Print Prices Current A Complete Annual Record of all MODERN ETCHINGS Sold by Auction in London, Glasgow and ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED THROUGHOUT Vol. III. (1920-21), Vol. IV. (1921-22), Vol. V. (1922-23), and Vol. VI. (1923-24), giving quality of impression and condition of prints sold. Price 27s. each "Wherever possible the condition of the print registered has been indicated. . . . In the absence of such details, the prices paid for prints is extremely bewildering. . . . Messrs. Wilder, therefore, have greatly increased the permanent reference value of their book by attending to details usually ignored in sale catalogues. . . . Messrs. Wilder deserve every encouragement and praise for the evident care which they have taken in compiling this most useful volume."-Times Literary Supplement. "Collectors as well as dealers will welcome the fourth annual volume of Messrs. Wilder's Print Prices Current . . . The season covered by this most useful and carefully edited volume . . ." -Times Literary Supplement. "It is indeed of great value to the collector, and indispensable to the dealer."-Morning Post. Orders to F. L. WILDER, 10, FOREST RISE, LONDON, E. 17 BOOK-PRICES CURRENT VOLUME XXXVIII. Abano (Petrus de). Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum & precipue medicorum, gothic letter, woodcut initials, large woodcut on folio 245 b [Hain *4, Proctor †5069], hf. cf., Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 15 March, 1496, folio (189), Dec. 10, Sotheby Maggs, £10 5s. Abano (P. de). Tractatus de Venenis, roman letter, 29 (should be 48) 11., wants first leaf (blank) and the last 18 containing Arnoldus de Villa Nova, De arte cognoscendi venena " and Valastus de Tarenta " De epidemia," library stamp on first leaf, bound in a leaf of a choir book, written on vell. [Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 8-Copinger 649, Pellechet 7, Proctor 6775], Padua [Leonardus Achates], 1473, 4to. (IA), July 28, Sotheby Mosley, £10 [See also Lot 12, ed. 1487, £16.] £16 IOS. A'Beckett (G. A.) The Comic History of England, col. plates and cuts by Leech, 28 parts in 19, orig. paper wrappers as issued, fine copy, 1846-48 (156), May 19, Dowell [See also Sotheby, Nov. 26, in 2 vol., £19.] A'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of England, first ed., col. plates and woodcuts by J. Leech, 2 vol., cl., 1847-8, 8vo. (82), July 3, Puttick Spencer, £4 8s. [See also Nov. 14, £2 5s.; Sotheby, Mar. 3, 21S.; Dec. 10, hf. cf., £2 15s.; Nov. 26, hf. cf., £2; Mar. 17, hf. cf., £2 48.] A'Beckett (G. A.) Comic History of Rome, col. plates and woodcuts by J. Leech, fine copy, hf. cf. gt. [1851], 8vo. (616), March 17, Sotheby Heseltine, 18s. [See also Lot 3, hf. cf., £1 IS.; Dec. 3, hf. cf., £2 15s.] A'Beckett (G. A.) The Comic History of England, first ed., 2 vol., in the 19-20 original parts, with all the wrappers, col. plates by John Leech, 1846-8-The Comic History of Rome, first ed., in the 9 original parts, with all the wrappers (two slightly defective), col. plates by J. Leech, n.d., folding cl. covers, enclosed in two red mor. drop-cases, lettered, 1846-8 and n.d., 8vo. (2), July 1, Sotheby Maggs, £43 [See also April 28, hf. cf., £2 5s.; XXXVIII. I n.d., £1 10s.; Puttick, Oct. 17, hf. cf., not uniform, £3 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Nov. 19, $65; Nov. 26, n.d., $24.] Abeillard and Heloïse. A Nineteenth Century, and Familiar History of Abeillard and Heloisa, by Robert Rabelais the Younger! 10 col. plates (a few leaves spotted and stained by the set-off from the plates), orig. boards, uncut (label slightly defective), J. Bumpus, 1819, 8vo. (87), July 31, Sotheby Maggs, £9 10S. [See also July 21, hf. mor., £2 28.] Aben Ezra (Abraham Judaeus). Liber de nativitatibus, lit. goth., 30 ll., 38 lines to a full page, initials on black ground and diagrams in the text, with one full-page astronomical diagram, blue mor. [Hain *21, Proctor 4407, Pellechet 16], fine copy, Venetiis, Erhardus Ratdolt, 24 Dec., 1485, 4to. (13), July 28, Sotheby Wilkins, £11 Abercromby (J.) Bronze Age of Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland, numerous plates, 2 vol., cl., t.e.g., Oxford, 1912, 4to. (869), Oct. 31, Hodgson Passmore, £2 5s. [See also Sotheby, July 17, £1 18s.] Academy (The) of Complements. Wherein Ladyes, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers may accomodate their Courtly Practice with most Curious Ceremonies, Complementall, Amorous, High expressions, and formes of speaking, or writing. with Additions of witty Amorous Poems by John Gough], first ed. (the issue with undated Imprimatur), wanting the frontispiece, some rules cut away and collector's stamp on last 2 ll., cf. gt., London, printed by T. Badger for H. Mosley, 1640, 12mo. (1), July 29, Sotheby Dobell, £10 [See also Mar. 31, ed. 1663, mor., £5.] Achilles Tatius. The Amours of Clitophon and Leucippe, now first rendered into English, tree cf., g.e., 1720, 12mo. (482), Nov. 14, Hodgson £2 8s. Ackermann (R.) History of the University of Cambridge, col. aquatint plates by Havell, Bluck and others, after Pugin, Westall, etc., including the rare portraits of the founders and the academical costume after Uwins, 2 vol., hf. russ., gt. backs, m.e., a fine sound copy, 1815, 4to. (459), Feb. 28, Hodgson Spencer, £41 [See also May 7, hf. mor., £27 10s.; Sotheby, Dec. 3, binding cracked, £22 10s.; Mar. 3, hf. mor., £19; American Art Association, April 22, $175; Sotheby, July 17, mor., £36.] Ackermann (R.) History of the University of Oxford, col. aquatint plates by Bluck, Sutherland and Hill, after Pugin, Westall and others, with the portraits of the founders and the academical costume after Uwins, 2 vol., hf. russ. gt., m.e. (Vol. ii. slightly rubbed), a fine copy, 1814, 4to. (460), Feb. 28, Hodgson Spencer, £28 [See also May 21, vell., £20 10s.; Mar. 27, mor., £14 IOS.; Sotheby, April 10, hf. mor., £14 10s.; Mar. 3, hf. mor., £18 10s.; Nov. 20, mor., £23; May 26, russ., £18.] Ackermann (R.) History of Rugby School, 5 col. aquatint plates, hf. roan, 1816 (303), May 29, Hodgson £2 25. Ackermann (R.) History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, col. plates, 2 vol., russ. ex., g.e., rebacked (some 11. slightly foxed), 1812, 4to. (179), Nov. 14, Puttick Cousins, £20 [See also Hodgson, Feb. 28, £6; Feb. 20, mor., £7 17s. 6d.; Sotheby, Mar. 3, hf. mor., £5 5s.; July 17, mor., £6.] Ackermann (R.) History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, 2 vol., 1812-History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., 1814-History of the University of Cambridge, 2 vol., 1815-History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster, with the Charterhouse, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital, 1816, together 7 vol., col. plates by Pugin, Nash and others, the Cambridge and Oxford vol. are without the founders and Oxford Vol. ii. lacks plate exterior of the Radcliffe Library (a few ll. a little stained by set-off from plates), green roan, line borders round sides with corner fleurons (slightly rubbed), g.e., uniform, 1812-16, 4to. (22) Nov. 7, Sotheby David, £70 Ackermann (R.) History of the Colleges (Winchester, Eton, Westminster and Charter-House) and Public Schools (St. Paul's, Harrow, Rugby, etc.), 48 col. aquatint plates after Pugin, Westall and others, hf. russ., gt. back, m.e., a fine copy, 1816, 4to. (461), Feb. 28, Hodgson Spencer, £45 Ackermann (R.) Microcosm of London, col. aquatint plates by Bluck, Hill and others, after Pugin and Rowlandson, 3 vol., diced cf. gt. (rebacked and a few plates discoloured), 1808-10, 4to. (463), Feb. 28, Hodgson Spencer, £27 IOS. [See also Mar. 27, hf. mor., 21; May 21, cf., £24; Sotheby, Mar. 3, hf. mor., £18 10s.; July 1, mor., £46; Nov. 7, roan, 25; July 4, mor., £18; Dec. 17, mor., £25; Nov. 26, £20; July 17, vell., £31.] Ackermann (R.) Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Fashions, etc., numerous col. aquatint and other plates, with the Fabrics, First Series, Vol. i. to vi., ix., xi. and xii.; Second Series, 14 vol.; and Third Series, 12 vol., together 35 vol., uniform hf. crimson mor. gt., t.e.g., 1809-28, 8vo. (806), June 18, Hodgson Lee, £50 [See also May 21, ed. 1816-18, 5 vol., hf. russ., second series, £2 10s.; Sotheby, Nov. 7, ed. 1809-22, first and second series, 28 vol., 17 10s.; July 21, ed. 1816-21, second series, 12 vol., £6 5s.] Acosta (Joseph). The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, written in Spanish by Ioseph Acosta and translated into English by E.[dward] G. [rimeston], with the blank leaf before the title, marked A, and another blank following the table (b 4), some lower corners water-stained, orig. vell. back (both sides missing), Printed by Val. Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley, 1604, sm. 4to. (236), April 14, Sotheby Edwards, 15 IOS. [See also July 24, mor., £8; Mar. 3, defective, £1 158.; Dec. 10, ed. 1600, in French, £2 18s.; Hodgson, July 2, ed. 1608, £3 3s.] Acts of Parliament, anno 9, Henry VI., 68 folios, the last blank, with Pynson's device on verso (2 11. repaired and some stained), hf. mor., Impressum per (Richardum Pynson) Regis Impressorem [after 1513], sm. folio (254), June 26, Hodgson Ellis, £10 (Anno Mariae primo), black letter, In aedibus Iohannis Cawodi, May, 1554— Anno primo et secundo Philippi & Mariae, black letter, ib., 1555; Anno secundo & tertio P. & M., black letter, ib., 1555; Anno quarto et quinto P. & M., black letter, ib., 1558, 4 in 1 vol., bound in 2 11. of an old manuscript on vell., etc., folio (1), April 14, Sotheby Actes made in the Parliamente Sweet & Maxwell, £14 Adair (J.) History of the American Indians, particularly [of] Mississippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina and Virginia, folding map, old cf., 1775 (381), June 26, Hodgson Edwards, £6 5s. [See also Feb. 28, £4; Mar. 5, £5 17s. 6d. ; American Art Association, Feb. 26, cf., $42.50.] Adam (R.) Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, numerous engraved folding plates by Bartolozzi and plans, old red mor. ex., gt. tooled borders, g.e., 1764, folio (591), Dec. 13, Hodgson Quaritch, £3 5s. [See also Feb. 28, George III. copy, £20.] Adam (R. and J.) Works in Architecture, plates, 3 vol., unbound, in portfolio, 1907, atlas folio (651), June 5, Hodgson Batsford, £4 Adamson (J.) The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince Iames . . . at his Majesties happie Returne to his olde and native Kingdome of Scotland, after 14 yeeres absence, in anno 1617, first ed., woodcut portrait as frontispiece, contemp. cf., name on title, the arms of James I. in gold on the panels of the sides, with gold corner ornaments, gt. back, g.e., Bindley copy, Edinb., A. Hart, 1618, folio (6), April 7, Sotheby Rosenbach, £30 [See also Mar. 31, ed. 1618, mor., £15.] Addison (J.) Works, portrait and plates, 4 vol., red mor., ochre edges, Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1761, 4to. (7), April 7, Sotheby Quaritch, £16 [See also Nov. 20, russ., £5 10s.; April 28, ed. 1804, 6 vol., £2 5S.; American Art Association, April 22, ed. 1761, russ., $80; Hodgson, Oct. 24, cf., £4 7s. 6d. ; Dec. 13, russ., worn, £5; June 5, cf. broken, £2 10s.] |