Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana, NY7332,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 22, 1999 - June 22, 1999
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Choice Michigan Fruits [cover title] | Rochester, NY | [ca. 1880s] |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 5,462.00 | |
| 201 | Cincinnato da Costa, Bernardino Camillo O Portugal vinicola: Estudos sobre a ampelographia evalor oenologico das principae de castas de vidieras de Portugal. | Lisboa | 1900 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 2,300.00 | |
| 202 | Crescentiis, Petrus de | De Omnibus agriculturae de partibus, & de Plantarum animaliumque natura & utilitate. | Basel | 1548 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,187.00 |
| 203 | Decaisne, Joseph | Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum ou iconographie de toutes les especes et varieties diarbres fruitier cultives dans cet establissement. | Paris | [1858], 1862-1875 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 8,050.00 |
| 204 | Decaisne, Joseph | Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum ou iconographie de toutes les especes et varieties diarbres fruitier cultives dans cet establissement. | Paris | [1858], 1862-1875 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 205 | Dewey, D[ellon] M[arcus] | The Specimen Book of Fruits, Flowers and Ornamental Trees: carefully drawn and colored from Nature for the use of Nurserymen. | Rochester, N.Y. | [ca. 1865-66] |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 206 | Downing, Alexander Jackson | The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: or, the culture, propagation, and management, in the garden orchard, of fruit trees Generally. | New York | 1847 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 7,475.00 |
| 207 | Downing, Andre w Jackson, ed. | The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. | Albany, Rochester | 1846-59, 1862-63 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 632.00 |
| 208 | Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis | Traite des arbres fruitiers, contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. | Paris | 1768 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 5,750.00 |
| 209 | Hoffy, Alfred (ed.) | The Orchardistis Companion. Volumes 1-2. | Philadelphia | April, 1841; 1842-1843 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 11,500.00 |
| 210 | Hoffy, Alfred | North American Pomologist (ed. William D. BrincklE). | Philadelphia | 1860 [all published] |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,587.00 |
| 211 | Hogg, Robert and Henry Graves Bull | The Herefordshire Pomona: Containing Coloured Figures And Descriptions Of The Most Esteemed Kinds Of Apples And Pears. | Hereford and London | 1876-1885 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 9,200.00 |
| 212 | Hogg, Robert and John Spencer | The Florist and the Pomologist. 1862-1884. | London | 1863-1884 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 213 | Hooker, William | Pomona Londinensis: containing colored engravings of the most esteemed fruits cultivated in the British gardens with a descriptive account of each variety. | London | [1813]- 1818 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 3,737.00 |
| 214 | Hovey, Charles Mason | The Fruits of America containing a selection of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States. | Boston and New York | 1852-1856 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 215 | Illustrated Pear Culturist: containing plain practical directions for planting, budding, grafting, pruning, training, and dwarfing the Pear Tree. [2nd ed.] By an Amateur. | New York, New London | 1858 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 8,625.00 | |
| 216 | Jaume Saint-Hilaire, Jean Henri | La Flore et la pomone francaises. | Paris | 1828-1833 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 217 | Knight, Thomas Andre w | Pomona Herefordiensis; containing coloured engravings of the old Cider and Perry fruits of Herefordsire. With such new fruits as have been found to possess superior excellence. | London | [1808]- 1811 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 218 | Knoop, Johann Hermann | Pomologia, dat is Beschryvingen en Afbeedingen van de beste zoorten van Appels en Peeren O [with] Fructologia O [and] Dendrologia O. | Leeuwarden | [1758-1763] |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,070.00 |
| 219 | Langley, Batty | Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden illustrated containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. | London | 1729 |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 220 | Lauche, Friedrich Wilhelm G. | Deutsche Pomologie: Chromolithographische abbildung, beschreibung und Kulturanweisung. | Berlin | 1882 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 221 | Lindley, John | Pomologia Britannica; or, Figures and Descriptions of the most important Varieties of Fruit cultivated in Great Britain. | London | 1841 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 11,500.00 |
| 222 | McIntosh, Charles | Flora and Pomona: or, the British Fruit and Flower Garden. | London | 1829 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,587.00 |
| 223 | Mas, Simon | Alphonse Le Verger: ou, Histoire, culture et description O des varietes des fruits les plus Generalment connues. | Paris | [ca. 1865-1873] |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 224 | Mas, Simon Alphonse and Victor Pulliat | Le Vignoble: ou, Histoire, Culture et description O des vignes a raisins de table et a raisins des cuve. | Paris | 1874-1875 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,737.00 |
| 225 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society | Transactions [and Proceedings] of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. | Boston | 1847- [1851] 3 parts in 1 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 805.00 |
| 226 | Maund, Benjamin | Two lavishly illustrated fruit books by the British botanist, pharmacist and bookseller, Benjamin Maund | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 | ||
| 227 | Mayer, Johann Prokop | Pomona franconica:Description des Arbres Fruitiers, le plus connus et le plus EstimeEs in Europe qui se cultivent maintenant au jardin de la cour de Wurzbourg. | Nuremberg | 1776-1779, 1801 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 228 | Monatsschrift fur Pomologie und practischen Obstbau | Stuttgart | 1855-1869 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 | |
| 229 | Morren, Charles and Edouard | La Belgique horticole, Journal des jardins, des serres et des vergers. | Direction Generale | 1851-1885 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 4,887.00 |
| 230 | Nederlandsche Boomgaard: beschreven en uitgegeven door het bestuut der Vereeniging tot Regeling en Verbetereing van de Vruchtsoorten te Boskoop | Groningen | [1864]-1868 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,610.00 | |
| 231 | Noisette, Louis Claude | Jardin fruitier histoire et culture des arbres fruitiers, des ananas, melons et fraisiers; description et usages des fruits. | Paris | 1839, 1833 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 3,220.00 |
| 232 | (Orchard and Gardening Manuals) | A group of 4 English and American gardening manuals, ranging from the 16th to the 19th centuries | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,737.00 | ||
| 233 | Ottolander, K.J.W and others | Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona beschrenen en uitgegeven door het bestuur der Pomologische Vereenining te Boskoop. | Groningen | 1876-1879 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 234 | Pihl, Axel and Jakob Eriksson, eds. | Svenska Trädgardsföreningens Tidskrift. | Stockholm | 1878-1905 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 235 | Pihl, Axel and Jakob Eriksson | Svenska Fruktsorter I Färglagda Avbildningar. | Stockholm | (1924) |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 236 | Poiteau, Pierre Antoine | Pomologie francaise. Recueil des plus beaux fruits cultives en France. | Paris & Strasbourg | [?ca. 1846] |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,887.00 |
| 237 | [Pomologie de la France] | Various | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 238 | Regel, Eduard August v. | Russkaia pomologiia, ili op'sanie priznakov i sposobov razvedeniia sortov plodobykh rastenii. | Sanktpeterburg [&] Moskva | 1868 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,737.00 |
| 239 | Ronalds, Hugh | Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: Or a ConciseDescription of Selected Apples. | London | 1831 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 240 | royal Horticultural Society | Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. | London | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 4,025.00 | |
| 241 | royal Horticultural Society | Various | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,312.00 | ||
| 242 | Schweizerische Obstsorten hrg. vom Schweizerischen landwirthschaftlicher Verein. | St. Gall | [1863]-1872 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,600.00 | |
| 243 | Thory, Claude Antoine | Various | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 244 | Thouin, Andre | Monographie des greffes, ou Description technique des diverses sortes de Greffes employEes pour la multiplication des Vegetaux. | (Paris) | (1821) |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 |
| 245 | Tidjschrift over boomteeltkunde bloementeelt en moeshovenierderij | Ghen | 1872-1896, 1898-1901 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 246 | Viala, Pierre and Victor Vermorel | Traite General de viticulture. Ampelographie. | Paris | 1901-1910 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 8,625.00 |
| 247 | Barbosa Rodrigues, Joao | Sertum plantarum Brasiliensium ou relations des palmiers nouveaux du BrEsil. | Brussels | 1903 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 11,500.00 |
| 248 | Bateman, James | A Monograph of Odontoglossum. | London | [1864]-1874 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 8,050.00 |
| 249 | Bergius, Peter Jonas | Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei. | Stockholm | 1767 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 250 | Burmann, Johannes | Rariorum africanarum plantarum. | Amsterdam | 1738-1739 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 251 | Bury, Priscilla Susan | A Selection of Hexandrian Plants. | London | 1831-1834 |
USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | 90,500.00 |
| 252 | Curtis, William and John Sims | The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. | London | 1793-1814 |
USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 253 | (I. B. Pole Evans, ed. and others). | The Flowering Plants of South Africa [later The Flowering Plants of Africa] | London: L. Reeve & Capetown, South Africa: The Specialty Press of South Africa, (Vols. 1-13); London: L. Reeve & Pretoria: J. L. Van Schaik, (Vols. 14-26); Pretoria: Government Printer of the Union of South Africa (Vols. 27-49) | 1921-1985 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 254 | Herbert, William | Amaryllidaceae; Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders. | London | 1837 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 255 | Loddiges, Conrad | The Botanical Cabinet, Consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants from all Countries. | London | 1818-1833 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 256 | Loudon, Jane Webb | The Ladiesi Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. | London | 1841 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,875.00 |
| 257 | Masson, Francis | Stapeliae Novae: or, a Collection of Several New Species of that Genus; Discovered in the Interior Parts of Africa. | London | 1796 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 258 | Maw, George | A Monograph of the Genus Crocus. | London | 1886 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,875.00 |
| 259 | Mee, Margaret | Flowers of the Brazilian Forests O Foreward by Roberto Burle Marx O With a Presface by Sir George Taylor. | London | 1968 |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | 8,625.00 |
| 260 | Moore, Thomas and William P. Ayres | The Gardenersi Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science. | London | January 1850-December 1851 3 volumes |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 261 | Paterson, William | A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria in the Years 1777-1779. | London | 1789 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 262 | Paxton, Joseph and John Lindley | Paxton’sFlower Garden. | London, Paris & New York | 1882 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 |
| 263 | Roscoe, William | Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae. | Liverpool | [1824]-1828 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 264 | Roupell, Arabella | Specimens of the Flora of South Africa. By a Lady. | [London] | [1849] |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 265 | Thunberg, Carl Peter | Flora capensis, sistens plantas promontorii bonae spei africes. | Stuttgart | 1823 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 266 | Wallich, Nathaniel | Plantae Asiaticae Rariores; or,Descriptions and Figures of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants. | London | [1829-] 1830-1832 |
USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 267 | Woolward, Florence | The Genus Masdevallia, issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K. T. , Chiefly from Plants in his Collection of Orchids at Newbattle Abbey ... with Additional Notes by F. C. Lehmann. | London | [1890]-1896 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 9,200.00 |
| 268 | Ardene, Jean Paul de Rome di | Various | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 805.00 | ||
| 269 | Forbes, James | Pinetum Woburnense: Or, a Catalogue of Coniferous Plants, in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. | London | 1839 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,887.00 |
| 270 | Fuchs, Leonard | Plantarum effigies O quinque diversis linguis redditae. | Lyons | 1552 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 460.00 |
| 271 | Furber, Robert | A Short Introduction to Gardening; or, a Guide to Gentlemen and Ladies in Furnishing their Gardens. | London | 1733 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,587.00 |
| 272 | (Gardening Manuals, 17th century) | A group of 3 English illustrated works | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 2,587.00 | ||
| 273 | (Gardening Manuals, 17th century) | A group of 3 gardening manuals in Italian and French | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,265.00 | ||
| 274 | (Gardening Manuals, 18th century) | A group of 4 gardening manuals chiefly by English floriculturists | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,737.00 | ||
| 275 | (Gardening Manuals, 18th century) | A group of 4 French gardening manuals | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,265.00 | ||
| 276 | Hale, Thomas [but prob. John Hill] | Eden: Or, a Compleat body of Gardening. | London | [1756]-1757 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 10,350.00 |
| 277 | Harrison, Joseph | The Floricultural Cabinet, and Floristis Magazine. | London | 1833-1858 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 920.00 |
| 278 | Jekyll, Gertrude | A group of 14 works by the renowned English garden designer | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,725.00 | ||
| 279 | Lambert, Aylmer Bourke | A of the Genus Pinus, with Directions relative to Cultivation, and Remarks on the Uses of the Several Species. | London | 1832 |
USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | 2,587.00 |
| 280 | Lindley, John | Rosarum Monographia: Or, a Botanical History of Roses. | London | 1820 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 920.00 |
| 281 | Linnaeus, Carl | Hortus Cliffortianus. | Amsterdam | 1737 [-1738] |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 4,600.00 |
| 282 | Michaux, F. Andre w and Thomas Nuttall | The North American Sylva. | Philadelphia | 1852 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 283 | Moore, Thomas and William P. Ayres | The Gardenersi Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science. | London | January 1850-December 1851 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 284 | Parkinson, John | Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. | London | 1629 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 10,925.00 |
| 285 | Robinson, William | A group of 15 volumes by the Father of the English Garden | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,587.00 | ||
| 286 | Trew, Christoph Jakob | Cedrorum libani historia. | Nuremberg | 1757 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,840.00 |
| 287 | Wilmott, Ellen Ann | Various | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,185.00 | ||
| 288 | Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher | A History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paulis, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christis Hospital. | London | 1816 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 289 | Audebert, Jean Baptiste, and Louis Jean Pierre Viellot | Oiseaux dores ou reflets metalliques. | Paris | [1800-] 1802 |
USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 290 | Audubon, John James | The Birds of America. | New York | [ca. 1870-1871] |
USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 291 | Catesby, Mark | The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants; Together with their Descriptions in English and French. | London | 1754 |
USD 80,000.00 - 110,000.00 | 167,500.00 |
| 292 | Catherwood, Frederick | A collection of 9 tinted lithograph plates finished in color by hand, extracted from Catherwoodis Views of Ancient Monuments in Central American Chiapas and Yucatan (1844). | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 9,200.00 | ||
| 293 | Cook, Captain James John Hawkesworth. | Various | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 13,800.00 | ||
| 294 | (Costume) | Journal des dames et des modes. | Paris | 1 June 1912-1 August 1914 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 9,200.00 |
| 295 | (Costume) | Gazette du Bon Ton. Art. Modes. Chronique (ed. Marcel Astruc). | Paris | 1923-1924; |
USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 296 | (Costumes) J. P. Lemaire, ed. | Journal des dames et des modes. | Frankfurt | 1798-1844 |
USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 21,850.00 |
| 297 | Gould, John | The Birds of Great Britain. | London | [1862-] 1873 |
USD 45,000.00 - 65,000.00 | 51,750.00 |
| 298 | Harris, John | Navigantium atque Itinerantum Bibliotheca: or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels. | London | 1705 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 299 | McKenney, Thomas L, and James Hall | History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. | Philadelphia | [1833-] 1836-1844 |
USD 45,000.00 - 65,000.00 | 85,000.00 |
