Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW WESTERN AND ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, STEEL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 26, 1952 - May 26, 1952
Page Size: 1413 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
501 Vidal (Antoine) La Lutherie et les Luthiers

1889

GBP - 12.00
502 Morier (Jas.) A Journey through Persia

GBP - 8.10
502 Villon (Francois) Poems

GBP - 2.00
503 Costumes of the Canary Islands

1829

GBP - 1.10
503 Adams (P. W. L.) A History of the Adams Family of North Staffordshire and of their connection with the development of the Potteries

GBP - 4.00
504 Rowlandson (Thos.) Horse Accomplishments

1799

GBP - 8.00
504 Airy (O.) Charles II

GBP - 0.50
505 Pallas (P. S.) Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire

GBP - 11.00
505 Aldis (E.) Carvings and Sculptures of Worcester Cathedral

GBP - 1.50
506 Costume (The) of the Inhabitants of Peru

[c. 1810]

GBP - 11.00
506 Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson

GBP - 4.50
507 Westall (R.) Victories of the Duke of Wellington

GBP - 1.00
507 Braithwaite (P. R. P.) The Church Plate of Hampshire

GBP - 2.25
508 Westall (R.) Victories of the Duke of Wellington

1819

GBP - 1.00
508 Bruni (A.) Un Inventaire sous la Terreur

1890

GBP - 3.75
509 Asbjornsen (P. Chr.) Norge Fremstillet i Tegninger

1848

GBP - 1.15
509 Burney (Charles) An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey

GBP - 5.50
510 Suter Zurich

GBP - 20.00
510 Camden Society

GBP - 2.25
511 Grimm (J. L. and W. K.) Die beiden altesten deutschen Gedichte aus dem achten Jahrhundert

1812

GBP - 0.15
511 Engel (Carl) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum

GBP - 6.00
512 Doyley (Sir C.) Williamson (T.) and Blagdon (F. W.) The European in India

1813

GBP - 7.10
512 Evans (J. T.) The Church Plate of Cardiganshire

GBP - 1.75
513 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

GBP - 6.00
513 Gask (N.) Old Silver Spoons of England

GBP - 9.00
514 Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935

GBP - 0.15
514 Gibb (Wm.) and B. Rackham A Book of Porcelain

GBP - 5.50
515 Cescinsky (H.) and Webster (M. R.) English Domestic Clocks

GBP - 8.10
515 Grillet (Laurent) Les Ancetres du Violon et du Violoncelle

1901

GBP - 12.00
516 Cescinsky (H.) The Old English Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks

GBP - 4.10
516 A Short Account of a Violin by Stradivari

GBP - 8.00
517 Spelman (W. W. R.) Lowestoft China

GBP - 7.10
517 Hill (W. H., A. R, and A. E.) Antonio Stradivari

1902

GBP - 22.00
518 Crisp (F. A.) Lowestoft China Factory and the Moulds found there in December 1902

GBP - 8.00
518 Hill (W. H., A. F., and A. E.) The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family

1931

GBP - 15.00
519 Tuer (A. W.) Bartolozzi and his Works

GBP - 2.15
519 Hindley (Charles) The History of the Catnach Press

GBP - 3.50
520 Foster (J. J.) British Miniature Painters and their Works

GBP - 1.00
520 Jackson (H. J.) and C. E. Whitelaw European Hand Firearms of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

1923

GBP - 12.00
521 Brockendon (Wm.) Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps

GBP - 2.10
521 Jackson (Sir J. J.) English Goldsmiths and their Marks

GBP - 4.50
522 Palau y Dulcet (Antonio) Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano Barcelona

1923-27

GBP - 19.00
522 James (Philip) Early Keyboard Instruments

1930

GBP - 7.00
523 Ainslie (Sir R.) and Mayer (L.) Views in the Ottoman Dominions

GBP - 17.00
523 Jewitt (L.) and W. H. St. J. Hope The Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office of the Cities and Towns of England and Wales

GBP - 1.00
524 Ainslie (Sir R.) and Mayer (L.) Views in Egypt

1804

GBP - 7.10
524 Lysons (D. and S.) Magna Britannia

GBP - 2.00
525 Lewis (J. F.) Sketches of Spain and Spanish Character

[1834-36]

GBP - 9.00
525 Phillips (J.) A General History of Inland Navigation

1792

GBP - 3.50
526 Friedel (A. de) The Greeks

1826-27

GBP - 20.00
526 Piccolellis (Giovanni de) Liutai Antichi et Moderni Florence

1885

GBP - 10.00
527 Meyrick (S. R.) and Smith (C. H.) The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands

1815

GBP - 3.00
527 Prevost (Abbe) History of Manon Lescaut

GBP - 1.00
528 Atkinson (J. A.) and Walker (J.) A Picturesque Representation of the Manners

1803-04

GBP - 9.10
528 Skelton (Sir John) Charles I

1898

GBP - 1.00
529 Tidemand (Adolf) Norske Folkelivsbilleder

1858

GBP - 4.00
529 Trollope (Andrew) An Inventory of the Church Plate of Leicester

GBP - 1.00
530 Battle of Navarino (The)

1828

GBP - 16.00
530 VIDAL (ANTOINE) Les Instruments a Archet

1876-78

GBP - 30.00
531 Le Hay. Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant

GBP - 12.00
531 Agricola (Georgius) De Re Metallica

1912

GBP - 13.00
532 Bossoli (C.) The Beautiful Scenery and Chief Places of Interest throughout the Crimea

GBP - 1.10
532 Boydell's Head of Illustrious and Celebrated Persons

1811

GBP - 3.00
533 Costume of Turkey (The)

1864

GBP - 6.10
533 Chardin (Sir John) Travels into Persia and ye East Indies

1686

GBP - 1.50
534 Costume of the Russian Empire (The) morocco

1803

GBP - 5.00
534 Hipkins (A. J.) Musical Instruments

1888

GBP - 5.75
535 Bradford (Wm.) Sketches of the Country

1809

GBP - 19.00
535 Quevedo-Villegas (F. de) Pablo de Segovia

1892

GBP - 2.00
536 Hering (G. E.) The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland

1847

GBP - 5.00
536 Willyams (Rev. C.) A Selection of Views in Egypt

1822

GBP - 10.50
537 Lear (Edward) Views in the Seven Ionian Islands

1863

GBP - 14.00
537 Catlin (George) North American Indians Edinburgh

1926

GBP - 4.25
538 Nouvelles Vues de Saini-Petersbourg

1822

GBP - 5.10
538 [Combe (W.)] The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax

1823

GBP - 5.00
539 Military Costume of Turkey (The)

1818

GBP - 5.00
539 [Combe (W.)] The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

GBP - 3.50
540 Anglo-Saxon Classics

1905-11

GBP - 3.10
540 Crabbe (George) Works

1823

GBP - 2.75
541 Baker (E. A.) The Historv of the English Novel

1936-42

GBP - 14.00
541 Godwin (William) St. Leon

1799

GBP - 5.00
542 Barrie (Sir J. M.) Works

1913

GBP - 0.10
542 Greenaway (Kate) A Day in a Child's Life

1895-93

GBP - 2.00
543 Bonn's Libraries

GBP - 7.10
543 Harvey (Gideon) The Conclave of Physicians

1686

GBP - 2.50
544 Borrow (G.) Works

1923-24

GBP - 1.00
544 [Hey (Rebecca)] The Moral of Flowers

1833

GBP - 1.50
545 Budge (Sir E. A. Wallis) A Collection of Books

GBP - 13.00
545 Marryat (Captain E.) Masterman Ready

1841-42

GBP - 1.25
546 Byng (J.) Viscount Torrington

1934-38

GBP - 3.10
546 Murray (Hon. C. A.) Travels in North America

1839

GBP - 1.00
547 Chancellor (E. Beresford) The Lives of the Rakes

1924-25

GBP - 2.05
547 Oettingen (Burchard von) Horse Breeding

1909

GBP - 4.50
548 Clausewitz (Gen. C. von) On War

GBP - 1.15
548 Riley (James W.) The Complete Works

GBP - 1.75
549 Cobbett (W.) Rural Rides

1930

GBP - 7.10
549 Road Books

1796-1824

GBP - 1.75
550 Courthope (W. J.) A History of English Poetry

1895-1926

GBP - 9.10
550 Surtees (R. S.) Handley Cross

GBP - 5.50
551 Defoe (D.) A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain

1927

GBP - 7.00
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