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
301	Bigland, Ralph	Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections, relative to the County of Gloucester		1791-2	GBP -	11.00
302	Blome, Richard	Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of England		1673	GBP -	3.15
303	Freart, R. and J. Evelyn	A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern		1723	GBP -	0.10
304	Guillim, John	A Display of Heraldry		1660	GBP -	4.05
305	Guillim, J.	Display of Heraldry		1724	GBP -	0.15
306	Larchey, Loredan	Ancien Armorial equestre de la Toison d'or et de l'Europe au 15e siecle		1890	GBP -	1.15
307	Milles, T.	Catalogue of Honor; Marc de Wlson, sieur de la Colombrere		1610, 1644	GBP -	1.15
308	Rudder, Samuel	A New History of Gloucestershire		1779	GBP -	5.05
309		Times Survey Atlas of the World		1922	GBP -	4.00
310	Hope, Sir W. H. St. J.	Vetusta Monumenta; Cowdray and Ease-bourne Priory		1747-48, 1919	GBP -	1.04
311	ALCIATUS, A.	Emblemata; Dissertation des Lotteries par C. F. M[enestrier]		1608	GBP -	0.18
312	BARROUGH, PHILIP	The Method of Phisick		1596	GBP -	6.15
313	Boissard, J. J.; Wierus, J.	Emblematum Liber; Opera Omnia	Frankfurt; Amsterdam	1593, 1660	GBP -	1.10
314	BRADSHAW, HENRY	SOCIETY		1891-1921	GBP -	8.00
315		Cookery Book		XVIIIth Century	GBP -	2.00
316	Fielding, Henry	The History of Tom Jones		1749	GBP -	2.05
317	Hope, Sir William	A New Short and Easy Method of Fencing	Edinb.	1707	GBP -	2.02
318	Johnson, S.; Junius	A Journey to the Western Islands; Letters		1772, 1775	GBP -	1.05
319	Jones, Dr. John; Lynch, B.	The Mysteries of Opium Revealed; A Guide to Health		1700, 1744	GBP -	2.02
320	Latham, Symon	Latham's Falconry or the Faulcons Lure, and Cure		1618	GBP -	2.00
321	Le Clerc, Jean	Le Spectacle de la Vie Humaine		1755	GBP -	1.05
322	Manwood, John	A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest		1615	GBP -	0.14
323	Milton, John; Piozzi, H. L.	Paradise Lost, A Poem; British Synonymy		1674	GBP -	1.10
324	Montaigne, M. de; Cowley, A.	Essays, Made English by Charles Cotton; Works		1700, 1710	GBP -	0.05
325	Philips, J.; Bysshe, E.; Young, E.	Works; Art of English Poetry; A Poem on the Last Day	Oxford	1710, 1713, 1720	GBP -	1.02
326	Plutarch	Lives; Biographical Magazine		1727	GBP -	0.05
327	Roberts, A.	The Adventures of (Mr. T. S.)		1670	GBP -	2.15
328	Mallet, A. M.	Shaftesbury (Earl of) Characteristics; Les Travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre		1732, 1685	GBP -	0.05
328	ACKERMANN, R.	THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. PETER'S WESTMINSTER		1812	GBP -	4.00
329	Shaw, P.; Morton, R.	An Enquiry into the Contents Virtues, and Uses of the Scarborough Spaw-Waters; Exercitationes de Morbis Universalibus Acutis	London	1692, 1734	GBP -	0.05
330	Watkins, Richard	Newes from the Dead. Or a True Narration of Anne Greene ... Executed at Oxford, afterwards revived		1651	GBP -	0.05
331	Adam Fitz-Adam	World (The); History of the Earl of Warwick	Edinb.	1770	GBP -	1.02
332	Goldsmith, O.; Ariosto, L.	The Traveller, 1770; The Deserted Village, 1772; Retaliation, 1774; Orlando Furioso in English Verse by Sir John Harington		1770, 1772, 1774, 1634	GBP -	0.05
333	Montaigne, M. de; Gessner, S.	Les Essais, avec de Remarques par Pierre Coste; New Idylls		1724, 1776	GBP -	0.08
334	Raffles, Lady; Howard, J.	Memoirs of the Life and Public Services of Thomas Stamford Raffles; Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe		1830, 1789	GBP -	0.12
335	Robertson, Wm.; Lyttleton, G., Lord	History of America; History of the Life of King Henry II		1777, 1767	GBP -	0.10
336	Thornton, Col.; Bardon, Dandre	A Sporting Tour through various parts of France; Costume des Anciens Peuples		1806, 1772	GBP -	1.00
337	Spenser, Edmund	Works		1679	GBP -	1.00
338		Vestigia delle Terme di Tito e Loro Interne Pitture		1722	GBP -	2.08
339	Willis, Thomas; Laurentius, A.	Pharmaceutice Rationalis, or an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Human Bodies; Humani Corporis	Paris	1679, 1600	GBP -	0.12
340	White, Henry Kirke	FORE-EDGE PAINTING		1811	GBP -	2.10
341	Singlande, R. P.	Memoires et Voyages	Paris	1765	GBP -	2.12
342	Coronel, Fernando de los Rios	Sobre las Islas Filipinas		1628	GBP -	2.02
343		Quintus Curtius de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni		1542	GBP -	2.18
344	A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, S. Leathes	Cambridge Modern History	Cambridge	1902-11	GBP -	3.10
345	Perugini, M. E.; Cellarius; Hanley, J.	The Art of Ballet; Fashionable Dancing; Drift		1915, 1930	GBP -	0.15
346		Nonesuch Press		1923	GBP -	4.10
347	Walton, I.; Dennys, John; Barnes, Dame J.	The Compleat Angler; The Secrets of Angling; Treatise of Fysshynge		1931, 1883	GBP -	1.14
348	Masefield, John; Brophy, J.	King Cole, 1923; Midsummer Night, 1928; Fanfare		1923, 1928, 1930, 1931	GBP -	1.00
349	Tomlinson, H. M.	AU Our Yesterdays, 1930; The Sea and The Jungle, 1930; Out of Soundings, 1931		1930, 1931	GBP -	1.02
350	Combe, W.	Life of Napoleon		1817	GBP -	3.10
351	Catlin, G.	O-Kea-Pa: a Religious Ceremony and other Customs of the Mandans		1867	GBP -	2.15
352	Plumpin, R., Admiral	Naval Regulations at St. Helena during Buonaparte's residence there		1818	GBP -	2.05
353	Towndrow, T.	Art of Writing Short-Hand	New York	1841	GBP -	1.02
354	Campbell, T.	The Pleasures of Hope	Edinburgh	1799	GBP -	0.10
355		FORE-EDGE PAINTING		1660	GBP -	6.15
356	Shirley, W.	Letter to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle	Philadelphia	1746, 1800	GBP -	1.00
357	Cervantes, M. de	Nouvelles. Traduction nouvelle	Amsterdam	1720	GBP -	0.12
358		Book of Common Prayer	London	1717	GBP -	0.15
359	Concannon, M.	A Match at Football; or the Irish Champions		1721	GBP -	3.00
360	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron, or Ten Days Entertainment of Bocace		1741	GBP -	6.00
361	Churchyard, T.; Adolphus, J. L.; Freeman, J. B.	Chips concerning Scotland; Letters to Richard Heber; Fashion, and other Poems		1817, 1821, 1825	GBP -	Not Sold
362	Hoffer, J.	Icones Catecheseos, et virtutum ac vitiorum illustrate numeris		1560	GBP -	0.15
363	Luigino da Udine, F.	Il Libro della Bella Donna		1554	GBP -	Not Sold
364		Memorialls for the Government of the Royall-Burghs in Scotland	Aberdeen	1685	GBP -	0.12
365	Collyns, C. P.	Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset		1862	GBP -	0.15
366	Voltaire, F. M. A. de	Histoire de l'Empire Russie sous Pierre le Grand	S.l.	1759-63	GBP -	Not Sold
367	Casa, G. della	Prose et Rime, riveduta, e corretta per I'Abbate Annibale Antonini	In Parigi	1727	GBP -	Not Sold
368	Gadbury, J.; Moore, F.; Wing, J.	Ladies Diary (The): or, the Woman's Almanack for the Year 1738; Ephemeris: or a Diary, 1738; Vox Stellarum: or, a Loyal Almanack, 1738; An Almanack, 1738; and 9 other Almanacks for the year 1738		1738	GBP -	0.14
369	Richardson, W.; Tooke, W.	Anecdotes of the Russian Empire; View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Second		1784, 1799	GBP -	0.05
370	Eikon Basilike	The Povrtraictvre of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitvdes and Svfferings		1648	GBP -	0.12
371	Rossetti, W. M.	Bibliography of the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti		1905	GBP -	0.08
372	Savile, Albany	Thirty-Six Hints to Sportsmen		n. d.	GBP -	1.08
373	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1804	GBP -	2.10
374	Bewick, T. and J.; Shoberl; Curzon, Marquis	Select Fables; Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk; Walmer Castle and its Lords Warden	Newcastle	1820, 1851, 1926	GBP -	1.10
375	Lever, C.	Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, n. d. (1839); The O'Donoghue, n. d. (1845); The Dodd Family Abroad, 1854; The Martins of Cro' Martin, 1856		n. d. (1839)	GBP -	0.05
376	Markham, Gervase; Colquhoun, J.; Surtees, R. S.; Apperley, C. J.	The Pleasures of Princes; The Moor and the Loch; Hunting Tours; My Horses		1927, 1878, 1927	GBP -	0.05
377	Hewitt, J.; Evans, Sir John	Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe, 1855; Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, etc.		1855, 1897	GBP -	0.05
378	Forster, J.	Life of Charles Dickens		1873, 1880	GBP -	0.16
379	Wentworth, W. C.; Metchill, Maj. T. L.	The British Settlements in Australia; Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia		1824, 1839	GBP -	0.12
380	Sappho; Omar Khayyam; Voltaire	Memoir and Translation by H. T. Wharton; Rubaiyat; The Princess of Babylon		1855, 1899, 1927	GBP -	0.14
381	Tomlinson, H. M.	Under the Red Ensign		1926	GBP -	1.05
382	Morier, J.; Hunt, Leigh	The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan; Stories from the Italian Poets	Paris	1824, 1846	GBP -	0.05
383	Olivier, J.	Fencing Familiarized		1780	GBP -	0.10
384	Boswell, J.	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson		1785	GBP -	0.08
385	Moliere, J. B.	CEuvres	Paris	1730	GBP -	Not Sold
386	Byron, Lord; Lytton, Lord; Thomson, J.	Sardanapalus; The Duchess de la Valliere, a Play; The City of Dreadful Night		1821, 1836, 1880	GBP -	0.05
387	Dibdin, T. F.	Arabian Nights; Introduction to Greek and Latin Classics		1841, 1827	GBP -	1.08
388	Grew, N.; Walpole, H.; Montagu, Mary W.; Gilpin, W.	The Anatomy of Vegitables; Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors; Works; Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland		1672, 1759, 1803, 1808	GBP -	1.08
389	Cowper, W.; Praed, W. M.; Egerton Warburton, R. E.; E. Dowden	Poems; Poems, Epigrams, etc.; Lyrical Ballads		1815, 1864, 1877, 1890	GBP -	0.05
390	Ward, James; McClelland, N.	History and Methods of Ancient and Modern Painting; The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments		1913, 1926	GBP -	2.02
391	La Quintinye, M. de; Douglas, J.; Chateaubriand, F. A.	The Complete Gard'ner; Rapin; Travelling Anecdotes; Travels in Greece, Palestine, etc.		1701, 1728, 1785	GBP -	1.02
392	Donovan, E.; Baker, Henry; Wood, W.	Natural History of British Insects; The Microscope; Zoography		1792, 1742, 1807	GBP -	0.05
393	White, G.; Hone, W.	Natural History of Selborne; Every Day Book, Table Book and Year Book		1813, 1831-2	GBP -	0.05
394	Litchfield, F.; Williamson, G. C.	Antiques Genuine and Spurious; Stories of an Expert		1921, 1925	GBP -	0.10
395	Butcher, R.; Griffiths; Wodderspoon, J.; Varley, T. and J. Ball	Survey and Antiquity of the Town of Stamford in the County of Lincoln; Historical Description of Cheltenham, 1826; Memorials of Ipswich; Hampshire		1717, 1826, 1850, 1909	GBP -	0.16
396	Shaw, G. B.	An Unsocial Socialist		1887	GBP -	Not Sold
397	Kipling, R.; Moore, G.	The Seven Seas, 1896; The Day's Work, 1898; Lewis Seymour and some Women, 1917		1917, 1896, 1898	GBP -	Not Sold
398	Stevenson, R. L.; Barrie, Sir J. M.	A Footnote to History, 1892; Catriona, 1893; Margaret Ogilvie, 1896		1892, 1893, 1896	GBP -	0.05
399	Hughes, T.; Trollope, A.; Hudson, W. H.; Milne, A. A.	The Scouring of the White Horse; He Knew he was Right; The Book of a Naturalist; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928	Cambridge	1859, 1869, n. d., 1928	GBP -	0.05

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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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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

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