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Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | BEERBOHM, Max | Works | 1922 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
2 | Bennett, Arnold; Drinkwater, John | The Love Match; Cromwell and Other Poems | 1922; 1913 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
3 | Berry, C. W.; Bunyard, E. and L. | Viniana; The Epicure's Companion | 1930; 1937 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
4 | Boswell, James | Life of Samuel Johnson Edited by G. B. Hill | Oxford | 1887 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
5 | Gardiner, A. S.; Luckin, M. W.; Buckley, G. B.; Altham, H. S. | Cricket; The Autocrat of the Cricket Field and the Old Crocks; South African Cricket; Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket; History of Cricket | Johannesburg; Birmingham; Leeds | 1927; 1862-63; 1917; 1919-1927; 1926; 1898 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
6 | Currie, Barton | Fishers of Books; Letters of James Boswell Edited by C. B. Tinker | Oxford; Boston | 1931; 1924 |
GBP - | 1.12 |
7 | Dobell, Bertram; Drinkwater, John | Rosemary and Pansies; Discovery | 1904; 1933 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
8 | Doughty, C. M. | Travels in Arabia Deserta... Introduction by T. E. Lawrence | 1921 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
9 | Drinkwater, John; De la Mare, W. | Inheritance; Memory and Other Poems | 1931; 1938 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
10 | Farington, Joseph | The Farington Diary Edited by James Greig | 1922-28 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
11 | Ford, C. B.; Wickham, A. K. | The Landscape of England; The Villages of England | 1933 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
12 | Giles, H. A. | A Chinese Biographical Dictionary | Quaritch | 1898 |
GBP - | 5.10 |
13 | Hardy, T.; Huxley, Aldous; Yeats, W. B. | The Dynasts; Antic Hay; Later Poems | 1904; 1923; 1922 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
14 | Henry, O. | Works | 1925-26 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
15 | Herbert, A. P.; Milne, A. A. | More Misleading Cases; The Christopher Robin Verses | 1930; 1932 |
GBP - | 2.02 | |
16 | Heywood, T.; Blunden, Edmund | First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth; Undertones of War | New York | 1922; 1928 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
17 | Lamb, Charles and Mary | Works Edited by E. V. Lucas | 1903-05 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
18 | Lamb, C. and M. | Works and Life by E. V. Luces | 1903-05 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
19 | Lamb, C.; Cornwall, Barry; Rich, S. M.; May, J. L. | A Collection of books about Charles Lamb including: Life by E. V. Lucas; Charles Lamb; The Elian Miscellany; Charles Lamb: A Study | 1907; 1866; 1931; 1934 |
GBP - | 3.12 | |
20 | Loon, H. W. van; Roberts, B. | R. v. R.; Paul Verlaine | 1930; 1937 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
21 | Lucas, E. V. | A Collection of his Works | GBP - | 1.03 | ||
22 | Lucas, E. V. | Early Works in Manuscript; Rhymes and Verses; Verrallana; Notes to More Verrallana | Dec. 26, 1887; Nov. 11th, 1888 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
23 | Lucas, E. V. | A large Collection of his Essays | GBP - | 11.00 | ||
24 | Lucas, E. V. | Topographical Works; E. V. Lucas's London | 1935-32; 1926 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
25 | Lucas, E. V. | Novels. Mr. Ingleside; The Vermilion Box; Verena in the Midst; Genevra's Money | 1910; 1916; 1920; 1922 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
26 | Lucas, E. V. | Wanderer Series; London Revisited; A Wanderer in Rome; A Wanderer in Venice | GBP - | 3.10 | ||
27 | Methuen's "Little Guides" to the Counties of England and Wales | GBP - | 3.00 | |||
28 | Milne, A. A. | Winnie-The-Pooh With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.03 | |
29 | Milne, A. A. | Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner | 1926; 1928 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
30 | Miscellaneous Books | GBP - | 26.00 | |||
31 | Newton, A. E.; Rosenbach, A. S. W. | Amenities of Book-Collecting; A Book Hunter's Holiday | 1919; 1936 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
32 | Sussex Archaeological Collections | 1923-1937 |
GBP - | 0.05 | ||
33 | Wheatley, H. B. and P. Cunningham | London Past and Present | 1891 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
34 | Whitley, W. T.; Rasmussen, S. E. | Artists and their Friends in England 1700 to 1799; London | 1928; 1927 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
35 | Adam, R. B. | The R. B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his Era; Printed only for a Few Friends | 1929; 1925 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
36 | Burlington Fine Arts Club; Catalogue of a Collection of Drawings of John Robert Cozens | 1920; 1923 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
37 | Encyclopaedia Britannica | New York; London | 1910-22 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
38 | Goldman, J. W. | Bibliography of Cricket | 1937 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
39 | Green, J. R. | Short History of the English People; Dictionary of National Biography | 1902; 1906 |
GBP - | 0.07 | |
40 | Hale, P. L. | Vermeer; Catalogue of Italian Pictures... | Boston | 1937; 1914 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
41 | Hine, R. L.; Richards, F. | History of Hitchin; A Persian Journey | 1927; 1932; 1936 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
42 | Milne, A. A. | Winnie-the-Pooh | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
43 | Milne, A. A.; Bone, G. | A Gallery of Children; Children's Children | 1925; 1908 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
44 | Partridge, E. | Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English; Bartholomew's Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles | 1937; 1927 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
45 | Royal Commission on Historical Monuments; Westminster Abbey | 1931-32; 1924 |
GBP - | 1.10 | ||
46 | Rovai Commission on Historical Monuments; Middlesex; Westmorland | East London | 1930; 1936; 1937; 1929 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
47 | Shakespeare, Wm. | Works | New York | 1896 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
48 | Smith, H. B. | A Sentimental Library | 1914 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
49 | Spielmann, M. H.; Wise, T. J. | The Iconography of Andreas Vesalius; A Browning Library | 1925; 1929 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
50 | Trapp, Oswald Graf | The Armoury of the Castle of Chuburg Translated by J. G. Mann | 1929 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
51 | Lindsay, L. | Walpole Society Publications; Charles Keene The Artists | 1923-26; 1930; 1934 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
52 | Wanostrocht, N. | Felix on the Bat | 1845 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
53 | Maugham, W. Somerset; Montague, C. E.; Wells, H. G. | The Gentleman in the Parlour; Right off the Map; History of Mr. Polly | 1930; 1927; 1910 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
54 | A'Becket, G.; Hunt, J. H. L. | Comic History of Rome; Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla | 1844 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
55 | Le Vaillant, Francois | Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa by way of the Cape of Good Hope; New Travels | 1790; 1796 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
56 | Daniel, W. B.; Erasmus, D.; Byron, Lord | Rural Sports; Stultitiae Laus; Werner | Basle | 1676; 1823; 1807 |
GBP - | 0.08 |
57 | Gould, J. | Synopsis of the Birds of Australia | 1837-38 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
58 | Morris, Rev. F. O.; Balston, R. J. and others; Rudolph of Austria, Crown Prince | Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds; Notes on the Birds of Kent; Notes on Sport and Ornithology | 1907; 1889; 1875 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
59 | Wilson, A. and Charles Lucian Bonaparte | American Ornithology | Philadelphia | GBP - | 0.10 | |
60 | Egan, Pierce; Sterne, L.; Teonge, H. | Boxiana; Works; Diary | Edinburgh | 1803; 1825; 1818-21 |
GBP - | 1.06 |
61 | Bronte, The Sisters | Novels; edited by Temple Scott | Edinburgh | 1905 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
62 | Green, J. R. | A Short History of the English People | 1902-3 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
63 | Phillpotts, Eden | Children of the Mist | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
64 | Lockhart, J. G. | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott; The Journal of Sir Walter Scott | Edinburgh | 1837-1838; 1891 |
GBP - | 0.07 |
65 | Ainsworth, W. H. | Jack Sheppard | 1839 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
66 | Pepys, Samuel | Diary and Correspondence | 1854 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
67 | A'Beckett, G. A.; Siltzer, F. | The Comic History of England; The Commercial Tourist; British Sporting Prints | 1822 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
68 | Labedoyere, Count | Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte | GBP - | 1.05 | ||
69 | Lagrange, Abbé F.; Barrington, A. | Life of Monseigneur Dupanloup; The Barringtons | Dublin | 1885; 1917 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
70 | D'Aulnoy, Countess | Fairly Tales; An Abridgement of the New Robinson Crusoe; The Female American | 1855; 1789; 1767 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
71 | Stevenson, R, L.; Barrie, Sir J. M.; Bennett, A.; Greenaway, K. | Kidnapped; Sentimental Tommy; The Ghost; Dame Wiggins of Lee | 1886; 1907; 1885 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
72 | Milton, J.; Swinburne, A. C. | Poetical Works; edited by Sir E. Brydges; Studies in Song | 1835; 1880 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
73 | Ovid; Goldsmith, O. | Art of Love; Miscellaneous Works; The Altar of Love | 1776; 1789; 1727 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
74 | Behn, Mrs. A. | Miscellany | 1685 |
GBP - | 2.02 | |
75 | Homer; Heylin, P.; Æsop | Batrachomymachia; Observations on...; The Tea-Table Miscellany | Dublin; Basileae; Basileam | 1518; 1656; 1729 |
GBP - | 0.14 |
76 | Swift, J. | Poems on Affairs of State; Letters | 1703-7; 1766 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
77 | Bayley, J.; Norman, P.; Dickens, C. | History of the Tower of London; London; The Pickwick Club | 1830; 1905; 1887 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
78 | Butler, A. G. | Foreign Finches in captivity | 1899 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
79 | Elworthy, F. T.; Baring-Gould, S. | The Evil Eye; Cliff Castles and Cave | 1895; 1911 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
80 | Milton, J.; Milton, J. | Paradise Lost; Paradise Lost | 1827; 1802 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
81 | Buchan, George; Lyon, Capt. G. F. | Narrative of the loss of the Winterman East Indiaman in 1762; Private Journal | Edin | 1820; 1824 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
82 | Kinloek, C. W.; Anderson, J. W. | De Zieke Reiziger; Notes of Travel in Fiji and New Caledonia | 1853; 1880 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
83 | Cibber, C. | Songs; The New London Singer's Companion; Damon and Phillida | 1731 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
84 | Boyle, R. | Medicinal Experiments | 1696-98 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
85 | Salmon, W.; Anon.; Bowman, E. | Pharmacopoeia Bateana; The Universal Family Physician; Experiments on measuring distances by the Telescope; Bible | Perth | 1796; 1713; 1842; 1618 |
GBP - | 1.05 |
86 | Britten, F. J.; May, W. J. | Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers; Handbook of Old Scottish Clockmakers | Edinburgh | 1903; 1899 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
87 | Pereival, M.; Hayden, A.; Morse, F. C. | The Walnut Collector; Chats on Old Furniture; Furniture of the Olden Time | New York | 1927; 1905; 1902 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
88 | J. Ferguson | British Essayists | 1823 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
89 | Marmontel, J.-F. | Œuvres Complètes | Paris | 1819 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
90 | Novels | c. 1880-95 |
GBP - | 0.15 | ||
91 | Samuel Johnson | ENGLISH POETS; Additions to Johnson's Poets; Works | 1779-90 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
92 | Scott, Sir Walter | Waverley Novels | Edinburgh | 1877 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
93 | Scott, Sir Walter; Lytton, E. B. | Waverley Novels; Novels | 1860 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
94 | Burke, E. | Correspondence; Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts | Edinburgh | 1844 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
95 | Buffon, G.-L. L. Comte de | Histoire Naturelle | Paris | 1799-1809 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
96 | Mahan, A. T. | Influence of Sea Power upon History; Life of Nelson; The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire; Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 | 1660-1783; 1897; 1905 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
97 | Ranke, L. von | History of England | Oxford | 1875 |
GBP - | 0.18 |
98 | Paul, H. | History of Modern England; The Roman Empresses | 1899; 1904-06 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
99 | Pope, A. | Works, ed. Warburton | 1760 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
100 | Pocket Magazine | 1818-27 |
GBP - | Not Sold |