Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. ILLUMINATED & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ETC., 26Jul1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 26, 1937 - July 26, 1937
Page Size: 664 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 E. FitzGerald Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

1885

GBP - 1.15
202 Transactions

1885-1921

GBP - Not Sold
203 Reade C. Peg Woffington

1887

GBP - 1.05
204 De Vinne T. L. Christopher Plantin and the Plantin-Moretus Museum

1888

GBP - 1.05
205 Matthews W. Modern Bookbinding prac-tically considered

1889

GBP - 0.15
206 Curtis G. W. Washington Irving

1891

GBP - 1.00
207 Catalogue of an Exhibition of Illuminated and Painted MSS., etc.

1892

GBP - 2.05
208 Conway M. D. Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannnock

1892

GBP - 0.15
209 Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of English Writers, Langland to Prior New York

1893-1905

GBP - 7.00
210 R. L. Fowler Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the Province of New York, with Introduction, etc.

1894

GBP - 1.15
211 Catalogue of an Exhibition of Engraved Portraits, from Chaucer to Johnson, 1891; Engraved "Work of Asher B. Durand, 1895

1896

GBP - 0.10
212 Catalogue of Books with Arms or Devices upon the bindings

1895

GBP - 1.00
213 Donne John Poems

1895

GBP - 1.05
214 Early Printed Books owned by the Club (one leaf slightly discoloured) boards

1895

GBP - 0.10
215 Warren A. The Charles Whittinghams

1896

GBP - 1.10
216 Koehler S. R. A Chronological Catalogue of the Engravings, Dry-Points, and Etchings of Dürer

1897

GBP - 1.10
217 C. E. Norton Two Note Books of Thomas Carlyle

1898

GBP - Not Sold
218 Pichon Baron Jérôme The Life of Count Hoym

1899

GBP - 0.10
219 G. R. Carpenter Boccaccio's Life of Dante

1900

GBP - 0.15
220 Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Dryden

1900

GBP - 1.10
221 Catalogue of Etchings and Dry Points by Bembrandt

1900

GBP - 2.00
222 Catalogue of an Exhibition of selected Works of the Poets Laureate

1901

GBP - 0.10
223 De Vinne T. L. Title-Pages as seen by a Printer

1901

GBP - 3.05
224 The History of Helyas, Knight of the Swan ... a literal reprint in the types of Wynkin de Worde, 1512

1901

GBP - 2.00
225 G. E. Woodberry One Hundred Books famous in English Literature

1902-3

GBP - 8.00
226 Exhibition of Italian Books, a few margins slightly water-stained

1904

GBP - 0.10
227 Halsey R. T. H. The Boston Port Bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist

1904

GBP - Not Sold
228 Hart C. H. Catalogue of the Engraved Portraits' of Washington

1904

GBP - 2.12
229 Le Roux de Lincy A.-J.-V.- Researches con-cerning Jean Grolier

1907

GBP - 5.10
230 Stauffer D. McN American Engravers upon Copper and Steel

1907

GBP - 3.00
231 Hawthorne N. The Scarlet Letter

1908

GBP - 0.10
232 De Vinne T. L. Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Century

1910

GBP - 3.00
233 Kennedy E. G. The Etched Work of Whistler

1910

GBP - 30.00
234 Kennedy E. G. The Etched Work of Whistler

1910

GBP - 30.00
235 Grolier Club

1911

GBP - 1.10
236 Rist J. Depositio Cornuti Typographici

1911

GBP - Not Sold
237 Thackeray W. M. Grolier Club.

1911

GBP - Not Sold
238 Catalogue of ... W. M. Thackeray

1912

GBP - Not Sold
239 Mabie H. W. The Writers of Knickerbocker New York

1912

GBP - Not Sold
240 Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of C. Dickens

1913

GBP - 2.05
241 Levis H. C. Notes on the "Baziliwlogia," on Japanese vellum

1913

GBP - 2.05
242 Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by J. Leech

1914

GBP - 2.00
243 Livingston L. S. Franklin and his Press at Passy

1914

GBP - 4.05
244 Grolier Club.

1915

GBP - 1.15
245 R. Ruzicka New York

1915

GBP - 1.05
246 Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrative of the Text of Shakespeare's Plays

1916

GBP - 1.15
247 T. Rowlandson Grolier Club.

1916

GBP - 2.10
248 A. V. S. Anthony, T. Cole, and E. Kingsley Wood-Engraving: Three Essays

1916

GBP - 0.10
249 Grolier Club.

1917

GBP - 2.05
250 Durer A. On the just shaping of Letters

1917

GBP - 6.05
251 Irving Washington Notes and Journals of Travels in Europe

1920

GBP - 1.05
252 Hewlett M. Quattrocentisteria

1921

GBP - Not Sold
253 Keynes Geoffrey A Bibliography of William Blake

1921

GBP - 13.00
254 Granniss R. Grolier Club.

1923

GBP - 2.00
255 Dowson E. The Pierrot of the Minute [printed by Bruce Rogers]

1923

GBP - 2.15
256 Drake J. R. The Culprit Fay

1923

GBP - Not Sold
257 Stevenson R. L. A Lodging for the Night

1923

GBP - 1.00
258 Birrell Augustine Three Essays

1924

GBP - 0.10
259 Catalogue of an Exhibition of Japanese Figure and Landscape Prints

1924

GBP - 1.15
260 Mores E. R. Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders, etc.

1924

GBP - 1.15
261 Dunsany Lord The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles

1924

GBP - Not Sold
262 H. M. Chapin Gazette Françoise

1926

GBP - 0.10
263 Gilliss W. Recollections of the Gilliss Press

1926

GBP - 0.10
264 Fay B. Notes on the American Press at the end of the 18th Century

1927

GBP - 3.00
265 Tory G. Champ Fleury

1927

GBP - 9.05
266 Catalogue of Work of the De Vinne Press

1929

GBP - 1.05
267 L. H. Chandler Catalogue of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, exhibited Feb.-Mar. 1929, and Summary of Kipling's Work

1930

GBP - 4.00
268 Goodhue B. G. Book Decorations

1931

GBP - 1.15
269 Wroth L. C. The Colonial Printer

1931

GBP - 2.00
270 Butler S. Hudibras

1663-4-78

GBP - 8.10
271 DANTON. Correspondance Originale des Emigrés, ou les Emigrés peints par eux-mémes Paris

1793

GBP - 10.10
272 Shelley P. B. Poetical [and Prose] Works

1876-80

GBP - 4.00
273 BURTON R. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY Oxford

1621

GBP - 28.00
274 GIBBON E. The History and Decline of the Roman Empire

1776-88

GBP - 20.00
275 MEDICI FAMILY. A Collection of 420 A. L. s., L. s., etc., L. s. from Queen Christina of Sweden, Three L. s. from the Archduchess Anna of Austria, Twenty-two L. s. etc. from Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 380 A. L. s. or L. s., etc. London, Borne

14 Apr. 1673, 29 Apr. 1673, 1673, 1670-89

GBP - 44.00
276 E. Fairefax Tasso (T.) Godfrey of Bulloigne, done into English Heroicall verse

1600

GBP - 7.00
277 PENNSYLVANIA. Chartres et Loix qui se rapportent àl'etablissement de la colonie de Pennsylvanie en Amerique

GBP - 3.10
278 Nordhoff C., Hittell J. S. Peninsular California, The evidences against Christianity New York, San Francisco

1888, 1857, 1874

GBP - 1.00
278A Alexander J. A., Ingersoll Ernest, Wood S., Taylor Bayard, Upham C. W. The life of George Chaffey, portrait, etc., The Crest of the Continent, Over the Range to the Golden Gate, "All's not Gold that glitters," or The young Californian, The story of Kenneth, Life of J. C. Fremont Melbourne, Chicago, New York, Boston

1928, 1890, 1904, 1856, 1866, 1856

GBP - 1.10
279 Johnson Samuel The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Rasselas

1759

GBP - 7.10
280 Defoe Daniel The Life, Adventures and Pyracies of Captain Singleton

1720

GBP - 4.15
281 Massinger Philip The Roman Actor. A Tragædie

1629

GBP - 2.15
282 KEATS JOHN Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems

1820

GBP - 10.00
283 SHELLEY PERCY BYSSHE ALASTOR; or, the Spirit of Solitude; and other Poems

1816

GBP - 10.00
284 Hunt Leigh The Months

1821

GBP - Not Sold
285 SHELLEY PERCY BYSSHE ROSALIND AND HELEN, a Modern Eclogue; with other Poems

1819

GBP - 10.10
286 Shelley Percy Bysshe Prometheus Unbound, a Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with other Poems

1820

GBP - 4.00
287 Shelley Percy Bysshe Posthumous Poeras

1824

GBP - 8.10
288 SHELLEY P. B. QUEEN MAB; A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM : WITH NOTES London

1813

GBP - 60.00
289 LAMB CHARLES JOHN "WOODVIL. A Tragedy. To which are added, Fragments of Burton

1802

GBP - 15.00
290 Pope Alexander The Temple of Fame

1715

GBP - 1.05
291 Chamisso A. von and F. de la Motte Fouqué Peter Schlemihl

1824

GBP - 2.10
292 WHITMAN WALT Leaves of Grass, Two Rivulets Camden, New Jersey

1876

GBP - 4.10
293 Mitford John My Cousin in the Army: a Poem.

n.d.

GBP - 2.10
294 Combe W. English Dance of Death

1815-16

GBP - 2.15
295 Papworth J. W. Wrangham and Combe Poetical Sketches of Scarborough

1813

GBP - 1.08
296 L'Aigle Marquis de Reflexions d'un vieux Veneur; preface par Le Comte D'Haussonville Paris

n.d. 1913

GBP - 0.10
296A Kipling Rudyard The Absent Minded Beggar

1899

GBP - 1.05
297 Apperley C. J., Surtees R. S. Life of John Mytton, "Ask Mamma," "Hawbuck Grange," Mr. Romford's Hounds Bradbury

n.d., n.d.

GBP - 1.15
298 Dickens Charles Little Dorrit

1855-57

GBP - 4.15
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