Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 29Nov1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 29, 1937 - November 29, 1937

Page Size: 911 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
700	Machen Arthur	Works		1923	GBP -	1.00
701	Burke Edmund	Writings and Speeches		n.d.	GBP -	2.00
702	Barrie Sir J. M.	Works		1913	GBP -	5.05
703	BARRIE SIR J. M.	ALLAHAKBARRIE BOOK OF BROADWAY CRICKET FOR 1899		1899	GBP -	10.10
704		Ariel Poems series			GBP -	0.05
705	Galsworthy John	A Modern Comedy		1929	GBP -	0.15
706		Valentines. The Turtle Dove, The Cabinet of Love : a capital Selection of Valentines		n.d., n.d.	GBP -	2.10
707	Ruskin John	The King of the Golden River		1851	GBP -	0.15
708	Goldsmith O.	Miscellaneous Works		1801	GBP -	0.15
709	Milton John	Nonesuch Press. Poems in English		1926	GBP -	2.02
710	Harvey William	Nonesuch Press. Anatomical Exercises		1928	GBP -	1.05
711		Nonesuch Press. The Compleat Walton		1929	GBP -	1.10
712	Hawker Lt. Col. P.	Instructions to Young Sportsmen		1826	GBP -	0.15
713	Sterne Laurence, Goldsmith Oliver, Hunt Leigh	Works, Works, Lord Byron and some of his Con temporaries		1808, 1854, 1828	GBP -	0.18
714	Gravelot H.	et C. N. Cochin. Iconologie par Figures		n.d.	GBP -	4.00
715		La Fontaine Jean de Contes et Nouvelles	Amsterdam	1767	GBP -	0.18
716	Galsworthy John	The Forsyte Saga		1922	GBP -	0.10
717	Galsworthy J.	The Freelands, First Issue, Swan Song		1915, 1928	GBP -	0.05
718	Galsworthy J.	The Creation of Character in Literature, Carmen	Oxford	1931, 1932	GBP -	Not Sold
719	Kipling Rudyard	The Second Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill, illustrations		1895, 1906	GBP -	0.05
720	Hardy Thomas, Barrie Sir J. M.	The Well-Beloved, slight stains on cover, A Changed Man, Margaret Ogilvy		1897, 1913, 1896	GBP -	0.05
721	Kaye-Smith Sheila, Wells H. G.	The George and the Crown, The World of William Clissold		1925, 1926	GBP -	0.08
722		Jâmi. The Behâristân, Sa'di. The Gulistân		1887, 1888	GBP -	2.00
723	Lawrence T. E.	Revolt in the Desert		1927	GBP -	0.08
724	Richard F. Burton	ARABIAN NIGHTS. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ... with Notes, etc.		1885-88	GBP -	14.00
725	Morris William	Gothic Architecture		1893	GBP -	1.04
726	Morris William	The Wood beyond the World		1894	GBP -	3.15
727	Morris William	The Sundering Flood		1897	GBP -	2.05
728	Yeats W. B.	The Cat and the Moon	Dublin	1924	GBP -	0.05
729	Conrad J.	The Rescue, Suspense, The Rover		1920, 1925, 1923	GBP -	Not Sold
730	Moore G.	Spring Days		1888	GBP -	0.05
731	Moore G.	Evelyn Innes, Sister Teresa, Untilled Field		1898, 1901, 1903	GBP -	0.05
732	Beerbohm Max	Works		1922-4	GBP -	3.05
733	Beerbohm M.	Works		1922-4	GBP -	3.05
734	Beerbohm Max	Zuleika Dobson, A Christmas Garland, And Even Now, Seven Men		1911-20	GBP -	0.05
735	Stephens J.	The Crock of Gold		1926	GBP -	0.15
736	Cervantes M. de, Sir P. Sidney	Don Quixote, Astrophel and Stella		1902, 1931	GBP -	0.18
737	Doyle Sir A. Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1892, 1894	GBP -	1.15
738	Kipling Rudyard	Just So Stories		1902	GBP -	0.05
739	Maupassant Guy de	Oeuvres complètes		1908-10	GBP -	14.00
740		Print Prices Current, Picture Prices Current		1919-1936, 1936-7	GBP -	11.00
741	ROTHSCHILD BARON JAMES DE	Catalogue des livres composant la biblothèque de		1884-1920	GBP -	7.05
742	Willems A.	Les Elzevier, histoire et annales typographiques		1880	GBP -	2.05
743	Pellechet M.	Catalogue général des incunables des Bibliothèques Publiques de France		1897-1909	GBP -	1.10
744	Rietstap J. B.	Armorial général		n.d., 1884	GBP -	8.10
745	Barbier A. A.	Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, avec Supplément par G. Brunet		1872-89	GBP -	3.05
746	RENESSE Comte T. de	Dictionnaire des figures héraldiques		1892-1903	GBP -	7.00
747	Bernd C. S. T.	Die Hauptstücke der Wappenwissenschaft		1841-49	GBP -	0.10
748	Haebler K.	Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke		1905-24	GBP -	6.00
749	Collijn I.	Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Univ. Bibliothek zu Uppsala, idem, der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm, Teil 1 u. 11 (1), Tafeln 1-150		1907, 1914-16	GBP -	1.01
750	Reichling D.	ed. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, additiones et emendationes, cum Indices et Supplementen		1905-14	GBP -	4.00
751		Bibliographie des Bibliotheks-und Buchwesens, Intern nationale Bibliographie des Bueh-und Bibliothekswesen	Leipzig	1904-12, 1922-25, 1905-27, 1926-29, 1927-30	GBP -	1.00
752	Marais P.	et Dufresne de Saint-Léon (A.) Catalogue des incunables de la Bibliothèque Mazarine, avec supplément	Paris	1893-8	GBP -	0.15
753	Marais P., Franklin A.	et Dufresne de St-Léon (A.) Catalogue des incunables de la Bibliothèque Mazarine, Histoire de la Bibliothèque Mazarine		1893-98, 1860	GBP -	1.00
754	Weller E., Dacheux L., Wagner F. W., Weller E.	Repertorium typographicum, Les plus anciens écrits de Geiler de Kayserberg, Grundriss der classischen Bibliographie, interleaved copy with MS. additions, etc., Die falschen u. fingirten Druckorte		1864, 1882, 1840, 1864	GBP -	2.05
755	Dutuit E.	Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes		1881-88	GBP -	2.05
756	SCHREIBER W. L.	Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siède		1891-1911	GBP -	36.00
757	PANZER G. W.	ANNALES TYPOGRAPHICI ab artis inventae origine ad annum MD, et MDI ad MDXXXVI, with Supplements and Indexes		1793-1803	GBP -	25.00
758	Lugt F.	Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes		1921	GBP -	5.10
759	Baer L.	Die Illustrierten Historienbücher des 15 Jahrhunderts	Strassburg	1903	GBP -	0.10
760	Chantilly Musée Condé	cabinet des livres, MSS.	Paris	1900-5	GBP -	4.10
761	Luther J.	Die Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit, Ausgabe A, 3 pts.		1909-13	GBP -	2.10
762	Geoffrey Keynes	Blake William Writings		1925	GBP -	2.18
763	Otway Thomas	Complete Works		1926	GBP -	0.12
764	Vanbrugh Sir John	Complete Works		1927-28	GBP -	0.15
765	Hamilton Count Anthony	Memoirs of Count Grammont		1811	GBP -	0.10
766	Nevill Ralph, Ward H and W. Roberts	Old English Sporting Books, Romney		1924, 1904	GBP -	2.00
767	Thorburn A.	British Birds		1917	GBP -	7.15
768	Beerbohm Max, Gay J.	Fifty Caricatures, A Survey, Beggar's Opera		1913, 1921, 1921	GBP -	1.02
769	Kipling Rudyard	Collected Verse		1912	GBP -	0.12
770	Thompson Francis	Collected Poetry		1913	GBP -	0.12
771	Belloc H.	The Old Road		1904	GBP -	0.08
772	Shakespeare W., Kipling R.	As You Like It, A Song of the English		n.d., n.d.	GBP -	1.01
773	Voragine Jacobus de	The Golden Legend		1892	GBP -	2.00
774		Laudes Beatæ Mariæ Virginis		Dec. 28th, 1896 1896	GBP -	2.10
775	Boccaccio Giovanni	The Decameron			GBP -	0.14
776	DRESSER HENRY E.	HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE		1871-96	GBP -	21.10
777	Neal J. P.	Views of the Seats of Noblemen, etc.		1818-20	GBP -	0.10
778	ACKERMANN R.	MICROCOSM OF LONDON		1808-10	GBP -	28.10
779		Ackermann's History of Westminster Abbey		1812	GBP -	2.00
780	Moleville Bertrand de	The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria		plates dated 1804	GBP -	1.12
781	Lysons D., Evelyn J.	Environs of London, Silva		1811/1800, 1706	GBP -	0.05
782	Peake R. B.	French Characteristick Costumes		1816	GBP -	5.00
783	Harvey W.	Opera omnia		1766	GBP -	4.00
784		Binding. Virgil. Opera, Horatius. Opera, Catullus. Opera		1675, 1691, 1685	GBP -	1.12
785	Jackson T.	Justifying Faith			GBP -	0.05
786	Maimonides R. Moses, Vossius G. J.	De Idolatria, c. interp. Lat. D. Vossii, Maimonides. Consti tutiones et fundamentis legis, Harmoniae Evangelicae, de passione, etc.		1641, 1684, 1633, 1656	GBP -	0.18
787		Xenophon. De Cyri institutione lib. viii, Graecè		1613	GBP -	0.10
788	Dale A. van	Oraculis vet. ethnicorum dissertationes duae			GBP -	Not Sold
789	Stubbe H.	The Plus Ultra [of J. Glanvill] reduced to a Non Plus, Legends no Histories, or Specimen of some Animadversions upon the History of Royal Society		1670	GBP -	0.18
790	Rusca A.	De Inferno, et statu daemonum ante mundi exitium		1621	GBP -	0.05
791		Ovidius. Opera omnia, cura et studio P. Burmanni, Aelianus. Varia historia, Gr. et. Lat., cur. A. Gronovio, Poetae Latini minores, cur. P. Burmanno		1727, 1731, 1731	GBP -	0.05
792		Boetius de Boodt A. Gemmarum et lapidum historia		1609	GBP -	0.10
793	Veslingius J.	Syntagma anatomicum		1647	GBP -	0.05
794	Turrianus F., Petitus S., Vorstius C.	De Hierarchicis ordinationibus ministrorum eccles, Variarum lectionum, Parasceve ad amicam collationem cum D. Joh. Piscatore, etc.	Paris	1569, 1633, 1612	GBP -	0.18
795	Sophocles	Euripides. Tragoediae quae extant, Gr. et Lat., Tragoediae septem, Gr. et Lat., Historiae Augustae scriptores, I. Casaubonus rec	Paris	1602, 1603, 1603	GBP -	0.10
796	Rutherford S., Vicars J., Bayne P., Charron P.	Peaceable and temperate Plea for Pauls Presbyterie in Scotland, Jehovah-Jirah, God in the Mount, A Commentarie upon the first and second Chapters of St. Paul to the Colossians, Of Wisdome		1642, 1644, 1635, 1651	GBP -	0.14
797	Downame Geo., Preston J., Mayer J., Hieron S.	Papa Antichristus, Praxis Theologica, Davids Penitentiall Psalme opened	Cambridge	1620, 1630-54, 1629, 1617	GBP -	1.10
798		Encylopédie, ou dictionnaire raissonné des sciences, des arts, des métiers, publié par D. Diderot et D'Alembert		1778-79	GBP -	4.00
799	Rees A.	Cyclopaedia		1820	GBP -	0.05

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