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
580	Garrod (A. H.)	The Collected Scientific Papers		1881	GBP -	1.00
581	[Gesner (Conrad)]	Icones Avium	Zurich	1555-53	GBP -	8.10
582	Giebel (C. G.)	Thesaurus Ornithologise	Leipzig	1872-1877	GBP -	5.00
583	Giglioli (E. H.)	Avifauna Italics	Florence	1886-91	GBP -	5.10
584	Godman (F. du Cane)	Natural History of the Azores or Western Islands			GBP -	1.15
585	GOULD (JOHN)	A CENTURY OF BIRDS FROM THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS		1832	GBP -	45.00
586	GOULD (JOHN)	THE BIRDS OF EUROPE		1837	GBP -	140.00
587	GOULD (JOHN)	A MONOGRAPH OF THE ODONTOPHORINAE		1850	GBP -	55.00
588	GOULD (J.)	A MONOGRAPH OF THE RAMPHASTIDAE OR FAMILY OF TOUCANS		1854	GBP -	68.00
589	GOULD (J.)	THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA		1848-69	GBP -	340.00
590	Gould (J.)	An Introduction to the Trochilidae or Family of Humming Birds		1861	GBP -	0.10
591	GOULD (J.)	THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA		1863	GBP -	48.00
592	GOULD (J.)	THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN		1873	GBP -	120.00
593	GOULD (J.)	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROGONIDAE OR FAMILY OF TROGONS		1875	GBP -	60.00
594	GOULD (J.)	THE BIRDS OF ASIA		1850-83	GBP -	260.00
595	GOULD (J.)	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE, OR FAMILY OF HUMMING BIRDS		1861-87	GBP -	340.00
596	GOULD (JOHN)	THE BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA AND THE ADJACENT PAPUAN ISLANDS		1875-88	GBP -	240.00
597	Graindorge (M. de)	Traite de l'Origine des Macreuses . . . mis en lumiere par M. Thomas Maloiiin	Caen	1680	GBP -	15.00
598	Grandidier (Alfred)	Histoire Physique		1875-92	GBP -	24.00
599	GRAY (G. R.)	THE GENERA OF BIRDS		1849	GBP -	38.00
600	Gray (Robert)	The Birds of the West of Scotland			GBP -	4.10
601	Green (J. F.)	Ocean Birds			GBP -	4.00
602	Grey of Fallodon (Viscount)	The Charm of Birds			GBP -	3.10
603		Grouse (The) in Health and in Disease		1911	GBP -	1.00
604	Gunther (A. C. L. G.)	The Reptiles of British India		1864	GBP -	2.00
605	Gunther (A. C. L. G.)	The Gigantic Land-Tortoises in the Collection of the British Museum			GBP -	3.10
606	Gurnev (J. H.)	A List of the Diurnal Birds of Prey . . . preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum			GBP -	3.10
607	Hancock (John)	A Fasciculus of eight drawings on Stone of Groups of Birds	Newcastle	1853	GBP -	1.00
608	HARRIS (CAPT. W. CORNWALUS)	PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA		1840	GBP -	40.00
609	HARKIS (CAPT. W. C.)	PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA		1840	GBP -	32.00
610	Harting (J. E.)	Essays on Sport and Natural History			GBP -	1.00
611	Harvie-Brown (J. A.), T. E. Buckley, and others	Vertebrate Faunas of Parts of Scotland			GBP -	5.10
612	Heuglin (Th. von)	Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's der Nilquellen und Kusten Gebiete		1869-74	GBP -	22.00
613	Hewitson (W. C.)	Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds		1856	GBP -	2.00
614	HOLBROOK (J. E.)	NORTH AMERICAN HERPETOLOGY	Philadelphia	1842	GBP -	58.00
615	Houghton (W.)	British Fresh-Water Fishes		[1879]	GBP -	0.15
616	HUNT (JOHN)	BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY containing Portraits of all the British Birds	Norwich	1815-22	GBP -	38.00
617		Illustrations of Birds			GBP -	40.00
618	Irby (L. H. L.)	The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar			GBP -	5.00
619		Irish (The)	Dublin	1892-95	GBP -	0.10
620	[Japanese Birds]	Coloured Plates of the Birds of Japan			GBP -	7.00
621	JARDINE (SIR WILLIAM) AND P. J. SELBY	ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY	Edinb	[1825-43]	GBP -	24.00
622	Jardine (Sir William)	Contributions to Ornithology		1848-52	GBP -	13.00
623	Jaubert (J. B.) and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye	Richesses Ornitholo-giques du Midi de la France	Marseilles	1859	GBP -	6.00
624	Jerdon (T. C.)	Illustrations of Indian Ornithology	Madras	1847	GBP -	11.00
625	Jerdon (T. C.)	The Birds of India			GBP -	0.10
626	Latham (John)	A General Synopsis of Birds		1781-1801	GBP -	24.00
627	Legge (Capt. W. V.)	A History of the Birds of Ceylon		1880	GBP -	13.00
628	Lesson (B. P.)	Illustrations de Zoologie	Paris	[1831]	GBP -	8.10
629	LEWIN (WILLIAM)	THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN with their Eggs accurately figured		1789-94	GBP -	135.00
630	Lilford (Lord)	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire		1880-83	GBP -	0.15
631	Lilford (Lord)	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood		1895	GBP -	2.10
632	Lilford (Lord)	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood		1895	GBP -	1.00
633	Lilford (Lord)	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire			GBP -	0.10
634	LILFORD (LORD)	COLOURED FIGURES OF THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS		1885-97	GBP -	72.00
635	Lilford (Lord)	A Collection of coloured plates			GBP -	2.00
636	Lindermayer (A.)	Die Vogel Griechenland			GBP -	6.10
637	Linnaeus (Carolus)	Entomologia	Lyons	1789	GBP -	3.00
638	Lloyd (Lewis)	The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway		1867	GBP -	2.10
639	Macgillivray (William)	A History of British Birds		1837-52	GBP -	1.00
640	MALHERBE (ALF.)	MONOGRAPHIE DES PICIDEES ou Histoire Naturelle des Picides		1861-62	GBP -	165.00
641	MANETTI (S.), L. LORENZI AND V. VANNI	STORIA DEGLI UCCELLI	Florence	1767-76	GBP -	130.00
642		Manuel d'Ornithologie			GBP -	5.10
643	Marmore (Comte A. de la)	Voyage in Sardaigne . . . Troisieme Partie			GBP -	5.00
644	MARSHALL (C. H. T. AND G. F. L.)	A Monograph of the Capitonidae or Scansorial Barbets		1870-71	GBP -	19.00
645	Martorelli (Giacinto)	Monografia lllustrata degli Uccelli di Rapina in Italia	Milan	1895	GBP -	2.15
646	Mathew (M. A.)	The Birds of Pembrokeshire			GBP -	3.10
647	Maxwell (Aymer)	Pheasant and Covert Shooting			GBP -	1.00
648	Meyer (A. B.)	Unser Auer	Vienna	1887	GBP -	30.00
649	Meyer (Dr.) and Dr. Wolf	Taschenbuch der deutschen Vogelkunde	Frankfurt	1810	GBP -	8.00
650	MEYER (H. L.)	ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS [and their Eggs]		1835-41	GBP -	50.00
651	Meyer (H. L.)	Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs		1842-50	GBP -	5.00
652	Edited by E. W. Badger and W. J. Harrison	Midland (The)		1878-93	GBP -	5.00
653	Millais (J. G.)	A Breath from the Veldt		1895	GBP -	3.10
654	MILLER (J. F.) AND GEORGE SHAW	Cimelia Physica		1796	GBP -	60.00
655	Mitchell (F. S.)	The Birds of Lancashire			GBP -	3.10
656	Montagu (George)	Ornithological Dictionary or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds		1802-13	GBP -	2.10
657	Mudie (Robert)	The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles			GBP -	1.00
658	Muirhead (George)	The Birds of Berwickshire			GBP -	4.10
659	Murray (Andrew)	The Geographical Distribution of Mammals			GBP -	4.00
660		Naturalist (The)			GBP -	0.10
661		Naumannia	Siuttgart	1851-58	GBP -	8.10
662	Nilsson (Sv.)	Ornithologia Suecia			GBP -	0.15
663		Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society	Norwich	1874-94	GBP -	2.15
664		Northampton Natural History Society and Field Club	Northampton	1880-87	GBP -	2.15
665		Northamptonshire Notes & Queries		1886-92	GBP -	1.10
666		[Oiseaux d'Europe. Galerie Ornithologique]		[c. 1840]	GBP -	7.00
667	Olina (G. P.)	Uccelliera overo Discorso delia Natura e Proprieta di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' ehe cantano	Rome	1622	GBP -	4.00
668	Pallas (P. S.)	Spicilegia Zoologica	Berlin	1767-80	GBP -	22.00
669	Pitfield (Alexander)	Memoirs for a Natural History of Animals		1688	GBP -	2.10
670	Poynting (Frank)	Eggs of British Birds with an Account of their Breeding Habits		1895-96	GBP -	2.10
671	Prevost (Florent) and C. L. Lemaire	Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe			GBP -	9.00
672	Ray (J.)	Historia Insectorum			GBP -	2.05
673	Recondo (D. A. de)	Produciones		1773	GBP -	8.00
674	Reid (Capt. S. G.)	The Birds of Bermuda			GBP -	4.10
675	Rodd (E. H.)	The Birds of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands			GBP -	4.10
676	ROTHSCHILD (HON. WALTER)	The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands		1893-1900	GBP -	32.00
677	Rowley (G. D.)	Ornithological Miscellany		1876-78	GBP -	14.00
678	Ruppell (Dr. Eduard)	Systematische Ubersicht der Vogel Nord-Ost-Airika's	Frankfurt	1845	GBP -	10.00
679	Saint-Hilaire (Geoffrey) and F. Cuvier	Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes	Paris	1824-42	GBP -	26.00

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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