Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 29Feb1960,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 29, 1960 - February 29, 1960

Page Size: 603 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	Rivière, A., E. André and E. Roze	Les Fougères		1867-68	GBP -	13.00
202	Orchid Album, The	comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare and beautiful orchidaceous plants		1882-91	GBP -	170.00
203	Schumann, Karl, Max Gurke and F. Vaupel	Bluhende Kakteen (Iconographia Cactacearum) um Auftrage der Deutschen Kakteen-Gesellschaft		1904-21	GBP -	55.00
204	Hillebrand, w. F.	Flora of the Hawaiian Islands		1888	GBP -	8.00
205	Costa, C. Cincinnato da	O Portugal Vinicola.	Lisbon	1900	GBP -	6.00
206	HOOLA VAN NOOTEN, BERTHE	Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages choisis de l'Ile de Java	Brussels	1880	GBP -	55.00
207	Perrin, Mrs. Henry and Prof. Boulger	British Flowering Plants		1914	GBP -	4.00
208		New Zealand., North-West Territories.		1824-25	GBP -	3.00
209	Elwes, J. H. and A. Henry	The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland	Edinburgh	1906-13	GBP -	38.00
210	STRADANUS, JOANNES	Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium	Antwerp	1580	GBP -	44.00
211	Edwards, George	Gleanings of Natural History		1758-64	GBP -	110.00
212	Martyn Thomas	The English Entomologist		1792	GBP -	20.00
213	Boitard et Corbie, MM.	Les Pigeons de Volière et de Colombier		1824	GBP -	19.00
214	Dubois, C. F. and Alph	Dubois. Les Oiseaux de l'Europe et leurs oeufs		1868-72	GBP -	42.00
215	Des Murs, M. O.	Animaux Nouveaux ou Rares ... de l'Amerique du Sud. Oiseaux par M. O. des Murs	reprint Leipzig	1855	GBP -	9.00
216	Morris, F. O.	A History of British Birds, A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, A History of British Butterflies		1862-1864, 1864, 1876	GBP -	6.10
217	Jones, Thomas Rymer; Cuvier, Georges, baron	Cassell's Book of Birds, from the text of Dr. Brehm, The Animal Kingdom		n.d., 1849	GBP -	Not Sold
218	Cuvier, Georges, baron; Goldsmith, Oliver	The Animal Kingdom, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature		1834, 1852	GBP -	1.00
219	Swaysland, W.	Popular Natural History, Familiar Wild Birds		1851-1860, 1883, n.d.	GBP -	3.10
220	Blakston, W. A.; Wright, Lewis; W. Swaysland and August F. Wiener	The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds		n.d., 1890	GBP -	2.10
221	Frohawk, F. W.; Wright, Lewis	Natural History of British Butterflies		n.d., n.d.	GBP -	8.00
222	Rowley, G. D.	Ornithological Miscellany		1876-78	GBP -	20.00
223	Seebohm, Henry	A History of British Birds		1883-85	GBP -	0.10
224	Kirman, F. B.	The British Bird Book		1911-13	GBP -	1.00
225	ALKEN, HENRY	The National Sports of Great Britain		1821	GBP -	75.00
226	Des Murs, M. O.	Animaux Nouveaux ou Rares ...	reprint Leipzig	1855	GBP -	11.00
227	Chippendale, Thomas	The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director		1764	GBP -	11.00
228	Richardson, G.; Gambado, Geoffrey	Iconology, or a collection of emblematical figures, An Academy for Grown Horsemen		1778, 1787	GBP -	3.10
229	Combe, Wm.,; Surtees, R. S.; Ogilby, J. and J. Owen	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, Handley Cross, Britannia Depicta, road maps		1823, 1843, n.d.	GBP -	2.10
230	Shunsho.; Holbein, Hans	Brocades of the hundred poems woven in the Yedo style, The Dance of Death		n.d., 1816	GBP -	14.00
231	Clark, John	A Series of Practical Instructions in Landscape Painting		1827	GBP -	35.00
232		Golden Fleece, Order of the. Lithographed reproduction of transcripts of statutes, etc., of the order, from 1431 to 1830		early 19th Century	GBP -	1.10
233	Blake, William	Visions of thee Daughters of Albion	Edmonton	1884	GBP -	15.00
234		DANCE OF DEATH.	Switzerland	early 18th century	GBP -	68.00
235	Gillray, Rowlandson, G. and I. R. Cruikshank, Woodward, Dighton, H. Bunbury and others	CARICATURES.		late 18th-early 19th Century	GBP -	35.00
236	Villiers, Huet	Portrait of Mrs. St. Quinten			GBP -	6.00
237		BOOK-PLATES.		late 18th-early 20th century	GBP -	20.00
238	Stefano Delia Bella, Marc de Bye and others	ALBUM containing 145 engravings and etchings		4719-85, n.d.	GBP -	70.00
239	Ariosto, Ludovic	Orlando Furioso	Paris	1768	GBP -	6.00
240	Basan, Sieur F.	Recueil d'Estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur le duc de Choiseul		1771	GBP -	6.10
241	BRONTE CHARLOTTE JANE EYRE	An Autobiography.		1847	GBP -	86.00
242	Cavendish, William, Duke of Newcastle	A New Method and extraordinary invention to dress Horses		1667	GBP -	30.00
243	Chesterfield, Earl of; Cowley, Abraham	Miscellaneous Works, Works		1777, 1670	GBP -	4.10
244	Collier, Jeremy	A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage		1698	GBP -	9.00
245		Costume. Recueil de Costumes Suisses, Allemands, Espagnols, etc., etc., Costume Italien	Paris, Paris	n.d., n.d.	GBP -	24.00
246	D'Argenville A. J. D.	The Theory and Practice of Gardening, ...		1712	GBP -	1.00
247	Descartes, René	Geometria a Renato Des Cartes	Amsterdam	1777	GBP -	14.00
248	Dickens, Charles	American Notes, A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man		1842, 1843, 1845, 1846, 1848	GBP -	6.00
249	Edwards, Sydenham	The New Botanic Garden		1812	GBP -	32.00
250	Fitzclarence, G. A. F.	Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England		1819	GBP -	6.00
251	Floral, The	Magazine: ...		1861-11	GBP -	58.00
252	Fouquet, Samuel	Traitté des Emboucheures qui descouvre au public la plus certaine et facile methode pour reussir en l'art de bien brider et emboucher les chevaux		1663	GBP -	5.00
253	Gaskell Mrs. Elizabeth; Haliburton T.C.	Mary Barton, The Clockmaker or the sayings and doings of Samuel Slick		1848, 1838-40	GBP -	4.00
254	Grey, Thomas de	The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier		1670	GBP -	12.00
255	Hale, Thomas	A Compleat Body of Husbandry		1756	GBP -	6.00
256	Hamilton, Capt. Alexander	A New Account of the East Indies	Edinburgh	1727	GBP -	15.00
257	Hawker, Lt.-Col. Peter; Lacy, Capt	Instructions to Young Sportsmen, The Modern Shooter		1825	GBP -	3.10
258	Hobbes, Thomas	Leviathan or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth ecclesiastical and civil		1651	GBP -	7.00
259	Horace	Quinti Horatii Flacci.		1733-37	GBP -	20.00
260	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS	Amsterdam	1762	GBP -	130.00
261		Laws (The) & Acts of Parliament made by King James the (1) and his royal successors Kings of Scotland	Edinburgh	1681	GBP -	6.00
262	Lindley, John	Ladies' Botany : or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Natural System of Botany		n.d.	GBP -	1.00
263	Loudon, Mrs. Jane	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals		1840	GBP -	17.00
264	Lunardi, Vincent	An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland		1786	GBP -	34.00
265	Markham, Gervase	Cavalarice or the English Horseman : contayning all the Art of Horsemanship		1617-17-16	GBP -	26.00
266	Markham, G.	A Way to get Wealth: containing six principall vocations or callings		1653	GBP -	12.00
267	Markham, G.	Markham's Maister-Peece		1656	GBP -	6.00
268	Marmontel, J. F.; Voltaire	Contes Moraux, The History; of the War of seventeen hundred and fortyone		1756, 1779	GBP -	5.10
269	Marryat, Frederick	Peter Simple		1834, 1836	GBP -	3.10
270	Mcintosh, Charles	Flora and Pomona; or the British Fruit and Flower Garden		1829	GBP -	28.00
271		Observator, (The)		Aug. 2, 1704-Oct. 8, 1707	GBP -	24.00
272	Parkinson, John	Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris. A Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers		1629	GBP -	11.00
273	Parry, W. E.; Barrow, John	Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, charts, An Account of Travels into the interior of Southern Africa		1824	GBP -	2.10
274	Pennant, Thomas	British Zoology		1776-77	GBP -	0.10
275	Rhead, G. W.	History of the Fan		1910	GBP -	26.00
276	Ross, John	A Voyage of Discovery ... for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay		1819	GBP -	7.10
277		A Large Declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland ...		1639	GBP -	5.00
278	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley	Edinburgh	1814	GBP -	26.00
279	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES.		1632	GBP -	220.00
280	SMITH, ADAM	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations		1776	GBP -	110.00
281	Smollett, Tobias	The History and Adventures of an Atom		1769	GBP -	5.00
282	Sowerby, James	English Botany		1863-72	GBP -	3.00
283	Spenser, Edmund	Works		1609-11	GBP -	28.00
284	Strabo	Geographicorum libri XVII	Basel	1539	GBP -	5.00
285	Swift, Dean J.	Travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver		1726	GBP -	17.00
286	Yorrge Charlotte M.	The Heir of Redclyffe		1853	GBP -	1.10
287	Abbey, J. R.	Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860 ...		1953	GBP -	12.00
288	Bastelaer, René van	Les Estampes de Peter Bruegel, l'ancien	Brussels	1908	GBP -	8.00
289	Bennett, Arnold; Monro, Harold	Don Juan de Marana, Real Property		1923, 1922	GBP -	3.00
290	Alfred Whitman.; A. Whitman	British Mezzotinters, James McArdell, Gordon Goodwin, Valentine Green		1903, 1902	GBP -	1.00
291	Clark, J. W.,; Arnold, W. H.	The Care of Books, Ventures in Book Collecting	Cambridge	1909, 1923	GBP -	8.00
292	Davenport, Cyril	Mezzotints, Catalogue of the etched work of Frank Brangwyn		1904, 1912	GBP -	2.00
293	Delteil, Loys	Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon		1924	GBP -	5.00
294	Franken, D.; Charrington, John	L'Oeuvre Gravé des Van de Passe, A Catalogue of the Mezzotints after or said to be after Rembrandt	Cambridge	1881, 1923	GBP -	4.00
295	Furst, Herbert	The Modern Woodcut		1927	GBP -	2.00
296	Godefroy, Louis	L'Oeuvre Gravé de Adriaen van Ostade		1930	GBP -	8.00
297	Haden, Seymour	The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, P.R.E.		1923	GBP -	1.00
298	Haden, Seymour	About Etching, A Descriptive Catalogue of the etched work of Francis Seymour Haden		1879, 1880-1903	GBP -	1.00
299	Hamerton, P. G.	Landscape, Drawing and Engraving	Boston	1885, 1886	GBP -	5.00
300	Hind, A. M.	Rembrandt's Etchings, an essay and a catalogue		1912	GBP -	8.00

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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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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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.

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