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
302 Railways A Collection of Railway Material.

[c. 1900--1950]

 GBP - 65.00
303 Various Various

GBP - 11.00
304 Scarron ([Pierre]) The Whole Comical Works . . . translated by Mr. Tho. Brown [etc.].

1712

 GBP - 6.00
305 Sclater (William) Various Oxford

1612

 GBP - 10.00
306 [Seeley (B.)] Stowe: a Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens. Buckingham

1783

 USD - Not Sold
307 Shadwell (Tho[mas]) Epsom-Wells A Comedy.

1704

 GBP - 9.00
308 Shaftesbury (Anthony [Ashley Cooper], Earl of) Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Birmingham

1773

 GBP - 42.00
309 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) THE WORKS [edited by N. Rowe].

1709--1710

 GBP - 70.00
310 Sharpe (Granville) Remarks on Several Very Important Prophecies

1768

 GBP - 18.00
311 Smirke (Sydney) and W. R. H. Essex Illustrations of the Architectural Ornaments and Embellishments and Painted Glass of the Temple Church. London

1845

 GBP - 4.00
312 [Stephens (Edward)] A Discourse concerning the Original of the Powder-Plot.

1674

 GBP - 34.00
313 Various Various

GBP - 40.00
314 [TAYLOR (JEREMY)] Various

GBP - 40.00
315 Templeman (Thomas) A New Survey of the Globe.

[c. 1729]

 GBP - 15.00
316 Thomson (James) The Poetical Works. Glasgow

1784

 GBP - 16.00
317 Various Various

GBP - 20.00
318 Turell (Ebenezer) The Life and Character of the Reverend Benjamin Colman. Boston, New-England

1749

 GBP - 8.00
319 Turgenev (Ivan Sergeevich) Une Nichee de Gentilshommes. Paris

1861

 GBP - 25.00
320 Various Various

GBP - 34.00
321 Ussher (James) Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates. Dublin

1639

 GBP - 13.00
322 Vaenius (Otho) Le Theatre Moral de la Vie Humaine . . . avec la Table du Philosophe Cebes. Brussels

1672

 GBP - 44.00
323 [Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) Architettura con il suo Comento e Figure. Vitruvio in Volgar Lingua raportato per G. B. Caporali]. [Perugia]

[1536]

 GBP - 28.00
324 WALKER (Commodore [GEORGE]) The Voyages and Cruises

1760

 GBP - 32.00
325 [Walpole (Horace)] The Grand Question, whether War, or no War, with Spain.

1739

 GBP - 8.00
326 [Walpole (Horace, editior)] Miscellaneous Antiquities, nos. I & II (no more published). Strawberry-Hill

1772

 GBP - 42.00
327 Various Various

GBP - 20.00
328 Wheare (Degory) The Method and Order of reading both Civil and Ecclesiastical Histories.

1698

 GBP - 7.00
329 [WHITE (GILBERT)] THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, in the County of Southampton

1789

 GBP - 145.00
330 Whitehead (William) Elegies With an Ode to the Tiber.

1757

 GBP - 18.00
331 [WINCHILSEA (ANNE FINCH, Countess of)] Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions. Written by a Lady.

1713

 GBP - 80.00
332 Various Various

GBP - 38.00
333 WRIGTH (MICHAEL) An Account of [the] Earl of Castlemaine's Embassy, from . . . James the IId . . . to . . . Innocent XI.

1688

 GBP - 60.00
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