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
501		Japanese Ceramics., Nihon Koko Meihon Shu Kaisetsu		1933, n.d.	GBP -	7.00
502	Rucker-Embden, Oscar	Chinesische Frühkeramik	Leipzig	1922	GBP -	6.00
503	Munsterberk, Oskar	Chinesische Kunstgeschichte	Esslingen	1910-12	GBP -	10.00
504		Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art.	Washington	1946	GBP -	1.00
505	Schreiber, Lady Charlotte	Journals ...		1911	GBP -	8.00
506	Luxmoore, Charles F. C.	English Saltglazed Earthenware	Exeter	1924	GBP -	20.00
507	Luxmoore, Charles F. C.	Saltglaze, with The Notes of a Collector	Exeter	1924	GBP -	20.00
508		Old Furniture, a Magazine of Domestic Ornament		June 1927-December 1930	GBP -	4.00
509	Cescinsky, Herbert and Ernest R. Gribble	Early English Furniture and Woodwork		1922	GBP -	1.00
510	Scherer, Christian	Die Braunschweiger Elfenbeinsammlung.	Leipzig	1931	GBP -	7.00
511	Sedlmayr, Hans; Arnheim, Rudolf	Art in Crisis, The Lost Centre, Art and Visual Perception, a psychology of the creative eye		1957, 1956	GBP -	2.00
512	Havell, E. B.; Calvert, Albert F.	The Himalayas in Indian Art, Goya, an Account of his Life and Works		1924, 1908	GBP -	3.00
513	Macquoid, Percy	A History of English Furniture		1904-1908	GBP -	2.00
514	Tipping, H. Avray; Jekyll, Gertrude	English Gardens, Garden Ornament		1925, 1918	GBP -	6.00
515	Jekyll, Gertrude and Christopher Hussey.; Latham, Charles	Garden Ornament, In English Homes		1927, n.d.	GBP -	9.00
516	Turner, Laurence	Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain		1923	GBP -	4.00
517	Thomson, W. G.	Tapestry Weaving in England		1914	GBP -	4.00
518	Rhead, G. Woolliscroft	History of the Fan		1910	GBP -	25.00
519	Fairbairn, James	Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland		1905	GBP -	19.00
520	Thomson, W. G.; Honey, William Bowyer	A History of Tapestry, The Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East		1906, 1945	GBP -	6.00
521	Lubbock, Basil; Rooses, Max	Adventures by Sea from Art of Old Time, Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century		1925, 1898	GBP -	2.10
522	Gardner, Arthur; Howard, F. E. and F. H. Crossley	Medieval Sculpture in France, English Church Woodwork	Cambridge	1931, 1927	GBP -	9.00
523	Robinson, Vincent J.	Eastern Carpets		1882-93	GBP -	9.00
524	Bogolubow, A.	Tapis de l'Asie Centrale	St. Petersburg and Leipzig	1908	GBP -	24.00
525	MARTIN, F. R.	A HISTORY OF ORIENTAL CARPETS BEFORE 1800	Vienna	1908	GBP -	14.00
526		Ancient Oriental Carpets by the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Vienna	Leipzig	1908	GBP -	18.00
527		Ancient Oriental Carpets by the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Vienna	Leipzig	1906	GBP -	1.00
528	Blanchet, Paul	Notices sur quelques tissus antiques et du haut moyen age jusqu'au XVe siècle		1897	GBP -	5.00
529	Hart, George	The Violin : its famous makers and their imitators		1875	GBP -	8.00
530	Hart, G.	The Violin : its famous makers and their imitators		1875	GBP -	6.00
531	Hart, G.	The Violin: its famous makers and their imitators		1875	GBP -	6.00
532	Hart, G.	The Violin and its Music		1881	GBP -	5.00
533	Hart, G.	The Violin and its Music		1881	GBP -	5.00
534	Hart, G.	The Violin: its famous makers and their imimators, Le violon, ses luthiers célèbres et leurs imitateurs	Paris	1884, 1886	GBP -	7.00
535	Hart, G.	Le violon, ses luthiers célèbres et leurs imitateurs, traduit de l'Anglais par Alphonse Royer, The Violin and its Music	Paris	1886, 1881	GBP -	9.00
536	Hart, G.	The Violin, its famous makers and their imitators		1909	GBP -	5.00
537	Bryan, Michael	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1903-1905	GBP -	26.00
538	Calvert, Albert F.; Arnold, Hugh	Spain, Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France		1924, 1913	GBP -	4.10
539	Cosson, Baron de	Le cabinet d'armes de Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord	Paris	1901	GBP -	17.00
540	Crowe, J. A. and G. B. Cavalcaselle	A History of Painting in Italy, A History of Painting in North Italy		1903-1914, 1912	GBP -	6.00
541	Dilke, Emilia F. S.	French Furniture and Decoration in the XVIIIth Century, French Painters of the XVIIIth Century	Paris	1901, 1899, 1878	GBP -	2.00
542	Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles	The Art of Heraldry		1904	GBP -	26.00
543	Havard, Henry	Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la décoration depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	12.00
544	Joubert, Felix	The Collection of Arms and Armour		1923	GBP -	12.00
545	Rosenberg, A.; Singer, H. W.	Klassiker der Kunst., Rembrandt, des Meisters Gemälde, Rembrandt, des Meisters Radierunigen	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1909., 1910	GBP -	1.00
546	P. P. Rubens; Zimmermann, E. H.	Klassiker der Kunst Rosenberg (A.), Watteau	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1911, 1912	GBP -	3.00
547	Ganz, P.; Scherer, V.	Klassiker der Kunst., Hans Holbein d.J., Dürer	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1912., n.d.	GBP -	1.10
548	Fischel, O.; Knapp, F.; Rosenberg, A.	Klassiker der Kunst., Tizian, Michelangelo, Raffael	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1911, 1912., 1909	GBP -	2.10
549	Gensel, W.; Mayer, August L.	Klassiker der Kunst., Velazquez, Murillo	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1908., 1913	GBP -	2.00
550		Ladies Monthly Museum (The), or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction		1827-1831	GBP -	1.00
551		Monumenti storici ed artistici del Cantone Ticino	Milan	1913-1914	GBP -	9.00
552		Ris-Paquot. Dictionnaire encyclopédique des marques et monogrammes, chiffres, lettres initiales, signes figuratifs, etc.	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	13.00
553	Trapp, Oswald, Graf	The Armoury of the Castle, of Churburg		1929	GBP -	19.00
554	Vertot, l'abbé R. A. de	Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem	Paris	1726	GBP -	6.00
555	Waagen, Dr. G. F.	Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain		1854, 1857	GBP -	10.00
556		Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.. Bollettino delle Publicazioni Italiane, ricevute per diritto di stampa, a monthly periodical from 1923 to 1938			GBP -	70.00
557		Catalogo Generale della Libreria Italiana dall' anno 1847, first series 1847-1899		1901-40	GBP -	70.00
558		Catalogo" dei Cataloghi del Libro Italiano, ditto	Bologna	1923, 1926, 1925-33	GBP -	1.00
559		Catalogo General de la Libreria Española e Hispano-Americana	Madrid and Barcelona	1932-35	GBP -	6.00
560		Catalogue Valdras		1930-36	GBP -	4.00
561		"Biblio." Catalogue des ouvrages parus en langue Francaise dans de monde entier	Paris	1941-47	GBP -	4.00
562	Bibliotheca Lindesiana	A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns	Oxford	1910	GBP -	18.00
563	Bibliotheca Lindesiana	Handlist of Proclamations issued by Royal and other Constitutional Authorities 1714-1910	Wigan	1913	GBP -	4.00
564		American Book-Prices Current		1895, 1901-1927	GBP -	4.00
565	Brunet, Jacques-Charles	Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres, Supplément, par P. Deschamps et G. Brunet	Paris, Paris	1860-1865, 1878-1880	GBP -	26.00
566	Amateur, L'	d'autographes, revue rétrospective et contemporaine, publiée sous la direction de Noël Charavay	Paris	1904-1910	GBP -	4.00
567	F. L. and E. L. Wilder	Book-Prices Current, Auction Prices of Books		1920-1931, 1905	GBP -	20.00
568	Manuel, King of Portugal	Livros antigos portuguezes 1489-1600 da Bibliotheca de Sua Majestade fidelissima		1929-1935	GBP -	20.00
569	Halkett, Samuel and John Laing	Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature		1926-1934	GBP -	9.00
570	Kinsky, Georg; Grove, Sir George	Musikhistoris'ches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöin., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians	Cologne, New York	1916, 1900, 1910	GBP -	14.00
571	Marot, Clément and Théodore de Bèze.; Rousseau, J.-J.	Les CL. Peaumes de David mis en rime françoise, Dictionnaire de musique	Geneva, Paris	1537, 1768	GBP -	17.00
572	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	The Letters of Mozart and his Family		1938	GBP -	16.00
573	Carteret, L.	Le trésor du bibliophile, livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945	Paris	1946-1948	GBP -	19.00
574	Zinner, Ernst	Geschichte und Bibliographie der Astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur Zeit der Renaissance	Leipzig	1941	GBP -	2.10
575	Bailly, J. S.; Grant, R.; Clerke, A. M.	Histoire de l'Astronomie ancienne et moderne, History of Physical Astronomy, A Popular History of Astronomy		1805, 1852, 1893	GBP -	3.00
576	Voiron, M.; Delambre, J. B.	Histoire de l'Astronomie depuis 1781 jusqu'a 1811, Histoire de l'Astronomie au dix-huitième siècle		1811, 1827	GBP -	4.00
577		Matériaux pour l'Histoire Positive et Philosophique de l'Homme		1865-88	GBP -	1.00
578	Todhunter, I. and K. Pearson	A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials from Galilei to the present time	Cambridge	1886-93	GBP -	15.00
579	Bossut, Charles; SédillotJ, L. A.	Histoire Générale des Mathématiques, Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire comparée des sciences mathématiques chez les Grecs et les Orientaux		1810, 1845-49	GBP -	6.00
580	Matschoss, Conrad	Die Entwicklung der Dampfmaschine	Berlin	1908	GBP -	5.10
581	Picard, Alfred	Les Chemins de Fer Francais, étude historique		1884	GBP -	5.10
582	Bain, F. W.	The Indian Stories		1919-1920	GBP -	0.10
583	Beerbohm, Max	Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, The Poets' Corner		1896, 1904	GBP -	4.00
584	Beerbohm, Max	A Book of Caricatures, A Survey		1907, 1921	GBP -	7.00
585	Beerbohm, Max	Rossetti and his Circle, A Peep into the Past		1922, 1923	GBP -	8.00
586	Beerbohm, Max	Things New and Old, Observations		1923, 1925	GBP -	6.00
587	Beerbohm, Max; Lynch, Bohun	Around Theatres, Mainly on the Air, Max Beerbohm in Perspective		1924, 1946, 1921	GBP -	7.00
588	Burne-Jones, G.; Bell, Malcolm Edward Burne-Jones	Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones		1906, 1892	GBP -	4.00
589	Carlyle, Thomas	Sartor Resartus		1907	GBP -	10.10
590	Ruskin, John	Unto This Last		1907	GBP -	9.00
591	J. Isaacs; Powys, Llewelyn	The Chester Play of the Deluge, The Book of Days etchings		1927, 1937	GBP -	4.00
592	W. O. E. Oesterley	The Song of Songs, the Authorised Version, together with a new translation, ....		1936	GBP -	7.00
593		Chanticleer; Pertelote; Cockalorum		1936, n.d.	GBP -	8.00
594	F. L. Lucas	Greek Anthology, a selection of the poems edited, with translations ...		1937	GBP -	14.00
595	Lawrence, T. E.	Men in Print		1940	GBP -	5.00
596	Lawrence, T. E.	Shaw-Ede, T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede 1927-1935		1942	GBP -	6.00
597	Lawrence, T. E.	Secret Despatches from Arabia, foreword by A. W. Lawrence		n.d	GBP -	7.00
598	Philby, H. StJ. B.	A Pilgrim in Arabia		1943	GBP -	4.00
599	Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Hudson, W. H.	Hymn to Proserpine, Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham		1944., 1941	GBP -	3.00
600	Swinburne, Algernon Charles	Laus Veneris		1948	GBP -	7.00

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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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