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
499 Gilchrist Alex Life of William Blake.

1880

 GBP - 2.15
500 Lucretius. De Rerum Natura.; Bucolica. Florence, Florence

1512, 1515

 GBP - 1.15
501 Goldsmith O. and T. Parnell; Bewick T. Poems.; General History of Quadrupeds.; History of British Birds.

1795, 1807, 1797-1804

 GBP - 1.00
502 Greenaway Kate A Collection of Coloured Picture Books.; Under the Window.; A Apple Pie.; Language of Flowers.; The Pied Piper of Hamelin.; Marigold Garden.

n. d., n. d., n. d., n. d., n. d.

 GBP - 34.00
503 Guillim J.; Froissart J. Display of Heraldry.; Histoire et Chronique... revue par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles.; Historia Naturalis. Venice

1679, 1574, 1507

 GBP - 2.02
504 Hamerton P. G. Etching and Etchers.

1868

 GBP - 1.18
505 Hamilton Count Ant Mémoires de la Vie du Comte de Grammont. Cologne

1713

 GBP - 0.05
506 Hardy Thomas The Woodlanders.

1887

 GBP - 15.00
507 Hardy T. Wessex Tales.

1888

 GBP - 10.10
508 Hardy T. A Group of Noble Dames.; Life's Little Ironies.; The Well-Beloved.; Jude the Obscure.

1891, 1894, 1897, 1896

 GBP - 3.10
509 Hazlitt William Lectures on the English Poets.

1818

 GBP - 1.00
510 Hewlett Maurice A Masque of Dead Florentines.

1895

 GBP - 2.15
511 Hewlett M. The Forest Lovers.

1898

 GBP - 16.10
512 Howell James Instructions for Forreine Travell.

1642

 GBP - 3.15
513 Morris W. Poems by the Way.

1891

 GBP - 3.05
514 Morris W. Gothic Architecture, a Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

1893

 GBP - 1.05
515 Tale The of King Floras and the Fair Jehane.

1893, 1894

 GBP - 1.15
516 Friendship The of Amis and Arnile.

1894

 GBP - 2.00
517 KEATS JOHN POEMS.

1894

 GBP - 21.00
518 Tale The of the Emperor Coustans and of over Sea.

1894

 GBP - 1.10
519 F. S. Ellis Psalmi Penitentiales.

1894

 GBP - 2.10
520 Syr Percyvelle of Gales.

1895

 GBP - 1.15
521 Morris W. Child Christopher and Goldiiind the Fair.

1895

 GBP - 2.05
522 Rossetti D. G. Hand and Soul.

1895

 GBP - 2.05
523 HERRICK ROBERT Poems chosen out of his Works.

1895, 1896

 GBP - 14.10
524 Coleridge S. T. Poems chosen out of the Works.

1896

 GBP - 5.10
525 CHAUCER GEOFFREY WORKS.

1896

 GBP - 140.00
526 Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis.

1896

 GBP - 1.05
527 Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis.

1896

 GBP - 1.08
528 Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis.

1896

 GBP - 1.10
529 Spenser Edmund The Shepheardes Calendar.

1896

 GBP - 6.00
530 Kipling Rudyard Many Inventions.; The Day's Work.; Kim.

1893, 1898, 1899, 1901

 GBP - 3.10
531 Kipling R. Captains Courageous.

1897

 GBP - 4.15
532 Lamb Charles Specimens of English Dramatic Poets.

1808

 GBP - 1.15
533 Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloe. Florenta

1598

 GBP - 2.00
534 Lucian; Schopper H. I Dialogi... tradotte per M. Nicolo da Lonigo.; Speculum Vitae Aulicae. Venice, Frankfort

1541, 1574

 GBP - 4.05
535 Lucian; James J. Part of Lucian Made English by Jasper Mayne.; Theory and Practice of Gardening. Oxford

1664, 1712

 GBP - 1.00
536 Martial Epigrammata. Milan

1490

 GBP - 2.15
537 Maxwell W. H. History of the Irish Rebellion.

1835

 GBP - 1.00
538 Meredith George Diana of the Crossways.; The Egoist.; The Amazing Marriage.

1883, 1879, 1895

 GBP - 6.10
539 Montaigne M. de; Boccaccio G. Les Essais.; Le Decameron, traduit par M. A. Le Macon. Paris, Rotterdam

1608, 1597

 GBP - 1.10
540 Montaigne M. de The Essayes.

1632

 GBP - 0.10
541 Thomas Roscoe Novelist's Library.

1831-33

 GBP - 5.10
542 Parkinson John Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris faithfully.

1904

 GBP - 3.00
543 Patmore Coventry The Angel in the House.; The Betrothal.; The Espousals.; Victories of Love.; The Unknown Eros.; Odes.

1854, 1856, 1863, 1868, 1877

 GBP - 0.10
544 Peacock T. L. Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spell.

1818

 GBP - 1.05
545 Peacock T. L. Maid Marian.

1822

 GBP - 0.10
546 Peacock T. L. The Misfortunes of Elphin.

1829

 GBP - 1.05
547 Peacock T. L. Crotchet Castle.

1831

 GBP - 0.05
548 Peacock T. L. Gryll Grange.

1861

 GBP - 0.10
549 Percy Bishop T. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

1765

 GBP - 4.15
550 Sextus Aurelius Victor De Viris illustribus. Venice

1492

 GBP - 3.00
551 Pope Alex The Rape of the Lock.

1798

 GBP - 0.12
552 Prevost Abbe; Hugo V.; Uzanne O. Manon Lescaut.; Notre Dame de Paris.; L'Ombrelle.; L'Eventail. Paris

n. d., 1844, 1883, 1882

 GBP - 5.15
553 Rabelais F. Oeuvres. Amsterdam

1663

 GBP - 2.00
554 Rabelais F. Oeuvres. Amsterdam

1663

 GBP - 2.00
555 Rea John Flora, Ceres and Pomona.

1665

 GBP - 1.01
556 Reade Charles The Cloister and the Hearth.

1861

 GBP - 6.00
557 Rothenstein Will English Portraits.

1898

 GBP - 0.05
557A Scott Sir Walter Tales of My Landlord. Edinb.

1816

 GBP - 0.15
558 Scott Sir W. Ivanhoe.; The Antiquary. Edinb., Edinb.

1820, 1816

 GBP - 0.10
559 Shelley P. B.; Keats J.; Browning R. Poems.; Poems.; Poems.

1902, 1907, 1897

 GBP - 2.05
560 Sterne L.; Goldsmith O. Sentimental Journey.; Vicar of Wakefield. russia, russia

1792, 1792

 GBP - 0.05
561 Stevens C. and J. Liebault Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme.

1616

 GBP - 1.10
562 Stevenson R. L. An Inland Voyage.

1878

 GBP - 10.00
563 Stevenson R. L. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.

1879

 GBP - 4.00
564 Stevenson R. L. New Arabian Nights.

1882

 GBP - 5.05
565 STEVENSON R. L. Treasure Island.

1883

 GBP - 13.00
566 Stevenson R. L. Prince Otto, A Romance.

1885

 GBP - 4.00
567 Stevenson R. L. The Merry Men.; Island Nights' Entertainments.

1887, 1893

 GBP - 1.00
568 Stevenson R. L. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

1886

 GBP - 4.10
569 Stirrup Thomas; Leadbetter C. Horometria: or the Compleat Diallist.; Mechanick Dialling.

1756, 1659

 GBP - 1.10
570 Stow John; Anon A Summarie of the Chronicles of England.; Dialogue in English between a Doctor of Divinitie and a Student in the Lawes.

1604, 1607

 GBP - 3.15
571 Swinburne A. C. William Blake, A Critical Essay.

1868

 GBP - 0.12
572 Suckling Sir John; Congreve Wm. Works, containing his Poems.; Plays.

1719, 1735

 GBP - 1.18
573 Tacitus P. C. Opera. Milan

circa 1475

 GBP - 14.00
574 Thackeray William Makepeace Cornhill to Grand Cairo.; Our Street.; The Kickleburys on the Rhine.

1846, 1848, 1850

 GBP - 0.10
575 Thackeray W. M. Mrs. Perkins's Ball.

1847

 GBP - 1.10
576 THACKERAY W. M. Vanity Fair.

1848

 GBP - 4.10
577 Thackeray W. M. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond.

1849

 GBP - 0.10
578 Thackeray W. M. Rebecca and Rowena.

1850

 GBP - 1.05
579 Thackeray W. M. History of Henry Esmond.

1852

 GBP - 2.00
580 Thackeray W. M. English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century.; Denis Duval.

1853, 1867

 GBP - 0.12
581 Thackeray W. M. The Four Georges.

1861

 GBP - 0.05
582 Tragicum Theatrum Actorum, et Casuum Tragicorum Londini publice celebratorum. Amsterdam

1649

 GBP - 0.15
583 Waller Edmond; Shakespeare Wm.; Coleridge S. T. Poems.; Poems.; Poetical Works.

1711, 1774, 1834

 GBP - 1.03
584 Walton I. and C. Cotton The Compleat Angler, Moses Browne's Edition.

1750

 GBP - 1.00
585 Walton I. and C. Cotton The Complete Angler.

1760

 GBP - 1.12
586 Walton I. and C. Cotton The Complete Angler, Major's Edition.

1823

 GBP - 4.10
587 Wilde Oscar A House of Pomegranates.

1891

 GBP - 2.05
588 Wordsworth William Poems.

1807

 GBP - 2.02
589 O. G. S. Crawford A Quarterly Review of Archaeology.

1927-34

 GBP - 4.05
590 BARRETT C. G. The Lepidoptera of the British Islands.

1893-1907

 GBP - 11.00
591 Bartsch Adam Le Peintre Graveur. Leipzig

1876

 GBP - 4.05
592 Bean W. J.; Pryor A. R. Trees and Shrubs hardy in the British Isles.; A Flora of Hertfordshire.

1921-33, 1887

 GBP - 3.10
593 BENTHAM G. AND J. D. HOOKER Genera Plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata dehnita.

1862-83

 GBP - 11.00
594 Browne Sir T.; Bacon Sir F.; Childrey J. Posthumous Works.; Baconiana. Or Certaine Genuine Remains.; Britannia Baconica: or, the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, & Wales, a little stained.

1712, 1679, 1661

 GBP - 3.00
595 S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley Cambridge The Natural History.

1895-1909

 GBP - 5.00
596 Campbell J. Travels in South Africa.

1822

 GBP - 3.15
597 Coste H. Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse, et des con trées limitrophes. Paris

1901-6

 GBP - 6.10
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