Forum Auctions: Online: Tales and Morals: The Fables Collection of the late Eric Sweet, 1026, London

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Auction Date
May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025
Page Size: 198 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176

Calligraphic manuscript.- Wimborne Minster.- In Memoriam: Monuments and Memorials in Wimborne Minster

1960 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 327.60
177 La Fontaine (Jean de)

Fables

Paris 1962-66 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
178 Printing & Typography.- Morison (Stanley) & Kenneth Day.

The Typographic Book: A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries

1963 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 756.00
179 Aesop.

Fables

1968 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 693.00
180 Officina Bodoni.- Aesop.

The Fables...printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and the Italian Version by Accio Zucco...

Verona 1973 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
181 Prints.- Hodnett (Edward)

English Woodcuts 1480-1535

Oxford 1973 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.10
182 Rampant Lions Press.- Morris (William)

The Story of Cupid and Psyche

London & Cambridge 1974 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 239.40
183 Aesop.

Thomas Bewick's Fables of Aesop and Others

Florin Press 1980 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
184 Brandt (Sebastian)

The Shyp of Fooles

1509 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.20
185 Gill (Eric).-

Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The)...

Wellingborough 1987 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 201.60
186 Aesop.

The Hen and the Cat

1988 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.20
187

Battle of the Frogs and Mice (The)

[Marlborough] 1988 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 113.40
188 Landwehr (John)

Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries 1542-1813: A Bibliography

Utrecht 1988 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 163.80
189 Paper & Papermaking.- Churchill (W.A.)

Watermarks in Paper...in the XVII and XVIII Centuries...

Nieuwkoop 1990 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 327.60
190 Paley (Morton D.) & others, editors.

William Blake: The Illuminated Books

1991-95 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 504.00
191 Gwasg Gregynog.- Aesop.- Parker (Agnes Miller)

Wood Engravings from The Fables of Esope.

Newtown 1996 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 302.40
192 Gwasg Gregynog.- Aesop.- Parker (Agnes Miller)

[Eleven Esope Engravings]

Newtown 1996 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 107.10
193 [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Market Drayton 1997-2001 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 945.00
194 Heaney (Seamus, translator)

Beowulf

1997 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 100.80
195 Newton (Francis)

The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino

Cambridge 1999 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 107.10
196 Gwasg Gregynog.- Walters (Gwyn, editor)

Pennant and his Welsh landscapes: Selected readings from A Tour in Wales (1778-1784)

2006 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 554.40
197 Barker (Nicolas)

The Glory of the Art of Writing: The Calligraphic Work of Francesco Alunno of Ferrara

Los Angeles 2009 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 277.20
198 Khayyam (Omar)

The Rubiayat

Pomona 2011 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
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