Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, GREENWICH,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 16, 1963 - December 16, 1963
Page Size: 555 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
196 Wilde (Oscar) The picture of Dorian Gray

USD - 5.60
197 Wilde (Oscar) A house of pomegranates

1891

USD - 25.20
198 Wilde (Oscar) The picture of Dorian Gray

1891

USD - 89.60
199 Wilde (Oscar) Salome Paris

1893

USD - 14.00
200 Wilde (Oscar) Salome

1894

USD - 28.00
201 Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx

1894

USD - 44.80
202 Wilde (Oscar) A woman of no importance

1894

USD - 42.00
203 Wilde (Oscar) The Importance of being Earnest

1899

USD - 266.00
204 Wilde (Oscar) An Ideal Husband

1899

USD - 154.00
205 Wilde (Oscar) Works

1908

USD - 173.60
206 Wilson (John) Belphegor or the marriage of the devil

1691

USD - 100.80
207 Wilson (Sir John) The Royal Philatelic Collection

1952

USD - 72.80
208 ADMIRALTY

[1692-3]

USD - 196.00
209 ALABAMA

[c.1865-70]

USD - 3,640.00
210 ALBEMARLE (GEORGE MONCK, 1608-70, first Duke of) Doc. s. (and with five words added to the text in his hand)

USD - 238.00
211 AUXONNE

USD - 168.00
211A CANADA

1765

USD - 1,092.00
212 CHINA

1817

USD - 98.00
213 MASON (GEORGE) CHINA

1821

USD - 126.00
214 COMMONPLACE BOOK kept by various members of the Hammond family England

USD - 42.00
215 CONGREVE (Sir WILLIAM) BOMB-PROOF FLOATING BATTERIES

9th January 1805

USD - 266.00
216 CONSEIL (JULES AIME, Capitaine au Long-Cours, Agent General des Sauvetages des Cercles d'Assurance de Paris) MEMOIRE SUR LE SAUVETAGE EN GENERAL France

c. 1835

USD - 154.00
217 CONSEIL (JULES AIME) SECOURS QUI DEVRAIENT SE TROUVER A L'ENTREE DE TOUS LES PORTS pour donner assistence aux navires qui y entrent en detresse . . . Bouee de sauvetage a voile en Cole galvanise et installation de cette Bouee sur un navire France

c. 1839

USD - 126.00
218 COOKERY BOOK containing numerous recipes for the table and some medical and household recipes England

USD - 50.40
219 COOPER (DAWTRY, Captain) A JORNALL kept by mee Dawtry Cooper Capt: of his Mats: Pinke the Pellican from Portsmouth to Rochell and back againe

USD - 476.00
220 DINGLEY OR DINELEY (THOMAS) JOURNAL OF MY TRAVELS THROUGH THE LOW-COUNTREYS ANNO DNI. 1674

1674

USD - 728.00
221 ESTAT ABREGE DE LA MARINE DU ROY

1690

USD - 644.00
222 ABREGE DE LA MARINE DU ROI 1699

1699

USD - 1,344.00
223 [ETAT DE LA MARINE DU ROY. Annee 1732]

1732

USD - 840.00
224 ETAT ABREGE DE LA MARINE DU ROY

1756

USD - 1,960.00
225 [ETAT DES TROUPES, 1757]

1757

USD - 364.00
226 ETAT ABREGE DE LA MARINE DU ROI

1774

USD - 392.00
227 ETAT ABREGE DE LA MARINE DU ROY annee 1767

1767

USD - 728.00
228 FOSTER (DAVID) AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST PARTICULAR REMARKS AND TRANSACTIONS WHICH HAPPENED DURING A LONG CAPTIVITY IN FRANCE by David Foster

1805-14

USD - 182.00
229 FRASER (JAMES) SERIES OF 86 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NEWSLETTERS

5 May, 1919

USD - 1,624.00
230 FREZIER (AMEDEE FRANCOIS) RELATION DU VOYAGE de la mer du sud aux cotes du Chily et Perou Paris

1716

USD - 420.00
231 RAMPONI (PLACIDO FRANCESCO) RACCONTO DEL VIAGGIO DELL' INDIE ORIENTALI E OCCIDENTALI FATTO . . . DELL'ANNO 1697 SINO ALL'ANNO 1700 per aver condotto et eretto la il Deposito di S. Francesco Xaverio d'ordine di S.A.S. il Gran Duca di Toscana Cosimo IIIGOA

[c. 1700]

USD - 700.00
232 KEMPTHORNE (THOMAS) EPHEMERIS INCEPTA DIE 28 MENSIS AUGUSTI ANNO 1706 cum brevi descriptione insignium locorum in progressu occurentium

1706-10

USD - 196.00
233 LETTER BOOK OF THE VOYAGE OF THE SHIP HARCOURT FROM PORTSMOUTH TO MADRAS

14 March 1773 - 12 September 1773

USD - 280.00
234 The same

1773

USD - 210.00
235 LOGBOOK

1 February 1767 - 1 May 1767

USD - 252.00
236 MEDICAL England

USD - 50.40
237 NAVAL

[c. 1692]

USD - 140.00
238 NAVAL

USD - 140.00
239 NAVAL Holland

c. 1695

USD - 112.00
240 NAVAL

USD - 196.00
241 NAVAL

USD - 28.00
242 NELSON (HORATIA NELSON, Mrs. Ward, daughter of Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton) POETICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK KEPT BY HER

1819-56

USD - 196.00
243 POETICAL COMMONPLACE BOOK containing personal England

USD - 476.00
244 PONCET DE LA GRAVE

1777

USD - 840.00
245 ROCH (HIERON) Hieron Roch his Journal of some Remarkable Voyages and Adventures at Sea in the years 1665

USD - 728.00
246 DEANE (JOHN) RUSSIA

4 February 1723/4 [-1725]

USD - 266.00
247 CURTIS (Sir ROGER) SOUTH AFRICA

1799-1802

USD - 448.00
248 TIFFIN (HENRY, sailor) Naval Commonplace Book kept by him

1774

USD - 224.00
249 TURKEY AND CYPRUS

1700-1701

USD - 476.00
250 VOYAGES

USD - 182.00
251 WEST AFRICA

[1825]

USD - 308.00
252 WEST INDIES

[1806-07]

USD - 224.00
253 WEST INDIES

[c. 1757]

USD - 252.00
253A TAYLOR (JOHN) WEST INDIES

1686-88

USD - 2,380.00
254 WILDE (OSCAR) THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM "TO L.L."

USD - 476.00
255 Burton (Sir Richard Francis) First Footsteps in East Africa

1856

USD - 56.00
256 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Lake Regions of Central Africa

1860

USD - 61.60
257 Burton (Sir R. F.) Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains

1863

USD - 39.20
258 Burton (Sir R. F.) A Mission to Gelele

1864

USD - 53.20
259 Burton (Sir R. F.) Vikram and the Vampire

1870

USD - 5.60
260 Burton (Sir R. F.) Vikram and the Vampire

1870

USD - 5.60
261 Burton (Sir R. F.) Ultima Thule

1875

USD - 19.60
262 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Kasidah (couplets) of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi London

[1880]

USD - 61.60
263 Burton (Sir R. F.)-Camoens (Luis de) The Lusiads

1880-84

USD - 53.20
264 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Kama Sutra of Vatsyana

1883

USD - 100.80
265 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Book of the Sword

1884

USD - 61.60
266 Burton (Sir R. F.) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

1885-88

USD - 78.40
267 Burton (Sir R. F.) Priapeia . . . now first completely done into English prose Athens [London]

1888

USD - 56.00
268 Burton (Sir R. F.) Terminal Essay to the Thousand and One Nights

1890

USD - 294.00
269 Burton (Sir R. F.)-Catullus (Caius Valerius) The Carmina

1894

USD - 2.80
270 Burton (Sir R. F.) Basile (Count Giovanni Battista) II Penta-merone

1924

USD - 16.80
271 BURTON (Sir RICHARD FRANCIS) A COLLECTION OF HIS WORKS

1851-79

USD - 1,120.00
272 BURTON (Sir R. F.) THE GULISTAN

1888

USD - Not Sold
273 Penzer (N. M.) An annotated bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton

1923

USD - 22.40
274 PRIMER Rowen

1538

USD - 476.00
275 Missale ad Usum insignis Ecclesie Sarisburiensis Paris

1555

USD - 72.80
276 Primer (The)

[c. 1710]

USD - 11.20
277 Bilson (Thomas, Bishop of Winchester) The Perpetual Governe-ment of Christes Church

1593

USD - 42.00
278 Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queen: the Shepheards Calendar: together with other Works of England's Arch-Poet

1611

USD - 95.20
279 Mayerne Turquet (Louis de) The Generall Historie of Spaine

1612

USD - 39.20
280 Parker (Henry) Of a Free Trade

USD - 67.20
281 St. John (Oliver) The Speech . . . concerning Ship-Money

1701

USD - 28.00
282 [Culpeper (Sir Thomas)] A tract against the high rate of Usurie

USD - 78.40
283 True relation (A) of His Majesties reception and Royal entertainment at Lincoln July 15 York

July 28, 1642

USD - 100.80
284 [Milton (John)] Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture which treat of Mariage

1645

USD - 128.80
285 Milton (John) The History of Britain

1670

USD - 154.00
286 Milton (John) Poems upon Several Occasions

1673

USD - 134.40
287 Milton (John) Paradise Lost

1674

USD - 106.40
288 (Murray (Robert) Corporation-Credit

USD - 78.40
289 Hartlib (Samuel) The Reformed Husband-man

USD - 61.60
290 Violet (Thomas) A true narrative of som remarkable procedings concerning the ships Samson

1653

USD - 100.80
291 Violet (Thomas) Mysteries and secrets of Trade and Mint-affairs

1653

USD - 106.40
292 Violet (Thomas) The answer of the Corporation of Moniers

[1653?]

USD - 5.60
293 Temple (Sir William) Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

1727

USD - 50.40
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