Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, &c., 29Jun1938,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 29, 1938 - June 29, 1938

Page Size: 770 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ALLEN, T.	A History of the County of York		1828-31	GBP -	0.10
2	Arber, Prof. E.	The Term Catalogues (1668-1709)		1903-6	GBP -	2.00
3	Arber, Edward	An English Garner		1877-96	GBP -	0.15
4	Aretino, Pietro	The Ragionamenti or Dialogues	Paris	1889	GBP -	1.10
5	Ascham, Roger	The Schoolemaster, or, Playne and perfite way of teaching Children ... the Latin toong		1589	GBP -	12.00
6	by John, Senex and William Delisle	Atlas			GBP -	1.10
7	Collier, J. P.; Child F. J.	Ballads. Broadside Blackletter Ballads, English and Scottish Ballads		1868, 1861	GBP -	3.00
8	Barrington, G.	The History of New South Wales		1810	GBP -	0.15
9	Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John	Cupid's Revenge		1635	GBP -	2.00
10		BIBLE (ENGLISH)		1611	GBP -	19.10
11	Duff, E. Gordon	Bibliographical Society. Fifteenth Century English Books		1917	GBP -	1.10
12	Duff, E. G.	Bibliographical Society. Century of English Book Trade, quarter linen, Dictionaries of Printers and Booksellers		1905, 1557-1640, 1641-1667, 1668-1725, 1910-22	GBP -	2.15
13	Duff, E. G. and others	Handlists of English Printers, 1501-1556		1895-1913, 1911-1919	GBP -	2.00
14	Osler, Sir William	Bibliographical Society. Incunabula Medica		1923	GBP -	3.15
15	Pollard, A. W. and Redgrave, G. R.	Short Title Catalogue of English Books (1475-1640)		1926	GBP -	3.00
16	Wise, T. J. and Wheeler, S.; Forman, M. B.	Bibliography of Landor, Bibliography of Meredith		1919, 1922	GBP -	0.10
17	Esdaile, A.; Brown, C.	Bibliographical Society., Register of Middle English Verse		1912	GBP -	1.12
18	Bosanquet, E. F.; Greg, W. W. and Boswell, E.	Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company		1917	GBP -	0.15
19		Birkenhead Law, Life and Letters		1927	GBP -	0.10
20	Blomefield, Francis	History of Norfolk		1805-10	GBP -	4.05
21	Boccaccio, G.; Rabelais, F.	The Decameron		1893, 1892	GBP -	1.01
22	De-Rossi, J. B.	Variae Lectiones veteris Testamenti		1784-98	GBP -	0.15
23		Book Auction Records		1903-1923, 1903-23	GBP -	2.10
24		Book of Common Prayer		1715	GBP -	0.12
25	Nash, T.; N. Okes	Book of Common Prayer, Quarternio, 1636 (S.T.C. 18383, two copies only)	Cambridge	1761	GBP -	1.05
26	Borrow, G.	The Talisman from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin	St. Petersburg	1835	GBP -	1.10
27	Borrow, George; Richmond, Rev. Legh	Annals of the Poor: containing the Dairyman's Daughter, &v.		1828	GBP -	0.05
28	Borrow, George	Songs of Two "Worlds		1871	GBP -	0.12
29	Borrow, George; Johnson, S.	Dictionary in Miniature		1805	GBP -	0.10
30	Borrow, George	The Class Book or 365 Reading Lessons		Feb. 10th, 1812, 1811	GBP -	1.00
31	Borrow, George; Blackstone, Sir William	Commentaries on the Laws of England		1795	GBP -	0.05
32	Borrow, George; Ellis, W.; Davis, J. P.	The Visits to Madagascar, The Chinese		1858	GBP -	0.12
33	Borrow, George	The Haunts of, around Norwich. Four Etchings		1914	GBP -	0.10
34	Gurney, J. J.	Observations on the Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends		1834	GBP -	0.12
35	Elis, Wyn	Borrow The Sleeping Bard		1860	GBP -	0.16
36	Borrow, George	The Turkish Jester	Ipswich	1884	GBP -	0.15
37	Borrow, George	The Death of Balder from the Danish of Johannes Ewald	fine	1889	GBP -	0.18
38	Borrow, George	A Collection of thirty-four of T. J. Wise's privately-printed Borrow pamphlets		1913	GBP -	3.15
39	Borrow, George	Grimhild's Vengeance, Three Ballads--The Golden Horns--Signelil, and three other of T. J. Wise's privately-printed Borrow pamphlets, all presentation copies from Wise			GBP -	0.18
40	BORROW, GEORGE	LAVENGRO		1851	GBP -	5.00
41	BORROW, GEORGE	ROMANO-LAVO-LIL		1874	GBP -	3.10
42	Borrow, George	Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery		1862	GBP -	4.00
43	Borrow, George	Lavengro; the Seholar-the Gypsy-the Priest		1851	GBP -	1.05
44	Borrow, George	The Bible in Spain, Lavengro		1843, 1851	GBP -	0.15
45	Borrow, George	The Zincali; or, an Account of the Gypsies of Spain	worn	1841	GBP -	0.15
46	Borrow, George	The Serpent Knight--The Brother Avenged		1913	GBP -	0.18
47	Borrow, George Jenkins, H.	The Life of George Borrow		1912	GBP -	0.08
48	Borrow, George	Knapp Life		1899	GBP -	0.18
49	Borrow, George; Farrell, Prank J.	A Bibliography of George Borrow			GBP -	1.12
50	Borrow, George	Romantic Ballads	Norwich	1913	GBP -	0.16
51	Borrow, George	A Collection of Books, all having association with Mrs. Borrow or Sorrow's step-daughter (Henrietta Mary Clarke)			GBP -	0.12
52	Bowditch, N. I.	Suffolk Surnames, Palgrave Family Memorials, ed. Palmer and Tucker, Fiske Family Papers	Norwich	1861, 1878, 1902	GBP -	1.02
53	Bowen, Emmanuel	Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd ... being a ... Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales		1720	GBP -	2.15
54	Brinsley, John	A Consolation for our Grammar Schooles : Or, A faithfull and most comfortable incouragement for laying of a sure foundation of all good Learning in our Schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon 4tore especially for all those of the inferior sort, an		1622	GBP -	12.00
55	Brinsley, John	Ludus Literarius: or, the Grammar Schoole		1627	GBP -	6.00
56	Browne, Sir T.; Gilman, J.	Works, Life of S. T. Coleridge		1852, 1838	GBP -	1.00
57	Temple, Scott	Brontë Sisters. Novels	Edinburgh	1911	GBP -	1.16
58	Bullen, A. H.	Love Poems of the Restoration, England's Helicon		1889, 1882	GBP -	2.00
59	Burch, R.M.; Warner, F.	Colour Printing and Colour Printers, The Silk Industry		1910, n.d.	GBP -	1.06
60		Calliope: or, The Musical Miscellany, The New Foundling Hospital for Wit		1788, 1786	GBP -	1.15
61	W. P. Trent	Cambridge History of American Literature	Cambridge	1918-21	GBP -	0.10
62		Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. Ward & Waller	Cambridge	1908-16	GBP -	5.00
63	Camden, W.	Britannia, ed. Gibson, Atlas	broken	1722	GBP -	2.12
64		Camden Society		1833-66	GBP -	3.05
65	Casanova, de Seingalt Jacques	Memoirs		1922	GBP -	3.10
66	Chaucer, G.	Complete Works	Oxford	1894-7	GBP -	3.10
67	A. B. Grosart	CHERTSEY WORTHIE'S LIBRARY		1878-81	GBP -	30.00
68	Cibber, C.; Gardiner, Richard	The Lady's Lecture, A Theatrical Dialogue, between Sir Charles Easy and his Marriageable Daughter, The History of Pudica, A Lady of N--rf--Ik, The Love-Encounter. At Cnidus, In the Year of Love, 5755		1748, 1754, 1748-61	GBP -	2.15
69		Collection of Plans of the Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland : with Maps of the Coast of the said Kingdoms		1764	GBP -	2.10
70	Copinger, W. A.	Suffolk Records & MSS.		1904-7	GBP -	1.10
71	Copinger, W. A.	The Manors of Suffolk		1905-11	GBP -	3.10
72	Cotman, John Sell	Engravings of the most remarkable Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk		1819	GBP -	0.10
73	Daniel, S.	The Complete Works in Verse and Prose		1885-96	GBP -	5.00
74	Daniel, Samuel	The Civile Wares betweene the Houses of Lancaster and Yorke corrected and continued	London	1609	GBP -	6.05
75	Deloney, Thomas	Works, The Shirburn Ballads.	Oxford	1912, 1907	GBP -	1.08
76	DELONEY, THOMAS	THOMAS OF READING: or the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West		1632	GBP -	13.10
77	Deloney, Thomas	The Garland of Good-Will : Divided into Three Parts		c. 1700	GBP -	2.05
78	Deloney, Thomas	The Garland of Good-Will		c. 1700	GBP -	1.10
79	Deloney, Thomas	The Pleasant and Princely History of the Gentle-Craft, shewing what Famous Men have been Shooe-Makers, The Pleasant History of John Winchcomb, in his younger years called Jack of Newbery		c. 1690, c. 1700	GBP -	3.00
80		Some Feudal Lords and Their Seals, Two Tudor Books of Arms Illustrated		1904	GBP -	1.08
81	Sir Leslie, Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee	DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY		1908-9	GBP -	23.10
82	Douglas, Lord Alfred; Yeats, W. B.	The Land of Heart's Desire		1909, 1894	GBP -	0.14
83	Dutt, W. A.	Some Literary Associations of East Anglia, Wild Life in East Anglia		1907, 1906	GBP -	2.00
84	Edwards, J.; Cheyne, G.	Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival of Religion in New-England, Natural Method of Cureing the Diseases of the Body		1743, 1742	GBP -	1.16
85	Elwin, W.	Some Eighteenth Century Men of Letters		1902	GBP -	0.16
86		Essex Archaeological Society. Transactions.	Colchester	1858-95	GBP -	3.00
87	Facciolati, J. & Forcellini, A.; Liddell, H. G. & Scott, R.	Totius Latinitatis Lexicon, Greek-English Lexicon	morocco	1828, 1883	GBP -	1.15
88	Farrer, J.	Church Heraldry of Norfolk	Norwich	1887-93	GBP -	2.05
89	Penner, D.	A Counter-Poyson		1584	GBP -	3.00
90	Fisher, F. O.; Rye, Walter	A Tale of Sea Toilers, Cromer, Past and Present	Norwich	n.d., 1889	GBP -	2.02
91	Smith, Simon; Keymor, John	A True Narration of the Royall Fishings of Great Brittaine and Ireland, A Narrative of the Royal Fishings of Great Britain and Ireland, Observation made upon the Dutch Fishing, about the year 1601		1641, 1661, 1664	GBP -	5.00
92	Fitzgerald, Edward	Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and 4todern Instances		1852	GBP -	0.12
93	Fitzgerald, Edward	Readings in Crabbe. Tales of the Hall		1882	GBP -	1.10
94	Fitzgerald, Edward	Readings in Crabbe. Tales of the Hall		1833	GBP -	0.08
95	Fitzgerald, Edward	A Tragedy taken from Aeschylus, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam	Bernard Quaritch	1876, 1914	GBP -	1.02
96	Fitzgerald, Edward; Wright, T.	Letters and Literary Remains, Life of Fitzgerald		1889, 1904	GBP -	1.06
97	Forest, P.; Grew, N.	Observationum et Curationum Medieinalium ac Chirurigicarum Opera Omnia, A Catalogue of the Rarities belonging to the Royal Society	vellum Francfurt	1634, 1681	GBP -	1.10
98	Gage, John	History and Antiquities of Suffolk		1838	GBP -	1.05
99	Gentleman, Tobias	Englands Way to Win Wealth, and to employ Ships and Marriners: or, a plaine description what great profite		1614	GBP -	9.05
100	Gilpin, R.; Chappell, W.	Daemonologia Sacra, Popular Music of the Olden Time	Edinburgh	1867, n.d.	GBP -	2.18

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