Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING NATURAL HISTORY, FOXGLOVE,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 01, 1984 - January 01, 1984
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir G.F. Archer and E.M. Godman | The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden | London and Edinburgh | 1937-1961 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 385.00 |
| 2 | D.A. Bannerman | The Birds of Tropical West Africa | 1930-1951 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 418.00 | |
| 3 | D.A. Bannerman | The Birds of the British Isles | Edinburgh and London | 1953-1963 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Pierre Belon | L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux | Paris | 1555 |
GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 5 | James P. Chapin | The Birds of the Belgian Congo | New York | 1932-1954 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 6 | Charles Chubb | The Birds of British Guiana | 1916-1921 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 418.00 | |
| 7 | C.B. Cory | Birds of the Bahama Islands | Boston | 1880 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 |
| 8 | J. Delacour and P. Jabouille | Les Oiseaux de l'lndochine Francaise | Paris | 1931 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 286.00 |
| 9 | Conrad Gesner | Historia Animalium Liber III qui est de Avium natura | Frankfurt | 1585 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 462.00 |
| 10 | J.D.D. La Touche | A Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China | 1925-1934 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 | |
| 11 | Rene Primevere Lesson | Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches | Paris | [1829-1830] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 506.00 |
| 12 | Rene Primevere Lesson | Les trochilidees ou les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches | Paris | [1832-1833] |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 462.00 |
| 13 | Gybertus Longolius | Dialogus de avibus | Cologne | 1544 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 858.00 |
| 14 | R. Meinertzhagen | Birds of Arabia | Edinburgh and London | 1954 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 |
| 15 | Thomas Pennant | The British Zoology | J. & J March | [1761-]1766 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 8,800.00 |
| 16 | Johann Andreas Naumann | Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas | Gera-Untermhaus | 1897-1905 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 1,760.00 |
| 17 | H.C. Robinson, F.N. Chasen and others | The Birds of the Malay Peninsula | 1927-1976 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 825.00 | |
| 18 | Paul Rosenius | Sveriges Faglar och Fagelbon | Lund | 1926-1949 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 19 | Eduard Rüppell | Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel Nord-Ost-Afrika's | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 594.00 | ||
| 20 | S. Sitwell, H. Buchanan and J. Fisher | Fine Bird Books | 1953 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 21 | J.I.S. Whitaker | The Birds of Tunisia | 1905 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 484.00 | |
| 22 | Francis Willughby | Ornithologiae libri tres . . . Totum opus recognovit | J. Martyn | 1676 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 |
| 23 | Magnus and Wilhelm von Wright | Svenska Foglar efter Naturen och pa Sten ritade | Stockholm | 1828[-1838] |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 6,380.00 |
| 24 | Erik Acharius | Lichenographia universalis | Gottingen | 1810 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 25 | William Aiton | Hortus Kewensis | GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 660.00 | ||
| 26 | John James Audubon | Virginian Partridge | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,400.00 | ||
| 27 | John James Audubon | Summer or Wood Duck | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,270.00 | ||
| 28 | Henry C. Andrews | The Heathery | 1804[-c.1830] |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,090.00 | |
| 29 | Jacques Barbut | The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus | 1781 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 385.00 | |
| 30 | Jacques Barbut | The Genera Vermium | 1783-1788 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | |
| 31 | William Baxter | British Phaenogamous Botany | Oxford | 1834-1843 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 |
| 32 | William Beebe | A Monograph of the Pheasants | 1918-1922 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,210.00 | |
| 33 | Basilius Besler | Hortus Eystettensis | Eichstatt and Nuremberg | 1613 |
GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 44,550.00 |
| 34 | Birds of Australia | April 1945-April 1947 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,180.00 | ||
| 35 | Markus-Eliezer Bloch | Ichtyologie | Berlin | 1785-1788 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 10,450.00 |
| 36 | Edward Thomas Booth | Rough Notes on the Birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the british islands | 1881-1887 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 | |
| 37 | C.R. Bree | A History of the Birds of Europe | 1875-1876 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 | |
| 38 | George Brookshaw | The Horticultural Repository | 1823 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,430.00 | |
| 39 | Patrick Browne | The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica | 1756 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 | |
| 40 | Pierre Joseph Buchoz | Histoire universelle du regne vegetal | Paris | 1774-1777 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 4,400.00 |
| 41 | Walter Lawry Buller | A History of the Birds of New Zealand | [1872-] 1873 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 42 | F.W. Burbridge | The Narcissus | 1875 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 | |
| 43 | A.G. Butler | Foreign Finches in Captivity | [1894-1896] |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 1,045.00 | |
| 44 | Charles Butler | The Feminine Monarchie | 1623 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 | |
| 45 | Mark Catesby | The Natural History of Carolina | 1731 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 11,550.00 | |
| 46 | Francois Pierre Chaumeton | Flore medicale | Paris | 1814-1820 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 |
| 47 | Jonathan Couch | A History of the Fishes of the British Islands | 1862-1865 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 308.00 | |
| 48 | John Curtis | British Entomology | 1824-1839 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 49 | William Curtis | Flora Londinensis | [1775-] 1777-1798 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,960.00 | |
| 50 | William Curtis | The Botanical Magazine | 1793-1808 |
USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 51 | William Curtis | The Botanical Magazine | 1794-1817 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,420.00 | |
| 52 | Jacques Dalechamps | Histoire generate des plantes . . . faite Francoise par M. lean des Moulins | Lyon | 1653 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 660.00 |
| 53 | Anselme-Gaetan Desmarest | Histoire naturelle des Tangaras | Paris | 1805 [-1807] |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 54 | William Daniell | Interesting Selections from Animated Nature with Illustrative Scenery | [1809] |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 165.00 | |
| 55 | H.Honeywood Dombrain and others | The Floral Magazine | 1872-1881 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 2,310.00 | |
| 56 | Edward Donovan | The Natural History of British Birds | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,160.00 | ||
| 57 | Rembert Dodoens | A Niewe Herball | London | 1578 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,090.00 |
| 58 | Edward Donovan | The Natural History of British Insects | 1802-1793-1813 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 59 | Edward Donovan | The Natural History of British Insects | 1792-1813 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 60 | Edward Donovan | The Natural History of British Birds | 1799 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 572.00 | |
| 61 | Edward Donovan | The Natural History of British Birds | 1799 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 62 | Edward Donovan | The Naturalist's Repository | 1834 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 968.00 | |
| 63 | Edward Donovan | The Naturalist's Repository of Exotic Natural History | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 385.00 | ||
| 64 | Dru Drury | Illustrations of Exotic Entomology | 1837 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 935.00 | |
| 65 | Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau | Traite des arbres fruitiers | 1768 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,200.00 | |
| 66 | J. Duke | The Compleat Florist | 1747 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 1,760.00 | |
| 67 | Richard Duppa | The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany | 1816 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 242.00 | |
| 68 | George Edwards | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | 1743-1764 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,400.00 | |
| 69 | George Edwards | Gleanings of Natural History | 1764 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 968.00 | |
| 70 | Sydenham Edwards | Botanical Register . . . Continued by John Lindley | 1833-1838 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,375.00 | |
| 71 | Giovanni Battista Ferrari | Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quatuor | Rome | 1646 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 72 | Pirro Antonio de Ferraro | Cavallo frenato | Naples | 1602 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 682.00 |
| 73 | Flower Drawings | 1817-1820 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 968.00 | ||
| 74 | F.W. Frohawk | An album containing 28 watercolour studies of butterfly specimens on 14 mounted cards | 1827 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 792.00 | |
| 75 | George Garrard | A Description of the Different Varieties of Oxen | 1800 [plates dated 1799-1806] |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 76 | Gart der Gesundheit | Strassburg | 1521 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 | |
| 77 | John Gerarde | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | 1597 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 418.00 | |
| 78 | John Gerarde | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | John Norton | 1597 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 528.00 |
| 79 | John Gerarde | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | 1633 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 572.00 | |
| 80 | John Gerarde | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | 1636 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |
| 81 | John Gerarde | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes | [1636] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 82 | Lady Isabella Rose Gilbert | Three albums (one of manuscript notes) containing approximately 75 pages of watercolour drawings of exotic (mostly Indian) butterflies | [c. 1823-1827] |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 352.00 | |
| 83 | W.T. Greene | Parrots in Captivity | 1884-1887 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 638.00 | |
| 84 | John Gould | The Birds of Great Britain | [1862-]1873 |
GBP 13,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 19,800.00 | |
| 85 | Robert Kaye Greville | Scottish Cryptogamic Flora | Edinburgh | 1823-1828 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 572.00 |
| 86 | William Chapman Hewitson | British Oology | [1831-1842] |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 | |
| 87 | Moses Harris | An Exposition of English Insects | 1782 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 330.00 | |
| 88 | Moses Harris | An Exposition of English Insects | 1786 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 110.00 | |
| 89 | Francisco Hernandez | Nova plantarum | Rome | 1651 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 90 | Moses Harris | The Aurelian | 1840 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 91 | Robert Hill | A collection of etchings of animals | 1798-1817 |
GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,265.00 | |
| 92 | Thomas Horsfield | Zoological Researches in Java | [1821-]1824 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 726.00 | |
| 93 | W. Houghton | British Fresh-Water Fishes | [1879] |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | |
| 94 | John Eliot Howard | Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon | 1862 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 715.00 | |
| 95 | Samuel Howitt | A New Work of Animals | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 187.00 | ||
| 96 | H.N. Humphreys and J.O. Westwood | British Butterflies and their Transformations | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 594.00 | ||
| 97 | H.N. Humphreys and J.O. Westwood | British Moths and their Transformations | 1857 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 220.00 | |
| 98 | Sir William Jardine | The Naturalist's Library | Edinburgh | [1843-1846] |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,320.00 |
| 99 | Sir William Jardine | The Natural History of Humming-Birds | Edinburgh | 1840 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 440.00 |
| 100 | Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire | Plantes de la France decrites et peintes d'apres nature | Paris | 1808-1809 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 715.00 |
