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
400	Salmon, W.; Cervantes	Medicina Practica: or, the Practical Physician; Don Quixote		1707, 1831	GBP -	0.05
401	Combe, W.	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax		1813-20-[21]	GBP -	1.02
402	Holbein, H.	The Dance of Death		1816	GBP -	1.00
403	Hardy, J.	Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees		1825	GBP -	2.02
404	Butler, S.; Swift, Dean J.	Hudibras; Works	Dublin	1744, 1763	GBP -	0.05
405	Hadfield, W.; Bell, G. L.; Menpes, M.; Hanan, F. de G. Dobson, and others	Brazil and the River Plate; Syria: the Desert and the Town, 1908; War Impressions; Russia		1877, 1908, 1901, 1913	GBP -	0.05
406	Bourrienne, M. de	Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte		1836	GBP -	0.15
407	Lever, C.	Charles O'Malley	Dublin	1841, 1842	GBP -	Not Sold
408	Menpes, M.; Home, G.; Shaw, R.	Japan; Along the Rivieras of France and Italy; High Tartary; Yarkand and Kashgar		1903, 1908, 1871	GBP -	0.05
409	Evans, Sir John; Nichols, J. R.	Ancient Stone Implements, etc.; Bells thro' the Ages		1897, 1928	GBP -	0.05
410	L. Smithers; Brown, Tom	Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour; Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, 1893; Amusements Serious and Comical		1893	GBP -	0.05
411	Bury, Lady Charlotte	Willoughby (Lady) Diary; Diary of a Lady in Waiting		1844, 1897	GBP -	0.05
412	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer		1876	GBP -	0.18
413	Hunt, Leigh, Kingsley, Charles	A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla; Glaucus	Cambridge	1848, 1855	GBP -	0.12
414	Johnson, Samuel; Daniel, G.	Journey to the Western Isles; Merrie England		1755, 1842	GBP -	0.15
415	Ainsworth, W. H.	The Tower of London		1840	GBP -	0.18
416	Tree, Sir H. B.; Gosse, Sir Edmund	The Imaginative Faculty; Gossip in a Library		1893, 1891	GBP -	0.05
417	Symons, Arthur; Rossetti, W. M.	William Blake; Praeraphaelite Diaries and Letters		1916, 1900	GBP -	0.05
418	Montaigne, Michel, Seigneur de	Essays	Navarre Society	1923	GBP -	0.05
419	Bradshaw, Henry	Collected Papers	Cambridge	1889	GBP -	0.05
420	Burns, Robert	Poems		1786 [1927]	GBP -	0.05
421	Berkeley, George; Murray, James	The Analyst; or a Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician; The Travels of the Imagination		1734	GBP -	0.10
422	Hunt, J. H. L.	Readings for Railways		1849	GBP -	Not Sold
423	Hunt, J. H. L.	Wit and Humour		1846	GBP -	0.14
424	Bradley, Edward	The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green		1853	GBP -	0.10
425	Walpole, Hugh	The Secret City		1919	GBP -	1.10
426	Vachell, H. A.	The Hill		1905	GBP -	0.10
427	Cobbett, William	Legacy to Labourers		1834, 1835	GBP -	0.12
428	Conrad, Joseph	The Rover		1923	GBP -	0.12
429	Kipling, Rudyard	Life's Handicap		1891	GBP -	0.12
430	Kipling, R.	Traffics and Discoveries		1923	GBP -	0.12
431	Kipling, R.	Just So Stories		1902	GBP -	0.14
432	Symons, Arthur	Collected Works		1924	GBP -	0.05
433	Gardner, E. G.; Allen, A. M.; Symons, A.	The Story of Siena, 1902; History of Verona, 1910; Cities of Italy, 1926		1902, 1910, 1926	GBP -	0.10
434	D'Arblay, Madame, nee Burney, F.; Southey, Robert	Diary and Letters; Life and Correspondence		1854, 1849	GBP -	1.00
435	Le Sage	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane	Paris	-1795	GBP -	0.15
436	Hooker, Sir W. J.; Thomas, G. C.; Wright, W.	A Century of Ferns; Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing; Roses and Rose Gardens		1854, 1917, 1927	GBP -	1.03
437	Morris, B. R. and W. B. Tegetmeier	British Game Birds and Waterfowl		1895	GBP -	1.01
438	Doran, Dr.	Annals of the English Stage		1888	GBP -	0.05
439	Kipling, R.; Shaw, G. B.	The Five Nations, 1903; Rewards and Fairies, 1910; Getting Married, 1913		1903, 1910, 1913	GBP -	0.05
440	Swinburne, A. C.; Trench, Herbert	Poems; Collected Works		1904, 1924	GBP -	0.05
441	Lamb, Charles	Prose Works		1836-8, 1859	GBP -	0.05
442	Caius, John; E. C. Quiggin	Works; Essays and Studies presented to William Ridgeway	Cambridge	1912, 1913	GBP -	0.05
443	Piozzi, Mrs	Autobiography Letters and Literary Remains		1861, 1927	GBP -	0.05
444	Roberts, Field-Marshal, Lord; Dasent, A. I.	Forty-one Years in India; The Private Life of Charles the Second		1897, 1927	GBP -	0.05
445	Sue, Eugene; Cartaphilus; Laver, C.	The Wandering Jew; Chronicles of the Wander ing Jew; The Daltons		1844, 1853, 1852	GBP -	0.12
446	Wilson, Violet A.; Apperley, C. J.; Ellis, M.	The Coaching Era; My Life and Times, 1927; The Squire of Bentley, 1926		1922, 1927, 1926	GBP -	0.12
447	Kipling, R.	Barrack-Room Ballads		1892, 1903, 1919	GBP -	1.03
448	Lucas, E. V.	Runaways and Castaways		1908	GBP -	0.10
449	Thackeray, W. M.	Works		n. d.	GBP -	0.05
450	Farnol, Jeffery	The Broad Highway		1910, 1913	GBP -	1.00
451	Quiller-Couch, A. T.	The Blue Pavilions, 1893; I Saw Three Ships, 1893; The Delectable Duchy, 1893; Noughts and Crosses, 1893; Ia, 1896; and others by the same author, all original cloth (11)		1893, 1896	GBP -	0.05
452	Shaw, G. B.; Flecker, J. E.; Symons, Arthur	The Apple Cart; Don Juan; The Toy Cart		1930, 1925, 1919	GBP -	0.14
453	Meredith, George	Poetical Works		1912	GBP -	0.05
454	Thackeray, W. M.	Works		1920-13	GBP -	3.03
455	Southey, Robert	The Doctor		1834-47	GBP -	Not Sold
456	Moore, Thomas; White, H. K.; Lewis, M. G.	Songs, Ballads and Sacred Songs; Remains; Poems		1811, 1812, 1849	GBP -	Not Sold
457	Barrie, J. M.	Sentimental Tommie			GBP -	0.15
458	D'Haussonville, Le Comte; Dennistoun, J.	La Duchesse de Bourgogne; Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino	Paris	n. d., 1919	GBP -	0.05
459	Trollope, A.; Meredith, Geo	Ralph The Heir; Beauchamp's Career		1871, 1876	GBP -	0.15
460	Morier, J.; Stevenson, R. L.	Ayesha, the Maid of Karo; A Footnote to History		1850, 1892	GBP -	0.14
461	Wither, Geo	Britain's Remembrancer		1628	GBP -	0.14
462	Eliot, George	Felix Holt		1866	GBP -	Not Sold
463	Dodgson, L.	Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno concluded, 1893		1889, 1893	GBP -	0.08
464	Longfellow, H. W.; Browne, T. E.; Betsy Lee; Melville, Herman; Clarel	The Building of the Ship, Boston, 1878; A Fo'cs'le Yarn, 1873; A Poem	Boston, New York	1873, 1876, 1878	GBP -	0.10
465	Bennett, Arnold; Conrad, J.; Galsworthy, J.	Fame and Fiction, 1901; Whom God hath Joined 1906; The Secret Agent, 1907; The Silver Spoon, 1926		1901, 1907, 1926	GBP -	Not Sold
466	Wells, H. G.; Kipling, R.	The Time Machine, 1895; Limits and Renewals, 1932		1932	GBP -	Not Sold
467	Maugham, W. S.	Liza of Lambeth		1897	GBP -	0.14
468	Shaw, G. B.	Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889); Dramatic Opinions and Essays		1889	GBP -	0.12
469	Dickens, C.	Our Mutual Friend		1864-5	GBP -	1.14
470	Cruikshank, G.	Comic Almanack 1845 to 1847 in 1 vol.		1845-7	GBP -	0.05
471	Jerrold, D.; Haggard, H. Rider; Crockett, S. R.; White, W. H.	Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures; Kit Kennedy; Pages from a Journal by Mark Rutherford, 1900		1866, 1887, 1899, 1900	GBP -	0.05
472	Masefield, J.; Beerbohm, Max; Drinkwater, J.; Bridges, R.	The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, 1910; A Christmas Garland, 1912; Abraham Lincoln, 1918; Shorter Poems		1910, 1912, 1918, 1894	GBP -	2.05
473	Gaskell, Mrs.; Kingsley, C.; Jeffereys, W.	The Moorland Cottage, 1850; Glaucus: or the Wonders of the Shore; The Amateur Poacher, 1879		1850, 1855, 1879	GBP -	0.12
474	Trollope, A.	The Golden Lion of Granpere, 1872; An Eye for an Eye		1872	GBP -	0.14
475	Meredith, Geo	One of our Conquerors		1891	GBP -	0.05
476	Moore, Thos; De La Mare, W.; Freeman, J.; Aldington, R.	Notes from the Letters of Thomas Moore to his Music Publishers; The Veil and other Poems; The Red Path; A Dream in the Luxembourg	New York	1858, 1921, 1930	GBP -	Not Sold
477	Kaye-Smith, Sheila	Shepherds in Sackcloth		1930	GBP -	0.05
478	Hyne, C. J. C.	The New Eden		1892	GBP -	0.12
479	Landor, W. S.	The Pentameron and Pentalogia		1837	GBP -	0.05
480	Davidson, John	Smith. A Tragedy	Glasgow	1888	GBP -	0.15
481	Rossetti, C. G.	Speaking Likenesses		1893	GBP -	0.05
482	Hughes, Thomas	The Scouring of the White Horse		1859	GBP -	0.05
483	Tomlinson, H. M.	All Our Yesterdays		1930	GBP -	0.05
484	Housman, Laurence	Trimblerigg		1924	GBP -	0.05
485	Smith, Albert	A Pottle of Strawberries		1848	GBP -	Not Sold
486	Carleton, William	Tales and Sketches of the Irish Peasantry	Dublin	1845-46	GBP -	Not Sold
487	Weyman, S. J.	The Man in Black		1894	GBP -	0.16
488	Bradley, A. G.; Norway, A. H.	Highways and Byways Series; Yorkshire		1898, 1901, 1899	GBP -	0.10
489	Thomson, Hugh	A Collection of Books illustrated by Hugh Thomson, original cloth (25)			GBP -	1.15
490	Masefield, John	Martin Hyde		1910	GBP -	0.05
491	Kipling, Rudyard	Departmental Ditties	Calcutta	1892	GBP -	1.02
492	Galsworthy, John	Swan Song		1928	GBP -	1.08
493	Belloc, Hilaire	The River of London		1912	GBP -	0.05
494	Haggard, H. R.; Hawkins, A. H.; Hichens, R. S.	Allan Quatermain; Rupert of Hentzau; An Imaginative Man, 1895; The Garden of Allah, 1904		1888, 1899, 1895, 1904	GBP -	0.15
495	Flecker, J. E.; Barrie, J. M.; Sitwell, Edith	Don Juan; Plays; Collected Poems		1926, 1928, 1930	GBP -	0.16
496	Tomlinson, H. M.; Walpole, Hugh; Kaye-Smith, Sheila; Deeping, Warwick	The Sea and the Jungle; The Fortress; Susan Spray; Roper's Row		1930, 1932, 1931, 1929	GBP -	0.12
497	Le Gallienne, Richard	Limited Editions		1893	GBP -	0.05
498	Byron, G. G., Lord	The Giaour		1813, 1814, 1816	GBP -	0.15
499	Cripps, W. J.; Gask, N.	Old English Plate; Old Silver Spoons of England		1914, 1926	GBP -	0.12

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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