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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
468 J. van der Groen Den Nederlantsen Hovenier—Nylant (P.) Den verstandigen Hovenier Amsterdam

1721-1711

 USD - 42.00
469 Joseph Haslewood The dialogues of creatures moralised

1816

 USD - 19.60
470 Conrad Heresbach Four books of husbandry

1577

 USD - 117.60
471 Thomas Hill A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees with the marvellous nature

1579

 USD - 19.60
472 William Kirby OVIonographia apum 'Angliae

USD - 16.80
473 William Lawson A new orchard and garden

1683

 USD - 16.80
474 John Levett The ordering of bees or the true history of managing them

1634

 USD - 67.20
475 Gervase Markham Cheap and good husbandry

1631

 USD - 36.40
476 Thomas Muffet Insectorum sive minomorum animalium theatrum

1634

 USD - 84.00
477 'Robert Plot The natural history of Oxfordshire Oxford

[1676]

 USD - 16.80
478 Samuel Purchas A theatre of political flying insects

USD - 14.00
479 Moses Rusden A further discovery of bees

1679

 USD - 44.80
480 M. J. Simon Le gouvernement admirable ou la republique des abeilles

USD - 106.40
481 John Thorley MZAIEZHAOriA or the female monarchy being an inquiry into the nature of bees

USD - 50.40
482 J. Warder The true amazon or the monarchy of bees

USD - 22.40
483 Thomas Wildman A treatise on the management of bees

1768

 USD - 8.40
484 J. Worlidge Vinetum britannicum or a treatise of cider

USD - 33.60
485 Titus P. Livius Romanae historiae libri omnes Frankfort

1568

 USD - 16.80
486 Psalter

1574

 USD - 16.80
487 Abstract (An) of all the Penal Statutes which be general

USD - 25.20
488 Louis Richeome Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tres auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Euchristie Paris

1609

 USD - 14.00
489 Anicius M. T. S. Boethius Five Bookes of Philosophicall Comfort

1609

 USD - 33.60
490 Giovanni Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words

1611

 USD - 98.00
491 George Wither The Shepherds Hunting

1615

 USD - 42.00
492 Sir Francis Bacon The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh

1622

 USD - 53.20
493 Bacon (Sir Francis, Baron Verulam) The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

1622

 USD - 50.40
494 Roger Bacon The Cure of Old Age and Preservation of Youth

USD - 140.00
495 Thomas Goffe The Raging Turke

1631

 USD - 47.60
496 Thomas Goffe The Couragious Turke

1632

 USD - 44.80
497 Thomas May The Heire

1633

 USD - 39.20
498 Thomas Goffe The Tragedy of Orestes

[1633]

 USD - 61.60
499 William Habington Gastara

1635

 USD - 84.00
500 Henry Killigrew The Conspiracy

1638

 USD - 39.20
501 Lucius Apuleius The XL Bookes of the Golden Asse

1639

 USD - 145.60
502 Sir Thomas Browne Hydriotaphia

1658

 USD - 126.00
503 M. de Montaigne Les Essais Paris

1657

 USD - 5.60
504 Sir Kenelm Digby Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies in the other the nature of mans soul is looked into

1665

 USD - 33.60
505 Robert Wild Iter Boreale

1668

 USD - 50.40
506 Edward Phillips Theatrum Poetarum

1675

 USD - 78.40
507 John Webster The displaying of supposed witchcraft

1677

 USD - 100.80
508 Bible

1655-57

 USD - 61.60
509 Athanasius Kircher Latium Amsterdam

1671

 USD - 44.80
510 George Sinclair Tyrocinia Mathematica Glasgow

1661

 USD - 126.00
511 William Lithgow The Totali Discourse

[1632]

 USD - 30.80
512 Capt. Samuel Sturmy The Mariners Magazine

1684

 USD - 134.40
513 Map

1663

 USD - 16.80
514 I[ohn] S [peed] Map America

[1676]

 USD - 39.20
515 Speed A Map of Virginia and Maryland

[1676]

 USD - 61.60
516 Iohn Speede Hartford Shire described

[1676]

 USD - 25.20
517 William Leybourn The Compleat Surveyor

1679

 USD - 44.80
518 William Leybourn Dialling

1700

 USD - 22.40
519 George Cockburn A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar

USD - 16.80
520 Washington Irving A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

USD - 22.40
521 Daniel De La Feuille Devises et emblemes anciennes et modernes tirees des plus celebres auteurs Amsterdam

1712

 USD - 19.60
522 Nic. Macchiavelli Opere

USD - 28.00
523 Anton-Maria Zanetti Varie pitture a fresco de principali maestri Veneziani Venice

1760

 USD - 47.60
524 Sir Isaac Newton Opticks or a treatise of the reflections . . . of light

1721

 USD - 16.80
525 Laurence Howel The Orthodox Communicant

1721

 USD - 5.60
526 Thomas West The Antiquities of Furness

1774

 USD - 56.00
527 Jonathan Swift Travels into several remote nations of the world Motte

1726

 USD - 78.40
528 J. G. Krausen Umstandliche Bucher-Historie

USD - 30.80
529 J. Anderson Nachrichten von Island

USD - 33.60
530 Robert Goodloe Harper Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France London

1798

 USD - 2.80
531 John F. Watson Annals of Philadelphia

USD - 5.60
532 J. L. and W. K. Grimm German popular stories

1823-26

 USD - 19.60
533 J. L. and W. K. Grimm German popular stories

1834

 USD - 28.00
534 F. A. de Chateaubriand The beauties of Christianity

USD - 1.40
535 Sir Charles D'Oyly Tom 'Raw

1828

 USD - 22.40
536 Pierce Egan Real life in London

1827-24

 USD - 11.20
537 William Combe The English dance of death

1815 [-1816]

 USD - 84.00
538 Eleazar Albin A natural history of English insects

1749

 USD - 67.20
539 Moses Harris Exposition of English insects

1782

 USD - 44.80
540 B. Maund The Botanic Garden

1825-36

 USD - 61.60
541 Robert Hogg and Henry Graves Bull The Herefordshire Pomona Hereford

1876-85

 USD - 112.00
542 H. C. Andrews Roses : or a Monograph of the Genus Rosa

1805-1806

 USD - 406.00
543 R. W. Dickson A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening

1807

 USD - 84.00
544 [Fohn. Suisse: Costumes Modernes]

USD - 61.60
545 Costumni vestiti alla Festa da Ballo data in Milano dal Nobiliso.mo Milan

[c. 1828]

 USD - 420.00
546 W. Swainson Zoological Illustrations

1820-23

 USD - 84.00
547 H. F. Witherby The Handbook of British Birds

1943-1944

 USD - 22.40
548 Henry Seebohm Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds

USD - 8.40
549 Chinese Drawings

USD - 106.40
550 Chinese Drawings

USD - 61.60
551 Chinese Rice-Paper drawings

USD - 117.60
552 The Cookery and "Phisick" Book of Lettice Hallett

USD - 154.00
553 Derbyshire

[1606-7]

 USD - 252.00
554 Sir Walter Raleigh A Discours: Touchinge a Marryage

[circa 1611]

 USD - 280.00
555 Herbal England

c. 1640

 USD - 61.60
556 Student's Notebook on Logic (in Latin) kept by John Arbuthnot 1690-1

USD - 42.00
557 Of crymes in generali and by what law they are Judged in Scotland Scotland

USD - 140.00
558 George Romney Autograph Manuscript Account Book containing his detailed accounts of the payments he received for his portraits

1777-1782

 USD - 1,008.00
559 William Pitt Chatham A.L.s. Hayes

2 September, 1763

 USD - 44.80
560 Edmund Burke Interesting A.L.s.

1955

 USD - 61.60
561 Horatio Nelson A.L.s.

16th Aug. 1806

 USD - 78.40
562 Sir Thomas Willshire Album of letters and papers (including some contemporary copies) covering the period 1819-62 and concerning his services at the Cape and (particularly) in India

USD - 42.00
563 William Simpson A Private Journal of the Niger Expedition

USD - 238.00
564 Log Book of H.M.S. Orion

1855-57

 USD - 98.00
565 Louis XIV L. signed "Louis" (Louis XIV)

USD - Not Sold
566 Emile Zola A.L.s.

USD - 16.80
567 Maximilian II Deed on vellum Augsburg

4 April 1566

 USD - Not Sold
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