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Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
191 The Times Broadsides for soldiers and sailors

USD - 2.80
192 M. Thevenot The art of swimming

1764

 USD - 25.20
193 Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici and other essays

1902

 USD - 11.20
194 Thomas Warton The history of English poetry

1774-78-81

 USD - 16.80
195 Sir Anthony Weldon The court and character of King James

USD - 56.00
196 James Weston Stenography completed or the art of shorthand

1730

 USD - 8.40
197 D. Wildman A complete guide for the management of bees

USD - 28.00
198 James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson

1793

 USD - 70.00
199 Charles Burney The Present State of Music in France and Italy

USD - 30.80
200 'William Camden Britain

1610

 USD - 266.00
201 William Camden Britannia

1695

 USD - 95.20
202 Abraham Cowley Poems

USD - 22.40
203 Sir Thomas Elyot Bibliothecae Eliotae

USD - 5.60
204 Etchings of Views and Antiquities in the County of Gloucester

USD - 2.80
205 Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1776-1788

 USD - 168.00
206 Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language

1773

 USD - 84.00
207 Samuel Johnson A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

1775

 USD - 16.80
208 Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes

1595

 USD - 28.00
209 Allan Ramsay Poems Edinburgh

1721

 USD - 8.40
210 Return of Owners of Land

USD - 8.40
211 THOMAS ROWLANDSON HUNGARIANAND HIGHLANDBROAD Sword

1799

 USD - 140.00
212 Samuel Rudder A New History of Gloucestershire

1779

 USD - 36.40
213 Adam Smith An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth ofNations

USD - 50.40
214 Necessary Doctrine (A) and Erudition for any Chrysten Man

1543

 USD - 112.00
215 Actis and Oonstitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland (The) maid in Parliaments haldin be . . . Kingis James the First

USD - 30.80
216 Pierre de La Primaudaye The French Academie

1594

 USD - 36.40
217 John Stockwood Progymnasma scholasticum

1597

 USD - 44.80
218 Thomas Hill The Gardeners Labyrinth ... by Dydimus Mountain

1608

 USD - 30.80
219 Bacon (Sir Francis, Baron Verulam) The Essaies

1613

 USD - 50.40
220 Sir Philip Sidney The Oountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

1613

 USD - 33.60
221 Pierre de La Primaudaye The French Academic Fully discoursed and finished in Foure Bookes

1618

 USD - 22.40
222 Hermanus Hugo The Siege of Breda . . . translated ... by 'C.H.G[age]

USD - 8.40
223 Robert Baron The Cyprian Academy

1648

 USD - 16.80
224 Prayer for a Family (A) four leaves

USD - 5.60
225 Psalter

[c. 1670]

 USD - 8.40
226 Miguel de Cervantes The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant

1675

 USD - 14.00
227 Samuel Mather The Figures or Types of the Old Testament Dublin

1685

 USD - 50.40
228 True Effigies (The) of the most eminent Painters

1694

 USD - 19.60
229 William Shakespeare The Works

1709

 USD - 154.00
230 Virgil AEneis Edinburgh

1710

 USD - 5.60
231 James Francis Edward Stuart Prince of Wales (The Old Pretender) His Majesty's Most Gracious Declaration [as James VIII to the People of Scotland

[end of 1743 or early 1744]

 USD - 22.40
232 General James Wolfe Daphnis and Menalcas : a Pastoral. Sacred to the Memory of the late General Wolfe

1759

 USD - 67.20
233 William Byron The Trial of William

USD - 2.80
234 Student (The) Oxford

1750-51

 USD - 14.00
235 William Romaine A 'Essay on Psalmody [followed by a Collection out of the Book of Psalms(continuous pagination)]

1775

 USD - 36.40
236 Rider's British Meflin : for the Year of Our Lord 1810

1810

 USD - 5.60
237 Sir Walter Scott Fore-Edge Painting Edinburgh

1810

 USD - 22.40
238 George Cruikshank Table-Book

1845

 USD - 16.80
239 John Evelyn Memoirs

1827

 USD - 11.20
240 Thomas Babington Macaulay Works

1875

 USD - 30.80
241 Edmund Burke Works

USD - 16.80
242 G. W. Knorr and J. E. E. Walcii Recueil de Monumens des Catastrophes que le Globe de la Terre a essuiees Nuremburg

1778

 USD - 364.00
243 Henry Alken A Collection of Sporting and Humourous Designs

1824

 USD - 1,232.00
244 Thomas Chippendale The Gentleman and C'a'binet-'Maker's Director

1754

 USD - 50.40
245 Francis Price The British Carpenter

1765

 USD - 22.40
246 Domenico Angelo The School of Fencing

1787

 USD - 72.80
247 Recueil de planches sur les sciences [to accompany Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedie] vol. 6 only [Natural History]

USD - 5.60
248 William Curtis The Botanical Magazine

1793-1837

 USD - 672.00
249 B. Maund The Botanic Garden

1825-33

 USD - 78.40
250 Sir Joseph Paxton Magazine of Botany

1834-37

 USD - 22.40
251 Album Amicorum

[1843-56]

 USD - 44.80
252 P. J. Redoute Roses

1954-56

 USD - 11.20
253 E. Donovan The Natural History of British insects

1792-'1813

 USD - 112.00
253a Arthur G. Butler Foreign Finches in Captivity Hull

1899

 USD - 14.00
254 J. G. Millais The mammals of Great Britain

1904-06

 USD - 33.60
255 Finn Salomonsen and Gitz-Johansen Gronlands Fugle Copenhagen

1950-51

 USD - 22.40
255a J. Th. Descourtilz Pageantry of Tropical Birds

1960

 USD - 14.00
256 Sportsman's Magazine (The) or Chronicle of games and pastimes

August 1823-January 1825

 USD - 11.20
257 Panorama

20 August, 1838

 USD - 61.60
258 S. Rayner The history and antiquities of Haddon Hall Derby and London

1836

 USD - 2.80
259b Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the 1st to the Reign of Queen Victoria

[1840]

 USD - 47.60
259 W. H. Bartlett and N. P. Willis American Scenery

1840

 USD - 19.60
259a Bookplates

USD - 25.20
260 Edward Parry Royal Visits and Progresses to Wales

1850

 USD - 8.40
261b Richard Cannon Historical Records of the British Army: The Fourth

USD - 33.60
261 John Tallis History and Description of the Crystal Palace

[1851]

 USD - 50.40
261a Great Exhibition of 1851

[1851]

 USD - 44.80
262 E. and Lt. L. Miles An epitome historical and statistical descriptive of the Royal naval service of England

1844

 USD - 25.20
263 Cham. Moeurs Britanniques

USD - 14.00
264b Chinese Coloured Drawings of Gamblers (6)

USD - 61.60
264 Allgemeine Theaterzeitung Vienna

1847

 USD - 134.40
264a Chinese Coloured Drawings

USD - 47.60
265 Chinese Coloured Drawings of Scenes on the Whampao River (9)

USD - 22.40
266 Chinese Coloured Drawings of Baskets of Flowers(10) Canton

c. 1840

 USD - 50.40
267 G. A. A'Beckett The comic history of England

USD - 8.40
268 RUDOLPH ACKERMANN THE HISTORY OFTHE UNIVERSITYOF Oxford

1814

 USD - 252.00
269 RUDOLPH ACKERMANN The HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF Winchester

1816

 USD - 210.00
270 Athenian Letters or the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia

1798

 USD - 5.60
271 E. C. Stuart Baker The Indian ducks and their allies

1908

 USD - 16.80
272 J. P. Bellori Columna cochlis Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata

USD - 42.00
273 G. Belzoni Plates illustrative of the researches and operations in Egypt and Nubia

USD - 5.60
274 William Camden Britannia or a chorographical description of England

1789

 USD - 19.60
275 Pierre Corneille Theatre Paris

1797

 USD - 22.40
276 D'Arblay (Mme., "Fanny Burney") The Wanderer or female difficulties

1814

 USD - 22.40
277 J. P. C. de Florian Oeuvres Paris

1784-92

 USD - 19.60
278 I. and R. Gardnor A series of views taken on and near the river Rhine

[1791]

 USD - 30.80
279 David Hume and T. Smollet The history of England

1796

 USD - 5.60
280 Dr. Samuel Johnson Works

1796

 USD - 56.00
281 Lady Caroline Lamb Glenarvon

USD - 22.40
282 David Loggan Oxonia illustrata

USD - 98.00
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