Sothebys: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE LIBRARY REMOVED FROM LILFORD HALL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE The Property of the Rt. Honble. Lord Lilford (deed.) [Sold by Order of the Executors] THE SECOND AND FINAL PORTION, WREN,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 04, 1949 - July 04, 1949
Page Size: 445 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
280 ALEXANDER (WILLIAM, Earl of Stirling) AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO COLONIES London

1625

GBP - 310.00
281 ALLEN (C.) Curious Observations in that difficult part of Chirurgery

GBP - 92.00
282 Antiquarian Itinerary (The)

GBP - 4.00
283 Apollonius Pergaei Conicorum libri IV

GBP - 15.00
284 ARCHDALE (JOHN) A New Description of that Fertile and Pleasant Province of Carolina

1707

GBP - 75.00
285 A[SH] (T[HOMAS]) CAROLINA

1682

GBP - 85.00
286 Ashmole (E.) The Institution

1672

GBP - 3.00
287 BACON (SIR F.) Considerations touching a Warre with Spaine

GBP - 50.00
288 Bacon (Sir F.) Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning

GBP - 1.00
289 Baker (G.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton

1822-30

GBP - 6.00
290 Baring-Gould (S.) Iceland

1863

GBP - 1.10
291 The Holy Bible Cambridge

1763

GBP - 14.00
292 Beck (T. A.) Annales Furnesienses

1844

GBP - 1.10
293 Beckford (Peter) Thoughts on Hunting

1798

GBP - 2.10
294 Belamy (J. C.) A Treatise upon Falconry

GBP - 4.10
295 Bell (J.) Travels from St. Petersburg to diverse parts of Asia

GBP - 1.05
296 Bellewe (Richard) Les Ans du Roy Richard le Second

1585

GBP - 11.00
297 Belon (Pierre) Les Observations de Plusieurs Singularitez et Choses Memorables trouvees en Grece Paris

1588

GBP - 6.10
298 Belon (P.) Cenomani Antwerp

1605

GBP - 2.05
299 Berkeley (G. F.) Reminiscences of a Huntsman

GBP - 0.10
300 [BLENCOW (SIR JOHN)] An Essay for Lowering the Gold

GBP - 36.00
301 Blith (W.) The English Improver Improved

1652

GBP - 8.00
302 Bodley (Sir T.) Reliquiae Bodleinae

GBP - 5.00
303 [Walpole (Horace)] Bodoni Press Parma

1791

GBP - 2.10
304 Borellus (P.) De vero Telescopii inventore

GBP - 5.10
305 [Botero (G.)] A Briefe Description of the whole World

GBP - 2.00
306 Boydell (J. and J.) A Collection of Prints engraved after the most Capital Paintings in England

1769-72

GBP - 14.00
307 Boyle (R.) Philosophical Works

1725

GBP - 2.15
308 Brand (J.) History of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

GBP - 2.00
309 Brandling (H. C.) Nineteen pen-and-ink and wash drawings of English Scenery

GBP - 2.10
310 Bridges (John) The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire Oxford

1791

GBP - 7.10
311 Brodrick (W.) Falconers' Favourites

1865

GBP - 22.00
312 Brodrick (W.) Falconers' Favourites

1865

GBP - 26.00
313 Bulwer (J.) Chirologia

1644

GBP - 6.10
314 Burton (R.) The Anatomy of Melancholy

1660

GBP - 1.00
315 Camden (W.) Britannia

1806

GBP - 0.10
316 Campbell (C), J. Woolf and J. Gandon Vitruvius Britannicus

1715-67

GBP - 2.00
317 Caradoc of Lhancarvan The History of Wales

GBP - 5.00
318 Bunbury and Bretherton Caricatures

GBP - 13.00
319 Cartwright (J.) The Preacher's Travels

1611

GBP - 10.10
320 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

GBP - 0.15
321 Chapman (Abel) First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling

1896

GBP - 3.10
322 Charles I The Kings Maiesties Declaration to His Subjects

GBP - 17.00
323 Charleton (W.) Exercitationes de Differentiis et Nominibus Animalium

GBP - 8.10
324 J. Ray Collection (A)

GBP - 5.10
325 Cook (James, Capt.) The Three Voyages

GBP - 14.00
326 Cooper (T.) Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae

GBP - 1.00
327 Cox (N.) and R. Blome The Gentleman's Recreation

1721

GBP - 3.00
328 Crealock (Col. H. H.) The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch Liuchart

GBP - 2.15
329 Creighton (Mandell) Queen Elizabeth

1896

GBP - 2.10
330 Descartes (R.) Principia Philosophiae Amst

1644

GBP - 8.00
331 Dickens (C.) Works

GBP - 2.10
332 Dickens (Charles) Pickwick Papers

GBP - 1.00
333 Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum Edinb

1828

GBP - 1.00
334 Digby (Sir K.) Two Treatises

GBP - 6.10
335 Drawings and Water Colours

GBP - 2.10
336 Du Fouilloux (Jacques) La Venerie Angers

1844

GBP - 2.00
337 Dugdale (Sir W.) Monasticon Anglicanum

1655, '61, '73

GBP - 1.00
338 Dugdale (Sir W.) A Perfect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the Great Councils

GBP - 1.10
339 [Dunton (J.)] Athenian Sport

GBP - 9.10
340 Emerson (R. W.) Essays

GBP - 6.00
341 England Illustrated

GBP - 1.15
342 Engravings and Coloured Prints

GBP - 6.10
343 Fabliaux or Tales

GBP - 1.10
344 F[alconer] (J.) Cryptomenysis Patefacta

1685

GBP - 5.00
345 Fitzherbert (Sir A.) Loffice et aucthority de Justices de Peace

1593

GBP - 7.00
346 Franklin (B.) Political

GBP - 6.10
347 Freeman (G. E.) Practical Falconry

1869

GBP - 2.00
348 Froger (Sieur F.) Relation d'un Voyage Paris

1698

GBP - 9.00
349 Fryer (John) A New Account of East India and Persia

1698

GBP - 4.10
350 Fuller (T.) The Church-History of Great Britain

GBP - 1.00
351 Gage (T.) A New Survey of the West-Indies

1677

GBP - 3.00
352 Gardens Old and New

GBP - 0.10
353 Grelot (W. J.) A late Voyage to Constantinople

GBP - 5.00
354 Grey (G.) Journals of Two Expeditions in North-West and Western Australia

GBP - 5.10
355 Grimble (Augustus) Deer-Stalking

GBP - 4.00
356 Guillim (J.) Display of Heraldry

GBP - 1.05
357 HADEN (FRANCIS SEYMOUR) ETUDES A L'EAU FORTE Paris

1866

GBP - 55.00
358 Hale (Sir Matthew) The Primitive Origination of Mankind

1677

GBP - 1.15
359 Hall (Capt. Basil) Forty Etchings

1829

GBP - 2.10
360 Hall (B.) Travels in North America

GBP - 3.00
361 Hamerton (P. G.) Etching and Etchers

GBP - 1.00
362 HARCOURT (ROBERT) A RELATION OF A VOYAGE TO GUIANA London

1613

GBP - 6.00
363 Hardy (J. J.) Salmon Fishing

GBP - 1.00
364 Hawking and Hunting Engravings

GBP - 19.00
365 Hennepin (L.) Nouvelle Decouverte d'un tres grand Pays situe dans l'Amerique

GBP - 30.00
366 [HIGDEN (RANULF, d. 1364) POLYCHRONICON] THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY JOHN DE TREVISA

GBP - 140.00
367 History (The)of the Works of the Learned

1699-1710

GBP - 15.00
368 Hive (The)

GBP - 9.00
369 Hobbes (T.) Tracts

GBP - 7.00
370 Hooke (R.) Philosophical Experiments and Observations

GBP - 5.00
371 HUBBARD (W.) The Present State of New-England

1677

GBP - 9.00
372 Hudson (Franklin) The Brasses of Northamptonshire

1853

GBP - 7.10
373 [Hurtado de Mendoza (Diego)] La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

GBP - 2.10
374 Ides (E. Y.) Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China

1706

GBP - 4.10
375 Italy

c. 1828

GBP - 1.00
376 [Jacob (Giles)] The Poetical Register

GBP - 5.10
377 Jesse (J. H.) Charles the Second

GBP - 1.00
378 Jones (Edward) The Bardic Museum of Primitive British Literature

1802

GBP - 2.15
379 Junius (F.) Etymologicum Anglicanum

GBP - 7.00
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