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
499	Vasari, G.	Opere		1822-23	GBP -	1.10
500	Whyte Melville, G. J.; Martin, J.; Livingstone, D.	Market Harborough; Account of Tonga Islands; Missionary Travels in South Africa		1861, 1818, 1857	GBP -	1.00
501	Wither, G.	Poetical Works		n. d.	GBP -	1.00
502	Yonge, C. M.	Hopes and Fears; Heartease; The Discontented Chickens		1860, 1854, 1853	GBP -	Not Sold
503		Bibliographer (The); Lockhart Papers; Hunterian Club Publications		1882-4, 1817, 1872-3	GBP -	1.00
504	A. H. Bullen	Metrical Songs; Poems of Walter Mapes; Letters of eminent Men; Arden of Feversham	roxburghe	1592, 1887	GBP -	Not Sold
505	Cruikshank, G.; Lear, E.; Lang, A.	Vol. 1 of My Sketch Book; More Nonsense; Johnny Nut, and the Golden Goose		1834-6, 1888	GBP -	Not Sold
506	Fielding, H.	Works		1882	GBP -	Not Sold
507	Jackson, J. and W. A. Chatto	Treatise on Wood Engraving		1839	GBP -	Not Sold
508	Kay, J.	Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings		1877	GBP -	1.00
509	Smollet, T.	Novels		1884	GBP -	Not Sold
510	Swift, J.	Works		1755-68	GBP -	Not Sold
511	Cotgrave, R.; Raleigh, Sir W.	Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues; History of the World		1632, 1628	GBP -	2.15
512	Flaxman, J.	Compositions from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; Hesiod and Aeschylus		1805-31	GBP -	Not Sold
513	Hamilton, Sir W.	Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities	Naples	1766-67	GBP -	2.00
514	Hamilton, Sir W.	Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases	Naples	1791-5	GBP -	Not Sold
515	Hill, G. B.	Footsteps of Dr. Samuel Johnson in Scotland		1890	GBP -	1.05
516	Jonson, B.	Workes		1616	GBP -	2.05
517	Mr. Dryden	Juvenal and Persius. Satires		1693	GBP -	Not Sold
518	Lewis, J. F.	Sketches of the Alhambra		1835	GBP -	Not Sold
519	Mariana, J. de; Baker, Sir R.	General History of Spain; Chronicle of Kings of England		1699, 1684	GBP -	1.15
520	Sir T. North	Plutarchus. Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans		1676	GBP -	2.00
521	BARTSCH, A.	Le Peintre graveur	Würzburg	1920	GBP -	2.10
522	Calvert, A. F.; Rawlinson, W. G.	Goya; The engraved work of J. M. W. Turner		1908, 1908-13	GBP -	0.18
523	Cary, W.	Critical description of Chaucer's pilgrims		1808	GBP -	0.05
524	Parthey, G.	Wenzel Hollar	Berlin	1853	GBP -	0.18
525	Plan, P. P.; Way, T. R.	Jacques Callot; Mr. Whistler's lithographs		1914, 1905	GBP -	1.00
526	Smith, John	A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent painters		1908	GBP -	0.10
527	Thausing, M.	Albert Dürer		1882	GBP -	1.02
528	Thomas, T. H.	French portrait engraving		1910	GBP -	1.00
529	Binyon, Laurence	A catalogue of Japanese and Chinese wood-cuts in the British Museum		1916	GBP -	1.10
530	Dodgson, Campbell	Etchings and dry points by Muirhead Bone		1898-1907, 1909	GBP -	1.00
531	Dodgson, C.	A Catalogue of etchings by Augustus John		1901-14, 1920	GBP -	0.15
532	Fenollosa, E. F.	Epochs of Chinese and Japanese art		1913	GBP -	2.02
533	Finberg, A. J.	The history of Turner's Liber Studiorum		1924	GBP -	1.05
534	Hind, A. M.; Binyon, Laurence	Giovanni Battista Piranesi; William Strang	The Cotswold Gallery, Glasgow	1922, 1912-23	GBP -	2.00
535	Hind, A. M.; Waldmann, E.; Wölfflin, H.	Rembrandt's etchings; Albrecht Altdorfer; Die Kunst Albrecht Durers		1912, 1923, 1920	GBP -	1.15
536	Maskell, A.	Ivories (The Connoisseur's Library)		1905	GBP -	1.04
537	Reitlinger, H. S.	Old master drawings		1922	GBP -	1.00
538	Rinder, F.; de Vesme, A.	D. Y. Cameron; Le peintre-graveur italien	Glasgow, Milan	1912, 1906	GBP -	1.00
539	Strange, E. F.; Seidlitz, W. von	The colour prints of Hiroshige; A history of Japanese colour-prints		1925, 1910	GBP -	1.14
540	Vertue, G.; Wibiral, F.; Sykes, Sir Mark Master-man	A description of the works of Wenceslaus Hollar; L'iconographie d'Antoine van Dyck; A catalogue of prints	Leipzig	1759, 1877, 1824	GBP -	2.15
541	Whitman, A.; Goodwin, G.	Valentine Green; James McArdell; T. Watson, J. Watson, E. Judkins		1902, 1903, 1904	GBP -	0.08
542	Bauer, M. A. J.	His etched work [in English and Dutch]	Amsterdam	1927	GBP -	1.15
543	Binyon, Laurence and J. J. O'B. Sexton	Japanese colour prints		1923	GBP -	1.10
544	Blanc, C.; Cust, L.	L'oeuvre de Rembrandt; Sketch-book of Sir Anthony Van Dyck	Paris	1873, 1903	GBP -	0.12
545	Constable, John	English landscape scenery		1855	GBP -	0.12
546	Cust, Lionel; Hamerton, P. G.	Notes on pictures in the Royal Collections; The graphic arts		1911, 1882	GBP -	0.10
547	Delteil, L.	Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier	Orrouy	1904	GBP -	0.15
548	Delteil, L.	Anders Zorn	Paris	1909	GBP -	1.10
549	Delteil, L.	Rude--Barye--Carpeaux--Rodin	Paris	1910	GBP -	0.12
550	Delteil, Loys	Francisco Goya	Paris	1922	GBP -	2.10
551	Delteil, L.	Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Charles Meryon	New York	1924	GBP -	1.18
552	Duplessis, G.	Eaux-fortes de Antoine Van Dyck reproduites par Amand-Durand	Paris	n. d.	GBP -	0.10
553	Durer, A.	Oeuvre reproduit par Amand-Durand	Paris		GBP -	2.10
554		Fantin-Latour. L'oeuvre lithographique	Paris	1907	GBP -	0.10
555	Harrington, H. N.; Halsey, F. R.	The engraved work of Sir Francis Seymour Haden; Raphael Morghen's engraved works	New York	1910, 1885	GBP -	1.02
556	Hobson, R. L.	The wares of the Ming dynasty		1923	GBP -	1.08
557	Joly, H. L.	Japanese sword fittings		1912	GBP -	1.12
558	Keene, C. S.	Twenty-one etchings		1903	GBP -	4.04
559	Lewis, F. C.	Liber studiorum of Claude Lorraine		1840	GBP -	Not Sold
560	Lugt, Frits	Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes	Amsterdam	1921	GBP -	6.00
561	Michel, Emile	Rembrandt, his life, his work, and his time.		1894	GBP -	0.08
562	Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne	Manet, graveur et lithographe	Paris	1906	GBP -	1.00
563	Morrison, A.	The painters of Japan		1911	GBP -	1.18
564	Pennel, E. R.; Penneil, J.	Lithography and lithographers; Etchers and etching		1915, 1920	GBP -	0.18
565	Petitjean, C. and C. Wickert	Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil	Paris	1925	GBP -	1.15
566	Pottir, Paul	Eaux-fortes reproduites par Amand-Durand	Paris	n. d.	GBP -	0.10
567	Rovinski, D. and N. Tchétchouline; Singer, H. W.	L'oeuvre gravé d'Adrien van Ostade; Etchings by Van Dyck	Saint-Pétersbourg	1912, 1905	GBP -	2.05
568	Sargant, A.; Hubert, H. J.; Hédiard, G.	A book of ballads with five etchings by William Strang; The etched work of Jozef Israëls; Fantin-Latour	Amsterdam, Paris	1898, 1909, 1906	GBP -	0.16
569	Strang, W.; Boothby, Sir Brooke	Paradise lost by John Milton; The Christ upon the Hill; Sorrows. Sacred to the memory of Penelope		1895, 1895, 1796	GBP -	1.15
571	Whitman, Alfred	S. W. Reynolds; Charles Turner		1903, 1907	GBP -	0.05
572	Guifirey, J.	Les Caffiéri sculpteurs et fondeurs-ciseleurs	Paris	1877	GBP -	1.05
573	Lowndes, W. T.	Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature		1862-4	GBP -	1.02
574		Book Auction Records, from its commencement		1902 to 1933	GBP -	7.10
575		Japan Society, London		1892-1936/7	GBP -	4.10
576		Asiatic Society of Japan		1872 reprinted 1882-1933	GBP -	49.00
577	Burns, R.	Poetical Works	Edinb.	1896/7	GBP -	0.16
578	Lord Acton	Cambridge Modern History		1902-12	GBP -	3.10
579	Ruskin, J.	Works		1903	GBP -	5.05
580	Bryce, J.; Burton, Capt. R. F., editor	American Commonwealth; Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe, in 1798, etc.		1911, 1873	GBP -	0.05
581		Hakluyt Society Publications		1847-1936	GBP -	250.00
582		Camden Society's Publications		1838-1880	GBP -	9.10
583	Lowndes, W. T.	The Bibliographer's Manual		1864	GBP -	1.01
584	Baldwin, Thomas	Airopaidia, containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester	Chester	8th September, 1785, 1786	GBP -	3.03
585	Mason, Monck	Account of the late Æronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg		1836	GBP -	2.00
586	Forster, C.; Irving, W.	Historical Geography of Arabia; History of Christopher Columbus		1844, 1828	GBP -	0.18
587	Apperley, C. J.	The life of the late John Mytton, Esq.		1837	GBP -	6.15
588	Surtees, R. S.	The analysis of the hunting field		1846	GBP -	6.00
589	Spenser, E.	The Shepherds Calendar		1653	GBP -	1.02
590	Apperley, C. J.	Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq.		1837	GBP -	5.00
591		Historical records of the British Army		1837	GBP -	0.10
592	Ackermann, R.	Repository of Arts, etc.		1828	GBP -	1.01
593	Forrester, A. H.	Der Freishütz travestie		1824	GBP -	0.05
594	Scott, Sir W.	Fortunes of Nigel		1822	GBP -	Not Sold
595	Scott, Sir W.	Redgauntlet		1824	GBP -	Not Sold
596	Scott, Sir W.	Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk; Tales of my Landlord		1816, 1817	GBP -	0.05
597	Boyle, Hon. R.	Essay of the great Effects of even languid and unheeded Motion; New Experi ments physico-mechanicall	Oxford	1685, 1660	GBP -	1.10
598	Bonaventura, St.	Stimulus diuini amoris	Paris	1493	GBP -	3.15
599	Bonaventura, St.	De müditia & castitate sacerdotum	Paris	circa 1492-94	GBP -	1.15

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