Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, FINE BINDINGS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, GREENWICH,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 16, 1963 - December 16, 1963
| 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 |