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
251 Hall (Mrs. S. C.) The Book of Royalty

1839

GBP - 3.25
251 Schmitz (Dr. Hermann) The Encyclopaedia of Furniture

1936

GBP - 3.00
252 Miscellaneous books

USD - Not Sold
252 Scrap Book containing some water-colour drawings and pencil sketches made during a tour of the Continent

c. 1830

GBP - 3.10
253 Photographs of Touraine

USD - Not Sold
253 See (R. R. M.) English Pastels

GBP - 1.15
254 Allatini (E.) Contes de Mon Pere le Jars

GBP - 2.00
254 Seven (The) Penitential Psalms illuminated by Frances Martindale

GBP - 7.00
255 La Belle au Bois dormant

1910

GBP - 1.00
255 Shakespeare (Wm.) Complete Works

1892

GBP - 3.00
256 Andersen (H. C.) La Reine des Neiges

1911

GBP - 1.00
256 Shakespeare (Wm.) Poems and ferieles Oxford

1905

GBP - 4.00
257 Poe (E. A.) Les Cloches et quelques autres poemes

GBP - 1.00
257 Shaw (Henry) Specimens of Ancient Furniture

GBP - 1.15
258 La Princesse Badourah

1914

GBP - 1.25
258 Siren (Osvald) The Imperial Palaces of Peking Paris and Brussels

1926

GBP - 16.00
259 Contes et Legendes des Nations Alliees

1917

GBP - 1.00
259 William Hunt Sketch Books

GBP - 1.15
260 Sindbad le Marin et d'autres contes des Mille et une Nuits

1919

GBP - 1.00
260 Slater (J. Herbert) Engravings and their Values

GBP - 4.00
261 Rosenthal (L.) Au Royaume de la Perle

1920

GBP - 1.00
261 Smith (E. Baldwin) Early Christian Iconography

GBP - 2.10
262 Guyot (Charles) La Toison d'Or

1921

GBP - 1.00
262 Smith (H. Clifford) Buckingham Palace

1931

GBP - 2.05
263 Shakespeare (Wm.) La Tempete

GBP - 1.00
263 Smith (Vincent A.) A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon Oxford

1911

GBP - 3.10
264 Contes des Mille et une Nuits

GBP - 1.00
264 Solon (M. L.) A History and Description of Italian Majolica

1907

GBP - 2.10
265 Soulie de Morant (G.) A History of Chinese Art

GBP - 6.00
265 Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam

GBP - 1.00
266 Sparkes (W. E.) Art and Artists

GBP - 0.15
266 Louys (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole

1906

GBP - 2.25
267 Spielmann (M. H.) The History of Punch

1895

GBP - 0.15
267 Musset (A. de) La Nuit Venitienne

GBP - 2.00
268 [Stafford (Marquis of)] 57 coloured reproductions of pictures in the Marquis of Stafford's collection

GBP - 4.00
268 Rackham (Arthur). Shakespeare (Wm.) A Midsummer Night's Dream

1908

GBP - 1.75
269 Stannus (Mrs. Graydon) Old Irish Glass

1921

GBP - 2.05
269 Rackham (A.). Wagner (R.) L'Anneau du Nibelung

1910-11

GBP - 3.25
270 Stobart (J. C.) The Glory that was Greece

GBP - 2.00
270 Rackham (A.) L'Oeuvre

1913

GBP - 2.00
271 Rackham (A.) La Legende du Roi Arthur

1920

GBP - 1.00
271 Strange (T. A.) An Historical Guide to French Interiors

1923

GBP - 3.00
272 Rackham (A.). Milton (John) Comus [French translation]

[1921]

GBP - 1.75
272 Studio (The) Publications. The Old Water-Colour Society

GBP - 0.15
273 Rackham (A.). Guyot (Ch.) Le Printemps sur la Neige

GBP - 1.00
273 Thomson (D. C.) Studio (The) Publications. The Brothers Maris

GBP - 0.15
274 Studio (The) Publications. The Water Colours of J. M. W. Turner

GBP - 0.15
274 Shakespeare (Wm.) The Merry Wives of Windsor

GBP - 3.25
275 Studio (The) Publications. Pen, Pencil and Chalk

GBP - 0.15
275 Thackeray (W. M.) Vanity Fair

1912

GBP - 2.00
276 Studio (The) Publications. Modern Pen Drawings

GBP - 1.00
276 Toussaint (F.) Le Jardin des Caresses

GBP - 1.00
277 Band-Bovy (D.) Studio (The) Publications. Peasant Art in Switzerland

GBP - 1.05
277 Whyte-Melville (G. J.) [Works]

GBP - 6.00
278 Cox (David) Studio (The) Publications. A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours

GBP - 1.00
278 Arabian Nights

GBP - 26.00
279 Cundall (H. M.) Studio (The) Publications. The Norwich School

GBP - 3.10
279 Dickens (Chas.) Works

GBP - 20.00
280 Coulton (G. G.) Studio (The) Publications. The Chronicles of European Chivalry

GBP - 1.10
280 Arabian Nights

GBP - 15.00
281 Swiss and Italian Views

GBP - 3.10
281 Hardy (Thos.) [Works]

GBP - 1.00
282 Symonds (Mary, Mrs. Guy Antrobus) and Louisa Preece Needlework through the Ages

1928

GBP - 8.00
282 Thackeray (Wm. M.) [Works]

GBP - 2.00
283 Talbot (Star) The Marvellous Book Shanghai

1930

GBP - 5.10
283 Edgeworth (Maria) [Works]

1802-17

GBP - 3.00
284 Tassie (James) A Descriptive Catalogue of

GBP - 9.10
284 Dickens (Chas.) Works

1874-76

GBP - 22.00
285 Thornbury (W.) Old and New London

1831

GBP - 1.15
285 Dickens (Chas.) Works

1898

GBP - 58.00
286 Timbs (John) Curiosities of London

1849

GBP - 1.00
286 Chateaubriand (F. R. A., Comte de) Les Martyrs

GBP - 1.00
287 Trapnell (Alfred) A Collection of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain Bristol

1905

GBP - 3.05
287 Scott (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels Edinburgh

1821-32

GBP - 4.00
288 edited by Thomas Miller Turner and Girtin's Pictures-que Views

GBP - 2.10
288 Crowley (Aleister) A Collection of the Works

1898-1913

GBP - 15.00
289 Turnor (Hatton) Astra Castra

1865

GBP - 3.05
289 Deutsche Klassiker

GBP - 1.25
290 Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of English Porcelain . . .

GBP - 3.00
290 Yeats (W. B.) Michael Robartes and the Dancer

GBP - 1.75
291 Waddesdon Bequest (The) Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild

GBP - 0.15
291 Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

GBP - 1.00
292 Wallis (Henry) Egyptian Ceramic Art

GBP - 5.00
292 Norton (Geo.) Commentaries on the History

GBP - 1.50
293 edited by A. J. Finberg Walpole (The) Society Oxford

1920, 1924-40 and 1946

GBP - 10.00
293 Hill (Sir J.) The Family Herbal

1824

GBP - 1.75
294 Webber (Byron) James Orrock, R.I., 2 vol.

1903

GBP - 0.10
294 Morris (Rev. F. O.) A History of British Birds

1874-76

GBP - 1.75
295 Williamson (Dr. G. C.) The Book of Famille Rose

1927

GBP - 13.00
295 Montaigne (M. de) Essays

1902

GBP - 2.00
296 Agincourt (Seroux d') History of Art by its Monuments from its decline in the fourth century to its restoration in the sixteenth

1847

GBP - 0.15
296 Bewick (Thos.) Works

1885-87

GBP - 2.50
297 Album de la Gazette des Beaux Art

GBP - 1.00
297 [Combe (Wm.)] The English Dance of Death

1903

GBP - 10.00
298 Anderson (William) The Pictorial Art of Japan

1886

GBP - 2.00
298 Holder (A.) Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz

1896-1904

GBP - 6.00
299 Edited by Lady Randolph Churchill Anglo-Saxon Review (The) Edited by Lady Randolph Churchill

1899-1901

GBP - 4.00
299 Brown (G. Baldwin) The Arts in Early England

1903-25

GBP - 5.50
300 Hodgkin (T.) Italy and her Invaders Oxford

1892-99

GBP - 1.00
300 Edited by Lady Randolph Churchill Anglo-Saxon Review (The) Edited by Lady Randolph Churchill

1899-1901

GBP - 1.00
  • 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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    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€
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    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
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    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€
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  • 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
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
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    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
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
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