Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939

Page Size: 719 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
205	Trotter, W. E.; Parton, J.; Jackson, E. and W. E. Oliver	Wood; Select Illustrated Topography of 30 miles round London; Some Account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Field; Annals of Ealing		1898; 1822	GBP -	0.10
206	Porter, R. K.	Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden in 1805-8		1813	GBP -	0.05
207	Cox, David	Progressive Lessons intended to elucidate the Art of Painting in Water-colours		1845	GBP -	1.05
208	Selden, J.	The History of Tvthes		1618	GBP -	0.10
209	Wycherley, W.; Dryden, J.	Love in a Wood; The Country Wife; The Gentleman Dancing-Master; The Indian Emperour; An Evening's Love		1672; 1675; 1673; 1681; 1671	GBP -	8.15
210	Ovid	The XV Bookes...	London	1567	GBP -	7.05
211	Culpeper, N.; Fenton, R.	Complete Herbal; Poems		1823; 1773	GBP -	1.05
212	A'Beekett, G. A.; Surtees, R. S.	The Comic History of England; Ask Mamma			GBP -	1.02
213	Addison, Joseph; Butler, S.; Shelley, P. B.	Works; Hudibras; edited by Grey; Poetical Works		1804; 1799; 1840	GBP -	0.05
214	Ainsworth, W. H.	Rookwood; Windsor Castle		1836; 1843	GBP -	0.06
215	Ainsworth, W. H.; Lever, C.; Meredith, G.	The Star-Chamber; Barrington; The Amazing Marriage		1854; 1863; 1895	GBP -	0.05
216	Arnold, Matthew	Poems; On Translating Homer; Essays in Criticism; Literature and Dogma; God and The Bible		1855; 1862; 1865; 1875	GBP -	Not Sold
217	Austen, Jane	Novels	Edinburgh	1911	GBP -	3.05
218	Beaumont and Fletcher; Massinerer and Ford; Lamb C.	Works; Dramatic Works		1840; 1859	GBP -	0.05
219	Burke, Edmund	Works; with a portrait and Life of the Author		1823	GBP -	0.16
220	Combe, W.; Smedley, F. E.	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax; Frank Fairlegh	Routledge		GBP -	0.15
221	Cowley, A.; Thomson, J.	Works in Prose and Verse; edited by Hurd; The Seasons		1809; 1847	GBP -	0.05
222	D'Aulnoy, Countess; Whyte-Melville, G. J.; Boccaccio, G.	Fairy Tales; Holmby House; The Decameron		1855; 1864; 1896	GBP -	0.05
223	Dickens, C.	Oliver Twist		1838	GBP -	0.05
224	Dickens, C.	Sketches by Boz		1839	GBP -	0.05
225	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield		1844; 1848	GBP -	0.10
226	Dickens, C.	Pictures from Italy; Hard Times; Bleak House; Our Mutual Friend		1846; 1854; 1853; 1865	GBP -	0.05
227	Dickens, C.	Our Mutual Friend; The Battle of Life		1865; 1846	GBP -	0.05
228	Dickens, C.	Bleak House; Little Dorrit		1853; 1857	GBP -	0.05
229	Dryden, John	Works; with Notes and Life by Sir Walter Scott		1808	GBP -	1.05
230	Eliot, George	Felix Holt	Edinburgh	1866	GBP -	0.05
231	Eliot, George	Silas Marner; Daniel Deronda	Edinburgh	1861; 1876	GBP -	0.05
232	Evelyn, John	Memoirs; edited by Bray		1827	GBP -	0.05
233		Fights for the Championship;and celebrated Prize Battles. By the Editor of Bell's Life in London; Fistiana		1860; 1868	GBP -	0.05
234	Grant, James; James, G. P. R.	The Scottish Cavalier; Only an Ensign; The Jacquerie		1850; 1871; 1841	GBP -	0.05
235	Green, J. R.	Short History of the English People		1892-94	GBP -	0.15
236	Macaulay, Lord; Burke, E.	Critical and Historical Essays; Correspondence		1844	GBP -	1.00
237	Molière, J. B. P.	Plays in French with an English translation and Notes by A. R. Walker	Edinburgh	1907	GBP -	0.07
238	Montholon, C. J. F., Count de	Memoirs of the History of France during the reign of Napoleon; De Bourrienne		1823-24; 1836	GBP -	0.16
239	Pelham, Camden; Anon.	The Chronicles of Crime; The Fatal Effects of Gambling		1824; 1887	GBP -	0.05
240	Pope, Alexander; Goldsmith, Oliver	Works; with Life of Author by W. Roscoe; Works		1847; 1854	GBP -	0.05
241	Prescott, W. H.; Warburton, Major G. D.; Ireland, W. H.	History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella; The Conquest of Canada; Memoirs of Henry the Great		1846; 1849; 1824	GBP -	0.05
242	Scott, Sir Walter; Lockhart, J. G.	Lay of the Last Minstrel; Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott	Edinburgh	1837-38; 1812	GBP -	0.05
243	Shakspeare, W.	Plays and Poems		1821	GBP -	0.10
244	Swift, Dean Jonathan	Works	Edinburgh	1814	GBP -	2.00
245	Thackeray, W. M.	History of Pendennis; The Newcomes		1849-50; 1854-55	GBP -	0.05
246	Thackeray, W. M.	Vanity Fair; The Virginians		1848; 1858-59	GBP -	1.00
247	Thiers, M. A.; Horne, R. H.	History of the French Revolution; translated by Shoberl; History of Napoleon		1838; 1840-41	GBP -	0.05
248	Tully, R.; Maxwell, W. H.; Montague, Lady M. W.	A Ten years' residence at the Court of Tripoli; Peninsular Sketches; Letters and Works		1819; 1844-45; 1837	GBP -	0.05
249	Walpole, Horace	Letters to Sir Horace Mann; Letters; Letters to the Countess of Ossory; Correspondence with Mason		1843-44; 1735-97; 1846; 1848; 1851; 1843-51	GBP -	0.10
250	Walton and Cotton; Rousseau, J. J.	The Complete Angler; Confessions		1824; 1897	GBP -	0.10
251	Pepys, Samuel	Memoirs; edited by Lord Braybrooke		1825	GBP -	0.10
252		Bible		1610-11	GBP -	0.10
253	Hariot, Thomas	Virginia		1888	GBP -	1.10
254	Constable, John	English Landscape Scenery		1855	GBP -	0.05
255	Turner, J. M. W.	Celebrated Landscapes		1872	GBP -	0.10
256		Five Original Water-Colour and Sepia Drawings by T. Clark, D. F. Vallance and J. Drummond for "Allan Ramsay and the Scottish Poets before Burns" published by Vertue			GBP -	0.10
257	Desmarets de Saint Sorlin, J.; Aleman, M.	Ariana; The Rogve		1641; 1634	GBP -	1.01
258		Broadsides; The Country Farmers Campain by the Author of banter'd & bubbl'd &c; A Song made upon a Gentleman's sitting upon a Cremona Fiddle; Canterbury			GBP -	1.02
259	Rudder, S.	A New History of Gloucestershire	Cirencester	1779	GBP -	3.00
260	Atkyns, Sir Robert	The Ancient and Present State of Glocéstershire		1768	GBP -	1.10
261		NORFOLK		1583	GBP -	0.08
262	Montaigne, M. de; Typotius, J.	Les Essais; Book Prices Current; Symbola Divina et Humana Pontificum Imperatorum Regum	Paris	1652; 1887-98	GBP -	0.05
263	COTGRAVE, RANDLE; Bacon, F.	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues; Sylva Sylvarum		1611; 1635	GBP -	0.15
264	BRIGGS, HENRY; Favyn, André; Seneca	ARITHMETICA LOGARITHMICA; The Theater of Honour; Workes		1623; 1614; 1624	GBP -	4.00
265		Times Atlas		1922	GBP -	0.10
266	Bickham, G.	The British Monarchy		1748	GBP -	0.10
267	Hall, S. C.	The Baronial Halls and Picturesque Edifices of England		1848	GBP -	Not Sold
268	Harrison, W.	History and Survey of London and Westminster; Remembrances of the Great Exhibition		1776	GBP -	0.05
269	Pox-Davies, A. C.	The Art of Heraldry		1904	GBP -	5.10
270	Harris, M.; Houghton, Rev. W.	Le Aurelien; British Fresh-Water Pishes		1778	GBP -	1.08
271	G., J. R. S.	A Portfolio of Royal Descents		1902	GBP -	0.05
272	Dee, John	A true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee... and some Spirits		1659	GBP -	3.05
273	Hobbes, Thomas	Leviathan		1651	GBP -	1.15
274	Browne, Sir Thomas	Works		1686	GBP -	1.15
275	Bacon, Sir Francis; Juvenalis, D. J. and Flaccus Persius	Of the Advancement of and Proficiencie of Learning; Satyres	Oxford	1674; 1673	GBP -	0.10
276	J. Dryden; Ovid.; Prior, M.	Virgil; Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.; Poems on Several Occasions		1697; 1626	GBP -	0.05
277	Shute, W.	Pliny; Xenophon; Generali Historie of Venice		1601; 1632; 1612	GBP -	2.00
278	Seiden, J.; Chillingworth, W.	Tracts; The Religion of Protestants		1683; 1638	GBP -	0.05
279	Rolt, W.; Johnson, S.	Lives of the Reformers; Dictionary of the English Language		1759; 1756	GBP -	0.08
280	MacQuoid, P.	History of English Furniture		1904-08	GBP -	1.10
281	MacQuoid, P.	and Ralph Edwards. Dictionary of English Furniture		1924-27	GBP -	16.10
282	Cescinsky, H. and Ernest R. Gribble	Early English Furniture and Woodwork		1922	GBP -	2.05
283		Medical		17th and 18th centuries	GBP -	1.05
284		FLOWERS		18th century	GBP -	3.05
285	Garidel, M.; Hippocrates	Histoire des Plantes qui naissent en Provence; Opera Medica	Aix; Basle	1719; 1526	GBP -	0.05
286	Evelyn, J.	Numismata: A Discourse of Medals		1697	GBP -	0.10
287		Société d'Edition Artistique	Paris	c.1900	GBP -	Not Sold
288	Hartshorne, Albert	Old English Glasses		1897	GBP -	0.18
289	Jones, Owen	One Thousand and One Initial Letters		1864	GBP -	0.05
290	Bacon, Sir Francis	Historie of the Raigne of King Henry VII		1622	GBP -	1.12
291	Jonson, Ben; Wycherley, W.	Workes; Miscellany Poems		1640; 1704	GBP -	0.05
292		FRANKS			GBP -	0.10
293		Bookplates			GBP -	3.10
294		Miscellaneous Books various sizes			GBP -	0.05
295	Bunbury, H. W.	An Academy for Grown Horsemen, by Geoffrey Gambado		1787	GBP -	0.10
296	Bunbury, H. W.	Annals of Horsemanship, by Geoffrey Gambado		1791	GBP -	2.08
297	Laborde, A. de	Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne	Paris	1806-20	GBP -	0.10
298	Barrie, J. M.; Irving, W.; Barrie, J. M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; Rip Van Winkle; Quality Street		1905	GBP -	0.10
299	Blair, Robert; Stone, L.; Rabelais., F.	The Grave; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Works	New York	1858; 1884; 1892	GBP -	0.05
300	Cruikshank. Reid, G. W.; Cohn, A. M.	Catalogue of the Works of G. Cruikshank; George Cruikshank		1871-5; 1924	GBP -	0.05
301	Heath, William	Studies from the Stage; or		1823	GBP -	2.02
302	Heath, William	Illustrations of Heraldry		1828	GBP -	0.10
303	Heath, William	A Search after the "Comfortable" being the Adventures of a little Gentleman of Small Fortune		1829	GBP -	1.08
304	Holbein, Hans	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII		1828	GBP -	3.00

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.
Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
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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

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR