Sothebys: Travel, Atlases and Natural History, LN8339,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 04, 1998 - June 04, 1998
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abbot (John) and James Edward Smith. | The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia | London | 1797 |
GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 18,400.00 |
| 2 | Albin (Eleazar) | The Natural History of Birds | London | 1738-1740 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 3 | Albin (Eleazar) | A Natural History of English Insects | London | 1720 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,140.00 |
| 4 | Audubon (John James) | The Birds of America | New York | 1971-1972 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 5 | Barla (Jean Baptiste) | Flore mycologique illustree. Les champignons des Alpes-Maritimes | Nice | 1888 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | Baudement (Emile) | Les races bovines au concours universel agricole de Paris en 1856. Etudes zootechniques | Paris | 1861-1862 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Bennett (John Whitchurch) | A Selection of Rare and Curious Fishes found upon the Coast of Ceylon | London | 1851 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 8 | Berlese (Laurent) | Monographie du genre Camellia | [Paris] | 1840 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 345.00 |
| 9 | Bolton (James) | Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay towards a natural history of British song birds | London | 1845 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 10 | Broinowski (Gracius Joseph) | The Birds of Australia... with a descriptive account of the life and characteristic habits of over seven hundred species | Melbourne, [etc.] | [1887-] 1890-1891 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 11 | Brookshaw (George) | A New Treatise on Flower Painting, or Every Lady her own Drawing Master | London | 1818 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Brown (Peter) | New Illustrations of Zoology, first edition, titles and text in English and French | London | 1776 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Brown (Peter) | New Illustrations of Zoology | London | 1776 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,955.00 |
| 14 | Buchoz (Pierre Joseph) | Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses... Partie Iere. Plantes de la Chine peintes dans le pays | Paris | [1776] |
GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 25,300.00 |
| 15 | Buchoz (Pierre Joseph) | Le grand jardin de l'univers, ou se trouve coloriees les plantes les plus belles, les plus curieuses et les plus rares des quatres parties de la terre | Paris | 1785 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 16 | Buchoz (Pierre Joseph) | Premiere [-seconde] centurie de planches enluminees et non enluminees representant au naturel ce qui se trouve de plus interessant et de plus curieux parmi les animaux, les vegetaux et les mineraux | Paris and Amsterdam | [1775?-] 1781 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 8,625.00 |
| 17 | Buffon (Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de) and others. | Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi | Paris | 1749-1804 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | Bulliard (Pierre) | Dictionnaire elementaire de botanique | Paris | 1783 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 402.00 |
| 19 | Chapman (Abel)- | A collection of material by or relating to Chapman, originating from his home at Houxty, Wark-on-Tyne, Northumberland | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,670.00 | ||
| 20 | Curtis (William) | Flora Londinensis; or, plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London | London | [1775-] 1777-1798 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,670.00 |
| 21 | Curtis (William) | Flora Londinensis: or plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London | London | [1775-] 1777-1798 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 22 | Curtis (William) | Flora Londinensis, containing a history of the plants indigenous to Great Britain | London | 1835 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 23 | Descourtilz (Jean Theodore) | Ornithologie bresilienne ou histoire des oiseaux du Bresil, remarquables par leur plumage, leur chant ou leurs habitudes | Rio de Janeiro [but London] | [1852-1856] |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Dodoens (Rembert) | Various | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 25 | Drury (Dru) | Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited... Figures of Exotic Insects | London | 1770-1773 |
GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 26 | Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis) and L.H. de La Marre. | Traite general des pesches, et histoire des poissons qu'elles fournissent | Paris | 1769-1782 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 27 | Dunker (Wilhelm) | Novitates conchologicae. Mollusca marina. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder wenig gekannter Meeres-Conchylien | Cassel | 1858-1870 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 977.00 |
| 28 | Donovan (Edward) | The Natural History of British Birds | London | 1799 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 29 | Donovan (Edward) | The Natural History of British Insects | London | 1792-1813 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 30 | Donovan (Edward) | An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China | London | 1798 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,680.00 |
| 31 | Donovan (Edward) | An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas | London | 1800 [-1804] |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 32 | Dombrain (Henry Honywood) | The Floral Magazine: comprising figures and descriptions of popular garden flowers | London | 1862-1871 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 33 | Edwards (George) | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds [-Gleanings of Natural History] | London | 1750-1764 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 34 | Edwards (George) | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds [-Gleanings of Natural History] | London | 1743-1764 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 35 | Edwards (W.H.) | The Young Artist's Guide to Flower Drawing, and Painting in Water Colours. With Instructions and Examples | London | 1820 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 36 | Elliot (Daniel Giraud) | A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes | New York | [1861-] 1863 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 5,060.00 |
| 37 | Everard (Anne) | Flowers from Nature, with the botanical name, class, and order; and instructions for copying | London | 1835 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 920.00 |
| 38 | Francia (Louis) | Progressive Lessons tending to elucidate the Character of Trees, with the process of sketching, and painting them in water colours | London | 1813 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 805.00 |
| 39 | Furber (Robert) | The Flower-Garden display'd | London | 1734 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 40 | [Gleichen-Russworm (Wilhelm Friedrich von)] | Histoire de la mouche commune de nos appartemens | [Nuremberg] | 1766 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 |
| 41 | [Goldfuss (Georg August)] | [Naturhistorischer Atlas] | [Dusseldorf] | [1824-1842] |
USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 42 | Gould (John) | A collection of 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds, by and after John and Elizabeth Gould, extracted from 'The Birds of Europe' (London, 1832-1837) | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 43 | Gould (John) | A collection of 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds, by and after John and Elizabeth Gould, extracted from 'The Birds of Europe' (London, 1832-1837) | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 44 | Gould (John) | The Birds of Great Britain | London | [1862-] 1873 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 45 | Gould (John) | The Birds of Great Britain | London | [1862-] 1873 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 46 | Gould (John) | A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds | London | [1849-] 1861-1887 |
GBP 45,000.00 - 55,000.00 | 87,300.00 |
| 47 | Gould (John) | The Birds of Great Britain | London | [1862-] 1873 |
GBP 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 36,700.00 |
| 48 | Gray (John Edward) | Illustrations of Indian Zoology; chiefly selected from the Collection of Major-General Hardwicke | London | 1830-1834 [-1835] |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 18,400.00 |
| 49 | Hooker (Sir Joseph Dalton) | The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya... from drawings and descriptions made on the spot... edited by Sir W.J. Hooker | London | 1849 [-1851] |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | Heckle (August) | The Lady's Drawing Book and Compleat Florist: being an extensive and curious collection of the most beautiful flowers | London | 1764 |
USD 2,200.00 - 2,600.00 | Not Sold |
| 51 | [Jacquin (Nikolaus Joseph, Baron von) | Icones plantarum rariorum] | [Vienna] | [1781-1793] |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 52 | Jerdon (Thomas Claverhill) | Illustrations of Indian Ornithology | Madras | [1843-] 1847 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 53 | Knight (Thomas Andrew) | Pomona Herefordiensis | London | 1811 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,185.00 |
| 54 | Knowles (George Beauchamp) and Frederic Westcott. | The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany | London | [1837-] 1840 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 55 | Knorr (Georg Wolfgang) | Deliciae naturae selectae, of Uitgeleezen Kabinet van Natuurlyke Zeldzaamheden | Dordrecht | 1771 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 56 | Ledermuller (Martin Frobenius | Versuch bey angehender Fruhlings Zeit die Vergrosserungs Werckzeuge zum nuzlich und angenehmen Zeitvertreib anzuwenden... Essai d'employer les instruments microscopiques,, dans la saison du printems... traduit de l'allemand par I.C. Harrepeter | Nuremberg | 1764 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 57 | Loudon (Jane Wells) | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants | London | 1841 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,185.00 |
| 58 | Loudon (Jane Wells) | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants | London | 1848 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 59 | Loudon (Jane Wells) | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals | London | 1840 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 60 | Loudon (Jane Wells) | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials | London | 1843-1844 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,910.00 |
| 61 | Levaillant (Francois) | Histoire naturelle des promerops, et des guepiers [-des couroucous et des touracos]... faisant suite a celle des oiseaux de paradis | Paris | [1806-] 1807 [-1816 or 1818] |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,220.00 |
| 62 | Levaillant (Francois) | Histoire naturelle des perroquets | Paris | 1801 [-1805] |
GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 47,700.00 |
| 63 | Lewin (William) | The Birds of Great Britain | London | 1795-1801 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 64 | Lowe (Richard Thomas) | A History of the Fishes of Madeira | London | 1843 [-1860] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 65 | Maund (Benjamin) and John Stevens Henslow. | The Botanist; containing accurately coloured figures, of tender and hardy ornamental plants | London | [1836-1842] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,552.00 |
| 66 | Maund (Benjamin) | The Botanic Garden | London | 1827-1832 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 920.00 |
| 67 | Meidinger (Karl von, Baron) | Icones piscium Austriae indigenorum | Vienna | 1785-1786 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 977.00 |
| 68 | Moore (Thomas) and William P. Ayres. | D The Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science | London | 1850-1851 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 69 | Morris (Beverley Robinson) | British Game Birds and Wildfowl | London | 1855 |
USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 70 | Morris (Richard) | Flora Conspicua; a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants | London | 1826 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 862.00 |
| 71 | Paxton (Sir Joseph) | Magazine of Botany | London | 1834-1846 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 72 | Paxton (Sir Joseph) | Magazine of Botany | London | 1836-1849 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 73 | Reaumur (Rene Antoine Ferchault de) | Various | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 74 | Rousseau (Jean Jacques) | La Botanique | Paris | 1805 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 75 | Rowley (George Dawson) | Ornithological Miscellany | London | [1875-] 1876-1878 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 76 | Redoute (Pierre Joseph) and Claude Antoine Thory. | Les roses | Paris | 1824 [-1826] |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,670.00 |
| 77 | Russian Polar Expedition- | [Drawings by A.A. Byalynitskiy-Birulya during a trip on the schooner Zarya under the command of Baron Toll, 1901, 1902] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 78 | [Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Osbert Salvin] | Exotic Ornithology | [London] | [1866-1869] |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 79 | Sayer (Robert) | The Florist, containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing... with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature | London | [c.1760] |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,185.00 |
| 80 | Sibbald (Sir Robert) | Scotia illustrata, sive prodromus historiae naturalis | Edinburgh | 1684 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 529.00 |
| 81 | Sinclair (Isabella) | Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands | London | 1885 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,955.00 |
| 82 | Smith (Sir James Edward) | Spicilegium botanicum... Gleanings of Botany | London | 1791-1792 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 83 | Sowerby (James) and Sir James Edward Smith. | English Botany | London | 1790-1834 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 84 | Sowerby (James) and Sir James Edward Smith. | English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants | London | 1790-1834 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 85 | Sowerby (James) | Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms | London | [1795-] 1797-1803 [-1815] |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 5,060.00 |
| 86 | Strack (Christian Friedrich Leberecht) | Naturgeschichte in Bildern | Dusseldorf | [1826] |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 87 | Stuart (Miss Barbara) | A collection of 199 original watercolours of English wild flowers | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 88 | Sweet (Robert) | The Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory; containing coloured figures of the choicest flowers, cultivated by florists; including ranunculus, carnations, picotees, pinks, georginas, polyanthus, auriculas, hyacinths, and tulips | London | 1827-1832 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,130.00 |
| 89 | Testolini (G.) | Rudiments of Drawing, Shadowing, and Colouring Flowers in Water Colours... intended for Beginners and Students | London | 1818 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | Tobacco-Brooks (Jerome E.) | Tobacco: its history illustrated by the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr. | New York | 1937-1952 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 805.00 |
| 91 | Wallich (Nathaniel) | Plantae Asiaticae rariores; or, descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian Plants | London | [1829-] 1830-1832 |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 56,500.00 |
| 92 | Vieillot (Louis Jean Pierre) and Paul Louis Oudart. | La galerie des oiseaux | Paris | [1820-] 1825 [-1829] |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,990.00 |
| 93 | Willmott (Ellen) | The Genus Rosa | London | [1910-] 1914 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 94 | Wilson (Alexander) and Charles Lucien Bonaparte. | American Ornithology... with illustrative notes, and life of Wilson, by Sir William Jardine | London and Edinburgh | 1832 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 862.00 |
| 95 | Wilson (James) | Illustrations of Zoology, being representations of new, rare, or remarkable subjects of the animal kingdom | Edinburgh | [1828-] 1831 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,220.00 |
| 96 | Woodville (William) | Medical Botany | London | 1790-1794 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 97 | Wright (Magnus, Wilhelm and Ferdinand von) | Svenska Faglar | Stockholm | [1917-] 1927-1929 |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | Chambers (William) | Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew | London | 1763 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 99 | Campbell (Colen) | Vitruvius Britannicus | London | 1715-1725 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 100 | Campbell (Colen) and others. | Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect | London | [?1751]-1771 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 12,075.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
