Christies: Christies : 9590 , 9590 ,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 2003 - January 01, 2003

Page Size: 195 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
100	MOTLEY, John Lothrop	History of the United Netherlands	London	1814-77, 1860-67	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,410.00
101	BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, ELGAR, Sir Edward, BERLIOZ, Hector, MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix, WEBER, Carl Maria von	MUSIC. An extensive collections of autograph letters signed, quotations and fragments by composers, musicians and singers, including:		1770-1827, 1857-1934, 1803-1869, 1809-1847, 1786-1826	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	28,200.00
102	NASH, Frederick (and others)	Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs	London	1823	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
103	NEWCOME, Peter (1727-97)	The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation, called the Abbey of St. Alban	London	1795	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
104	OGILBY, John	Britannia	London		GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,347.00
105	ORMEROD, George	The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester... Second Edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby	London	1785-1873, 1882	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
106	OSBALDISTON, William Augustus	The British Sportsman, or, Nobleman, Gentleman, and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement	London	1792	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,997.00
107	PAGE, William (editor)	The Victoria History of the County of Hertford	London	1902-23	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	528.00
108	PASTON, George, pseudonym	[i.e. Emily Morse SYMONDS.] Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century	London	1905	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	2,585.00
109	Howell	The Picture of Liverpool; or Stranger's Guide. A New Edition, Considerably Enlarged	Liverpool	1808	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	411.00
110	PLATO	Opera omnia quae exstant, translated by M. Ficinus	Lyon	427?-347 B.C. 1590	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	446.00
111	Thomas Rowlandson after James Green	Poetical Sketches of Scarborough	London	1813	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	763.00
112	Cruikshank	Political and Satirical History of the Years, part II: of the Years	London	1756, 1757, 1758-1759, c.?1759	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	705.00
113	REID, Stuart J. (editor)	The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria	London	1890-95	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	211.00
114	RICHARDSON, Charles James	Studies from Old English Mansions, their Furniture, Gold & Silver Plate &c. By an Architect	London	1806-71, 1841-48	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	705.00
115	RITSON, Joseph editor (1752-1803)	Robin Hood: A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw	London	1795	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,407.00
116	ROBY, John	Traditions of Lancashire	London	1829-31	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	411.00
117	ROSCOE, Thomas editor	The Novelist's Library... with Illustrations from Original Designs	London	1791-1871, 1831-33	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,350.00
118	SALMON, Nathaniel	The History of Hertfordshire; Describing the County, and its Antient Monuments, Particularly the Roman	London	1728	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
119	SCOTT, Walter	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1771-1832, 1852-53	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,175.00
120	SCOn, Walter (1771-1832)	Waverley Novels	London	1897	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,292.00
121	SETTLE, Elkanah (1648-1724)	Threnodia Apollinaris. A Funeral Poem, to the Memory of the Right Honourable William, Earl Cowper, &c	London	1723	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,880.00
122	SHAKESPEARE, William	The Pictorial Edition of the Works... Edited by Charles Knight	London	1564-1616, n.d.	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	646.00
123	SHEPHERD, John Chiene & Geoffrey Alan JELLICOE	Italian Gardens of the Renaissance	London	1925	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	998.00
124	SLOANE, William Milligan	Life of Napoleon Bonaparte	New York	1850-1928, 1906	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,762.00
125	SMITH, Albert Richard (1816-60)	The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad	London	1948	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	587.00
126	STANHOPE, Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope, STRICKLAND, Agnes	History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace ofAix-la-Chapelle, Lives of the Queens of England	London, London	1805-75, 1836-54, 1796-1874, 1840-48	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,627.00
127	STRUTT, Joseph (1749-1802)	Horda Angel-Cynnan: or a Compleat View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, &c. of the Inhabitants of England	London	1775-76	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	411.00
128	STUKELEY, William	Itinerarium Curiosum: Centuria Prima. Or, An Account of the Antiquities and remarkable Curiosities in Nature and Art, observed in Travels through Great Brittan. Illustrated with One Hundred Folio Prints in Copper	London	1687-1765, 1725	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	4,700.00
129	SWIFT, Jonathan	The Works... With some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth	London	1667-1745, 1755-65	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	470.00
130	THACKERAY, William Makepeace	The Works	London	1811-63, 1879	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	2,585.00
131	THACKERAY, William Makepeace	The Prose Works, edited by Walter Jerrold	London	1811-63, 1901-03	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,645.00
132	TENNYSON, Alfred Lord	The Works	London	1809-92, 1872-73	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,880.00
133	THACKERAY, William Makepeace	The Works... with Biographical Introductions by his Daughter, Anne Ritchie	London	1811-63, 1902-04	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	528.00
134		THEATRICAL AUTOGRAPHS.			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	352.00
135	THOMSON, James	The Seasons	London	1700-48, 1807	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	376.00
136	THORBURN, Archibald	Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland	London	1923	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
137	TIMBS, John	English Eccentrics and Eccentricities	London	1801-75, 1866	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,410.00
138	TIPPING, Henry Avray	English Homes	London	1921-29	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	2,585.00
139	TRISTRAM, W. Outram	Coaching Days and Coaching Ways	London	1888	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	940.00
140	WALPOLE, Horace, 4th Earl of Oxford, John Doran, R. Vernon Smith, J. Mitford and others	Works	London	1717-97, 1840-59	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,350.00
141	WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy	The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humourous	London	1825-26	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	1,116.00
142	WHEATLEY, Henry Benjamin	Round About Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or, a Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park	London	1838-1917, 1870	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,527.00
143	WILKINSON, John Gardener	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians	London	1797-1875, 1837-1841	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	470.00
144	BULWER LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton, first Baron Lytton	Alice or the Mysteries. A Sequel to Ernest Maltravers, Ismael; an Oriental Tale, with other poems, Weeds and Wildflowers	London, London, Paris	1803-1873, 1838, 1820 1826	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,645.00
145	MURRAY, Anna Maria	The Guardian; A Tale. By an Australian	Sydney	1808-1899, 1838	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
146	CHRISTIE, William Harvey	A Love Story. By a Bushman	Sydney	1808-1873, 1841	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
147	DARWIN, Charles Robert	The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex	London	1809-1882, 1871	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
148	IVES, Edward	A Voyage from England to India in the YearMDCCLIV	London	d. 1786, 1773	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
149	PLATO	Opera quae extant omnia, in Greek with Latin translation by Jean de Serres, edited by Henri Estienne II	Geneva	427?-347 B.C. 1578	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	5,640.00
150	SCRIVERIUS, Petrus Pieter Schrijver (1576-1660)	Principes Hollandiae, et Westfrisiae ab anno Christi DCCCLXIII	Haarlem	1650	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,762.00
151	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe	The Revolt of Islam	London	1792-1822, 1818	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	646.00
152	ANDREW of WYNTOUN, HOME, John	De Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, The History of the Rebellion in the Year	London, London	1350-1420, 1895, 1722-1808, 1745, 1802	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	940.00
153	BOYER, Abel (1667-1729)	The Royal Dictionary, in two parts. First French and English. Secondly English and French	London	1699	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	329.00
154	BRYANT, Jacob (1715-1804)	A New System; or, an analysis of Antient Mythology	London	1807	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	528.00
155	DRUMMOND, William, GRAY, Thomas	Works, Poems... with notes by Gilbert Wakefield	Edinburgh, London	1585-1649, 1711, 1716-1771, 1786	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
156	LAS CASES, Emmanuel Dieudonne, Comte de. HORNE, Richard Hengist	The Life, Exile and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, The History of Napoleon	London, London	1766-1842, 1835, 1803-1834, 1841	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,350.00
157	GROTE, George	A History of Greece	London	1794-1871, 1862	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,645.00
158	LINDSAY, David, Sir	Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript, The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland	Edinburgh, Edinburgh	ca. 1486-1555, 1822, 1906	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	763.00
159	LOCKHART, George	Memoirs concerning the affairs of Scotland from Queen Anne's Accession to the Throne, to the commencement of the union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England	London	1673-1731, May, 1707, 1714	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
160	PHILIPPART, John (?1784-1874)	Northern Campaigns, from the commencement of the war in 1812, to the armistice signed and ratified June 4, 1813		1813	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,057.00
160	PHILIPPART, John (1784-1874)	Northern Campaigns, from the commencement of the war in 1812, to the armistice signed and ratified June 4, 1813	London	1813	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,057.00
161	Henry Savile	Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis	Frankfurt	1549-1622, 1601	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	235.00
162	AUSTEN, Jane	The Novels, text edited by R. Brimley Johnson	London	1775-1817, 1909-1910	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,762.00
163	Captain Sir ft F Burton	ARABIAN NIGHTS, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights... translated from the Arabic	London	1894-1897	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,410.00
164	BARRIE, James Matthew and Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE	Jane Annie; Or, the Good Conduct Prize	London	1860-1937, 1859-1930, May 1983	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	41.00
165	BARRIE, James Matthew & Arthur RACKHAM	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens	New York, London	1860-1937, 1867-1939, 1908, 1908	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	998.00
166	BEARDSLEY, Aubrey	The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly	London	1872-98, April 1894 - April 1897	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	329.00
167	BYRON, Lord George Gordon Noel, Werner, a Tragedy	Manfred, a dramatic poem, The Corsair, a Tale, The Prisoner of Chillon, and other poems, Mazeppa, a poem	London, London, London, London, London	1788-1824, 1817, 1823, 1814, 1816, 1819	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	305.00
168	CHAUCER, Geoffrey	The Works	Stratford-upon-Avon	1340-1400, 1928-29	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,585.00
169	COOMBE, William (1741-1823) & Thomas ROWLANDSON (1756-1827)	The English Dance of Death	London	1815-1816	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
170	CRUIKSHANK, George - William Makepeace THACKERAY	An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank	London	1792-1878, 1811-1863, 1840	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
171	DICKENS, Charles (1812-70)	Works	London	n.d.	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,645.00
172	DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan, Rodney Stone	The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes	London, London	1859-1930, 1927, 1896	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	587.00
173	DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan	His last Bow. Some Reminiscenes of Sherlock Holmes, The Wanderings of a Spiritualist	London, London	1859-1930, 1917, 1921	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
174	FROISSART, Jean	Cronycles, translated from the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners	Stratford-upon-Avon	1333-1400, 1927-28	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	822.00
175	HELPS, Arthur (1813-1875)	The Spanish Conquest in America			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,762.00
175	HELPS, Arthur	The Spanish Conquest in America	London, London	1813-1875, 1855-61, 1850	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,762.00
176	HOOKER, Joseph Dalton	Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, theSikkim and Nepal Himalayas	London	1817-1911, 1854	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	763.00
177	HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963)	Brave New World	London	1932	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
178	KELMSCOTT PRESS -- KEATS, John, F. S. Ellis (1795-1821)	The Poems	London	1894	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,292.00
179	KIPLING, Rudyard	Works, The Jungle Book.	London, London	1865-1936, 1913-1927, 1894	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
180	LODGE, Edmund	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain	London	1756-1839, 1840	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,410.00
181	MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law	First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, El Alamein to the River Sangro. Normandy to the Baltic	London	1887-1976, 1971	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	446.00
182	John and William Langhorne	PLUTARCH, 46-120 Lives	London	1778	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	822.00
183	PERCY, Sholto i.e. Joseph Clinton ROBERTSON & Reuben Thomas BYERLEY	The Percy Anecdotes. Original and select	London	1826	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,292.00
184	SCOTT, Sir Walter, Quentin Durward	Peveril of the Peak	Edinburgh, London, Edinburgh, London	1771-1832, 1822, 1823	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	411.00
185	SCOTT, Sir Walter, Robert Cadell	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh, London	1771-1832, 1842-1847	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	2,115.00
186	SCOTT, Sir Walter, Robert Cadell, Waverley Novels	THE WORKS, comprising: The Miscellaneous Prose Works, The Poetical Works	Edinburgh, London, Edinburgh, London, Edinburgh, London	1771-1832, 1834-40, 1829-1833, 1833-1834	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,995.00
187	SMOLLETT, Tobias, WILSON, John	Miscellaneous Works	Edinburgh, Edinburgh and London	1721-1771, 1790, 1785-1854, 1866-68	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,880.00
188	SPENSER, Edmund (15527-99)	The Poetical Works	London	1810	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	1,762.00
189	THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-63)	The Works	London	1878-1886	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,880.00
190	VERGILIUS MARO, Publius	Antiquissimi Virgiliani codicis fragmenta et picturae ec bibliotheca Vaticana	Rome	70-19 B.C. 1741	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	763.00
191	WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)	Complete Writings, New York, Philadelphia	Chicago	1907-09	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	564.00
192	WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900)	Works	London	1908-22	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	706.00

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