Hodgson & Co.: A CATALOGUE OF Books from Various Sources. COMPRISING, INCUNABULA--TURNER'S HERBAL, AND COVERDALE'S HOMISH APOTHECARY, 1551-62 AND OTHER INTERESTING 16TH-17TH CENTURY BOOKS--FIRST EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, 2 VOLS--BLOMEFIELD'S NORFOLK, 11 VOLS, 19451025,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 25, 1945 - October 25, 1945

Page Size: 649 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201		East India Company--Report on the State of the Company...			GBP -	Unknown
202		Pamphlets--The Revolution in Russia in 1762			GBP -	Unknown
203	Priestley (J.)	Chart of Biography...			GBP -	Unknown
204		Acts relating to London and Westminster			GBP -	Unknown
205		Montaigne (M. de) Essays, now rendred into English by Charles Cotton...		1703	GBP -	Unknown
206		Scarron (P.) Le Prince Corsaire: Tragi-Comedie...			GBP -	Unknown
207		Baconiana...			GBP -	Unknown
208		Royal Society--Philosophical Transactions Abridg'd		1716	GBP -	Unknown
209		Newton (Sir I.) Correspondence with Cotes...			GBP -	Unknown
210	Houghton (J.)	Letters for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade		1681	GBP -	Unknown
211		Prior (M.) Poems on Several Occasions...			GBP -	Unknown
212	Swift (J.)	Swift (J.) Works		1755	GBP -	Unknown
213	Lambert (C. F.)	Histoire Generale de tous les Peuples du Monde		1750	GBP -	Unknown
214	Johnson (S.)	Falkland's Islands			GBP -	Unknown
215	Johnson (S.)	Johnson (S.) Works		1792	GBP -	Unknown
216	Boswell (J.)	Decision of the Court of Sessions on Literary Property 1774			GBP -	Unknown
217		Plays--Tunbridge-Walks			GBP -	Unknown
218		Sprat (T.) The Plague of Athens...			GBP -	Unknown
219	Gascoigne (G.)	The Steele Glas, and The Complaynt of Phylomene		1576	GBP -	Unknown
220		Froissart--An Epitome of Frossard			GBP -	Unknown
221	Lambarde (W.)	Perambulation of Kent		1596	GBP -	Unknown
222	Somner (W.)	Antiquities of Canterbury			GBP -	Unknown
223		Bruce (J. C.) The Roman Wall...			GBP -	Unknown
224		Viollet-le-Duc. Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise du xie au xvie Siecle		1858	GBP -	Unknown
225		Origines Islandicae: Sagas and other Native Writings relating to the Early History of Iceland	Oxford	1905	GBP -	Unknown
226	Von Gerning (J. J.)	Picturesque Tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne		1820	GBP -	Unknown
227		ACKERMANN'S MICROCOSM OF LONDON, or London in Miniature		1808	GBP -	Unknown
228	Fielding (T. H.)	Picturesque Description of the River Wye		1841	GBP -	Unknown
229	Calvert (F.)	The Isle of Wight Illustrated		1846	GBP -	Unknown
230	Franceschini (G.)	Nuova Raccolta di Costumi di diverse Natzioni e Tempi			GBP -	Unknown
231		Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho and the Hon. Tom Dashall through the Metropolis		1821	GBP -	Unknown
232	Green (J.)	Poetical Sketches of Scarborough		1813	GBP -	Unknown
233	Combe (W.)	History of Johnny Quae Genus, or The Little Foundling		1822	GBP -	Unknown
234	Combe (W.)	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax		1823	GBP -	Unknown
235		Bertin and Breton. China: its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, etc.		1824	GBP -	Unknown
236	Shoberl (F.)	The World in Miniature--Switzerland			GBP -	Unknown
237	Sterne (L.)	Sterne (L.) Works		1818	GBP -	Unknown
238		La Belle Assemblee, coloured plates of costume, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
239	Cotton (J.)	The Song Birds of Great Britain		1836	GBP -	Unknown
240	Denton (S. F.)	Moths and Butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains	Boston	1900	GBP -	Unknown
241	Edwards (Sydenham)	New Botanic Garden		1812	GBP -	Unknown
242	Colebrook (R. H.)	Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore		1805	GBP -	Unknown
243	Forrest (Lt. Col.)	Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna		1824	GBP -	Unknown
244	Grindlay (R. M.)	Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India		1826	GBP -	Unknown
245	Forbes (J.)	Forbes (J.) Oriental Memoirs		1813	GBP -	Unknown
246	Dunlop (J.)	Mooltan, during and after the Siege		1849	GBP -	Unknown
247	Herald (B. D.)	Nine Views around Kolapore		1845	GBP -	Unknown
248	Fullarton (Col.)	Views in the Himalaya...			GBP -	Unknown
249	Soltykoff (Prince A.)	Indian Scenes and Characters from Drawings made on the Spot		1859	GBP -	Unknown
250	Jack (Lt. Col. A.)	Six Views of Kot Kangra		1847	GBP -	Unknown
251	Eden (Hon. Miss)	Portraits of the Princes and Peoples of India		1844	GBP -	Unknown
252		Oriental Portfolio...			GBP -	Unknown
253	Hardinge (C. S.)	Recollections of India		1847	GBP -	Unknown
254		Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe		1816	GBP -	Unknown
255		Costume--The Punishments of China		1801	GBP -	Unknown
256		Costume--Gold (C.) 12 Coloured Plates of Natives of India, Sepoys, Brahmins, etc.		1799	GBP -	Unknown
257	Stothard (Mrs. C.)	Tour through Normandy, Brittany, etc.		1820	GBP -	Unknown
258	Britton (J.)	Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain		1835	GBP -	Unknown
259	Pugin (A. W.)	Antient Timber Houses			GBP -	Unknown
260	Fenton (R.)	Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire		1811	GBP -	Unknown
261	Cranage (D. H. S.)	Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire		1901	GBP -	Unknown
262	Noorthouck (J.)	History of London...			GBP -	Unknown
263		Wilars de Honecort Architect of the 13th Century Sketch-Book		1859	GBP -	Unknown
264	Fossa (F. de)	Le Chateau Historique de Vincennes & travers les Ages		1908	GBP -	Unknown
265	Bulleid and Gray	The Glastonbury Lake Village		1911	GBP -	Unknown
266	Gallwey (Sir R.)	Payne-The Crossbow, Mediaeval, Modern, Military and Sporting		1903	GBP -	Unknown
267	Clephan (R. C.)	The Tournament: its Periods and Phases		1919	GBP -	Unknown
268	Grego (J.)	Rowlandson the Caricaturist			GBP -	Unknown
269	Sir E. J. Poynter, editor	National Gallery (The)		1899	GBP -	Unknown
270	Kristeller (P.)	Andrea Mantegna		1901	GBP -	Unknown
271	Skelton (Sir J.)	Charles I		1898	GBP -	Unknown
272		Flaxman's Classical Compositions....			GBP -	Unknown
273	Spenser (E.)	Spenser (E.) Faerie Queene: a Poem		1897	GBP -	Unknown
274		Webster's English Dictionary...		1922	GBP -	Unknown
275	Hall (Capt. B.)	Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and Loo-Choo Island		1818	GBP -	Unknown
276	Kennet (White)	Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
277	Chesterfield (Earl of)	Chesterfield (Earl of) Miscellaneous Works		1778	GBP -	Unknown
278	Reiset (Vicomte de)	Josephine de Savoie, Comtesse de Provence, 1753-1810	Paris	1913	GBP -	Unknown
279	Tuer (A. W.)	Tuer (A. W.) Bartolozzi and his Works			GBP -	Unknown
280	Meier-Graefe (J.)	Corot	Berlin	1930	GBP -	Unknown
281		ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: a Survey of Universal Knowledge		1929	GBP -	Unknown
282		OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, being a Corrected Re-Issue	Oxford	1933	GBP -	Unknown
283	Walsingham (T.)	Historia Breuis ab Edwardo primo ad Henricum quintum		1574	GBP -	Unknown
284	Burton (W.)	Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary		1658	GBP -	Unknown
285	Dugdale (Sir W.)	Short View of the Late Troubles in England		1681	GBP -	Unknown
286	Bickham (G.)	The Universal Penman		1741	GBP -	Unknown
287	Boissard (J. J.)	Romanae Urbis Topographic partes IV...			GBP -	Unknown
288		Muratori (L. A.) Annali d'ltalia...			GBP -	Unknown
289		Domesday Book			GBP -	Unknown
290		Domesday Book of Kent...			GBP -	Unknown
291		Domesday Book of Sussex...			GBP -	Unknown
292	E. Gibson	Camden (W.) Britannia		1722	GBP -	Unknown
293	Horsley (J.)	Britannia Romana: or The Roman Antiquities of Britain		1732	GBP -	Unknown
294	Dugdale (Sir W.)	History of Imbanking and Draining of divers Fens and Marshes, Second		1772	GBP -	Unknown
295	Stukeley (W.)	Itinerarium Curiosum, or Antiquities and Curiosities of Great Britain		1776	GBP -	Unknown
296	Madox (T.)	Firma Burgi, or Essay on the Cities and Boroughs of England		1726	GBP -	Unknown
297	Thorpe (J.)	Registrant Roffense, or Ancient Records of the History and Antiquities of Rochester		1769	GBP -	Unknown
298		Somner (W.) Antiquities of Canterbury...			GBP -	Unknown
299	Hearne and Byrne	Antiquities of Great Britain		1786	GBP -	Unknown
300		Society of Antiquaries--Vetusta Monumenta		1747	GBP -	Unknown

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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