Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, SUMMER,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 31, 1967 - July 31, 1967
Page Size: 789 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
494 Walters (Henry) Incunabula typographica

1906

USD - 56.00
495 Agricola (G. A.) A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening

1721

USD - 44.80
496 Atwood (William) Jus Anglorum ab antiquo or a confutation of an impotent libel against the government by Kings

USD - 72.80
497 Bacon (Sir Francis) De sapientia veterum liber

1634

USD - 8.40
498 Bacon (Sir Francis) The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh

1641

USD - 2.80
499 [Bacon (Nathaniel)] An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England

1647-1651

USD - 56.00
500 Blount (Charles) The oracles of reason ... in several letters to Mr. Hobbs and other persons

1693

USD - 84.00
501 Boerhaave (Herman) Elements of chemistry

USD - 145.60
502 Browne (Sir Thomas) Religio Medici

1669

USD - 84.00
503 Burnet (Gilbert) The history of the rights of Princes in the disposing of ecclesiastical benefices and Church-lands

USD - 72.80
504 [Burnet (Gilbert)] Reasons against the repealing the acts of Parliament concerning the test

USD - 67.20
505 Burnet (Thomas) The theory of the earth

1684

USD - 100.80
506 Burnet (Thomas) Archaeologiae philosophicae sive doctrina antiqua de rerum originibus

USD - 89.60
507 Burton (William) A commentary on Antoninus his itinerary

1658

USD - 33.60
508 Chambers (Ephraim) Cyclopaedia or an universal dictionary of arts and sciences

USD - 67.20
509 Chambers (Ephraim) Cyclopaedia or an universal dictionary of arts and sciences

1741-50

USD - 16.80
511 Cicero Tully's offices turned into English

USD - 84.00
512 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of) The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England Oxford

1702-03-04

USD - 72.80
513 Clerombault (Georges Brossin) Conversations put into English

1672

USD - 218.40
514 Coetlogon (Dennis de) An universal history of arts and sciences

1745

USD - 39.20
515 Confession of faith (The)

1658

USD - 22.40
516 Cotgrave (Randle) A French and English dictionary (with additions by James Howell)

1673

USD - 72.80
517 Crellius (John) The two books touching one God the Father

USD - 84.00
518 Cudworth (R.) The true intellectual system of the universe

1678

USD - 98.00
519 Cumberland (Richard) De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica

1672

USD - 67.20
520 Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes civill and militarie out of

1629

USD - 56.00
521 Daniel (Samuel) The collection of the history of England

1634

USD - 50.40
522 [Davenant (Charles)] An essay upon ways and means of supplying the war

1695

USD - 112.00
523 [Davenant (Charles)] Essays upon the ballance of power

1701

USD - 112.00
524 Dryden (John) The comedies

1701

USD - 28.00
525 Edmundes (Clement) Observations upon Caesars comentaries

1655

USD - 22.40
526 Erastus (Dr. Thomas) The nullity of Church-Census or a dispute

USD - 84.00
527 Etherege (Sir George) The works containing his plays and poems

1704

USD - 72.80
528 Evelyn (John) Sylva or a discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber in H.M.

1670

USD - 56.00
529 Evelyn (John) Silva or a discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber in H.M.

1704

USD - 44.80
530 Exact collection (An) of the most considerable debates in the Honourable House of Commons held

USD - 67.20
531 Graunt (Captain John) Natural and political observations

1665

USD - 98.00
532 [Hare (Francis)] The management of the war in a letter to a Tory member

USD - 89.60
532A Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, First Lord) The life and raigne of King Henry the Eighth

USD - 50.40
533 Hexham (Henry) A copious English and Netherduytch dictionarie Rotterdam

1648

USD - 106.40
534 Hill ("Sir" John) A general natural history

1751

USD - 14.00
535 Hobbes (Thomas) The art of rhetoric

1681

USD - 145.60
536 Holy Bible (The) and Book of Common Prayer Oxford

1738-39

USD - 16.80
537 Homer The Iliads and Odysses

1686

USD - 44.80
538 Howell (James) A German diet or the ballance of power in Europe

1653

USD - 78.40
539 Juvenalis (D. J.) and Aulus Persius [Satires]

USD - 39.20
540 Kirkwood (James) Grammatica delineata

1677

USD - 50.40
541 La Rochefoucault (F., Duc de) Moral maxims translated from the French

1749

USD - 16.80
542 Lawson (George) An examination of the political part of Mr. Hobbs his Leviathan

1657

USD - 145.60
543 Locke (John) An essay concerning humane understanding

1694

USD - 238.00
544 [Locke (John)] Two treatises of government

1694

USD - 98.00
545 [Locke (John)] The reasonableness of Christianity

1695

USD - 173.60
546 Locke (John) Some thoughts concerning education

1699

USD - 22.40
547 Longinus (Dionysius) The works on the sublime

USD - 72.80
548 Macchiavelli (Niccolo) The works

1675

USD - 89.60
549 Macchiavelli (Niccolo) The works

1680

USD - 50.40
550 [May (Thomas)] Historiae Parlamenti Angliae Breviarium

USD - 106.40
551 Miege (Guy) A short dictionary English and French

1684

USD - 47.60
552 Miller (Philip) The gardener's dictionary

1752

USD - 33.60
553 Miller (Philip) The gardener's dictionary

1752

USD - 33.60
554 Milton (John) The history of Britain

1677

USD - 84.00
555 Mortimer (J.) The whole art of husbandry or the way of managing and improving land

1708

USD - 33.60
556 Musaeus Moschius & Bion

1659

USD - 56.00
557 [Neville (Henry)] Plato redivivus or a dialogue concerning government

1681

USD - 84.00
558 Nicholson (William) The English historical library

[1697]

USD - 78.40
559 Owen (John) An enquiry into the original

USD - 61.60
560 Parker (Samuel) A demonstration of the divine authority of the law of nature

USD - 89.60
561 Petty (Sir William) [Hiberniae delineatio]

[?1690]

USD - 33.60
562 Plautus Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus and Rudens,

1694

USD - 44.80
563 Pocock (Edward) A commentary on the prophecy of Micah

USD - 22.40
564 Polybius. The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan

1634

USD - 14.00
565 Pretensions (The)

1699

USD - 39.20
566 Procopius of Cesarea

1674

USD - 78.40
567 Raleigh (Sir Walter) An abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's history of the world

USD - 56.00
568 Raleigh (Sir Walter) Lord Burleigh

1722

USD - 33.60
569 Rigault (Nicholas) Ierakosophion (graece) Paris

1612

USD - 11.20
570 Rushworth (John) Historical collections

USD - 33.60
571 Russell (J.) [Atlas for Guthrie's new system of geography]

1811

USD - 28.00
572 Salmon (William) Botanologia

1710

USD - 106.40
573 Sarpi (Paolo) The history of the Council of Trent

1620

USD - 84.00
574 Monro (J.) Schoolbooks

USD - 84.00
575 Seiden (Sir John) De jure naturalium et gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum

1640

USD - 72.80
576 Seiden (Sir John) De synedriis & praefecturis juridicis veterum Ebraeorum

1650-53-55

USD - 67.20
577 Sibbald (Robert) In Hippocratis legem et in ejusdem epistolam ad Thessalum filium commentarii in quibus ostenditur Edinburgh

1706

USD - 39.20
578 Smith (John Thomas) Vagabondiana or anecdotes of mendicant wanderers through the streets of London

1817

USD - 50.40
579 Smith (Sir Thomas) The commonwealth of England

1633

USD - 56.00
580 Smith (Thomas) Syntagma de Druidum moribus ac institutis

1664

USD - 61.60
581 Speed (John) The historie of Great Britaine

1632

USD - 28.00
582 [Sprat (Bishop Thomas)] A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King

1686-1685

USD - 39.20
583 Sprigge (Joshua) Anglia rediviva

1647

USD - 28.00
584 [Temple (Sir William)] Miscellanea

1680

USD - 61.60
585 Temple (Sir William) Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

USD - 72.80
586 Temple (Sir William) Works

USD - 22.40
587 Thucydides Eight books of the Peloponnesian warre

1648

USD - 84.00
588 Trail (Rev. William) Account of the life and writings of Robert Simson

USD - 5.60
589 Walker (William) A treatise of English particles shewing much of the variety of their significations

1673

USD - 28.00
590 Wotton (William) Reflections upon ancient and modern learning

1697

USD - 56.00
591 [Zouche (Richard)] Juris et judicii fecialis sive juris inter gentes Oxford

1650

USD - 39.20
592 Zouche (Richard) The jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Ar. Edward Coke's articuli

USD - 84.00
593 Elyot (Sir Thomas) The boke named the governor

1553

USD - 196.00
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