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
600 Shakespeare, W. Works

1788

 GBP - 1.18
601 Thomas, H. S.; Baden-Powell, Capt. R. S.; Russell, C. E. M. The Rod in India, 1881; Pig Sticking or Hog Hunting, 1889; Bullet and Shot in Indian Forest, Plain and Hill, 1900

1881, 1889, 1900

 GBP - 0.06
602 Trollope, A.; Jefferies, R. Can You Forgive Her?; Bevis

1865, 1882

 GBP - 3.05
603 Buchanan, F. A Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara, and Malabar

1807

 GBP - 0.12
604 Duret, T. J. McN; Sensier, A. Whistler et son CEuvre; La Vie et l'CEuvre de J. F. Millet Paris

1881, 1904

 GBP - 2.00
605 Harrington, H. N. The Engraved Work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden Liverpool

1910

 GBP - 5.10
606 Helmont, J. B. van Opuscula Medica

1648

 GBP - 0.14
607 Jackson, T. G. Wadham College Oxford

1897

 GBP - Not Sold
608 Kunz, G. F. and C. H. Stevenson The Book of the Pearl

1908

 GBP - 2.12
609 Rinder, F. D. Y. Cameron Glasgow

1912

 GBP - 1.02
610 Thackeray, W. M. Rebecca and Rowena

1850

 GBP - 0.05
611 Wagner, R.; Chamberlain, H. S. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods; Richard Wagner

1897

 GBP - 2.02
612 Whistler, J. McN Eden versus Whistler Paris

1899

 GBP - 0.05
613 Whistler, J. McN The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

1890

 GBP - 1.15
614 Whistler, J. McN.; Pennell, E. R. and J. Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition; Life of James McNeill Whistler

1905, 1908

 GBP - 1.00
615 BADMINTON Library of Sports and Pastimes

1894-97

 GBP - 0.10
616 Balzac, Honore de La Comedie Humaine

1898

 GBP - 5.00
617 Balzac, Honore de; Reade, C. Ten Droll Tales; The Cloister and the Hearth

1926, 1893

 GBP - 0.12
618 Byron, Lord Works

1898

 GBP - 2.08
619 Carlyle, T. Works

1897

 GBP - 3.00
620 Dickens, C. Works

n. d.

 GBP - 2.02
621 Doyle, A. Conan; Haggard, H. Rider Uncle Bernac, 1897; Adventures of Gerard, n. d. (1903); Sir Nigel, 1906; Benita, 1906; Ayesha, 1911

1897, n. d. (1903), 1906, 1911

 GBP - 0.15
622 Dumas, A. Novels

1893-4

 GBP - 9.00
623 Eliot, George Works

n. d.

 GBP - 0.05
624 James, H.; Hardy, T.; Moore, G.; Phillpotts, Eden The Princess Casamassima, 1887; Jude the Obscure, 1896; Memoirs of my Dead Life, 1911; The Portreeve, 1906; The Mother, 1908; etc.

1887, 1896, 1911, 1906, 1908, 1896, 1911

 GBP - 1.04
625 Jellicoe, Viscount; Bertie, Lord The Grand Fleet; Diary

1920, 1922

 GBP - 0.08
626 Kipling, R. Works in Prose and Verse

1897-1919

 GBP - 15.10
627 Kipling, R.; Wells, H. G. The Five Nations, 1903; Traffics and Discoveries, 1904; Tono Bungay, 1909

1904, 1909

 GBP - 0.10
628 Lytton, Bulwer, Lord Works

n. d.

 GBP - 1.02
629 Meredith, Geo Works

1897-98

 GBP - 5.00
630 Nansen, F.; Amundsen, R. Farthest North; The South Pole

1897, 1912

 GBP - 2.06
631 Rhys, E.; Dillon, E. Frederic, Lord Leighton; Rubens

1898, 1909

 GBP - 1.04
632 Surtees, R. S. Sporting Novels

1899-1900, 1888

 GBP - 5.15
633 Tennyson, A., Lord Works

1898

 GBP - 1.12
634 Thackeray, W. M. Works

1869

 GBP - 0.05
635 Hipkins, A. J. Musical Instruments

1888

 GBP - 0.16
636 Skelton, Sir John; Holmes, R. H. Charles I, 1898; Queen Victoria, 1897

1897, 1898

 GBP - 0.05
637 Dodgson, C. L. Through the Looking-Glass

1872

 GBP - 0.18
638 Kipling, Rudyard Plain Tales from the Hills

1888

 GBP - 1.02
639 APPERLEY, C. J. LIFE OF JOHN MYTTON

1835

 GBP - 8.10
640 Dodgson, C. L.; Thackeray, W. M. Through the Looking-Glass; The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

1872, 1851

 GBP - 0.13
641 Fonthill Abbey A Catalogue of the valuable library (of 20,000 volumes)

1823

 GBP - 1.02
642 Tractatus de Coena domini, authoritates ex libris Aristotelis, Senecae, Boetii, Platonis et Apulei

c. 1540

 GBP - 5.00
643 Combe, W.; Heron, R.; Egan, P. Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque; The Comforts of Human Life; Finish to the Life in London

1807, 1889

 GBP - 0.18
644 Charles I. Eikon Basilike

1648

 GBP - 1.05
645 Hume, D. Essays

1772

 GBP - 0.12
646 Sandys, G. Christ's Passion

1640

 GBP - 0.08
647 Minot, M.; Harley, Geo De la Nature et des Causes de la Fievre; Histological Demonstrations Paris

1666, 1876

 GBP - 0.18
648 Greenaway, Kate; Crane, W.; Blanchard, M. Language of Flowers; The Baby's Bouquet; Delices de la Jeunesse

n. d.

 GBP - 0.15
649 Rackham, Arthur Fairy Book

1932, 1933

 GBP - 1.14
650 Sassoon, S.; Coppard, A. E. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Pelagea

1930

 GBP - 1.14
651 Bandello; Villon, F. Certain Tragicall Discourses; Works

1898

 GBP - 1.05
652 Coleridge, S. T.; Byron, Lord Sibylline Leaves; Poetical Works

1817, 1903-4

 GBP - 1.04
653 Buffon et Daubenton. Histoire Naturelle

1833

 GBP - 1.14
654 Mudie, R.; Bohn, H. G. The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands; Pottery and Porcelain

1835-34, 1872

 GBP - 0.06
655 Book Sale Catalogues

1807, 1823, 1822

 GBP - 1.02
656 Prints, etc.

GBP - 6.00
657 Bloomfield, R. Wild Flowers

1806, 1825

 GBP - 0.08
658 Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants

1834-8

 GBP - 3.05
659 Curtis, William Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed

1793-1821

 GBP - 11.00
660 Curtis, Wm. Botanical Magazine

1787-98, 1846

 GBP - 2.18
661 Polo, Marco; Burton, Sir R. F. The Book of Ser Marco Polo; Works

1903, 1893-4

 GBP - 2.08
662 Ashmole, Elias; Brayley, E. W. Antiquities of Berkshire; Delineations Historical and Topographical

1723, 1817

 GBP - 3.03
663 Svinine, Paul Sketches of Russia

1814

 GBP - 1.16
664 Historical account of all the voyages round the world

1773

 GBP - 0.08
665 VICTORIA, Queen More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands

1884

 GBP - 1.00
666 APPERLEY, C. J. THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN

1842

 GBP - 5.00
667 SHAW, G. BERNARD Works

1930-32

 GBP - 10.00
668 Surtees, R. S. "Ask Mamma

1858

 GBP - 1.08
669 Surtees, R. S. Plain or Ringlets

1860

 GBP - 1.15
670 Surtees, R. S. Hillingdon Hall

1888

 GBP - 2.15
671 Garland, Herbert Bibliography of the Writings of Sir James M. Barrie, cloth 1928

1928

 GBP - Not Sold
672 Marrot, H. V.; Schwartz, Dr. Jacob; Cutler, B. D. and V. Stiles Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy, cloth, 1928; 1100 Obscure Points, cloth, 1931; Modern British Authors

1928, 1931, 1930

 GBP - 1.02
673 ARABIAN NIGHTS

1885-88

 GBP - 14.00
674 Basile, G. B. Il Pentamerone: or the Tale of Tales

1893

 GBP - 0.15
675 Villon, F. Poems

1892

 GBP - 0.08
676 Dickens, C. Nicholas Nickleby

1839

 GBP - 3.03
677 Macaulay, T. B., Lord The History of England

1854-61

 GBP - 1.02
678 Lever, C. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, 1839; Our Mess (Jack Hinton and Tom Burke of "Ours "ce)

1839

 GBP - Not Sold
679 James, G. P. R.; Dickens, C.; Thackeray, W. M. The Commissioner; Dombey and Son; The Newcomes Dublin

1843, 1848, 1854

 GBP - 0.08
680 Byron, Lord The Corsair

1814

 GBP - Not Sold
681 Johnson, Lionel Post liminium

1911

 GBP - 0.08
682 Michel, E. Rembrandt

1895

 GBP - 1.00
683 Meredith, G. Farina: a Legend of Cologne

1857

 GBP - 1.04
684 Meredith, G. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

1859

 GBP - 1.06
685 Meredith, G. Emilia in England

1864

 GBP - 1.06
686 Meredith, G. Vittoria

1867

 GBP - 1.04
687 Meredith, G. The Egoist

1879

 GBP - 1.05
688 Meredith, G. The Tragic Comedians

1881

 GBP - 2.00
689 Meredith, G. One of our Conquerors

1891, 1892

 GBP - 1.08
690 Barrie, Sir J. M. An Edinburgh Eleven

1889

 GBP - 1.02
691 Beerbohm, Max Zuleika Dobson, 1911; Yet Again, 1909; A Christmas Garland, 1912

1911, 1909, 1912

 GBP - 1.06
692 Dunsany, Lord The Gods of Pegana

1911, 1914

 GBP - 0.16
693 Hodgson, Ralph Flying Fame Booklets

1913

 GBP - 2.08
694 Hodgson, Ralph Flying Fame Booklets

1913

 GBP - 1.02
695 Morris, William The Sundering Flood

1898

 GBP - 0.05
696 Yeats, W. B. Reveries, 1915; The Green Helmet, 1910; Responsibilities, 1914; Poetry and Ireland, 1908

1915, 1910, 1914

 GBP - 0.14
697 HARDY, T. Far from the madding crowd

1874

 GBP - 5.00
698 Moore, George The brook Kerith

1929

 GBP - 6.05
699 Moore, G. Aphrodite in Aulis

1930

 GBP - 2.02
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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.
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