Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 09May1938,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 09, 1938 - May 09, 1938

Page Size: 820 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ADDISON, J.; Lang-horne, J.; Smith, H. and J.; Prior, M.	Notes upon Paradise Lost; Fables of Flora; Rejected Addresses; Poems on several		1738, 1804, 1812, 1725	GBP -	0.12
2		Aesop. Fables		1793	GBP -	0.10
3		Libri de re rustica	Venice	1514	GBP -	1.00
4		Valerius. Argonautica	Venetiis	1523	GBP -	0.10
5	Lactantius, L. C.	Opera	Venetiis	1535	GBP -	0.15
6	Allibone, S. A.	Critical Dictionary of English Literature	Philadelphia	1891	GBP -	0.10
7	Anderson, C.; Hey, Mrs. W.; Harris, J.	Historical sketches of the ancient Native Irish; Recollections of the Lakes; Hermes		1828, 1841, 1765	GBP -	4.00
8		Angelus [Carletus] de Clavasio	Venice	1487	GBP -	2.10
9	R. Southey	Annual Anthology (The)	Bristol	1799-1800	GBP -	2.05
10	Crabbe, G.	Arabian Nights; Dodsley's Collection of Poems; Works		1790, 1755, 1847	GBP -	0.10
11	Ariosto, L.	Orlando Furioso; Aesop. Fabulae	Lyone	1579, 1596	GBP -	0.05
12	Arnold, M.	Cromwell; Prize Poem		1843	GBP -	0.10
13	Arnold, M.	The Strayed Reveller		1849	GBP -	3.15
14	Arnold, Matthew	Empedocles on Etna and other Poems		1852	GBP -	3.05
15	Arnold, M.	Poems		1853-55	GBP -	Not Sold
16	Arnold, M.	Essays in Criticism		1865-88	GBP -	1.15
17	Arnold, M.	Schools and Universities on the Continent		1868	GBP -	1.08
18	Arnold, M.	Geist's Grave		1881	GBP -	0.05
19	Arnold, M.	A French Eton; New Poems		1864, 1867	GBP -	4.10
20	Arnold, M.	Strayed Reveller; Merope; New Poems; On Translating Homer; Three Lectures and Last Words; Essays in Criticism, first series		1849, 1858, 1867, 1861/2, 1865	GBP -	0.10
21	Arnold, M.	On the Study of Celtic Literature; St. Paul and Protestantism; Friendship's Garland; Notebooks		1867, 1870, 1871, 1902	GBP -	0.05
22	Austen, Jane	Emma		1816	GBP -	3.05
23	Aytoun, W. E. and Sir T. Martin	Book of Ballads		1845, 1849, n. d., circa 1860	GBP -	0.05
24	Bain, F. W.	Descent of the Sun; In the Great God's Hair; Draught of the Blue; Essence of the Dusk; Incarnation of the Snow; Substance of a Dream		1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1919	GBP -	0.05
25	Milton, J.	Paradise Lost; Paradise Re-gained; Samson Agonistes; Poems upon several occasions	Birmingham	1758	GBP -	2.05
26	Milton, J.	Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained, etc.	Birmingham	1759	GBP -	1.10
27		Book of Common Prayer	Cambridge	1762	GBP -	0.10
28	Barclay, R.	Apology for the true Christian Divinity	Birmingham	1765	GBP -	0.10
29		Virgilius. Bucolica; Georgica et Aeneis	Birminghamiae	1766	GBP -	1.05
30		Aesop. Select Fables; Horatius [Opera]; Terentius. Opera	Birmingham	1761, 1762, 1772	GBP -	0.05
31		Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii opera; Book of Common Prayer, etc.; Novum Testamentum (Graecum)	Birminghamiae, Cambridge	1772, 1761, 1763	GBP -	0.10
32		Barber's Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight		n. d.	GBP -	2.00
33	Barbut, J.	Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus		1780	GBP -	0.10
34	Barrie, Sir J. M.	Quality Street		1913	GBP -	0.10
35	Barrie, Sir J. M.	Sentimental Tommy; Tommy and Grizel; Little White Bird		1896, 1900, 1902	GBP -	0.10
36	Bennett, C. H. and R. B. Brough	Shadow and Substance		1860	GBP -	0.05
37	Benson, A. C.	Essays; The Professor; The Gate of Death; Isles of Sunset; Silent Isle		1896, 1900, z, 1908, 1910	GBP -	Not Sold
38	Bewick, T.	General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle	1790	GBP -	0.15
39	Bewick	Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds; Vignettes		1824, 1827	GBP -	1.00
40	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1797-1821	GBP -	2.00
41	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1797-1826	GBP -	1.00
42	Bewick, T.	British Land and Water Birds	Newcastle	1825	GBP -	0.10
43	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds	Newcastle	1826	GBP -	1.12
44	Bewick, T.	General History of Birds; Quadrupeds		1805, 1800	GBP -	Not Sold
45	Bewick, T.; Thomson, J.	History of British Birds; The Seasons		1847, 1805	GBP -	0.05
46	Bewick, T.	Figures of British Land Birds; Fables of Aesop and others; Quadrupeds		1800, 1818, 1791	GBP -	1.08
47	Bewick, T.	Select Fables	Newcastle	1784	GBP -	0.15
48	Bewick, T.	Select Fables	Newcastle	1820	GBP -	0.15
49	Bewick; Trusler, J.	The Looking Glass for the Mind; Progress of Man and Society; Pity's Gift		1821, 1791, 1801	GBP -	1.06
50	Bewick; Earnshaw, C.	Moral Instructions of a Father to his Son; Blossoms of Morality; Emblems of Mortality; The Wreath	Newcastle	1775, 1796, 1789, 1806	GBP -	1.02
51	Bewick; Thomson, J.; Goldsmith, O.	Dance of Death; The Northumberland Garland; Seasons, Vicar of Wakefield	Newcastle	1789, 1793, 1805, 1809, 1798	GBP -	2.02
52		Bible. Breeches version		1595	GBP -	3.10
53	Laud, W.	A Summarie of Devotions		1667	GBP -	0.15
54		Collection of the several Statutes and Parts of Statutes now in force		1709	GBP -	1.00
55	John Sturt	Book of Common Prayer, etc.		1717	GBP -	0.10
56		Collection of Anthems		1724	GBP -	0.08
57		Book of Common Prayer	Oxford	1740	GBP -	0.12
58		Book of Common Prayer	Oxford, Cambridge	1790, 1788	GBP -	0.10
59	Tennyson, A., Lord	Enoch Arden, etc.		1864	GBP -	1.08
60		Bible, avec les Pseaumes		1687	GBP -	1.01
61		Bible; Bible		1698, 1760	GBP -	0.10
62	Blackmore, R.; Cowley, A.	King Arthur; a Poem; Works		1697, 1669	GBP -	1.05
63	Blackwood, Algernon	John Silence; The Listener; The Centaur; Incredible Adventure		1908, z, 1911, 1914	GBP -	0.10
64	Blair, R.	The Grave		1743	GBP -	0.10
65	Blair, R.	The Grave		1813	GBP -	0.10
66	Blakesley, J. W.; Reade, J. E.	Life of Aristotle; Italy		1839, 1838	GBP -	2.05
67	Bloomfield, R.	The Farmer's Boy		1800	GBP -	0.05
68	Bordinus, J. F.	De rebus praeclare gestis a Sixto V. Pon. Max. carminum primus	Romae	1588	GBP -	0.10
69	Boswell, J.	Account of Corsica	Glasgow	1768	GBP -	0.10
70	Bourne, V.	Poematia; Latinè partim redditta; partim scripta		1734	GBP -	0.05
71	Bronte, C.	Villette		1853	GBP -	0.10
72	Brooke, S. A.; Pater, W.; Lynd, R.; Graves, R.	Studies in Poetry; Plato and Platonism; Books and Authors; Lawrence and the Arabs		1910, 1909, 1922, 1927	GBP -	0.14
73	Brougham, H., Lord; McCarthy, D.	Albert Lunel; Siege of Florence		1844, 1840	GBP -	0.18
74	Browne, Sir T.	Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, etc.		1658	GBP -	6.10
75	Browning, R.	Strafford		1837	GBP -	2.02
76	Browning, R.	Pied Piper of Hamelin		n. d.	GBP -	0.12
77	Browning, E. B.	An Essay on Mind; Casa Guidi Windows; Poems before Congress; Last Poems		1826, 1851, 1860, 1862	GBP -	3.03
78	Bucer, Martin	A briefe treatise concerning the burnynge of Bucer and Phagius, at Cambrydge, in tyme of Quene Mary		1562	GBP -	2.08
79	Buchanan, R.	Undertones; Idyls and Legends of Inverburn; London Poems; David Gray, etc.; Bolder the Beautiful; A. L. s.		1863, 1865, 1866, 1868, 1877	GBP -	Not Sold
80	Bunyan, J.; Shenstone, W.; Milton, J.	Pilgrim's Progress; Works; Poetical Works		1728, 1764, 1859	GBP -	0.12
81	Burns, R.	Poems; chiefly in Scottish Dialect	Edinburgh	1787	GBP -	2.15
82	Burns, R.	Poems; chiefly in the Scottish Dialect		1787	GBP -	1.01
83	Burns, R.	Poetical Works		1808	GBP -	0.16
84	Burns, R.; Goldsmith, O.	Tam o'Shanter and Souter Johnny; Vicar of Wakefield		1830, 1832	GBP -	0.10
85	Burton, R.	Anatomy of Melancholy		1660	GBP -	2.15
86	Butler, S.; Thomson, J.	Hudibras, Annotations, etc.; Seasons		1802, 1793	GBP -	Not Sold
87	Byron, Lord	Lara [and by S. Rogers] Jacqueline		1814	GBP -	0.05
88	Byron, Lord	Lara. Jacqueline		1814	GBP -	0.05
89	Byron, Lord; Scott, Sir W.	Poems; The Field of Waterloo; Description of the Field of Battle near Waterloo		1816, 1815, 1816	GBP -	Not Sold
90	Byron, Lord	Marino Faliero, etc.		1821	GBP -	Not Sold
91	Byron, Lord	Hebrew Melodies; Mazeppa, Werner		1815, 1819, 1823	GBP -	0.10
92	Byron, Lord	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Canto the Third; Canto the Fourth		1816, 1818	GBP -	Not Sold
93	Carpenter, E.	Towards Democracy; Love's Coming-of-Age		1883, 1896	GBP -	0.10
94	Carlyle, T.	Life of Friedrich Schiller; Latter-Day Pamphlets		1825, 1850	GBP -	Not Sold
95	Cervantes, M. de	Don Quixote		1820	GBP -	0.12
96	Chambers, R.; Percy, T.	Scottish Songs and Ballads; Reliques of ancient English Poetry		1829, 1794	GBP -	0.05
97	Charles I	Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae, or Works; Eikon Basilike		1651, 1648	GBP -	0.05
98	Charleton, W.	The Darknes of Atheism dispelled by the Light of Nature, a physico-theologicall treatise		1652	GBP -	2.00
99	Chatterton, T.	Poems supposed to have been written by Thomas Rowley; Miscellanies in Prose and Verse		1794, 1778	GBP -	0.18
100	Clare, J.	Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery		1820	GBP -	2.02

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