Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps including sections on Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the Middle East and Children's Books, Related Drawings and Comics, FLASH,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 28, 1993 - June 28, 1993
Page Size: 1733 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1301 SEIROKU (NOMA) The Arts of Japan

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1302 SUGDEN (A.V.) AND J.L. EDMONDSON A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1014

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 322.00
1303 SUTHERLAND (GRAHAM)-Melville (Robert) Graham Sutherland

1950

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1304 BOLITHO (HECTOR, editor) A Batsford Century

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1305 MORRISON (ALFRED) Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 230.00
1306 HOBSON (G.D.) Bindings in Cambridge Libraries Cambridge

1929

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 632.00
1307 OLDHAM (J. BASIL) English Blind-stamped Bindings

GBP 120.00 - 180.00 103.00
1308 PEETERS-FONTAINAS (JEAN) Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas meridionaux Nieuwkoop

1965

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1309 STONELEIGH ABBEY CATALOGUE

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 805.00
1310 SALE CATALOGUES

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 529.00
1311 SALE CATALOGUE Paris

1755

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 172.00
1312 AMMERSIN (WENDELIN) Brevis relado Lucerne

1754

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1313 ANDRIOLLI (MICHELANGELO) Hygines [gracae]

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1314 BERTHOUD (FERDINAND) L'art de conduire et de regier les pendules

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 276.00
1315 BALDI (BERNARDINO) In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitadones Mainz

1621

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1316 BOYLE (ROBERT) New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Oxford

1662

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 552.00
1317 BURTIN (FRANCOIS-XAVIER) Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou description des fossiles Brussels

1784

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 460.00
1318 GALILEI (GALILEO) II saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano Rome

1623

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 345.00
1319 GALILEI (GALILEO) Tractatus de propordonum instrumento Strassburg

1635

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 437.00
1320 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN

1906-1968

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 172.00
1321 GUILLEMEAU (JACQUES) The Frenche Chirurgerye

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 598.00
1322 HEWSON (WILLIAM) An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 253.00
1323 JACOPO Venice

1547

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 299.00
1324 LINDHOUS (HENRICUS A) Introductio in physicam judiciarium Hamburg

1597

USD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
1325 Lizars (JOHN) A System of Anatomical Plates Edinburgh

[1823- 27?]

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 126.00
1326 MAURICEAU (FRANCOIS) Traite des maladies des femmes grosses

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 184.00
1327 MAUBRAY (JOHN) The Female Physician... To which is added

1730

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 69.00
1328 MAWE (JOHN) Familiar Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
1329 MONTAGNANA (BARTOLOMEO) Consilia... cum tribus tractatibus de balneis patavinis Venice

1525

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1330 MORAND (S.F.) Memoires sur la nature

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 172.00
1331 NEWTON (SIR ISAAC) Optice... editio secunda

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
1332 RAY (JOHN) Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
1333 RAY (JOHN) Catalogus plantarum angliae

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 402.00
1334 RAY (JOHN) Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 368.00
1335 RAY (JOHN) Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
1336 RAY (JOHN) Observations Topographical

1673

USD 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
1337 RAY (JOHN) Synopsis methodica avium & piscium

1713

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 207.00
1338 RAY (JOHN) Travels through the Low-Countries

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1339 TSCHIRNHAUS (EHRENFRIED WALTHER VON) Medicina mentis Leipzig

1695

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1340 WILLIS (ROBERT) Illustrations of Cutaneous Disease London, Paris and Leipzig

1841

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
1341 AUSTRALIA

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 69.00
1342 BEWICK (THOMAS) A History of British Birds

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 184.00
1343 BURMAN (JAN) Rariorum Africanarum plantarum Amsterdam

1738-1739

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 552.00
1344 DRESSER (H.E.) A History of the Birds of Europe

USD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
1345 DARWIN (CHARLES) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1346 DARWIN (CHARLES) Insectivorous Plants

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 345.00
1347 DARWIN (ERASMUS) Zoonomia

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1348 GOULD (JOHN) AND H.C. RICHTER Two hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds

1840-1848

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 368.00
1349 HORSE ANATOMY

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1350 HUMPHREYS (H.N.) AND J.O. WESTWOOD British Moths and their Transformations

1857

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 299.00
1351 JEKYLL (GERTRUDE) AND CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY Garden Ornament

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1352 KIRBY (W.F.) European Butterflies and Moths Cassell

1889

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 253.00
1353 LINNAEUS (C.) Wastgota Resa

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 517.00
1354 MARTYN (WILLIAM FREDERIC) A New Dictionary of Natural History

1785

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 483.00
1355 MARTYN (WILLIAM FREDERIC) A New Dictionary of Natural History

1785

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 333.00
1356 MEMOIRES DU MUSEE ROYAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE BELGIQUE

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
1357 MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Natural History of British Game Birds

1909

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 345.00
1358 MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland

1904-1906

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 115.00
1359 MILLER (PHILIP) Dictionnaire des jardiniers Paris

1785

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 103.00
1360 MORRIS (F.O.) A History of British Birds

1870

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 644.00
1361 MORRIS (F.O.) A History of British Birds

1866

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 276.00
1362 OSBALDISTON (WILLIAM AUGUSTUS) The British Sportsman

1792

USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
1363 PAXTON (JOSEPH) Magazine of Botany

1843

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
1364 PAXTON (JOSEPH) Magazine of Botany

1834-1836

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 575.00
1365 ROOSEVELT (THEODORE) The Wilderness Hunter New York & London

1893

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 299.00
1366 SOWERBY (JOHN EDWARD) English Botany

1877-1886

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 437.00
1367 STEPHENSON (JOHN) AND J.M. CHURCHILL Medical Botany... new edition edited by Gilbert T. Burnett

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 920.00
1368 SURTEES (R.S.) Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities

1843

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 632.00
1369 SWAMMERDAM (JEAN) Histoire generale des insectes Utrecht

1685

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1370 TRAILL (CATHERINE PARR) Canadian Wild Flowers Montreal

1869

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 391.00
1371 VERITY (ROGER) Rhopalocera Palaearctica... Papilionidae et Pieridae Florence

1905-1911

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 299.00
1372 WOODVILLE (WILLIAM) Medical Botany

1790-1794

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,437.00
1373 WARD (CHRISTOPHER) African Lepidoptera

[1873-1874]

GBP 120.00 - 150.00 253.00
1374 WRIGHT (JOHN) The Flower Grower's Guide

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 218.00
1375 BIRCH (THOMAS) The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain

1747-1752

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 713.00
1376 CONSTABLE (JOHN)-Lucas (David) English Landscape Scenery... from pictures painted by John Constable

1855

GBP 400.00 - 500.00 402.00
1377 Stebbing (H.) and W. Jerdan ENGRAVINGS

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 92.00
1378 HOGARTH (WILLIAM) A collection of loose prints

GBP 350.00 - 400.00 483.00
1379 PINELLI (BARTOLOMEO) Cronologia della storia romana rappresentata in rami nei piu rimarchevoli fatti

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1380 POETICAL MAGAZINE

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
1381 PRINTS

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 57.00
1382 SHOBERL (FREDERIC) The World in Miniature

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 172.00
1383 VANITY FAIR

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1384 TURNER (J.M.W.) The Turner Gallery

1856

GBP 240.00 - 260.00 414.00
1385 ARABIAN NIGHTS

1923

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1386 BIBLE

1841

GBP 180.00 - 240.00 345.00
1387 BINDINGS

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 253.00
1388 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

1717

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 690.00
1389 Weber-Dresden (J.M. Erich) CooKERY Dresden

[?1927]

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1390 ECHARD (LAURENCE) A General Ecclesiastical History

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 11.00
1391 ECHTNERNACH GOSPELS---DAS GOLDENE EVANGELIENBUCH VON ECHTERNACH Frankfurt and Stuttgart

1982

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
1392 MacPherson (James) FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS

1805

GBP 180.00 - 240.00 218.00
1393 GAGE (JOHN) The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk

GBP 200.00 - 250.00 184.00
1394 GESENIUS (W.) Thesaurus philologicus criticus linguae Hebraeae et Chaldaeae veteris testamenti

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 69.00
1395 MOLLOY (CHARLES) De jure maritimo et navali

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 103.00
1396 MICHIELE (PIETRO) II dispaccio di venere

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1397 LEWIS (M.G.) Romantic Tales

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 368.00
1398 LA GALERIE DES CHEFS-DOEUVRE

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
1399 OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Metamorphoses in Latin and English Amsterdam

1732

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 460.00
1400 PENN (WILLIAM) AND GEORGE WHITEHEAD The Christian-Quaker

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
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