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
897 Catullus; Tasso, Torquato Poesie, lat. et ital.; Manoscritti inediti

1815

 GBP - 0.05
898 Zuinger, Theod In artem medicinalem Galini Tabulae et Commentarii Vienna

1751

 GBP - 0.10
899 Groot, Hugo de Nederlandtsche Jaerbocken en Historien Amsterdam

1681

 GBP - 1.08
900 Volaterranus, Raphael Commentariorum Urbanorum lib.

1544

 GBP - 1.05
901 Biblia Hebraica, accessit libri Apocryphi graece Antwerp

1584

 GBP - 0.10
902 Missale Romanum Rome

Jan., 1559

 GBP - 1.14
903 Cassanaeus, B. Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores post Theophanem; gr. et lat.; Catalogus Gloriae Mundi Paris, Venice

1571, 1685

 GBP - 0.10
904 Lohneyss, G. E.; Belidor, Bernard Bericht von Bergwercken; Architectura Hydraulica

1690

 GBP - 1.15
905 Lohneyss, G. E.; Rivius, Walther Bericht von Bergwercken; Der Architektur fuhrnehmsten Kiinst Nuremberg

n. d., 1558

 GBP - 2.15
906 Sallust; Tavernier, J. B. Chronica von dem Romischen Bundtschuck; Vierzigjahrige Reisebeschreibung Nuremburg, Strassburg

1534, 1681

 GBP - 2.05
907 Megenberg, Konrad von; Wirsung, C.; Thurneysser zu Thurn, L. Naturbuch; Artzneybuch; Confirmatio concertationis oder Kunst des Harnprobierens Frankfort, Heidelberg

1540, 1568

 GBP - 25.00
908 Hobbes, T. Leviathan

1651

 GBP - 0.18
909 A'Kempis, T. The Imitation of Christ

1893

 GBP - 0.18
910 Deutsche Schrifttafeln, hrsg, von E. Petzet und O. Glauning

1910-12

 GBP - 0.05
911 Diirer, A. Diirers Grime Passion in der Albertina

1922, 1923

 GBP - 1.12
912 Ketham, Johannes de Der Fasciculus medicinae Mailand

1923

 GBP - 0.18
913 Morison, Stanley On Type Faces; Festschrift zum 500 jahrigen Geburtstage von J. Gutenberg

1923, 1900

 GBP - 0.15
914 Gesellschaft fur Typenkunde

1914-24

 GBP - 0.16
915 P. C. Buck, A. Ramsbotham, etc Tudor Church Music Oxford

1923-29

 GBP - 2.10
916 Painter, William The Palace of Pleasure

1929

 GBP - 1.18
917 Jones, Owen The Grammar of Ornament

1910

 GBP - 1.15
918 Sabretache More Shires and Provinces

1928

 GBP - 2.05
919 Hall, S. C.; Britton, J. Baronial Halls of England; Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities

1858, 1830

 GBP - 3.05
920 Saint-Petersbourg Une Annee de Saint-Petersbourg

1812

 GBP - 24.00
921 M'Kenney, T. L. and J. Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America Philadelphia

1838-43

 GBP - 14.10
922 A'Beckett, G. A. The Comic History of England

1847-8

 GBP - 1.10
923 Apuleus, L.; Lawrence, D. H. The Golden Asse; Panzies

1923, 1929

 GBP - 0.18
924 Beerbohm, Max Works

1896, 1899

 GBP - 4.00
925 Browning, R. The Ring and the Book

1868-9

 GBP - 2.05
926 Butler, S.; Hickie, W.; Knox, C. The Fair Haven; Memoirs; Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion, 1764-5, New York, 1926; etc. New York

1873, n. d., 1926

 GBP - 1.04
927 Corelli, Marie; Flecker, J. E. The Young Diana; The King of Alsander

1922

 GBP - 0.05
928 Douglas, Norman Experiments, 1925; How About Europe

1925

 GBP - 0.14
929 Hewlett, Maurice; Nicholls, R.; De La Mare, W.; Mathers, E. Powys The Agonists, 1911; Fantastica, 1923; Broomsticks and other Tales; Red Wise

1911, 1923, 1925, 1926

 GBP - 0.16
930 Huxley, Aldous On the Margin, 1923; Antic Hay, 1923; Little Mexican, 1924; Along the Road, 1925; Those Barren Leaves, 1925; Selected Poems, Oxford, 1925; Proper Studies, 1928; Point Counter Point, 1928

1923

 GBP - 3.00
931 Mayhew, Brothers; Andersen, Hans Christian The Good Genius that turned everything into Gold; A Poet's Day Dreams, 1853

n. d., 1853

 GBP - 0.18
932 Moore, G. Conversations in Ebury Street

1924

 GBP - 1.04
933 Shaw, B. The Irrational Knot, 1905; Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1906; John Bull's Other Island, etc., 1907; Misalliance; etc., 1914

1905

 GBP - 1.02
934 Shaw, B. John Bull's Other Island, etc., 1907; Misalliance, etc., 1914; Saint Joan, 1924; Back to Methuselah, 1921

1907

 GBP - 1.04
935 Surtees, R. S. Sporting Novels Bradbury

n. d.

 GBP - 6.15
936 Thackeray, W. M. Comic Tales and Sketches

1841

 GBP - 2.15
937 Thompson, F.; Meynell, Alice; Meynell, W. The Hound of Heaven; Other Poems; Verses and Reverses

1897, 1896, 1910

 GBP - 7.10
938 Daniell, T. and W. A Picturesque Voyage to India

1810

 GBP - 3.15
939 De Tizae, H. D.; Johnston, R.F. Animals in Chinese Art; The Chinese Drama Shanghai

1921, 1923

 GBP - 3.00
940 Fransia, L. Etching Club; Trees

1838, 1813

 GBP - 0.15
941 Jacouleff, A. Les Dessins et Peintures d'Extreme-Orient Paris

n. d.

 GBP - 8.10
942 Mennie, D. and P. Weale The Pageant of Peking Shanghai

1922

 GBP - 0.15
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    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.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
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