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
301	Jackson, John	A Treatise on Wood Engraving		1888	GBP -	2.10
302	Lawrence, H. W. and B. L. Dighton	French Line Engravers of the late eighteenth century		1910	GBP -	10.10
303	Montaigne, Michel de	Essays translated by Charles Cotton		1923	GBP -	5.00
304	Nevill, Ralph; Burgess, F. W.; Lumsden, E. S.	French Prints of the eighteenth century, Old Prints and Engravings, The Art of Etching		1908, 1924, 1925	GBP -	2.10
305	Newbolt, Sir Francis	The History of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Whitman's Print-Collectors Handbook		1880-1930, 1930, 1921	GBP -	1.00
306	Pennell, Joseph	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen		1920	GBP -	1.10
307	F. L. Wilder	Print Prices Current		1919-39	GBP -	15.00
308	Roper, William	The Mirrour of Vertue		1902, 1903	GBP -	7.10
309	Sadleir, Michael	XIX Century Fiction, a bibliographical record based on his own collection		1951	GBP -	10.00
310	Sparrow, W. Shaw	Angling in British Art, A Book of British Etching from Francis Barlow to Francis Seymour Haden		1923, 1926	GBP -	2.10
311	Turner, J. M. W.	The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner		1908-13, 1924	GBP -	3.00
312	Turner, J. M. W.	The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum		1887, 1912	GBP -	5.10
313	Waldman, Emil; Dodgson, Campbell	Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer		1923, 1926	GBP -	5.10
314	Wedmore, Frederick	Fine Prints, Meryon and Meryon's Paris		1897, 1905, 1892	GBP -	1.00
315	Whitman, Alfred; Samuel William Reynolds; Charles Turner	The Masters of Mezzotint		1898, 1903, 1907	GBP -	6.00
316	Whitman, Alfred; Samuel William Reynolds	Charles Turner, Samuel Cousins		1907, 1903, 1904	GBP -	1.00
317	Montague Summers; Scott, Reginald; Remy, Nicolas	Witchcraft. Malleus Maleficarum, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, with an introduction, Compendium Maleficarum, Demonatry		1928, 1930, 1929	GBP -	19.00
318	Fielding, Henry; Smollett, T.	The History of Tom Jones, Amelia, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom		1749, 1775, 1771	GBP -	2.00
319	Blackstone, Sir William	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Oxford	1765-66-68-69	GBP -	72.00
320	Aesop	Fabellae, Graece et Latine, Nonni Poetae Panopolitani tralato Sancti Evangelii secundum Joannem, H agenau	Basel	1524, 1527	GBP -	6.10
321	Sala, G. A.; Faulkner, Thomas	My Diary in America in the midst of war, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith		1865, 1839	GBP -	1.00
322	Ruskin, John	Roadside Songs of Tuscany, Praeterita	Orpington, Orpington	1885, 1886-1888	GBP -	1.10
323	Sullivan, Sir Arthur	Cox & Box		n.d., 1869	GBP -	2.00
324	Shakespeare, William	Comedies, Histories & Tragedies		n.d.	GBP -	4.00
325	Hall, Manly P.	An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy	San Francisco	1928	GBP -	12.00
326	Shakespeare, William	Works		1900-1903	GBP -	14.00
327	Shakespeare, William	The Poems, headings, etc.		1893	GBP -	11.00
328		Syr Perecyvelle of Gales, headings, etc.		1895	GBP -	5.00
329	Morris, William; Marlowe, Christopher	Gothic Architecture, a Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exbition Society, Doctor Faustus, decorations		1893, 1903	GBP -	2.10
330	Burton, Robert	The Anatomie of Melancholy		1925	GBP -	6.10
331	Melville, Herman; Beckford, William; Moore, George	Benito Cereno, Vathek, Ulick and Soracha		1926, 1929, 1926	GBP -	1.00
332	Rackham Arthur; Lamb Charles and Mary	Tales from Shakespeare		1909	GBP -	5.10
333	Rackham, Arthur--Swinburne, A. C.	The Springtide of Life		1918	GBP -	5.00
334	Douglas, Lord Alfred; Sherard, R. H.; Beerbohm, Max	The Principles of Poetry, Oscar Wilde, A Peep into the Past	privately printed	1943, 1902, 1923	GBP -	4.00
335	Moore, George; Schnitzler, Arthur	In Single Strictness, Rhapsody		1922, 1928	GBP -	1.00
336	Theocritus, Bion and Moschus.; Theocritus	Idylls, The Complete Poems		1922, n.d.	GBP -	6.00
337	Pater, Walter	Works		1900-01	GBP -	8.00
338	Landor, W. S.	Complete Works		1936-37	GBP -	27.00
339	Woodforde, James	The Diary of a Country Parson		1924-31	GBP -	10.00
340	Daudet, Alphonse	Oeuvres complètes	Paris	1930-1931	GBP -	1.00
341	Casanova de Seingalt, J.	Mémoires	Paris	1924-1935	GBP -	10.00
342	Casanova, Giacomo	Memoirs		1922	GBP -	3.00
343	Grace, W. G.; Dickens, Charles	Cricket, David Copperfield		1891, 1850	GBP -	1.00
344	Skelton, John	Mary Stuart	Boussod	1893	GBP -	1.00
345	Sloane, William Milligan	Life of Napoleon Bonaparte	New York	1906	GBP -	11.00
346	Guillim, John	A Display of Heraldry		1724	GBP -	11.00
347	Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles	Armorial Families		1929-1930	GBP -	12.00
348	Messrs. Howitt,. Atkinson, Clark, etc	Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, etc., etc., from Drawings		1819	GBP -	28.00
349	Gomberville, T. B.	The Doctrine of Morality, Atlas of plates of birds to illustrate Buffon's Histoire Naturelle		1721, n.d.	GBP -	1.00
350	Stonham, Charles	The Birds of the British Islands		1906	GBP -	Not Sold
351	Jardine, Sir William	The Naturalists Library		1833-40	GBP -	17.00
352	Wright, John	The Fruit Grower's Guide		n.d.	GBP -	6.00
353	Yarrell, William; Culpeper, Nicholas	A History of British Fishes, The Complete Herbal		1859, 1850	GBP -	2.10
354		Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland	Edinburgh	1906	GBP -	15.00
355	Clarence Winchester; Tomlinson, William Weaver	Railway Wonders of the World, The North Eastern Railway, its Rise and Development	Newcastle	n.d., 1914	GBP -	6.00
356	Major B. Baden-Powell and J. H. Ledeboer	Aeronautics		December, 1907-December, 1908	GBP -	4.00
357		Oxford English Dictionary.	Oxford	1888-1933	GBP -	34.00
358		Papal Letters		1904-33	GBP -	8.00
359		Venice.		1867-1939	GBP -	26.00
360		Lists and Indexes numbers 4 and 16 to 38		1903-12	GBP -	80.00
361		Acts of the Privy Council of England		1890-1938	GBP -	62.00
362		Acts of the Privy Council of England		1909-12	GBP -	58.00
363		Register of the Privy Council of Scotland		1877-95	GBP -	10.00
364		Register of the Privy Council of Scotland		1904-08	GBP -	4.00
365		Register of the Privy Council of Scotland		1909-33	GBP -	14.00
366		Register of the Great Seal of Scotland		1908-36	GBP -	12.00
367		Exchequer Rolls of Scotland		1878-1908	GBP -	14.00
368		Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland		1877-1911	GBP -	2.00
369		Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, Calendar of Borders of England and Scotland		1881, 1894-95	GBP -	7.00
370		Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots		1903-36	GBP -	8.00
371		Early Statutes of Ireland, King John and Henry V, Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland, Henry VIII, Justiciary Rolls, Ireland, Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland		1907-10, 1861, 1906, 1865-69	GBP -	22.00
372		Excerpta e rotulis finium in Turri Londoniensi, Rotuli de Liberate ac de Misis et Praestitis, Ancient Laws and Institutions of Wales, Issue Roll of Thomas of Brantingham, Handbook to the Public Records, Rotulus Cancellarii vel Antigraphum Magni Rotuli Pip		1835-36, 1844, 1841, 1835, 1853, 1833	GBP -	35.00
373		State Papers during the reign of Henry VIII		1830-52	GBP -	2.00
374		Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio. Henry Ill-Edward III		1805-10	GBP -	8.00
375		Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem sive Excaetarum		1806-28	GBP -	13.00
376	G. Vanderzee	Nonarum Inquisitiones in Curia Scaccarii		1807	GBP -	7.00
377	G. Rose and W. Illingworth	Abbreviatio Placitorum Richard I-Edward II		1811	GBP -	15.00
378		Rotuli Scotiae in Turri Londinensi ... 19 Edward I-Henry VIII		1819	GBP -	13.00
379		Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae, etc.; or Rymer's Foedera		1066-1383, 1816-69	GBP -	80.00
380		Ducatus Lancastriae Calendarium Inquisitionum post Mortem, etc.		1823-34	GBP -	13.00
381	J. Caley and J. Bayley	Proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.		1827-32	GBP -	26.00
382		Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, Edw. I and Edw. II		1827-34	GBP -	38.00
383	T. Thompson	Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum in Archivis Publicis asservatum		1814	GBP -	7.00
384		Acts of the Parliament of Scotland		1872, 1815-75	GBP -	13.00
385		Acts of the Lords Auditors of Causes and Complaints, Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes		1839, 1839	GBP -	7.00
386		Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae, Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium John-Edw. IV, Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarum, John-Edw. IV, Testa de Nevill		1802, 1802, 1803, 1807	GBP -	10.00
387		Rotuli Hundredorum, Placita de quo Warranto, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library		1812-18, 1818, 1802, folio 4	GBP -	28.00
388		England National Manuscript Facsimiles		1864-69	GBP -	26.00
389		General Report of the King in Council, Report from the Commissioners to execute the measures recommended		1837, 1800-19	GBP -	11.00
390		Rotuli Parliamentorum : the Rolls of Parliament		1783--1832	GBP -	75.00
391	Buckley, Wilfred	The Art of Glass		1939	GBP -	3.00
392	Cook, Cyril; Towner, Donald C.	The Life and Work of Robert Hancock		1948, 1957	GBP -	5.00
393	Edwards, Ralph and Margaret Jourdain.; Kurz, Otto	Georgian Cabinet-Makers, Fakes		1946, 1948	GBP -	8.00
394	Fisher, Stanley W.	English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century, plates (a few coloured), buckram, The Decoration of English Porcelain		1947, 1954	GBP -	3.00
395	Francis, Grant R.	Old English Drinking Glasses		1926	GBP -	7.00
396	Gilhespy, F. Brayshaw; Haslem, John	Crown Derby Porcelain, The Old Derby China Factory		1951	GBP -	7.00
397	Haggar, Reginald G.; Stringer, George Eyre	The Masons of Lane Delph and the Origin of Masons Patent Ironstone China, New Hall Porcelain		1952, 1949	GBP -	6.00
398	Hartshorne, Albert	Old English Glasses		1897	GBP -	5.00
399	Hayden, Arthur; Williams, Sydney B.	Spode and his Successors, Antique Blue and White Spode		1925, 1943	GBP -	3.00
400	Hobson, R. L.	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	22.00

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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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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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