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Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, BARTHOLOMEW,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 20, 1965 - December 20, 1965
Page Size: 727 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
498 ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

1815

USD - 896.00
499 ORME (EDWARD) HISTORIC

[1819]

USD - 224.00
500 BRAYLEY (E. W.) AND D. HAVELL HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE THEATRES OF LONDON

1826

USD - 504.00
501 Apuleius (Lucius) Apologia Paris

1635

USD - 42.00
502 BLAGDON (FRANCIS WILLIAM) A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN INDIA

USD - 252.00
503 [BLOME (RICHARD)] BRITANNIA : or

USD - 616.00
504 CAMDEN (WILLIAM) BRITAIN

1637

USD - 616.00
505 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Workes

USD - 182.00
506 Martinius (Martin) Bellum Tartaricum

1654

USD - 89.60
507 D'Avenant (Sir William) Gondibert: an Heroick Poem

USD - 98.00
508 Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London

1658

USD - 56.00
509 Enderbie (Percy) Cambria Triumphans

1661

USD - 72.80
510 Hakluyt (Richard) The Principal Navigations

1599-1600

USD - 112.00
511 Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain

1655

USD - 78.40
512 [LE FERON (J.)] Catalogue des tres illustres Ducz et Connestables Paris

1555

USD - 266.00
513 [Martyn (Benjamin)] An Impartial Enquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia

1741

USD - 8.40
514 PAMPHLETS

USD - 224.00
515 VALERIUS MAXIMUS Venice

20th April, 1485

USD - 162.40
516 AESOP Basle

c. 1492

USD - 840.00
517 GESTA ROMANORUM Strassburg

7-12 January, 1499

USD - 182.00
518 Natalibus (Petrus de) Catalogus Sanctorum et Gestorum eorum Strassburg

1513

USD - 84.00
519 Gregory IX (Pope) Decretales Lyons

26th Jan, 1515

USD - 140.00
520 HALES (ALEXANDER OF) SUMMA THEOLOGICE Lyons

USD - 364.00
521 DIONYSIUS DE LEUWIS A ROCKEL CARTHUSIANUS Cologne

1530-32

USD - 42.00
522 Durandus (Guilelmus) Rationale Divinorum Lyons

23 August, 1531

USD - 22.40
523 Dieterich (Vitus) Summaria uber die gantze Biblia Frankfort

1562

USD - 106.40
524 Mercurialis (Hieronymus) De arte gymnastica libri sex

USD - 134.40
525 Mercurialis (Hieronymus) De arte gymnastica Amsterdam

1672

USD - 44.80
526 PETITY (JEAN RAYMOND, Abbe de) ETRENNES FRANCOISES Paris

1766

USD - 44.80
527 Marmontel (Jean Francois) Belisaire Paris

1767

USD - 98.00
528 LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) FABLES Paris

1787

USD - 72.80
529 Gravelot (H.) and C. N. Cochin Iconologie ou Traite de la Science des Allegories a l'Usage des Artistes Paris

1789

USD - 134.40
529A SADE (ALPHONSE FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE) LA NOUVELLE JUSTINE OU LES MALHEURS DE LA VERTU En Hollande [Paris]

1797

USD - 532.00
530 GRANT OF ARMS from Charles III of Spain to Don Peregrino de Escacena

11 May 1781

USD - 44.80
531 CLAUDE LE LORRAIN LIBER VERITATIS Boydell

1819

USD - 476.00
532 VAN LAAR (G.) MAGAZIJN VAN TUIN-SIERAADEN Amsterdam

1802

USD - 84.00
533 JANSSON (J.) ATLAS NOVUS

USD - 4,200.00
534 SENEX (J.), W. DE L'ISLE, J. B. HOMANN AND OTHERS A Collection of 44 early eighteenth-century maps

USD - 336.00
535 CAMDEN (WILLIAM) BRITAIN

1610

USD - 224.00
536 Dury (Andrew) A new general and universal atlas

[c. 1760]

USD - 50.40
537 Contareno (Cardinal Gasparo) The commonwealth and government of Venice

1599

USD - 84.00
538 Martyr (Peter) The common places of the most famous and renowned Dr. Peter Martyr

USD - 154.00
539 BIBLE Zurich

1543

USD - 672.00
540 VAUGHAN (WILLIAM) THE GOLDEN-GROVE

1608

USD - 476.00
541 Godwin (Francis, Bishop of Hereford) Annales of England... Englished by Morgan Godwyn

1630

USD - 14.00
542 Sleidan (John) The key of history

1631

USD - 8.40
543 GERARD (JOHN) The Herball of generall Historie of Plantes

[1636]

USD - 28.00
544 FULLER (THOMAS) THE HISTORIE OF THE HOLY WARRE Cambridge

1639

USD - 364.00
545 Knollys (Hanserd) The Rudiments of the Hebrew Grammar in English

1648

USD - 78.40
546 Hobbes (Thomas) Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society

1651

USD - 134.40
547 Hobbes (Thomas) De mirabilis pecci being the wonders of the peak

1678

USD - 89.60
548 Hobbes (Thomas) Historia ecclesiastica carmine elegiaco concinnata

1688

USD - 50.40
549 Drake (Sir Francis) Sir Francis Drake Revived

[1653]

USD - 168.00
550 MILTON (JOHN) PARADISE LOST

1669

USD - 280.00
551 Milton (John) Paradise Regain'd

1671

USD - 224.00
552 Blount (Sir Thomas Pope) De Re Poetica

1694

USD - 72.80
553 Newcastle (William Cavendish, Duke of) A General System of Horsemanship in all it's Branches

1743

USD - 280.00
554 Ware (Isaac) A Complete Body of Architecture

1756

USD - 126.00
555 Blake (William) Salzmann (C. G.) Elements of Morality

1791

USD - 134.40
556 [Browning] (Elizabeth Barrett) Poems

1844

USD - 476.00
557 Moore (Thomas) Lalla Rookh FORE-EDGE PAINTING

1817

USD - 95.20
558 Milton (John) FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS

1802

USD - 84.00
559 Buckler (I. C. & C. A.) FORE-EDGE PAINTING

1847

USD - 16.80
560 Shairp (John Campbell) FORE-EDGE PAINTINGt Oxford

1881

USD - 39.20
561 Gibbon (Charles) For Lack of Gold Blackie

1871

USD - 14.00
562 Gibbon (Charles) In Honour Bound

1874

USD - 16.80
563 Gibbon (Charles) Beyond Compare

1888

USD - 19.60
564 Gibbon (Charles) Robin Gray a Novel

USD - 28.00
565 Gibbon (Charles) By Mead & Stream

USD - 14.00
566 Gibbon (Charles) What Will the World Say

USD - 28.00
567 Gibbon (Charles) Queen of the Meadow

USD - 30.80
568 Gibbon (Charles) For the King

USD - 16.80
569 Hayman (E. N.) A Practical Treatise to render the Art of Brewing more Easy

1823

USD - 5.60
570 Boswell (James) The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

1785

USD - 50.40
571 Boswell (James) A Letter to the People of Scotland on the Alarming Attempt to infringe the Articles of the Union

1785

USD - 67.20
572 Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson

1901

USD - 2.80
573 Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson New York

1922

USD - 5.60
574 Boswell (James) Letters

USD - 50.40
575 Broadley (A. M.) Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale

USD - 56.00
576 Courtney (William Prideaux) and David Nichol Smith A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson Oxford

1925

USD - 39.20
577 Hamilton (W. G.) Parliamentary Logik

1808

USD - 16.80
578 Johnson (Samuel) The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language

USD - 196.00
579 [Johnson (Samuel)] The Prince of Abissinia

1759

USD - 134.40
580 [Johnson (Samuel)] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

USD - 28.00
581 Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

1781

USD - 98.00
582 Johnson (Samuel) Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

1788

USD - 39.20
583 Johnson (Samuel) Johnsoniana

1836

USD - 19.60
584 Johnson (Samuel). Boswell (James) Life of Johnson Oxford

1887-1905

USD - 56.00
585 Johnson (Samuel) Works

USD - 33.60
586 Johnson (Samuel). Johnson, Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi a Suppressed Passage Restored

USD - 28.00
587 Lobo (Jerome) A Voyage to Abyssinia

1735

USD - 78.40
588 M'Nicol (Donald) Remarks on Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides

1779

USD - 50.40
589 OVIDIUS NASO (P.) Heroides sive Epistolae Edinburgh

1732

USD - 812.00
590 Reade (A. L.) Johnsonian Gleanings

1909-23

USD - 39.20
591 Shakespeare (William) Plays

1765

USD - 123.20
592 BOSWELL (Sir ALEXANDER, eldest son of James Boswell) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL of his travels in Germany

1795-96

USD - 504.00
593 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) THREE A.LS.S. TO MRS. THRALE

USD - 1,680.00
594 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) A.L.S. TO MRS. ROLT

USD - 280.00
595 COMMONPLACE BOOK OF VERSE AND PROSE England, Circa

1625-35

USD - 2,100.00
595A ELIZABETHAN HANDWRITING England

USD - 448.00
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