Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE & RARE BOOKS AND Illuminated and other Manuscripts, COMPRISING, WORKS ON AMERICA, EDITIONES PRINCIPES AND INCUNABULA, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS WITH WOODCUTS, COPIES OF THE EARLY FOLIO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, AND SHAKESPEAREANA; RARE , Dec111903,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 11, 1903 - December 11, 1903
Page Size: 1058 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
804 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Vale Press. WORKS

1900-3

GBP - Unknown
805 Bacon (F.) Vale Press. Of Gardens: an Essay

1902

GBP - Unknown
806 Vale Press. The Kubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

1901

GBP - Unknown
807 Villon (Maistre Francois) Vale Press. Autres Poesies

1901

GBP - Unknown
808 Verhaeren (Emile) Vale Press. Les Petits Vieux

1901

GBP - Unknown
809 Morris (William) A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and all the Kindreds of the Mark

1901

GBP - Unknown
810 Morris (W.) The Odyssey of Homer

1901

GBP - Unknown
811 Morris (W.) The Roots of the Mountains

1901

GBP - Unknown
812 Morris (W.) Volsunga Saga: the Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

1901

GBP - Unknown
813 Morris (W.) The Story of Grettir the Strong

1901

GBP - Unknown
814 Morris (W.) Architecture, Industry and Wealth: Collected Papers

1902

GBP - Unknown
815 Morris (W.) Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures delivered in Birmingham, London and Nottingham

1902

GBP - Unknown
816 Morris (W.) The Aeneids of Virgil

1902

GBP - Unknown
817 SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES Oxford

1902

GBP - Unknown
818 SENESE (F. N. A.) Selva d'Orationi di Diversi Santi Dottori e di multi Scrittori Antichi et Moderni Greci e Latini...

GBP - Unknown
819 Shaftesbury (Anthony Earl of) Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, portraits and vignettes

1739

GBP - Unknown
820 SHAKESPEARE. THE / HISTORY / OF / TIMON OF ATHENS / THE MAN HATER / FIRST WRITTEN BY MR. WIL. SHAKESPEAR / AND SINCE ALTERED BY MR. Tho. SHADWELL

MDCCXII

GBP - Unknown
821 Shakespeare History of King Lear Dublin, James Hoby and John Enshaw

1768

GBP - Unknown
822 Shakespeare Othello / the / Moor / of Venice / a / Tragedy Dublin

MDCCLI

GBP - Unknown
823 Shakespeare Othello the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy

GBP - Unknown
824 Shakespeare The Sports of the Muses, or a Minute's Mirth for any Hour of the Day

1752

GBP - Unknown
825 Shakespeare Memoirs of the Shakespeare's Head in Covent Garden

1755

GBP - Unknown
826 Shakespeare The Jubilee in Honour of Shakespeare Waterford

1773

GBP - Unknown
827 Shakespeare Hamlet Prinz von Dannemark Augsburg

1777

GBP - Unknown
828 Shakespeare. Malone (Edmund) A Letter to the Rev. R. Farmer relative to the edition of Shakespeare published in 1790...

GBP - Unknown
829 Shakespeare The Plays of William Shakspeare

1778

GBP - Unknown
830 Shakespeare (W.) Dramatic Works with a Glossary Whittingham

1823

GBP - Unknown
831 Shakespeare (W.) Dramatic Works (with the Poems) Dove

1830

GBP - Unknown
832 Shakospere (W.) Works

1844

GBP - Unknown
833 Shakespere (W.) Works

1846

GBP - Unknown
834 Cibber (Colley) Shakespeareana. Ximena, or The Heroick Daughter

1719

GBP - Unknown
835 SHELLEY (PERCY B.) ADONAIS, an Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, &c. Pisa

1821

GBP - Unknown
836 Shelley Elegy on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley

1822

GBP - Unknown
837 Sherburne (Sir Edward) Salmacis, Lyrian and Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, the Rape of Helen, a comment thereon

1651

GBP - Unknown
838 Sherburne (Sir Edward) Salmacis, Lyrian and Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, the Rape of Helen, a comment thereon

1651

GBP - Unknown
839 Sheridan (R. B.) The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed, a Dramatic Piece, in three Acts

GBP - Unknown
840 SHERIDAN (R. B.) THE RIVALS, a Comedy

1775

GBP - Unknown
841 SHERIDAN (R. B.) The School for Scandal: a Comedy Dublin

printed in the year 1781

GBP - Unknown
842 Sheridan (R. B.) School for Scandal

1779

GBP - Unknown
843 Sheridan (R. B.) School for Scandal Dublin

1781

GBP - Unknown
844 Sheridan (R. B.) The Rivals Dublin

1775

GBP - Unknown
845 Sheridan (B. B.) Pizarro: a Tragedy

1799

GBP - Unknown
846 Stewart (James) Plocacosmos, or the whole Art of Hair Dressing, wherein is contained ample Rules for the young Artizan

1782

GBP - Unknown
847 Summa Rosellarum, editus per Fratrez Baptistam Trouvamalaz Parhisius

1515

GBP - Unknown
848 Swift. A Town Eclogue, or a Poetical Contest between Toby (Swift) and a Minor Poet

1710-14

GBP - Unknown
849 Sylvester (Joshua) The Parliament of Vertues Royal summoned in France no place

no date

GBP - Unknown
850 Tableau de Rouen contenent ses Eglises et Monasteres, les noms et demeures de tous les Ecclesiastiques Rouen

1778

GBP - Unknown
851 Taylor (John, Water-Poet) Sir Gregory Nonsense his Newes from no Place

1622

GBP - Unknown
852 Tarif des Droits du Sceau tant de 1672, 1674, 1691, quo de l'augmentation de 1704, &c.

SaEC. XVIII

GBP - Unknown
853 Taylor (Francis) Grapes from Canaan, or the Believers present taste of future glory expressed in a short Divine Poem

1658

GBP - Unknown
854 Tennyson (Alfred Lord) Holograph Letter signed, 1 p. Farringford, Freshwater, May 24, 1854, to " My dear Clara, " Farringford, Freshwater

May 24, 1854

GBP - Unknown
855 Tennyson (Alfred Lord) Holograph Letter signed, 2 pages, Farringford, Freshwater, Sept. 15, 1854, to the author of "Love's Martyrdom" Farringford, Freshwater

Sept. 15, 1854

GBP - Unknown
856 Tennyson (Alfred Lord) Holograph Letter signed, 1 page, to Mrs. Brookfield

GBP - Unknown
857 Tennyson (Alfred Lord) Holograph Manuscript

GBP - Unknown
858 Testamentum Novum (Latinum)

1563

GBP - Unknown
859 Testament. Novum Testamentum (Grcece) ex Bibliotlieca Regia

1569

GBP - Unknown
860 Testament. The New Testament in Armenian

SaEC. XVI

GBP - Unknown
861 Testament. Le Dernier Volume de l'Ancien Testament contenant les Prophetes...

GBP - Unknown
862 Testament. Hot Nieuwe Testament ofte alle Boeken des Nieuwen Verbonds onzes Heeren Jesu Christi Te Amsterdam

1817

GBP - Unknown
863 THACKERAY (W. M.) Autograph Letter, signed, to his publisher Praser

July 1, 1839

GBP - Unknown
864 THACKERAY (W. M.) Autograph Letter, signed, 1 p. 4to, Feby. 1, 1840, to his publisher

Feby. 1, 1840

GBP - Unknown
865 THACKERAY (W. M.) Autograph Letter, signed, 3 1/2 pages 8vo, to Graham Willmore

GBP - Unknown
866 THACKERAY (W. M.) Autograph Letter signed, 2 pp. Jany. 13, 1857, " You'll think this correspondence is never a going to stop--and laugh when I tell you that here's another put off !

Jany. 13, 1857

GBP - Unknown
867 TENNYSON (ALFRED LORD) Holograph Letter Signed, 1 page, Farringford, Isle of Wight. To GUSTAVE DORE

GBP - Unknown
868 Thackeray (W. M.) ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING " Dionysius Diddler "

GBP - Unknown
869 Thackeray (W. M.) COSTUME DRAWINGS in Colours (for Pantomime) " Fairy Bright Eyes" (Fanny Wright)

GBP - Unknown
870 Thackeray (W. M.) Two ORIGINAL COSTUME DRAWINGS in Colours

GBP - Unknown
871 Thackeray (W. M.) Original Costume Drawings in Colours

GBP - Unknown
872 Thackeray (W. M.) ORIGINAL Study in Crayons of an Arm and Humorous Heads, with Thackeray's Portrait below, dated March 1852 (11 x 14 in.), inscribed on back from S. L. to Lord James Butler

March 1852

GBP - Unknown
873 Thackeray (W. M.) LARGE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT in Crayons

GBP - Unknown
874 Thackeray (W. M.) THK SNOB, a Literary and Scientific Journal, not " Conducted by Members of the University, "...

GBP - Unknown
875 Thackeray (W. M.) Early and late papers hitherto uncollected

1867

GBP - Unknown
876 The Antient and Modern Stages Surveyed, or Mr. Collier's View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage sot in a True Light

1699

GBP - Unknown
877 F. R. Cruise, M.D. Thomas a Kompis...

GBP - Unknown
878 Thomson (James) The Seasons

1730

GBP - Unknown
879 Tricassinus (N. C.) Thesaurus Graecae Poeseos ex omnibus Graecis Poetis Collectus Moguntiae

1614

GBP - Unknown
880 W. E. Henley, editor TUDOR TRANSLATIONS (THE)

1892-1903

GBP - Unknown
881 Tyndall (Wyllyam) A Briefe Declaration of the Sacraments Imprinted at London

(about 15-18)

GBP - Unknown
882 Vanbrngh (Sir John) Plays, with Life

1769

GBP - Unknown
883 Vaughan (William) The Church Militant

1640

GBP - Unknown
884 VESTRIS (MADAME) Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures of Madame Vestris

n. d.

GBP - Unknown
885 Vida (Marcus Hieronymus) Opera quae quidem extant omnia Basileae

1537

GBP - Unknown
886 Vita Christi Das Leben unsores Erlosers und Seligmaohers Jesu Christi Dillingen

1607

GBP - Unknown
887 Vitruvius de Architectura et Frontinus de Aquaeductibus Florent

1513

GBP - Unknown
888 Voltaire L'Orphelin de la Chine a Paris

1755

GBP - Unknown
889 Wallace The Life and Acts of the most famous and valiant Champion, Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie, Maintainor of the Liberty of Scotland (in verse) Glasgow

1685

GBP - Unknown
890 Waller (Edmund) The Maid's Tragedy altered

1690

GBP - Unknown
891 Walton (Isaac) The Life of Mr. Rich. Hooker

1665

GBP - Unknown
892 War Lyrics and Songs of the South Spottiswoode

1866

GBP - Unknown
893 [Wesley (Samuel)] Maggots or Poems on Several Subjects never before handled

1682

GBP - Unknown
894 WHITMAN (WALT) Manuscript, 9 pages (signed) entitled: "OUR EMINENT VISITORS, " commencing: "Welcome to them each and all! They do good--the deepest

GBP - Unknown
894 Whittier (John Groenleaf) At Sundown, the rare privately printed edition, at the Riverside Press Cambridge

1890

GBP - Unknown
895 WITHER (GEORGE) The Psalmes of David...

1623-1632

GBP - Unknown
896 Wilde (Oscar) Oscariana; Epigrams

1895

GBP - Unknown
897 Wither (George) Britains Remembrancer

1638

GBP - Unknown
898 Wither (G.) Vox Pacifica: a Voice tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath

1645

GBP - Unknown
899 Wither (G.) Speculum Speculativum, or a considering glass

1660

GBP - Unknown
900 Wither (G.) Speculum Speculativum, &c.

1660

GBP - Unknown
901 Wither (G.) Speculum Speculativum, or a Considering Glasse

1660

GBP - Unknown
902 Gruau (Louys) Wolt-Huntnig. Nouvelle invention de chasse Paris

1613

GBP - Unknown
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