Sothebys: Printed Books, 4 Jul 1974,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 04, 1974 - July 04, 1974
Page Size: 332 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Bracken (Henry) Farriery Improved.

1737

GBP - 32.00
202 Bramhall (John) The Works.

1677

GBP - 12.00
203 Cabala Mysteries of State, in [L]etters of the Great Ministers of K. James and K. Charles.

1654

GBP - 24.00
204 Callimachus The Hymns, translated from the Greek into English Verse . . . by William Dodd.

1755

GBP - 30.00
205 [CAMBRIDGE (RICHARD OWEN)] The Scribleriad: an Heroic Poem.

1751

GBP - 32.00
206 CHAMP[NY] (ANTH[ONY]) A Treatise of the Vocation of Bishops, and Other Ecclesiasticall Ministers. Douai

1616

GBP - 40.00
207 [Charles II (King of England)] To the King's most Sacred Majesty . . . the Oath. [ London ?]

[c. 1680];

GBP - 21.00
208 Various Various

GBP - 34.00
209 Various Various

GBP - 8.00
210 [Clarke (Samuel)] The Historians Guide.

1676

GBP - 18.00
211 [Cookery Book].

[Early eighteenth-century]

GBP - 32.00
212 Various

GBP - 250.00
213 [Coventry (Francis)] The History of Pompey the Little: or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog.

1752

GBP - 10.00
214 Various Various

1719

GBP - 8.00
215 [CULLEN (FRANCIS GRANT, Lord)] Sadducismus Debellatus: or, a True Narrative of the Sorceries and Witchcrafts exercis'd by the Devil and His Instruments upon Mrs. Christian Shaw.

1698

GBP - 36.00
216 Various Various

GBP - 7.00
217 Cumberland (Richard) Calvary; or the Death of Christ. A Poem.

1792

GBP - 24.00
218 Various Various

GBP - 38.00
219 Dale (Robert) An Exact Catalogue of the Nobility of England.

1697

GBP - 22.00
220 [D'Arblay (Frances, nee Burney)] Evelina.

1784

GBP - 15.00
221 [D'Arblay (Frances, nee Burney)] The Wanderer.

1814

GBP - 25.00
222 Various Various

GBP - 46.00
223 Diogenes Laertius De Vitis, Dogmatis & Apothegmatis eorum qui in Philosophia claruerunt, Libri X . . . cum Annotationibus Henr. Stephani. [Geneva]

1570

GBP - 16.00
224 Various Various

GBP - 10.00
225 Dodridge (Sir John) The History of the Ancient and Moderne Estate of the Principality of Wales.

1630

GBP - 32.00
226 Dorotheus (Saint, the Archimandrite) Sermones de Vita Monastica. Venice

1523

GBP - 10.00
227 Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum [translated into English].

1718

GBP - 17.00
228 Dupain de Montesson ([Sir William]) L'Art de lever les Plans de tout ce qui a rapport a la Guerre. Paris

1763

GBP - 38.00
230 DYER (JOHN) The Fleece: a Poem.

1757

GBP - 36.00
231 Dyke (Jeremiah) Tvvo Treatises.

1632

GBP - 28.00
232 Edwards (Jonathan) A Treatise concerning Religious Affections. New York

1768

GBP - 18.00
233 Eight Engravings of the Ruins occasioned by the Great Fires in Edinburgh on the 15th, 16th & 17th Novr. 1824, published for the Benefit of the Sufferers. Edinburgh

[c. 1825]

GBP - 7.00
234 Engravings Various

GBP - 11.00
235 Erasmus ([Desiderius]) The Praise of Folly [translated] by W. Kennet.

1740

GBP - 20.00
236 Various Various

GBP - 26.00
237 Evans (Rev. Evan) Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards.

1764

GBP - 20.00
238 Ferogio ([P.]) Etudes Progressives de Figures Pittoresques a l'Usage des Paysagistes. Paris

[n.d.]

GBP - 12.00
239 Various Various

GBP - 15.00
240 [Fisher (Payne)] A Synopsis of Heraldry, 2 parts in one vol..

1682

GBP - 11.00
241 Fleetwood (Bishop [William]) Chronicon Preciosum.

1745

GBP - 24.00
242 Fuller (Thomas) The Church-History of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year MDCXLVIII.

1655

GBP - 13.00
243 Gibbs (James) Rules for Drawing several parts of Architecture.

1732

GBP - 10.00
244 Various Various

GBP - 6.00
245 [GISCARD (W.)] DELINEATIONS OF THE MOST REMARKABLE COSTUMES OF THE DIFFERENT PROVINCES OF SPAIN, and also of the Military Uniforms, Bull Fights, National Dances, &c. of the Spaniards.

1823

GBP - 230.00
246 [Glover (Richard)] Leonidas, a Poem.

1737

GBP - 18.00
247 Glover ([Richard]) London: or, the Progress of Commerce. A Poem.

1739

GBP - 24.00
248 Godwin (William) Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.

1796

GBP - 72.00
249 Various Various

GBP - 34.00
250 [Gower (Foote)] A Sketch of the Materials for a New History of Cheshire . . . in a Letter to Thomas Falconer. Chelmsford

1771

GBP - 21.00
251 GRANVILLE (GEORGE, Lord Lansdowne) The Genuine Works.

1732

GBP - 26.00
252 Various Various

GBP - 20.00
253 Greenwood (William) A Poem written during a Shooting Excursion on the Moors. Bath

1787

GBP - 26.00
254 Halfpenny (William) Practical Architecture.

1730

GBP - 24.00
255 Halfpenny (William) Useful Architecture.

1760

GBP - 3.00
256 Hall (Jos[eph] Bishop of Exeter) Episcopacie by Divine Right asserted

1640

GBP - 36.00
257 Hayley (William) An Essay on Epic Poetry.

1782

GBP - 32.00
258 Various Various

GBP - 12.00
259 Various Various

GBP - 13.00
260 Homer Hymn to Venus translated...by I. Rittson.

1788

GBP - 26.00
261 Various Various

GBP - 42.00
262 Various Various

GBP - 11.00
263 [Jeanrenaud & Co. (J. P.)] Dictionnaire Geographique, Historique et Politique de la Suisse. Geneva and Lausanne

1776

GBP - 20.00
264 Various Various

GBP - 30.00
265 Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language.

1785

GBP - 8.00
266 JONES (Captain [ROBERT]) Artificial Fireworks, improved to the Modern Practice.

1776

GBP - 40.00
267 Various Various

GBP - 22.00
268 KNIGHT (HENRY GALLY) Saracenic & Norman Remains to illustrate the Normans in Sicily.

[n.d.]

GBP - 22.00
269 [La Calprenede (Gaultier de Coste, Seigneur de)] Pharamond: or, the History of France.

1677

GBP - 32.00
270 Law Reports. Various

GBP - 35.00
271 Various Various

GBP - 13.00
272 [Le Sage (Alain Rene)] The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. A new translation, by [Tobias Smollett].

1750

GBP - 19.00
273 Liturgies Various

GBP - 50.00
274 [Lloyd (David)] State-Worthies. Or, the States-Men and Favourites of England since the Reformation.

1670

GBP - 6.00
275 LLOYD (LODOWICK) The Pilgramage of Princes.

1607

GBP - 22.00
276 [MALLET (DAVID)] Amyntor and Theodora: or, the Hermit. A Poem.

1747

GBP - 30.00
277 Various Various

GBP - 24.00
278 Various Various

GBP - 6.00
279 MEYER (PHILIP) Mahometi Arabis Pseudoprophetae Vita Versibus Expressa, vna cum Omnibus Otomannis Turcarum Imperatoribus [etc.]. Arras

1594

GBP - 36.00
280 MONIER (PIERRE) THE HISTORY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE, GRAVING.

1699

GBP - 60.00
281 Various Various

GBP - 30.00
282 Muilman (Mrs. Teresia Constantia) A Letter . . . address'd to the . . . Earl of Chesterfield.

1750

GBP - 5.00
283 NEWCASTLE ([MARGARET CAVENDISH], Duchess of) The World's Olio.

1671

GBP - 68.00
284 Various Various

GBP - 32.00
285 Noyes (Robert) Distress A Poem. Canterbury

1783

GBP - 28.00
286 ORRERY ([ROGER BOYLE], Earl of) THE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH AND THE TRAGEDY OF MUSTAPHA, Son of Solyman the Magnificent

1668--1690

GBP - 55.00
287 Pain (William) The Builder's Companion.

1769

GBP - 10.00
288 PAMPHLETS A collection of 61 pamphlets in 6 vol., mostly concerning Politics and Religion

GBP - 220.00
289 Pamphlets A collection of approximately 64 pamphlets

GBP - 30.00
290 Pelbartus de Themeswar [and Osualdus de Lasko] Tertius [Quartus] Liber Rosarii Theologie Aurei; ad Sentetiar[um] Tertium [Quartum] Libru Accomodatissimus Hagenau

August-December, 1508

GBP - 14.00
291 PENN (W[ILLIAM]) A Defence of a Paper, Entituled Gospel-Truths, against the Exceptions of the Bishop of Cork's Testimony.

1698

GBP - 25.00
292 [PENN (WILLIAM)] A Perswasive to Moderation to Chruch Dissenters.

[1686]

GBP - 35.00
293 Various Various

GBP - 26.00
294 Various Various

GBP - 24.00
295 Playfair (William) The History of Jacobism...With an Appendix, by Peter Porcupine. Philadelphia

1796

GBP - 16.00
296 POMET (PETER) Der aufrichtige Materialist und Specerey-Handler. Leipzig

1717

GBP - 90.00
297 PRINTS A COLLECTION OF 71 PRINTS, mostly engraved but a few lithographed, of views, classical and biblical scenes, etc..

GBP - 150.00
298 Various Various

GBP - 21.00
299 [Pye (Henry James)] Shooting, a Poem.

1784

GBP - 28.00
300 Various Various

GBP - 75.00
301 Railways A Collection of 6 vol.

[c. 1870--1914]

GBP - 55.00
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