Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS., 03Aug1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date
August 03, 1939 - August 03, 1939
Page Size: 676 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
406 Lowndes W. T. The Bibliographer's Manual, Who's Who in Literature

1857-64, 1924-32

GBP - 0.12
407 Eckel J. C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens, their Points and Values

1932

GBP - 0.10
408 Step Edward Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

1896-97, 1896-97

GBP - 1.01
409 Hansard G. A.; Dodd Rev. J. W. The Book of Archery, Ballads of Archery, Sonnets, etc.

1841, 1818

GBP - 2.15
410 Brunet Jacques-Charles Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres Paris

n.d.

GBP - 3.10
411 Halkett S. and John Laing A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain

1882-88

GBP - 1.10
412 Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature

n.d.

GBP - 0.15
413 Allibone S. Austin; Cushing William Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Initials and Pseudonyms: A Discussion of Literary Dis guises Philadelphia, New York

1899, 1885

GBP - 2.00
414 White W. A. and H. C. Bartlett; Corns A. R. and A. Sparke Catalogue of Early English Books, A Bibliography of Unfinished Books New York

1926, 1915

GBP - 1.00
415 Sadleir Michael; Prideaux Col. W. F. Excursions in Victorian Bibliography, A Bibliography of the Works of R. L. Stevenson

1922, 1917

GBP - 0.10
416 Sadleir M.; Worthington G.; Carter J.; Johnson Merle Bibliographia Series. Numbers 1, 4 and 6: The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, Binding Variants in English Publishing, American First Editions New York

1770-1900, 1820-1900, 1930-32, 1929

GBP - 1.12
417 English Catalogue of Books (The)

1890-1937, 1873-89

GBP - 2.05
418 Goldsmith Oliver Works

1801

GBP - 0.12
419 Gibbon Edward The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1838

GBP - 0.10
420 Shakespeare W.; Wordsworth W. Works, Poetical Works

1747, 1841-51

GBP - 0.05
421 Danielson H.; Schwartz Dr. J. Bibliographies of Modern Authors, 1100 Obscure Points, the Bibliographies of 25 English and 21 American Authors

1921, 1931

GBP - 0.15
422 Baker E. A.; Ricci Seymour de A Guide to Historical Fiction, The Book Collector's Guide Philadelphia

1914, 1921

GBP - 1.18
423 Sawyer C. J. and Darton F. J. H. English Books

1475-1900, 1927

GBP - 0.15
424 Quaritch B.; Harrison Robert General Catalogue, Catalogue of the London Library

1880-92, 1888

GBP - 1.05
425 Hervey John, Lord An Answer to the Country Parson's Plea against the Quakers Tythe-Bill in a Letter to the R.R. Author, The Book of Common Prayer

1736, 1704

GBP - 1.10
426 Meredith George Works

1896-98

GBP - 1.02
427 DEFOE D. La Vie et les Avantures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe

1720

GBP - 1.05
428 James J. T. Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Collection des Principaux Monumens en Vues de Paris Paris

1819, n.d.

GBP - 0.05
429 Ottius J. B.; Dugdale H. G. Spicilegium sive Excerpta ex Flavio Josepho ad Novi Testamenti illustrationem, The Life and Character of Edmund Geste, the Principal Compiler of the Liturgy of the Church of England

1741, 1840

GBP - Not Sold
430 Paganini. Musical Manuscript

GBP - Not Sold
431 Dodgson C. L. Sylvie and Bruno concluded

1893

GBP - 0.05
432 Postellus Guilielmus De Etruriae Regionis, Quae Prima in Orbe Europaeo habitata est, Originibus, Institutis, Religione et Moribus, et imprimis de Avrei saeculi Doctrina

1551

GBP - Not Sold
433 Barrie Sir James The Little White Bird

1902

GBP - Not Sold
434 Anderson John Catatogus I. Der Neleken samptihren Bennahmen so in Horto Medico zu Leipzig (ben mir D. Leonhardo Beeren, Horti Med. Praefecto) anzuriessen senn, Descriptive Account of Mauritius

1662, 1858

GBP - 1.15
435 Flora Medica: containing coloured Delineations of the various Medicinal Plants admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmocopæias

1829-30

GBP - 1.00
436 Madden F. W.; Durning-Lawrence Sir E. History of Jewish Coinage and of Money in the Old and New Testament, Bacon is Shakespeare New York

1864, 1910

GBP - 0.05
437 Gower Roger Hosier's Hall Dublin

1798

GBP - 0.05
438 Siècle Un de Modes Féminines, The Floral Months of England Paris

1794-1894, 1894, n.d.

GBP - 0.05
439 John Wycliffe, Thomas Wright Bible. The New Testament in English, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman

circa 1380, 1848, 1842

GBP - 0.15
440 Hone William; Prescott W. H. The Every-Day Book, History of the Conquest of Mexico

1826, 1901

GBP - 0.05
441 Junker Dr. W. Travels in Africa during the Years 1879-1883, The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India

1882-86, 1891-92, 1834-35

GBP - 0.05
442 Larwood Jacob Railroadiana, a New History of England, The Story of the London Parks

1838, n.d.

GBP - 0.05
443 Scott Sir Walter The Waverley Novels

1892-94

GBP - 0.12
444 Pepys Samuel; Evelyn John Diary and Correspondence, Diary and Correspondence

1848-49, 1854

GBP - Not Sold
445 Adams John; Tolfrey Frederic An Analysis of Horsemanship, The Sportsman in Prance: comprising a Sporting Ramble through Picardy and Normandy, and Boar Shooting in Lower Brittany

1805, 1841

GBP - Not Sold
446 Miles H. D. Pugilistica, The History of British Boxing, Famous Fights in the Prize Ring Edinburgh

1906, n.d. c. 1870

GBP - 2.05
447 Edwin Archbishop of Yorke, Primate of England and Metropolitaine Sermons, The Book of Common Prayer ... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David

1585, 1801

GBP - 1.00
448 Martialis M. V. Epigrammata, cum Notis Th. Farnabii, La Vieux Natura brevium, dernierment couigee et amend'

1644, 1584

GBP - 0.12
449 Schaack Michael J.; Leader J. and Gruiseppe Marcotti Anarchy and Anarchists ... Communism, Socialism and Nihilism in Doctrine and Deed, Temple, Sir John Hawkwood Chicago

1889, 1889

GBP - 0.05
450 Saunders J. The True Art of Angling

1696

GBP - 2.15
451 SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORKS

1709-10

GBP - 17.00
452 Gavarni Diable à Paris (Le) Paris

1845-46

GBP - 1.00
453 Grandville J. J. Les Fleurs Animées Paris

1847

GBP - 0.15
454 Buchanan George Poemata

1687

GBP - 0.05
455 Florian J. P. Claris de Numa Pompilius, second Roi de Rome Paris

1786

GBP - 0.10
456 Proverbes de Salomon (Les) traduits en François Paris

1672

GBP - 0.10
457 Montesquieu Charles Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Œuvres

1764

GBP - 11.00
458 Fontana Francisco Novæ Cœlestium Terrestriumque Rerum Observationes

1646

GBP - 0.10
459 Hagecius ab Hagek Thaddæus Aphorismorum Metoposcopi-corum Libellus unus

1654

GBP - Not Sold
460 Bertholdus. Horologium Devotionis

n.d. 14--

GBP - 2.05
461 Garzia dall' Horto Don Due Libri dell' Historia de i Semplici, Aromati, et altre Cose; che vengono portate dall' Indie Orientali pertinenti all' uso della medicina Venice

1582

GBP - 3.15
462 John Gower Ovid. Festivalls Cambridge

1640

GBP - 1.01
463 Eckius Johannes De Supremo Dominio

1532

GBP - 0.05
464 Büchlein darstellend was etliche Priester gethan haben

n.d. probably after 1520

GBP - 0.10
465 Velmatius Johannes Maria Veteris et Novi Testamenti Opus singulare, ac planè Divinum in verse Venice

1538

GBP - 0.10
466 Greek Manuscript. Hymns

c. 15th century

GBP - 4.15
467 Marchesinus Joannes Mammotrectus super Bibliam

29th Aug. 1481

GBP - 2.05
468 Uffizio della Settimana Santa, Aphthronhis. Progymnasmata Rome

1742, 1645

GBP - 0.10
469 Lucretius. Della Natura delle Cose

1754

GBP - 2.00
470 Rousseau J. J. Oeuvres Completes

1788-93

GBP - 9.10
471 ACKERMANN R. REPOSITORY OF THE ARTS

1809-28

GBP - 16.00
472 Etschenreütter G. Aller heilsamen Bader und Brunnen Natur, etc. Strasburg

1571

GBP - 1.10
473 Geliert C. P.; Marguerite Reine de Navarre Fabelen en Vertelsels, Heptameron Français Berne

1772-74, 1780-81

GBP - 4.10
474 Horatius Flaccus Q. Opera

1733-37

GBP - 1.15
475 La Fontaine M. de Contes et Nouvelles

1762

GBP - 6.00
476 Molière J.-B. P. de Œuvres ... avec Remarques ... par M. Bret Paris

1804

GBP - 0.05
477 Montanus M. Der Wegkürtzer. Das dritte theil des Rollwagens etc.

1565

GBP - 1.15
478 Tractatus Varii de Pulicibus, Quorum Primus exhibet Dissertationem Juridicam Opizii Jocoserii, etc., etc.

1684

GBP - 1.05
479 Voltaire F. M. A. de La Pucelle d'Orleans Paris

1775

GBP - 0.10
480 Bryant W. C. Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In New York

1872-4

GBP - 0.05
481 Cervantes M. de El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

1780

GBP - 9.00
482 Cook Capt. James A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World

1777

GBP - 1.00
482A Cook Capt. J. Another edition, with James King

1784

GBP - 1.00
483 Faernus Gabriel Fabulae Centum

1793

GBP - 4.15
484 Holbein Icones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti

1547

GBP - 3.15
485 Hoefnagel G. Archetypa Studiaque Patris

n.d.

GBP - 1.15
486 Kotzebue Otto von Entdeckungs-Reise in die Sud-See und nach der Berings-Strasse

1821

GBP - 1.02
487 Langsdorff G. H. von; Weimar Bernhard, Duke of Reise non die Welt, Reise durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826

1812, 1828

GBP - 2.05
488 Meisner D. Sciographia Cosmica, dasz ist neues Emblema-tisches Buchlein Nürnberg

1642, 1638

GBP - 6.00
489 Wied-Neuwied Maximilian, Prinz zu Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817 Frankfurt

1820-21

GBP - 3.15
490 Weyerman Jakob Campo De Levens-Beschryvingen der Nederlandsche Konst-Schilders en Konst-Schilderessen

1729, 1769

GBP - 0.12
491 BARTISCH VON KONIGSBRUCK G. AUGENDIENST. Newer und Wolge gründter Bericht von Ursachen und erkentnis aller Gebrechten Schäden und Mängel der Augen und des Gesichtes

1583

GBP - 4.05
492 Bruyn Cornells de Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia ... Rhodus, Cyprus, etc.; Reizen over Muskovie, door Persie en Indie, etc.

1698, 1714

GBP - 0.10
493 DAPPER D. O., A. MONTANUS, AND OTHERS NAUKEURIGE BESCHRYVING Asia, Bast and West Indies, China, Japan, etc.

1669-88

GBP - 9.00
494 MERIAN M. AND M. ZEILLER; Eckardt H. TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS, Matthaeus Merian Frank furt

1642-88, 1892

GBP - 23.00
495 Münster Sebastian Cosmographia

1628

GBP - 3.00
496 Schedel H. Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure und Pildnüssen etc. Nürmberg

1493

GBP - 9.10
497 Schoepflin J. D.; Kleiner S. Alsatia Illustrata, Francofurtum ad Moenum Floridum Augsburg

1751-61, 1738

GBP - 6.10
498 Kaempfer E. Strabo. Rerum Geographicarum, Beschryving van Japan

1707, 1733

GBP - 0.14
499 Stumpff Johann Schweytzer Chronick

1586

GBP - 5.05
500 NEWTON SIR ISAAC OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL, AND THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN

1733

GBP - 1.10
501 Martin Benjamin Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography and Astronomy: which ... are exhibited and explained on the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy

1743

GBP - 0.05
502 Hooper W. E. The British Empire in the first Year of the Twentieth Century and the Last of the Victorian Reign

n.d.

GBP - Not Sold
503 Miscellaneous Books

GBP - 0.10
504 Wordsworth William The Excursion

1814

GBP - Not Sold
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