Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT MAPS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., EAGLE,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 01, 1948 - January 01, 1948
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R. Ackermann | The History of the Abbey Church of Westminster | 1812 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 2 | J. Adams | Index Villaris | 1680 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 3 | G. Agricola | De ortu & causis subterraneorum | Basileae | 1546 |
GBP - | 10.00 |
| 4 | H. G. Agrippa | Three Books of Occult Philosophy | 1651 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 5 | Sir R. Ainslie and L. Mayer | Views in Egypt | 1801 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 6 | Sir R. Ainslie and L. Mayer | Views in the Ottoman Dominions | 1810 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 7 | E. Albin | A Natural History of Birds | 1731 |
GBP - | 25.00 | |
| 8 | E. Albin | A Natural History of Spiders | 1736 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 9 | E. Albin | A Natural History of English Insects | 1749 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 10 | B. Castiglione | Aldine Press | 1541 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 11 | Henry Alken | The National Sports of Great Britain | New York | 1904 |
GBP - | 12.00 |
| 12 | R. Allestree | The Gentleman's Calling | 1682 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 13 | America | 1779 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 14 | America | 1783 |
GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 15 | G. Anson | A Voyage round the World | 1748 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 16 | Anti-Jacobin | 1797-8 |
GBP - | 7.10 | ||
| 17 | Aristoteles | Francofurdi | 1585 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 18 | Juan de Arphe | Quilatador de oro | GBP - | 2.10 | ||
| 19 | T. Astle | The Origin and Progress of Writing | 1803 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 20 | Lord Auckland | Some remarks on the apparent circumstances of the War in the fourth week of October | 1795 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 21 | Lord Bacon | The Historie of Life and Death | 1638 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 22 | A. M. Bailey | One hundred and six copper plates of Mechanical Machines | 1782 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 23 | J. Barbut | Les Genres des Insectes de Linné | Londres | 1781 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 24 | J. Barrelier | Icones Plantarum | Paris | 1714 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 25 | J. Barrow | An Account of Travels into the interior of Southern Africa | 1801-4 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 26 | John Barrow | Travels in China | 1804 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 27 | John Barrow | A Voyage to Cochinchina | 1806 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 28 | Baskerville Press | Cambridge | 1761 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 29 | Robert Barclay | Baskerville Press | Birmingham | 1764 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 30 | P. Terentius | Baskerville Press | Birmingham | 1772 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 31 | Baskerville Press | Birmingham | 1772 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 32 | Baskerville Press | Birmingham | 1773 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 33 | Caspar Bauhin | Prodromos theatri botanici | Basileae | 1671 |
GBP - | 3.10 |
| 34 | O. A. Bayardi | Prodromo delle antichità d'Ercolano | Napoli | 1752 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 35 | J. Bayley | The History of the Tower of London | 1821-5 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 36 | P. Bearcroft | An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq | 1737 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 37 | A. Beaumont | Select Views in the South of France | 1794 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 38 | F. Beaumont and John Fletcher | Fifty Comedies and Tragedies | 1679 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 39 | Francis Beaumont and J. Fletcher | Works | 1711 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 40 | R. and E. Benson | Catalogue of Italian Pictures | 1914 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 41 | M. Bergeret | Phytonomatotechnie universelle | Paris | 1783 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 42 | Sir Francis Bernard | Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America | 1774 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 43 | T. Bewick | History of British Birds | Newcastle | 1797-1804 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 44 | Bible | 1549 |
GBP - | 16.00 | ||
| 45 | W. Brockedon | Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps | 1828-9 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
| 46 | T. Birch | The History of the Royal Society | 1756-7 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
| 47 | Peter Blackborow | Navigation rectified | 1684 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 48 | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Oxford | 1766-9 |
GBP - | 3.10 |
| 49 | Gilbert Blane | A Short Account of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen | [1780] |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 50 | W. Bligh | A Voyage to the South Sea | 1792 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 51 | M. E. Bloch | Fischwerck | GBP - | 85.00 | ||
| 52 | R. Blome | The Gentleman's Recreation | 1686 |
GBP - | 25.00 | |
| 53 | T. Blundeville | Exercises | 1622 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 54 | G. Boccaccio | Il Decameron | Venetia | 1602 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 55 | Trajano Boccalini | I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus | 1656 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 56 | J. Bodin | Vniversae Natvrae Theatrum | Hanoviae | 1605 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 57 | Bodoni Press | Parma | 1809 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 58 | William Bollan | Coloniae Anglicanae Illustratae: or the acquest of dominion | 1762 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 59 | James Bolton | Filices Britannicae | Leeds | [1785] |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 60 | James Bolton | An History of Fungusses | 1788 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 61 | Book of Common Prayer in Spanish | 1707 |
GBP - | 0.15 | ||
| 62 | Book of Common Prayer | Oxford | 1776 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 63 | Book of Common Prayer | Oxford | 1776 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 64 | Book of Common Prayer | 1776 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 65 | I. von Born | Testacea Musei Vindobonensis | Vindobonae | 1780 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 66 | B. Bossi | Raccolta di disegni di F. Mazzola detto il Parmigianino | Parma | 1772 |
GBP - | 6.10 |
| 67 | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 1791 |
GBP - | 35.00 | |
| 68 | L. de Bougainville | A Voyage round the World | 1772 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 69 | T. E. Bowdich | Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee | 1819 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 70 | R. Bowyer | An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe | 1812-15 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 71 | W. Bradford | Sketches of country . . . and costume | 1809 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 72 | S. Brandt | Stultifera Nauis | GBP - | 38.00 | ||
| 73 | Noah Bridges | Stenographie and Cry[p]tographie | 1659 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 74 | A. Brongniart and D. Riocreux | Description du Musée Céramique de Sèvres | Paris | 1845 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 75 | George Brookshaw | Pomona Britannica | 1812 |
GBP - | 200.00 | |
| 76 | Patrick Browne | The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica | 1789 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 77 | Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers | 1930-4 |
GBP - | 21.00 | ||
| 78 | E. Burke | A Third Letter on the Proposals for Peace with the Regecide Directory of France | 1797 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 79 | E. Burke | Speech on the better security of the Independence of Parliament | 1780 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 80 | J. Burmann | Rariorum Africanarum plantarum decas I-X | Amstelaedami | 1738-9 |
GBP - | 42.00 |
| 81 | A. Burnaby | Journal of a Tour to Corsica in 1766 | 1804 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 82 | Edmund Burke | Speech on American Taxation | 1775 |
GBP - | 52.00 | |
| 83 | R. Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | 1660 |
GBP - | 6.10 | |
| 84 | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | 1801 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 85 | Lord George Anson Byron | Voyage to the Sandwich Islands | 1826 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 86 | Cambridge University | Cantabrigiae | 1688 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
| 87 | W. Camden | Britannia | 1695 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 88 | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming | 1809 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 89 | William Carter | The Disbanded Subaltern | GBP - | 20.00 | ||
| 90 | Sir John Carr | Descriptive Travels in Spain | 1811 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 91 | Luca Carlevariis | Le fabriche | Venetia | [1703] |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 92 | J. Cats | Kerkyraia Mastix | Middelburgh | 1622 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 93 | M. de Cervantes | Doh Quixote | 1675 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 94 | M. de Cervantes | El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote | Madrid | 1780 |
GBP - | 38.00 |
| 95 | W. Chambers | Plans . . . and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surry | 1763 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 96 | Charles I | Workes | 1662 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
| 97 | P. F. X. de Charlevoix | Histoire du Paraguay | Paris | 1756 |
GBP - | 10.10 |
| 98 | G. Chaucer | Workes | 1598 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 99 | Sir Winston Churchill | Divi Britannici: being a remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle | 1675 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 100 | E., Earl of Clarendon | The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Oxford | 1826 |
GBP - | 4.10 |