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
101	OGLE, Nathaniel	Memoirs of Monkeys	London	1825	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	176.00
102		OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE. -- SLATTER, Henry (publisher). The Oxford University and City Guide... to which is added a guide to Blenheim	Oxford	1833	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,320.00
103		OXFORD MOVEMENT -- MOZLEY, T. Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement	London	1882	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	528.00
104	PALGRAVE, Francis Turner	Gems of English Art	London & New York	1869	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	495.00
105	PLOMER, William	Selected Poems	London	1940	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
106	POE, Edgar Allan	The Raven and Other Tales	London	1846	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,045.00
107		PRIVATE PRESS -- The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful; a Tract on Calligraphy, Printing, and Illustration	Hammersmith	1900	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	1,540.00
108	REID, Forrest	Pirates of the Spring	Dublin and London	1919	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
109	ROGERS, Samuel	Italy, A Poem... Part the First [only]	London	1823	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	418.00
110	SANDYS, George	A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David	London	1636	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	143.00
111		The Savoy	London	January-December 1896	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	825.00
112	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe -- EDWIN, Thomas	The Shelley Papers: Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley... and Original Poems and Papers now first collected	London	1833	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	121.00
113	SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe	Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet	London	1930	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	528.00
114	SITWELL, Sacheverell	All Summer in a Day; a Baroque Fantasia	London	1931	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,980.00
115	SPRUNER, C. de	Atlas Antiquus	Gotha	1845	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	715.00
116	STEVENSON, Robert Louis	Father Damien, an open letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu	London	1890	GBP -	13.20
117	STORER, James & John GREIG (engravers)	Select Views of London and its environs...	London	1804-1805	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	110.00
118	SWIFT, Jonathan	The Poems	Oxford	1937	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	495.00
119	SYMONDS, John Addington	The Escorial. A prize poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860	Oxford	1860	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	880.00
120	TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord)	Poems	London	1857	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	935.00
121	TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord)	A Selection from...	London	1865	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
122	TENNYSON, Alfred (Lord)	Poems MDCCCXXX-MDCCCIII		1862	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	1,045.00
123		VICTORIAN VERSE -- WHISTLE-CRAFT, William & Robert. Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work ... the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table	Bath	1842	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	1,045.00
124	WALTON, Isaac	The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert	London	1675	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	528.00
125	WARTON, Thomas	Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser... second edition, corrected and enlarged	London	1762	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	330.00
126	WILDE, Oscar -- RODD, Rennell	Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. With an Introduction by Oscar Wilde	Philadelphia	1882	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
127	WILDE, Oscar -- YOUNG, Dal	Apologia pro Oscar Wilde	London	1895	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
128	WILSON, John (1785-1864)	The Recreations of Christopher North	Edinburgh & London	1842	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	209.00
129		WINCHESTER COLLEGE -- WRENCH, R.G.K. Winchester Word-Book	Winchester & London	1891	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	154.00
130	WINKELMAN, Johann Joachim	Reflexions concerning the Imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture	Glasgow	1766	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	209.00
131	WORDSWORTH, William	The White Doe of Rylstone; or the fate of the Nortons. A poem	London & Edinburgh	1815	GBP -	352.00
132	WORDSWORTH, William	Poems	London, Macmillan	1879	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,540.00
133		A quantity of books, most in French or Italian			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	440.00
134		A quantity of books, most English literature			GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	3,850.00
135	ALMANACS	The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts	London	1828-30	GBP -	77.00
136	BARCLAY, The Rev. James	A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language	London	n.d.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	187.00
137	BARROW, Sir John	The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty	London	1831	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	165.00
138	BATTY, Elizabeth Frances	Italian Scenery	London	1820	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	715.00
139	BATTY, Robert	German Scenery	London	1823	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	990.00
140	BEATTIE, William	Sutherland Illustrated		1836	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	264.00
141	BECKFORD, William -- HARTE, Walter	The History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden	London	1759	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	880.00
142		The Holy Bible	London and Edinburgh	1911	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
143	BORCHT, Pieter van der (engraver) [and others]	Collection of Biblical engravings	(?) Leiden	circa 1580	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
144	BURKE, Edmund	Nouvelles Réflexions sur la Révolution de France	Paris	n.p., 1791	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	110.00
145	BURTON, Richard F. (translator)	The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; Supplemental Nights	London	circa 1895	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	418.00
146	BYRON, John	A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Ship the Dolphin	London	1767	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
147	CAMDEN, William	Magna Britannia et Hibernia Antiqua & Nova	Savoy	1720-31	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	880.00
148	CAMPBELL, Thomas	Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale; and Other Poems	London	1809	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
149	COLLINSON, John	The History and Antiquities of Somerset	Bath	1791	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	187.00
150	COLLMANN, Herbert L.	Ballads & Broadsides chiefly of the Elizabethan Period	Oxford	1912	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	209.00
151	COOK, James (Captain)	The History of Capt. Cook's Three Voyages Round the World	London	1784	GBP 250.00 - 450.00	418.00
152	COOK, James (Captain); ANDERSON, George William	A Collection of Voyages Around the World	London	1790	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	715.00
153	COXE, William	Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark	London	1785	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
154	DOYLE, Richard & William ALLINGHAM	In Fairyland; a Series of Pictures from the Elf-World	London	1875	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
155	FAIRBURN, James	Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland	Edinburgh	1892	GBP -	22.00
156		FLOWER PRINTS			GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	9,900.00
157	GERANDO, Joseph-Marie	De La Bienfaisance Publique	Bruxelles	1839	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
158	GRANT, Robert	The Expediency maintained of continuing the System by which the Trade and Government of India are Now Regulated	London	1813	GBP -	82.50
159	H-- -E, J.	The Disconsolate Widow, a Christmas Tale; or a New-Year's Gift to my Friends	Stockton	1778	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	352.00
160		HAKLUYT SOCIETY -- BEAGLEHOLE, J.C. (editor). The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery	Cambridge	1955-69	GBP -	715.00
161	HARLOW, V.T.	Ralegh's Last Voyage	London	1932	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	385.00
162	HEATH, Charles	The Excursion Down the Wye from Ross to Monmouth ... Accounts of Wilton and Goodrich Castles	Monmouth and Chepstow	circa 1780	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	242.00
163	HEATH, Charles (editor)	Beauties of the Opera and Ballet	London	circa 1840	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	242.00
164	HOOD, Thomas	The Dream of Eugene Aram, the murderer	London	1831	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	165.00
165	HOPE, John	Thoughts in prose and verse started on his walks	London	1780	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	308.00
166	HOUGHTON, William	British Fresh-Water Fishes	London	1879	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	605.00
167	HUTCHINS, John	The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset	Westminster	1861	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	605.00
168		HYDROSTATICS -- THOMSON			GBP 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
169	KERR, John	The History of Curling	Edinburgh	1890	GBP -	110.00
170	LARKING, Lambert Blackwell	The Domesday Book of Kent; with translation, notes, and appendix	London	1869	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	1,650.00
171	MANUEL, B.E.	Histoire Particulière de l'Abeille Commune	Paris	1805	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	93.50
172	MAP -- HOMANN HEIRS	Regionis quae est circa Londinum specialis representatio geographica	Nuremberg	1741	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
173	MAP -- MORDEN, Robert	Surrey	London	circa 1695	GBP -	55.00
174	MAP -- SPEED, John	Surrey	London	1611 or later	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
175	MARCOY, Paul	A Journey Across South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean	London	1873	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
176	MARTINEAU, James	A Comprehensive Collection of Philosophical and Theological Pamphlets	London	1839-81	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	143.00
177	MOTTE, Philippe de la.	The Principal, Historical, and Allusive, Arms, borne by Families of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland	London	1803	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	143.00
178	MURATORI, Ludovico Antonio	Delia Pubblica Felicita	Lucca	1749	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	121.00
179	NICHOLSON, William	London Types	London	1898	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	121.00
180		PORTUGUESE BANKING. Cem Anos do Banco Ultramarino na Vida Portuguesa 1864-1964	Lisbon	n.d.	GBP -	33.00
181	POTTER, Beatrix	A1p. (?) part a.l.s. by Potter (as H.B. Heelis), dated Feb. 26. 22, to an unknown correspondent, clarifying some points about her family lineage			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
182	QUAKERS -- FORSTER, Josiah	The People Called Quakers Defended, and the Baptists Confuted	London	1740	GBP 250.00 - 500.00	462.00
183	RADCLYFFE, C. (lithographer)	Picturesque Antiquities of the County of Hereford	Hereford	circa 1845	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	187.00
184	ROUSELLET, Louis	India and its Native Princes	London	1876	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	209.00
185	SCHIDLOF, Leo R.	The Miniature in Europe			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	176.00
186	SCOTT, Giles Gilbert	The National Memorial to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort	London	1873	GBP 250.00 - 500.00	605.00
187	SHERER, John	Rural Life described and Illustrated, in the Managment of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry	London and New York	1868-69	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	132.00
188	SIMPSON, William	Hydrologia Chymica, or, the Chymical Anatomy of the Scarbrough, and other Spaws in York-Shire	London	1669	GBP -	93.50
189	STEIN, Marc Aurel	Ruins of Desert Cathay; Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China	London	1912	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	682.00
190	TANGYE, Richard	Notes of My Fourth Voyage to the Australian Colonies	Birmingham	1886	GBP -	82.50
191		TOPOGRAPHICAL PRINTS			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	264.00
192	TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques Baron de Laune -- CONDORCET, Caritat, M.J.A.N. Marquis de	Vie de Turgot	Berne	1787	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	132.00
193		VIEWS of Switzerland and Venice -- 'Journal of a Seven Week's Tour,"		circa 1850	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	2,090.00
194	WEBER, Max	Gesammelte Politische Schriften	Drei Masken	1921	GBP -	44.00
195	WHEELER, Stephen	History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar	London	1904	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	187.00
196	WHITTOCK, Nathaniel	The Decorative Painter's and Glazier's Guide; containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood	London	1827	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
197	WICKES, Charles	Illustrations of the Spires and Towers of the Medieval Churches of England	London	1853-59	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	143.00
198	ARIOSTO, Ludovico	L' Orlando Furioso	Paris	1821	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	154.00
199	BEWICK, Thomas	A General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle	1790	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
200	BOYS, William	Collections for an History of Sandwich in Kent, with notices of the other Cinque Ports and Members, and of Richborough	Canterbury	1792	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	264.00

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