Sothebys: THE WILLIS KING III LIBRARY THE THIRD PORTION. CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS OF THE 16th to 20th CENTURY. The Property of a Gentleman. ART REFERENCE BOOKS AND BOOKS ON PORCELAIN AND POTTERY, FACSIMILES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, TRAVEL , 1971(SHR2),

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 21, 1971 - October 21, 1971

Page Size: 675 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1436	Hobson (R. L.) and Edward S. Morse	Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries	New York	1914	GBP -	11.00
1437	Hoe (Robert)	Illustrated Catalogue de Luxe of the Valuable Art Property	New York	1911	GBP -	8.00
1438		HOLKHAM BIBLE PICTURE BOOK (The). Introduction and Commentary by W. O. Hassall		1954	GBP -	42.00
1439	Hooker ([Sir] Joseph Dalton) and John Ball	Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas		1878	GBP -	10.00
1440	Hope (Thomas)	An Historical Essay on Architecture		1835	GBP -	21.00
1441	Horatius (Q. Flaccus)	Odarum siue Carminum . . . Epodon liber vnus. Cum annotatiunculis . . . adiectis . . . Nicolai Perotti libellus non infrugifer de metris Odarum...			GBP -	11.00
1442	Hortulus Animae	Cod. Bibl. Pal. Vindob. 2706. The Garden of the Soul...	Utrecht	1907-1910	GBP -	5.00
1443	HOUBRAKEN (T.), G. VERTUE and THOMAS BIRCH	The Heads of Illustrious Persons		1743-51	GBP -	105.00
1444	HOWISON (JOHN)	Sketches of Upper Canada . . . [with] Practical Details for . . . Emigrants of Every Class; and some Recollections of the United States of America	Edinburgh & London	1821	GBP -	30.00
1445	Hulme (William, Viscount Leverhulme)	The Art Collections		1926	GBP -	4.00
1446	HULTON (PAUL) & DAVID BEERS QUINN	THE AMERICAN DRAWINGS OF JOHN WHITE		1964	GBP -	100.00
1447	Hummel (Arthur W., editor)	Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period	Washington, DC	1943-44	GBP -	2.00
1448	HUMPHREYS (HENRY NOEL)	THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES; an account of the development of the art of Illumination from the IVth. to the XVIIth. centuries		1849	GBP -	210.00
1449	Hurlbutt (Frank)	Bow Porcelain		1926	GBP -	11.00
1450	Inglis (Henry D.)	Spain in 1830		1831	GBP -	10.00
1451		[Ireland (William Henry)] Vorligern and Henry the Second...			GBP -	32.00
1452	Irving (Theodore)	The conquest of Florida	Philadelphia	1835	GBP -	4.00
1453	Irving (Washington)	The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus	New York	1892	GBP -	16.00
1454	Irving (Washington)	Rip Van Winkle		1905	GBP -	15.00
1455	IRVING (WASHINGTON)	[Works]	New York & London	1895-97	GBP -	20.00
1456	Jack (Robert Logan)	Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, [etc.]		[1921]	GBP -	22.00
1457	Jackson (John)	A Treatise on Wood Engraving, historical and practical		1839	GBP -	22.00
1458	Jackson (John) and W. A. Chatto	A Treatise on Wood Engraving		1861	GBP -	19.00
1459	[Jacobus (Dr. --)]	Untrodden fields of Anthropology	Paris	1898	GBP -	18.00
1460		JAPANESE: PRINTS. A COLLECTION OF 18 COLOURED FACSIMILE PLATES of woodcuts by Utamaro		[No imprint or date, c. 1920]	GBP -	34.00
1461	Johnson (Samuel)	The Poetical Works [edited by G. Kearsley]		1785	GBP -	38.00
1462	Joinville (John, Lord de)	Memoirs		1807	GBP -	9.00
1463	Joly (Henri L.)	Legend in Japanese Art		1908	GBP -	40.00
1464	Jones (H. F.)	Samuel Butler...		1919	GBP -	5.00
1465	Jones (Leslie Webber) and C. R. Morey	The Miniatures of the Manuscripts of Terence prior to the thirteenth century	Princeton, London, & Leipzig	[1931]	GBP -	36.00
1466	Josephus (Flavius)	The Works translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange		1755	GBP -	14.00
1467	Junot (L. P., Duchesse d'Abrantes)	Memoirs of Napoleon	New York	1864	GBP -	5.00
1468	Keate (George)	A Short Account of the Ancient History, Present Government, and Laws of the Republic of Geneva		1761	GBP -	9.00
1469	KEATS (JOHN)	Life, Letters, and Literary remains		1848	GBP -	40.00
1470	SHELLEY (PERCY BYSSHE)	KELMSCOTT PRESS. THE POETICAL WORKS	Hammersmith	[1894]-95	GBP -	150.00
1471	Kempis (Thomas a)	Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ		1851	GBP -	5.00
1472	Keynes ([Sir] Geoffrey)	A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet	London & Paris	[1964]	GBP -	30.00
1473	Keynes (John Maynard, [Lord])	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money		1936	GBP -	20.00
1474	KHANDALAVALA (KARL)	Pahari Miniature Painting	Bombay	1958	GBP -	30.00
1475	KIPLING (RUDYARD)	Poems 1886-1929		1929	GBP -	80.00
1476	[Knox (Captain John)]	A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels		1767	GBP -	42.00
1477	Knuttel (Gerard)	The Letter as a Work of Art: Observations and Confrontations with Contemporaneous Expressions of Art from Roman Times to the Present Day	Amsterdam	1951	GBP -	5.00
1478	KOHLER (WILHELM)	Die Karolingische Miniaturen	Berlin	1958-63	GBP -	85.00
1479		Koran. The Koran commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed translated ... by George Sale		1825	GBP -	13.00
1480	[Kramer (Heinrich) and Jacob Sprenger]	Malleus Maleficarum		1928	GBP -	13.00
1481	Kurr (J. G.)	The Mineral Kingdom	Edinburgh	1859	GBP -	56.00
1482	Lacroix (Paul)	The Arts in the Middle Ages; Science and Literature in the Middle Ages...		[1870]-78	GBP -	9.00
1483	LACROIX (PAUL) AND FERDINAND SERF	Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance	Paris	1848-51	GBP -	26.00
1484	La Fontaine (J. de)	Tales and Novels	Nijmegen	1929	GBP -	28.00
1485		Lanciani (Roldolfo) The Golden Days of the Renaissance in Rome...			GBP -	18.00
1486		Lardner (Dionysius) The Cabinet of Geography. The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery...			GBP -	14.00
1487	Lauer (Ph.)	Les Enluminures Romanes des manuscrits de la Biblio-thequc Nalionale	Paris	1927	GBP -	25.00
1488		Laver (James) A History of British and American Etching...			GBP -	16.00
1489	L[AWRENCE] (T. E.)	EIGHT LETTERS FROM T. E. L. [to Harley Gran-ville-Barker]		1939	GBP -	250.00
1490	[LAWRENCE] (T. E.)]	[LETTERS [MORE LETTERS]	[No place of publication],	[1933-36]	GBP -	250.00
1491		Lawrence (T. E.) The Letters...			GBP -	5.00
1492	Lawrence (T. E.)	The Mint: A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922		[1955]	GBP -	20.00
1493	Lawrence (T. E.)	The Mint	Garden City, N.Y.	1955	GBP -	14.00
1494	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	Revolt in the Desert		1927	GBP -	75.00
1495	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	Revolt in the Desert	New York	1927	GBP -	22.00
1496	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	Secret Despatches from Arabia . . .		[n.d. 1939]	GBP -	85.00
1497	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom		[1935]	GBP -	75.00
1498	Lawrence (T. E.)	Die Sieben Saulen der Weisheit	Leipzig	1936	GBP -	9.00
1499		Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom...			GBP -	6.00
1500		Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom...			GBP -	6.00
1501	LAWRENCE (T. E.)	T. E. Lawrence to his Biographer	New York	1938	GBP -	85.00
1502	Lawrence (T. E.) and George Bernard Shaw	Catalogue of an exhibition of Paintings, Pastels		February 5th-21st 1927	GBP -	12.00
1503	Lawrence (T. E.) and C. Leonard Woolley	Carchemish. Report on the excavations at Djerabis on behalf of the British Museum		1914	GBP -	55.00
1504	LAWRENCE (T. E.) AND C. LEONARD WOOLLEY	Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914 [-1915]		[1915]	GBP -	75.00
1505	Lawrence (T. E.) and C. Leonard Woolley	The Wilderness of Zin		1936	GBP -	15.00
1506	Lawrence (T. E.) and C. Leonard Woolley	The Wilderness of Zin	New York	1936	GBP -	15.00
1507		Lawson (John Parker) The Life and Times of William Laud...			GBP -	16.00
1508	Lea (Henry Charles)	A History of the Inquisition of Spain	New York	1906-07	GBP -	28.00
1509		Lee (William) Daniel Defoe: his life, and recently discovered writings...			GBP -	16.00
1510	LEMOISNE (P.-A.)	LES XYLOGRAPHIES DU XIVe ET DU XVe SIECLE AU CABINET DES ESTAMPES DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE	Paris and Brussels	1927-30	GBP -	110.00
1511	LE MOYNE (P[IERRE])	DE L'ART DES DEVISES. Avec divers recueils de Devises du mesme Autheur	Paris	1666	GBP -	140.00
1512	Lempriere (William)	A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, Tarudant; and thence, over Mount Atlas, to Morocco: including a Particular Account of the Royal Harem, &c.		1791	GBP -	25.00
1513	LEROQUAIS (Abbe V.)	Les Sacramentaires et les Missels Manuscrits des Bibliotheques de France	Paris	1924	GBP -	90.00
1514	Le Sage ([Alain Rene])	The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane		1819	GBP -	29.00
1515		LEVERHULME COLLECTION. English Painting of the XVIIIth-XXth Centuries...		1928	GBP -	28.00
1516	LIECHTENSTEIN (Princess MARIE)	Holland House		1874	GBP -	90.00
1517		Lindisfarne Gospels (The). With introduction by Eric George Millar		1923	GBP -	42.00
1518		LINDISFARNE GOSPELS. EVANGELIORUM QUATTUOR CODEX LINDIS-FARNIENSIS	Oltun and Lausanne	1956-60	GBP -	145.00
1519	Livingstone (David)	The Last Journals . . . from 1865 to his Death		1874	GBP -	24.00
1520	Livingstone (David)	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa		1857	GBP -	13.00
1521	Livingstone (David)	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa		1857	GBP -	21.00
1522	Livingstone (David and Charles)	Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa		1865	GBP -	36.00
1523		Livre des Rois (Le). L'Avenement de Salomon...			GBP -	24.00
1524	LOCKE (JOHN)	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding		1700	GBP -	28.00
1525	LOCKE (JOHN)	The Works		1714	GBP -	36.00
1526	Lodge (Edmund)	Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and James I		1791	GBP -	9.00
1527	LOUIS XIV	Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques	Paris	1723	GBP -	88.00
1528		Louys (Pierre) Aphrodite...			GBP -	20.00
1529		Louys (Pierre) Satyrs and Women...			GBP -	9.00
1530	Louys (Pierre)	The Songs of Bilitis		1919	GBP -	10.00
1531	Lowell (Amy)	John Keats		1925	GBP -	9.00
1532	Lubke (Dr. Wilhelm)	Outlines of the History of Art	New York	1904	GBP -	2.00
1533	LUCAS (S. E.)	THE CATALOGUE OF THE SASSOON CHINESE IVORIES		1950	GBP -	140.00
1534	Lyndsay (Sir David)	Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Armes	Edinburgh	1878	GBP -	42.00
1535	Macaulay ([T. B.], Lord)	[The Complete Works]	New York & London	[1898]	GBP -	9.00

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