Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, &c., 29Jun1938,

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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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