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
201	CARY, John	Cory's New and Correct English Atlas	London	1787	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,100.00
202	CAYLUS, Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de	Recueuil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines	Paris	1752-67	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	528.00
203	DESCARTES, René	A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences	London	1649	GBP -	462.00
204	DUFFOUG-FAVRE, Eugène & Rodolphe BLANCHET	Vevey et les Alpes Vaudoises	Vevey	1844	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	308.00
205	EYRE, Vincent	The Military Operations at Cabul ... with a Journai of Imprisonment in Affghanistan [sic]	London	1843	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	242.00
206	GROSE, Francis	The Antiquities of England and Wales	London	circa 1780	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	638.00
207	HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus	Opera	Paris	1568	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	308.00
208	HOYLE, Edmund	Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-Gammon, Complete ...to which are added, Two New Cases at Whist; also the New Laws of the Game at Whist, as played at White's and Saunder's Chocolate-Houses	London	circa 1780	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
209	HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel	The Genera and Species of British Butterflies	London	1859	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	242.00
210		Picturesque Europe	London	1876-79	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	352.00
211		Vanity Fair	London	October 23rd 1880--November 5th 1881	GBP -	66.00
212		Virtue's Beauties of Great Britain [kent]	London	1830	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	1,485.00
213	WOLFGANG, Abraham (publisher)	Les Délices de la Hollande	Amsterdam, Wolfgang	1685	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	165.00
214	WOOLNOTH, William	A Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury	London	1816	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	198.00
215	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de	The History and Adventures of the Reknowned Don Quixote	Dublin	1796	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	462.00
216		FINE BINDINGS -- EDGEWORTH, Maria. Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces	London	1825	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,100.00
217	GASTINEAU, Henry	Wales Illustrated	London	1830	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	396.00
218	GIBBON, Edward	Miscellaneous Works	London	1796-1815	GBP -	33.00
219	GOULD, John	The Birds of Great Britain	London	1872	GBP 9,000.00 - 10,500.00	14,300.00
220		GRAF-FBG, Oscar & C. PFAFF-BADER. Malerisches aus Salzburg	Salzburg	circa 1935	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
221	HOGARTH, William	The Genuine Graphic Works	London	1813	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
222		The Illustrated London News	London	1847-88	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	495.00
223	MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de	Le Temple de Gnide, et Arsace et Isménie	Paris	1794	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	440.00
224	PINDAR	Works	Glasgow	1754-58	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	176.00
225	SEWELL, Willem	A large Dictionary English and Dutch in two parts	Amsterdam	1708	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	55.00
226	SWISS COSTUME; LOCHER, J.H. (publisher)	Costumes Suisses	Zurich	circa 1870	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	176.00
227	TASSO, Torquato	Aminta Favola Foscareccia	Paris	1768	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	550.00
228	THOMSON, James	The Seasons	London	1797	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	825.00
229	ZATTA, Antonio (publisher)	Parnaso de' Poeti Classici	Venice	1793	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	1,045.00
230	ARISTOTLE	Opera	Basle	1531	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,210.00
231	BOCCACCIO, Giovanni	Il Decamerone, nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato	Florence	1527	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
232	CHAUCER, Geoffrey	The Romaunt of the Rose	(?) London	1561	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	418.00
233	CLAUDIANUS, Claudius	[Opera] Quae Extant	Leiden	1650	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	176.00
234	COCARELLA, Don Benedetto	Cronica Istoriale de Tremiti... con la brieve descrittione delia Fortezza Moderna, et Isole Antiche del Luogo	Venice	1606	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	308.00
235	DU CHOUL, Guillaume	Discorso ... sopra la Castrametatione & Bagni Antichi di i Greci, & Romani	Venice	1581	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	462.00
236	GUEVARA, Antonio de	Liure dore de Marc Aurele empereur et eloquent orateur	Paris	1531	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	385.00
237	LUCANUS, Marcus Annaeus	Lucanus	Venice	April 1502	GBP 150.00 - 300.00	330.00
238		MAXIMUS (Abbot and Confessor). Capitum Theologicorum Centuriae Quinque	Paris	1560	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	1,210.00
239	MOORE, Jonas	A New Systeme of the Mathematicks	London	1681	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
240	PEROTTUS, Nicolaus (Archbishop of Siponto)	Cornucopiae	Thuscula	April 1522	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	264.00
241	STEPHANUS, Henricus	Thesaurus Graecae Linguae	Geneva	1572	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	187.00
242	STEPHANUS, Robertus (the elder)	Phrases Hebraicae	Geneva	1558	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	715.00
243	VAUGHN, William	Directions for Heath, Natural and Artificial; Two Treatises Concerning the Preservation of Eyesight	London	1633	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	264.00
244	VILLANI, Giovanni	Croniche di Messer Giovanni Villani Cittadino Fiorentino	Venice	1537	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	880.00

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