Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANSCRIPTS., 06Jul1936,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 06, 1936 - July 06, 1936

Page Size: 600 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
200	Ottley, W. Y. and P. W. Tomkins	Engravings of the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures.; The Turner Gallery.		1818, n. d.	GBP -	0.10
201	Pennell, Joseph; Millet, J. F.	Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen.; The Drawings of.		1889, 1906	GBP -	1.00
202	Skelton, J. and W. H. St. John Hope; Home B. J.	Portfolio of the National Gallery of Scotland.; The Royal House of Stuart.; Old Houses in Edinburgh.	Edin.	1903, 1890, 1905-7	GBP -	0.10
203	Pyne, J. B.; Stanneld, C.; Lewis, J. F.	The English Lake District.; Sketches on the Moselle; Sketches of the Alhambra.		1853, 1838, 1835	GBP -	2.10
204	Holbein, Hans	Rembrandt in the Cassel Gallery.; Dessins d'Ornements.	Heinemann, Paris	n. d., 1886	GBP -	0.10
205	Richardson, A. E.	Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the 18th and 19th Centuries.		1914	GBP -	2.00
206	Ricketts, C. S.	The Prado and its Masterpieces.		1903	GBP -	2.10
207	Ricketts C. S.	The Prado and its Masterpieces.		1903	GBP -	1.05
208	Rooses, Max; Williamson, G. C.	Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony Van Dyck.; Richard Cosway, R.A.; The Duke of Devonshire's Collection of Pictures.		1897, 1901	GBP -	3.10
209	Sensier, A.	La Vie et l'Oeuvre de J. F. Millet.; English Art in the Public Galleries of London.	Paris	1881, 1888-6	GBP -	1.05
210	Shakespeare, W.	Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.	Oxford	1902	GBP -	5.05
211	Stothard, Thomas Bray Mrs	Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A.		1851	GBP -	1.15
212	Stratton, A.; Gardner, J. Starkie	The English Interior.; Old Silver-Work chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries.		1920, 1903	GBP -	4.00
213	Temple, A. G.	The Wallace Collection (Paintings) at Hertford House.		1902	GBP -	4.10
214	Triggs, H. Inigo	Formal Gardens in England and Scotland.		1902	GBP -	2.05
215	Triggs, H. Inigo	The Art of Garden Design in Italy.		1906	GBP -	2.10
216	Tyndall, William	Iohn Frith and Robert Barnes.		1573-2	GBP -	0.10
217	Vacquier, J. et F. Contet	Les Vieux Hotels de Paris.; Chateaux de France Anciens et Modernes.	Paris	1910-11, n. d.	GBP -	0.15
218	Vallance, Aymer	The Old Colleges of Oxford.		1912	GBP -	1.12
219	H. A. Doubleday and W. Page	Victoria History of the County of Warwick (The).		1904-1908	GBP -	3.10
220	Shakespeare, Wm.	Works.		1733	GBP -	1.00
221	Shakespeare, Wm.	Works.		1767	GBP -	1.12
222	Sheridan, R. B.; Mallet, D.	The School for Scandal, Dublin; Elvira; A Tragedy.		n. d., 1773	GBP -	2.05
223	Gay, John; Gray, Thomas	Fables.; Poems.		1793, 1786	GBP -	4.05
224		Memorial of the Case of the German Emigrants settled in the British Colonies of Pensilvania.	London	1754	GBP -	5.10
225	Froissart, Sir J.; Monstrelet, E. de	Chronicles Translated by Thomas Johnes.; Chronicles.		1862, 1853	GBP -	1.12
226	Hodgkin, Thomas	Italy and her Invaders.	Oxford	1892-99	GBP -	3.05
227	Jackson, T. G.	Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture.	Cambridge	1913	GBP -	1.05
228	Aristotle	Politics with Notes by W. L. Newman.	Oxford	1887	GBP -	0.10
229	A'Beckett, G. A.; Jerrold, D.	Comic History of Rome.; Punch's Complete Letter Writer.	Bradbury	n. d., 1845	GBP -	0.08
230	Hassell, J.	Tour of the Grand Junction.		1819	GBP -	1.12
231	Thornton, A.	The Adventures of a Post Captain.		1817	GBP -	1.02
232	Roberts, Col. D.	The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome.		1816	GBP -	0.05
233	Ackermann, R.; Fellowes, W. D.	History of Madeira.; A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe.		1921, 1818	GBP -	3.05
234	Miles, E. and Lieut, L.	Epitome of the Royal Naval Service of England.		1841	GBP -	0.15
235	Burns, Robert	Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.	Edinburgh	1787	GBP -	1.12
236	Bilson, Thomas; Bacon, Roger; Watson, John	The True Difference betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion.; The Cure of Old Age.; Memoires of the Family of the Stuarts.		1586, 1683, 1683	GBP -	0.10
237	Newman, J. H.	Apologia pro Vita Sua.		1864	GBP -	0.05
238	Doyle, Sir A. C.	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.		1892	GBP -	0.18
239	Hassell, J.	Beauties of Antiquity.		1810	GBP -	0.05
240		Natura exenterata; or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of Her. Wherein are contained... the cure of all sorts of infirmities.		1655	GBP -	4.10
240A	Kent, Elizabeth	A choice Manuall.		1653	GBP -	1.08
241	Stowe, John	The Abridgement of the English Chronicle.		1611	GBP -	1.08
242	Walton, Izaak, C. Cotton, and R. Venables	The Universal Angler.		1676	GBP -	3.10
243	Langland, W.; Storer, Thomas	The vision of Pierce Plowman... Whereunto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce Plowman; The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey Cardinall... His Aspiring, Triumph, and Death.	London, London	1561, 1599	GBP -	0.10
245	Broughton, T. D.	The Costume.		1813	GBP -	2.00
246	Peacham, H.	The Compleat Gentleman... the most necessary & commendable Qualities concerning Minde or Bodie that may be required in a Noble Gentlema.	London	1622	GBP -	5.10
247	Spelman, Sir Henry	The History and Fate of Sacrilege.		XVIlth Century	GBP -	0.10
248	White, Gilbert	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.		1789	GBP -	15.10
249	Senefelder, T. and C.; Barbut, J.	Turnier Buch Herzogs Wilhelm der Vierten von Bayern von 1510 bis 1545.; The Genera Vermium.		1817, 1783	GBP -	6.05
250	Rowlandson, T.	Hungarian and Highland Broad Sword.		1799	GBP -	7.15
251	Fielding, T. H.	British Castles.		1825	GBP -	1.15
252	Lindstrom, Carlo	Costumi e Vestiture Napolitani.	Naples	1836	GBP -	1.15
253	Prout, S.	Birds of the Northern Parts of British America].; Easy Lessons in Landscape Drawing.		1829-30, 1819	GBP -	2.00
254	Roccheggiani, L.	Alcuin Club.; Raccolta di Costumi Religiosi.		1897-1901, n. d.	GBP -	0.05
255	Johnson, Samuel	Portrait in oils copied from Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting.; Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.			GBP -	3.03
256	Sarpi, Paolo; Hyde, Edward	The Historie of the Councel of Trent.; Earl of Claren don. History of the Rebellion.	Oxford	1620, 1702-4	GBP -	Not Sold
257	Calmet, Augustin	Dictionnaire de la Bible.	Paris	1730	GBP -	0.10
258	Plutarch	Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes...		1579	GBP -	0.08
259	SCHEDEL, A.	Chronicon Nurembergense.	Nuremberg	1493	GBP -	21.00
260	Rastell, John; Spenser, E.	A new boke of purgatory,?; Faerie Queene.	London	10 Oct. 1530, 1609	GBP -	0.14
262	Bale, John; Gilby, A.	The Image of bothe churches.; Answer to the Devilish Detection of Stephen Gardiner.		1548, 1547	GBP -	0.12
263	BLACKMORE, R. D.	Lorna Doone.		1869	GBP -	112.00
264	Cotton, Charles	The Compleat Gamester: or Instructions how to play at Billiards.		1676	GBP -	4.00
265	Dickens, Charles	A Christmas Carol.		1843	GBP -	9.00
266	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit.		1844	GBP -	1.00
267	Dickens, C.	Pictures from Italy.		1846	GBP -	0.05
268	Donovan, E.	Natural History of British Insects.		1792-99	GBP -	1.00
269	Eliot, George	Adam Bede.		1859	GBP -	1.18
270	Evelyn, John	Acetaria.		1699	GBP -	3.10
271	Glanville, Randolph de	Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus regni Angliae.		1604	GBP -	0.10
272	Johnston, G.; Bell, T. Yarrell, Wm.	British Zoophites.; British Quadrupeds.; British Fishes.		1847, 1837, 1836	GBP -	0.10
273	Keble, Rev. John	The Case of Catholic Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles.		1841	GBP -	Not Sold
274	King, P. P. R. Fitzroy and C. Darwin	Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle.		1839	GBP -	8.00
275	Lesse, Robert	His Booke of Bathes.		circa 1600	GBP -	6.00
276	Marcort, Anthony	A Declaration of the Masse.	London	1547	GBP -	3.00
277	Massinger, Philip	Plays with Notes		1813	GBP -	0.10
278		Missale ad sacrosancte Romane ecclesie usum.	Paris	13 Feb., 1516	GBP -	0.15
279	Proctor, B. W.	Barry Cornwall.		1819	GBP -	0.05
280		SURTEES SOCIETY.		1835-1900	GBP -	18.00
281		Swiss Coloured Plates.	Zurich	n. d.	GBP -	5.00
282	Walton, I. and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler.		1766	GBP -	0.10
283		Camden Society.		1838-53	GBP -	2.15
284	Carolus, M.	De impio imaginum cultu.	Hanover	1731	GBP -	0.05
285	Gatine and L. M. Lante	Costumes des Departemens de la Seine Inferieure du Calvados.	Paris and Caen	n. d.	GBP -	13.10
286	Hall, Capt. Basil	Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea.		1818	GBP -	0.10
287	Hall, Capt. B.	Forty Etchings from sketches made with the Camera Lucida in North America.		1829	GBP -	0.12
288	Hussey, Mrs. T. J.	Illustrations of British Mycology.		1847-55	GBP -	3.15
289	Latham, John	A General Synopsis of Birds.		1781-90	GBP -	5.00
290	Maund, B.	The Botanic Garden.		1825-50	GBP -	14.10
291		Oxford English Dictionary.	Oxford	1888-1933	GBP -	4.05
292	F. W. Maitland	Selden Society.		1888-98	GBP -	5.05
293	Bishop, Hobhouse	Somerset Record Society.		1887-1909 and 1912-14	GBP -	5.10
294		Swiss Coloured Plates.			GBP -	7.05
295	Tickell, Thomas; Manley, Mrs.	Kensington Gardens [in verse].; Lucius the first Christian King of Britain.		1722, 1717	GBP -	1.05
296		Victoria County History.		1906-11	GBP -	2.15
297	AXGAS G. F.	The New Zealanders.		1846-47	GBP -	17.10
298	Behn, Mrs.; anon	A Congratulatory Poem to her Sacred Majesty Queen Mary.; The Folly of Industry: or the Busy Man Expos'd.		1689, 1704	GBP -	1.00
299		Bible Latin.	Venice	1478	GBP -	12.10
300		Book of Common Prayer.		1639	GBP -	3.00

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.
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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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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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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