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
505	Monkhouse, Cosmo	History and Description of Chinese Porcelain		1901	GBP -	1.02
506	Johnson, Samuel	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; The Art of Criticism; A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland		1775; 1789	GBP -	0.05
507	Wordsworth, W.	Poems		1842	GBP -	0.10
508	De Quincey, T.; Fitzgerald, E.; Taylor, Jane; Shelley, P. B.	Klosterheim; Euphranor; Essays in Rhyme; Queen Mab		1832; 1851; 1816; 1822	GBP -	0.10
509	Moore, G.; Brooke, Rupert	Evelyn Innes; Hail and Farewell; Salve; John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama	Ave	1898; 1911; 1912; 1916	GBP -	1.02
510	Reid, Capt. Mayne; Scarron, P.; Symonds, J. A.	The Child Wife; Comical Romance; Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti		1868; 1892; 1893	GBP -	0.10
511	Beza, T.; Hobbes, T.; Baxter, R.	Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Qunique; Questions concerning Liberty; A Saint or a Brute	London	1580; 1656; 1662	GBP -	1.00
512	Fairfax, T.	Taste of the Town; Laws of England concerning the Game; Compleat Sportsman		1731; 1727; 1758	GBP -	1.10
513	Moll, H.	A New Sett of Maps of all Parts of the Earth		1723	GBP -	0.10
514	Voltaire, F. M. A. de	Letters Concerning the English Nation; History of the War of 1741		1733; 1756	GBP -	Not Sold
515	Trevelyan, R.	Essays and Poems; Selecta e Prolusionibus partim Græce partim Latine scripta		1833; 1864	GBP -	Not Sold
516	Thompson, Francis; Rossetti, Christina	Shelley; with an Introduction by George Wyndham; Speaking Likenesses		1909; 1874	GBP -	0.05
517	Kingsley, Charles; Linwood, W.; A., M.; Whyte-Melville, G. J.	Miscellanies; Anthologia Oxononiensis; Early Poems; Songs and Verses		1859; 1846; 1913; 1869	GBP -	Not Sold
518	Wordsworth, W.; Arnold, M. Merope; Lang, A.	Poems; A Tragedy; XXII Ballades in Blue China		1842; 1858; 1880	GBP -	Not Sold
519	Redi, F.	Salnar; Opusculorum	Cambridge	1586; 1729	GBP -	0.05
520	Gissing, George; Clifford, Sir Hugh; Conrad, J. and F. M. Hueffer	The House of Cobwebs and other Stories; The Downfall of the Gods; The Nature of a Crime		1911; 1924; 1906	GBP -	Not Sold
521	Ruskin, John; hackeray, W. M.; Morris, W.	The Seven Lamps of Architecture; English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century; The Story of Sigurd the Volsung		1849; dated June 1853; 1877	GBP -	0.05
522	Anstey, H.; Pecock, R.	Munimenta Academica; The Repressor of over much blaming of the Clergy; Lives of Edward the Confessor; Matthei Parisiensis; Chronicles of the reigns of Henry II		1868; 1860; 1858; 1872-82; 1867	GBP -	8.00
523	Baring-Gould, S.	Ireland: its scenes and sagas		1863	GBP -	0.08
524		Binding; Book of Common Prayer; The Lord's Supper, etc	Dublin	1782; 1770; 1745	GBP -	1.01
525	G. W. Reid	British Museum		1870-73	GBP -	0.10
526	Calcraft, J. W.	A Defence of the Stage	Dublin	1784; 1839	GBP -	3.15
527	Dasent, G. W.	The Story of Burnt Njal	Edinburgh	1861	GBP -	0.05
528		Freemasonry; Ahiman Rezon	Dublin; Belfast	1734; 1818	GBP -	7.10
529		Gentleman and Citizen's Almanack for 1730-35	Dublin	1730-76	GBP -	2.00
530	Gurney, E.	F. W. H. Myers, and F. Podmore		1886	GBP -	0.05
531	Harris, W.; Walker, Rev. G.	History of the City of Dublin; Diary of the siege of London-derry; A Geographical Description of Ireland; The Royal Visit	Dublin	1720; 1766; 1758; 1821	GBP -	2.10
532		Hibernian Magazine		1810-11; 1771-1811	GBP -	6.10
533	James, R.; Thomas, R.; Charnay, D.; Swift, T.	Pharmacopoeia Universalis; Modern practice of Physic; Ancient Cities of the World; Animadversions on the Fellows of Trinity College	Dublin	1794; 1752; 1821; 1887	GBP -	0.05
534		JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY		1892-1937	GBP -	5.00
535	Kipling, R.; Masefield, J.	The Second Jungle Book; The Widow in the Bye Street		1895; 1912	GBP -	Not Sold
536		London Magazine		1733-56	GBP -	Not Sold
537	Mantuanus, B.	Parthenice Mariana P. Baptiste Mantuani ab Iodoco Badio Ascensio familiariter explanata; Parthenice tertia	Paris	1499; 1503	GBP -	0.10
538	Molyneux, W.; Gary, J. and W. Atwood; Handel, G. F.	The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England stated; An Answer to Mr. Molyneux; The Kirwan Case; Messiah	Dublin	1725; 1698; 1853; 1746	GBP -	1.00
539	Newton, Sir Isaac	A Treatise of the system of the World		1728	GBP -	0.10
540		Office de la Semaine Sainte	Paris	1727	GBP -	1.01
541	Shelley, P. B.	We pity the plumage, but forget the dying Bird By the Hermit of Marlow		circa 1843	GBP -	0.10
542	Thackeray, W. M.	The Adventures of Philip		1862	GBP -	0.10
543	Thackeray, W. M.; Dodgson, C. L.	Esmond; Hunting of the Snark		1852; 1876	GBP -	0.05
544	Walsh, P.	A Prospect of the state of Ireland from the year of the World 1756 to the year of Christ 1652		1682	GBP -	0.10
545	HOTTINGER, Jean Henri	latinized Ottius		1643-82	GBP -	13.00
546	Pennell, E. R., and J.	Life of J. McNeill Whistler		1908	GBP -	0.10
547	Pool, R. and John Cash	Views of Public Buildings in Dublin; Extracts of Minutes of the Commissioners for making Streets and Passages in Dublin; A Geographical Description of Ireland from survey by Sir W. Petty by Francis Lamb	Dublin	1802; circa 1700; 1780	GBP -	3.00
548	Tuer, A. W.	History of the Horn-Book		1897	GBP -	1.07
549	Creeny, W. F.; Virgil	Illustrations of Incised Slabs on the Continent of Europe. The English Version of the Eclogues by S. Palmer		1891; 1883	GBP -	Not Sold
550	Crossly, A.	The Peerage of Ireland; The Signification of most things that are born in Heraldry	Dublin	1725; 1724	GBP -	Not Sold
551		Engravings and Works by Old Masters	Quaritch	1889-94	GBP -	0.05
552	Fisher, J.	Scenery in Ireland illustrated in a Series of Prints drawn and engraved in aquatinta	Dublin	1792	GBP -	1.10
553	Holbein, Hans	Portraits of illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII; with an Introduction by R. R. Holmes			GBP -	0.10
554		Ireland		circa 1800	GBP -	1.00
555	Street, G. E.	The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity		1882	GBP -	Not Sold
556	Wagner, R.	The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie		1910	GBP -	8.10
557	Fouqué, De la Motte	Undine		1909	GBP -	2.10
558	Dickens, C.	A Christmas Carol		1915	GBP -	5.00
559	Rackham, Arthur	Book of Pictures		1913	GBP -	3.05
560	Swinburne, A. C.	The Springtide of Life		1917	GBP -	1.15
561	Malory, Sir Thomas	Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table		1917	GBP -	4.05
562	Rackham, Arthur	The Allies Fairy Book			GBP -	1.08
563	Æsop	Fables		1912	GBP -	2.15
564	Rackham, Arthur	Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes		1913	GBP -	3.00
565	Steel, Flora A.	English Fairy Tales Retold		1918	GBP -	2.18
566	Wagner, R.	Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods		1911	GBP -	Not Sold
567		Connoisseur		1901-29	GBP -	2.00
568	GOVER, EDGAR, AND J. F. BLACKER	CHINESE PORCELAIN AND HARD STONES		1911	GBP -	12.10
569	Rothschild, A. de	A Description of the Works of Art		1884	GBP -	2.10
570	Wilde, Oscar	Lady Windermere's Fan		1893	GBP -	0.10
571		Album containing about 70 coloured plates		1800	GBP -	3.00
572	Lenbach, F. v.; Ostini, Fritz von	Zeitgenössische Bildnisse; Franz von Lenbach	Munich		GBP -	Not Sold
573	Meissner, F. H.; Kaulbach, F. A. v.; Stuck, F. v.; Segantini, G.	Max Klinger; Werke; Gesamtwerk; Sein Leben und Sein Werk	Munich; Vienna	1902	GBP -	0.10
574	Jackson, C. J.	An Illustrated History of English Plate		1911	GBP -	8.00
575	Hartshorne, A.	Old English Glasses		1897	GBP -	2.10
576	Jones, E. A.	Old English Gold Plate		1907	GBP -	0.16
577	Shakespeare, W.	Works, edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall		1888-90	GBP -	Not Sold
578	Cescinsky, H.	English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century		1909-11	GBP -	4.15
579	Bryan, M.	Dictionary of Painters		1903-05	GBP -	3.05
580	Jackson, C. J.	English Goldsmiths and their Marks		1905	GBP -	1.05
581	Williamson, G. C.	The Book of Famille Rose		1927	GBP -	2.00
582	S. C. Hall	National Gallery of British Pictures			GBP -	0.05
583		Dresden Gallery; The Boydell Gallery		1875; 1874	GBP -	0.05
584	Halley, Edmund	Astronomer Royal		1749	GBP -	0.05
585	Brathwait, R.	The English Gentleman	Felix Kyngston	1633	GBP -	0.10
586	Leyburn, W.	The Mirror of Architecture; The Draughtsmen's Assistant		1708; 1786	GBP -	0.10
587	Anson, R. W.; Hunter, J.	A Voyage round the World; Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island		1740-44; 1748; 1793	GBP -	0.10
588	Hayley, William; Newton, I.	Life of George Romney; Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel		1809; 1733	GBP -	0.10
589	Bernal, R.	Works of Art sold by Messrs		1855	GBP -	0.15
590	Bradbury, Henry	On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes; Nature Printing; Printing		1856; 1858	GBP -	1.18
591	Cruikshank, G.	Illustrations of Time; Scraps and Sketches	Paris	1854	GBP -	0.05
592	Chesterfield, Earl of	Miscellaneous Works		1777-8	GBP -	2.00
593		Cambridge Poems	Cambridge	1688	GBP -	0.10
594	Chesterfield, Earl of	Letters to his Son		1774	GBP -	4.10
595	Hall, Thos.	Funebria Floræ		1661	GBP -	1.01
596	Charles I.	The Charge of the Commons of England against Charls Stuart		1648	GBP -	Not Sold
597	Edouro, I. R. V.	Desafio dos doze de Inglaterra	Lisboa	1732	GBP -	0.05
598	Ridley, Bishop Nicholas	An Account of a Disputation at Oxford, etc	Oxford	1688	GBP -	0.05
599		Popery		1689	GBP -	2.00
600		Abstract of the title of the Trustees under the Will of the late James Crowe		circa 1810	GBP -	0.10
601	Angelo, D.	The School of Fencing		1765	GBP -	0.10
602	Barteil, E.; Rye, W.	Observations upon Cromer; Cromer	Norwich	1889; 1800; 1806	GBP -	1.00
603		Bibliotheca Norfolciensis	Norwich	1896	GBP -	0.10
604	BLOMEFIELD, FRANCIS, AND CHARLES PARKIN	TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK	Fersfield; Lynn	1739-75	GBP -	11.00

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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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.