 1670, 1677	GBP -	6.00
233	Wise, J. R.	The New Forest		1883	GBP -	Not Sold
234	Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam	Sylva Sylvarum		1631	GBP -	Not Sold
235	Charsley, F. A.	Wild Flowers around Melbourne		1867	GBP -	0.15
236	Dickens, C.	The Battle of Life			GBP -	2.00
237		Greenaway, Kate Almanack for 1888		1887	GBP -	4.04
238	Foster, Birket	Some places of note in England			GBP -	0.10
239	FOSTER, WILLIAM	Thirty-two pen and ink sketches for the Owl & the Pussy Cat and The Duck & the Kangaroo, etc.		1889	GBP -	2.05
240	Griset, Ernest	Sixteen water colour drawings "Funny Foxes"			GBP -	10.10
241	Barnes, R.	Proofs of engravings coloured by the artist; etc.			GBP -	1.10
242	Caldecott, R.	Fourteen proofs of engravings coloured by the artist			GBP -	9.10
243	GREENAWAY, KATE	A pen-and-ink sketch of three maidens at a garden gate			GBP -	5.00
244	GREENAWAY, KATE	A pen-and-ink sketch of seven children on			GBP -	7.10
245	GREENAWAY, KATE	Plain and coloured proofs of Christmas cards			GBP -	8.15
246	BOYS, T. SHOTTER	LONDON AS IT IS		1842	GBP -	29.00
247	Nash, J.	The Mansions of England in the Olden Time		1839	GBP -	1.15
248	Versailles	La grande Galerie de Versailles	Paris	1752	GBP -	0.15
249	Nash, J.	The Mansions of England in the olden time		1839-40-41	GBP -	1.05
250	Gibbs, James	A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of buildings and ornaments, the second edition			GBP -	1.05
251	CHIPPENDALE, T.	THE GENTLEMAN AND CABINET-MAKERS DIRECTOR		1762	GBP -	18.00
252	Contile, L.	Ragionamento sopra la proprieta delle imprese		1574	GBP -	0.05
253		FLOWER PAINTINGS, etc.		circa 1820	GBP -	12.10
254	Blades, W.; Davenport, C.	Pentateuch of printing; Royal English bookbindings		1891, 1896	GBP -	0.10
255	Hoffman, W. J.	The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibwa; De bello Belgico		1891	GBP -	0.12
256	Mercator, G.	Tabulae Geographicae Cl. Ptolomaei ad mentem autoris restitutae et emendatae	Cologne	1578	GBP -	4.05
257		American Civil War.			GBP -	0.15
258	Weirotter, F. E.	Oeuvre	Paris	1775	GBP -	0.18
259	Robson, G. F.	Scenery of the Grampian Mountains		1819	GBP -	2.15
260	Green, William	Views of the English Lakes, 54 lithograph plates, no title, half calf Ambleside, 1808		1808	GBP -	1.15
261	Mayer, L.	Views in Egypt		1804	GBP -	1.15
262	Pinelli, B.	Costumi Diversi	Roma	1822	GBP -	Not Sold
263		Scrap Book containing engraved views and a series of 34 coloured plates of Birds			GBP -	3.00
264	Bonaparte, Lucien	Galerie		1812	GBP -	1.05
265		Costumes de l'Empire de Russie		1803	GBP -	1.05
266		Coloured Engravings.			GBP -	3.00
267	Lawrence, D. H.	Paintings		1929	GBP -	2.12
268	Cavendish, W., Duke of Newcastle	A General System of Horsemanship in all its Branches		1743	GBP -	0.18
269	Radclyffe, C.; Dart, J.	Memorials of Winchester College; Westmonasterium or The History of St. Peters Westminster		n. d.	GBP -	0.16
270	Macaulay, T. B., Lord; Shakespeare, W.	History of England With Memoir and Portrait; Works Edited by Rev. A. Dyce		1896, 1857	GBP -	0.18
271	DEGUILLEVILLE, G. DE	LE PELERINAIGE DE VIE HUMAINE		1912	GBP -	2.10
272		ARISTOPHANES.		1498	GBP -	34.00
273	Assen, John Walter van	Historia Christi patientis ac morientis			GBP -	1.15
274	Sutherland, William	Britain's Glory		1740 (-1717)	GBP -	12.00
275	Hippocrates	Aphorismi Expositio Jacobi de forliuio cum additionibus marsilii super aphorismos hyppocratis Et questiones eorundem		1495	GBP -	5.05
276	Estienne, C.; J. Liebault	Maison Rustique, or, The Covntrey Farme ... translated by Richard Svrflet		1616	GBP -	4.00
277	Aquinas, Thomas	Quaestiones de anima	Venice	1472	GBP -	2.00
278	DONNE, JOHN	SERMONS		1640-70	GBP -	17.00
279	Cowley, Abraham	Works; Kit-Cat Club		1821	GBP -	0.05
280	LOCKE, JOHN	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding		1690	GBP -	30.00
281	Maturin, Rev. C. R.; Southey, R.	Anthologia Hibernica; Fredolfo, A Tragedy; Poems		1794, 1819	GBP -	0.10
282	Bage, Robert	Mount Henneth			GBP -	4.10
283	Bage, R.	The Fair Syrian		1787	GBP -	7.00
284	Bage, R.	Barham Downs		1784	GBP -	5.00
285	Beckford, William	Vathek [In French]	Lausanne	1787	GBP -	19.00
286	Beckford, Wm.	Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal		1834	GBP -	1.12
287	Clarke, Wm.; DTsraeli, I.	Repertorium Bibliographicum ... Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries; The Literary Character		1819, 1818	GBP -	0.05
288	DIBDIN, T. F.	WORKS Bibliomania		1811-38	GBP -	33.00
289	Godwin, William	Mandeville		1817	GBP -	2.00
290	Johnson, Samuel	The Lives of the most Eminent Enghsh Poets		1781	GBP -	1.00
291	Kingsley, Henry	Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn			GBP -	3.05
292	Lytton, E. Bulwer, Lord	Athens, Its Rise and Fall			GBP -	1.00
293	Malthus, Rev. T. R.	Principles of Political Economy	John Murray	1820	GBP -	4.10
294	Nicholls, John; Brydges, Sir E.	Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Of Restitula; or the Titles and Characters of Old Books		1814-16	GBP -	3.05
295	Noake, D.; Mrs. Heywood	Life and Adventures of the Marchioness Urbino; The Agreeable Caledonian : or Memoirs of Signiora di Morella		1735, 1728	GBP -	3.05
296		The Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1808-1809 [Contributions by S. T. Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Miss Mitford, etc.]		1812	GBP -	0.06
297	Savile, Hon. C. S.; Byrne, Mrs. Wm.	Leonard Normandale; A Novel; Realities of Paris Life		1850, 1859	GBP -	0.10
298	Shelley, Mrs. M. W.	The Last Man		1826	GBP -	2.05
299	Shelley, Mrs. M. W.	The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck		1830	GBP -	2.15

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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