Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS., 03Jun1935,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 03, 1935 - June 03, 1935

Page Size: 889 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	BOSWELL James	Life of Samuel Johnson.	Oxford	1887	GBP -	0.10
2		British Theatre		1791-2	GBP -	0.06
3	Burton, Robert	The Anatomy of Melancholy.		1893	GBP -	1.02
4	Darwin, Charles; Harvey, W. H.; Hincks, T.	Works.; Manual of British Marine Algae.; British Hydroid Zoophytes.		1878, 1849, 1868	GBP -	1.12
5	Defoe Daniel	Romances and Narratives.		1895-99	GBP -	1.00
6	Doyle A. Conan	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.		1894	GBP -	2.15
7	Dickens Charles	Works.		n. d.	GBP -	5.05
8	Eliot George	Works, and Life.		n. d.	GBP -	0.05
9	France Anatole	Works.		1908-13	GBP -	3.00
10	Frazer Sir J. G.	The Golden Bough.		1911-14	GBP -	2.15
11	Goldsmith Oliver; Cervantes M. de	Works.; Don Quixote.		1854, 1880	GBP -	1.10
12	Haggard Rider; Smollett T.	Novels.; Works.		1895	GBP -	0.16
13	Kipling Rudyard	Many Inventions.; The Day's Work.; Stalky & Co.		1893, 1898, 1899	GBP -	2.00
14	Kipling R.	The Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book.		1894-95	GBP -	5.05
15	Kipling R.	Captains Courageous.		1897	GBP -	1.00
16	Mahan Capt. A. T.; Nansen F.	Life of Nelson.; The First Crossing of Greenland.		1897, 1890	GBP -	1.02
17	Marryat Capt. F.	Novels.		1896	GBP -	2.15
18	Milton John	Poetical Works.		1860	GBP -	1.02
19		Miscellaneous Books.			GBP -	4.05
20	Morris Wm.; Du Maurier G.	The Earthly Paradise.; Peter Ibbetson.; Trilby., The Martian.		1896, 1895, 1895, 1898	GBP -	2.05
21	Poe E. A.; Pater Walter	Works.; Works.		1874, 1910	GBP -	1.00
22	Ruskin John	A Collection of his Works.			GBP -	2.10
23	Saint-Simon Duke de	Memoirs. An abridged translation by Francis Arkwright		1918	GBP -	2.04
24		Secret Court Memoirs.		n. d.	GBP -	1.05
25	Thackeray W. M.	Works.		1869-74	GBP -	1.18
26	Armstrong E. A.; Goethe. Faust	Axel Herman Haig and his Work.		1905, 1908	GBP -	1.02
27	Butler A. G.; Couch J.	British Birds with their Nests and Eggs.; Fishes of the British Islands.		n. d., 1867	GBP -	1.10
28	Allman G. J.; Adler J. and A. Hancock	Monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids.; Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca.		1871, 1845	GBP -	Not Sold
29	Audsley G. A. and J. L. Bowes	Keramic Art of Japan.		1875	GBP -	0.10
30	Tipping H. A.	English Homes.		1921	GBP -	1.05
31	Barrington G.	History of New South Wales, and Account of a Voyage to New South Wales.		1802-3	GBP -	1.10
32	Goldsmith O.	The Vicar of Wakefield.		1766	GBP -	7.00
33	Bergerac Cyrano	The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun...		1687	GBP -	4.00
34	Brydges Sir Grey	Horae Subsecivae.		1620	GBP -	1.10
35	Roberts George	Four Years Voyages... being a Series of Uncommon Events... in a Voyage to the Island of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes.		1726	GBP -	5.05
36		Certain Prayers fitted to severall Occasions.		1648	GBP -	0.18
37	Collins W.	Poetical Works.		1765	GBP -	1.10
38	Du Bellay Joachim	Les Oeuvres Francoises...	Rouen	1597	GBP -	1.02
39	Beza Theodore de	Poemata.	Lutetiae	1548	GBP -	1.12
40	Rousseau J. J.	Les Confessions.	Geneva	1782	GBP -	0.10
41	Zouch T.	The Life of Isaac Walton.		1823	GBP -	11.10
42		Psalterium Hebraicum.		1538	GBP -	0.14
43	WINCOLL THOMAS	Plantagenets Tragicall Story: or, The Death of King Edward the Fourth.		1649	GBP -	4.00
44	Stevenson R. L.	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.		1886	GBP -	3.15
45	Sassoon S.	Picture Show.		1919	GBP -	2.00
46	De la Mare W.; Barrie Sir J. M.	The Listeners.; George Meredith.		1912, 1909	GBP -	0.10
47	Mansfield Katherine	Prelude.	Richmond	n. d.	GBP -	0.18
48	Galsworthy J.; Conrad and Hueffer	Prefaces to Ten Novels in the "Manaton".; The Nature of a Crime.		n. d., 1924	GBP -	4.10
49	Cayley Sir George	Practical Remarks on Aerial Navigation.		1802	GBP -	7.00
50	Hood T.	The Epping Hunt.		1830	GBP -	2.00
51	GREENAWAY KATE	Almanacks for 1895 and 1897.			GBP -	18.00
52		ALMANACS.		1621	GBP -	12.00
53	Rochester Earl of; Suckling; La Rochefoucauld; Buckingham	Poems.; Poems.; Maxims.; Miscellaneous Works.		1933, 1933, 1931, 1933	GBP -	0.10
54	Rochester; Suckling; La Rochefoucauld; Buckingham	Poems.; Poems.; Maxims; Miscellaneous Works.			GBP -	0.10
55	Mornay P.	Mysterium Iniquitatis, seu, Historia Papatus.		1612	GBP -	0.05
56	Benavides D.	Horae Succisiuae.		1660	GBP -	0.05
57		Poesi Pastorali e Rusticali raccolte dal Dott.	Milano	1808	GBP -	1.05
58	Johnson Samuel; Edgeworth Maria	A Diary of a Journey into North Wales.; Comic Dramas.		1816, 1817	GBP -	Not Sold
59		Mogg's Great Western Railway and Windsor.		1841	GBP -	0.12
60	Lawrence D. H.	Pansies, Poems.		1929	GBP -	0.08
61	Godwin William	Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman.		1798	GBP -	2.02
62	Thackeray W. M.	Ward R. Life of Dr. Henry More.		1710	GBP -	1.00
63		Primer.	Rouen	1555	GBP -	5.00
64		Bible The in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments.	Lond.	1771	GBP -	2.10
65		Bibliotheca Turneriana. Catalogue of the Library of Robert Samuel Turner.		1888	GBP -	0.10
66	Burke Sir B.	A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry.		1891-5	GBP -	0.18
67		Catalogue of a Capital Collection of Prints and Drawings including those of John Rendorp.; Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Rare Engravings and Drawings.; Catalogue of the choice Collection of Engravings and Etchings.		1825, 1873-4, 1884	GBP -	0.05
68	Vernet C. J. and J. F. Huë	Les Ports de France.		1812	GBP -	2.10
69	Goldsmith O.	The Vicar of Wakefield.		1817	GBP -	9.05
70	Wedgwood Josiah; Burton W.	The life of Josiah Wedgwood.; Josiah Wedgwood and his Pottery.		1865-66	GBP -	1.00
71	Burton W.; Emma Darwin	A History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware.; A Century of Family Letters.		1904, 1792-1896	GBP -	0.05
72	Lamb Charles	Album verses.		1830	GBP -	1.00
73	Livingston L. S.	Bibliography of C. & M. Lamb.	New York	1903	GBP -	0.08
74	Combe Wm.; A'Beckett G. A.	Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque.; Comic History of England.		1819, 1847-8	GBP -	0.18
75	Clark G. T.; Ashdown C. H.	Mediaeval Military Architecture.; British and Foreign Arms and Armour.		1884, 1909	GBP -	0.12
76	Bond Francis	Gothic Architecture in England.		1905	GBP -	1.12
77	Fielding Henry; Steele Sir R.	Works and Life.; The Funeral or Grief a la Mode.		1783, 1758	GBP -	1.00
78	Markham G.; Bible	The Way to get Wealth.; English, with Psalms in Metre.		1649, 1630	GBP -	1.02
79	Thackeray W. M.	Works.		1869	GBP -	2.05
80	Stevenson R. L.	Works.		1906-17	GBP -	3.15
81	Balzac H. de	Oeuvres.	Paris	1870	GBP -	4.15
82	HALÉVY L.	OEUVRES.	Paris	1883-7	GBP -	2.05
83	Vigny A. de	Oeuvres.	Paris	1838	GBP -	1.10
84	Jerome Jerome K.; Shaw B.	John Ingerfield.; John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara.		n. d., 1907	GBP -	0.05
85	Clemens S. L.; Bennett Arnold	A tramp abroad.; The Clayhanger Family.		1880, 1925	GBP -	0.05
86	Wilde Oscar	Works.	Boston	1909	GBP -	1.12
87	Wilde Oscar	Bibliography.		1914	GBP -	0.05
88		WISDEN'S CRICKETERS' ALMANACK.		1864-1934	GBP -	30.00
89		Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack.		1864-91	GBP -	14.10
90		Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack.		1868-1932	GBP -	5.05
91	Kipling R.; Stevenson R. L.	Puck of Pook's Hill.; Island Nights' Entertainments.		1906, 1893	GBP -	1.00
92	Conrad J. and F. M. Hueffer; Conrad J.	Romance A Novel.; Twixt Land & Sea Tales.		1903, 1912	GBP -	0.12
93	Shaw G. B.; Hope Anthony	Back to Methuselah.; The Dolly Dialogues.; The Prisoner of Zenda.	Bristol	1921, 1899, n. d.	GBP -	1.00
94	Lawrence D. H.; England; Montague C. E.	Kangaroo.; My England.; Right Off the Map.		1923, 1924, 1927	GBP -	1.05
95	Thackeray W. M.; Dickens Charles	Pendennis.; The Four Georges.; Hard Times.		1850, 1861, 1854	GBP -	2.00
96	Moss Fletcher	Pilgrimages to Old Homes.		1901-20	GBP -	6.10
97	Maugham W. S.; Bennett Arnold	The Moon and Sixpence.; Cakes and Ale.; The Regent.; The Lion's Share.		1919, 1930, 1913, 1916	GBP -	1.08
98	Wells H. G.	The New Machiavelli.; Marriage.; The Research Magnificent.		1911, 1912, 1915	GBP -	1.00
99	Barrie J. M.; Galsworthy J.; Sudermann H.	The Plays in one volume.; Plays [in one volume].; The Song of Songs.		1928, 1929, 1913	GBP -	2.00
100	Kingsley Charles; A'Beckett G.	Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore.; Comic History of England.	Cambridge	1855, n. d.	GBP -	1.08

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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