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
400	Prior E. S. and A. Gardner	An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England	Cambridge	1912	GBP -	3.15
401		Proof Plates on India Paper to Britton's Cathedrals, Blore's Monumental Remains, Seyer's Bristol, etc.			GBP -	0.05
402		Proof Plates, mostly on India Paper			GBP -	0.18
403	Rabelais François	Œuvres	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	0.10
404	J. M. Guilding	Reading Records. Diary of the Corporation (1431-1654)		1892-96	GBP -	0.18
405		Records of Buckingham	Aylesbury	1858-1916	GBP -	4.15
406		Reliquary (The) and Illustrated Archæologist, New Series		1895-1909	GBP -	0.12
407	Richardson William and Edward Churton	Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire	York	1843-55	GBP -	Not Sold
408	Rivoira G. T.	Lombardic Architecture		1910	GBP -	1.08
409	Roberts David	The Holy Land; Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia		1842-49	GBP -	1.10
410	Rocque J.	A Topographical Survey of the County of Berks, in Eighteen Sheets		1761	GBP -	1.06
411	Rocque John	A Topographical Survey of the County of Berks, in Eighteen Sheets (sheet 15 wanting)		1761	GBP -	1.01
412	Norman Philip	Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Essex (South East); Hertfordshire; London Vanished and Vanishing		1923, 1910, 1905	GBP -	2.00
413	Ruskin John	Modern Painters; The Stones of Venice; The Seven Lamps of Architecture		1851-60, 1851-53, 1855	GBP -	1.10
414	Scott Sir Walter	The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland		1814	GBP -	0.05
415	Scott Sir Walter	Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland		1826	GBP -	Not Sold
416	Scott Sir Walter	Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland		1826	GBP -	0.05
417		Society of Antiquaries. Proceedings, Second Series		1859-1911	GBP -	0.10
418	Stokes Margaret	Six Months in the Apennines [Irish Saints in Italy]		1892	GBP -	0.14
419	Stokes Margaret	Three Months in the Forests of France [Irish Saints in France]		1895	GBP -	0.12
420	Stone P. G.	The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight		1891	GBP -	0.12
421	Stothard C. A.	The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain		1817	GBP -	0.05
422	Surtees Robert; Raine James	The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham; The History and Antiquities of North Durham, 1852		1816-40, 1816-52	GBP -	4.05
423		Sussex Archaeological Collections		1849-1927	GBP -	7.00
424	Tennyson Lord; Disraeli Benjamin	Idylls of the King, 1859; Enoch Arden, 1864; The Holy Grail, 1870; etc., Novels, etc.		1853-69	GBP -	1.04
425	Tomkins Charles; Newcome Peter; Pote Joseph	Views of Reading Abbey; History of the Abbey of St. Alban; History of "Windsor Castle		1805, 1793, 1749	GBP -	0.05
426		Topographical Engravings			GBP -	6.00
427		Topographical and Archæological Books			GBP -	13.00
428	Tristram W. Outram	Coaching Days and Coaching Ways		1888	GBP -	0.14
429	Turner J. M. W.	Picturesque Views in England and Wales		1838	GBP -	1.00
430	Turner T. Hudson and J. H. Parker	Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages	Oxford	1851-59	GBP -	Not Sold
431		Turner Gallery (The)		n.d.	GBP -	0.05
432		Vetusta Monumenta		1747-1842, 1904	GBP -	Not Sold
433	P. H. Ditchfield and W. Page	Victoria History of Berkshire		1906-24	GBP -	6.05
434	Voragine Jacobus de	Legenda Aurea	Nuremberg	1987, 11th Aug. 1478	GBP -	17.00
435	Voragine Jacobus de	Legenda Aurea	Lyons	1535	GBP -	0.15
436	Waller J. G. and L. A. B.	Monumental Brasses from the 13th to the 16th Century		1864	GBP -	5.00
437	Watkin Hugh R.	The History of Totnes Priory and Medieval Town	Torquay	1914-17	GBP -	1.02
438	Weale John	Quarterly Papers on Architecture		1844-45	GBP -	Not Sold
439	Weale John	Divers Works of Early Masters in Christian Decoration		1846	GBP -	Not Sold
440	Willement Thomas	Facsimile of a Contemporary Roll of the Parliament held at Westminster, 5th Feb. 1515		1829	GBP -	0.10
441		Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine	Devizes	1854-81	GBP -	1.10
442	Fitzgerald B. A.; Stuttfield H. E. M. and N. Collie; Skeen W.; Conway M.	The Highest Andes; Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies; Adam's Peak; The Bolivian Andes		1899, 1903, 1870, 1901	GBP -	1.02
443	Conway W. M.; field D. W.; Workman F. B. and W. H.	Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas; Fresh-Round Kangchenjunga; Icebound Heights of the Mustagh	buckram	1894, 1903, 1908	GBP -	2.00
444	Abraham A. P.; Jones Owen Glynne	Rock-Climbing in Skye; Rock-Climbing in North Wales; Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District		1908, 1906, 1897	GBP -	2.00
445	Rey G.; Whymper E.; Conway W. M.; Mathews C. E.	The Matterhorn; The Ascent of the Matterhorn; The Alps from End to End; Annals of Mont Blanc		1908, 1880, 1895, 1898	GBP -	0.10
446		Climbers' Club Journal (The)		1901-10	GBP -	0.10
447	Tyndall J.; Ball J.; Atkins H. M.	The Glaciers of the Alps, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc		1860, 1859-62, 1838	GBP -	0.10
448	Barry M.; Atkins H. M.	Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc in 1834; Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc		1836, 1838	GBP -	1.12
449	Mummery A. F.; Edwards A. B.; Gould S.	My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus; A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites; Baring-Iceland : Its Scenes and Sagas		1895, n.d., 1863	GBP -	0.15
450	Fielding H.	Tom Jones		1749	GBP -	0.10
451	Mudie R.	Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter; The Air		1835-37	GBP -	0.08
452	Racinet A.	Le Costume Historique	Paris	1876-78 and n.d.	GBP -	3.10
453	Evans Thomas; Pomfret Rev. John	Old Ballads... with Notes, A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Poems, tenth edition; Remains		1784, 1770, 1736	GBP -	0.10
454	Ralph James; Blome R.	The Taste of the Town : or, a Guide to all Publick Diversions; The Art of Heraldry, Chap-books		1731, 1693	GBP -	0.05
455	Pope Alexander; Dryden John; Gray T.	Works; Dramatick Works; Poems		1736, 1735, 1779	GBP -	0.10
456	Stein A.	Juveniles. Grandpapa Easy's Laughable Story about Tom Pepper; Grandpapa Easy's Pretty Poetical Spelling Book; Grandpapa Easy's Mother Goose and the Golden Eggs, and 4 others, 52 Sonntage oder Tagebuch dreier Kinder	Berlin	n.d.	GBP -	2.00
457		Juveniles. The Infant's Reward, Whittington and His Cat, French Broadside, "Cadet Rousselle,"		1816, 1817, 1820, n.d.	GBP -	1.06
458	Cervantes M. de; Hayley William; Swift Jonathan	Don Quixote; Essays on Old Maids; Works	Edinburgh	1740, 1786, 1824	GBP -	0.10
459		Epictetus; The Discourses; The Works of Horace	Edinburgh	1891, 1818	GBP -	Not Sold
460	Carr John; Beckford Peter; Stevens Capt. John	A Northern Summer, or Travels round the Baltic; Thoughts on Hunting; The Spanish Rule of Trade to the West Indies		1805, 1798, 1702	GBP -	1.01
461	Green J. R.; D'Arblay Madame	A Short History of the English People, Diary and Letters		1902, 1842	GBP -	Not Sold
462	Kipling Rudyard; Gissing George	Verse; The Crown of Life		1919, 1899, 1904	GBP -	0.10
463	Dodgson C. L.	Sylvie and Bruno		1889	GBP -	Not Sold
464		Geistliches Hauss-und Reissuhrlein; Himmlischer Engelschall	Ulm	1665, ib. 1665	GBP -	1.04
465		Camden Society		1838-53	GBP -	2.15
466	Ireland Samuel	Picturesque Views on the River Thames		1792	GBP -	0.05
467	Pepys Samuel	The Diary		1893	GBP -	1.00
468	Balzac H. de	Comédie Humaine		1895-98	GBP -	0.12
469		The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Social England	Oxford	1849, 1894-98	GBP -	0.18
470	DICKENS CHARLES	WORKS		1937-38	GBP -	23.00
471	Hepburn J. C.	A Japanese-English Dictionary		n.d.	GBP -	1.00
472		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	0.10
473	Digby Kenelm Henry	The Broad Stone of Honour		1822	GBP -	0.05
474		Caesar. Comentarii, tradotti in volgare per Agostino Ortica della Porta	Venice	1517	GBP -	3.10
475	Sterne Laurence	Letters, Memoirs of the Princess of Monpensier, and the Duke of Balafre		1775, 1764	GBP -	Not Sold
476	Lafayette Comtesse de	Lettres Choisies, pour servir de suite aux Lettres de Madame de Sévigné; Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre	Paris	1751, ib. 1853	GBP -	0.05
477	Blount Sir Thomas Pope; Le Clerc S.	A Natural History; Practical Geometry		1693, 1742	GBP -	0.14
478		Baskerville Press. Catullus; Tibullus and Propertius. Opera	Birmingham	1772	GBP -	Not Sold
479		The Book of Common Prayer	Cambridge	1762	GBP -	0.12
480	Puteanus Erycius	Bruma; Zodiacus Christianus; Quadriga Æternitatis	Munich	1619, ib. 1618, ib. 1619	GBP -	0.05
481	Taylor Jeremy; Allestree Richard	A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying; The Whole Duty of Man		1647, 1706	GBP -	Not Sold
482	Lever Charles	Sir Brook Fossbrooke		1866	GBP -	Not Sold
483	Combe William	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax		1815 and n.d.	GBP -	2.05
484	Pry John	Bibliographical Memoranda	Bristol	1816	GBP -	1.01
485	Dunsany Lord	The Sword of Welleran		1908	GBP -	Not Sold
486	Ruggle George	Ignoramus, Comœdia	London	1630	GBP -	1.00
487	Wyss J. D.	Le Robinson Suisse, traduit de l'Allemand par Mme. de Montolieu	Paris	1814	GBP -	1.12
488	La Fontaine Jean de	Fables Choisies	Amsterdam	1728-27	GBP -	0.16
489	Borrow George	Celebrated Trials		1825	GBP -	5.10
490	Gronow Captain	Reminiscences		1862-66	GBP -	3.10
491	Hamilton "William Gerard	Parliamentary Logick		1808	GBP -	Not Sold
492	Bunbury H. W.	An Academy for Grown Horsemen		1808	GBP -	3.00
493	King William; Murray Patrick, Lord Élibank	The Dreamer, An Inquiry into the Original and Consequences of the Public Debt		1754	GBP -	0.05
494		Booke of Presidents (A)		1616	GBP -	1.12
495	Cross Thomas	The Autobiography of a Stage-Coachman		1861	GBP -	0.05
496	Howel L.	The Orthodox Communicant		1721	GBP -	0.14
497		Box in the form of a book the first 9 leaves of Traité de Peinture		1765	GBP -	0.08
498	Boswell James	Letters addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple		1857	GBP -	2.15
499	Piozzi Hester Lynch	Journey through France, Italy and Germany		1789	GBP -	0.14

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

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