Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 18Nov1935,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 1935 - November 18, 1935

Page Size: 924 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
799	GOULD, JOHN	THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN.		1873	GBP -	44.00
800	Hobbes, Thomas; Fuller, Thomas; Fox, George	Leviathan.; The Holy State.; Journal.		1651, 1652, 1765	GBP -	0.18
801	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM.	Antwerp	1603	GBP -	37.00
802	Ovid	Metamorphoses in Latin and English.	Amsterdam	1732	GBP -	1.00
803	Plumsted, Robert	Ironmonger.			GBP -	4.10
804		Reale Galleria di Firenze Illustrata.	Florence	1817-31	GBP -	0.10
805	Roberts, David; Lewis J. F.; Hills Robert; Farren Robert	Pieturesque Sketches in Spain.; Sketches of Spain and Spanish character.; Cattle in Groups.; The Fen-lands of Cambridgeshire.		1837, 1808	GBP -	4.10
806	SPEED, JOHN	THE THEATRE OF THE EMPIRE OF GREAT BRITAIN...		1676	GBP -	56.00
807	Stow, John	A Survey of London.		1754-55	GBP -	4.15
808	Wit, F. de	Atlas Major.	Amsterdam	1671-88	GBP -	5.05
809	Rabelais, F.	Œuvres avec des remarques historiques et critiques de M. le Duchat.	Amsterdam	1741	GBP -	9.15
810	Horne, Robert; Hay P.; Gataker J.	The Shield of the Righteous.; Vision of Balaams Asse.; Benefit of a Good Naine.		1625, 1616	GBP -	1.05
811	Coins	The Montagu Collection of Coins and Medals.			GBP -	0.05
812	Ariosto, Ludovico	Orlando Furioso.	Paris	1795	GBP -	0.10
813	Collins, Wilkie	The Woman in White.		1860	GBP -	35.00
814		Autographs.			GBP -	9.00
814	Bowyer, R.	Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe during the years 1812-1815.		1815	GBP -	2.05
815	Dilke, Lady; Thielmann Max von	French Eugravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIII century.; French Furnitureand Decoration in the XVIII century.; Vier Wege durch Amerika.	Leipzig	1902, 1901	GBP -	1.02
816		Architecture Moderne ou l'Art de bien Batir.	Paris	1728	GBP -	1.05
817		Autographs.			GBP -	5.00
818	Johnston, J.	Inseriptiones Historicae Regum Scotorum.	Amsterdam	1602	GBP -	4.00
819	Lesley, John	De Origine.	Rome	1578	GBP -	3.00
820	Blackstone, William	Commentaries on the Laws of England.	Oxford	1770-70-68-69	GBP -	1.08
821	Spielmann, M. H. and G. S. Layard	Kate Greenaway.		1905	GBP -	2.05
822	Wright, Thomas; Layard G. S.	Life of William Blake.; Life and Letters of Charles Keene.		1929	GBP -	0.10
822A	Autograph, Mirror	Autographie Letters of Illustrious and Distinguished Men.			GBP -	1.00
823	Pallas, P. S.; Forbes J.	Travels through the Southern Provinces of Russia.; Illustrations to Oriental Memoirs.		1812	GBP -	1.10
824	Polo, Marco; Brandt	Travels.; The Ship of Fools.		1929	GBP -	0.10
825	Stow, J.	The Survay of London.		1618	GBP -	1.08
826	Ackermann, R.	History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster.		1812	GBP -	1.15
827	Smollett, T.	The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality (reprinted from Peregrine Pickle).		1925	GBP -	0.10
828	Gay, J.	The Wife of Bath.	London	1730	GBP -	1.06
829	Schreber, Dr. Jo. Chr. D. von	Die Saugthiere.		A1826-46	GBP -	2.15
830	FURBER, R.	THE FLOWEB-GABDEN DISPLAY'D.		1732	GBP -	9.00
831	Aldam, W. H.	A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the art of artyfichall flee making,".		1876	GBP -	4.15
832	Caldecott, R.; K. J. and W. B.; Hood Tom	An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.; Sugar and Spice.; Upside Down.		n.d., 1882	GBP -	Not Sold
833	HARRISON, STEPHEN	THE AROH'S OF TRIUMPH.		1604	GBP -	18.00
834	Strang, W.	The Earth Fiend.		1892	GBP -	1.01
835	Havard, H.	Histoire et Philosophie des Styles.	Paris	1899	GBP -	1.15
836	Bowyer, R.	Illustrated Record of important Events in the Annals of Europe.		1815	GBP -	4.00
837	Durer, A.	Œuvres.	Paris	c. 1870	GBP -	1.00
838	Neufforge, De	Recueil Elementaire d' Architecture, &c.	Paris	1757-68	GBP -	13.10
839	Birmann, Samuel	Souvenirs de la Vallee de Chamonix.	Basle	1826	GBP -	37.00
840	Turner, J. M. W.	Liber Studiorum.		1808-12	GBP -	14.10
841	Rowlandson, Thomas	An Excursion to Brighthelmstone made in the Year 1789 by H. Wigstead & T. Rowlandson.		1790	GBP -	12.00
842	Parkinson, John	Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris.		1629	GBP -	2.05
843	Holbein, H.	Portraits of the Court of Henry VIII.	Hamilton	1884	GBP -	1.01
844	Boydell, J. and J.	Collection of Prints illustrating the Dramatie Works of Shakespeare.		1807	GBP -	6.10
845		HOUGHTON GALLERY.		1788	GBP -	22.00
846	ACKERMANN, R.	HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Oxford.		1814	GBP -	22.00
847	Forrest, C. R.	A picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna.		1824	GBP -	5.00
848	Oppé, A. P.	Thomas Rowlandson.		1923	GBP -	1.08
849	Bion, N.	Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments.			GBP -	1.12
850	Earlom, R. and C. Turner	Portraits of Characters Illustrious in British History.		n.d.	GBP -	2.05
851	Atlas	The Large English Atlas.			GBP -	2.10
852	Richardson, C. J.	Studies from Old English Mansions.		1841-8	GBP -	0.10
853	Kobell, L. V.; Haseloff A.	Kuntsvolle Miniaturen & Initialen.; Codex Purpureus Rossanensis.		1892	GBP -	0.10
854	Sharpe, E.; Shaw, R. N.; Piranesi, G. B.	Architectural Parallels; or the Progress of Eccleciastical Achitecture in England through the XII and XIII centuries.; Architectural Sketches from the Continent.; Delia Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani.	Milano	n.d.	GBP -	0.10
855		Victoria County History.		1905	GBP -	0.10
856	Chardin, Sir John; Philips, Mrs. K.	Travels into Persia and the East Indies.; Poems.		1678	GBP -	1.05
857	Warner, R. and B. S. Williams	Select Orchidaceous Plants.			GBP -	2.00
858	REDOUTE, P. J. AND A. P. DECANDOLLE	Plantarum historia succulentaram.	Paris	1799-1804	GBP -	11.00
859	Millais, J. G.	The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland.		1904-6	GBP -	1.10
860	Horne, H. P.	Sandro Botticelli.		1908	GBP -	6.10
861	Hipkins, A. J.	Musical Instruments.		1888	GBP -	0.18
862	Doyley, Charles and T. Williamson	The costume and customs of modem India.		1813	GBP -	3.15
863		Burlington Fine Arts Club.		1920	GBP -	0.16
864		Burlington Fine Arts Club.		1920	GBP -	0.16
865	Binyon, L.	Engraved designs of William Blake.		1926	GBP -	3.00
866	Figgis, Darrell	The paintings of William Blake.	1925		GBP -	2.10
867	Heal, Ambrose	The English writing-masters & their copy books.	Cambridge	1931	GBP -	2.10
868	Meyrick, S. R. and C. II. Smith	Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands.		1815	GBP -	1.00
869	Boyle, Hon. Robert	New Experiments Physieo-Mechanical Touching the Air...	Oxford	1662	GBP -	5.10
870	Boyle, Hon. R.	Experiments and Considerations touching Colours.		1664	GBP -	1.10
871	Boyle, Hon. R.	Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy.	Oxford	1664-71	GBP -	4.00
872	Boyle, Hon. R.	Hydrostatical Paradoxes Made out by New Experiments.	Oxford	1666	GBP -	5.05
873	Boyle, Hon. R.	The Origine of Formes and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy.	Oxford	1667	GBP -	3.05
874	Boyle, Hon. R.	Certain Physiological Bssays and other Tracts.		1669	GBP -	3.10
875	Boyle, Hon. R.	Tracts about the Cosmicall Qualities of Things... The Bottom of the sea.	Oxford	1671	GBP -	5.05
876	Boyle, Hon. R.	An Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems.		1672	GBP -	4.00
877	Boyle, Hon. R.	Essays of the Strange Subtilety...		1673	GBP -	3.10
878	Boyle, Hon. R.	Essays of the Strange Subtility of Effluviums.		1673	GBP -	5.05
879	Boyle, Hon. R.	Tracts containing new Experiments touehing the Relation betwixt Flame and Air.		1673	GBP -	5.10
880	Boyle, Hon. R.	Tracts consisting of Observations about the Saltness of the Sea.		1674	GBP -	1.15
881	Boyle, Hon. R.	Tracts containing Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air.		1674	GBP -	5.10
882	Boyle, Hon. R.	Experiments.		1675-76	GBP -	6.15
883	Boyle, Hon. E.	The Seeptical Chymist or chymieo-physical Doubts and Paradoxes.	Oxford	1680	GBP -	7.00
884	Boyle, Hon. R.	The Aerial Noetiluca: or some new Phoenomena, and a Process of a facticious self-shining Substance.		1680	GBP -	4.00
885	Boyle, Hon. R.	A Continuation of new Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air.	Oxford, London	1682, 1669	GBP -	3.15
886	Boyle, Hon. R.	New Experinients and observations touching Cold...		1683	GBP -	3.10
887	Boyle, Hon. R.	Memoirs for the Natural History of Humane Blood.		1683/4	GBP -	6.15
888	Boyle, Hon. R.	Experinients and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies.		1684	GBP -	4.00
889	Boyle, Hon. R.	Experinients and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies.		1684	GBP -	5.05
890	Boyle, Hon. R.	Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Minerai Waters.		1684/5	GBP -	3.15
891	Boyle, Hon. R.	Of the Reeoncileableness of Specifick Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy.		1685	GBP -	6.15
892	Boyle, Hon. R.	Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature.		1690	GBP -	3.05
893	Boyle, Hon. R.	Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things.		1690	GBP -	4.05
894	Boyle, Hon. R.	Experimenta et Observationes Physieae.		1692	GBP -	5.00
895	Boyle, Hon. R.	The General History of Air.		1692	GBP -	3.15
896		Historie of Cambria now called Wales.		1584	GBP -	1.10

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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.

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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.