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
500	Glazier, R.; Ashton, L.; Christie, Mrs. A.	Historic Textile Fabrics, 1923; Samplers, 1926; Samplers and Stitches, 1929		1926, 1929	GBP -	1.10
501	Brangwyn, F. and W. S. Sparrow; Gotch, J. A.	A Book of Bridges; The English Home		1924, 1919	GBP -	0.10
502	Austen, Jane	Love & Freindship		1922	GBP -	0.05
503	Lubbock, John, Lord Avebury	Prehistoric Times		1913	GBP -	0.05
504	Nodier, Charles	The Luck of the Bean-Rows		1921	GBP -	Not Sold
505	Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure		1896	GBP -	0.08
506	Harte, Bret; Clemens, S. L.	The Queen of the Pirate Island; Editorial Wild Oats		n. d., 1905	GBP -	1.10
507	Eliot, George; Disraeli, Benjamin	Daniel Deronda; Endy-mion		1876, 1880	GBP -	Not Sold
508	Milne, A. A.	Teddy Bear and Other Songs		1826	GBP -	0.12
509	Dohme, R.	Kunst und Kunstler des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit	Leipzig	1877-80	GBP -	Not Sold
510	Rochefort, H.; Boigne, Comtesse de; Sirgeant, P.	The Adventures of my Life; Memoirs, 1781-1814; The Last Empress of the French		1781-1814, 1896, 1907	GBP -	0.05
511	Jekyll, G.; Cook, E. T.; Robinson, W.	Home and Garden, 1901; Gardening for Beginners, n. d.; The English Flower Garden, 1898		n. d., 1898	GBP -	0.14
512	Fell, Sarah; Burney, Fanny and the Burneys; Sibbald, Susan	Household Account Books; Memoirs	Cambridge	1783-1812, 1926, 1920, 1926	GBP -	0.10
513	Wordsworth, W.; Burns, R.	The Prelude; Poems		1786, 1850, 1897	GBP -	0.10
514	Irving, Washington; Johnson, S.	Rip Van Winkle; Rasselas; Tibetan Tales		1909, 1926, 1906	GBP -	0.18
515	Apperley, C. J.	Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton		1925	GBP -	0.18
516	Ross, Sir J. G.; Walpole, Lieut. Hon. F.; Jackson, F. G.	Voyage to the Southern Seas; Four Years in the Pacific; A Thousand Days in the Arctic		1847, 1850, 1899	GBP -	3.03
517	Walters, H. B.; Eberlein, H. D. and A. McLure	History of Ancient Pottery; The Practical Book of Period Furniture		1905	GBP -	2.02
518	Turner, J. M. W.; Okey, T.; Hind, L.	The Rivers of France; Venice and its Story; Landscape Painting		1903, n. d.	GBP -	1.06
519	Prescott, W. H.; Dobson, Austin	Works; Proverbs in Porcelain		1838-75, 1877, 1892	GBP -	1.02
520	Lowndes, W. T.; Coulton, G. G.	The Bibliographer's Manual; A Medieval Garner		1864, 1910	GBP -	0.14
521	Scarron, P.; Wells, H. G.	The Comical Romance; The Sea Lady		1892, 1902, 1915	GBP -	0.14
522		Eighteenth Century Jig-saw Puzzles		1787	GBP -	2.02
523	Hemans, Mrs	Poems by Felicia Dorothy Browne	Liverpool	1808	GBP -	Not Sold
524	Woolaston, W.; Jones, Inigo	The Religion of Nature delineated; Stone-Heng restored		1655	GBP -	0.10
525	Stigand, Capt. C. H.	The Game of British East Africa		1913	GBP -	0.05
526	Angelo, H.; Holbein, H.	Pic Nic; The Dance of Death		1905, 1892	GBP -	0.08
527	Godwyn, Thomas	Moses and Aaron		1626	GBP -	Not Sold
528	Hobson, R. L.	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	1.15
529	Armour, G. D. and E. D. Cumming	British Sport Past and Present			GBP -	0.10
530		Harleian Miscellany: or Collection of Scarce, Curious Pamphlets and Tracts		1744-46	GBP -	0.10
531	Hodgson, J. E.	The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain	Oxford	1924	GBP -	1.10
532	Heber, Bp. R.; White, G. F.	Journey through the Upper Provinces of India; Views in India		1828, 1830, n. d.	GBP -	0.05
533	Rosenthal, L.	The Kingdom of the Pearl		n. d.	GBP -	0.05
534	Tyndale, W.; Kelman, J.	An Artist in the Riviera; From Damascus to Palmyra		n. d., 1908	GBP -	0.05
535	Maspero, G.; Stobart, J. C.	The Dawn of Civilization; The Glory that was Greece		1896, 1911	GBP -	1.01
536	Du Monceau, D.; Walpole, H.	De L'Exploitation des Bois; Journal of the Printing Office at Strawberry Hill	Paris	1764, 1923	GBP -	0.16
537	Akenside, M.; Dun-combe, John; Cunningham, J.; Whitehead, W.	Ode to the Earl of Huntingdon, 1748; Poems; Elegy on a Pile of Ruins, 1761; A Charge to the Poets, 1762; and 2 others		1748, 1761, 1762, 1756, 1761, 1762	GBP -	0.05
538	Bacon, Sir F.	The Elements of the Common Lawes of England		1639	GBP -	1.10
539	Southall, C. H.	Views of St. Leonards-on-Sea		1829	GBP -	1.12
540	Wheatley, H. B.	Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum		1889	GBP -	1.00
541	Pennell, J.; Furst, H.	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; The Modern Woodcut		1921, 1924	GBP -	0.15
542	Caldecott, Randolph	Some of AEsop's Fables		1883	GBP -	Not Sold
543	Caldecott, R.	Contributions to the "Graphic,"		1888	GBP -	0.18
544	Bone, Muirhead	The Western Front		1916-17	GBP -	0.12
545	Cruikshank, George	My Sketch Book		1834	GBP -	2.05
546	Reinhardt, J.	Collection de Costumes Suisses	London	1822	GBP -	3.10
547		Picturesque Description of North Wales		1823	GBP -	3.03
548	Ligon, R.; Hugo, H.	Recueil de divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique; The Siege of Breda, Translated by C. H. G.		1674, n. d.	GBP -	0.15
549	Simpson, C.	Leicestershire and its Hunts, 1926; The Harboro' Country, 1927		1926, 1927	GBP -	0.12
550	Horsfield, T. W.; Elwes, D. G. C.	History and Antiquities of Lewes; History of the Castles, Mansions and Manors of Western Sussex		1824, 1876	GBP -	0.12
551	Dulac, E.	A Fairy Garland		1928	GBP -	0.10
552	Baillie-Grohman, W. A.; Hind, C. L.	Sport in Art; Hercules Brabazon Brabazon		1919, 1912	GBP -	1.15
553	Sharp, C. J. and A. P. Oppe; Field, H. and M. Bunney; Bona, J.	The Dance; English Domestic Architecture; The Perambulator in Edinburgh		1924, 1928, 1926	GBP -	1.15
554	Harrison, F.; Sharp, C. J. and A. P. Oppe; Bennett, Arnold	Annals of an Old Manor House; The Dance; Mediterranean Scenes		1893, 1924, 1928	GBP -	0.16
555	Bourdillon, F. W.; Baillie-Grohman, W. A.	The Early Editions of The Roman de la Rose; Sport in Art		1906, 1919	GBP -	0.18
556	Mercator, G.	et I Hondius Atlas		1633	GBP -	29.00
557	Clerisseau, M.; Piranesi, C.	Monumens de Nismes; Vasi, Candelabri	Paris, Roma	1778	GBP -	0.05
558	Rathbone, F.	Old Wedgwood		1898	GBP -	1.10
559	Chamberlaine, J.	Original Designs by Masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine and Venetian Schools		1812	GBP -	Not Sold
560	Gibbs, J.	A Book of Architecture		1728	GBP -	2.10
561	Molinier, E.	Meubles et Objets d'Art Francais des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles	Paris	n. d.	GBP -	Not Sold
562	Palladio, A.	First Book of Architecture, plates, old calf n. d.		n. d.	GBP -	Not Sold
563	CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS	The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director		1754	GBP -	13.00
564	CHIPPENDALE, T.	The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director		1755	GBP -	18.05
565	Armstrong, Sir W.	Sir Joshua Reynolds		1900	GBP -	1.10
566	Cust, Lionel	Anthony Van Dyck, An Historical Study		1900	GBP -	2.05
567	AEsop; Prout, S.	Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse by John Ogilby; Views of Rural Cottages		1668, 1821	GBP -	0.05
568	Louis XV	Le Sacre de Louis XV		1722	GBP -	0.10
569	Nell Gwyn Portfolio	A Series of Portraits illustrating her Life		n. d.	GBP -	0.18
570	Nell Gwyn	A Collection of upwards of 200 portraits of Nell Gwyn			GBP -	0.18
571	Cruikshank, G.; Onwhyn, T.; Pailthorpe, W.	Etchings to the Comic Almanacks, 1835-1853; India Proof impressions; Twelve Illustrations to the Pickwick Club, 1847; Illustrations to the Pickwick Club, 1882		1835-1853, 1847, 1882	GBP -	0.05
572	Shaw, T.	Travels or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant	Oxford	1738	GBP -	Not Sold
573	Duhamell, M. and others	L'Art du Tuilier et du Briquetier, 1763; L'Art de Rafiner le Sucre, 1764; L'Art du Chau-fournier, 1766; Les Instruments de Mathematique et d'Astronomie, 1768; Description d'un Miscroscope, 1768		1763, 1764, 1766, 1768	GBP -	1.08
574	Fox-Davies, A. C.	The art of heraldry		1904	GBP -	7.10
575	Gardner, J. S.	Old Silver Work		1903	GBP -	1.10
576	Lundborg, H. and F. J. Linders	The Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation		1926	GBP -	1.10
577	Morison, S.	Modern Fine Printing		1925	GBP -	1.08
578	Watts, W. W.	Old English Silver	New York	1924	GBP -	2.00
579	Gill, Eric	Seven small woodcuts of various subjects			GBP -	8.05
580	Painter, W.	Cresset Press		1929	GBP -	2.15
581	Morney, Sir P.	The Mysterie of Iniquity: The Historie of the Papacie		1612	GBP -	0.05
582	Bowyer, R.	Illustrated Record of Important Events ... comprising views of Paris, Moscow, The Kremlin, etc.		1815	GBP -	2.10
583	Fontenelle, B. de	Oeuvres Diverses		1728-9	GBP -	1.08
584	Barrie, Sir J. M.	The Little Minister		1891	GBP -	0.10
585	Chatto, W. A. and J. Jackson; Summer, Heywood	Treaties on Wood Engraving; The Book of Gorley		n. d., 1910	GBP -	0.12
586	Dickens, Charles	Pickwick Papers		1837, 1844	GBP -	0.15
587	Dickens, C.	Oliver Twist		1838	GBP -	1.01
588	Dickens, C.	Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; Dombey and Son, 1848; Bleak House, 1853; Little Dorrit, 1857; Our Mutual Friend		1839, 1848, 1853, 1857, 1865	GBP -	4.00
589	Du Maurier, George	Peter Ibbetson		1892	GBP -	0.12
590	Gissing, G.	Demos		1886	GBP -	0.08
591	Glasenapp, C. F.; Wagner, R.	Life of Richard Wagner; Letters to Minna Wagner; Letters to Mathilde Wesendonck		1900-08, 1909, 1905	GBP -	1.00
592	Hodgkin, T.	Italy and her Invaders	Oxford	1880-95	GBP -	0.14
593	Jameson, Mrs	Works, Sacred and Legendary Art, etc.		1850-65	GBP -	1.18
594	Jekyll, Gertrude; Farrar, R.; Parsons, B. and E. T. Cook	Wood and Garden, 1899; Wall and Water Gardens, n. d.; My Rock Garden, 1907; Alpines and Bog-Plants, 1908; Gardens of England		1899, 1907, 1908, 1911	GBP -	2.00
595	Lang, Andrew; Du Cane, E. and F.	The Blue Fairy Book; The Flowers and Gardens of Japan		1889, 1908	GBP -	0.16
596	Moore, Geo	Evelyn Innes, 1898; Hail and Farewell. Ave, 1911; Salve, 1912; Vale, 1914		1898, 1911, 1912, 1914	GBP -	4.15
597	Moore, Hannah; Montagu, Lady Mary W.	Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess; Works		1817, 1819	GBP -	0.05
598	Scott, Sir W.	Tales of a Grandfather		1828	GBP -	Not Sold
599	Seton-Karr, H. W.; Edgar, M.; Malby, R. A.	Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands, 1889; Ten Years in Upper Canada, 1891; With Camera and Rucksack in the Oberland and Valais		1889, 1891	GBP -	0.05

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