Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING CONTINENTAL AND ENGLISH BOOKS OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY; MINIATURE BOOKS; BOOKS RELATING TO SCIENCE, MEDICINE, NATURAL HISTORY, TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON THE DESIGN OF FURNITURE,, CHESTERFIELD,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 16, 1981 - March 16, 1981
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Book of common prayer | 1698 |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 102 | Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Motte) | Les avantures de Telemaque | 1824 |
GBP 40.00 - 70.00 | 60.00 | |
| 103 | Sluzhebnik [Service Book] | Moscow | 1681 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 45.00 | |
| 104 | Varlaam | Bucharest | 1678 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 30.00 | |
| 105 | Farindon (Anthony) | LXXX sermons | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 35.00 | ||
| 106 | Dawson (Warren R.) | A collection of Newspaper cuttings | Barnes | 1935 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 30.00 |
| 107 | Pamphlets | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 25.00 | |||
| 108 | Cox (Nicholas) | The Gentleman's recreation ... the fourth edition | 1697 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 40.00 | |
| 109 | BACON (ROGER) | THE CURE OF OLD AGE | 1683 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 160.00 | |
| 110 | ALEMAN (MATEO) | ORTOGRAFIA CASTELLANA | Mexico | 1609 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 130.00 |
| 111 | Boccaccio (Giovanni) | II decamerone | Florence, Venice | 1527, 1729 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 55.00 |
| 112 | EPISTOLAE ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius] | [Lyon] | 13 February, 1499 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 320.00 | |
| 113 | EUCLID | Oxford | 1703 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 55.00 | |
| 114 | Clare (Peter) | Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess | Halle | 1839 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 55.00 |
| 115 | GERARDE (JOHN) | THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES | 1633 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 440.00 | |
| 116 | FROISSART (JEAN) | HERE BEGYNNETH THE FIRST (THIRDE AND FOURTHE) VOLUM ... OF THE CRONYCLES OF ENGLAND | Pynson and Myddleton | 1525-45 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 300.00 |
| 117 | Bale (John) | The first two partes of the Actes' or unchast examples of the Englysh votaryes | Wesel, London | 1546 and 1551 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 45.00 |
| 118 | [GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE)] | THE GOLDEN BOKE OF MARCUS AURELIUS | [Berthelet] | 1546 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 130.00 |
| 119 | CARION (JOHANN) | THE THRE BOKES OF CRONICLES | 1550 |
GBP 400.00 - 700.00 | 360.00 | |
| 120 | CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) | THOSE FYVE QUESTIONS WHICH | 1561 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 160.00 | |
| 121 | Myrrour (A) | for Magistrates | 1563 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 55.00 | |
| 122 | HESKYNS (THOMAS) | The parliament of Chryste auouching and declaring the enacted and receaued trueth of the presence of his bodie and bloode in the ... Sacrament | Antwerp | 1566 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 80.00 |
| 123 | STANFORD (Sir WILLIAM) | AN EXPOSICION OF THE KINGES PREROGATIVE collected out of the great abridgement of . . . Fitzherbert | 1567 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 280.00 | |
| 124 | MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLO) | THE ARTE OF WARRE | 1573 |
GBP 400.00 - 700.00 | 380.00 | |
| 125 | [BARNAUD (NICOLAUS)] | DIALOGI AB EUSEBIO PHILADELPHO COSMO-POLITA IN GALLORUM | Edimburgi [Strasbourg] | 1574 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 70.00 |
| 126 | GUTIERREZ DE LA VEGA (LUIS) | A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE ENTITULED | 1582 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 90.00 | |
| 127 | CURTIUS RUFUS (QUINTUS) | THE HISTORIE CONTEYNING THE ACTES OF THE GREAT ALEXANDER translated out of Latin ... by lohn Brende | 1592 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 | |
| 128 | [LEWKENOR (Sir LEWIS)] | The estate of English fugitives under the King of Spaine and his ministers | 1596 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 40.00 | |
| 129 | SPENSER (EDMUND) | THE SECOND PART OF THE FAERIE QUEENE | 1596 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 300.00 | |
| 130 | BIBLE | 1599 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 110.00 | ||
| 131 | [Camden (William)] | Reges | 1606 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 132 | Garnet (Henry) | A true and perfect relation of the whole proceedings against | 1606 |
USD 50.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold | |
| 133 | BACON (S/r FRANCIS) | THE ESSAIES | 1613 [but probably a little later] |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 80.00 | |
| 134 | BACON (Sir FRANCIS) | The history of life and death | 1638 |
GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | 55.00 | |
| 135 | Bacon (Sir Francis) | Cases of treason | 1641 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 160.00 | |
| 136 | Bacon (Sir Francis) | Resuscitatio | 1661 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 30.00 | |
| 137 | Bacon (Sir Francis) | The essays | 1614 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 100.00 | |
| 138 | DRAYTON (MICHAEL) | POEMS | 1613 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 240.00 | |
| 139 | AELIANUS | 1616 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 190.00 | ||
| 140 | Platus (Hieronymus) | The happines of a religious state | Rouen | 1632 |
GBP 40.00 - 70.00 | 80.00 |
| 141 | HERBERT (EDWARD, Baron of Cherbury) | De Veritate prout Distinguitur a Revelatione | 1633 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 220.00 | |
| 142 | SELDEN (JOHN) | MARE CLAUSUM SEU DE DOMINIO MARIS LIBRI DUO | 1635 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 380.00 | |
| 143 | The whole Booke of Psalmes | 1635 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 240.00 | ||
| 144 | MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLO) | DISCOURSES UPON THE FIRST DECADE OF T. LIVIUS | 1636 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 145 | Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling) | Recreations with the Muses | 1637 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 146 | Br[inckmaier] (L.) | The warnings of Germany | 1638 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 130.00 | |
| 147 | [Baronius (Caesar)] | The life or the ecclesiasticall historie of S. Thomas ... of Canterbury | Cologne, Paris | 1639 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 35.00 |
| 148 | MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLO) | NICHOLAS MACHIAVEL'S PRINCE | 1640 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 149 | Rogers (Nehemiah) | A mirrour of mercy ... set out in two parables | GBP 50.00 - 90.00 | 55.00 | ||
| 150 | Quarles (Francis) | Divine fancies digested into epigrammes | 1641 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 70.00 | |
| 151 | BROWNE (THOMAS) | PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA | 1646 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 152 | BEAUMONT (FRANCIS) AND JOHN FLETCHER | COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES | 1647 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 170.00 | |
| 153 | Montague (Walter) | Miscellanea spiritualia | 1684 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 15.00 | |
| 154 | BAYLY (THOMAS) | HERBA PARIETIS | 1650 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 280.00 | |
| 155 | HOBBES (THOMAS) | LEVIATHAN | Amsterdam | c. 1651 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 120.00 |
| 156 | STANLEY (THOMAS) | POEMS | 1651 |
USD 400.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 157 | Aylett (Robert) | Divine | 1654 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 20.00 | |
| 158 | Spottiswoode (John) | The History of the Church of Scotland | 1655 |
USD 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
| 159 | [PASCAL (BLAISE)] | Les provinciales | 1657 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 35.00 | |
| 160 | [Sergeant (John)] | Schism dispach't or a reioynder to the replies of Dr Hammond and the Ld of Derry | [Paris] | 1657 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 10.00 |
| 161 | [HEGGE (ROBERT)] | The legend of St. Cuthbert with the antiquities of the church of Durham | 1663 |
GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | 65.00 | |
| 162 | [COTTON (CHARLES)] | Scarronides | 1664 |
USD 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 163 | Dalton (Michael) | The Country Justice | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 180.00 | ||
| 164 | Alcinous | The Hague | 1653 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 25.00 | |
| 165 | [Hill (Joseph)] | The Interest of these United Provinces | Middelburg | 1673 |
GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 20.00 |
| 166 | TORRIANO (GIOVANNI) | MESCOLANZA DOLCE DI VARIE HISTORIETTE | 1673 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 50.00 | |
| 167 | Camden (W.) | Remaines concerning Britain | 1689 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 30.00 | |
| 168 | Raleigh (Sir Walter) | The History of the World | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | 120.00 | ||
| 169 | Psalms | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 20.00 | |||
| 170 | NEW TESTAMENT | 1681 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 171 | Bacon (Roger) | The Cure of Old Age | 1683 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 120.00 | |
| 172 | [Coste (Pierre)] | The life of Lewis of Bourbon | 1693 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 10.00 | |
| 173 | LOCKE (JOHN) | SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION | 1695 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
| 174 | Pindarick ode (A) on the death of the queen | Oxford | 1667 |
USD 50.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold | |
| 175 | WHORING | 1697 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 170.00 | ||
| 176 | CAESAR (C. JULIUS) | [OPERA] | 1712 |
GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | 260.00 | |
| 177 | Cyprian (Saint) | The genuine works | 1717 |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | 60.00 | |
| 178 | Budgen (Richard) | The passage of the hurricane from . .. Bexhill... to Newingden-Level | 1710 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 5.00 | |
| 179 | Lambarde (W.) | Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum & Historicum | 1777 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 80.00 | |
| 180 | [Glasse (Hannah)] | The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy | 1751 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 50.00 | |
| 181 | Frazer (Mrs.) | The Practice of Cookery | Edinburgh | 1791 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 35.00 |
| 182 | Raffald (Elizabeth) | The Experienced English Housekeeper | 1794 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 60.00 | |
| 183 | Ware (I.) | A complete Body of Architecture | 1756 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 100.00 | |
| 184 | [Stevens (George Alexander)] | The History of Tom Fool | 1760 |
GBP 35.00 - 50.00 | 140.00 | |
| 185 | [Perceval (John)] | Memorial of John Earl of Egmont | [1763] |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 10.00 | |
| 186 | Sidney (Algernon) | Discources Concerning Government | 1763 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 15.00 | |
| 187 | Rousseau (J. J.) | A Dictionary of Music | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 188 | Gay (John) | Fables | 1793 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 55.00 | |
| 189 | MALCOLM (JAMES PELLER) | Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London during the eighteenth-century | 1808 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 90.00 | |
| 190 | DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) | BIBLIOTHECA SPENCERIANA | 1814-15 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 160.00 | |
| 191 | Foxe (John) | The book of martyrs | 1815 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 30.00 | |
| 192 | Universal Songster | 1828-26-28 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 40.00 | ||
| 193 | Blessington (Countess of) The Idler in France | [1848-49] |
GBP 10.00 - 20.00 | 80.00 | ||
| 194 | Wright (Thomas) | Universal Pronouncing Dictionary and General Expositor of the English Language | [1852-56] |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 520.00 | |
| 195 | Westwood (John Obadiah) | Palaeographia sacra pictoria | [c. 1870] |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 10.00 | |
| 196 | [Disraeli (B.)] | Endymion | 1880 |
GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 25.00 | |
| 197 | Bible | [c. 1890] |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | 280.00 | ||
| 198 | Craig (E. G.) | The Art of the Theatre | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | 130.00 | ||
| 199 | Porphyrius, of Tyre | Cambridge | 1920 |
GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | 160.00 | |
| 200 | Penrose (Roland) | The Road is Wider than Long | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 130.00 |
