Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, &c., 29Jun1938,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
101	Crabb, J.; Roberts, S.	The Gipsies Advocate, The Gypsies: their Origin, Continuance, and Destination		1831, 1836	GBP -	2.18
102		The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, Descendants of William and Ozias Goodwin		1891	GBP -	1.15
103		GRADUAL, FOR THE USE OF A COMMUNITY OF THE SECOND ORDER OF SAINT FRANCIS, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1600	GBP -	34.00
104	Greene, Robert	A Quip for an Upstart Courtier: or, A quaint dispute betweene Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches		1620	GBP -	9.10
105	Greene, R.	The Pleasant and Delightful History of Dorastus and Fawnia		1703	GBP -	3.00
106	Greene, Robert	The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse		1881-6	GBP -	19.00
107		Gypsy Lore Society. Journal			GBP -	3.05
108	Hardy, J.	Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the 4toun-tains of the High Pyrenees		1825	GBP -	2.15
109	Harper, C. G.; Harris, S.	The Bath Road, The New-market, The Coaching Age		1899, 1904, 1885	GBP -	1.12
110	Hawker, Lt.-Col. Peter	Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting		1824	GBP -	1.02
111	Herrick, R.; Deloney, T.	Works, Strange Histories		1898, 1607, 1841	GBP -	1.18
112	Hess, H. E.; Scaliger, J. C.	Opera Poetica, Poemata Omnia	Halle, vellum	1539, 1600	GBP -	0.16
113	HEYWOOD, THOMAS	AN APOLOGY FOR ACTORS		1612	GBP -	12.00
114	Hobbes, T.	Bight Bookes of the Peloponnesian War inter-preted out of the Greeke of Thucydides		1634	GBP -	2.05
115		Poemata, ed. Bond		1676	GBP -	2.10
116		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF SARUM, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1400	GBP -	27.00
117		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF ROME, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1460	GBP -	63.00
118		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF PARIS, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1480	GBP -	47.00
119		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF PARIS, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1490	GBP -	45.00
119A		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF TOURNAI (?), MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM			GBP -	24.00
119B		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, in Dutch, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM			GBP -	10.10
120	Humphreys, H. N.	The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages, litho.		1849	GBP -	4.10
121		Hunterian Club Publications, being reprints of the Works of Scottish Writers of Elizabethan Times		1872-1902	GBP -	18.00
122	Ives, John; Ives, John	Antiquary and Suffolk herald extraordinary. Sale Catalogue of his Coins and Medals, the elder. MS. Diary, 1734-5		1777, 1773, 1772	GBP -	2.15
123	Ives, John	A Pastoral elegy on the Death of Thomas Martin of Palgrave in Suffolk	Yarmouth	1772, 1776	GBP -	3.00
124	Jermyn, James	Book of English Epithets		1849	GBP -	0.10
125	Johnstone, Charles; Brookes, R.	The Reverie: or, a Plight to the Paradise of Fools, The Art of Angling		1762, 1766	GBP -	2.15
126	Jourdain, M.; Stratton, A.	English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance, The English Interior		1924, n.d.	GBP -	2.05
127	Raven, J. J.	King's Lynn, The Church Bells of Suffolk		n.d., 1890	GBP -	2.02
128	Wither, G.	Lee Priory Press.	Kent	1815	GBP -	1.10
129	Lewine, J.	Bibliography of 18th Century Art and illustrated Books, The Bibliophile, a Magazine		1898, 1908	GBP -	1.02
130	Livingstone, David	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa		1857	GBP -	2.00
131		Storer & Greig. Select Views of London and its Environs		1804-5	GBP -	1.15
132		LONG MEG OF WESTMINSTER, The Life of: Containing the mad merry prankes shee played in her life-time		1635	GBP -	9.15
133	Lowndes, W. T.	The Bibliographers Manual, ed. H. G. Bohn		1864	GBP -	1.00
134	LYLY, JOHN	Pappe with an hatchet. Alias, A Figge for my God sonne		1589	GBP -	8.05
135	Lyly, John	Often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth by the Children of her Majesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules, wanting A1 (blank)		1632	GBP -	4.15
136	Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer	King Arthur		1849	GBP -	0.05
137	Maund, Benjamin	The Botanic Garden		1825-32	GBP -	1.12
138	Mahan, A. T.	Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of Sea Power of Great Britain		1897	GBP -	0.15
139	McAdam, J. L.; Cundy, N.	Observations on the Management of Trusts for the Care of Turnpike Roads, Inland Transit. The Practicability ... of Railroads, PRESENTATION COPY		1825, 1834	GBP -	2.10
140	Merriman, H. S.; Stevenson, R. L.	The Slave of the Lamp, Kidnapped		1892, 1886	GBP -	0.14
141	Middleton, T.	Works		1885-6	GBP -	3.05
142		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	6.15
143		Musical Antiquarian Society. Publications		c. 1840	GBP -	2.15
144		Myth and Legend in Literature and Art, Gresham Standard Novels		1928, n.d.	GBP -	1.00
145	Nashe T.	Complete Works		1883-4	GBP -	6.15
146	Nashe, T.	Works		1904-10	GBP -	4.05
147	Nash, Thomas	Nashes Lenten Stuffe		1599	GBP -	6.05
148	Nash, Thomas	Request van Gys sonder Ghelt		1646	GBP -	1.00
149		Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society	Norwich	1847-1921	GBP -	4.05
150		Bibliotheca Norfolciensis.	Norwich	1896	GBP -	1.10
151	Rye, Walter	Norfolk Annals, compiled by Charles Mackie, Norfolk Topography		1901, 1881	GBP -	1.15
152	Ready, O. G.	Norfolk Broads. Life and Sport on the Norfolk Broads		n.d.	GBP -	2.00
153		The Norfolk Tour, or, the Traveller's Pocket Com-panion	Norwich	1786	GBP -	2.05
154		An Hue-and-Cry after Vox Populi, or, An Answer to Vox Diaboli, or, a Libellous pamphlet falsely styled Vox Populi		1646	GBP -	2.02
155	Cundall, H. M.	Norwich Art Circle Catalogues, 1885-1900, The Norwich School		1920	GBP -	0.10
156		An Address from the Gentry of Norfolk and Norwich to General 4tonk in 1660		1910	GBP -	1.02
157	Saunders, H. W.	Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich, ed. A. Jessop and M. R. James, A History of Norwich Grammar School		1896, 1932	GBP -	1.18
158		Office of the Dead, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM			GBP -	2.15
159		OFFICE OF THE DEAD, COMMEMORATION OF SAINTS, ETC., MANU-SCRIPT ON VELLUM		1485	GBP -	16.10
160		Percy Folio of Old English Ballads and Romances		1905-10	GBP -	1.08
161	Phillpotts, Eden	Polly and Fresh Air		1891	GBP -	0.10
162		Pickering Diamond Classics, another copy, small paper, Homer		1826, 1831	GBP -	1.10
163	PLAYFORD, JOHN	SELECT AYRES AND DIALOGUES		1659	GBP -	15.10
164	Playford, John	An Introduction to the Skill of Musick, in Three Books		1683	GBP -	1.10
165		PSALTER			GBP -	6.10
166		A Handbook for Travellers along the London and Birmingham Railway	Norwich	1845	GBP -	0.10
167	Payne, Collier	Reprints of Elizabethan Writers			GBP -	3.30
168	Ross, Martin and E. CE. Somerville	Beggars on Horseback		1895	GBP -	2.00
169	Round, J. H.; Norgate, Kate	Feudal England, England under the Augevin Kings		1909, 1887	GBP -	1.02
170	Rousseau, J. J.	The Confessions	New York	1928	GBP -	0.15
171	Rye Walter	Norfolk Families		1911-13	GBP -	2.15
172	Rye, Walter	A collection of his pamphlets on the archaeology of Norfolk			GBP -	1.10
173	Saintsbury, G.	A History of English Prosody		1906	GBP -	0.14
174	Scott, Dr. & Davey, S.; Quaile, E.	A Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents, Literary MSS., Illuminated Manuscripts	Liverpool	1891, 1897	GBP -	2.05
175	Scott, Sir W.	Waverley Novels	New York	n.d.	GBP -	1.10
176	Scott, Sir W.	The 4tonastery, The Unfortunate Concubines		1820, 1760	GBP -	0.10
177	Scrope, W.	Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed		1898	GBP -	0.12
178		SERRES THE PERFECT USE OF SILK-WORMES, and their benefit	London	1607	GBP -	12.10
179	Shakespeare, W.	Works		1893-8	GBP -	0.10
180	Farmer, J. S.	Shelley An Account of Shelley's Visits to France in 1814 and 1816, Musa Pedestris	vellum	1894, 1896	GBP -	1.10
181	Shepherd, T. H. and Elmes, J.; Whitaker, J.	Metropolitan Improvements: or, London in the Nineteenth Century, The History of Manchester		1828, 1771	GBP -	0.05
182	Simson, C.; Owen, J.; Hall, T.	Compendium of Practical Musick, Epigrammatum Libri Decern, The Queen's Royal Cookery	Waterson	1678, 1634, 1719	GBP -	2.00
183	SPENSER, EDMUND	COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAINE	London	1595	GBP -	3.10
184	STEVENSON, M.	Or, a Compleat Collection of the Newest Songs, Jovial Poems and Catches, &c		1673	GBP -	17.00
185	Stevenson, R. L.	The Master of Ballantrae		1889	GBP -	0.05
186	W. G. Waters	The Nights, Masuccio. The Novellino		1894, 1895	GBP -	0.10
187	Suckling, Sir J.; Pierce, W.	Works, Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts		1910, 1908	GBP -	1.02
188	Suckling, A. B.	History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk		1846-8	GBP -	3.10
189		A collection of over 90 pamphlets dealing with Suffolk, many with early local imprints			GBP -	1.06
190	Green, R.	History of Framlingham and Soxted, Account of the Gifts that have been bequeathed to Charitable Uses in Ipswich	Ipswich	1834, 1747	GBP -	1.10
191	Surtees, R. S.	Sporting Novels		n.d.	GBP -	5.15
192	Swarbrick, J.; Buckley, F.	Robert Adam & his Brothers, A History of English Glass		1915, 1925	GBP -	1.18
193	Thompson, G.; Philip, J.	Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, Researches in South Africa		1827, 1828	GBP -	3.05
194		"Times" Survey Atlas of the World		1922	GBP -	3.05
195	Trollope, A.; Haliburton, T.	Orley Farm, The Clockmaker	worn, shabby, Halifax, N.8.	1862, 1836	GBP -	2.00
196	Turner, Dawson	Norfolk antiquary, Sepulchral Reminis-cences of a Market Town, Guide to the Verification of Manuscripts	Yarmouth	1848, 1848, 1840	GBP -	1.00
197	W. R. Martine	A Second replie against the defensory and Apology of Sixtus the fift late Pope of Rome ... black letter		1592	GBP -	3.05
198	Willis, R. and Clark, J. W.	The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge		1886	GBP -	1.00

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