Christies: PRINTED BOOKS, Including the Properties of Stanford University and the late, William Fagg, and the Library of the late John Sparrow, O.B.E., Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (Part II)., 4883,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 18, 1992 - December 18, 1992

Page Size: 244 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	AGRICOLA, Georgius	De Re Metallica	London	1912	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	385.00
2	AGRICOLA, Georgius	De Re Metallica	London	1912	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	352.00
3	PLATO	Opera quae extant omnia [tr. J. Serranus], H. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium	Geneva	1578	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	2,640.00
4	PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius	Historia Mundi [ed. Hieronymous Froben], Annotationibus Beati Rhenani	Basle, in officina Frobeniana	Jan., March 1530	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	187.00
5	ALEXANDER	Aphrodisiensis. In quatuor libros Meteorologicorum Aristotelis, commentatio lucidissima	Venice	1561	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	209.00
6	ARISTOPHANES	Comoediae Novem. Plutus Nebulae Ranae Equites Acharnes Vespae Aus Pax Continionantes	Venice	15 July 1498	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,760.00
7		BALLIOL COLLEGE STATUTES -- A MANUSCRIPT notebook			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	462.00
8		DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus. Scripta quae exstant, omnia	Frankfurt	1586	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	418.00
9	EGNATIUS, Johannes Baptista	De Exemplis Illustrium Virorum Venetae	Paris, in officina Audoëni Parui	6 Oct., 1554	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	418.00
10		EPICTETUS. Arriani Epictetus	Venice	1535	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,100.00
11	ERASMUS, Desiderus	In Evangelium Marci paraphrasis	Basle	1524	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
12	ERASMUS, Desiderius	De Civilitate morum puerilium	Paris	1541	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	462.00
13	GEORGIUS Nicomediensis (1604-75) and Johannes CHRSYSOTOMUS (Archbishop of Constantinople)	Mariale.			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	418.00
14	GLANVILLE, Ranulph de	Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae, tempore Regis Henrici secundi compositus	London	1604	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	264.00
15	GOWER, John (translator)	OVIDIUS NASO. Ovid's Festivalls, or Romane Calendar	London	1640	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	82.50
16	GREGORY IX (Pope)	Decretalis	Cologne	31 March 1479	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,200.00
17	HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus	The Poems of Horace, consisting of odes, satyres, and epistles, rendered in English and paraphrased by several persons	London	1671	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
18	HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus	Opera	London	1792-93	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	418.00
19	LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus	De Rerum Natura libri sex	Birmingham	1772	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	77.00
20	PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius	Comoediae Viginti	Florence	1522	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	605.00
21	PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius	Opera Dinonyius Lambini emendatus	Paris	October, 1576	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	264.00
22	SANDYS, George, translator; OVIDIUS NASO, Publius	Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures ... by G.S.	Oxford	1632	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	242.00
23	SARDI, Alessandro	Liber de Nummis	Mainz	1579	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	187.00
24	SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius	Vitae XII Caesarum	Venice	28 July 1500	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,320.00
25	THUCYDIDES	Works, in Greek	Venice	1502	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	6,600.00
26	PLUTARCH	Moralia	Oxford	1795-1830	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	825.00
27	VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius	De Re Militari	Antwerp	1607-06	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	660.00
28	VERGILIUS, Polydorus	An Abridgment of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergil ... compendiously gathered by Thomas Langley	London	1546	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	528.00
29	MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo	Tutte le opere	Rome	1550	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	418.00
30		Orden de los Mahamadot, compuestos segun los siete dias de la semana	Amsterdam	5414	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	440.00
31	COVERDALE, Miles pseudonym John HOLLYBUSH (translator)	An exposicion upon the songe of the blessed virgine Mary, called Magnificat, where unto are added the songes of Salue regina, Benedictus and Nunc dimittis, translated out of latine and into Englysh by Jo[h]n Hollybush,	colophon: Southwark	1538	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	4,620.00
32	LATIMER, Hugh (Bishop of Worcester)	The Sermon ... made to the clergie, in conuocation, before the Parlyament began, the 9 day of June, the 28 yere of the reygne of our soueraygne lorde kynge Henrey the viii now translated out of latin into englishe ...,"	colophon: London	24 March, 1534	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	2,200.00
33	LUPSET, Thomas	A Treatise of Charity	colophon: London	1533	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	3,850.00
34	REGIUS, Urbanus; TURNER, William, translator	A comparison betwene the Old Learning and the Newe, translated out of Latin by Wyliam Turner	colophon Southwark	1537	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	3,300.00
35		THREE FRAGMENTS FROM 16TH CENTURY ENGLISH BOOKS			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	385.00
36		ENGLISH VERSE			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	4,180.00
37		ENGLISH VERSE -- POPE			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,210.00
38		ENGLISH VERSE			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,760.00
39		ENGLISH VERSE			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	1,760.00
40	COMBE, William	The Auction, a town eclogue	London	1778	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	286.00
41		An Epistle to the Right Honourable Lord G-- -- G-- --	London	1778	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	330.00
42	TICKELL, Richard	The Project, a poem dedicated to Dean Tucker	London	1778	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	528.00
43	BERENSON, Bernard	The Italian Pictures of the Renaissance	London	1952	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	209.00
44	CLARK, Kenneth Mackenzie	The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle	London	1968-69	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
45	DOWNS, Joseph	American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods	New York	1952	GBP -	49.50
46	HIBBARD, Howard	Masterpieces of Western Sculpture	New York and London	1966	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
47	HONEY, William Bowyer	European Ceramics from the End of the Middle Ages to about 1815	London	1949	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
48	PIPER, John & Richard INGRAMS	Piper's Places, John Piper in England and Wales	London	1985	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	440.00
49	POPE-HENNESSY, John Wyndham	Ita lian Renaissance Sculpture, London, Phaidon, 1958, 4°; Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture	London	1963	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
50	RICHARDSON, Jonathan	The Works, containing I. The Theory of Painting, II. Essay on the Art of Criticism, III. The Science of a Connoisseur [Supplement to the Hon. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters and Engravers]	London	1792	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	187.00
51	VENICE -- ONGANIA, Ferdinand	Streets and Canals in Venice and in the Islands of the Lagoons	Venice	1895-96	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	528.00
52	ALLINGHAM, William	Rhymes for the Young Folk	London	n.d.	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	242.00
53	ALLINGHAM, William	The Music Master, a love story. And two series of day and night songs	London & New York	1855	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	825.00
54		The Annual Biography and Obituary	London	1817	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	27.50
55	ARNOLD, Matthew	Cromwell: A Prize Poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford; June 28, 1843	Oxford	1843	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	308.00
56	ARNOLD, Mathew	Passages from the Prose Writings	London	1880	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	462.00
57	AUSTEN, Jane	Letters to her sister Cassandra and others	Oxford	1932	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	605.00
58	BARNES, William	Orra: A Lapland tale	Dorchester	1822	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	2,860.00
59	BARNES, William	A Few Words on the Advantages of a more common adoption of the Mathematics as a branch of education, or subject of study	London	1834	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	1,980.00
60	BEATTIE, Elizabeth (compiler)	A small album containing a collection of approximately 50 mounted pencil drawings and topographical prints, many hand-coloured, including views of Switzerland, circa 1820-30, with related manuscript notes, 8°, contemporary green morocco (very worn).			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
61	BECKFORD, William	Journal... in Portugal and Spain 1787-1788; Life at Fonthill 1807-1822, with interludes in Paris & London	London	1954-57	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	605.00
62	SEARLE, Ronald	Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable	London	1989	GBP -	27.50
63	BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WHEELER, G.W.	The Earliest Catalogues of the Bodleian	Oxford	1928	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	143.00
64		BINDINGS -- CRYSTAL PALACE LIBRARY. WYATT, M. Digby & J.B. WARING. The Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace	London	1854	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,320.00
65	BLAKE, William	Songs of Innocence and of Experience	London	1839	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
66	BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Nicolas	Oeuvres	Paris	1713	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	825.00
67	BOWRA, Maurice	Tradition and Design in the Iliad	Oxford	1930	GBP -	242.00
68	BROOKE, Rupert	John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama	London	1916	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
69	COBBOLD, Richard	The Character of Woman in a Lecture delivered at the Hanover Square Rooms, April 13th, 1848	Diss and London	n.d.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
70	CORNEY, Bolton (1784-1870)	Curiosities of Literature, by I.d'Israeli... Illustrated	Greenwich	1837	GBP -	66.00
71	DE TABLEY, John Leicester Warren (Lord)	Poems Dramatic and Lyrical	London & New York	1893	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	770.00
72	DICKENS, Charles and Mark LEMON	Mr. Nightingale's Diary, a farce in one act	Boston	1877	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	176.00
73	DOBELL, Sydney	England in Time of War	London	1856	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	60.50
74	DONNE, John	The Divine Poems	Oxford	1952	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,100.00
75	DONNE, John	The Sermons	Berkeley & Los Angeles	1953-1962	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	528.00
76		Eton Reform	London	1861	GBP -	44.00
77	FELL, John	Specimens of Books printed at Oxford with the Types given to the University by John Fell	Oxford	1925	GBP -	93.50
78	GRASSI, Raniero	Raccolta di Quindicifra le piu interessanti Vedute delta Citta di Pisa	Pisa	circa 1820	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	715.00
79	HALLAM, Arthur Henry	Remains, in Verse and Prose	London	1834	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	935.00
80	HOPKINS, Gerard Manley	Letters ...to Robert Bridges; Further Letters ... including his Correspondence with Coventry Patmore; The Correspondence of... and Richard Watson Dixon; The Journals and Papers	London	1935-59	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	220.00
81	HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel, "illumin ator"; STANLEY, Henry (The Hon.)	Rouman Anthology; or, Selections of Rouman Poetry, ancient and modern, being a collection of the national ballads of Moldavia and Wallachia	Hertford	1856	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	308.00
82	JAMES, Henry -- STEVENSON, Robert Louis	Weir of Herminston, an unfinished romance	London	1896	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
83	JAMES, Henry	The Complete Tales	London	1962-64	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	605.00
84	JOHNSON, Samuel	The Letters ... with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him	Oxford	1952	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
85	JOWETT, Benjamin	The Life and Letters	London	1897-99	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	209.00
86	KEBLE, John	The Christian Year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holidays throughout the year	Oxford	1827	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	242.00
87	KEYNES, Geoffrey	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne	London	1928-31	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	715.00
88	KEYNES, John Maynard	The Economic Consequences of the Peace	London	1919	GBP -	264.00
89	LANDOR, Walter Savage	The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree	London	1853	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
90	LIPSIUS, Justus	De Cruce libri tres	Antwerp	1606	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	308.00
91		LITURGY, Book of Common Prayer in Latin. Liturgia, seu liber precum communium ... juxta usum Ecclesiae Anglicanae			GBP 600.00 - 900.00	550.00
92	LOCKER, Frederick	London Lyrics	London	1881	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	440.00
93	LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth	The Song of Hiawatha	London	1855	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	352.00
94	LOWE, E.J.	Beautiful Leaved Plants	London	1861	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	440.00
95	MALLOCK, W.H.	The New Republic; or, culture, faith, and philosophy in an English country house	London	1877	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	352.00
96	MARVELL, Andrew	Poems and Letters	Oxford	1927	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	660.00
97		MELANCHTHON ANNOTATIONS [?] --JUVENAL and PERSIUS [Satyrae]	Venice	1501	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	1,320.00
98	MORRIS, William	Hopes and Fears for Art	London	1882	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	2,420.00
99	NEALE, John Preston	Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland	London	1818-23	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
100	NICHOLS, John	Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century	London	1817-58	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	286.00

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