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
101	Dickens, Charles	Master Humphrey's Clock,		1840-41	GBP -	3.10
102	Dickens, C.	Master Humphrey's Clock, another copy, in the original 88 weekly parts,		1840-41	GBP -	0.14
103	Chatterton, Thomas	Poems, supposed to have been written by Thomas Rowley and others,	Cambridge	1794	GBP -	5.05
104	Hunt, J. L.	The Liberal,		1822-23	GBP -	0.10
105	Coleridge, S. T.	Biographia Literaria,		1817	GBP -	6.00
106	Byron, G. G., Lord	Works,		1819	GBP -	8.00
107	Longfellow, H. W.; Herbert, A. P.	The Song of Hiawatha; Tinker Tailor			GBP -	0.04
107A	Shelley, P. B.	Posthumous Poems,		1824	GBP -	2.00
108	Stevens, H.	Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana: or, a descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America,		1862	GBP -	0.15
109		Sagas. Annaler for Nordisk Old Kyndighed og Historie udgivne of Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab,	Kjöbenhaven	1836-1854	GBP -	0.05
110	Wallis, J. and E.	The Panorama of Europe, a New Game		1815	GBP -	0.10
111	Millin, A. L.	Voyage dans les départmens du midi de la France	Paris	1807-11	GBP -	0.05
112	La Harpe, J. F.; Vitu, A.	Correspondence littéraire, addressée a Son Altesse Impériale, Mgr. Le Grand-Duc de Russie; La Maison Mortuaire de Moliere			GBP -	0.02
113	Couch, J.	History of the Fishes of the British Islands		1877-8	GBP -	0.18
114	Greene, W. T.	Parrots in Captivity,		1884-7	GBP -	2.05
115	Rassam, H.; Fergusson, J.	Narrative of the British Mission to Abyssinia; Handbook of Architecture			GBP -	0.05
116	Browning, Robert; Kipling, R.	The Ring and the Book; A Diversity of Creatures			GBP -	0.15
117	Keats, John	Poetical Works, with a Memoir by R. M. Milnes,		1854	GBP -	0.04
118	Hardy, Thomas; Conrad, J.	Jude the Obscure; The Rover, 1923; Galsworthy (J.) Caravan, 1925;			GBP -	0.10
119	Symonds, J. A.	Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti,		1893	GBP -	0.12
120	Thackeray, W. M.	The Virginians,		1857-9	GBP -	2.00
121	Thackeray, W. M.	The Newcomes; The Virginians			GBP -	Not Sold
122	Symonds, J. A.	Renaissance in Italy,		1875-81	GBP -	2.00
123	Cervantes, Miguel	Don Quixote, translated by Charles Jarvis		1837-39	GBP -	0.18
124	Huxley, Aldous	Leda, with engravings by Eric Gill,		1929	GBP -	0.10
125	Symonds, J. A.	The Escorial. A Prize Poem recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860,	Oxford	1860	GBP -	0.02
126	Arnold, Sir Edwin	The Feast of Belshazzar. A Prize Poem recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 23, 1852,	Oxford	1852	GBP -	0.02
127	Wells, H. G.; Conrad, J.; Douglas, N.	The World set Free, 1914; The Shadow Line, 1917; Alone, 1921			GBP -	0.10
128		Arabian Nights. The Supplemental Nights to the Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night, with Notes by Sir R. F. Burton,		1886-8	GBP -	2.02
129		Arabian Nights. The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Sir R. F. Burton, reprinted from the original edition and edited by L. C. Smithers,		1894	GBP -	1.01
130	Beardsley, Aubrey. Swift, J.; Hazlitt, W.	Prose Writings (The Camelot Classics); Essays (The Camelot Series)			GBP -	11.10
131	Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book		1894	GBP -	3.10
132	Kipling, R.	The Second Jungle Book,		1895	GBP -	1.12
133	Kipling, R.	The Seven Seas, 1896; The Five Nations; Rewards and Fairies			GBP -	0.10
134	De la Mare, Walter	Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal,		1902	GBP -	23.00
135	Walker, Nathaniel	The Refrn'd Courtier, or A Correction of several Indecencies crept into Civil Conversation (A -M in twelves, half title on Ai, advertisements on M12),	London	1663	GBP -	2.00
136	Burton, Sir. R. F.	Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah,		1855-56	GBP -	1.00
137	Brydges, Sir Egerton	Restituta,			GBP -	2.05
138	Marryat, Capt. F.	Masterman Ready,		1841-2	GBP -	2.00
139	Dodgson, C. L.	Through the Looking-Glass,		1872	GBP -	6.15
140	Doyle, Sir A. Conan	Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes		1894	GBP -	2.05
141	Vergil, P.	Venice. Conjura Domini Beomantis Theupuli, Simul con Domino Marco Quirino et conjuratis contra Ducale Dominium 1310; I Dialoghi, tradotte per F. Baldelli			GBP -	Not Sold
142	Trollope, Anthony	Framley Parsonage,		1861	GBP -	2.05
143	Moore, G.	Flowers of Passion,		1878	GBP -	20.00
144	Galsworthy, John	Fraternity; To Let			GBP -	1.15
145	Sterne, Laurence	Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,		1929-30	GBP -	1.10
146		Book Catalogues. Pickering & Chatto; Rare Books of English Literature, arranged Chronologically, 11916 items			GBP -	1.12
147	WALTON, ISAAC	The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation		1668	GBP -	15.00
148	Wollstonecraft, Mary	Posthumous Works, with preface by W. Godwin		1798	GBP -	1.10
149	Wells, Edward	The Young Gentleman's Astromony, Chronology and Dialling,		1712	GBP -	0.08
150	Voltaire, F. M. A. de	Histoire de la Guerre de mil sept cent quarante et un, Premiere Partie; Tiran Le Blanc Histoire du Vaillant Chevalier Tiran Le Blanc, traduite [par le Comte de Caylus]			GBP -	0.09
151	Brontë, Emily; Dickens, C.	Wuthering Heights; Nicholas Nickleby			GBP -	0.10
152	Pascal, Blaise	Les Provinciales (texte de 1656-57); Pensées de B. Pascal (edition de 1670) suivies de notes et de variantes			GBP -	0.07
153	Tissandier, M. G.; Les Ballons	Le Present et l'Avenir de l'Aeronautique; Dirigeables; Application de l'Electricite a la Navigation Aerienne, 1884; Von et Surcouf. Aérostats et Aérostation Militaire; Deux Conferences sur les Aérostats (1884); Bibliographie Aeronautique, 1887; and others			GBP -	0.10
154	Tissandier, Gaston	Souvenirs et Recits d'un Aérostier Militaire de l'Armée de la Loire, 1870-71,			GBP -	0.05
155	Proctor, Robert	Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum, from the Invention of Printing to the year MD.;	London	1898-9	GBP -	4.05
156	Priestley, J. B.; Johnson, Merle	The Good Companions; American first editions, bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of 105 American Authors			GBP -	1.15
157	Stevenson, R. L.; Flecker, James; Carlyle, Thomas	The Dynamiter; The Bridge of Fire; Shooting Niagara, and after			GBP -	0.12
158	Billault, M.	Pamphlets. Remarkable Tryal of Thomas Chandler; Reply to Scott's History of Napoleon by Louis Bonaparte, 1829; The French in Mexico, 1863; McAdam on the present system of Road Making, 1822; Emigration from the British Islands, 1862; and others (A parcel)			GBP -	1.15
159	Allibone, S. A.	A critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, with Supplement,	Philadelphia	1899	GBP -	1.02
160	Fox-Davies, A. C.; Last, C. E.	Armorial Families; Jacobite Extracts of Births, Marriages and Deaths; Le Neve's Pedigrees of the Knights, edited by G. W. Marshall (Harleian So., vol. 8)			GBP -	1.06
161	Coleridge, S. T.	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with ten engravings on copper by David Jones,	Bristol	1929	GBP -	0.15
162	Woolf, Virginia	Beau Brummell,	New York	1930	GBP -	0.16
163	Gill, Eric	Engravings. A Selection representative of his work to the end of 1927 with a complete Chronological List of Engravings and a Preface by the Artist	Bristol	1929	GBP -	1.18
164	Simpson, Thomas	Modern Etchings and their Collectors,		1919	GBP -	1.12
165	HOBSON, R. L.	CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN,		1915	GBP -	9.05
166	Greenaway, Kate	A Day in a Child's Life; Under the Window			GBP -	0.11
167		Lincoln's Inn. The Black Books, 1422-1845, cdited by J. Douglas Walker		1897-1902	GBP -	1.02
168	Billings, R. W.	Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, with historical descriptions by J. Hill Burton	Edinburgh	1901	GBP -	0.08
169	Morris, William	The Story of the Glittering Plains,		1894	GBP -	2.05
170	Lang, Andrew; Creighton, M.	Prince Charles Edward, 1900; Queen Elizabeth, 1896			GBP -	0.10
171	Farmer, J. S. and W. E. Henley.; Vizetelly, H.	Slang and its Analogues; Extracts principally from English Classics. The Legal Suppression of Zola's Novels			GBP -	0.10
172	Billings, R. W.	Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland,		1845-52	GBP -	0.05
173	Falconer, William and W. Burney.; Bouguer, M.; Chapman, F. H. de	New Universal Dictionary of the Marine; Traite du Navire; Treatise on Shipbuilding			GBP -	11.10
174	Lever, Darcy	The Young Officers Sheet; Heron of Alexandria. The Pneumatics of, translated by B. Woodcroft			GBP -	4.00
175	McKerrow, R. B. and F. S. Ferguson	Title-page Borders used in England and Scotland, 1485-1640,		1932	GBP -	1.08
176	Scott, Sir Walter	The Lord of the Isles, A Poem,	Edinburgh	1815	GBP -	4.15
177	Scott, Sir Walter; Gray, T.	Marmion; Poems and Letters			GBP -	0.03
178	Wordsworth, W.	The White Doe of Rylstone		1815	GBP -	1.00
179	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE	The Bands in the Park,		1856	GBP -	2.05
180		Album of Illustrations containing 9 coloured plates of H. Alken's Hunting Ideas, 1827, and coloured caricatures by Gillray, Heath, G. Hunt, etc.,		c. 1800-30	GBP -	7.05
181	Moore, Thomas; Cockton, H.; Michelet, J.	Irish Melodies; The Steward; The Sea			GBP -	0.11
182	Guevara, G. F.	Familiar Epistles, translated by E. Hellowes, Math letter; The Golden Epistles ... gathered as well out of the remaynder of Gueuaraes Workes as other Authors, Latine, French, and Italian by Geffray Fenton, Mark letter			GBP -	0.10
183	Donovan, E.; Westwood, j. O.	Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India; The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology			GBP -	0.10
184	Day, Francis; Donovan, E.	The Fishes of Malabar; Natural History of the Insects of China, edited by J. O. Westwood			GBP -	0.10
185	Owen, Sir Richard	History of British Fossil Reptiles,		1849-84	GBP -	0.10
186	Rowley, G. D.	Ornithological Miscellany,		1876-8	GBP -	1.12
187	CLINTON-BAKER, H.	Illustrations of Conifers	Hertford	1909-13	GBP -	9.10
188	Maund, B.	The Botanic Garden, Representations of Flowering Plants,		1827-50	GBP -	4.00
189	French, John	The Art of Distillation to which is added Calcination and Sublimation; also The London-Distiller,		1664	GBP -	2.00
190	Pennant, T.	Some Account of London, third edition,		1793	GBP -	2.00
191	Wright, T.	Tippoo Sultan. Select Letters to various Public Functionaries. Arranged and Translated by W. Kirkpatrick; Clavis Coelestis. Being the Explication of a Diagram, entitled a Synopsis of the Universe			GBP -	0.10
192	Legentil de la Galaisière, G.J.H.J.B.	Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde,			GBP -	0.06
193	Valentia, G. A.; Viscount	Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802-6,		1809	GBP -	Not Sold
194	Kelly, C.	A New and Complete System of Universal Geography,			GBP -	0.03
195	Rondelet, J.; Bouguer, M.	Traité théorique et pratique de l'Art de Bâktir; Traité du Navire de sa Construction et de ses Mouvemens			GBP -	0.10
196		Heron of Alexandria. Spiritalium Liber. A Federico Commandino Urbinate, ex Graeco nuper in Latinum conversus,	Urbino	1575	GBP -	1.10
197	Machiavelli, N.	II Principe; Prattica per procedere nelle cause del S. Offizio			GBP -	0.02
198	Markham, G.	The Souldiers Exercise,		1643	GBP -	0.05
199	Bariffe, William	Militarie Discipline: or, the Yong Artillery Man,		1639	GBP -	1.12

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