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
700	Stephens, James	The crock of gold		1912	GBP -	4.12
701	Lawrence, D. H.	Sons and Lovers		1913	GBP -	1.16
702	Lawrence, D. H.	The Prussian Officer and other stories		1914	GBP -	0.14
703	Lawrence, D. H.	The Prussian Officer		1914	GBP -	0.16
704	Victoria, Queen	Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands, 1868; More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands		1868	GBP -	0.10
705	Moore, G.; Masefield, J.	The Apostle, 1923; The Hawbucks, 1929		1923; 1929	GBP -	0.10
706	Lawrence, T. E.; Walpole, Hugh	Revolt in the Desert; Jeremy, 1919; Wintersmoon, 1928		1919, 1927, 1928	GBP -	2.02
707	Bennett, Arnold; Maugham, W. S.; Sitwell, O.; Leslie, Shane; Wilder, T.; Forster, E. M.	The Matador of the Five Towns, 1912; Ashenden, 1928; Cakes and Ale, 1930; Miracle on Sinai, 1933; The Cantab, 1926; The Woman of Andros, New York, 1930; The Eternal Moment, 1928	New York	1912, 1928, 1926, 1933	GBP -	1.05
708	Beerbohm, Max	Yet Again, 1909; Seven Men, 1919; The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill		1909, 1919, 1928	GBP -	0.05
709	Walpole, Horace	Letters edited by P. Cunningham	Edinburgh	1906	GBP -	1.10
710	Moore, Geo	Vain Fortune		n. d.	GBP -	0.12
711	Wycherley, W.	Nonesuch Press		1924	GBP -	2.12
712	Vanbrugh, Sir J.	Nonesuch Press		1927	GBP -	1.12
713	Congreve, W.	Nonesuch Press		1923	GBP -	4.05
714	Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.	The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful		1900	GBP -	3.00
715		Cornelii Taciti de Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae liber		1900	GBP -	3.10
716	Morris, W.	Address delivered 12th Nov. 1900 at Kelmscott House		1901	GBP -	1.12
717	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Seven Poems		1902	GBP -	3.10
718	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Seven Poems		1902	GBP -	3.15
719	Milton, John	Paradise Lost		1902	GBP -	10.00
720	Milton, J.	Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; etc.		1905	GBP -	4.05
721	Emerson, R. W.	Essays, with a preface by Thomas Carlyle		1906	GBP -	5.05
722	Ruskin, J.	Unto this Last, vellum by the Doves Bindery 1907		1907	GBP -	3.00
723	Carlyle, T.	Sartor Resartus, initials in red, vellum by the Doves Bindery 1907		1907	GBP -	6.10
724	Browning, R.	Men and Women		1908	GBP -	15.00
725	Wordsworth, W.	A Decade of Years, Poems, 1798-1807		1911	GBP -	8.00
726	Shakespeare	The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark		1909	GBP -	5.15
727	Browning, R.	Dramatis Personae		1910	GBP -	7.00
728		Pervigilium Veneris		1910	GBP -	5.10
729	Shakespeare	The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra		1912	GBP -	8.10
730	Shakespeare	Venus and Adonis		1912	GBP -	4.15
731	Shakespeare	The Tragedie of Julius Caesar		1913	GBP -	6.00
732	Shakespeare	The Tragedy of Coriolanus		1914	GBP -	5.05
733	Wordsworth, W.	The Prelude		1915	GBP -	5.05
734	Shakespeare	Lucrece, vellum by the Doves Bindery 1915		1915	GBP -	4.05
735	Goethe	Auserlesene Lieder Gedichte und Balladen ein Strauss, vellum by the Doves Bindery 1916		1916	GBP -	4.10
736		Catalogue Raisonne of Books printed and published at the Doves Press, 1908, second edition, 1911, boards, linen back; Catalogue Raisonne, 1900-16, portrait, vellum by the Doves Bindery (3)		1900-16	GBP -	7.10
737	Morris, William	Art and Socialism		1884	GBP -	20.00
737A	HORAE	B.V.M. cum Calendario, Sarum Use		1608	GBP -	5.00
738	Aquinas, Thomas	Tractatus sollenis de arte & vero modo predicandi ex diuersis sacrorum doctorum scripturis & principaliter ... Thome de Aquino ... recollectus		1483	GBP -	1.08
739		greek letter, printed in red and black	Venice	1584	GBP -	2.10
740		EURIPIDES	Venice	1503	GBP -	6.15
741	Petrarca, Francesco	Le Cose Volgari	Venice	1501	GBP -	8.00
742		Valerius Maximus	Venice	1502	GBP -	2.00
743	Suso, Henricus; Cyprian, Saint; Aquinas, Thomas	Pulcherrimum sapientie horologiu; De oratione dominica; Expositio in Cantica Canticorum Salomonis	Paris	n. d., 1515	GBP -	0.18
744	Sirigatto, F.	De ortu et occasu signorum libri duo		1536	GBP -	3.05
745	Pontanus, J. J.	Opera omnia		1538-40	GBP -	0.18
746	Mantuanus, B.; Homer; Lucian; Cicero	Duarum Parthenicum libri; Ilias; Dialogi aliquot; De amicitia	Basle	1501, 1523, 1522, 1519	GBP -	2.05
747	Aristotle; Oppian; Arrian; Burnet, T.	Libri physicorum octo ...; De venatione lib.; De expeditione Alexandri; Traite de l'etat des morts		1530, 1597, 1531, 1731	GBP -	1.15
748	Wecker, J. J.; Menken	De secretis lib.; De la charlatanerie des savans; Ordonnance du Roy pour le reiglement general de ses monnoies	Paris	1592, 1721, 1571	GBP -	3.00
749	Valla, G.; Needham; Psellus; Aignan, F.; Hessus, Eobanus; Agricola, G.	Hippocrates; De tuenda sanitate per victum, Argentinae, [15--]; Nouvelles observations micro-scopiques; De victus ratione, 1529; Le prestre medecin, ib., 1696; Bonae valetudinis conservandae prae-cepta, ib., 1533; De peste	Paris	1529, 1533, 1696, 1554	GBP -	5.00
750	Simler, G.	Conciliorum quatuor generaliu; Rationarium Evangelistarum	Paris	1535, 1532	GBP -	4.05
751	Alpinus, P.	De Plantis exoticis	Venice	1656	GBP -	1.08
752	Ascham, Roger	Toxophilus: The Schoole, or partitions of Shooting		1589	GBP -	2.05
753	ASCHAM, ROGER	Toxophilus		1589	GBP -	9.00
754	SCOT, REGINALD	The discoverie of witchcraft		1584	GBP -	6.00
755	Ortelius	Breve compendio dal theatro Orteliano	Antwerp	1502 (1602)	GBP -	6.05
756		Facio (Bartolomeus) Fatti d'Alfonso d'Aragona	Venice	1579	GBP -	5.10
757		Breviarium Coloniense	Paris	n. d.	GBP -	1.10
758	Erasmus	Stultitiae Laus		1676	GBP -	0.10
759	Paracelsus	Lib. V de causis		1563	GBP -	1.12
760	Paracelsus	Archidoxa Zehen Biicher		1570	GBP -	2.00
761	Tograus, Abu Ismael	Carmen, arabice, cum versione latina	Oxford	1661	GBP -	0.05
762	Postel, Guillaume	Lib. IV de orbis terrae Concordia	? Paris	c. 1543	GBP -	1.00
763	AEsop, Homer, Euripides; Erasmus, D.	Vita et fabellae; Batrachomyomachia; Tragoediae duae, Hecuba, & Iphigenia in Aulide, latinae factae Des; De conscribendis epistolis opus		1518, 1557	GBP -	2.10
764	Marmontel, J. F.; Voltaire, F. M. A. de	Les Incas; Histoire du Parlement de Paris, Nouvelle et derniere edition	Paris	1777, 1773	GBP -	0.10
765	Beza, T.	Sacrificale itinerantium; Tractatus de vera Excommunicatione, et christiano Presbyterio	Geneva	1521, 1590	GBP -	0.18
766	Varro, M. T.; Cato, M.; Quintus Curtius; Vegetius, F.	De Agricultura; De Rebus Rusticis, Bale, 1521; De rebus Alexandri Magni, ib., 1545; De re militari		1521, 1536, 1592	GBP -	2.10
767	Culens, Henricus; Petavius, Dion	Spiritualium strenarum ac variorum concionum manipulus; Rationarium temporum		1620, 1745	GBP -	0.10
768	Fernelius, Jo.; Lemnius, Levin	Medicina; De habitu et constitutione corporis	Venice	1555, 1582	GBP -	1.02
769	Goncalez de Mendoza, F. J.; Eyzinger, Mich	Elucidarius poeticus ex vetustissimorum authorum operibus; Historia de regno China; Thesaurus principum in Europa viven-tium		1544, 1589, 1590	GBP -	2.00
770	Melitao da Mata, Jose; Bogaert, A.; Saint Evremond, Charles de	Odestro Observador, ou Methodo facil de saber a latitude no mar; Roomsche Monarchy; Melange Curieuse	Amsterdam, London	1718, 1788, 1708	GBP -	0.05
771	Ferrier, Auger; Tagantius, J.	Hippocrates; Ivgements astro-nomiques sur les natiuites; De purgantibus medicamentis simplicibus		1536, 1582	GBP -	2.05
772	Bacon, Sir Francis; Belliere, C. de la	Sermones fideles; La physionomie raisonnee	Lyon, Paris	1644, 1791	GBP -	1.00
773	Fuchs, L.; Almenar, J.	Lactantius Firmianus; De curandi ratione; Libelli duo de morbo Gallico	Paris	1551, 1540, 1529	GBP -	2.15
774	Boaistuau, P.; Leigh, Edward	Le Theatre du monde.... Ein schawplatz ... der Welt...; The gentlemans guide	Amsterdam	1574, 1685, 1680	GBP -	0.12
775	Rochefoucauld, Duc de la; Poivre; Lacretelle, C.	Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales; Voyages d'un philosophe ou observations sur les moeurs de l'Afrique; Precis historique de la Revolution francaise	--[Poivre ( )] Voyages d'un philosophe ou observations sur les moeurs de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique, boards, a Yverdon, 1768--Lacretelle (C.) Precis historique de la Revolution francaise, 5 vol., plates, half calf, 1801-6 (7)	1691, 1768, 1801-6	GBP -	0.08
776	Adolphus, C.; Corrozet, G.; Guy-nand, B.	Historiae nostri temporis; Le thresor des histoires de France; La Concordance des propheties de Nostradamus	Paris	1657-9, 1617, 1693	GBP -	0.15
777	Villars, l'Abbe de; Naude, G.; Meyssonnier, L.; Mengus, H.	Le comte de Gabalis; Apologie pour tous les grands hommes accusez de magie; La belle magie; Flagellum daemonum	Paris, Lyon	1742, 1669,	GBP -	2.00
778	Ventenat, E. P.	Tableau du regne vegetal	Paris	1799	GBP -	1.01
779	Nougaret, P. J. B.; d'Amerval, E.	Histoire des prisons; La grande diablerie	Paris	1797, 1884	GBP -	0.12
780	Mancinellus, A.	Donatus; De coponedis versibus opusculum; Tertia et quarta partes doctrinalis mgri Alexadri		1509, 1513, n. d.	GBP -	1.18
781	Alexander Gallus; Bebelius, H.	Doctrinale; Opusculum de institutione puerorum		1504, 1513	GBP -	Not Sold
782	Vege-tius Renatus, F.	Hippocrates; Ain Buchlein vonn recnter vnnd war-haffter kunst der Artzney Allerlay kranckheytan ... aller Thier		n. d.	GBP -	1.05
783	Reisch, Georguis	Margarita Philosophica Nova (Appendix Matheseos in Margaritam philosophicam)	Strasburg	1512	GBP -	13.00
784		Biblia latina	Venetiis	1498	GBP -	9.00
785	Gallucius, Joan. Paul	Theatnim Mundi et Temporis	Venetiis	1589	GBP -	4.00
786		Breviarium Romanum secundum Ordinem Sancte Romane Ecclesie	Impressum Venetiis	1508	GBP -	4.15
787	Machiavelli, Niccolo	Tutte l'opere ... con una prefazione di Giuseppe Baretti		1772	GBP -	0.10
788		Tamerlane	Leyden	1636	GBP -	1.01
789	Severinus, Petrus	Idea Medicinae Philosophicae		1571	GBP -	1.15
790	Kobierzyck, Stanislaus	Historia Vladislai Poloniae et Sueciae Principis		1655, 1620	GBP -	2.00
791	Alexander Grammaticus	Medulla aurea de arte grammatical	Cologne	1502	GBP -	1.15
792	Lascaris, C.; Phocylides	De octo partibus orationis; Poema ad bene viven-dum	Venice	1512	GBP -	1.18
793	Blundeville, T.	M. Blvndevile his exercises, containing eight treatises .... in cosmographie, Astronomie, and geography, as also in the art of Navigation		1613	GBP -	15.00
794	Junius, Hadrianus; Hayward, Sir John; Godwin, F.	The nomenclator or remembrance conteining proper names and apt termes ...; The lives of the III. Normans, kings of England; A catalogue of the Bishops of England		1585, 1613, 1615	GBP -	1.05
795	Moll, Herman	Fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales		1724	GBP -	0.18
796	Porter, R. K.	Sketches in Russia and Sweden		1813	GBP -	0.12
797	Spilsbury, F. B.; Keppel, Capt., the Hon. G.	Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria, 1823; Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, etc., 1827		1823, 1827	GBP -	1.00
798	Gibbon, E.	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1787-81-88	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.

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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.

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.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

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