Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper, 939, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Layard (Austen H.) | Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon |
1853 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 352.80 | |
| 52 | Letronne (Antoine Jean) | I. Sur les ecrits et les Travaux d'Eudoxe de Cnide d'apres M.Ludwig Ideler...II. Du Revetement des Pyramides de Gizeh... |
Paris | 1841 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 63.00 |
| 53 | Manuscripts.- [Psalter, Songs of David], | Ga'ez manuscript on vellum in red and black with occasional decoration |
[18th century] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 54 | Manuscripts.- [Commentary on the Qur'an] |
[c.1850] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 630.00 | ||
| 55 | Manuscripts.- Qur'an |
Sub-Saharan West Africa, | [c.1850]. | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 | |
| 56 | Manuscripts.- Arabic-French phrasebook |
[early 20th century]. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 69.30 | ||
| 57 | Marsham (Sir John) | Chronicus canon Aegyptiacus Ebraicus Graecus et disquisitiones |
1672 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 239.40 | |
| 58 | Needham (Joseph) & others. | Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China, |
Cambridge | 1960 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 113.40 |
| 59 | Penzer (N.M., editor) | The Ocean of Story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara |
1924 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 60 | Persian-Syriac grammar.- Kita?b-i s?arf va nah?v-i zaba?n-i Fa?rsi? |
Urmi, | 1898 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 61 | Pococke (Edward) | A Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea |
Oxford | 1685 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 277.20 |
| 62 | Polo (Marco) | The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian... |
1875 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 239.40 | |
| 63 | Waley (Arthur, translator) | A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems |
1918 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 64 | Zaim (Paul, of Aleppo) | The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, parts III & IV: The Cossack Country |
1832-33. | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 214.20 | |
| 65 | Bockh (August) | Erklarung einer Aegyptischen Urkunde auf Papyrus in Griechischer Cursivschrift ..., folding plate at end |
Berlin | 1821 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 63.00 |
| 66 | Egypt.- Davis (Nathan) | Inscriptions in the Phoenican Character ... discovered on the site of Carthage |
1863 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 31.50 | |
| 67 | Egypt.- Holscher (Uvo) | The Excavation of Medinet Habu. Volume 1. General Plans and Views |
Chicago, | 1934 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 478.80 |
| 68 | Salt (Henry) | Essay on Dr. Young's and M. Champollion's Phonetic System of Hieroglyphics |
1825 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 428.40 | |
| 69 | Stanley (Henry Morton) | In Darkest Africa |
1890 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 604.80 | |
| 70 | America.- Culin (Stewart) | China in America: a study in the Social Life of the Chinese in the Eastern Cities of the United States, folding map frontispiece |
Philadelphia | 1887 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 56.70 |
| 71 | Australia.- Sidney (Samuel) | The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia |
1852 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 69.30 | |
| 72 | Binyon (Laurence) | The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese Frescoes |
1928 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 176.40 | |
| 73 | Binyon (Laurence) | The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Siamese Paintings |
1928 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 214.20 | |
| 74 | Brace (A. J., translator) | Four Virtues to Save Society or English Essays on Chinese Culture, TLs signed by translator loosely inserted, evenly browned throughout |
Chengtu | c.1935. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 277.20 |
| 75 | Britton (Roswell S.) & Frank H. Chalfant. | The Couling-Chalfant Collection of Inscribed Oracle Bone |
[Shanghai] | 1935 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 163.80 |
