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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Theo Johnson | Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae | [London?] | 1888 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 572.00 |
| 102 | Thomas Andrew Knight | Pomona Herefordiensis | 1811 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,484.00 | |
| 103 | Johann Hermann Knoop | Pomologia | Leeuwarden | [c. 1763] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 352.00 |
| 104 | George Wolfgang Knorr | Deliciae naturae selectae | Dordrecht | 1771 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,960.00 |
| 105 | William Elford Leach | Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniae | 1815[-1875] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 605.00 | |
| 106 | Edward Lear | Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae | 1832 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,640.00 | |
| 107 | Francois Levaillant | Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amerique et des Indes | Paris | 1801 [-1802] |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 108 | William Lewin | The Papilios of Great Britain | 1795 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 | |
| 109 | William Lewin | The Birds of Great Britain | 1800-1796-1801 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,375.00 | |
| 110 | T.L. Powys Lilford | Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands | 1885-1897 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 | 1,430.00 | |
| 111 | T.L. Powys Lilford | Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands | 1891-1897 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 112 | Conrad Loddiges and Sons | The Botanical Cabinet | 1824-1833 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 113 | Conrad Loddiges & Sons | The Botanical Cabinet | 1817[-1824] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,155.00 | |
| 114 | Adam Lonitzer | Krauterbuch | Frankfurt | 1609 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 220.00 |
| 115 | Xaverio Manetti | Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni | Florence | 1767-1776 |
GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 44,000.00 |
| 116 | Xaverio Manetti | Two original watercolour studies for Manetti's Ornithologia (1767-1776) | 1767-1776 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 117 | Xaverio Manetti | Two original watercolour studies for Manetti's Ornithologia (1767-1776) | USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 118 | Pier Andrea Mattioli | De i discorsi. . . nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride | Venice | 1585 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 119 | Benjamin Maund and J.S. Henslow | The Botanist | [1837-1846] |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 990.00 | |
| 120 | Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied | Recueil de planches coloriees d'animaux du Bresil | Weimar | 1822[-1831] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 121 | H.L. Meyer | Coloured Illustrations of British Birds | 1842-1850 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 | |
| 122 | H.L. Meyer | Coloured Illustrations of British Birds | 1857 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 682.00 | |
| 123 | Francois Andre Michaux | The North American Sylva | Paris | 1819 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 124 | J.G. Millais | The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks | 1902 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 | |
| 125 | J.G. Millais | British Diving Ducks | 1913 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 528.00 | |
| 126 | J.G. Millais | British Diving Ducks | 1913 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 | |
| 127 | Thomas Moore | The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland | 1857 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 | |
| 128 | Beverley R. Morris | British Game Birds and Wildfowl | 1855 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 | |
| 129 | Beverley R. Morris | British Game Birds and Wildfowl | 1891 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 572.00 | |
| 130 | Beverley R. Morris | British Game Birds and Wildfowl | 1891 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 528.00 | |
| 131 | F.O. Morris | A History of British Birds | 1866 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 286.00 | |
| 132 | F.O. Morris | A History of British Birds | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 275.00 | ||
| 133 | Etienne Mulsant | Lettres a Julie sur l'ornithologie | Paris | 1868 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 134 | William Cavendish Newcastle | A General System of Horsemanship in all its Branches | 1743 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,310.00 | |
| 135 | G.C. Oeder and others | Flora Danica | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 136 | Giovanni Pietro Olina | Uccelliera overo discorso della natura | Rome | 1684 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,155.00 |
| 137 | John Parkinson | Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris | 1656 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 330.00 | |
| 138 | Sir Joseph Paxton | Magazine of Botany | 1834-1849 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,485.00 | |
| 139 | Sir Joseph Paxton | Magazine of Botany | 1834-1849 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 140 | Sir Joseph Paxton | Magazine of Botany | 1834[-1846] |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 141 | Thomas Pennant | British Zoology | Warrington and London | 1776-1777 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 142 | John C. Phillips | A Natural History of the Ducks | Boston and New York | 1922-1926 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 |
| 143 | Robert Plot | The Natural History of Oxford-shire | Oxford | 1677 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 220.00 |
| 144 | Pierre Joseph Redoute | Choix des plus belles fleurs prises dans differentes families du regne vegetal et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits | Paris | 1827[-1833] |
GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 24,200.00 |
| 145 | Pierre Joseph Redoute | Les Roses | Paris | 1824 [-1826] |
USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 146 | Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 147 | George Dawson Rowley | Ornithological Miscellany | [1875-] 1878 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 148 | George Dawson Rowley | Ornithological Miscellany | [1875-] 1878 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 990.00 | |
| 149 | Jean and Gaspard de Saunier | La parfaite connoissance des chevaux | The Hague | 1734 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 150 | Gaetano Savi | Flora Italiana ossia raccolta delle piante piu belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia | Pisa | 1817-1826 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,600.00 |
| 151 | Thomas Say | American Entomology | Philadelphia Museum | 1824-1825 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 152 | Albertus Seba | Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio | Amsterdam | 1734-1758 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 2,310.00 |
| 153 | George Shaw and F.P. Nodder | The Naturalist's Miscellany | [1789-1799] |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 935.00 | |
| 154 | S. Sitwell, H. Buchanan and J. Fisher | Fine Bird Books | 1953 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 | |
| 155 | B.E. Smythies | Birds of Burma | Rangoon | 1940 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 330.00 |
| 156 | James Sowerby and Sir J.E. Smith | English Botany | 1790-1814 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 157 | James Sowerby and Sir J.E. Smith | English Botany | 1790-1843 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 | |
| 158 | James Sowerby and Sir J.E. Smith | English Botany | [1790-1814] |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 880.00 | |
| 159 | George Spratt | Flora Medica | 1829-1830 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 160 | James Francis Stephens | Illustrations of British Entomology | 1828-1846 |
GBP 350.00 - 450.00 | 462.00 | |
| 161 | J.G. Strutt | Sylva Britannica | 1826 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | |
| 162 | Jan Swammerdam | The Book of Nature | 1758 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 374.00 | |
| 163 | Jakob Theodor Tabernaemontanus | Eicones plantarum | Frankfurt A.M. | 1590 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 264.00 |
| 164 | Michele Tenore | Flora Napolitana | Naples | 1811 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 165 | Archibald Thorburn | British Birds | 1915-1916 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 385.00 | |
| 166 | Archibald Thorburn | British Birds | 1916 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 167 | Archibald Thorburn | British Birds | 1918 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 440.00 | |
| 168 | Archibald Thorburn | British Mammals | 1920-1921 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 220.00 | |
| 169 | Archibald Thorburn | Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland | 1923 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 638.00 | |
| 170 | Robert John Thornton | The Temple of Flora | 1799[-1812] |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 23,100.00 | |
| 171 | Robert John Thornton | Temple of Flora | 1812 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 172 | Robert John Thornton | Temple of Flora | 1812 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,650.00 | |
| 173 | Robert Warner | Select Orchidaceous Plants . . . The notes on culture by Benjamin S. Williams | 1874 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 174 | Robert Warner and others | The Orchid Album | 1882-1886 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,265.00 | |
| 175 | Robert Warner and others | The Orchid Album | 1882-1885 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 176 | J.I.S. Whitaker | The Birds of Tunisia | 1905 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 264.00 | |
| 177 | Gilbert White | The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | 1789 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 495.00 | |
| 178 | Ellen Willmott | The Genus Rosa | 1910-1914 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 462.00 | |
| 179 | Alexander Wilson and C.L. Bonaparte | American Ornithology | 1832 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 | |
| 180 | Alexander Wilson and C.L. Bonaparte | American Ornithology | 1832 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 181 | William Woodville | Medical Botany | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 182 | Zoological Society of London | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,155.00 | |||
| 183 | W.H. Aldam | A Quaint Treatise on "Flees | 1876 |
GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 550.00 | |
| 184 | Henry Alken | Sporting Scrap Book | [1824] |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 770.00 | |
| 185 | Henry Alken | Illustrations to Popular Songs | 1825 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 220.00 | |
| 186 | Henry Alken | The National Sports of Great Britain | New York | 1904 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 440.00 |
| 187 | C.J. Apperley | Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton | 1837 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | |
| 188 | C.J. Apperley | Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton | 1837 |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 396.00 | |
| 189 | William Baigent | A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing | c.1941 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 190 | William Brodrick | Falconers' Favourites | 1865 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 | |
| 191 | H.H. Edmonds and N.N. Lee | Brook and River Trouting | Bradford | [1916] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 |
| 192 | W. Houghton | British Fresh-Water Fishes | [1879] |
GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 275.00 | |
| 193 | Instruction pour elever | Paris | 1674 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,045.00 | |
| 194 | J.G. Millais | Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches | 1892 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 195 | Hugh B.C. Pollard | Game Birds | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 374.00 | ||
| 196 | W.A. Osbaldiston | The British Sportsman | GBP 200.00 - 250.00 | 352.00 | ||
| 197 | F.H. Salvin and W. Brodrick | Falconry in the British Isles | 1855 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 198 | William Somervile | The Chase | W. Bulmer | 1796 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 352.00 |
| 199 | Sporting Magazine (The) | 1793-1870 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,520.00 | ||
| 200 | Robert Smith Surtees | The Analysis of the Hunting Field | 1846 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 275.00 |
