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
300	Marsden Wm.	History of Sumatra.		1783	GBP -	0.05
301	Bacon Francis	Resuscitatio or bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works hitherto sleeping.		1671	GBP -	0.10
302	Beaumont F. and J. Fletcher; Dryden J.	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies.; The Comedies, Tragedies and Operas.		1679, 1701	GBP -	0.10
303		Book Cover, old Italian morocco with Ecclesiastical arms on sides.			GBP -	1.06
304		Chinese Drawings on Rice Paper.			GBP -	0.10
305	Pope Alexander; An Epistle to Lord Cobham	Of the Use of Riches.		1732, 1733	GBP -	1.15
306	PPERLEY C. J.; Radcliffe F. P. D.	Life of John Mytton.; The Noble Science... Fox Hunting.		1877, 1839	GBP -	3.10
307	Ariosto L.	Orlando Furioso.	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	2.15
308		Shaftesbury, Earl of. Characteristicks of Men, Manners.	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	2.10
309	Bekker Balthasar	Le Monde Enchante.	Amsterdam	1694-99	GBP -	2.15
310	Boccaccio G.	Contes de J. Bocace, Traduction Nouvelle.	à Londres	1779	GBP -	3.05
311	Boccaccio G.	The Decameron.		1909	GBP -	1.10
312	Butler Samuel	Hudibras.		1819	GBP -	2.05
313	Byron Lord	Works.		1832-33	GBP -	1.05
314	Byron Lord; Tennyson Lord	Marino Faliero... The Prophecy of Dante.; Maud.		1821, 1855	GBP -	1.08
315	Carlyle Thomas; Trollope Anthony	Latter-Day Pamphlets.; North America.		Feb. to Aug., 1850, 1862	GBP -	1.18
316	D'Arblay Madame	Diary and Letters.		1842-46	GBP -	1.04
317	Dowden E.; Gilchrist, A.	Life of P. B. Shelley.; Life of William Blake.		1886, 1863	GBP -	1.00
318	Fielding Henry	Complete Works.		1903	GBP -	2.05
319	Gilchrist Alexander	Life of William Blake.		1880	GBP -	2.10
320	Hardy Thomas; Beerbohm Max; Bennett Arnold	Life's Little Ironies.; A Christmas Garland.; These Twain.		1894, 1912, 1916	GBP -	2.00
321	Junius; Mahan Capt. A. T.	Letters.; Life of Nelson.		1810, 1897	GBP -	1.06
322	La Fontaine J. de; Sterne L.	Contes et Nouvelles.; Roscommon (Earl of).; Original Letters.	Amsterdam	1767, 1717, 1788	GBP -	2.15
323	Louvet de Couvray	Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas.		1821	GBP -	1.12
324	Macaulay Lord	History of England from the Accession of Jame; II.		1913-15	GBP -	1.05
325	Moliere J. B. P.	Oeuvres avec des Remarques par M. Bret.	Paris	1804	GBP -	1.15
326	Newman Card. J. H.	Apologia pro vita cua.		1864	GBP -	0.15
327	Radcliffe F. P. D.; Walton I. and C. Cotton	The Noble Science... Fox Hunting.; The Complete Angler.	1815	1839	GBP -	2.05
328	Shelley P. B.	Poetical Works.		1839	GBP -	1.10
329	Shelley P. B.; Shelley P. B.; Shelley P. B.	Queen Mab.; Queen Mab.; Queen Mab.	New York, London, London	1821, 1822, 1829	GBP -	2.10
330	Sterne Lawrence	Works.		1803-19	GBP -	3.00
331	Symonds J. A.	Life of Benvcnuto Cellini.; Studies of the Greek Poets.		1888, 1873-78	GBP -	1.14
332	Terence; Lucretius	Comedies.; De la Nature des Chose.	Paris	1900, 1788	GBP -	2.10
333	Thompson Francis	Poems.; Victorian Ode.		1893, 1897	GBP -	2.05
334	Walton I. and C. Cotton; Apperley C. J.	The Complete Angler.; Life of John Mytton.		1815, 1877	GBP -	1.15
335	Wilde Oscar	Ravenna.	Oxford	1878	GBP -	2.00
336	Wollstonecraft Mary	Vindication of the Rights of Woman.; Letters written during a short residence in Sweden.		1792, 1796	GBP -	1.08
337	Beardsley Aubrey	Portfolio of 17 plates on Japanese vellum.		1912	GBP -	1.02
338	Caulheld James	Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons from 1688 to the end of the reign of George II.		1819-20	GBP -	4.00
339	Daniell T. and W.	A Picturesque Voyage to India.		1810	GBP -	4.05
340	Goldsmith O. and T. Parnell	Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell.		1795	GBP -	2.00
341	Hamilton Count A.; Jameson Mrs	Memoires du Comte de Grammont.; Memoirs of the Beaaities of the Court of Charles II.	London	1793, 1838	GBP -	3.00
342	Hamilton Count A.; Evelyn John	Memoirs of Count Grammont.; Memoirs.		1811, 1819	GBP -	1.10
343	Masuccio	The Novellino.		1895	GBP -	2.10
344	Papworth J. B.	Rural Residences...		1818	GBP -	1.05
345	Romney Rev. J.	Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney.; Tableaux de Cabinet de Mr. Poullain.		1830, 1781	GBP -	1.02
346	Armstrong Walter	Gainsborough and his Place in English Art.		1898	GBP -	1.08
347	Britton John	Fine Arts of the English School.		1812	GBP -	1.01
348	Catesby Mark	Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.	London	1731	GBP -	6.05
349	Cipriani G. B.	Catalogue of the Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of Cipriani.		1789	GBP -	4.15
350	Fenelon F. de S., La Mathe	Les Avantures de Teiemaque.; Select Collection of Landscawes.		1734, 1791	GBP -	1.02
351	Fletcher W. Y.	Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum.		1896	GBP -	1.10
352		Guercino.		n. d.	GBP -	4.00
353	Linton W. J.	The Masters of Wood Engraving.		1889	GBP -	1.10
354	Strange Sir Robert	Collection of Historical Prints... of the Roman.		1753-87	GBP -	6.15
355	Thomson James	The Seasons.		1797	GBP -	1.10
356	Descartes René	Les Passions de l'âme.	Paris	1649	GBP -	13.00
357	Ruland, Martin	Curationum Empiricarum novarum in certis locis et notis he-minibus optime riteque probatarum & expertarum centuria III.	Basle	1591-93, n. d.	GBP -	1.00
358	Powell Thomas	Humane Industry: or, a History of most Manual Arts.	London	1661	GBP -	4.05
359	Bacon Sir Francis	Works.		1858-74	GBP -	3.10
360	W. S. Booth; R. M. Theobald; E. Bormann	Bacon-Shakespeare controversy.; "Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon".; "Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light".; "Francis Bacon's cryptic rhymes".		1909, 1901, 1906	GBP -	2.15
361	Shakespeare	A Collection of books and pamphlets on or relating to Shakespeare, including "Shakspeare-Lexicon".; "Illustrations of Shakespeare".; "Topographical Dictionary to the works of Shakespeare"; "Glossary to Shakespeare and his contemporaries".	Berlin	1902, 1807, 1925, 1901	GBP -	3.10
362		Rime scelte di diversi autori.	Venice	1586	GBP -	0.18
363		Amours The of the English Gallantry in several historical poems.	London	1675	GBP -	4.00
364	Oudin Cesar	Refranes o Proverbios Españoles... Proverbes espagnols traduits en François.	Paris	1605	GBP -	5.00
365	Simler J.	Le Republique des Suisses.	Paris	1578	GBP -	1.00
366	Maimbourg L. de	The History of the League.		1684	GBP -	1.08
367	SHERIDAN R. B.	An Ode to Scandal; to which are added.	London	1819	GBP -	Not Sold
368	SHERIDAN R. B.	Clio's Protest; or, "The Picture" varnished.	London	1819	GBP -	Not Sold
369	DANIEL SAMUEL	CERTAINE SMALL POEMS LATELY PRINTED.	London	1605	GBP -	9.10
370	VAUGHAN H.	OLOR ISCANUS.	London	1651	GBP -	28.00
371	Bergerac Cyrano de	Satyrical Characters.	London	1658	GBP -	5.05
372	Gracian de Antisco Lucas	Galateo Espagnol, or, The Spanish Gallant...	London	1640	GBP -	5.05
373	Acosto Josephus	De Natura Novi Orbis, ... De Procuranda Indorum Salute	Salamanca	1589	GBP -	4.05
374	Holbein Hans	Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad vivum expressae.	Lugduni	1539	GBP -	5.05
375		Chimneys Scuffle The.		1662	GBP -	0.15
376	Coote Edward	The English School-Master.		1665	GBP -	3.15
377	Berkeley George	Bishop of Cloyne.	London	1725	GBP -	5.00
378	WORDSWORTH W.	GRACE DARLING.		n. d., 1843	GBP -	14.00
379	West S.	A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Gordon.	Printed at Stockbridge Mass.	1795	GBP -	0.10
380	Sieurin M. J.; Faucheux L. E.	Catalogue of Old English Pottery, Porcelain, and Battersea Enamels.; Manuel de 1'Amateur d'Illustrations.; Catalogue Raisonné de toutes les Estampes qui forment l'GEuvre Gravé d'Adrien van Ostade.	Paris	1875-78, 1875, 1862	GBP -	0.15
381	Adanson M.; Bisset R.	A Voyage to Senegal.; Sketch of Democracy.	Dublin	1759, 1798	GBP -	0.15
382	Trenchard J.	A Collection of Cato's Political Letters in the London Journal.		1721-23	GBP -	Not Sold
383		Privy Purse Expences.	Pickering	1827	GBP -	0.18
384	Collyns C. P.; Evered P.	Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset.; Staghunting with the "Devon and Somerset".		1902, 1887-1901	GBP -	Not Sold
385	Colton R.	Pedestrian and other Reminiscences at home and abroad.		1846	GBP -	0.05
386	Coxe W.; Eastlake C. L.	Sketches of the Lives of Correggio, and Parmegiano.; Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts.		1823, 1848	GBP -	Not Sold
387	Shakespeare Wm.; Hudson W. H.	Works.; El Ombn.		1805, 1902	GBP -	Not Sold
388	DE LA MARE WALTER	SONGS OF CHILDHOOD BY WALTER RAMAL.		1902	GBP -	12.10
389	Milne A. A.; Galsworthy John	Michael and Mary.; A Modern Comedy.		1930, 1929	GBP -	1.15
390	Sassoon S.	Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man.; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.		1929, 1930	GBP -	2.00
391	Masefield John; Tomlinson H. M.	A King's Daughter, original boards--portrait; All Our Yesterdays.		1923, 1930	GBP -	1.05
392	Moore George	The Brook Kerith.		1929	GBP -	5.05
393	De Kock C. P.	Works.	Boston	n. d.	GBP -	1.08
394	Dodgson C. L.; Dickens C.	Through the Looking-Glass.; Pickwick Papers.		1872, 1837	GBP -	2.10
395		Mode (La) feminine de 1490 a 1795.		n. d.	GBP -	15.00
396		Shakespeare Quarto Fac-similes.			GBP -	8.00
397	Tuer A. W.	History of the horn-book.; Whitney's "Choice of Emblems".		1897, 1866	GBP -	1.10
398	Bryan M.	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.; The Sportsman's Dictionary.		1886, 1778	GBP -	0.10
399	Cook Capt. James	The Three Voyages.		1773-85	GBP -	2.05

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