Forum Auctions: Online: Tales and Morals: The Fables Collection of the late Eric Sweet, 1026, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Aesop. | Fables... |
Paris & New York | [1931] | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 554.40 |
| 152 | La Fontaine (Jean de) | The Fables |
1931 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 302.40 | |
| 153 | Vergilius Maro (Publius) | The Georgics... |
1931 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,780.00 | |
| 154 | Gregynog Press.- Lamentations of Jeremiah (The) |
Newtown | 1933 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 693.00 | |
| 155 | Aesop. | Fables Choisies |
Paris | 1934 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 138.60 |
| 156 | Golden Cockerel Press.- Ecclesiastes or the Preacher |
1934 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 453.60 | ||
| 157 | Gregynog Press.- Bridges (Robert) | Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures |
1935 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 327.60 | |
| 158 | Ovidius Naso (Publius) | L'Art d'Aimer |
Lausanne | 1935 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 159 | Aesop. | Fables |
1936 SS La Fontaine (Jean de) The Fables, translated by Edward Marsh, 2 vol | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 453.60 | |
| 160 | Aesop. | [Eleven proof leaves printed on vellum from 'Fables'] |
1936 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 630.00 | |
| 161 | Omar Khayyam. | Rubaiyat... |
1937 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 302.40 | |
| 162 | Calligraphic manuscript.- Olympic Games.- XIV Olympiad London 1948 |
1948 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 819.00 | ||
| 163 | Ovidius Naso (Publius).- Beaumont (Francis) | Salmacis and Hermaphroditus |
1951 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 529.20 | |
| 164 | Sweet (Eric) | Calligraphic manuscript.- The Craft of Gilding: Materials and History |
1953 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 165 | Aesop. | Aesop's Fables |
Garden City, NY | 1954 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 277.20 |
| 166 | Golden Cockerel Press.- Browne (William) | Circe and Ulysses |
1954 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 167 | Hassall (W.O.) | The Holkham Bible Picture Book |
1954 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 453.60 | |
| 168 | White (T.H.) | The Book of Beasts... |
1954 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 239.40 | |
| 169 | Krol (Abram) | Bestiaire |
Paris | 1955 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 |
| 170 | Golden Cockerel Press.- Ovidius Naso (Publius) | The Metamorphoses |
1958 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 819.00 | |
| 171 | Roxburghe Club.- Millar (Eric George, editor) | A Thirteenth Century Bestiary in the Library of Alnwick Castle |
Oxford | 1958 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 138.60 |
| 172 | Roxburghe Club.- Backhouse (Janet) | The Madresfield Hours |
1975 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 173 | Roxburghe Club.- Barker (Nicolas, editor) | Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504 |
1988 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 151.20 | |
| 174 | Golden Cockerel Press.- Shakespeare (William) | The Poems & Sonnets... |
1960 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 175 | Officina Bodoni.- Feliciano (Felice, of Verona) | Alphabetum Romanum |
1960 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 693.00 |
