Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 03Jul1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 03, 1939 - July 03, 1939

Page Size: 928 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	BECKFORD William	Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal; Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha		1834, 1835	GBP -	2.05
2	Beerbohm Max	A Christmas Garland		1912	GBP -	0.10
3	Bewick Thomas	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1804	GBP -	1.00
4	Bewick Thomas	A General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle upon Tyne	1824	GBP -	0.12
5	Boswell James	Life of Johnson		1887	GBP -	0.10
6		British Birds : an Illustrated Magazine		1907-14	GBP -	0.05
7	Burns Robert	Poems	Edinburgh	1896-7	GBP -	2.05
8	Burke Edmund	Works		1826-27	GBP -	1.10
9	Bryce James	The American Commonwealth		1892	GBP -	0.14
10	Clark J. W.	The Care of Books, L.P.	Cambridge	1901	GBP -	0.10
11	Coryat Thomas	Coryat's Crudities	Glasgow	1905	GBP -	0.12
12	Courthope W. J.; Hardy Thomas	A History of English Poetry; Moments of Vision		1895-1905, 1917	GBP -	1.12
13	D'Arblay Madame	Diary and Letters		1904-5	GBP -	2.05
14	Degeorge Léon; Sparling H. H.; Carew Bampfylde Moore	La Maison Plantin a Anvers; The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman; The Surprising Adventures	Bruxelles	1878, 1924, 1812	GBP -	0.12
15	Dickens Charles	Nicholas Nickleby		1839	GBP -	0.07
16	Dickens Charles	Little Dorrit		1857	GBP -	0.05
17		Dictionary (The) of National Biography		1908-1927	GBP -	15.15
18	Fitzgerald Edward	Polonius : a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances		1852	GBP -	0.08
19	Fitzgerald Edward	Six Dramas of Calderon, freely translated		1853	GBP -	0.05
20	Fitzgerald Edward	Euphranor, a May-Day Conversation at Cambridge		1882	GBP -	0.05
21	Fitzgerald Edward	Letters and Literary Remains		1902-03	GBP -	0.12
22	Fortescue J. W.; Kipling Rudyard	A History of the British Army; The Irish Guards in the Great War		1899-1912, 1923	GBP -	0.05
23	Gibbon Edward	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Oxford	1827	GBP -	2.05
24	Gilchrist Alexander; Blake William	Life of William Blake; Poetical Works	Oxford	1863, 1905	GBP -	0.08
25	Grove George	Dictionary of Music and Musicians		1927-28	GBP -	3.05
26	Hakluyt Richard	The Principal Navigations, Voyages; Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation	Glasgow	1903-05	GBP -	5.00
27	Hamilton A.	Mémoires du Comte de Grammont			GBP -	1.10
28	HARDY THOMAS	WORKS		1919-20	GBP -	14.00
29	Hedin Sven	Trans-Himalaya		1909	GBP -	Not Sold
30		Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely		1910	GBP -	0.06
31	Hogg T. J.; Dowden Edward	Life of Shelley; The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley	buckram	1858, 1886	GBP -	0.10
32	Hudson W. H.	British Birds		1895	GBP -	0.05
33	Hudson W. H.	The Lands End		1908	GBP -	Not Sold
34	Jobson Richard	The Golden Trade	Teignmouth	n.d.	GBP -	0.05
35	Johnson Dr. S.	Works		1825	GBP -	1.00
36	Kaempfer Engelbert	The History of Japan	Glasgow	1906	GBP -	0.18
37	Kipling Rudyard	Works		1897-1927	GBP -	6.10
38	KIPLING RUDYARD	WORKS		1913-27	GBP -	10.10
39	KIPLING RUDYARD	JUST SO STORIES; THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD		1900	GBP -	22.00
40	KIPLING RUDYARD	JUST SO STORIES; THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS		1900	GBP -	22.00
41	KIPLING RUDYARD	JUST SO STORIES; THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO		1900	GBP -	30.00
42	Kipling Rudyard	Verse		1919	GBP -	0.05
43	Lamb Charles	Works		1899-1900	GBP -	3.10
44	Lithgow William; Know Robert	The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations; An Historical Relation of Ceylon	Glasgow	1906, 1911	GBP -	1.02
45	Macgillivray William; Yarrell William	A History of British Birds; A History of British Birds		1852, 1871-85	GBP -	0.05
46	Marlowe Christopher	Works, Davison's Poetical Rhapsody		1885, 1890	GBP -	1.08
47	Monypenny W. F. and Buckle J. E.	Life of Disraeli		1910-20	GBP -	0.05
48	Morley Lord	Works		1921	GBP -	1.08
49	Morris William; Browning Robert	The Earthly Paradise; Christmas Eve and Easter-Day		1870, 1850	GBP -	0.05
50	Moryson Fynes	An Itinerary	Glasgow	1907-08	GBP -	0.10
51		Naturalist's Library (The)	Edinburgh	1843	GBP -	2.15
52	Michaelis A.	Ancient Marbles in Great Britain	Cambridge	1882	GBP -	Not Sold
53	Sidney Sir Philip	Nonesuch Press. Astrophel and Stella		1931	GBP -	0.05
54	Prideaux W. F.	Omar Khayyám Rubáiyát, Notes for a Bibliography of Edward Fitzgerald		1879, 1900	GBP -	0.05
55	H. E. Wooldridge, etc	Oxford (The) History of Music		1901-05	GBP -	1.10
56	Pater Walter	Works		1900-01	GBP -	2.15
57	Pepys Samuel	The Diary		1893-99	GBP -	3.00
58	Purchas Samuel	Hakluytus Posthumus or Purehas his Pilgrimes	Glasgow	1905-07	GBP -	2.00
59	Shakespeare W.; French George R.	The Works, Shakespeareana Genealogica	Cambridge	1863-66, 1869	GBP -	1.05
60	Shorthouse J. H.; Cervantes M. de	John Inglesant, Don Quixote	New York	1902, 1885	GBP -	0.18
61	Smith Captaine John	The Generali Historie of Virginia; New England and the Summer Isles	Glasgow	1907	GBP -	0.05
62	Stanhope Lady Hester	Memoirs, as related by Herself in Conversation with her Physician		1845-1846	GBP -	2.05
63	Stein M. Aurel	Ruins of Desert Cathay		1912	GBP -	1.08
64	Stevenson H. and Southwell T.; Evans A. H.	The Birds of Norfolk; Birds		1866-90, 1899	GBP -	0.18
65	STEVENSON R. L.	TREASURE ISLAND		1883	GBP -	10.10
66	Sykes Major P. M.; Bruce Sir Charles	Ten Thousand Miles in Persia; The Broad Stone of Empire		1902, 1910	GBP -	0.12
67	Tagore Rabindranath	Gitanjali, Chitra, a Play in one Act		1912, 1913	GBP -	0.03
68	Tennyson Alfred, Lord	Life and Works		1898-1899	GBP -	1.05
69	Thackeray W. M.	Vanity Fair		1848	GBP -	0.16
70	Thackeray W. M.	The History of Pendennis		1849-1850	GBP -	2.00
71	Thackeray W. M.	The Newcomes		1854-55	GBP -	1.05
72	Thackeray W. M.	The Virginians		1858-59	GBP -	1.00
73	Ticehurst Norman F.; Balston R. J., Shepherd C. W. and Bartlett E.; Bucknill J. A.	A History of the Birds of Kent; Notes on the Birds of Kent; The Birds of Surrey		1909, 1907, 1900	GBP -	0.18
74	Philemon Holland	Tudor Translations. Suetonius' History of the Twelve Caesars		1899	GBP -	1.00
75	Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter le Motteux	Tudor Translations. Rabelais...		1900	GBP -	1.10
76	Boecaccio G.	Tudor Translations		1901	GBP -	0.10
77		Tudor Translations		1901-03	GBP -	1.18
78	Walpole Horace	Letters; The Correspondence of Gray	Oxford	1891, 1915	GBP -	0.15
79	Wotton William	Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning		1697	GBP -	0.10
80		Baskerville Press	Birmingham	1772	GBP -	Not Sold
81	Bérard Victor	Les Phéniciens et l'odyssée		1902	GBP -	0.18
82	Bonnard Camille and Mercuri Paul; Duplessis Georges and Chevignard E. Le Chevallier	Costumes Historiques, XII-XV Siècles; Costumes Historiques, XVI-XVIII Siècles	Paris	1860-61, 1867	GBP -	3.05
83		Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (The)		1904-10	GBP -	1.00
84	Butler A. G.; Bree C. R.	Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres; A History of the Birds of Europe		n.d., 1875-76	GBP -	1.04
85	Castiglione B.	The Book of the Courtier		1902	GBP -	0.10
86	Curie James	A Roman Frontier Post and its People	Glasgow	1911	GBP -	0.15
87	Dresser H. E.	Eggs of the Birds of Europe		1910	GBP -	2.00
88	Dickson R. and Edmond J. P.	Annals of Scottish Printing	Cambridge	1890	GBP -	0.05
89	Evelyn John	Silva	York	1812	GBP -	Not Sold
90A		Homer, Odyssey			GBP -	0.14
90		Homer, Odyssey	Oxford	1909	GBP -	0.14
91	Kingsley Charles; Pollard A. W.	The Water Babies, The Romance of King Arthur... abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur		1909, 1917	GBP -	1.15
92	Macdonald George	Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection	Glasgow	1899-1905	GBP -	0.18
93	Millais J. G.	Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches		1892	GBP -	1.00
94	Millais J. G.	British Deer and their Horns		1897	GBP -	1.06
95	Millais J. G.	The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland		1904-06	GBP -	1.15
96	Millais J. G.	The Natural History of British Game Birds		1909	GBP -	4.04
97		New Testament. Greek	Geneva	1638	GBP -	8.00
98	Pennell Joseph; Macfall Haldane	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century		1894, 1909	GBP -	0.05
99	Tristram W. O.	Coaching Days and Coaching Ways		1888	GBP -	0.05

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