Sothebys: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, DOMESDAY,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 05, 1990 - February 05, 1990
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulisse Aldrovandi | Ornithologiae | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 770.00 | ||
| 2 | Nestor Maksimovich Ambodik | A Basic Introduction to Botany | St. Petersburg | 1796 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 3 | H.C. Andrews | Coloured Engravings of Heaths | London | 1794-1797 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 |
| 4 | Jean Bauhin | Historia plantarum universalis | Yverdon | 1650 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | James Bolton | An History of Fungusses growing around Halifax | Halifax and Huddersfield | 1788 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 462.00 |
| 6 | Richard Bradley | New Improvements of Planting and Gardening | 1726 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 143.00 | |
| 7 | A.E. Brehm | Cassell's Book of Birds | 1894-1895 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 | |
| 8 | Otto Brunfels | Herbarum vivae eicones ad naturae imitationem...recens editae | Strassburg | 1532 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 935.00 |
| 9 | Botanical Plates | Germany? | c. 1820-1830 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,045.00 | |
| 10 | G.L. Leclerc Buffon | A Natural History | [c. 1828] |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 264.00 | |
| 11 | A.J. Coquebert de Montbret | Illustratio iconographica insectorum | Paris | [1798/99]-1804 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 715.00 |
| 12 | William Curtis | Botanical Magazine | 1815-1816 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 13 | William Curtis | Botanical Magazine | 1830 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 605.00 | |
| 14 | Georges Cuvier | The Animal Kingdom | 1834-1837 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 715.00 | |
| 15 | William Daniell | Interesting Selections from Animated Nature | [c. 1810] |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 16 | John Evelyn | Sylva | York | 1812 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 242.00 |
| 17 | The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History...conducted by William MacGillivray | Edinburgh | 1839 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 528.00 | |
| 18 | Daniel Giraud Elliot | A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidae | 1878 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 110.00 | |
| 19 | Thomas Fairchild | The City Gardener.. | 1722 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 121.00 | |
| 20 | E.H. and S. Featon | The Art Album of New Zealand | Wellington | 1889 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 165.00 |
| 21 | G.B. Ferrari | Flora overo cultura di fiori | Rome | 1638 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 22 | G. B. Ferrari | De florum cultura libri IV | Rome | 1633 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 935.00 |
| 23 | Flower prints | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 462.00 | |||
| 24 | Flower prints | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 385.00 | |||
| 25 | E. H. Forbush | Birds of Massachusetts and other New England States | Boston | 1925-1929 |
GBP 100.00 - 120.00 | 99.00 |
| 26 | Leonhard Fuchs | De historia stirpium commentarii insignes | Lyons | 1549 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 990.00 |
| 27 | G. E. | A manuscript album | [c. 1799-1800] |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 | |
| 28 | Conrad Gesner | A manuscript album containing 14 watercolours of exotic birds and other natural history subjects | Frankfurt | 1617 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 572.00 |
| 29 | Sebastien gerardin | Essai de physiologie vegetale | Paris | 1841 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 |
| 30 | Masauji Hachisuka | The Dodo and Kindred Birds | Witherby | 1953 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 308.00 |
| 31 | Ernst Haeckel | Kunstformen der Natur | Leipzig and Vienna | [1899-] 1904 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 32 | Moses Harris | An Exposition of English Insects | 1782 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 | |
| 33 | Hortus sanitatis | Venice | 1511 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 34 | Sir John Hill | The Family Herbal | uncut | 1901 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 35 | Tom Iredale | Birds of New Guinea | Melbourne | 1956 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 198.00 |
| 36 | B.G. Etienne de la Ville Lacepede | Histoire naturelle...comprenant les cetacees | Brussels | 1853 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 242.00 |
| 37 | F.W.G. Lauche | Deutsche Pomologie | Berlin | 1882 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 935.00 |
| 38 | Jane Webb Loudon | British Wild Flowers | 1846 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 682.00 | |
| 39 | Charles Malo | La corbeille des fruits | Paris | 1825 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 330.00 |
| 40 | P.A. Matthioli | Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis | Venice | 1570 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 41 | Benjamin Maund | The Botanic Garden | 1916 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 374.00 | |
| 42 | P.A. Matthioli | I discorsi | Venice | 1621 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 462.00 |
| 43 | J.G. Millais | The Mammals of Great Britian and Ireland | 1904-1906 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 264.00 | |
| 44 | F.O. Morris | A History of British Birds | 1861 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 45 | Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle | Paris | 1803-1804 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 715.00 | |
| 46 | Charles Owen | An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents | 1742 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 385.00 | |
| 47 | Thomas Pennant | British Zoology | Warrington and London | 1776-1777 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 |
| 48 | G.B. Porta | Phytognomica | Rome | 1622 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 748.00 |
| 49 | Frank Poynting | Eggs of British Birds | 1895-1896 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 242.00 | |
| 50 | Anne Pratt | The Flowering Plants of Great Britain | 1907 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 495.00 | |
| 51 | Nicolas Francois Regnault | La botanique | Paris | 1770-1780 |
GBP 350.00 - 400.00 | 715.00 |
| 52 | Pietro Rossi | Mantissa insectorum exhibens species nuper in Etruria collectas | Pisa | 1792-1794 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 638.00 |
| 53 | S.H. Scudder | The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada | Mass. | 1889 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 605.00 |
| 54 | Henry Seebohm | A History of British Birds | 1883-1885 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 99.00 | |
| 55 | George Sinclair | Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis | 1826 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 143.00 | |
| 56 | Sir Sacheverell Sitwell | Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher | London and New York | 1953 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 |
| 57 | Charles Stonham | The Birds of the British Islands | 1906-1911 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 462.00 | |
| 58 | J. Sturm | Flora von Deutschland | Stuttgart | 1906-1907 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 59 | Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. | Album Vilmorin | Mainz | 1986 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 |
| 60 | John Walpole-Bond | A History of Sussex Birds | 1837-1852 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 143.00 | |
| 61 | A.F. Walther | Designatio plantarum quas hortus August | Leiden | 1645 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 176.00 |
| 62 | Gilbert White | The Works | 1769 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 | |
| 63 | Wild Flowers of Canada | Montreal | c. 1897 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 110.00 | |
| 64 | Francis Willughby | The Ornithology...Translated into English...By John Ray | 1678 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 495.00 | |
| 65 | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Ornithology...Translated into English...By John Ray | Edinburgh | 1857 |
GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | 495.00 |
| 66 | J.W. Zetterstedt | Insecta Lapponica | New York | 1929 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 253.00 |
| 67 | Jehoshaphat Aspin | The Naval and Military Exploits | 1820 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 | |
| 68 | H. Gerard | Battle of Waterloo | (c. 1820) |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 605.00 | |
| 69 | Jean Dumont, Baron de Carlscroon and Jean Rousset de Missy | The Military History of his Serene Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy | 1622 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 330.00 | |
| 70 | Michel Pozzi | Manuscript | Paris | 1919 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 71 | Allain Manesson Mallet | Les travaux de Mars ou la fortification nouvelle tant reguliere | 1672 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 605.00 | |
| 72 | J.B. Homann | Maritime Flags-Homann (J.B.) Flaggen alle seefahrenden Potenzen und Nationen.. | Nuremberg | 1724 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 176.00 |
| 73 | C.E. Chapel | Militaria and Military History-Chapel (C.E.) Guns of the Old West | 1967 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 396.00 | |
| 74 | P. Steel | Military and Naval History | 1806 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 286.00 | |
| 75 | Major-General A.G. Wauchope | Military History | 1955 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 528.00 | |
| 76 | Charles Messenger | Military History | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 528.00 | ||
| 77 | L. Bremond | Shipping | Marseilles | 1730 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
| 78 | Charles Hamilton Smith | Costume of the Army of the British Empire | 1815 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,860.00 | |
| 79 | Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban | Der Angriff die Vertheidigung der Festungen | Berlin | 1744-1745 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 220.00 |
| 80 | Marcus Vitruvius Pollio | Architecture | Turin | 1737 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 528.00 |
| 81 | Sir William Chambers | Designs of Chinese Buildings | 1757 |
GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 2,200.00 | |
| 82 | Andre FELIBIEN | Des principes de l'architecture | Paris | 1690 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 |
| 83 | Giacomo Fontana | Raccolta delle migliori chiese di Roma e suburbane | 1812 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 462.00 | |
| 84 | Henry Ford | My Life and Work | New York | 1923 |
USD 125.00 - 175.00 | Not Sold |
| 85 | J. Lecornu | Les Cerfs-Volants | Paris | 1902 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 66.00 |
| 86 | Light fittings | London | c. 1830 |
GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | 4,180.00 | |
| 87 | Joesph Moxon | Practical Perspective | 1670 |
USD 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold | |
| 88 | Andrea Palladio | The Four Books of...Architecture | 1738 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 990.00 | |
| 89 | Claude Perrault | A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture... made English by John James | 1708 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 110.00 | |
| 90 | Sir William Howard Russell | The Atlantic Telegraph | 1865 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 385.00 | |
| 91 | Henry Shaw | The History and Antiquities of the Chapel | 1829 |
GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | 176.00 | |
| 92 | Charles Singer | The Earliest Chemical Industry | 1948 |
USD 80.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 93 | Charles Heathcote Tatham | Etchings | 1799 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 396.00 | |
| 94 | John Topham | Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen | 1848 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 165.00 | |
| 95 | William Wright | Grotosque [sic] Architecture | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 96 | Isaac Ware | Designs of Inigo Jones and others | [c. 1735] |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 | |
| 97 | Isaac Ware | The Plans | 1735 |
GBP 100.00 - 120.00 | 462.00 | |
| 98 | John Rocque | Berkshire | 1761 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 660.00 | |
| 99 | H. Doncker | British Isles-Doncker (H.) Paskaarte om Achter Yrlant om te Zeylen | Amsterdam | [1658-65] |
GBP 180.00 - 220.00 | 187.00 |
| 100 | Johannes Blaeu | Geographiae Blavianae volumen sextum | Amsterdam | 1654 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,035.00 |
![<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.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
