Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 07Nov1932,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 07, 1932 - November 07, 1932

Page Size: 890 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
501	Birch, G. H.	London Churches of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries		1896	GBP -	0.10
502	Conway, Sir M.	Great Masters, 1400-1800, with an Introduction and descriptive text by Sir Martin Conway		1903	GBP -	0.10
503	Woolf, Virginia; Byron, G. G. N. Lord	Beau Brummell; Seventeen Letters to an Unknown Lady, 1811-1817			GBP -	0.10
504	Aldington, R.; Graves, R.; Riding, L.	The Eaten Heart, 1929; Ten Poems more, 1930; Twenty Poems less, 1930			GBP -	0.05
505	Anderson, W.	The Pictorial Arts of Japan		1886	GBP -	1.00
506		Banpo-zensho. Seals and Signatures of Artists; Kogei-no-Kagami. Pedigree and biography of Japanese Artists; Kiosai-Gwadan. Book on old Painters and painting			GBP -	2.05
507		Bijitsu-no-uta; Nishiki no hei; Album of coloured drawings of the minerals of the different provinces of Japan			GBP -	0.15
508		Burlington Magazine		1909-1930	GBP -	2.15
509		Buyei-ippan. Book on No play with illustrations by Kongo Kinnosuke; Ukiyoye-shuyei. Exhibition of Japanese pictures at Kyoto Imperial Museum			GBP -	0.05
510	Conder, J.	Paintings and Studies by Kawanabe Kyosai; Seito-seisho. Mr. Hyojiro Hatta's collection f oriental paintings; Japanische Kunstwerke, Sammlung Moslé			GBP -	4.10
511		Connoisseur. 207 parts as issued		1909-1931	GBP -	3.00
512	Fenollosa, E. F.	An Outline of the History of Ukiyo-ye	Tokyo	1901	GBP -	0.05
513	Gonse, L.	L'Art Japonais	Paris	1834	GBP -	1.10
514	Hokusai	Shishi Caricatures			GBP -	1.10
515	Jacquemart, A.; Barbouteau, P.	Histoire de la Céramique; Les Peintres populaires du Japon, Part I only			GBP -	0.15
516		Two Albums containing rubbings, I. Ancient Pu and Tao (spade and knife shaped coins); II. Pierced Coins of older Dynasties			GBP -	0.08
517		Japan Colour Prints by Utamaro, Hiroshige, etc.			GBP -	2.05
518		JAPANESE LITERATURE, 18th and early 19th Century Collection in 4 vol. of the works of Sukenobu, Terai Shigefusa, Kitao Sekkwosai Tokinobu, Tsukioka Rojinsai Massanobu, and others			GBP -	1.00
519		Japanese Paintings. Eight paintings of butterflies in colours on silk, signed Ikkei			GBP -	2.15
520		Japanese Poets. Fifty portraits in colour with poems opposite		XIX CENT.	GBP -	4.10
521	Joly, H. L. and K. Tomita	Japanese Art and Handicraft		1916	GBP -	2.05
522	Kinzan, H.	Toki-zukan; Shikimon zukan			GBP -	0.12
523		Kiosai Gwadan. 4 vol. Book on old painters and their paintings		1887	GBP -	0.10
524		KokKA. Monthly Journal of Oriental Art, English text 186-191, 216-227, Japanese text, 124-181, 228-250, 341-481		1905	GBP -	18.10
525	Masayoshi, 0.	Gunsho-Ichiran, Descriptive Catalogues of Chinese and Japanese Books; Koto-meijin-taiden. Pedigree and Biography of wellknown Swordsmiths of Japan			GBP -	0.15
526	Morikuni, T.	Honcho Gwayen; Takizawa Kai. Nimaze no ki, A Description of Supernatural Beings and Things, 1811Wakan Maigwa Yen			GBP -	0.15
527		Nichiren-taishi-shinjitsu-den, Biography of the Priest Nichiren			GBP -	0.10
528	Poncetton, F.; Joly, H. L.	Les Gardes de Sabre Japonaises; Japanese Sword Mounts, Catalogue of the Collection of J. C. Hawkshaw; Collection S. Bing. Objéts d'Art et Peintures du Japon et de la Chine, Sale Catalogue			GBP -	2.10
529	Ricard, P.	Corpus des Tapis Marocains	Paris	1923-27	GBP -	0.10
530		Sale Catalogues. Collection Ch. Gillot, 2 parts, 1904; Sammlung Tony Straus-Negbauer			GBP -	0.18
531		Sale Catalogues. Art Collection of Robert Hoe			GBP -	1.00
532		Shina-Kodoki-shu. Ancient Chinese Bronzes			GBP -	5.15
533	Tajima, S.	Selected Relics of Japanese Art	Tokyo	1899-1906	GBP -	0.10
534	Tajima, S.	Masterpieces selected from the Korin School	Kyoto	1903-5	GBP -	3.10
535	Tajima, S.	Masterpieces by Motonobu	Tokyo	1904	GBP -	2.00
536	Tajima, S.	Masterpieces by Sesshu	Tokyo	1910	GBP -	2.10
537	Tajima, S.	Masterpieces selected from the Fine Arts of the Far East	Tokyo	1910	GBP -	2.15
538		Toyei Shuko, Revised Edition			GBP -	0.10
539		Alamgir II, Emperor of India, 1754-1759			GBP -	6.10
540		The Emperor Akbar holding a hawk facing his son Jahangir on a flower-girt field			GBP -	8.10
541		The Emperor Humayun, 1530-1556			GBP -	7.00
542		An Infuriated Elephant, having burst the chain with which it was hobbled, rearing to throw off the Persian mahout who is belabouring it with his ankus while an Indian attendant is beating a hasty retreat			GBP -	10.15
543		Ali Mordan Khan (d. 1657), standing, holding a spear and smelling a flower			GBP -	3.05
544		Azawar Khan, portrait of an elderly noble standing holding a hawk on his gauntleted hand			GBP -	7.15
545		The Emperor Farrukh Siyar, 1713-1719, standing, hand on his sword and holding a turban jewel			GBP -	8.15
546		Miran Shah Mirza, the eldest son of Amir Taimur, 1367-1408			GBP -	4.10
547		Akhlaq-i-Nasiri, Persian Manuscript, written in Naskh; Bayaz, Persian Manuscript, consisting of selected pieces from poets and famous men, 12211.			GBP -	2.05
548		Bible. Hebrew. The scroll of Esther, "Mighila,"			GBP -	2.10
549		Bible. Hebrew. The Five Books of Moses			GBP -	6.00
550		Chinese Paintings. Portrait of Sesshu (?) with a gazelle; The Celestial King and the Terrestrial King			GBP -	4.10
551	Himla-i-Haidary	The Lives and Holy Wars of Muhammad and his Successors			GBP -	6.05
552		INDIAN PAINTINGS. A Collection of 48 paintings in gold and colours showing the characteristic trades and occupations of the Indian Castes, each man with his wife		c. 1830	GBP -	15.10
553		Jalalu'd Din Rumi. Mathnawi. Persian Manuscript		1008-1599	GBP -	2.05
554		Khulasat-ul-Tarikh. The Abridged Universal History, Persian Manuscript		1266-1853	GBP -	2.00
555		Koran. Selected Chapters			GBP -	2.05
556		Koran. Juz', the tenth of the Koran			GBP -	3.00
557		Koran. Complete Koran		1292-1875	GBP -	3.00
558		[Kudais. Wars of the Saints ?] Arabic		15TH century	GBP -	6.00
559		Mohammad ibn Masud al Kaziruni. Collection of invocations and Prayers for healing Diseases			GBP -	16.10
560	Addison, J.; Boccaccio, G.; Rogers, S.; Foote, S.	Works; with Notes by R. Hurd; The Decameron; translated by John Payne; Table-Talk; to which is added Porsoniana; Table-Talk and Bon-Mots			GBP -	0.18
561	Blew, W. C. A.	History of Steeple-Chasing		1901	GBP -	0.18
562	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron; translated by J. M. Rigg		1905	GBP -	0.14
563	Bourrienne, L. A. F. de	Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte; edited by R. W. 'Phipps; Junot Duchesse d'Abnratès (Madame) Memoirs			GBP -	0.10
564	Brown, H. F.; Walter, J.; Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	John Addington Symonds: a Biography; Memorials of Washington; A Memoir. By his Son			GBP -	0.12
565	Bullen, Frank T.	The Cruise of the "Cachalot,"		1898	GBP -	8.00
566	Conrad, Joseph; Barrie, Sir J. M.	An Outcast of the Islands; Tommy and Grizel, 1900			GBP -	1.00
567	Dorat, C. J.; Montesctuieu, C. S. Baron de	The Kisses (Les Baisers); The Temple of Gnidus			GBP -	0.12
568	Keats, J.; Gosse, Sir E.; Masefield, J.	Drummond, of Hawthornden (W.) Poems; Poems; Firdausi in Exile; The Faithful			GBP -	0.18
569	Furness, W. H.; Greely, A. W.; Bowle, F.	Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters; Three Years of Arctic Service; About Orchids			GBP -	2.15
570	Goldsmith, Oliver; Gaskell, Mrs.; Holmes, 0. W.	Works; with a Life and Notes,.; Cranford; Breakfast Table Series (The Autocrat, the Professor, and the Poet); Marcus Aurelius			GBP -	2.12
571	Grelot, W. J.; Corbett, T.; Adanson, M.	A late Voyage to Constantinople; Account of the Expedition to the British Fleet to Sicily in 1718-20 under Sir G. Byng, 1739, and another, in 1 vol. calf; A Voyage to Senegal, etc.			GBP -	1.00
572	HASSELL, J.	PICTURESQUE RIDES AND WALKS		1817-18	GBP -	8.10
573	Hewitson, W. C.; Fisher, C. H.	Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds; Reminiscences of a Falconer			GBP -	0.08
574	Hudson, W. H.	The Naturalist in La Plata		1892	GBP -	1.01
575	KEATS, JOHN	POEMS		1894	GBP -	11.00
576	Kipling, Rudyard	Soldier Tales		1896	GBP -	2.10
577	La Bruyère, Jean de; Bickerdyke, J.; Swift ', J.	Characters; translated by Van Laun; Curiosities of Ale & Beer; Gulliver's Travels			GBP -	0.10
578	Palliser, Mrs. Bury; Howitt, Mary; Wiggan, K. D.; Beerbohm, Max	A History of Lace; Hymns and Fire-side Verses; A Village Stradivarius; Works; with a Bibliography by J. Lane			GBP -	3.15
579	Raymond, J.	An Itinerary contayning a Voyage made through Italy in the yeare 1646 and 1647		1648	GBP -	1.02
580	Smith, Captain John	Works, 1603-31; edited by Edward Arber	Birmingham	1884	GBP -	0.05
581	Stephen, Sir Leslie; Shakespeare, W.; Lee, Sir S.; Rideing, W. H.; Milne, A. A.	Hours in a Library; Works; Life of William Shakespeare; Thackeray's London; Success			GBP -	1.18
582	Stevens, G. A.	A Lecture on Heads; The Dramatic History of Master Edward, Miss Ann, and others			GBP -	0.05
583	Swinburne, A. C.	Notes EDITION; Bridges			GBP -	0.10
584	Symonds, J. A.	Walt Whitman: a Study		1893	GBP -	0.15
585	Whyte-Melville, G. J.; Stevenson, R. L.; Jerome, J. K.; Crane, S.; Stevenson, R. L.; Wells, H. G.; Jacobs, W. W.	Market Harborough, 1861; Master of Ballantrae, 1889; Three Men in a Boat; The Open Boat, 1898; St. Ives, 1898; A Modern Utopia, 1905; Salthaven, 1908			GBP -	1.05
586	Wilde, Oscar	De Profundis		1905	GBP -	0.05
587	Workman, W. H. and F. B.; Inchbold, A. C.; Harper, C. G.; Hosie, Sir A.	Through Town and Jungle; Under Syrian Sun; The Cornish Coast; On the Trail of the Opium Poppy			GBP -	0.10
588	Ackermann, R.	The Microcosm of London		1904	GBP -	1.05
589		Bookbinder (The) International Bookbinder; Bookbinders' Trade Circular from Oct. 1850 to Jan. 1869			GBP -	0.15
590	Fitzgerald, A. and F.; Tyndale, W.; Macdonell, A.	Naples An Artist in Italy; Touraine			GBP -	0.05
591		Grolier Club of New York. Transactions, parts I and III; A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted Manuscripts; Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle; edited by C. E. Norton			GBP -	0.12
592		Irish Archaeological Society. The Banquet of Dun na n-Gedh and The Battle of Magh Rath; with a Translation and Notes by J. O'Donovan; Irish Version of the His toria Britonum of Nennius; with a Translation of J. H. Todd, 1848A Calendar of the Saints of Ire			GBP -	2.10
593	Lewis, Wyndham	The Apes of God		1930	GBP -	1.00
594	Lister, Reginald; Davies, R.	Jean Goujon; Scharf and Oust. Notes on the authentic Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots; Velasquez			GBP -	0.05
595	Langton, R.; Thackeray, W. M.; Jackson, Mrs. F. N.	Lyra Elegantiarum; edited by Locker-Lampson; Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens; The Chronicle of the Drum; Toys of other Days			GBP -	0.10
596	Nicholson, W.	An Almanack of twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling; An Alphabet			GBP -	0.10
597	Oliphant, Margaret 0.	Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and his Sons	Edinburgh	1897	GBP -	0.05
598	Thomson, D. C.	The Barbizan School of Painters		1890	GBP -	0.18
599	Warsley, R.; Worth, R. N.	History of the Isle of Wight; History of Devonshire			GBP -	1.10
600	Frankau, Julia	Eighteen Century Colour Prints: an Essay on certain Stipple Engravers and their Work in Colour		1900	GBP -	1.02

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