Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 14May1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 14, 1934 - May 14, 1934

Page Size: 946 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		BRITISH Archaeological Association		1849-91	GBP -	1.00
2	Brookfield, C. and F.; Saintsbury, G.	Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle; A Scrap Book		1905	GBP -	0.18
3	Burke, J. and J. B.; Boutell, C.; Burke, Sir B.; Lower, M. A.; Planche, J. R.	Encyclopaedia of Heraldry; Heraldry; Vicissitudes of Families; Curiosities of Heraldry, 1845; The Pursuivant of Arms, 1852		n. d., 1863, 1859-60, 1845	GBP -	1.05
4		Camden Society Publications		1847-72	GBP -	Not Sold
5	Camden, W.; Lower, M. A.; Sims, R.; Burns, J. S.	Remaines concerning Brittaine; Manual for the Genealo gist, etc., 1862; History of Parish Registers, 1862		1629, 1849, 1862	GBP -	0.10
6	Cox, J. C.	The Churches of Derbyshire		1875-79	GBP -	0.10
7	John Morley; Swinburne, A. C.	English Men of Letters Series; Note on Charlotte Bronte; Note on Charlotte Bronte		v. d., 1877	GBP -	0.15
8	Hone, W.	Every-Day Book		1826-32	GBP -	0.05
9	Jekyll, Gertrude; Earle, Mrs. C. W.	Wood and Garden, 1899; Home and Garden, 1901; Potpourri from a Surrey Garden		1901	GBP -	0.10
10	Johnson, S.; Steele, R. etc	The Rambler; The Tatler		1794	GBP -	0.10
11	Lemon, R.; Chester, J. L.	Catalogue of Printed Broadsides in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1866; London Marriage Licenses		1866, 1887	GBP -	0.05
12	Peacocke, E.; Male, E.	Church Furniture; L'Art Religieux du XIIIe siecle		1866	GBP -	1.02
13	Whittle, P.; Hewitson, A.	Record Society for the publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire; History of Preston, History of Preston; History of Preston		1837, 1878-86	GBP -	0.08
14		Society of Antiquaries of London		1859-97	GBP -	0.05
15	Cass, F. C.	East Barnet, 1885-92; South Mimms, 1877		1885-92, 1877, 1880	GBP -	0.05
16	Hennessy, G.	Novum Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense		1898	GBP -	0.05
17	Lower, M. A.	The Worthies of Sussex		1865	GBP -	0.08
18	Smith, T. C.	Preston, Lancashire; Records of the Parish Church of Preston		1822, 1892	GBP -	0.10
19		Society of Antiquaries of London Archaeologia		1860-97	GBP -	1.00
20	Peck, F.; Parkin, C.	Academia tertia Anglicana: or, Antiquarian Annals of Stanford, 1727; Topographical History of Freebridge Hundred in the County of Norfolk, 1772		1727, 1772	GBP -	0.15
21	Froissart, Sir J.; Shakespeare	Chronicles of England, France and Spain; Works		1857	GBP -	1.12
22	Hudson, W. H.; Carlisle, Frederick, Earl of	A Hind in Richmond Park; Tragedies and Poems		1922	GBP -	Not Sold
23	Defoe, D.; Gauger	History of the Great Plague in London; Fires Improv'd being a New Method of Building Chimneys		1754, 1715	GBP -	0.10
24	Dickens, Charles	The Battle of Life		1846	GBP -	Not Sold
25	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers		1837, 1857	GBP -	2.00
26	Meredith, George	Diana of the Crossways		1885	GBP -	0.05
27	Dodgson, C. L.	Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno concluded		1889-93	GBP -	Not Sold
28	Shorthouse, J. H.; Kingsley, C.; Dickens, C.	Sir Percival, 1886; The Heroes; The Battle of Life, 1846; The Haunted Man, 1848		1848, 1846, 1886	GBP -	0.10
29	Hughes, T.	Tom Brown's School Days	Cambridge	1857	GBP -	10.10
30	Barrie, J. M.; Gay, J.	The Little White Bird; Fables		1902, 1793	GBP -	Not Sold
31	Hassell, J.	Picturesque rides and walks		1817	GBP -	8.05
32	Holbein, J.; Crabbe, G.	The Dance of Death; Poetical Works		1811, 1834	GBP -	Not Sold
33	Carlyle, T.	Works		1886-93	GBP -	1.02
34	Davis, W. J.	The Token Coinage of Warwickshire, plates	Birmingham	1895	GBP -	Not Sold
35	Burke, J.; Winans, W.	Encyclopaedia of Heraldry or General Armory; Art of Revolver Shooting		n. d., 1911	GBP -	1.12
36	Dodgson, C. L.; Smith, A.	Through the Looking-Glass; Adventures of Mr. Ledbury, 1886; The Marchioness of Brinvilliers, 1886		1872, 1886	GBP -	0.10
37	Dickens, C.; Lever, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit; The Knight of Gwynne		1844, 1848, 1850	GBP -	0.05
38	Meadows, T. T.; Brownell, C. de W.	The Government and People of China; The Indian Races of North and South America	New York	1847, 1857	GBP -	0.08
39	Shaftesbury, Anthony, Earl of	Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	2.00
40	Walton, I.; Lamb, C.	Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Geo. Herbert, etc.; Letters		1825, 1837	GBP -	1.05
41	Browning, R.; Stevenson, R. L.; Wells, H. G.; De La Mare, W.	Ferishtah's Fancies, 1884; Weir of Hermiston, 1896; New Worlds for Old, 1908; The Three Mulla-Mulgars, 1921; and two others		1884, 1896, 1908, 1921	GBP -	0.14
42	Hewitt, J.	Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe		1855-60	GBP -	1.00
43	Hazlitt, W.; A'Beckett, G. A.	Lectures on the English Poets; Comic History of England		1818; n. d.	GBP -	0.05
44	Birch, S.; O'Brien, H.	History of Ancient Pottery; The Round Towers of Ireland		1858, 1898	GBP -	0.05
45	Evans, J.	Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, etc.		1881, 1897	GBP -	0.10
46	Psalmanazaar, George	An historical and geographical description of Formosa		1704	GBP -	0.12
47	Walpole, Horace	The Castle of Otranto	London	1791	GBP -	0.05
48	Whistler, J. McN	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies	Paris	1890	GBP -	Not Sold
49	Beckford, P.	Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting		1796	GBP -	2.10
50		Guide to the Watering Places between the Exe and the Dart		1821	GBP -	6.00
51	Jones, G.; Surtees, R. S.	The Battle of Waterloo; Hillingdon Hall		1852, 1888	GBP -	1.08
52	Addison, J.; Gay, J.; Davies, T.	Works; Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick and Dramatic Miscellanies	Dublin	1735, 1753, 1780-84	GBP -	1.05
53	Shelley, M. W.	The Last Man		1826	GBP -	4.05
54	Godwin, William	Mandeville	Edinburgh	1817	GBP -	0.10
55	Burney, Sarah Harriet	Traits of Nature		1812	GBP -	0.10
56	Rabelais, F.	Euvres; Arabian Nights		1752, 1811	GBP -	1.10
57	Lewis, W.; Fenn, J.	The New Dispensatory; Course of Mathematics	Dublin	1768, 1769, 1834-7	GBP -	1.15
58	Kinglake, A. W.; Bagshot, W.	Eothen; Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen		1844, 1858	GBP -	0.10
59	Burke, E.	Works		1801	GBP -	0.08
60	Combe, W.	Three Tours of Dr. Syntax		1819-21	GBP -	2.00
61	Landor, W. S.	Imaginary Conversations		1824	GBP -	1.05
62	Scott, Sir W.	Kenilworth	Edinburgh	1821, 1822	GBP -	0.05
63	Scott, Sir W.	St. Ronan's Well	Edinburgh	1824, 1826	GBP -	1.00
64	Scott, Sir W.	Tales of the Crusaders	Edinburgh	1825, 1827-8	GBP -	0.10
65	Lytton, E. G. Bulwer, Lord	Paul Clifford		1830, 1834	GBP -	0.08
66	LILFORD, Lord	Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands		1885-97	GBP -	4.10
67	Radcliffe, E. P. D.	The Noble Science		1839	GBP -	0.10
68	Apperley, C. J.	Life and Death of John Mytton, Esq.		1877	GBP -	0.14
69	Fielding, Henry	A true state of the case of Bosavern Penlez who suffered on account of the late riot in the Strand		1749	GBP -	0.18
70	Surtees, R. S.	Hillingdon Hall		1888	GBP -	1.00
71	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers		1837, 1844	GBP -	2.10
72	Surtees, R. S.	Handley Cross		1854	GBP -	3.00
73	Surtees, R. S.	Ask Mamma		1858	GBP -	1.12
74	Surtees, R. S.; Walton, I. and C. Cotton	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; The Complete Angler with lives by Sir John Hawkins		1860, 1808	GBP -	2.05
75	Apperley, C. J.	Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton		1851	GBP -	2.10
76	Dasent, A. I.; Williams, Montagu	John Thadeus Delane; Leaves of a Life		1908, 1890	GBP -	1.10
77	Apperley, C. J.; Surtees, R. S.	Life of John Mytton; Handley Cross; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1869	GBP -	2.10
78	Combe, William	The Tours of Doctor Syntax		1819-20-[21]	GBP -	3.05
79	Ingleby, C. M.	Renderings in Rhyme from Sappho, Anacreon, Virgil, Catullus			GBP -	1.05
80		Sporting Magazine or Monthly Chronicle of the Transactions of the Turf, etc.		1817-1821, 1823	GBP -	1.00
81	Bucknill, J. A.; Balston, R. J.; C. W. Shepherd and E. Bartlett; Henslow, T. G.; White, G.	The Birds of Surrey, 1900; Notes on the Birds of Kent, 1907; Garden Development; Natural History of Selborne		1900, 1907, 1923, 1911	GBP -	1.01
82	Timbs, John; Birch, W. de G.	Curiosities of London; Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents of the City of London, 1887	London	n. d., 1579-1664, 1878, 1887	GBP -	0.05
83	Ward, Rowland; Churchill, C. G. S.	Records of Big Game; Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida		1899, 1904	GBP -	0.05
84	Cibber, Colley; Egan, Pierce; Knight, J.	Apology for his Life; Life of an Actor; Theatrical Notes		1889, 1892, 1893	GBP -	0.12
85	Lemon, R.; Jones, E. A.; Benedite, L.	Catalogue of a Collection of printed Broadsides; Old Church Plate of the Isle of Man; L'Art au XIXe siecle		1866, 1907	GBP -	0.18
86	James, M. E.; Ward, Mrs. Hum phrey	The Heir of Aylmer's Court; David Grieve		1884, 1892	GBP -	Not Sold
87	Marryat, Capt.; Eliot, George	The Mission: or Scenes in Africa; Silas Marner, 1861		1845, 1861	GBP -	0.05
88	Meredith, Geo	One of our Conquerers		1891, 1894	GBP -	0.05
89	Collins, Wilkie	The Law and the Lady		1875, 1879	GBP -	Not Sold
90	Massinger, P.	Best Plays		1887, 1888	GBP -	1.02
91	Shaw, G.; Hamilton, Sir W.	Zoological Lectures; Observations on Mount Vesuvius, etc.		1809, 1772	GBP -	Not Sold
92	J. Harrison	Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine		1833-45	GBP -	1.08
93	Sheffield, John, Lord	Observations on the Commerce of the American States		1784	GBP -	0.05
94	Burney, C.	Present State of Music in France Italy Germany, etc.		1771-3	GBP -	1.10
95	Irving, W.; Gore, Mrs	Tales of a Traveller; Modern Chivalry		1824, 1843	GBP -	Not Sold
96	Gibbon, E.	Seward; Miscellaneous Works	Dublin	1796, 1798	GBP -	Not Sold
97	Cullen, W.	First Lines of the Practice of Physic	Edinburgh	1784	GBP -	Not Sold
98	Coleridge, S. T.	Poems		1797	GBP -	2.10
99	Kipling, R.	Soldier Tales		1896	GBP -	Not Sold
100	Combe, W.	The First [second, third] tour of Doctor Syntax		n. d.	GBP -	1.15

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