Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, SPIDERPLANT,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 01, 1980 - January 01, 1980
Page Size: 522 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Atlases—A collection often atlases by Arrowsmith

[c. 1800--1925]

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 110.00
202 A. Arrowsmith Map of Europe

GBP 120.00 - 160.00 20.00
203 W. Guthrie A new System of modern Geography ... fourth edition

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 40.00
204 Library of Congress

GBP 60.00 - 85.00 110.00
205 A. Arrowsmith Map of Europe

GBP 120.00 - 160.00 25.00
206 Olfert Dapper Description exacte des Isles de l'Archipel Amsterdam

1703

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
207 Theodore De Bry Great Voyages

[1590]

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 760.00
208 Theodore De Bry Great Voyages

1590

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 740.00
209 David Henry An Historical Account of all the Voyages round the world performed by English Navigators

1774--73

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 25.00
210 Russia

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 80.00
211 Olf Rudbeck Attend eller Manheim ... Atlantica sive Manheim

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 100.00
212 Louis de Boisgelin Travels through Denmark and Sweden

1810

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 120.00
213 R. T. Pritchett "Gamle Norge"

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
214 T. Allom Forty-six views of Tyrolese Scenery

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 100.00
215 J. R. Wyss Voyage dans l'Oberland bernois Berne

1816--17

GBP 15.00 - 20.00 70.00
216 J. Sporschil Wanderungen durch die sachsische Schweiz

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 130.00
217 W. Beattie Switzerland

1836

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 230.00
218 J. Hakewill A picturesque Tour of Italy

1820

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 150.00
219 John Bell Observations on Italy

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 35.00
220 Lewis Engelbach Naples and the Campagna Felice

1815

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 60.00
221 James Boswell An Account of Corsica Glasgow

1768

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 55.00
222 A. Pugin and C. Heath Paris and its Environs

1831

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 100.00
223 A. Pugin and C. Heath Paris and its environs

[c. 1840]

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 70.00
224 J. A. Piganiol de la Force Description de Paris

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 100.00
225 J. J. Gerning A picturesque Tour along the Rhine

1820

GBP 400.00 - 800.00 1,500.00
226 F. G. Delkeskamp Panorama of the Rhine Frankfurt

1837

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 65.00
227 W. Beattie and W. H. Bartlett The Danube

[1844]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 150.00
228 William Wilkins The Antiquities of Magna Graecia

1807

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
229 Luigi Mayer Interesting Views in Turkey

1819

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
230 Charles Perry View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople

1743

GBP 140.00 - 180.00 100.00
231 Robert Wood The Ruins of Balbec

1757

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 50.00
232 Giovanni Francesco Abela Malta Illustrata Malta

1772--80

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 130.00
233 D. Roberts The Holy Land

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 160.00
234 Adrian Reland Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata Utrecht

1714

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 120.00
235 William Marsden The History of Sumatra

1811

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 130.00
236 H. Neville 'Cornelius Van Sloetton' A new and further Discovery of the Islle of Pines ... Voyage to the East Indies

1668

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 300.00
237 W. H. Medhurst An English and Japanese and Japanese and English Vocabulary

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 500.00
238 O. Dapper Umbständliche und eigentliche Beschreibung von Asia ... übersetzet von Johann Christoff Beern Nuremberg

1681

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 500.00
239 Donald Campbell A Journey over land to India

1796

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 15.00
240 L. P. J. A. Noé Mémoires relatifs a l'Expédition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'Armée d'Orient Paris

1826

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 55.00
241 John Butler A Sketch of Assam

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 80.00
242 W. Bolts Considerations on India Affairs

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 50.00
243 R.C. Wellesley Notes relative to the late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 60.00
244 T. Williamson and F. W. Balgdon The European in India

1813

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 100.00
245 William Hodges Travels in India

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 160.00
246 Robert Orme A History of the military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 45.00
247 Capt. S. Turner An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet

1800

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 100.00
248 W. Kirkpatrick An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul

1811

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 80.00
249 J. G. Duff A History of the Mahrattas

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 70.00
250 W. Kirkpatrick An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul

1811

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 150.00
251 William S. Hunter Hunter's Eastern Townships Scenery Montreal

1860

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 560.00
252 N. P. Willis American Scenery

[c. 1840]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 180.00
253 Rev. Eleazar Wheelock A brief narrative of the Indian charity school in Lebanon in Connecticut

1766

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 50.00
254 Edward Smith Account of a journey through Noríh-Eastern Texas undertaken in 1849 for the purposes of emigration embodied in a report London & Birmingham

1849

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 220.00
255 George French The History of Col. Parke's Administration ... Leeward Islands

1717

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 90.00
256 Theodore De Bry Great Voyages Frankfurt am Main

1590

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 850.00
257 J. Marsillac La Vie de Guillaume Penn

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 30.00
258 Henry Cross An Answer To an invidious Pamphlet

GBP 60.00 - 70.00 60.00
259 James H. M'Culloh Researches on America Baltimore

1817

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 10.00
260 Carl I. Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West San Francisco

1957--63

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 240.00
261 J. Edwards The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 60.00
262 T. Wentworth The West India Sketch Book

1834

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 100.00
263 Alexander Walker Colombia: being a geographical

1822

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 120.00
264 John M'Gregor British America Edinburgh & London

1832

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 35.00
265 Abbé E. Domenech Seven Years Residence in the Great Deserts of North America

1860

GBP 60.00 - 100.00 35.00
266 D. Weldon J. Fry and others The Line between Virginia and North Carolina

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 30.00
267 S. Ockley An Account of South-West Barbary

1713

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 95.00
268 J. G. Millais Far away up the Nile

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 85.00
269 Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa

1790

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 40.00
270 P. Kolben The present State of the Cape of Good-Hope

1731

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 130.00
271 Thomas Clarkson The history ... of the abolition of the African Slave-Trade

GBP 100.00 - 130.00 65.00
272 Anthony Trollope Australia and New Zealand

1873

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
273 Andrew Garran Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

1886

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
274 Richard A. Cruise Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 70.00
275 J. Frith A Boke made by John Frith ... answeringe unto M. Mores Lettur Münster

1533

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 38.00
276 Magna Carta

[?1541]

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 70.00
277 John Bale, Bishop The first two partes of the Actes or unchaste examples of the Englysh Votaryes

1551

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 60.00
278 Oronce Fine The Rules and righte ample Documentes touchinge the use and practise of the common Almanackes

1558

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 320.00
279 William Thomas The Historye of Italye

1561

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 100.00
280 Thomas Wilson The Rule of reason

1567 [1584?]

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
281 John FoxÊ Actes and Monumentes

1570

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 190.00
282 John Foxe Actes and Monuments

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 120.00
283 John Foxe Actes and Monuments

1596--97

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 130.00
284 John Foxe Acts and Monuments

1632--31

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 110.00
285 Ralph Holinshed The Historie of Scotlande

1577

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 110.00
286 Marprelate Tracts

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 160.00
287 Richard Day Christian prayers and meditations in English

1590

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 65.00
288 John Adams Index Villaris

1690

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 30.00
289 Lancelot Andrewe Tortura torti: sive

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 20.00
290 Elias Ashmole The Institution

1693

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 55.00
291 Francis Bacon The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh

1641

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 35.00
292 Thomas Barlow and Thomas Pierce Pegasus or the Flying Horse from Oxford Oxford

[1648]

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 20.00
293 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher [Works] Fifty Comedies and Tragedies

1679

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 130.00
294 Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher [Works]

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 75.00
295 Bible Barker

1599 [1633?]

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 55.00
296 Bible

1608

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 60.00
297 Richard Brathwait The Schollers Medley

1614

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 10.00
298 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici

1669

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 240.00
299 Gilbert Burnet A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre ... of Protestants

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 40.00
300 Cabala

GBP 40.00 - 70.00 55.00
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
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