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
401	Commines, Philip de; Montague Lady Mary; Sturm, C. C.	Memoirs; Letters; Reflections			GBP -	0.06
402	Cruikshank, G.	Omnibus edited by L. Blanchard		1842	GBP -	0.10
403	Davies, T.; Fielding, H.	Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick; History of Amelia		1808, 1832	GBP -	0.07
404	Dickens, C.	Sunday under Three Heads by Timothy Sparks		1836	GBP -	0.05
405	Dickens, C.	Sketches by "Boz"		1836-7	GBP -	65.00
406	Dickens, C.	Sketches by "Boz"		1837	GBP -	0.05
407	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit		1844	GBP -	0.14
408	Dickens, C.	The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846		1846	GBP -	0.12
409	Dickens, C.	The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846		1846	GBP -	0.12
410	Dickens, C.	Barnaby Rudge		1853	GBP -	Not Sold
411	Dickens, C.	Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	Not Sold
412	Goldsmith, O.	The Life of Richard Nash of Bath		1762	GBP -	1.10
413	Hood, T.; Moncrieff, W. T.; Bayley, F. W. N.; Montagu, H. W.	The Epping Hunt; The March of Intellect; The French Revolution; Monsieur Mallet		1830, 1830, 1830	GBP -	Not Sold
414	Kingsley, Charles	Hypatia		1853	GBP -	Not Sold
415	Kingsley, C.	Poems		1872	GBP -	0.11
416	Kirke, T.	Modern Account of Scotland			GBP -	0.05
417	Lang, A.	XXII Ballades in Blue China		1887	GBP -	Not Sold
418	Markham, G.	The Compleat Husbandman and Gentleman's Recreation		n. d.	GBP -	0.18
419	Mayhew, A.	Paved with Gold			GBP -	Not Sold
420	Moore, George	Evelyn Innes		1898	GBP -	Not Sold
421	Moore, G.	Memoirs of My Dead Life		1921	GBP -	0.05
422	Moore, G.	In Single Strictness		1922	GBP -	0.10
423	Moore, G.	Conversations in Ebury Street		1924	GBP -	0.14
424	Moore, G.	Hail and Farewell		1925	GBP -	0.10
425	Nelson, Lord; Perceval, Rt. Hon. S.	Letters to Lady Hamilton; Inquiry into the Conduct of H.R.H. The Princess of Wales		1820, 1814	GBP -	Not Sold
426	Nieremberg, Eusebius	Of the Difference between the Temporal and Eternal		1672	GBP -	5.05
427	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1853	GBP -	0.18
428	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross		1854	GBP -	1.01
429	Surtees, R. S.	Ask Mamma		1858	GBP -	1.00
430	Surtees, R. S.	Plain or Ringlets ?		1860	GBP -	1.12
431	Swinburne, A. C.	Songs before Sunrise, 1871		1871	GBP -	0.12
432	Thackeray, W. M.; Martindell, E. W.	The Four Georges; Bibliography of the Works of Rudyard Kipling		1861	GBP -	0.06
433	Victoria, Queen	More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands		1884	GBP -	4.15
434	Bach, W. C.; Parkynd, Sir T.; Burton, R.	A Tything Table; The In-Play or Cornish-Hug Wrestler; History of the House of Orange		1662, 1727	GBP -	2.08
435	Johnson, S.	Ode to Mrs. Thrale; Gray's Elegy		1884, 1784	GBP -	26.00
436	LILLY, JOHN	THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOKS of John Lilly		1864-1871	GBP -	7.00
437	Victoria, Queen	Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands		1868	GBP -	6.05
438	Hamilton, Sir W.	Campi Phlegraei		1776-9	GBP -	4.15
439	Bryant, W. C.	The Story of the Fountain	New York	1872	GBP -	1.02
440	Ashbee, C. R.	Little Flowers of S. Francis of Assisi; American Sheaves and English Seed Corn		1901	GBP -	0.12
441	MURRAY, C. FAIRFAX	Catalogue of a Collection of Early German Books in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray		1913	GBP -	12.10
442	BREVIAIRE GRIMANI de la	Bibliotheque de S. Marco a Venise	Leyde	1904-8	GBP -	37.00
443		Visitation of Wiltshire		1884	GBP -	1.08
444		The Savage Family in Ulster		1928	GBP -	1.10
445	Gower, G. L.	Genealogy of the Family of Gresham		1882-97	GBP -	1.10
446		Brook of Somerset and Devon		1839	GBP -	2.15
447		Chinese Drawings, etc.			GBP -	1.08
448		PEEP SHOW.			GBP -	80.00
449	Valla, G.	De hominis anima	Venice	1507	GBP -	0.16
450	Newton, I.	The method of fluxions and infinite series.		1736	GBP -	3.03
451	Dickens, C.; Lewis, E. J.	Mrs. Gamp with the Strolling Players; The American Sportsman			GBP -	0.05
452	Koran	MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM			GBP -	0.18
453	Bacon, John	Liber Regis vel Thesauras Rerum Ecclesiasti-carum		1786	GBP -	Not Sold
454	Braunschweig, M. H.	Distilierbuch		circa 1530	GBP -	3.05
455	BROWN, DAVID	THE NAKED WOMAN		1652	GBP -	0.08
456	DARELL, JOHN	STRANGE NEWS FROM TH'INDIES		1652	GBP -	5.10
457	Gibson, J.; T. Bowen; Paterson, D.	Maps of the Chief Roads in England; Description of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in Great Britain		1765, 1772	GBP -	1.04
458	Haython	Liber Historiarum partium Orientis sive passagium terrae sanctae		1529	GBP -	4.10
459	Hyde, Thos	Account of the Famous Prince Giolo		1692	GBP -	6.10
460	Jonson, Ben	Three Masques	New York	1903	GBP -	Not Sold
461	NEVILLE, HENRY	THE ISLE OF PINES		1668	GBP -	8.10
462	Wotton, Sir Henry	Roxburghe Club.			GBP -	0.10
463		Roxburghe Club.		1864	GBP -	0.10
464	James I.	Roxburghe Club.		1887	GBP -	0.10
465		Roxburghe Club.		1905	GBP -	0.10
466	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of	A Description of Thomas late Earle of Strafford over the river of Styx		1641	GBP -	0.05
467		SYMONS ARTHUR CORNWALL, ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT			GBP -	1.08
468	WINCHELSEA, HENEAGE FINCH, Earl of	NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE TO THE SULTAN OF TURKEY from Smyrna to Constantinople, etc.		1661	GBP -	0.05
469	Camden, W.	The Historie of Queen Elizabeth		1630	GBP -	0.12
470	Firdausi	Sekundur Namak.		18th Century	GBP -	2.00
471	Motherby, G.	Medical Dictionary revised by G. Wallis		1791	GBP -	0.05
472	Pope, A.	Works		1717	GBP -	0.05
473	Moore, George	The Coming of Gabrielle		1920	GBP -	3.10
474	MOORE, G.	PAGAN PAPERS	London	1881	GBP -	15.00
475	DODGSON, C. L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		1868	GBP -	Not Sold
476	Goldsmith, O.	The Grecian History		1774	GBP -	1.00
477	FERGUSON, JOHN	BIBLIOTHECA CHEMICA		1906	GBP -	6.00
477A	Dodgson, C. L.	Through the looking-glass		1872	GBP -	Not Sold
477B	DONNE, JOHN	POEMS		1633	GBP -	1.10
478	SMITH, ADAM	AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS		1776	GBP -	5.05
479		Thanksgiving Prayers.			GBP -	8.00
480		BIBLE.			GBP -	1.02
481	Sparrow, W. S.	George Stubbs and Ben Marshall; Walker's Fox hunting Atlas		1929, 1930	GBP -	0.07
482		DOVES PRESS.		1903-05	GBP -	48.00
483		Muller's Sketches of the Age of Francis I			GBP -	1.01
484	Cruikshank, G., J. Gillray, Bunbury, Dighton	etc. A Collection of upwards of 170 coloured Caricatures		1820	GBP -	7.15
485	Frankau, Julia; William Ward, James Ward	Their Lives and Works		1904	GBP -	2.10
486	GOULD, J.	THE BIRDS OF ASIA		1850-83	GBP -	38.00
487	GOULD, J.	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE		1861-87	GBP -	41.00
488	GOULD, J.	BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN		1873	GBP -	36.00
489	Garner, T.; d A. Stratton; Berain	The domestic architecture of England during the Tudor period, Fac-simile des oeuvres de Jouanes Berain dessinateur ordinaire de Louis XIV		1911	GBP -	0.10
490	Smith, John Raphael; Pyne, J. B.	A Portfolio containing fifty examples of Stipple			GBP -	4.10
491		Venice.			GBP -	4.15
492	Æsop	Fables, with his Life by T. Philipott and R. Codrington		1666	GBP -	1.12
493	Millais, G.	A Breath from the Veldt		1895	GBP -	5.05
494	MILLAIS, J. G.	British Diving Ducks		1913	GBP -	8.15
495	Millais, J. G.	British Deer and their Horns		1897	GBP -	0.10
496	Millais, J. G.	Wildflowers in Scotland		1901	GBP -	0.12
497	Millais, J. G.	Game Birds and Shooting Sketches		1892	GBP -	1.00
499	Mayer, L.	Views in Palestine		1804	GBP -	1.16

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