Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, WELSHPOOL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 1967 - March 20, 1967
Page Size: 517 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Dow (Alexander) The history of Hindostan

1768-72

USD - 61.60
102 Drayton (Michael) Works

1748

USD - 14.00
103 [DRUMMOND (HENRY)] HISTORIES OF NOBLE BRITISH FAMILIES

1842-46

USD - 154.00
104 DRURY (DRU) ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects

1770-82

USD - 840.00
105 Du Bosc (Claude) The military history of the late Prince Eugene of Savoy

1736-37

USD - 78.40
106 Du Chesne (Andre) Historiae Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui Paris

1619

USD - 33.60
107 Du Chesne (Andre) Histoire d'Angleterre Paris

1634

USD - 56.00
108 Dugdale (Sir William) Origines juridiciales

1671

USD - 98.00
109 Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum

1718-23

USD - 39.20
110 Dugdale (Sir William) The history of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes

1772

USD - 154.00
111 Dugdale (Sir William) The baronage of England

1675-76

USD - 28.00
112 Duncumb (John) Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Hereford Hereford

1804-12

USD - 33.60
113 Duppa (Richard) The life of Michel Angelo Buonkrotii

1807

USD - 5.60
114 Duppa (Richard) The life and literary works of Michel Angelo Buonarotti

1806

USD - 16.80
115 EADMER

1623

USD - 140.00
116 Edmonson (Joseph) A complete body of heraldy

1780

USD - 44.80
117 Edwards (Bryan) The history

1793

USD - 106.40
118 EDWARDS (GEORGE) A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS

1758-1806

USD - 1,540.00
119 Elmacinus (G.) Historia Saracenica Leiden

1625

USD - 95.20
120 England illustrated

1764

USD - 252.00
121 Evans (John) Map of the Six Counties of North Wales Lwynygroes

1st June, 1795

USD - 154.00
122 EVELYN (JOHN) Silva: or

1729

USD - 1,820.00
123 Evelyn (John) Silva York

1786

USD - 25.20
124 Evelyn (John) Memoirs

1818

USD - 39.20
125 Faulkner (Thomas) History and antiquities of Kensington

1820

USD - 67.20
126 Ficorini (Francesco de') Le vestigia e rarita di Roma antica Rome

1744

USD - 61.60
127 Ficorini (Francesco de') Le memorie ritrovate nel territorio della prima e seconda citta di Labico Rome

1745

USD - 33.60
128 [Fisher] (John, Bishop of Rochester) Assertionis Lutheranae Confutatio Paris

1545

USD - 126.00
129 Flaxman (John) The Iliad of Homer

1817

USD - 67.20
130 Fougasses (Thomas de) The generall historie of the magnificent state of Venice

1612

USD - 67.20
131 Frankau (Julia) Eighteenth century colour prints

1900

USD - 16.80
132 Fraser (James Baillie) Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains

1820

USD - 56.00
133 Fuessly (Johan Caspar) Archiv der Insectengeschichte Zurich & Winterthur

1781-86

USD - 126.00
134 Garran (Andrew) Picturesque atlas of Australasia

1886

USD - 8.40
135 Gassendus (Petrus) Institutio Astronomica . . . cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuncius Sidereus

1683

USD - 84.00
136 Gay (John) Poems on several occasions

1720

USD - 56.00
136A Genoa Genoa

1781

USD - 89.60
137 Genoa

18th century

USD - 238.00
138 Gibbon (Edward) The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

1776-88

USD - 56.00
139 GILLRAY (JAMES) WORKS

USD - 126.00
140 Girard (Guillaume) The history of the life of the Duke of Espernon

1670

USD - 84.00
141 Godwyn (Thomas), Francis Rous and Zachary Bogan Romanse Historiee Anthologia

1686

USD - 56.00
142 GRAY (FRANCIS, Lord) MORRISON (D.) CATALOGUE OF THE GRAY LIBRARY

1828

USD - 504.00
143 Grew (Nehemiah) Cosmologia sacra

1701

USD - 39.20
144 Gronovius (Laurentius Theodorus) Zoophylacium Gronovianum Leyden

[1763]-81

USD - 56.00
145 Grose (Francis) A treatise of ancient armour and weapons

1786

USD - 33.60
146 GROTIUS (HUGO) DE IURE BELLI AC PACIS Paris

1625

USD - 5,600.00
147 Gualdo Priorato (Conte Galeazzo) The history of France

1676

USD - 39.20
148 Gualtieri (Nicolo) Index testarum conchyliorum Florence

1742

USD - 154.00
149 Guicciardini (Francesco) La Historia di Italia Florence

1561

USD - 106.40
150 Guicciardini (F.), G. F. Lottini, and F. Sansouini Propositioni Venice

1583

USD - 106.40
151 Guillim (John) A display of heraldry

1677

USD - 33.60
152 Hall (Joseph) A recollection of such treatises as have been heretofore severally published

1615

USD - 16.80
153 Harris (John) Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca

1744-48

USD - 196.00
154 Harris (Moses) The aurelian: a natural history of English moths and butterflies

1766 [c. 1850]

USD - 238.00
155 Heinsius (Daniel) De Contemptu Mortis Leiden

1621

USD - 50.40
156 Herbert (George) The temple Cambridge

1633

USD - 78.40
157 Herbert (George) The temple Cambridge

1635

USD - 56.00
158 Herbert (George) The temple

1678

USD - 84.00
159 Herbert (George) Remains of sundry pieces

1652

USD - 140.00
160 Herbert (George) A priest to the temple or the country parson his character

1675

USD - 50.40
161 Herbert (George) A priest to the temple or the country parson's character

1701

USD - 19.60
162 Herbert (George) Poemata varii argumenti partim e Georgio Herberto Latine reddita

1678

USD - 61.60
163 Edward, first Lord Herbert of Cherbury

1656

USD - 106.40
164 (Edward, first Lord) Herbert of Cherbury

1672

USD - 33.60
165 (Edward, first Lord) Herbert of Cherbury

1682

USD - 78.40
166 Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, first Lord)

1768

USD - 44.80
167 (Edward, first Lord) Herbert of Cherbury

1770

USD - 39.20
168 Herbert (Sir Percy) Certaine conceptions

1652

USD - 56.00
169 Herbert (Sir Percy) The same

USD - 25.20
170 Herbert (Sir Thomas) Some years travels into divers parts of Africa and Asia the Great

1665

USD - 89.60
171 Herbert (Sir Thomas) Some years travels into Africa

1677

USD - 112.00
172 Herbert (Sir Thomas) Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of King Charles I

1813

USD - 89.60
173 Herburt (Ioanne) Statuta Regni Poloniae in ordinem alphabeti digesta Danzig and Frankfurt

1620

USD - 140.00
174 Herculanensium voluminum quae supersunt Naples

1793-97

USD - 14.00
175 Herodotus Geneva

1592

USD - 154.00
176 Herrera (Antonio de) Tercera Parte de la Historia General del Mundo Madrid

1612

USD - 560.00
177 Heylyn (Peter) Cyprianus Anglicanus: or the History of the Life and Death

1668

USD - 39.20
178 Hills (Robert) Etchings of cattle

1806-09

USD - 84.00
179 (John Cam, Lord Broughton) Hobhouse

1813

USD - 126.00
180 Holland (Trevenen J.) and Henry Hozier Record of the expedition to Abyssinia

1870

USD - 117.60
181 Homer his Iliads

1660

USD - 44.80
182 Hooker (Richard) Works

1750

USD - 106.40
183 Home (T. H.) and Joseph Farington The lakes of Lancashire

1816

USD - 39.20
184 Houbraken (J.), George Vertue and Thomas Birch The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain

1756

USD - 61.60
185 Howitt (Samuel) A new work of animals

1809

USD - 22.40
186 Hugo (Hermann) Le siege de la ville de Breda Antwerp

1631

USD - 70.00
187 India

1799

USD - 126.00
188 India

from 1601

USD - 134.40
189 Beatson (Alexander) India

1800

USD - 182.00
190 Campbell (Donald) India

1795

USD - 134.40
191 Wilkins (Charles, Editor) India

1785

USD - 84.00
192 Wellesley (Lord) India

1806

USD - 182.00
193 Ingram (James) Memorials of Oxford Oxford

1837

USD - 5.60
194 Ingram (James) Memorials of Oxford Oxford

1837

USD - 22.40
195 Isaacson (Henry) Saturni Ephemerides sive Tabula Historico-Chrono-logica containing a Chronological Series or Succession of the foure Monarchyes

1633

USD - 2.80
196 Jephson (Robert) Roman portraits

1794

USD - 50.40
197 Jesuits

1723

USD - 5.60
198 Jones & Co. Views of the seats

1829

USD - 72.80
199 Jones (Owen) and Jules Goury Plans

1842-45

USD - 154.00
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