Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 27Mar1933,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 27, 1933 - March 27, 1933

Page Size: 827 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	AUDSLEY, G. A. and J. L. Bowes.; Jewitt, L.	Keramic Art of Japan; The Ceramic Art of Great Britain			GBP -	0.10
2	Bewick, T.	Figures of British Land Birds, to which are added a few Foreign Birds,	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1800	GBP -	0.18
3	Bewick, T.; Hugo, T.	A Supplement to the History of British Birds; Natural History of Foreign Birds--British Birds--Fishes-Foreign Quadrupedsg--Water Birds; The Bewick Collector, and Supplement			GBP -	1.00
4	Butler, Samuel	Life and Habit, 1878 Evolution, old and new, 1879,			GBP -	0.10
5	Copleston, R. S.; Laing, S.	Buddhism, 1892; Simpson (W.) The Buddhist Praying-Wheel; A Modern Zoroastrian, 1890			GBP -	0.10
6	Dobson, Austin; Austin, Jane	Proverbs in Porcelain; Pride and Prejudice			GBP -	1.08
7	Donovan, E.	Natural History of British Birds,		1794-99	GBP -	2.15
8	Donovan, E.	Natural History of British Insects		1802-13	GBP -	3.05
9	Donovan, E.	Natural History of British Shells; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1884-88 and 1890			GBP -	0.10
10	Donovan, E.	Naturalist's Repository,		1823-7	GBP -	1.06
11	Evelyn, John	Sculptura: or, The History and Art of Chaleography and Engraving in Copper,		1755	GBP -	0.18
12	Green, J. R.	A Short History of the English People, illustrated edition edited by Mrs. Green and Kate Norgate,		1892-4	GBP -	2.00
13	Green, Mrs. J. R.; Hazlitt, W. C.	Town Life in the Fifteenth Century; The Livery Companies of the City of London			GBP -	0.14
14	Johnstone, W. G. and A. Croall	Nature-Printed Sea-Weeds		1859-60	GBP -	1.02
15	Lacroix, P.	Arts in the Middle Ages, n.d. Military and Religious Life, n.d. Manners, Customs and Dress, n.d.			GBP -	0.14
16	Lang, Andrew	Fairy Book Series		v.d.	GBP -	0.10
17	Leslie and Taylor.; Jeaffreson, J. C.; Du Maurier, G.	Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds; The Real Shelley; Trilby			GBP -	0.16
18	Lippmann, F.; Chatto, W. A.; Woodberry, G. E.	The Art of Wood Engraving in Italy; A Treatise on Wood Engraving, new edition with an additional chapter by H. G. Bohn; History of Wood-Engraving			GBP -	1.08
19	Lowndes, W. T.	Bibliographer's Manual, edited by H. G. Bohn; Books about Books, edited by A. W. Pollard			GBP -	2.15
20	More, Sir Thomas; Heylin, P.	Utopia, translated [by G. Burnet]; Historic of ... St. George of Cappadocia			GBP -	0.12
21	Redgrave, S.; Ruskin, J.; Collingwood, W. G.	Catalogue of Water-Colour Paintings in South Kensington Museum; Facsimiles of Original Studies by Raffaelle, etched by J. Fisher; Seven Lamps of Architecture; Life and Work of John Ruskin			GBP -	0.05
22	RUSKIN, JOHN	WORKS, edited by E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn,		1903-12	GBP -	9.10
23	Seebohm, H.	Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds; Transactions of the Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists' Field Club			GBP -	0.10
24	Shakespeare, W.; Kenny, T.; Ulvici, H.	Works in reduced facsimile from the famous First Folio edition of 1623; Shakespeare's Sonnets reproduced in facsimile; Life and Genius of Shakespeare; Shakespeare's Dramatic Art, translated by L. D. Schmitz			GBP -	1.08
25	Shakespeare. Richardson, W.; Halliwell -Phil-Epps, J. O.; Bucknill, J. C.	Essays on some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters; Life of William Shakespeare; The Psychology of Shakespeare			GBP -	1.02
26	Sowerby, J.	British Mineralogy,		1804-17	GBP -	0.12
27	Thornbury, W.	Life of J. M. W. Turner; Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest in the National Gallery, arranged by A. J. Finberg			GBP -	0.05
28		BIBLE, LATIN. Vulgate version, gothic letter,	Venice	1484	GBP -	10.10
29	Brassington, W. S.; Gréard, V. C. O.; Karoly, K.	History of the Art of Bookbinding; Meissonier: His Life and Art; Raphael's Madonnas			GBP -	0.10
30	Gréard V. C. O. Meissonier; Karoly K.	His Life and Art, Raphael's Madonnas			GBP -	0.05
31	Michel, E.; Rogers, Samuel; Temple, A. G.	Rembrandt: His Life, his Work, and his Time; Italy; Sacred Art			GBP -	0.05
32	Muther, R.; Cole, T.	History of Modern Painting; Old Italian Masters; with Notes by W. J. Stillman			GBP -	1.01
33	Plon, E.	Benvenuto Cellini	Paris	1883	GBP -	1.00
34	Skelton, Joseph and others	Oxonia Antigua Restaurata,		1843	GBP -	0.05
35	Whitman, Alfred	Charles Turner (Nineteenth Century Mezzotinters); A set of plates for Armstrong's Turner			GBP -	0.07
36	Wise, T. J. and J. P. Smart	A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin,		1893	GBP -	1.01
37	Curtis, W.	Flora Londinensis, Fasciculae, only (should be 5)		1777	GBP -	0.15
38	Fletcher, W. Y.	English Bookbindings in the British Museum,		1895	GBP -	1.00
39	GAGUIN, R.	De gestis Francorum,	Lyons	1497	GBP -	1.18
40	Hamerton, P. G.	Landscape; Die geheime offenbarung Johannis			GBP -	0.10
41	Harrison, J. E. and D. S. MacColl	Greek Vase Paintings; La Collection Spitzer Catalogue			GBP -	0.10
42	Merian, M. S.; Miller and Shaw	Veranderingen der Surinaemsche Insecten; Cimelia Physica			GBP -	4.15
43	Moore, T.; Swammerdam, J.	The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by John Lindley; The Book of Nature, translated by T. Flloyd			GBP -	0.05
44	PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS, A.M.F.J.	INSECTS RECUEILLES EN AFRIQUE ET EN AMERIQUE,	Paris	1805	GBP -	5.10
45		Portugal. Commercio e Navegacao, Estatica Especial, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906--Inquerito Industrial, 1890; Portugal e a Gran-Bretanha--Bahia de Lourenço Marques, Sujeita a Arbitragen do Presidente da Republica Franceza			GBP -	0.06
46		Biblia Sacra, Vulgatae Editionis: Sixti V Pont. Max. jussu recognita, atque edita,	Paris	1652	GBP -	4.05
47		Dorat. Les Baisers, précédés du Mois de Mai, Poeme	Paris	1770	GBP -	10.10
48		Dorat--Collection of his Works, comprising Oeuvres Melées, Declamation Thêâtrale, Mes Fantaisies, Les Baisers, Recueil de Contes, Lettre d'une Chanoinesse, Mes Nouveaux Forts, Les Victimes de l'Amour, Fables Nouvelles, Les Sacrifices de l'Amour, Les Prone			GBP -	8.00
49	Musset, Alfred de	Oeuvres,	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	1.14
50	James, M. R.	Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson,	Cambridge	1898	GBP -	0.08
51	Austen, Jane	Emma,		1816	GBP -	2.10
52	De Quincey, Thomas	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,		1822	GBP -	3.03
53	Kent, W. Saville	Manual of the Infusoria,		1880-2	GBP -	3.05
54		Pamphlets, etc. A Series of 124 Pamphlets, Reprints, etc.; Carlyle's Choice of Books, 1866--Carlyle's Shooting Niagara, 1867, etc.			GBP -	1.00
55	Gay, John; Butler, S.	Fables, with Life of the Author; Hudibras, with Dr. Grey's Annotations			GBP -	Not Sold
56	Wither, George	Abuses Stript and Whipt; A Satyre written to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1622--The Shepheards Hunting, 1622--Wither's Motto			GBP -	1.02
57	Killigrew, Sir William	Three Plays: Selindra, Pandora, Ormasdes; Ovid. Metamorphoses; Linguet. Memoirs of the Bastille			GBP -	5.05
58	Creuze, W. M. and A.; Belcher, Commander E.	Papers on Naval Architecture; Treatise on Nautical Surveying			GBP -	2.05
59	Banks, John; Ewler, L.	Treatise on Mills; Complete Theory of the Construction and Properties of Vessels, translated by H. Watson			GBP -	1.05
60	Smyth, C. P.; Faraday, M.	Life and Work at the Great Pyramid; Experimental Researches in Electricity			GBP -	3.15
61	Egan, Pierce	Life in London: or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and Corinthian Tom,	Sherwood	1821	GBP -	5.10
62		Real Life in London: or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq by an Amateur,		1821-22	GBP -	5.05
63	Galsworthy, John	A Modern Comedy,		1929	GBP -	2.02
64	De la Mare, Walter	Songs of Childhood,			GBP -	0.18
65	Bewick, T.	History of British Birds,	Newcastle	1797-1804	GBP -	4.15
66	Bewick, T.	General History of Quadrupeds,	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1800	GBP -	1.15
67	Æsop	The Fables of Esop and others with designs on wood by Thomas Bewick,	Newcastle	1818	GBP -	2.02
68	Barham, R. H.	Ingoldsby Legends, second series,		1842	GBP -	1.00
69	Emerson, R. W.; Bierce, A.; Wells, H. G.; Stevenson, R. L.	Letters and Social Aims; The Fiends Delight; Tales of Space and Time; Across the Plains			GBP -	2.05
70	Kipling, Rudyard	The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Tales,	Allahabad	1888	GBP -	24.00
71		Real Life in London, by an Amateur,		1823-4	GBP -	3.00
72	Mitford, J.; Byron, Lord	The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome; The Giaour			GBP -	1.18
73	Apperley, C. J.; Hardy, T.; Beaumont, John	The Life of John Mytton, Esq., by Nimrod; Jude the Obscure; Speculum Amantis, edited by A. H. Bullen; Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, etc.			GBP -	0.15
74	Egan, Pierce	Life in London,		1821	GBP -	6.05
75	Herrick, Robert	Poems, edited by F. S. Ellis		1895	GBP -	4.05
76	Johnstone, Charles	Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea,		1821	GBP -	9.05
77	Herrick, Robert	Poems,		1895	GBP -	7.15
78	Bunyan, John	Solomon's Temple Spiritualiz'd,		1688	GBP -	10.10
79		Lessons of Thrift published for General Benefit, by a Member of the Save-all Club,		1820	GBP -	2.10
80	Ainsworth, W. H.	Jack Sheppard,		1839	GBP -	0.13
81	Fénelon, F. de la M.	Les Avantures de Télémaque; Voltaire. History of the War of 1741			GBP -	0.02
82	Ainsworth, W. H.	Works,		n.d.	GBP -	2.02
83	Gilbert, Sir W. S.	The " Bab " Ballads,		1869	GBP -	1.02
84	Dodgson, C. L.	Hunting of the Snark,		1876	GBP -	0.16
85	Dickens, Charles	Dombey and Son,		1846-8	GBP -	4.05
86	Dickens, C.	The Mystery of Edwin Drood,		1870	GBP -	0.18
87	DICKENS, C.	A CHRISTMAS CAROL,		1843	GBP -	38.00
88	Dickens, C.	The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846--The Haunted Man, 1843; The Chimes, sixth edition, 1845			GBP -	3.05
89	Dickens, C.	Master Humphrey's Clock,		1840-1	GBP -	1.15
90	Dickens, C.	American Notes for General Circulation,		1842	GBP -	4.05
91		Real Life in London		1821-2	GBP -	2.05
92	Dickens, C.	Adventures of Oliver Twist, new edition; The Battle of Life			GBP -	0.05
93	Dickens, C.	Bleak House,		1852-3	GBP -	2.05
94	Dickens, C.	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Boz,		1838	GBP -	0.10
95	Dickens, C.	Master Humphrey's Clock; Dombey and Son			GBP -	1.00
96	Dickens, C.	The Pickwick Papers; Nicholas Nickleby			GBP -	3.10
97	Dickens, C.	Our Mutual Friend,		1864-5	GBP -	3.15
98	Dickens, C.	Bleak House,		1852-3	GBP -	3.00
99	Thackeray, W. M.	Pendennis,		1849-50	GBP -	8.00
100	Lockwood, Sir Frank; Fitzgerald, P.; Straus, R.	The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick: a Lecture; History of Pickwick; Dickens: a Portrait in Pencil			GBP -	0.10

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