Examples of fine typography from the library of Jan van der Marck
Sale held on
Monday 8th June 2009
Auction Results
(Hammer prices are shown exclusive of buyer's premium, VAT or other applicable charges)
| 1. | Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by
| (£1500 – £2000) |
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| 2. | Marlowe (Christopher) and George Chapman
| (£500 – £700) |
£620 |
| 3. | Ricketts (Charles) A Defence of the Revival
| (£300 – £400) |
£320 |
| 4. | [Apuleius (Lucius)] De Cupidinis et Psyches
| (£200 – £300) |
£160 |
| 5. | Van der Schalk (Henriëtte) Sonnetten
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 6. | Jeunesse Inaltérable (La) et la Vie
| (£2800 – £3200) |
£3000 |
| 7. | Van Nouhuys (W.G.) Egidius en de Vreemdeling
| (£300 – £400) |
£2300 |
| 8. | Hooglied van Salomo (Het), 36pp., number 4 of
| (£400 – £500) |
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| 9. | Bacon (Francis) Of Gardens, one of 226 copies
| (£300 – £400) |
£300 |
| 10. | Moore (T.Sturge) A Brief Account of the
| (£400 – £600) |
£600 |
| 11. | Nerval (Gerard de) Histoire de la Reine du
| (£2000 – £3000) |
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| 12. | [Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.)] The Ideal Book or
| (£300 – £400) |
£260 |
| 13. | Mackail (J.W.) William Morris: An Address
| (£100 – £150) |
£60 |
| 14. | Browning (Robert) Men & Women, 2 vol
| (£750 – £1000) |
£1300 |
| 15. | Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Carmina Alcaica
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1300 |
| 16. | More (Sir Thomas, Saint) A Fruteful and
| (£2000 – £3000) |
£2800 |
| 17. | Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri
| (£2500 – £3500) |
£5000 |
| 18. | Lanseloet van Denemerken, 48pp., one of 100
| (£250 – £350) |
£200 |
| 19. | Verlaine (Paul) Romances sans Paroles, 48pp
| (£250 – £350) |
£190 |
| 20. | Hardenberg (Friedrich von
| (£150 – £200) |
£180 |
| 21. | Van Royen (Jean-François) and P.N. van
| (£1200 – £1500) |
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| 22. | Leopold (J.H.) Cheops, 16pp., first
| (£1000 – £1500) |
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| 23. | Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Prometheus Unbound
| (£300 – £500) |
£300 |
| 24. | Een Boecxken gemaket van Susten Bertken
| (£800 – £1200) |
£1800 |
| 25. | Van Looy (Jac.) Nieuwjaarsdag, pp.3-104
| (£100 – £150) |
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| 26. | Palladium.- Van Looy (Jac.) De Ar. Een
| (£750 – £1000) |
£800 |
| 27. | -. Van de Woestijne (Karel) Laethemse Brieven
| (£150 – £200) |
£120 |
| 28. | Proef van Nederduitsche Letters en
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 29. | Roland Holst (Adrian) Ex Tenebris Mundi
| (£80 – £120) |
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| 30. | Lousbergh (F.J.H.) Verzen en Fragmenten
| (£500 – £700) |
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| 31. | Nerval (Gérard de) Poésies
| (£400 – £600) |
£300 |
| 32. | Kemp (Mathias) De Zeven Broeders, 36pp
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 33. | Prophetie de Joel (La), 20pp., number 178
| (£350 – £450) |
£360 |
| 34. | Trajectum ad Mosam.- Van den Vondel (Joost
| (£100 – £150) |
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| 35. | -. Labé (Lovïze) De Sonnetten
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 36. | -. Du Bellay (Ioachim) La Deffence &
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 37. | -. Beyle (Marie Henri
| (£150 – £200) |
£150 |
| 38. | Boutens (P.C.) Oud-Perzische Kwatrijnen
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 39. | Oostersch: Verzen naar Perzische en Arabische
| (£1500 – £2000) |
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| 40. | Villon (François) Oeuvres: Le Lais, Le
| (£300 – £400) |
£300 |
| 41. | Péguy (Charles) La Tapisserie de Notre
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 42. | Ronsard (Pierre de) Les Sonnets pour
| (£300 – £400) |
£280 |
| 43. | Du Bellay (Ioachim) La Vieille Courtisanne
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 44. | Du Bellay (Ioachim) Les Regrets, one of 50
| (£150 – £200) |
£110 |
| 45. | Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) De
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 46. | Desportes (Philip) LX Pseaumes de David
| (£300 – £400) |
£380 |
| 47. | Lauweriks (J.L.M.) De Houtsneden van K.P.C
| (£200 – £300) |
£50 |
| 48. | Valéry (Paul) La Jeune Parque
| (£300 – £400) |
£200 |
| 49. | Rilke (Rainer Maria) Les Roses, 38pp
| (£100 – £150) |
£120 |
| 50. | Toulet (P.-J.) Les Contrerimes, number 49
| (£150 – £200) |
£200 |
| 51. | Sur un Air de Paul-Jean Toulet: Chansons
| (£100 – £150) |
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| 52. | [Sappho.] Sapfo. Oden en Fragmenten
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 53. | Edmonds (J.M., translator) Sappho Revocata
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 54. | Homer. Batrachomyomachia, 20pp., number
| (£120 – £180) |
£120 |
| 55. | Homer. Six Hymns… The English
| (£600 – £800) |
£1350 |
| 56. | Everyman: a Dutch Morality Play of the XVth
| (£150 – £200) |
£150 |
| 57. | Villon (François) Les Oeuvres
| (£150 – £200) |
£190 |
| 58. | Milton (John) The Sonnets, one of 325
| (£150 – £200) |
£150 |
| 59. | Constant (Benjamin) Adolphe, edited by Jean
| (£250 – £350) |
£200 |
| 60. | Sonette, 1929; Trilogie der Leidenschaft
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 61. | Huygens (Christian) ‘T Voor-Hout ende
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 62. | Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Sonnets and Songs
| (£200 – £300) |
£200 |
| 63. | Gautier (Théophile) Émaux et
| (£3000 – £4000) |
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| 64. | Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) De Fuir les
| (£250 – £350) |
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| 65. | Moréas (Jean) Les Stances, one of
| (£250 – £350) |
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| 66. | Casenave (Jean) La Bonne Chère selon
| (£100 – £150) |
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| 67. | De Viau (Théophile) Sonnets, 46pp
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 68. | Keats (John) Odes, 24pp., one of 125 copies
| (£600 – £800) |
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| 69. | Douglas (Lord Alfred) Two Loves and other
| (£150 – £200) |
£110 |
| 70. | Jaloux (Edmond) Sur un Air de Scarlatti
| (£180 – £220) |
£150 |
| 71. | Labé (Lovïze) Oeuvres
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 72. | Het Witte Gevaar over Melk, Melkgebruik
| (£150 – £200) |
£170 |
| 73. | Gautier (Théophile) Galanteries, one
| (£250 – £350) |
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| 74. | Roman de Renart (Le), translated by Alexis
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 75. | Varille (Mathieu) L’Histoire de
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 76. | Don Segundo Sombra, one of a few hors
| (£500 – £700) |
£440 |
| 77. | [Beyle (Marie Henri
| (£300 – £400) |
£380 |
| 78. | Boon (Jan) The Plantin Museum at Antwerp
| (£250 – £350) |
£180 |
| 79. | Giono (Jean) Colline, number 99 of 99
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 80. | Güiraldes (Ricardo) El Sendero: Notas
| (£300 – £400) |
£200 |
| 81. | Supervielle (Jules
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 82. | Verhaeren (Émile) Quinze
| (£400 – £600) |
£400 |
| 83. | Verhaeren (Émile) Cinq
| (£600 – £800) |
£640 |
| 84. | Masereel (Frans) Souvenirs de Mon Pays
| (£250 – £350) |
£200 |
| 85. | Masereel (Frans) Die Passion: Eines Menschen
| (£300 – £400) |
£280 |
| 86. | Villon (François) Le Testament, letter
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 87. | Verhaeren (Émile) Les Heures
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 88. | Facétieuse Vie (La) du Jeune Jacquet
| (£250 – £350) |
£220 |
| 89. | Wilde (Oscar) The Young King and other tales
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1600 |
| 90. | Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (The
| (£800 – £1200) |
£900 |
| 91. | Gill (Eric) Passio Domini Nostri Jesu
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1600 |
| 92. | Mathers (E. Powys) Procreant Hymn, number 156
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1600 |
| 93. | Four Gospels (The) of the Lord Jesus
| (£5000 – £7000) |
£4600 |
| 94. | Book of Jonah (The)…, number 78 of 175
| (£1200 – £1800) |
£1700 |
| 95. | Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1900 |
| 96. | Laboureur (Jean-Émile).- Cazotte
| (£200 – £300) |
£300 |
| 97. | Nonesuch Press.- Homer. The Iliad, translated
| (£250 – £350) |
£360 |
| 98. | The Pilgrim's Progress, 2 vol., number 18
| (£350 – £450) |
£380 |
| 99. | Apocrypha (The), according to the
| (£200 – £300) |
£320 |
| 100. | Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1900 |
| 101. | Lamentations of Jeremiah (The), number 226 of
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1200 |
| 102. | Blunt (Lady Anne, translator) The
| (£1800 – £2200) |
£1600 |
| 103. | Limited Editions Club.- Gray (Thomas) Elegy
| (£120 – £180) |
£110 |
| 104. | The Garden of Caresses, 2 vol., number 36
| (£750 – £1000) |
£850 |
| 105. | Song of Songs (The), edited by
| (£800 – £1200) |
unsold |
| 106. | The Collected Sonnets, number XXX of 35
| (£2500 – £3500) |
£2000 |
| 107. | Rimbaud (Arthur) Oeuvres Complètes
| (£100 – £150) |
£70 |
| 108. | Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Die Leiden des
| (£1000 – £1500) |
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| 109. | Milhaud (Darius) Two Poems of Coventry
| (£600 – £800) |
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| 110. | Keats (John) The Letters…to Fanny
| (£300 – £400) |
£340 |
| 111. | [Beyle (Marie Henri
| (£300 – £400) |
£380 |
| 112. | Poe (Edgar Allan) The Masque of the Red Death
| (£600 – £800) |
£600 |
| 113. | Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Dolores, first
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1200 |
| 114. | Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Lyrical
| (£200 – £300) |
£220 |
| 115. | Orléans (Charles, Duc 'd) Carole en
| (£150 – £200) |
£160 |
| 116. | Greshoff (Jan) Gedichten 1907-1934, number
| (£250 – £350) |
£260 |
| 117. | Cupid’s Pastime, letter O of 31
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1200 |
| 118. | Apuleius (Lucius) The Marriage of Cupid and
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1300 |
| 119. | Mathers (E. Powys) Love Night: A Laotian
| (£4000 – £6000) |
£4200 |
| 120. | Gautier (Théophile) Mademoiselle de
| (£800 – £1200) |
£1000 |
| 121. | Omar Khayyám
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£2600 |
| 122. | Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Hymn to
| (£350 – £450) |
£520 |
| 123. | Beaumont (Francis) Salmacis and
| (£400 – £600) |
£650 |
| 124. | Hartnoll (Phyllis) The Grecian Enchanted
| (£400 – £600) |
£550 |
| 125. | Machiavelli (Niccolo) Le Prince, Preface by
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£850 |
| 126. | Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de
| (£400 – £600) |
£340 |
| 127. | Ronsard (Pierre de) Sonnets pour
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£2400 |
| 128. | La Fontaine (Jean de) Les Amours de Psyche
| (£1200 – £1800) |
£2400 |
| 129. | Pascal (Blaise) Trois Opuscules, number XIX
| (£200 – £300) |
£320 |
| 130. | Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) Essais, 3
| (£3000 – £4000) |
£4300 |
| 131. | Bossuet (Jacques Benigne) Oraisons
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1700 |
| 132. | Carco (Francis) and Jean Cassou. Notre Ami
| (£250 – £350) |
£200 |
| 133. | Rimbaud (Arthur) Une Saison en Enfer
| (£2800 – £3200) |
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| 134. | Claudel (Paul) Connaissance de l‘Est
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 135. | Mercier (Cardinal) Patriotisme et
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 136. | Vigny (Alfred de) Les Destinées
| (£250 – £350) |
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| 137. | Poe (Edgar Allan) Le Corbeau
| (£100 – £150) |
£200 |
| 138. | Dante Alighieri. Vita Nuova, number B on
| (£400 – £600) |
£800 |
| 139. | La Fontaine (Jean de
| (£150 – £200) |
unsold |
| 140. | Livre de l’Ecclésiaste (Le
| (£600 – £800) |
£600 |
| 141. | Beckford (William) Vathek: Conte Arabe
| (£200 – £300) |
unsold |
| 142. | Descartes (René) Discours de la
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 143. | Roland Holst (A.) Het Elysisch Verlangen
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 144. | Gide (André) Le Voyage
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 145. | Gide (André) La Symphonie Pastorale
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 146. | Nerval (Gérard de) Les
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 147. | Rabelais (François) Pantagrueline
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 148. | Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) Lettres
| (£200 – £300) |
£190 |
| 149. | Coulouma (Robert).- Anacreon. Les Odes
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 150. | Nypels (Charles).- Thomas à Kempis
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 151. | -.Verlaine (Paul) Odes en son Honneur, 46pp
| (£300 – £400) |
£200 |
| 152. | Boutens (P.C.) Gedichten…Gekozen uit
| (£400 – £600) |
£400 |
| 153. | Verhaeren (Émile) Poèmes
| (£300 – £400) |
£440 |
| 154. | van de Woestijne (Karel) Nagelaten Gedichten
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 155. | The Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope
| (£150 – £200) |
£180 |
| 156. | Boutens (P.C.) Honderd Hollandsche
| (£200 – £300) |
£150 |
| 157. | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Les
| (£350 – £450) |
£380 |
| 158. | Orléans (Charles, Duc d&rsquo
| (£100 – £150) |
£170 |
| 159. | Le Banquet, translated by Mario Meunier
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1500 |
| 160. | Cantique Damour Divin entre Iesus Christ et
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 161. | Rilke (Rainer Maria) Six Lettres à
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 162. | Rimbaud (Arthur) Les Mains de Jeanne Marie
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 163. | Seghers (Pierre) Le Chien de Pique, 72pp
| (£300 – £400) |
£200 |
| 164. | Quousque Tandem? 15 vol., a complete set of
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 165. | Vijf Ponden Pers.- Mallarmé
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 166. | -. Baudelaire (Charles) Le Vin: Cinq
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 167. | -. [Sandberg (Willem)] Experimenta
| (£300 – £400) |
£240 |
| 168. | Van den Vos Reynaerde, edited from the
| (£150 – £200) |
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| 169. | Paulhan (Frédéric
| (£250 – £350) |
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| 170. | Arp (Jean) Rire de Coquille, 16pp., number 87
| (£350 – £450) |
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| 171. | van Krimpen (Jan).- Book of Psalms (The
| (£150 – £200) |
£170 |
| 172. | Sandberg (Willem) Nu: in the middle of the
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 173. | Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£3200 |
| 174. | Schlegel (Friedrich) Lucinde: Ein Roman
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 175. | Germania an ihre Kinder, 12pp., number 146 of
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 176. | Reineke Fuchs, translated from German dialect
| (£250 – £350) |
£260 |
| 177. | Ödipus der Tyrann, translated by
| (£150 – £200) |
unsold |
| 178. | Augustine (Saint, Aurelius Augustinus, of
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1200 |
| 179. | Aeschlyus. Prometheus Desmotes, edited by
| (£1500 – £2000) |
unsold |
| 180. | Pascal (Blaise) Pensées, edited by
| (£200 – £300) |
£200 |
| 181. | Valery (Paul) Gedichte, translated by
| (£350 – £450) |
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| 182. | Vergilius Maro (Publius) Les Églogues
| (£6500 – £7500) |
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| 183. | Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien
| (£1200 – £1800) |
£1400 |
| 184. | Canticum Canticorum Salomonis…, number
| (£1500 – £2000) |
£1700 |
| 185. | Four Gospels (The), introduction by Ernest
| (£80 – £120) |
£30 |
| 186. | Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Epipsychidion, one
| (£200 – £300) |
£180 |
| 187. | Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy
| (£180 – £220) |
£130 |
| 188. | Bontempelli (Massimo) Viaggio d’Europa
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1300 |
| 189. | Valéry (Paul) Le Cimetière
| (£200 – £300) |
£160 |
| 190. | Vergilius Maro (Publius) Le Georgiche
| (£3000 – £4000) |
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| 191. | Ungaretti (Giuseppe) Croazia Segreta
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£850 |
| 192. | Auden (W.H.) Dall’Età
| (£750 – £1000) |
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| 193. | Campana (Dino) La Notte, 2 vol., number 2
| (£300 – £400) |
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| 194. | Borges (Jorge Luis) Siete Poemas Sajones
| (£3000 – £4000) |
£7500 |
| 195. | [de Chirico (Andrea)], "Alberto
| (£1200 – £1800) |
£1500 |
| 196. | Ceronetti (Guido) Storia d’Amore del
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 197. | Licitra (Salvatore) Piccolo Circolo Chiuso
| (£400 – £600) |
£500 |
| 198. | Song of Roland (The), translated by Isabel
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£1000 |
| 199. | Bernard (Auguste) Geoffroy Tory: Painter
| (£200 – £300) |
£170 |
| 200. | Gallatin (A.E.) Modern Fine Printing in
| (£150 – £200) |
unsold |
| 201. | Homer. The Odyssey, [translated by
| (£2500 – £3500) |
£4800 |
| 202. | Aesop. Fables, translated by Samuel
| (£150 – £200) |
£100 |
| 203. | Morison (Stanley) Fra Luca de Pacioli of
| (£500 – £700) |
£400 |
| 204. | Nash (John Henry).- Dante Alighieri. The
| (£1000 – £1500) |
£850 |
| 205. | Grabhorn Press.- Zeitlin (Jake) For
| (£120 – £180) |
£80 |
| 206. | -. Aesop. The Subtyl Historyes and
| (£300 – £400) |
£320 |
| 207. | -. Lewis (Oscar) and others. Valenti
| (£200 – £300) |
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| 208. | The Crosbys and the Black Sun Press
| (£400 – £600) |
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| 209. | -. Wilde (Oscar) L’Anniversaire de
| (£750 – £1000) |
£700 |
| 210. | Preissig (Vojtech).- Whitman (Walt) Salut
| (£150 – £200) |
£100 |
| 211. | Dwiggins (W.A.).- Wells (H.G.) The Time
| (£200 – £300) |
£260 |
| 212. | Garnett (Porter).- Longus. The Pastoral Loves
| (£150 – £200) |
unsold |
| 213. | Stevenson (Robert Louis) An Inland Voyage
| (£400 – £600) |
£550 |
| 214. | Baskin (Leonard).- Bacon (Francis) Of
| (£200 – £300) |
unsold |
| 215. | -. Hughes (Ted) and Leonard Baskin. Mokomaki
| (£2000 – £3000) |
£2800 |
| 216. | Johns (Jasper).- Beckett (Samuel) Foirades
| (£6000 – £8000) |
£8250 |
| 217. | Shakespeare (William) The Tragedie of King
| (£500 – £700) |
unsold |
| 218. | Mather (Cotton) and others. Captivity
| (£250 – £350) |
unsold |
| 219. | Wittgenstein (Ludwig) On Certainty; Über
| (£400 – £600) |
£550 |
| 220. | Berssenbrugge (Mei-Mei) and Kiki Smith
| (£2000 – £3000) |
£2000 |