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
680 SALERNE (F.) Histoire Naturelle

1767

 GBP - 60.00
681 Sanderson (G. P.) Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India

GBP - 1.15
682 Saunders (H.) An Illustrated Manual of British Birds

GBP - 0.10
683 Schiriz (Heinrich) Europaische Stuttgart

1840

 GBP - 2.10
684 Schlegel (H.) Museum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas Leyden

[1862-64 and 1880]

 GBP - 5.10
685 Schlegel (H.) Essai sur la Physionomie de Serpens Leiden

GBP - 1.00
686 SCLATER (P. L.) AND O. SALVIN EXOTIC ORNITHOLOGY

1869

 GBP - 58.00
687 SCLATER (P. L.) AND W. H. HUDSON ARGENTINE ORNITHOLOGY

1888-89

 GBP - 52.00
688 Sclater (P. L.) and O. Thomas The Book of Antelopes

1894-1900

 GBP - 24.00
689 Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Chara-driidae or the Plovers

[1888]

 GBP - 4.00
690 Seebohm (Henry) Siberia in Europe

GBP - 3.00
691 SELBY (P. J.) PLATES TO SELBY'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY

1841

 GBP - 95.00
692 SHARPE (R. B.) A Monograph of the Alcedinidae

1868-71

 GBP - 42.00
693 SHARPE (R. BOWDLER) MONOGRAPH OF THE PARADISEIDAE or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae or Bower Birds

1891-98

 GBP - 160.00
694 Shelley (G. E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt

1872

 GBP - 5.10
695 Shelley (G. E.) A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt

1872

 GBP - 4.10
696 SHELLEY (CAPT. G. E.) A Monograph of the Nectariniidae or Family of Sun-Birds

1876-80

 GBP - 48.00
697 Siebold (P. F. de) Fauna Japonica . . . conjunctis studiis C. J. Temminck et H. Schlegel Leyden

1850

 GBP - 42.00
698 SMITH (ANDREW) Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa

1849

 GBP - 68.00
699 Stejneger (Leonhard) Results of ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtrchatka Washington

1885

 GBP - 1.10
700 Stoliczka (Ferdinand) Scientific Results of the second Yarkand Mission

1891

 GBP - 6.10
701 Taczanowski (Dr. L.) Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale Petersbourg

1893

 GBP - 6.00
702 Taczanowski (W.) Oologia Ptakow Polskich Warsaw

1862

 GBP - 11.00
703 Tegetmeier (W. B.) Pheasants

GBP - 1.10
704 TEMMINCK (C. J.) AND MEIFFREN LAUGIER BARON DE CHARTROUSE Paris

[1820-39]

 GBP - 130.00
705 Temminck (C. J.) Manuel d'Ornithologie

1820-40

 GBP - 7.10
706 Temminck (C. J.) Manuel d'Ornithologie ou Tableau Systematique des Oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe Paris

1820-40

 GBP - 4.00
707 Temminck (C. J.) Monographies de Mammalogie

1827-41

 GBP - 1.00
708 Topseil (Edward) The History of Serpents

1608

 GBP - 3.00
709 TRAVIES (EDOUARD) LES OISEAUX

[c. 1857]

 GBP - 66.00
710 Tristram (H. B.) The Survey of Western Palestine

1884

 GBP - 5.10
711 Tweeddale (Arthur, Marquis of) The Ornithologfcal Works . . . revised bv R. G. W. Ramsay

1881

 GBP - 2.15
712 Veitch (James H.) Hortus Veitchii

1906

 GBP - 4.00
713 Walcott (John) Synopsis of British Birds

1789

 GBP - 5.10
714 Walcott (J.) Synopsis of British Birds

1789

 GBP - 5.00
715 Webb (P. B.) S. Berthelot et A. Moquin-Taudin Ornitholog-ie Canarienne

GBP - 2.05
716 White (Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1789

 GBP - 4.00
717 White (Gilbert) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1877

 GBP - 1.00
718 White (Gilbert) The Works in Natural History

GBP - 1.05
719 Willoughbv (Francis) Ornithologiae libri lres

1676

 GBP - 3.10
720 Willugtiby Society Tunstall's Orm'tholog-ia Britannica; Barton's Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania, etc.

1880-84

 GBP - 3.10
721 WILSON (S. B.) AND A. H. EVANS Aves Hawaiienses

1890-99

 GBP - 26.00
722 Wolf (Joseph) Zoological Sketches . . . Edited with Sketches by P. L. Sclater

1863-67

 GBP - 22.00
723 Julius von Madarasz Zeitschrift fur die gesammte Ornithologie Budapest

1884-86

 GBP - 4.00
724 Zoologist (The)

GBP - 5.10
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