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
500	Mayer, L.	Views in Egypt		1804	GBP -	1.16
501	Bowyer, R.	Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe		1815	GBP -	3.10
502	Dubourg, M.	Views of Ancient Buildings in Rome and its Vicinity		1802	GBP -	1.10
503	Mayer, L.	Views in the Ottoman Dominions		1810	GBP -	1.10
504	Mayer, L.	Views in Palestine		1804	GBP -	1.10
505	Abbott, H.	Antiquities of Rome		1818	GBP -	1.15
506	Baker, George	History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton		1822- [38]	GBP -	1.01
507	Plantagenet	Harrison (Marshal-General) The History of Yorkshire		1885	GBP -	Not Sold
508	Blakeway, J. B.; Willoughby, Hon. E. H. D.	The Sheriffs of Shropshire; Chronicles of the House of Willoughby de Eresby		1831	GBP -	0.15
509	MARTIN, F. R.	A History of Oriental Carpets before 1800,		1906-8	GBP -	32.00
510	Daniell, T. and W.	A Picturesque Voyage to India			GBP -	5.00
511	HOWARD, J. E.	Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon		1862	GBP -	3.10
512	ELWES, H. J.	A Monograph of the Genus Lilium		1880	GBP -	26.00
513	Binyon, L.	Art of Botticelli		1913	GBP -	5.10
514	Binyon, L.	Botticelli		1913	GBP -	5.10
515	Binyon, L.	Botticelli		1913	GBP -	5.00
516	Lawrence, D. H.	Paintings		1929	GBP -	2.18
517		Indian Drawings.			GBP -	6.00
518	GARRICK, DAVID	PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK			GBP -	5.10
519	Shakespeare, W.	Portrait in oils			GBP -	4.15
520	ELIOT, GEORGE	PORTRAIT OF GEORGE ELIOT		1860	GBP -	7.05
521	DICKENS, CHARLES	PORTRAIT OF CHARLES DICKENS			GBP -	2.10
522	Allibone, S. A.	Quotations			GBP -	0.05
523	Apperley, C. J.; Surtees, R. S.	The Chace, The Turf and The Road; Thoughts on Hunting			GBP -	0.14
524	Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans	Essays, with Life of the Author; Cervantes. Don Quixote		1812	GBP -	0.10
525	Barrie, J. M.	Sentimental Tommy		1896	GBP -	0.08
526	Bewick, T.	Works		1885	GBP -	0.16
527	Boswell, J.	Life of Samuel Johnson		1835	GBP -	3.05
528	Harte, Bret; Emerson, R. W.	Complete Works; Works		1880	GBP -	0.07
529	Browning, E. B.; Tennyson, A.	Poetical Works; Gareth and Lynette		1877	GBP -	0.17
530	Browning, R.	The Ring and the Book			GBP -	4.10
531	Bullen, A. H., Editor; Rogers, S.	Lyrics.; Italy		1887-8	GBP -	1.01
532	Burke, Rt. Hon. E.	Works		1887	GBP -	6.05
533	Burns, R.	Works		1877-79	GBP -	3.05
534	Byron, Lord	Works		1832	GBP -	2.10
535	Carlyle, T.	Collected Works		1870-72	GBP -	4.10
536	Carlyle, T.; Froude, J. A.	Reminiscences; Thomas Carlyle		1881	GBP -	0.14
537	D. Patrick and W.	Chambers's Encyclopaedia		1923	GBP -	3.05
538	Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay, etc.,		1822	GBP -	3.15
539	Coleridge, S. T.	Works		1835-50	GBP -	5.10
540	Cook, E. T.	Handbook to the National Gallery		1888	GBP -	0.05
541	Cripps, W. J.; Chaffers, W.	Old English Plate; Hall Marks on Plate			GBP -	0.05
542	Defoe, D.	Works	Oxford	1840	GBP -	10.00
543	De Quincey, T.	Works	Edinburgh	1871	GBP -	2.10
544	Disraeli, B.; Peacock, T. L.	Novels; Works			GBP -	2.05
545	Disraeli, Isaac	Works		1867-8	GBP -	0.14
546	Dryden, J.; Herrick, R.	Poetical Works; Hesperides		1866	GBP -	1.10
547	Eliot, George	Works		1878	GBP -	1.01
548	C. E. Green; D. Young	Encyclopaedia of Agriculture		1907	GBP -	0.05
549	Ewing, Major John; Hamilton, Sir Ian	The Royal Scots, 1914-19; Gallipoli Diary		1914-19, 1925	GBP -	0.18
550	Freeman, E. A.	History of the Norman Conquest	Oxford	1870-79	GBP -	1.01
551	Froude, J. A.	History of England		1870	GBP -	1.08
552	Froude, J. A.; Green, J. R.	The English in Ireland; History of the English People		1872, 1878	GBP -	0.16
553	Froude, J. A.; Lecky, W. E. H.	The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, 1891; Democracy and Liberty		1891, 1894	GBP -	0.06
554	Gibbon, E.	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1838-9	GBP -	3.00
555	Goldsmith, O.; Foster, J.	Works; Life and Times of Oliver Gold smith		1854	GBP -	2.15
556	Greville, C. C. F.	Greville Memoirs.		1885-87	GBP -	0.08
557	Grote, G.	History of Greece		1872	GBP -	2.12
558	Hakluyt, R.	The Principal Navigations		1903	GBP -	8.10
559	Hallam, H.	Constitutional History of England			GBP -	0.16
560	Hawthorne, N.	Works		1883	GBP -	0.10
561	Herodotus	Translated with notes, etc.		1880	GBP -	2.05
562	Hogg, J.; Cowper, W.	Tales and Sketches; Poetical Works		1867	GBP -	2.00
563	Hone, W.	Works.		1838-9	GBP -	2.15
564	Johnson, S.	Works	Oxford	1825	GBP -	5.05
565	Keats, J.	Poetical and Prose Works		1883	GBP -	5.10
566	Kinglake, A. W.	The Invasion of the Crimea		1874-1887	GBP -	0.07
567	Lockhart, J. G.; Scott, Sir W.	Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott; Journal	Edinburgh	1894	GBP -	1.10
568	Lowndes, W. T.; Burton, J. H.	Bibliographer's Manual; The Book-Hunter			GBP -	1.10
569	Macaulay, Lord	Works and Life		1865-77	GBP -	1.01
570	Mackenzie, P.; Macgregor, G.	Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland; History of Glasgow		1865, 1861	GBP -	0.05
571	Marlowe, C.	Works		1885	GBP -	0.18
572	Maxwell, Sir H.; Lee, Sir S.	Life of Wellington; King Edward VII		1900, 1925	GBP -	0.06
573	Maxwell, Sir H.; Thompson, R. R.; Kipling, R.	The Lowland Scots Regiments; The Fifty-second Lowland Division; The Irish Guards in the Great War		1918	GBP -	1.10
574	McUre, J.; Pagan, J.; Mitchell, J. O.; Renwick, R.; Sir J. Lindsay	View of the City of Glasgow; History of Glasgow; Old Glasgow Essays; History of Glasgow		1736, 1847, 1905, 1921	GBP -	0.05
575	Milton, J.; Coleridge, S. T.	Poetical Works; Poetical and Dramatic Works		1826, 1877	GBP -	3.05
576	Disraeli, Isaac	Musarum Deliciae		1806	GBP -	0.10
577	Ramsay, Allan	The Ever Green	Edinburgh	1724	GBP -	0.14
578	Ruskin, John	Stones of Venice			GBP -	1.00
579	Ruskin, J.	A Knight's Faith, 1885		1885	GBP -	0.10
580	J. Payne Collier	Shakespeare, Works			GBP -	4.10
581	Shelley, P. B.	Poetical Works		1882	GBP -	2.15
582	Skelton, J.; Graham, H. G.	Maitland of Lethington; Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century		1887, 1900	GBP -	0.14
583	Smith, Dr. W.; Smith, W.; H. Wace	Dictionary of the Bible; Dictionary of Christian Biography		1863	GBP -	5.00
584	Stirling-Maxwell, Sir W.; Cunningham, Thos., of Campoere	Don John of Austria; Journal		1928, 1883	GBP -	0.05
585	Swinburne, A. C.	Poems		1904	GBP -	0.10
586	Tennyson, Lord A.	Works		1884	GBP -	0.18
587	Walpole, S.; Redesdale, Lord	The Life of Lord John Russell; Memories		1889	GBP -	0.12
588	Walton, I.; C. Cotton; Speedy, T.	The Complete Angler edited by J. Major; Sport in Scotland with Rod and Gun		1883	GBP -	0.18
589	Whymper, E.	Scrambles Among the Alps in the years 1860-69		1860-69, 1900	GBP -	0.15
590	Wordsworth, W.	Poetical Works	Moxon	1874	GBP -	2.08
591		Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes		1885-96	GBP -	4.10
592	Bowes, J. L.	Japanese Marks and Seals		1882	GBP -	0.06
593		Caldwell.		1854	GBP -	0.05
594	Crawfurd, G.; G. Robertson	A General Description of Renfrew		1818	GBP -	0.16
595	Curie, A. O.	The Treasure of Traprain.	Glasgow	1923	GBP -	0.05
596	Sir L. Stephen and Sir S. Lee	Dictionary of National Biography		1885-1904	GBP -	4.10
597	Foley, E.	The Book of Decorative Furniture			GBP -	1.05
598	Fox-Davies, A. C.	Armorial Families		1929	GBP -	5.10
599	Fox-Davies, A. C.	Armorial Families		1930	GBP -	5.10

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