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Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
378 Kate Greenaway Birthday Book for Children

USD - 8.40
379 Kate Greenaway Sharpe (Mrs.) Dame Wiggins of Lee

USD - 11.20
380 Kate Greenaway Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland Routledge

1887

USD - 22.40
380a Kate Greenaway Browning (Robert) The Pied Piper of Hamelin

USD - 5.60
381 Francesco Petrarca The triumphs London and Cambridge

1906

USD - 14.00
382 J. H. Jesse Charles the Second

USD - 16.80
383 William Shakespeare A midsummer night's dream

1908

USD - 39.20
384 William Shakespeare Comedies

USD - 11.20
385 W. Shakespeare Selections from "The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice

USD - 2.80
386 Sir Winston Churchill India "The great betrayal" (being the text of an address broadcast on 29th January

USD - 33.60
387 George Moore Memoirs of my Dead Life

USD - 8.40
388 Somerset Maugham first edition

1915

USD - 28.00
389 Sackville-West (Victoria) Knole and the Sackvilles

1922

USD - 16.80
390 Cervantes (Miguel de) Don Quixote

1930

USD - 44.80
390a Cambridge History of English Literature

1908-16

USD - 22.40
390b Star Club

[c. 1855]

USD - 2.80
391 John Lyon The history of the town and port of Dover and of Dover Castle

USD - 8.40
392 C. & R. Sickelmore Descriptive views of Brighton Brighton

[1827]

USD - 50.40
392a J. Rouse The beauties and antiquities of the county of Sussex

1825

USD - 39.20
393 South Polar Times (The)

1907

USD - 28.00
394 Frederic M. Halford Modern development of the Dry Fly

1910

USD - 84.00
395 Albert Einstein Ather und Relativitatstheorie Berlin

1920

USD - 126.00
396 Moysheh Oyved The book of affinity

1933

USD - 2.80
397 Max von Boehn Modes and Manners

1932-35

USD - 19.60
398 O. M. Dalton Byzantine art and archaeology Oxford

1911

USD - 33.60
398a Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov The Russian Icon Oxford

1927

USD - 78.40
399 Sir Walter Armstrong Sir Henry Raeburn portrait and plates

1901

USD - 5.60
400 Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G. C. Williamson John Zoffany

1920

USD - 56.00
400a John Smith A Catalogue Raisonne of the works of the Dutch Flemish

1829-42

USD - 2.80
401 L. Delteil Annuaire des Ventes d'Estampes Paris

1920-29

USD - 2.80
402 Print Prices Current

1921-39

USD - 8.40
402a Lucien Monod Le prix des estampes anciennes et modernes Paris

1920-28

USD - 2.80
403 H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton French line-engravings of the late eighteenth century

1910

USD - 22.40
404 Karl Asplund Anders Zorn His Life and Work

USD - 5.60
405 F. C. Lonchamp Un Siecle d'Art Suisse (1730-1830) Lausanne

[1920]

USD - 16.80
406 Collection de Clercq Paris

1888

USD - 2.80
407 R. L. Hobson Eumorfopoulos Collection

1925-1932

USD - 1,148.00
408 Engelbert Kaempfer The history of Japan Glasgow

1906

USD - 28.00
409 Edward F. Strange Victoria and Albert Museum

1924-25

USD - 16.80
410 F. M. Jonas Netsuke

1928

USD - 8.40
411 F. M. Jonas Netsuke

1928

USD - 8.40
412 Albert Brockhaus Netsuke. Versuch einer Geschichte der Japanischen Schnitzkunst Leipzig

1909

USD - 78.40
413 Berthold Laufer Jade Chicago

1912

USD - 36.40
414 Pope-Hennessy (Una) Early Chinese Jades

1923

USD - 28.00
415 Edward F. Strange Chinese Lacquer

1926

USD - 30.80
416 Asselineau Armes et armures du moyen-age et de la renaissance Paris

USD - 16.80
417 Edwin J. Brett A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour

1894

USD - 33.60
418 Quirin Leitner Die Waffensammlung des osterreichischen Kaiserhauses im K.K. Artillerie-Arsenal-Museum in Wien Vienna

1866-1870

USD - 56.00
419 Edouard Lievre Les collections celebres d'oeuvres d'art

USD - 8.40
420 Samuel Rush Meynck and Joseph Skelton Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour

1830

USD - 14.00
421 Spitzer Collection Paris

1895

USD - 25.20
422 Bernard Rackham Early Netherlands Maiolica

1926

USD - 16.80
423 W. G. Thomson Tapestry Weaving in England

USD - 11.20
424 Francis Lenygon Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770

USD - 8.40
424a H. Cescinsky and E. R. Gribble Early English furniture and woodwork

1922

USD - 8.40
425 R. W. Symonds Masterpieces of English furniture and clocks

1940

USD - 16.80
426 J. Alfred Gotch Architecture of the Renaissance in England

1894

USD - 2.80
426a Percy Macquoid A History of English Furniture

1904-1908

USD - 25.20
427 Frederick Bradbury History of Old Sheffield Plate

1912

USD - 61.60
428 Barbet de Jouy Les Gemmes et Joyaux de la Couronne au Musee du Louvre Paris

1886

USD - 2.80
429 Le Breviaire Grimani reproduction photographique complete publiee par Salomone Mopurgo et Scato de Vries Leyden

[1904-10]

USD - 280.00
430 Gorleston Psalter (The)

1912

USD - 42.00
431 Queen Mary's. Psalter

1912

USD - 19.60
432 Georg Swarzenski and Rosy Schilling Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz Frankfurt

1929

USD - 28.00
433 Codex Gisle Berlin

1926

USD - 39.20
434 J. F. Laharpe Lycee Paris

1799-1805

USD - 5.60
435 Le Bibliophile Francais gazette illustree des amateurs de livres Paris

1868-73

USD - 42.00
436 Le Livre Le Livre revue mensuelle : Bibliographie ancienne et moderne Paris

1880-89

USD - 44.80
437 Edouard Rouveyre Connaissances necessaires a un bibliophile Paris

USD - 36.40
438 Revue Biblio-Iconographique Paris

1896-1907

USD - 44.80
439 Buch und Schrift: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Vereins fur Buchwesen und Schrifttum Leipzig

1927-37

USD - 33.60
440 T. F. Dibdin The Bibliographical Decameron

1817

USD - 72.80
441 John Eliot Hodgkin Rariora

[1902]

USD - 14.00
442 Book-Auction Records

1907-61

USD - Not Sold
442a Bookworm (The) [edited by P. J. Berjeau]

USD - 11.20
443 Bibliographical Society (The) Transactions

1893-35

USD - 168.00
444 Bibliographical Society

USD - 28.00
445 R. Proctor Jan van Doesborgh

1894

USD - 19.60
446 G. R. Redgrave Erhardt Ratdolt Half cloth

1894-1926

USD - 22.40
447 H. S. LAshbee An Iconography of Don Quixote

1895-1906

USD - 25.20
448 R. Proctor A classified index to the Serapeum

1897-1915

USD - 11.20
449 A. Claudin The first Paris Press

1898-1901

USD - 14.00
450 J. IMacfarlane Antoine Verard

1900

USD - 16.80
451 R. Steele The earliest English music printing

1903

USD - 22.40
452 H. R. Plomer and others Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers

1905-32

USD - 56.00
453 F. Isaac English and Scottish printing types [vol. 1 only]

1930

USD - 5.60
454 edited by Falconer Madan Stuart Papers relating chiefly to Queen Mary of Modena and the Exiled Court of King James II

1889

USD - 39.20
455 E. Gordon Duff William Caxton plates Chicago

1905

USD - 134.40
456 H. Buxton Forman A bibliography of George Meredith

USD - 8.40
457 Henri Bouchot Les reliures d'art a la Bibliotheque Nationale Paris

1888

USD - 16.80
458 Strickland Gibson Early Oxford Bindings

1903

USD - 19.60
459 Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst Leipzig

1927-37

USD - 98.00
460 Gilles Auguste Bazin The natural history of bees

1744

USD - 19.60
461 Thomas Bewick Figures of British land birds Newcastle

1800

USD - 2.80
462 Blagrave J [Joseph] The epitome of the art of husbandry

1685

USD - 28.00
463 Charles Butler The Feminine monarchy or the history of bees

1623

USD - 44.80
464 Charles Butler The Feminine monarchie or the history of bees Oxford

1634

USD - 30.80
465 Charles Butler Monarchia Foeminina sive apum historia

1673

USD - 25.20
466 John Evans The bees Shrewsbury

1806

USD - 14.00
467 John Gedde The English apiary or the complete bee-master

1721

USD - 30.80
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
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