Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW WESTERN AND ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, STEEL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 26, 1952 - May 26, 1952
Page Size: 1413 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
702 Smith (Robert) A Compleat System of Opticks

1738

GBP - 1.50
703 Evelyn (John) Memoirs

1818

GBP - 1.00
704 Mercurialis (Hieronymus) De Arte Gymnastica Venice

1573

GBP - 4.00
705 Byron (Capt. G. A.) Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands

1826

GBP - 11.00
706 Poynting (Frank) Eggs of British Birds

1895-96

GBP - 1.00
707 Lilford (Lord) Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire

1895

GBP - 1.00
708 Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Nicoll's Birds of Egypt

1930

USD - Not Sold
709 Stedman (Captain J. G.) Narrative

1806

GBP - 4.50
710 Stonham (Charles) The Birds of the British Islands

1906-11

GBP - 1.00
711 Kirkman (F. B.) The British Bird Book

1910-13

GBP - 1.00
712 Howitt (Samuel) British Preserve

1824

GBP - 0.50
713 Miles (H. N.) The Book of Field Sports

1912

GBP - 0.50
714 edited by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Encyclopaedia of Sport (The)

1897-98

GBP - 1.00
715 Morris (F. O.) A History of British Butterflies

1895

GBP - 0.50
716 Lydekker (R.) The Great and Small Game of India

1900

GBP - 5.00
717 Desborough (Rt. Hon. Lord) Fifty Years of Sport

GBP - 0.50
718 Wright (John) The Fruit Grower's Guide

GBP - 4.50
719 Butler (A. G.) Foreign Finches in Captivity

1899

GBP - 5.00
720 Morris (F. O.) A History of British Birds

1867

GBP - 1.00
721 Anson (George, Lord) A Voyage round the World

1748

GBP - 1.50
722 Davy (Sir Humphrey) Elements of Agricultural Chemistry

GBP - 4.00
723 TURBERVILLE (GEORGE) The Book of Fauleonrie

GBP - 18.00
724 Martinez de Espinar (Alonso) Arte de Ballesteria Madrid

1761

GBP - 5.50
725 Bloch (M. E.) Oeconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands Berlin

1782-84

GBP - 20.00
726 Thou (Jacques Auguste de) Il Falconiere Venice

1735

GBP - 3.00
727 Aldam (W. H.) A Quaint Treatise on Flees [sic]

1876

GBP - 9.50
728 Lamond (Henry) The Sea-Trout

1916

GBP - 2.50
729 Morris (B. R.) British Game Birds and Wildfowl

1855

GBP - 5.50
730 Sparrow (W. S.) Angling in British Art

1923

GBP - 2.00
731 Thorburn (A.) British Birds

1915

GBP - 8.00
732 Thorburn (A.) British Mammals

1920

GBP - 1.25
733 Grose (Francis) Military Antiquities

1786-88

GBP - 3.00
734 Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph) The Book of Duck Decoys

1886

GBP - 5.50
735 Walton (I.) and C. Cotton The Complete Angler

1836

GBP - 3.50
736 Walton (I.) and C. Cotton The Complete Angler

1893

GBP - 1.00
737 Halford (F. M.) Dry Fly Entomology

1897

GBP - 16.00
738 Hawker (Lt.-Col. P.) Instructions to Young Sportsmen

1824

GBP - 2.00
739 Rinder (Frank) D. Y. Cameron, LIMITED EDITION Glasgow

1912

GBP - 0.50
740 Drury (Dru) Illustrations of Exotic Entomology

1837

GBP - 12.00
741 Morris (Rev. F. O.) A History of British Birds

1891

GBP - 1.00
742 Pulton (Ferdinando) De Pace Regis et Regni

GBP - 1.00
743 Watson (J. Forbes) The Textile Manufacturers and the Costumes of the People of India

GBP - 3.50
744 Raleigh (Sir W.) The History of the World

GBP - 1.00
745 Mercator (G.) and J. Hondius Historia Mundi

1635

GBP - 9.00
746 HOLY BIBLE (THE) Oxford

1815

GBP - 13.00
747 [Defoe (D.)] The History of the Union

GBP - 1.75
748 Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary

1733-39

GBP - 0.75
749 Beerbohm (Max) A Book of Caricatures

GBP - 1.00
750 Hanbury (William) A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening

GBP - 1.00
751 Garran (Hon. Andrew) Picturesque Atlas of Australasia

GBP - 2.00
752 Simpson (W.) and J. W. Kaye India Ancient and Modern

1867

GBP - 2.00
753 Camden (W.) Britannia

1695

GBP - 11.00
754 Mawson (T. H.) The Art and Craft of Garden Making

GBP - 1.00
755 Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat

1655

GBP - 2.50
756 Coloured Plates

1828

GBP - 2.00
757 Declaration of Independence

GBP - 1.00
758 Pontoppidan (Erich) The Natural History of Norway

1755

USD - Not Sold
759 John Blackwall A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland

1861-64

GBP - 1.00
760 Landseer (Thomas) and J. H. Barrow Characteristic Sketches of Animals

1832

GBP - 1.00
761 Crealock (Lt.-Gen. H. H.) Deer-Stalking in the Highlands

1892

GBP - 5.00
762 Thorburn (A.) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl

1923

GBP - 6.00
763 Millais (J. G.) The Natural History of British Game Birds

1909

GBP - 5.00
764 Nash (Thomas) Collections for the History of Worcestershire

1781-82-99

GBP - 7.50
765 Smith (C. H.) The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland

GBP - 10.50
766 Meyrick (S. R.) and C. H. Smith The Costume of the Original inhabitants of the British Islands

GBP - 1.75
767 Reports on Legal Cases

1636

GBP - 1.75
768 Alken (Henry) Specimens of Riding Near London

USD - Not Sold
769 Whistler (J. McN.) 57 Proof Etchings

1859-63

GBP - 1.75
770 Wellington (1st Duke of) A Collection of over 100 caricatures

1821-51

GBP - 5.50
771 Hunter (G. L.) Italian Furniture and Interiors

GBP - 0.75
772 Lutyens (Sir E. L.) Houses and Gardens

GBP - 0.50
773 Stratton (A.) The English Interior

1904

GBP - 1.75
774 Bolton (A. T.) The Architecture of Robert and James Adam

1922

GBP - 11.00
775 Boaden (J.) Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons

GBP - 1.50
776 Bookplates

GBP - 2.50
777 Housman (A. E.) Two A.L.s.

GBP - 16.00
778 Morris (Wm.) The Story of the Glittering Plain

1891

GBP - 4.00
779 Morris (Wm.) Poems by the Way

1891

GBP - 1.00
780 Blunt (W. S.) The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus

1892

GBP - 3.25
781 Morris (Wm.) A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson

1892

GBP - 2.75
782 Le Levre (Raoul) The Recuyell of the Hystoryes of Troye

1892

GBP - 2.25
783 Mackail (J. W.) Biblia Innocentium

1892

GBP - 3.00
784 Morris (Wm.) News from Nowhere

1892

GBP - 3.00
785 Shakespeare (Wm.) Poems

1893

GBP - 8.00
786 Order of Chivalry (The)

1893

GBP - 2.00
787 Cavendish (G.) The Life of Thomas Wolsey

1893

GBP - 3.00
788 Meinhold (Wm.) Sidonia the Sorceress

1893

GBP - 4.75
789 Keats (John) Poems

1894

GBP - 10.00
790 Swinburne (A. C.) Atalanta in Calydon

1894

GBP - 2.00
791 Morris (Wm.) The Water of the Wondrous Isles

1897

GBP - 1.50
792 Milton (John) Nonesuch Press (The)

1926

GBP - 4.25
793 Milton (John) Nonesuch Press (The)

1926

GBP - 4.00
794 Milton (John) Nonesuch Press (The)

1926

GBP - 4.00
795 Milton (John) Nonesuch Press (The)

1926

GBP - 4.00
796 Shelley (P. B.) The Poetical Works

1876-77

GBP - 2.25
797 Shelley (P. B.) The Poetical [and] The Prose Works

1876-80

GBP - 7.00
798 Shelley (P. B.) The Poetical Works

1876-77

GBP - 1.00
799 Talfourd (Sir Thos. N.) Memoirs of Charles Lamb

GBP - 1.00
800 Shelley (P. B.) Vale Press (The)

1901-02

GBP - 4.00
801 Horatius Flaccus (Q.) Aldine Press

GBP - 6.00
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