Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
Page Size: 719 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
205 Trotter, W. E.; Parton, J.; Jackson, E. and W. E. Oliver Wood; Select Illustrated Topography of 30 miles round London; Some Account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Field; Annals of Ealing

1898; 1822

GBP - 0.10
206 Porter, R. K. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden in 1805-8

1813

GBP - 0.05
207 Cox, David Progressive Lessons intended to elucidate the Art of Painting in Water-colours

1845

GBP - 1.05
208 Selden, J. The History of Tvthes

1618

GBP - 0.10
209 Wycherley, W.; Dryden, J. Love in a Wood; The Country Wife; The Gentleman Dancing-Master; The Indian Emperour; An Evening's Love

1672; 1675; 1673; 1681; 1671

GBP - 8.15
210 Ovid The XV Bookes... London

1567

GBP - 7.05
211 Culpeper, N.; Fenton, R. Complete Herbal; Poems

1823; 1773

GBP - 1.05
212 A'Beekett, G. A.; Surtees, R. S. The Comic History of England; Ask Mamma

GBP - 1.02
213 Addison, Joseph; Butler, S.; Shelley, P. B. Works; Hudibras; edited by Grey; Poetical Works

1804; 1799; 1840

GBP - 0.05
214 Ainsworth, W. H. Rookwood; Windsor Castle

1836; 1843

GBP - 0.06
215 Ainsworth, W. H.; Lever, C.; Meredith, G. The Star-Chamber; Barrington; The Amazing Marriage

1854; 1863; 1895

GBP - 0.05
216 Arnold, Matthew Poems; On Translating Homer; Essays in Criticism; Literature and Dogma; God and The Bible

1855; 1862; 1865; 1875

GBP - Not Sold
217 Austen, Jane Novels Edinburgh

1911

GBP - 3.05
218 Beaumont and Fletcher; Massinerer and Ford; Lamb C. Works; Dramatic Works

1840; 1859

GBP - 0.05
219 Burke, Edmund Works; with a portrait and Life of the Author

1823

GBP - 0.16
220 Combe, W.; Smedley, F. E. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax; Frank Fairlegh Routledge

GBP - 0.15
221 Cowley, A.; Thomson, J. Works in Prose and Verse; edited by Hurd; The Seasons

1809; 1847

GBP - 0.05
222 D'Aulnoy, Countess; Whyte-Melville, G. J.; Boccaccio, G. Fairy Tales; Holmby House; The Decameron

1855; 1864; 1896

GBP - 0.05
223 Dickens, C. Oliver Twist

1838

GBP - 0.05
224 Dickens, C. Sketches by Boz

1839

GBP - 0.05
225 Dickens, C. Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield

1844; 1848

GBP - 0.10
226 Dickens, C. Pictures from Italy; Hard Times; Bleak House; Our Mutual Friend

1846; 1854; 1853; 1865

GBP - 0.05
227 Dickens, C. Our Mutual Friend; The Battle of Life

1865; 1846

GBP - 0.05
228 Dickens, C. Bleak House; Little Dorrit

1853; 1857

GBP - 0.05
229 Dryden, John Works; with Notes and Life by Sir Walter Scott

1808

GBP - 1.05
230 Eliot, George Felix Holt Edinburgh

1866

GBP - 0.05
231 Eliot, George Silas Marner; Daniel Deronda Edinburgh

1861; 1876

GBP - 0.05
232 Evelyn, John Memoirs; edited by Bray

1827

GBP - 0.05
233 Fights for the Championship;and celebrated Prize Battles. By the Editor of Bell's Life in London; Fistiana

1860; 1868

GBP - 0.05
234 Grant, James; James, G. P. R. The Scottish Cavalier; Only an Ensign; The Jacquerie

1850; 1871; 1841

GBP - 0.05
235 Green, J. R. Short History of the English People

1892-94

GBP - 0.15
236 Macaulay, Lord; Burke, E. Critical and Historical Essays; Correspondence

1844

GBP - 1.00
237 Molière, J. B. P. Plays in French with an English translation and Notes by A. R. Walker Edinburgh

1907

GBP - 0.07
238 Montholon, C. J. F., Count de Memoirs of the History of France during the reign of Napoleon; De Bourrienne

1823-24; 1836

GBP - 0.16
239 Pelham, Camden; Anon. The Chronicles of Crime; The Fatal Effects of Gambling

1824; 1887

GBP - 0.05
240 Pope, Alexander; Goldsmith, Oliver Works; with Life of Author by W. Roscoe; Works

1847; 1854

GBP - 0.05
241 Prescott, W. H.; Warburton, Major G. D.; Ireland, W. H. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella; The Conquest of Canada; Memoirs of Henry the Great

1846; 1849; 1824

GBP - 0.05
242 Scott, Sir Walter; Lockhart, J. G. Lay of the Last Minstrel; Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh

1837-38; 1812

GBP - 0.05
243 Shakspeare, W. Plays and Poems

1821

GBP - 0.10
244 Swift, Dean Jonathan Works Edinburgh

1814

GBP - 2.00
245 Thackeray, W. M. History of Pendennis; The Newcomes

1849-50; 1854-55

GBP - 0.05
246 Thackeray, W. M. Vanity Fair; The Virginians

1848; 1858-59

GBP - 1.00
247 Thiers, M. A.; Horne, R. H. History of the French Revolution; translated by Shoberl; History of Napoleon

1838; 1840-41

GBP - 0.05
248 Tully, R.; Maxwell, W. H.; Montague, Lady M. W. A Ten years' residence at the Court of Tripoli; Peninsular Sketches; Letters and Works

1819; 1844-45; 1837

GBP - 0.05
249 Walpole, Horace Letters to Sir Horace Mann; Letters; Letters to the Countess of Ossory; Correspondence with Mason

1843-44; 1735-97; 1846; 1848; 1851; 1843-51

GBP - 0.10
250 Walton and Cotton; Rousseau, J. J. The Complete Angler; Confessions

1824; 1897

GBP - 0.10
251 Pepys, Samuel Memoirs; edited by Lord Braybrooke

1825

GBP - 0.10
252 Bible

1610-11

GBP - 0.10
253 Hariot, Thomas Virginia

1888

GBP - 1.10
254 Constable, John English Landscape Scenery

1855

GBP - 0.05
255 Turner, J. M. W. Celebrated Landscapes

1872

GBP - 0.10
256 Five Original Water-Colour and Sepia Drawings by T. Clark, D. F. Vallance and J. Drummond for "Allan Ramsay and the Scottish Poets before Burns" published by Vertue

GBP - 0.10
257 Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, J.; Aleman, M. Ariana; The Rogve

1641; 1634

GBP - 1.01
258 Broadsides; The Country Farmers Campain by the Author of banter'd & bubbl'd &c; A Song made upon a Gentleman's sitting upon a Cremona Fiddle; Canterbury

GBP - 1.02
259 Rudder, S. A New History of Gloucestershire Cirencester

1779

GBP - 3.00
260 Atkyns, Sir Robert The Ancient and Present State of Glocéstershire

1768

GBP - 1.10
261 NORFOLK

1583

GBP - 0.08
262 Montaigne, M. de; Typotius, J. Les Essais; Book Prices Current; Symbola Divina et Humana Pontificum Imperatorum Regum Paris

1652; 1887-98

GBP - 0.05
263 COTGRAVE, RANDLE; Bacon, F. A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues; Sylva Sylvarum

1611; 1635

GBP - 0.15
264 BRIGGS, HENRY; Favyn, André; Seneca ARITHMETICA LOGARITHMICA; The Theater of Honour; Workes

1623; 1614; 1624

GBP - 4.00
265 Times Atlas

1922

GBP - 0.10
266 Bickham, G. The British Monarchy

1748

GBP - 0.10
267 Hall, S. C. The Baronial Halls and Picturesque Edifices of England

1848

GBP - Not Sold
268 Harrison, W. History and Survey of London and Westminster; Remembrances of the Great Exhibition

1776

GBP - 0.05
269 Pox-Davies, A. C. The Art of Heraldry

1904

GBP - 5.10
270 Harris, M.; Houghton, Rev. W. Le Aurelien; British Fresh-Water Pishes

1778

GBP - 1.08
271 G., J. R. S. A Portfolio of Royal Descents

1902

GBP - 0.05
272 Dee, John A true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee... and some Spirits

1659

GBP - 3.05
273 Hobbes, Thomas Leviathan

1651

GBP - 1.15
274 Browne, Sir Thomas Works

1686

GBP - 1.15
275 Bacon, Sir Francis; Juvenalis, D. J. and Flaccus Persius Of the Advancement of and Proficiencie of Learning; Satyres Oxford

1674; 1673

GBP - 0.10
276 J. Dryden; Ovid.; Prior, M. Virgil; Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.; Poems on Several Occasions

1697; 1626

GBP - 0.05
277 Shute, W. Pliny; Xenophon; Generali Historie of Venice

1601; 1632; 1612

GBP - 2.00
278 Seiden, J.; Chillingworth, W. Tracts; The Religion of Protestants

1683; 1638

GBP - 0.05
279 Rolt, W.; Johnson, S. Lives of the Reformers; Dictionary of the English Language

1759; 1756

GBP - 0.08
280 MacQuoid, P. History of English Furniture

1904-08

GBP - 1.10
281 MacQuoid, P. and Ralph Edwards. Dictionary of English Furniture

1924-27

GBP - 16.10
282 Cescinsky, H. and Ernest R. Gribble Early English Furniture and Woodwork

1922

GBP - 2.05
283 Medical

17th and 18th centuries

GBP - 1.05
284 FLOWERS

18th century

GBP - 3.05
285 Garidel, M.; Hippocrates Histoire des Plantes qui naissent en Provence; Opera Medica Aix; Basle

1719; 1526

GBP - 0.05
286 Evelyn, J. Numismata: A Discourse of Medals

1697

GBP - 0.10
287 Société d'Edition Artistique Paris

c.1900

GBP - Not Sold
288 Hartshorne, Albert Old English Glasses

1897

GBP - 0.18
289 Jones, Owen One Thousand and One Initial Letters

1864

GBP - 0.05
290 Bacon, Sir Francis Historie of the Raigne of King Henry VII

1622

GBP - 1.12
291 Jonson, Ben; Wycherley, W. Workes; Miscellany Poems

1640; 1704

GBP - 0.05
292 FRANKS

GBP - 0.10
293 Bookplates

GBP - 3.10
294 Miscellaneous Books various sizes

GBP - 0.05
295 Bunbury, H. W. An Academy for Grown Horsemen, by Geoffrey Gambado

1787

GBP - 0.10
296 Bunbury, H. W. Annals of Horsemanship, by Geoffrey Gambado

1791

GBP - 2.08
297 Laborde, A. de Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne Paris

1806-20

GBP - 0.10
298 Barrie, J. M.; Irving, W.; Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; Rip Van Winkle; Quality Street

1905

GBP - 0.10
299 Blair, Robert; Stone, L.; Rabelais., F. The Grave; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Works New York

1858; 1884; 1892

GBP - 0.05
300 Cruikshank. Reid, G. W.; Cohn, A. M. Catalogue of the Works of G. Cruikshank; George Cruikshank

1871-5; 1924

GBP - 0.05
301 Heath, William Studies from the Stage; or

1823

GBP - 2.02
302 Heath, William Illustrations of Heraldry

1828

GBP - 0.10
303 Heath, William A Search after the "Comfortable" being the Adventures of a little Gentleman of Small Fortune

1829

GBP - 1.08
304 Holbein, Hans Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII

1828

GBP - 3.00
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