Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 16Mar1931,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 16, 1931 - March 16, 1931

Page Size: 598 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	BACON, Sir Francis	Works		1803	GBP -	5.00
2	Shaftesbury Earl of	Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	3.05
3	Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher	Works. edited by H. Weber	Edinb	1812	GBP -	5.10
4	Chatterton, Thomas	Works	Edinb	1811	GBP -	2.05
5	Dodgson, C. L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, By Lewis Carroll		1866	GBP -	1.15
6	Dryden, John	Works		1808	GBP -	8.00
7	Ellis, George	Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances		1811	GBP -	1.05
8	Fielding, Henry	Works		1771	GBP -	3.15
9	Johnson, Samuel	Works		1792	GBP -	3.00
10	Paxton, Sir J.	Magazine of Botany		1834-42	GBP -	6.00
11	Percy, Bishop T.	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry		1775	GBP -	1.15
12	Sterne, Laurence	Works		1808	GBP -	4.05
13	Swift, Dean J.	Works		1808	GBP -	5.15
14	VOLTAIRE, F. M. A. de	Oeuvres complètes		1784-9	GBP -	20.00
15		Bible		1594	GBP -	2.05
16	BUFFON, G. L. L.	Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière	Paris	1774-89	GBP -	15.10
17	Clinton-Baker, H.	Illustrations of Conifers	Hertford	1909	GBP -	13.00
18	Gibbon, Edward	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1789-88	GBP -	3.05
19	Lavater, J. C.	Essays on Physiognomy		1789-89	GBP -	4.00
20	Arrowsmith, A.	Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo or Dictionary of America and the West Indies		1816	GBP -	11.10
21	Bacon, Sir Francis	Sylva Sylvarum: or a Natural History		1635	GBP -	0.10
22	Cussans, J. E.	History of Hertfordshire		1870-81	GBP -	2.15
23	Hill, Sir John	The Vegetable System		1773-5	GBP -	10.10
24	HOLBEIN	IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by Hans Holbein in the Collection of his Majesty		1792	GBP -	26.00
25	Metler, P. and T. Martyn	The Gardener's and Botanists' Dictionary		1807	GBP -	1.00
26	Shakespeare, W.	Dramatic Works Revised by G. Steevens		1802	GBP -	0.10
27	SHAKESPEARE	A Collection of Prints		1803	GBP -	11.10
28	Shaw, Henry	Encyclopaedia of Ornament		1842	GBP -	1.05
29	SHAW, H.	Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages		1843	GBP -	8.00
30	Wight, J.; Trollope, A.	Sunday in London; The Golden Lion of Granpere		1833; 1872	GBP -	1.01
31	Landor, W. S.; Catlin, G.; Drake, S. G.	Imaginary Conversations; Letters and Notes on the North American Indians; Biography and History of the Indians of North America	Boston	1837; 1826-8; 1842	GBP -	1.10
32	Lever, Charles	Works			GBP -	1.00
33	Lytton, E. G. Bulwer, Lord	Novels			GBP -	1.00
34		Asiatic Journal (The) and Monthly Register		1830-40	GBP -	Not Sold
35	GRIMM, J. L. and W. K.	Kinder und Haus-Märchen		1819	GBP -	0.10
36	Swift, J.	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver		1727	GBP -	3.15
37	A'Becket, G. A.	The Comic History of Rome	Bradbury		GBP -	4.00
38	Thackeray, Wm.	The Virginians		1858	GBP -	0.10
39	Borrow, G.	The Zincali; The Bible in Spain; The Romany Rye		1841; 1843; 1857	GBP -	4.15
40	Ireland, S.; Duplessis-Bertaux, J.	Picturesque Views of the River Thames; A Set of one hundred original Etchings		1801; 1814	GBP -	0.10
41	Costo, T.	Fabliaux or Tales; Le Otto Giornate del Fuggilozio	Venice	1815; 1620	GBP -	12.00
42	Shakespeare, W.	Dramatic Works; British Drama		1807-1790; 1804	GBP -	1.08
43	Austen, Jane; Churton R.; Whittier J. G.	Letters; Life of Alexander Nowell; Works	Oxford	1884; 1809; 1888-9	GBP -	0.18
44		Folk-Lore Society; The Folk-Lore; Folk-Lore		1879-98; 1878-82; 1890-99	GBP -	4.00
45	Harding	Parish Register Society; The History of Tiverton	Tiverton	1903-1909; 1845	GBP -	0.15
46	Balfour, G.; Seymour, C.	The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson; The Intimate Papers of Colonel House		1901; 1926	GBP -	0.05
47	Gray, J. H.; Havell, E. B.	China, A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People; Indian Sculpture and Painting		1878; 1908	GBP -	2.10
48	Greene, W. T.	Parrots in Gaptivity		1884-7	GBP -	1.15
49	C. T. Hagberg Wright and C. J. Purnell	London Library		1913-14	GBP -	3.10
50	C. T. Hagberg-Wright	London Library		1909	GBP -	0.05
51	Napier, W. F. P.	History of the War in the Peninsular		1867	GBP -	1.02
52	Hasted, E.	History of Kent	Canterbury	1797-1801	GBP -	3.05
53	Somerville, W.; Beckford, P.	The Chace; Thoughts on Hunting		1804; 1820	GBP -	3.03
54	Landor, W. S.	Pericles and Aspasia		1836	GBP -	0.10
55	Smollett, T.; Kipling, R.	Peregrine Pickle; Soldiers Three &c		1831; 1895	GBP -	0.16
56	Stevenson, R. L.; Yeats, W. B.; Meredith, G.	Vailima Letters; Poems; The Amazing Marriage		1895; 1901; 1896	GBP -	0.08
57	Shakespeare, W.	Works		1709	GBP -	2.10
58	Young, A.	A Course of Experimental Agriculture	Dublin	1771	GBP -	1.00
59	Oldham, J.	Works		1698	GBP -	Not Sold
60	Johnson, S.	Lives of the English Poets	Dublin	1779-81	GBP -	2.10
61	GOLDSMITH, O.	The Vicar of Wakefield		1817	GBP -	1.00
62	Goldsmith, O.	The Life of Richard Nash of Bath		1762	GBP -	6.15
63	Goldsmith, O.	The Beauties of English Poesy		1767	GBP -	1.10
64	Horace; Swinburne, A.	Works; One Hundred Fables; A Study of Victor Hugo		1849; 1886	GBP -	2.00
65	Byron, Lord	English Bards and Scotch Reviewers			GBP -	4.05
66	Swinburne, A. C.	William Blake		1868	GBP -	1.00
67	Farmer, J.; Cowper, W.	History of Waltham Abbey; Poems		1735; 1794	GBP -	3.10
68		Anacreon, Carmina	Foulis	1782	GBP -	2.10
69		La Fontaine; Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, frontispiece	Bat	1743	GBP -	1.00
70		Secret Court Memoirs			GBP -	3.15
71	Gautier, Théophile	Works		1900-03	GBP -	1.05
72	Burke, Edmund	Works		1823	GBP -	1.14
73	Gay, John	Fables		1793	GBP -	2.10
74	Perrot, G. and C. Chippiez; Tavernier, J. B.	History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, etc.; Travels in India		1890; 1889	GBP -	2.00
75	Blane, W.	Cynegetica		1788	GBP -	0.05
76	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron		1903	GBP -	0.10
77	Beckford, W.	An Arabian Tale		1786	GBP -	5.05
78	Johnson, S.	Works		1787	GBP -	1.10
79	Chapmani, G.	Comedies and Tragedies		1873	GBP -	5.00
80	Dekker, T.	Dramatic Works		1873	GBP -	8.10
81	Heywood, T.	Dramatic Works		1874	GBP -	9.00
82	Brayley, E. W.	History of Surrey		1850	GBP -	0.05
83	Morris, F. O.	History of British Birds		1870	GBP -	1.01
84	Whitefield, G.	A Farewel Sermon preached on Board the Whitaker at anchor near Savannah in Georgia		1739	GBP -	0.16
85	Dickens, C.	American Notes		1842; 1846	GBP -	0.05
86	Lowndes, W. T.	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature		1871	GBP -	2.00
87	Pritchard, J. C.	Rules and Regulations for the Sword Exercises; The Natural History of Man		1796; 1855	GBP -	0.06
88	Britten, F. J.	Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers		1911	GBP -	1.02
89	Wahlen, A.	Mceurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde	Brussels	1844	GBP -	2.05
90	Roget, J. L.; Davenport, C.; Cruttwell, M.	A History of the "Old Water-colour" Society; Mezzotints; Luca della Robbia		1891; 1904; 1902	GBP -	0.10
91	Nansen, F.	Farthest North		1897	GBP -	0.10
92	Fraser, Sir J. E.; Blavatsky, H. P.	Folk-lore in the Old Testament; The Secret Doctrine		1918; 1893 [reprint 1902]	GBP -	2.00
93	Julian, J.	A Dictionary of Hymnology; Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica...		1892; 1815	GBP -	0.10
94	Kipling, R.	The Second Jungle Book		1895	GBP -	1.00
95	Lamb, Charles	Specimens of English Dramatic Poets		1765	GBP -	3.10
96	Lamb, Charles	Specimens of English Dramatic Poems		1808	GBP -	4.05
97	Swinburne, A. C.	William Blake, A Critical Essay; Notes of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade		1868; 1872	GBP -	3.15
98	Stephens, James; Yeats, W. B.	Here are Ladies; The Shadowy Waters		1913; 1900	GBP -	1.00
99	Jackson, John	Treatise on Wood Engraving		1839	GBP -	0.05
100	Middleton, C. H.	Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Rembrandt Van Rhyn		1878	GBP -	4.00

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