Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AND A FEW ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND MINIATURES, ETC, PALM,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
201 Laud (Wm., Archbishop of Canterbury) A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd

1639

 GBP - 1.50
202 Perelle and Aveline Paris

GBP - 4.00
203 BALLADS

GBP - 72.00
204 Camden (W.), Editor Anglica Frankfort

1603

 GBP - 5.50
205 Verses upon the Late D-ss of M

1746

 GBP - 6.00
206 Cantus Ecclesiasticus Sacrae Historiae Passionis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Vienna

1660

 GBP - 1.00
207 Thoresby (R.) Ducatus Leodiensis

1715

 GBP - 1.25
208 Biographia Britannica

1747-66

 GBP - 0.50
209 SHAKESPEARE (W.) COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES

1664

 GBP - 20.00
210 JONSON (BEN) WORKES London

1640

 GBP - 44.00
211 Portugal Porto

1902-06

 GBP - 2.50
212 CLAUDIN (A.) HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE EN FRANCE Paris

1900-14

 GBP - 52.00
213 Bible Geneva

1588

 GBP - 2.25
214 Brooke (Sir Robert) La Graunde Abridgement London

1573

 GBP - 5.00
215 Caesar Milan

10 Feb., 1477

 GBP - 19.00
216 LIVY Saragossa

24 May, 1520

 GBP - 4.50
217 Xenophon Paris

1561

 GBP - 5.50
218 Arbuthnot (G.) and C. Irvine, late of Rouen Tobacco

1731

 GBP - 2.50
219 Boccaccio (G.) The Tragedies

[1555]

 GBP - 22.00
220 Mexia (P.) The Imperiall Historie

1623

 GBP - 14.00
221 Bergomensis Forestus (Jacobus P.) Supplementum Supplementi de le Chroniche Vulgare Venice

1520

 GBP - 2.50
222 Italian Views

GBP - 1.50
223 DE BRY (P. AND J. T.) "GRANDS VOYAGES" Frankfurt am Main

1590-94

 GBP - 105.00
224 INDULGENCE

circa 1515

 GBP - 75.00
225 TERRIER D'ESTRELLES

circa 1528

 GBP - 200.00
226 Agrippa (H. C.) Three Books of Occult Philosophy

1651

 GBP - 2.50
227 [Amory (Thomas)] The Life of John Buncle

1756

 GBP - 5.00
228 Aretino (Pietro) La Prima

1584

 GBP - 6.50
229 Baker (Henry) Of Microscopes and the Discoveries made thereby

GBP - 9.50
230 Boyle (Robert) Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God

GBP - 6.00
231 Builder's (The) Dictionary

GBP - 9.50
232 Campbell (Dr. John) Lives of the British Admirals

1817

 GBP - 0.75
233 Chaucer (G.) The Canterbury Tales

GBP - 7.00
234 Cockayne (G. E.) Complete Peerage of England

1887-98

 GBP - 6.50
235 Collection (A) of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company

1703

 GBP - 7.50
236 Congreve (Wm.) Plays

GBP - 17.00
237 Cramer (J. A.) Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals

GBP - 7.00
238 Derham (W.) Miscellanea Curiosa

GBP - 11.00
239 [Disraeli (B.)] Vivien Grey

GBP - 18.00
240 Gibson (W.) The Farrier's Dispensatory

GBP - 4.00
241 Grey (Richard) Memoria Technica

GBP - 11.00
242 Haymo (Bishop) Homiliae Cologne

1532

 GBP - 4.00
243 Johnson (William) Lexicon Chymicum cum Obscurorium Verborum et Rerum Hermeticarum

1652-53

 GBP - 8.50
244 JOURNAL DES SCAVANS Amsterdam

1708-75

 GBP - 55.00
245 Leybourn (Wm.) Nine Geometricall Exercises for Young Seamen

GBP - 28.00
246 Maraffi (Damiano) Giulio Ossequente de Prodigii Polidoro Vergilio de Prodigii Lib. III Lyons

1554

 GBP - 1.75
247 Marten (John) A Treatise of all the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease

GBP - 13.00
248 Mills (John) A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry

GBP - 11.00
249 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

USD - Not Sold
250 Newman (Cardinal J. H.) A Collection of the Works of Cardinal Newman

1833-83

 GBP - 50.00
251 Newton (Sir Isaac) A Treatise of the System of the World

1728

 GBP - 6.00
252 Pauli (Simon) A Treatise on Tobacco

GBP - 9.00
253 Renouard (A. A.) Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde

GBP - 5.50
254 Sansovino (Francesco) Del Governo de Regni et delie Republiche

GBP - 1.00
255 Schopper (Hartmann) Speculum Vitae Aulicae De Admirabili Fallacia et Astutia Vulpeculae Reinikes Frankfurt

1584

 GBP - 8.00
256 Shakespeare (Wm.) Plays with Notes by Johnson and Steevens revised by Reed

1803

 GBP - 8.00
257 Smith (Dr. W.) A Dissertation upon the Nerves

1768

 GBP - 11.00
258 Smollett (Tobias) Miscellaneous Works Edinb.

1806

 GBP - 0.75
259 Sporting (The) Magazine

1793-1811

 GBP - 3.00
260 Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea

GBP - 26.00
261 Swift (Dean J.) Works

1760-62

 GBP - 4.00
262 [Venette (N.)] The Art of Pruning Fruit Trees

GBP - 4.00
263 Astle (Thomas) The Origin and Progress of Writing

GBP - 3.00
264 Baillet (Adrien) Jugemens des Savans sur des Principaux Ouvrages des Auteurs Amsterdam

1725

 GBP - 1.00
265 Barry (Sir E.) Observations on the Wines of the Ancients

GBP - 5.00
266 Birch (Thomas) The History of the Royal Society of London

1756-60

 GBP - 19.00
267 Boerhaave (H.) A New Method of Chemistry

GBP - 6.00
268 Boyle (Robert) Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy Oxford

1664

 GBP - 6.50
269 Boyle (R.) The Philosophical Works

1725

 GBP - 3.00
270 Brisson (M. J.) Ornithologie ou Methode contenant la division des Oiseaux en Ordres

1760

 GBP - 12.00
271 Dolce (Lodovico) Le Trasformationi Venice

1553

 GBP - 2.50
272 Doni (A. F.) I Marmi del Doni

GBP - 5.50
273 Duhamel du Monceau A Practical Treatise of Husbandry

GBP - 2.00
274 Fabre (P. J.) Opera

GBP - 14.00
275 Moll (Hermann) A set of Thirty Six New and Correct Maps of Scotland

GBP - 16.00
276 New (A) General Collection of Voyages and Travels

1745-47

 GBP - 9.00
277 New (A) Universal History of Arts and Sciences

GBP - 6.50
278 Pancirolo (Guido) Rerum Memorabilium sive Deperditarum Pars Prior Frankfort

1660

 GBP - 3.00
279 Priestley (Joseph) The History and Present State of Electricity

1767

 GBP - 9.00
280 ROYAL (THE) SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

1734-79

 GBP - 42.00
281 Scheuchzer (J. J.) Ouresiphoites Helveticus London

1708

 GBP - 6.50
282 Schottus (Gaspar) Magia Universalis Naturae et Artis Wurzburg

1657-59

 GBP - 9.00
283 Somervile (Wm.) The Chace

GBP - 3.00
284 Tyson (Edward) The Anatomy of a Pygmy compared with that of a Monkey

1751

 GBP - 9.00
285 Vaenius (Otho) Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata

GBP - 5.50
286 Vigenere (Blaise de) Traicte des Chiffres Paris

1586

 GBP - 13.00
287 Agricola (Georgius) De Re Metallica Basel

1657

 GBP - 14.00
288 Burnet (Thomas) The Theory of the Earth

GBP - 4.00
289 Camden (Wm.) Britain

1637

 GBP - 19.00
290 Camden (Wm.) Britannia

1695

 GBP - 12.00
291 Chardin (Sir John) Travels into Persia and ye East Indies

1686

 GBP - 2.75
292 Croft (W.) Musicus Apparatus Academicus

[1720]

 GBP - 4.00
293 Donato d'Eremita Naples

1624

 GBP - 36.00
294 Euclid The Elements of Geometry . . .

1570

 GBP - 40.00
295 Graevius (J. G.), J. Gronovius and Others Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecarum et Romanarum Venice

1740

 GBP - 1.00
296 Guicciardini (F.) The Historie of Guicciardin containing the Warres of of Italy

1618

 GBP - 4.00
297 Habington (Wm.) The Historie of Edward the Fourth

GBP - 7.50
298 Hevelius (Johannes) Selenographia Dantzig

1647

 GBP - 32.00
299 Heywoode (Thomas) Gunaikeion

1624

 GBP - 15.00
300 [Hale (Thomas)] A Compleat Body of Husbandry

GBP - 1.00
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
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