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
701	Dickens, C.	A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life			GBP -	5.05
702	DICKENS, C.	LITTLE DORRIT		1855-7	GBP -	4.10
703	Dickens, C.	The Mystery of Edwin Drood		1870	GBP -	0.15
704	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit		1844	GBP -	0.18
705	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers		1837	GBP -	0.18
706	Dickens, C.	Our Mutual Friend			GBP -	1.00
707	Meredith, George	Lord Ormont and his Aminta		1894	GBP -	1.05
708	Shaw, G. Bernard	Man and Superman		1903	GBP -	0.15
709	Stevenson, R. L.; Dale, T. F.; Watson, Wm.; Noyes, Alfred	A Lowden Sabbath Morn; History of the Belvoir Hunt; The Eloping Angels; Rada, a Belgian Christmas Eve			GBP -	0.10
710	Williams, S. H.	A Bibliography of the Writings of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwialge Dodgson, M.A.)		1924	GBP -	0.10
711	Davidson, John; Dunsany, Lord; Byrne, Donn	A Rosary, 1903; If; a Play in four Acts, 1921; Hangman's House			GBP -	0.05
712	Accum, F.	Practical Treatise on Gas-Light.; exhibiting a summary description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses and Manufactories		1815	GBP -	2.02
713	Tennyson, Charles	Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces	Cambridge	1830	GBP -	0.14
714	Hunt, Leigh	A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla		1848	GBP -	0.15
715	Hope, Anthony; Dunsany, Lord; Kaye-Smith, Sheila	The Prisoner of Zenda; Plays of Gods & Men, 1917-; The End of the House of Alard, 1923			GBP -	2.15
716	Browning, Robert	Men and Women		1855	GBP -	2.15
717	Dickens, C.; Gaskell, Mrs. E. C.	The Battle of Life; Life of Charlotte Brontë			GBP -	0.07
718	Defoe, Daniel	Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		1790	GBP -	0.05
719	Hope, Sir W.; Olivier, J.	New Method of Fencing; Fencing Familiarized			GBP -	0.05
720	Tagore, Rabindranath; Davidson, John; Flecker, James Elroy	The Post Office: a Play; The Crescent Moon; The Knight of the Maypole, 1903; A Queen's Romance, 1904; Collected Prose, 1920			GBP -	0.15
721	Painters, and Gravers	Whistler. The International Society of Sculptors			GBP -	0.05
722	Thackeray, W. M.; Carlyle, Thos.; Watson, W.	Etchings while at Cambridge, now first published; Shooting Niagara: and after; The Eloping Angels; Whistler's Notes, Harmonies, Nocturnes			GBP -	0.10
723	Becke, Louis and Walter Jeffrey.; Grant, James	The Mutineer, a Romance of Pitcairn Island; Sketches in London			GBP -	0.14
724	Guigard, J.	Armorial du Bibliophile		1819	GBP -	1.12
725	Rabelais, Robert, the Younger	A Nineteenth, and Familiar History of the Lives, Loves, and Misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa, a Poem in twelve Cantos		1819	GBP -	2.00
726	Dickens, Charles	Plays and Poems: now-first collected; edited by Richard Herne Shepherd		1882	GBP -	2.02
727	Thackeray.; Swinburne, A. L.; Beerbohm, Max; Way, T. R.	Les Mémoires d'un Valet de Pied (yellow plush memoirs), tra. duit par W. L. Hughes; Chastelard; traduetion de Madame Pasquier; A Christmas Garland; Memories of J. M. Whistler			GBP -	0.10
728	Symonds, John Addington	New and Old; a Volume f Verse		1880	GBP -	0.08
729	Darwin, Charles	Fertilisation of Orchids		1862	GBP -	0.12
730	Lytton, Lord	Paul Clifford; by the author of "Pelham," "Devereux," &c.		1830	GBP -	2.00
731		Victoria Regia: a volume of Original Contributions in 'Poetry and Prose, edited by Adelaide A. Procter: con-tains Tennyson's "Sailor Boy"; Thackeray's "Leaf out of a Sketch Book," besides other original pieces by Trollope, Doyle, Allingham, Leigh Hunt, Mo		1861	GBP -	0.18
732	Stevenson	Papers. Literary, Scientific, &c. by the late Fleeming Jenkin; with a Memoir (occupying 170 pp.) by Robert Louis Stevenson		1887	GBP -	1.00
733	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Poems		1862	GBP -	1.08
734	Meier, G. A.; Bumand, Sir F. E.	JEST BOOKS. A Collection of 153 Books and 10 Pamphlets in an envelope, of Wit and Humour, including The Merry Medley, 1744; The Tell-Tale; The Merry Philosopher, 1765; The Caledonian Jest-Book; Tarlton's Jests; Shakespeare's Jest Book, 1865; Some Old Frie			GBP -	4.04
735	Swinburne, A. C.; Yeats, W. B.; Shaw, G. B.	A Study of Ben Jonson, 1889; Deirdre; Translations and Tomfooleries, 1926			GBP -	0.05
736	Hardy, Thos	Tess of the D'Urbevilles, a pure woman		1891	GBP -	5.00
737	Hardy, T.	The Trumpet Major		1880	GBP -	7.00
738	Merriman, H. S.	Suspense		1890	GBP -	0.10
739	Melville, Herman	White Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War		1850	GBP -	1.12
740	Jeffries, Richard; Kipling, Rudyard; Eliot, George	Hodge and his Masters; The Seven Seas; The Spanish Gypsy			GBP -	0.08
741	Becke, Louis	The Tapu of Banderah; The Adventures of Louis Blake			GBP -	0.12
742	Flecker, J. E.; Dane, Clemence; Drinkwater, John	The Grecians: a Dialogue on Education; A Bill of Divorcement, F; Poems of Love and Earth			GBP -	0.14
743	Aytoun, W. E.	The Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier		1845	GBP -	0.16
744	Flecker, James	The Bridge of Fire		1907	GBP -	0.06
745	Davidson, John; Symonds, J. A.; Symons, Arthur	Smith: a Tragedy; Ballads and Songs; Anima Figura; Amoris Victima			GBP -	Not Sold
746	Philpotts, Eden	Children of the Mist, a Novel		1898	GBP -	2.00
747	Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP -	1.00
748	Kipling, R.; Hichens, R.	Life's Handicap; The Green Carnation			GBP -	0.14
749	Du Maurier, George; Masefield, J.	Trilby; Multitude and Solitude			GBP -	1.05
750	Linton, W. J.; Dodgson, C. L.	Golden Apples of Hesperus; Hunting of the Snark			GBP -	1.05
751	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron; translated by J. M. Rigg		1906	GBP -	1.08
752	Conrad, Joseph	Tales of Unrest		1898	GBP -	6.00
753	Conrad, J.	A Set of Six		1908	GBP -	0.15
754	Kipling, Rudyard	Captains Courageous		1897	GBP -	2.02
755	Radcliffe, Anne	Gaston de Blondeville; and St. Alban's Abbey		1826	GBP -	0.14
756	Mulock, Dinah M. Mrs. Craik	John Hallifax, Gentleman		1856	GBP -	6.05
757	Lever, Charles	Arthur O'Leary		1844	GBP -	1.01
758	Maxwell, W. H.	History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798		1845	GBP -	0.16
759	Hardy, Thomas	The Hand of Ethelberta		1876	GBP -	3.00
760		Pascal. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la Religion at sur quelques autres sujets; Lettres a Emilie sur la Mythologie par Demoustier			GBP -	1.10
761	Goethe	Le Faust de Goethe, traduit par Henri Blaze, Werther traduit par Pierre Leroux, preface par George Sand		1845-7	GBP -	0.10
762		Medical Prescriptions. A Note Book of an 18th Century Country Doctor in Warwickshire being a record of Prescriptions and Treatment for his patients (whose names are given) between the years 1755 and 1757			GBP -	4.00
763	Carlyle	Twelve various volumes from the library of Thomas Carlyle, with his bookplate in each; and 4 others (a parcel)			GBP -	4.05
764		Common Place Book. Manuscript of upwards of 300 closely written pages		XVII CENT.	GBP -	2.00
765	More, Sir Thomas	Utopia: containing an Excellent, Learned, Wittie and Pleasant Discourse of the best state of a Publike Weale, translated by Raphe Robinson		1624	GBP -	1.15
766	Muret, N.	Rites of Funeral Ancient and Modern, in use throughout the known World, translated by P. Lorrain		1683	GBP -	1.02
767	Butler, Samuel	Erewhon, or Over the Range		1872	GBP -	3.15
768	Kipling, Rudyard	Stalky and CO.		1899	GBP -	0.08
769	Brough, Robert B.	The Life of Sir John Falstaff		1858	GBP -	2.15
770	Boyle, R.	Of the Reconcileableness of Specifick medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy		1685	GBP -	7.00
771	Boyle, R.	Medicinal Experiments		1731	GBP -	1.15
772	Salmon, W.	Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or the New London Dispensatory			GBP -	0.05
773		Coins. Early Sotheby Coin Catalogues, all priced			GBP -	Not Sold
774		Bible. Greek	Cambridge	1665	GBP -	0.08
775	Moliere, J. B. P.	Oeuvres	Paris	1730	GBP -	1.00
776	Johnson	The Critical Opinions of Samuel Johnson; arranged and compiled by Joseph Epes Brown		1926	GBP -	0.10
777	Bramah, Ernest; Benson, Rt. Hon. John Evelyn; Ingram, T. D.	The Wallet of Kai Lung; Notes from my Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons; History of the Legislative of Great Britain and Ireland			GBP -	0.10
778	Rowe, Henry	The Montem; a Musical Entertainment "Pro More et Monte,"	London and Eton	1808	GBP -	1.12
779	Jesse, J. H.	George Selwyn and his contemporaries; London and its Celebrities			GBP -	0.18
780	Rudyard; Howitt, W.; Stirling, W.	Traffics and Discoveries; The Northern Heights of London; Velasquez and his Works			GBP -	0.10
781	Clarke, Mary Anne	The Rival Princes; Piozziana; or Recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi; by a friend (Edward Mangin); Cobbetts Tour in Scotland and the four northern counties of England			GBP -	0.10
782	Henin, F.	Aerostation. La Vie et les Memoires de Pilatre de Rozier; emits par lui-même, et publiés par M. T.; Mémoire sur la direction des Aérostats; Authentic Narrative of the Aerial Voyage of Mr. Sadler, across the Irish Channel			GBP -	3.05
783	Tissandier, G.	Bibliographic Aeronautique 1887; Le Present at l'avenir de PAéronautique, 1890; Les Ballons Dirigeables; Deux Conferences sur les Aérostats; Application de l'Electricite a la Navigation Aérienne, 1884; Yon and Surcouf. Aérostats at Aérostation Militaire			GBP -	0.16
784	Middleton, Thomas	Dramatic Works; now first collected; with Life and Notes by A. Dyce		1840	GBP -	1.05
785	Accum, F.	A Practical Treatise on Gas Light; with description of the Apparatus and Machinery for illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories with carburetted hydrogen or Coal Gas		1815	GBP -	3.00
786		A Collection of Tracts and Treatises illustrative of the Natural History, Antiquities, and the Political and Social State of Ireland, published from 1613-1769	Dublin.	1860	GBP -	0.15
787	Warren, Samuel	Ten Thousand a Year		1841	GBP -	1.05
788	Beerbohm, Max; Parker, K. I.	Everyman, and other Plays, decorated by John Austen with designs in Gold and Colours, 1925; Fifty Caricatures, 1913; North Italian Drawings of the Quattrocento			GBP -	0.08
789		Hunt. Leigh Hunt's Journal; a Miscellany for the cultivation of the Memorable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful		1850-51	GBP -	1.05
790	Ream, George A.	Collection of Carved Ivories; The Hearn Gift of Paintings to the Metropolitan Museum			GBP -	Not Sold
791	Grand, Sarah; Harper, C. G.	Our Manifold Nature; Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff, translated by M. J. Serrans; The Brighton Road			GBP -	0.12
792	Meux, Lady	Manuscript. The Book of Paradise, being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert, by Paladins Hieronymus and others, the Syriac texts, with English translation by Wallis Budge		1904	GBP -	0.10
793	Briscoe, J.; Locke, J.	A Discourse of Money, 1696; Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money; Proposals for a National Bank			GBP -	3.08
794	Byron, Lord; Hood, T.	Works; Works			GBP -	2.08
795	Calvert, T.	The blessed Jew of Morocco: or, A Blackmoor made White		1648	GBP -	3.15
796	Cox, J. C.	Pulpits, Lecterns and Organs in English Churches			GBP -	0.10
797	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers; Nicholas Nickleby			GBP -	3.10
798	Dickens, C.	Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; Little Dorrit, 1857; A Tale of Two Cities, 1859			GBP -	3.00
799	DICKENS, C.	A CHRISTMAS CAROL, TRIAL ISSUE		1844	GBP -	15.10
800	Dryden, J.; Sterne, L.	Poetical Works; Works			GBP -	1.01

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