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
300	Shelley, Mrs. M. W.	Falkner		1837	GBP -	0.10
301	Trollope, Anthony	Travelling Sketches		1864	GBP -	0.12
302	Trollope, A.	The Last Chronicle of Barset		1867	GBP -	1.00
303	Trollope, A.	The Claverings		1867	GBP -	2.15
304	Trollope, A.	Phineas Finn			GBP -	1.05
305	Trollope, A.	The Way we Live Now		1875	GBP -	3.00
306	Cowley, Abraham	Works		1668	GBP -	Not Sold
307	BACON, Francis	Sylva Sylvarum			GBP -	0.10
308	Bacon, F.; Drayton, M.	Novum Organum Scientiarum, editio secunda		1660	GBP -	0.08
309	Butler, Samuel	Hudibras; Taylor, Jeremy		1663-4	GBP -	0.10
310	Borchardt, R.	Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius.; Die Grossen Trobadors		1911	GBP -	0.10
311	Congreve, Wm.	A Pindarique Ode Humbly Offer'd to the King on his taking Namur		1695	GBP -	0.10
312	Congreve, W.	The Mourning Bride		1697	GBP -	1.06
313	Dampier, W.; Southey, R.	Voyages and Discoveries; History of the Peninsula War		1931	GBP -	0.18
314	Davenant, Sir William	Gondibert: An Heroick Poem		1651	GBP -	0.10
315	D'Urfey, Thomas; Carlile, James	The Comical History of Don Quixote; The Fortune Hunter			GBP -	0.12
316	Forster, E. M.	A Passage to India			GBP -	0.16
317	Garnett, David	Lady into Fox		1922	GBP -	1.02
318	Garnett, D.	The Man in the Zoo		1924	GBP -	0.16
319	Gill, Eric; Pepler, D.	The Devils Devices			GBP -	2.15
320	Gill, E.; Huxley, A.	The Song of the Soul; Leda			GBP -	1.12
321	Gill, E.	The Phaedo of Plato, Translated by B. Jowett			GBP -	3.00
322	Gill, Eric; Powys, T. F.	Clothes; Uncle Dottery		1931	GBP -	2.10
323	Chaucer, G.	Golden Cockerel Press.		1929-31	GBP -	8.15
324		Golden Cockerel Press.		1931	GBP -	6.00
325		The Keepsake Edited by F. M. Reynolds			GBP -	Not Sold
326	M. Summers	Nonesuch Press.		1926	GBP -	1.12
327		Nonesuch Press.		1927-28	GBP -	1.05
328	Farquhar, George	Nonesuch Press.		1930	GBP -	1.06
329	Fontenelle, B. de	Nonesuch Press.; A Plurality of Worlds		1929, 1930	GBP -	0.05
330	Philips, John; Mallet, D.	Cyder A Poem; Mustapha, A Tragedy		1708, 1739	GBP -	0.18
331	Sannazaro, J.	Arcadia	Venice	1534	GBP -	1.02
332	Sitwell, Edith	A collection of 37 vol.		1917-21	GBP -	3.05
333	Thomson, James; Anon	The Seasons; The Loves of Mirtel Son of Adonis		1770	GBP -	0.05
334	Wolfe, Humbert; Wolfe, Virginia	Circular Saws; The Common Reader		1927	GBP -	2.02
335	Barrie, Sir J. M.	The Little Minister		1891	GBP -	0.05
336	Barrie, Sir J. M.	Tommy and Grizel			GBP -	0.14
337	De la Mare, W.; Dobson, Austin; Horn, A. Aloysius	Henry Brocken; Eighteenth Century Vignettes; Life and Works		1904, 1892-97	GBP -	1.16
338	Dodgson, C. L.	Aventures d'Alice au pays des Merveilles			GBP -	0.10
339	Disraeli, B.; Trollope, A.	Endymion; The Last Chronicle of Barset			GBP -	0.05
340	Galsworthy, John	A Collection of 22 vol. of his Works		1914-31	GBP -	2.15
341	Galsworthy, J.	The Forsyte Saga		1922	GBP -	3.00
342	Grahame, Kenneth	The Golden Age		1895	GBP -	Not Sold
343	Hardy, Thomas	The Woodlanders		1887	GBP -	0.12
344	Hardy, T.	Jude the Obscure, 1896		1896	GBP -	0.14
345	Hewlett, Maurice	A Collection of 18 vol. of his Works		1899-1917	GBP -	2.00
346	Lawrence, T. E.	Revolt in the Desert		1927	GBP -	1.02
347	Munthe, Alex	The Story of San Michele		1929	GBP -	5.15
348		Nonesuch Press.		1923	GBP -	0.10
349		Nonesuch Press.		1926	GBP -	2.15
350	Shaw, G. B.	The Perfect Wagnerite, 1898		1898	GBP -	1.18
351	Shelley, P. B.	Queen Mab		1821	GBP -	1.05
352	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes		1879	GBP -	4.00
353	Stevenson, R. L.	Virginibus Puerisque		1881	GBP -	0.05
354	Stevenson, R. L.	Island Nights' Entertainments			GBP -	1.00
355	Thackeray, W. M.	History of Pendennis			GBP -	0.16
356	Wells, H. G.	A Collection of 27 vol. of his Works		1895-1930	GBP -	2.15
357	La Motte Fouque	Undine, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham		1909	GBP -	2.10
358	Milne, A. A.	When We Were Very Young		1924	GBP -	23.00
359	Milne, A. A.	Winnie the Pooh, 1926		1926	GBP -	7.00
360	Omar Khayyam; Hill, O.	Rubaiyat, Illustrated by Ronald Balfour; Garden of Adonis			GBP -	0.16
361	Sparrow, W. Shaw	Prints and Drawings by Frank Brangwyn		1926	GBP -	0.12
362	Nietzsche, F.	The Antichrist, Translated by P. R. Stephenson		n. d.	GBP -	0.16
363	Shaw, G. Bernard	Saint Joan			GBP -	1.02
364	BROOKE, RUPERT	Poems		1911	GBP -	13.10
365	Conrad, Joseph	Almayer's Folly		1895	GBP -	0.10
366	Conrad, J.	Under Western Eyes, 1911		1911	GBP -	0.10
367	Moore, G.	A Mere Accident, 1887		1887	GBP -	Not Sold
368	Shaw, G. Bernard	Man and Superman, 1903		1903	GBP -	0.16
369	MOORE, GEORGE	HAIL AND FAREWELL		12/14/1911	GBP -	3.15
370	Bain, F. W.	RICCARDI PRESS.		1913-20	GBP -	1.15
371	Maugham, W. S.; Milne, A. A.	Of Human Bondage; Now we are Six		1915	GBP -	1.00
372	Kipling, R.	Stalkey & Co., 1899		1899	GBP -	1.12
373	Shoberl, F.	The World in Miniature		n. d.	GBP -	7.05
374		Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica			GBP -	1.18
375	Doyle, J. E.; Burke, Sir B.	The Official Baronage of England; History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland		1904	GBP -	0.08
376	Cokayne, G. E.	Complete Peerage of England		1887-98	GBP -	3.05
377	Taylor, Isaac	Etruscan Researches		1879	GBP -	0.10
378	Le Neve, J.	Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae.	Oxford	1854	GBP -	2.16
379	Malory, Sir Thomas	The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur		1893	GBP -	3.05
380		Belle Assemblee La vol. 1-15, 1806-32; The Court Magazine, vol. 1-11, 1832-1837		1832-1837	GBP -	5.10
381		Arabian Nights Entertainments		1841	GBP -	0.05
383	Vives, J. L.	Opuscula aliquot		1526	GBP -	1.06
384	Wachter, J. G.; Vanini, J. Z.	Elucidarius Cabalisticus		1615	GBP -	0.18
385	Menasseh Ben Israel	De resurrectione mortuorum libri III			GBP -	2.02
386	Locke, J.	Some familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and several of his friends		1708	GBP -	0.10
387	Hume, David; Vanini, J. Z.; Toland, J.	Life; De Admirandis naturae reginae deaeque mortalium arcanis; Collection of several pieces		1726	GBP -	0.16
388	Mesmer, F. A.	Memoire sur la decouverte du magnetism animal		1779	GBP -	4.00
389	La Fontaine, J. de	Tales and Novels in Verse; Letchford's Illustrations to Burton's Arabian Nights	Paris	1884	GBP -	0.18
390	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Poems		1842	GBP -	1.15
391	Milton, John	Paradise Lost, A Poem		1678	GBP -	1.00
392	Holbein, Hans	Icones Veteris Testamenti		1830	GBP -	8.00
393		Aldine Press.	Venice	1522	GBP -	1.05
394	Defoe, Daniel; Dickens, Charles	Robinson Crusoe		1882, 1844	GBP -	0.10
395	Morris, Wm.; Irving, W.; Lamb, C.	Story of the Glittering Plain; Knickerbocker Papers; Tale of Rosamund Gray		1914, 1928, 1891, 1914	GBP -	0.05
396	Mogg, E.	Paterson's roads		1826	GBP -	1.08
397	A'Beckett, G. A.	The Comic History of Rome			GBP -	0.10
398	Boswell, J.	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson		1785	GBP -	Not Sold
399	Browne, Sir T.; Pindar, P.	Religio Medici; Cervantes. Don Quixote, translated by C. Jarvis, 4 vol.; Works, 4 vol.,		1659, 1809	GBP -	1.04
400	Byron, Lord	Marino Faliero		1834	GBP -	0.05

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