Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AND A FEW ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND MINIATURES, ETC, PALM,

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Auction Date
July 30, 1952 - July 30, 1952
Page Size: 612 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Serlio (S.) The First Booke of Architecture

1611

 GBP - 7.00
102 Shaw (Henry) The Encyclopedia of Ornament Leipzig

1915

 GBP - 4.00
103 Strong (S. A.) Reproductions of Drawings by old masters

1902

 GBP - 3.50
104 Stroobant (F.) La Brabant et Les Flandres Paris

1913

 GBP - 5.00
105 Triggs (H. I.) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland

1902

 GBP - 3.00
106 Vitruvius (M. P.) Les Dix Livres d'Architecture Paris

1673

 GBP - 0.50
107 Wallis (Henry) Persian Lustre Vases

GBP - 5.00
108 Wild (Charles) Twelve Perspective Views of

GBP - 2.00
109 SANDBY (P.) THE VIRTUOSI'S MUSEUM London

1778

 GBP - 78.00
110 CATLIN (GEORGE) North American Indians

GBP - 90.00
111 CATLIN (G.) ORIGINAL SKETCHES FOR NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

GBP - 620.00
112 Goldsmid (E.) Bibliotheca Curiosa Edinburgh

1888

 GBP - 2.75
113 Ashbee (H. S.) Bibliotheca Arcana

1885

 GBP - 2.50
114 Harrison (Joseph) The Floricultural Cabinet

1833-59

 GBP - 11.00
115 Sowerby (J. E.) and C. P. Johnson British Wild Flowers

1863

 USD - Not Sold
116 Costume

1818

 GBP - 10.00
117 Costume

1817

 GBP - 7.00
118 American Military Pocket Atlas (The)

1776

 GBP - 16.00
119 Cary (John) New and Correct English Atlas

1787

 GBP - 2.00
120 Burnet (John) Practical Hints on Colour Painting

GBP - 0.75
121 Boyle (R.) General Heads for the Natural History of a Country

1692

 GBP - 16.00
122 Ireland

1660

 GBP - 1.00
123 Sacrobosco (J. de) Sphaera Mundi woodcut diagrams

GBP - 1.25
124 Byron (Lord) The Siege of Corinth

GBP - 1.00
125 Cervantes (M. de) L'ingegnoso Cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia Venice

1622

 GBP - 12.00
126 BIBLE

GBP - 24.00
127 Psalter Paris

30th July, 1513

 GBP - 10.00
128 Bolton (E.) The Elements of Armories

1610

 GBP - 2.50
129 Psalter Paris

1671

 GBP - 3.00
130 Boccaccio (G.) Il Philocopo Venice

1583

 GBP - 3.25
131 Gyllius (P.) Elzevir Press Leyden

1632

 GBP - 1.25
132 Comedia del Sacrificio degli Intronati [Gl' Ingannati] Venice

1550

 GBP - 3.25
133 Basile (G. B., Count of Torone) Il Pentamerone

1893

 GBP - 1.00
134 Castiglione (Baldessar) Il Cortegiano Lyon

1562

 GBP - 1.50
135 Gozzi (Carlo) Memorie inutile Venice

1797

 GBP - 3.00
136 Giraldi Cinthio (G. B.) Epitia Venice

1583

 GBP - 4.00
137 Alfonso X Tabulae Alphonsinae Perpetuum Madrid

1641

 GBP - 3.00
138 Cicero (M. T.) Epistolarium ad Atticum Venice

1513

 GBP - 13.00
139 Mercurius Trismegistus Bordeaux

1574

 GBP - 3.50
140 Phaedrus Paris

1732

 GBP - 9.00
141 Pedantius

1631

 GBP - 7.00
142 Appian, of Alexandria

1578

 GBP - 12.00
143 Florian (J. P. de) Oeuvres Paris

1805

 GBP - 18.00
144 Woodward (J.) A Disswasive from the Horrid and Beastly Sin of Drunkenness

1701

 GBP - 2.00
145 Woodward (J.) An Address to the Officers and Seamen in Her Majesty's Royal Navy

GBP - 6.00
146 Eberus (P.) Brevis Historia Populi Iudaici Wittenberg

1560

 GBP - 1.00
147 Edict du Roy portant Nouvelle Fabrication d'Especes d'Argent Paris

1647

 GBP - 2.50
148 Cook (Capt. Jas.) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

GBP - 9.50
149 Darvill (R.) A Treatise on the Care

GBP - 7.00
150 Fielding (H.) The Works

1806

 GBP - 2.00
151 Gibbon (E.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

GBP - 5.50
152 Harrison (Jos.) The Floricultural Cabinet

GBP - 6.50
153 Lemery (Nic.) A Course of Chymistry

1735-40

 GBP - 5.00
154 New English Theatre (The)

GBP - 7.50
155 Paxton (Jos.) Magazine of Botany

1834-37

 GBP - 6.50
156 Schreiber (Lady C.) Journals

1911

 GBP - 5.50
157 Scott (Sir Walter) Kenilworth

GBP - 2.50
158 Shakespeare's England Oxford

1916

 GBP - 2.00
159 Swift (Rev. J., Dean) The Works

GBP - 6.50
160 Victorian

GBP - 1.00
161 A' Beckett (G. A.) The Comic History of England Bradbury

GBP - 1.00
162 Bolingbroke (H.) A Voyage to the Demerary

[1807]

 GBP - 3.00
163 Desaguliers (J. T.) A Course of Experimental Philosophy

1745-44

 GBP - 5.00
164 Dryden (John) Volume containing nineteen of the Plays

GBP - 40.00
165 Fielding (Sarah) The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

1733

 GBP - 1.50
166 Franklin (Sir J.) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea

1823

 GBP - 4.00
167 Lacroix (P.) The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

1878

 GBP - 12.00
168 Lawrence (J.) The History and Delineation of the Horse

1809

 GBP - 0.75
169 Morris (Rev. F. O.) A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

GBP - 6.00
170 Rackham (B.) and Read (H.) English Pottery

1924

 GBP - 5.50
171 Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of) Valentinian

GBP - 22.00
172 Blome (R.) Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World

GBP - 6.50
173 Burlington Fine Arts Club

1901

 GBP - 2.75
174 Knolles (R.) The Generall Historie of the Turkes Paris

1663

 GBP - 1.50
175 Macquoid (P.) A History of English Furniture

1904-08

 GBP - 17.00
176 Rutter (J.) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

GBP - 5.25
177 Spenser (E.) The Works

GBP - 5.50
178 Virgilius Maro (P.) The Works

GBP - 2.50
179 Maier (Michael) Secretioris Naturae Secretorum Scrutinium Chymicum

GBP - 16.00
180 Reuchlin (Johannes) De arte cabalistica Hagenau

1517

 GBP - 16.00
181 Andreae (Johannes) Super arboribus consanguinitatis affinitatis necnon spiritualis cognationis Nuremberg

1478

 GBP - 11.00
182 Warner (Wm.) Albion's England

1602

 GBP - 1.25
183 Bayfius (Lazarius) Annotationes in Legem II de Captivis & postliminio reversis in quibus tractatus de re navali Basle

1541

 GBP - 3.50
184 Hevesy (A. de) La Bibliotheque du roi Matthias Corvin Paris

1923

 GBP - 5.00
185 Encyclopaedia Britannica (The)

1936-39

 GBP - 9.50
186 Bollan (W.) Coloniae Anglicanae Illustratae

1762

 GBP - 8.00
187 Bible and Metrical Psalter Carmarthen

1779

 GBP - 2.00
188 Lang (A.) Prince Charles Edward Goupil

1900

 USD - Not Sold
189 BIBLE Lubeck

19th Nov., 1494

 GBP - 720.00
190 CABINET DU ROI Paris

1670-1743

 GBP - 320.00
191 Rubens (Sir P. P.) La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg peinte par Rubens Paris

1710

 GBP - 38.00
192 Raphael Rome

GBP - 5.50
193 Raphael Rome

1614

 GBP - 4.50
194 Warning to Great Britain (A)

1707

 GBP - 1.00
195 Bodoni Press (The) Parma

1792

 GBP - 1.00
196 Blaeu (J.) Part of the Civitatum Italiae Amsterdam

1663

 GBP - 8.50
197 Holinshed (R.) Chronicles of England

1586-87

 GBP - 5.00
198 Petrarch (F.) Opera Venice

1501

 GBP - 5.00
199 Langley (Batty) The Principles of Ancient Masonry or a General System of Building

1733-36

 GBP - 4.50
200 James I (King of England) The Workes

1616

 GBP - 3.75
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
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