Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. Autograph Letters and Historical Documents, &c. COMPRISING A SELECTION PROM THE LIBRARY AT SPRINGWOOD PARK, KELSO, OF English Literature; First Editions and Presentation Copies of Thomas Hardy; Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club Publications; a Fifteenth Century French Manuscript on Chess; Voyages and Travels; Charts, etc.; The Naval Papers, Journals, etc., of Admiral Sir James Douglas; The Property of the late Sir George Douglas, Bt., [Sold by Order of his Exec, HYPERION,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 25, 1938 - July 25, 1938

Page Size: 680 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
299		ECCLESIASTICAL COSTUME			GBP -	6.00
300	CHAPMAN (GEORGE)	A PLEASANT COMEDY ENTITLED		1599	GBP -	58.00
301	WEBSTER (JOHN)	THE WHITE DIVEL		1612	GBP -	18.00
302	DEKKER (THOMAS)	IF IT BE NOT GOOD		1612	GBP -	10.00
303	BELCHIER (DABRIDGCOURT)	HANS BEER-POT his Invisible Comedie		1618	GBP -	10.50
304	King George III	A Selection from the Papers of King George III		1927	GBP -	7.00
305	Catullus, Tibullus, Propertus	Carmina		1911	GBP -	3.25
306	Virgil.	Opera omnia		1912	GBP -	5.50
307	Riccardi	The Book of Genesis		1914	GBP -	4.00
308	Homer	The Odyssey		1932	GBP -	7.00
309	Edited by Robert Bridges and H. Ellis	The Yattendon Hymnal		1920	GBP -	0.25
310	Polo (Marco)	Il Milione	Florence	1928	GBP -	0.50
311		Bible	Zurich	1550	GBP -	1.80
312	FLORIO (JOHN)	HIS PIRSTE PRUITES			GBP -	98.00
313	CLARK (JOHN) III	NEWES FROM NEW-ENGLAND		1652	GBP -	65.00
314	BOILEAU-DESPREAUX (N.)	OEUVRES DIVERSES	Paris	1701	GBP -	17.00
315	CALLOT (JACQUES)	THE ARTIST'S POCKET BOOK		1631	GBP -	210.00
316	[DUCLOS (C. P.)]	ACAJOU ET ZIRPHILE		1744	GBP -	60.00
317	Jacquot (A.)	La Lutherie	Paris	1912	GBP -	1.50
318	Browne (E.)	"Phiz"		1913	GBP -	18.00
319	Hamma (F.)	Meisterwerke italienischer Geigenbaukunst	Stuttgart	[1932]	GBP -	2.00
320	Hill (W. H., A. F., and A. E.)	Antonio Stradivari		1902	GBP -	9.50
321	Hill (W. H., A. F., and A. E.)	The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family		1931	GBP -	7.50
322	OLIVIER (E.) G. HERMAL ET R. DE ROTON	MANUEL DE L'AMATEUR DE RELIURES ARMORIEES FRANCHISES	Paris	1924-38	GBP -	15.00
323		Bibliotheque Nationale	Paris		GBP -	1.00
324	Louis XVIII	PROCES-VERBAUX DES SEANCES DU CONSEIL DU ROY DU 17 AVRIL 1814 AU 10 FEVRIER 1815			GBP -	20.00
325	SCHILLER. WALLENSTEIN	Aecompagnements au Drame de Wallenstein	Paris	c.1870	GBP -	1.50
326	SCHILLER	JUNGFRAU V. ORLEANS	Paris	c. 1870	GBP -	1.00
327		INQUISITION BROADSIDE			GBP -	18.00
328	Shakespeare (Wm.)	Die Tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenmark	Weimar	1928	GBP -	1.25
329	Drummond of Hawthornden (William)	Works		1711	GBP -	0.75
330	Monson (Sir William)	Naval Tracts			GBP -	0.25
331	Virgil	Opera	Milan	1930	GBP -	3.00
332	Waller (Edmund)	To the King		[1660]	GBP -	2.25
333	Waller (E.)	Instructions to a Painter		1666	GBP -	2.25
334	Prior (Matthew)	Carmen Saeculare		1700	GBP -	0.50
335	Prior (M.)	The Turtle and the Sparrow		1723	GBP -	2.75
336	Denham (Sir John)	The Sophy		1642	GBP -	3.50
337	[Flatman (Thomas) and others]	Heraclitus Ridens		Feb. 1681-Aug. 1682	GBP -	5.00
338	Gay (John)	Rural Sports		1713	USD -	Not Sold
339	Johnson (Samuel)	The Rambler		1751	GBP -	7.50
340	Pope (Alexander)	Sober Advice from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about Town		[1734]	USD -	Not Sold
341	Pope (A.)	An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Vise Cobham		1733	GBP -	0.25
342	Pope (A.)	The Character of Katharine		1746	GBP -	12.00
343	[Swift (Jonathan)]	On Poetry		1733	GBP -	1.50
344	Swift (J.)	The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift		1733	GBP -	1.50
345	MOLLET (ANDREW)	THE GARDEN OF PLEASURE		1670	GBP -	17.50
346	SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)	COMEDIES		1685	GBP -	42.00
347	JONSON (BEN)	THE WORKES OF BENIAMIN JONSON		1616-1640	GBP -	46.00
348		BIBLE		1519	GBP -	34.00
349	Camden (William)	Annales Rerum Angliearum et Hiberni-carum		1615	GBP -	0.25
350	Tempest (P.) and Lauron (C.)	The Cryes of the City of London		1711	GBP -	2.00
351	Meyrick (S. R.) and Smith (C. Hamilton)	The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands		1815	GBP -	1.25
352	Lucretius (T. Carus)	De Rerum Natura Libri Sex	Londini	1796-7	GBP -	0.50
353	DE LA POSSE (J. C.)	NOUVELLE ICONOLOGIE HISTORIQUE OU Attributs Hierogliphyques	Paris	1771	GBP -	1.75
354	De Lollis (Cesare)	Scritti di Cristoforo Colombo	Rome	1892-94	GBP -	1.50
355	[BRAUN (GEORGIUS) AND HOGENBERG (FRANCISCUS)]	CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM		1618	GBP -	26.00
356	[DAHLBERG (COMTE. E. DE)]	SUEICA ANTIQUA ET HODIERNA	Stockholm	1693-1714	GBP -	12.00
357	NELSON	NELSON RELIC A mahoganv folding Boot-jack			GBP -	3.00
358		A Collection of 92 English Broadsides relating to Napoleon		1803	GBP -	29.00
359		A red morocco Box with a slide-off top, which was the property of Josephine, first wife of Napoleon			GBP -	11.00
360		NAPOLEON RELICS			GBP -	17.00
361	I. Rosin	A pair of Portrait-Miniatures of Napoleon and Josephine			GBP -	1.00
362	Napoleon I	The arrival of the French delegates at his tomb in St. Helena to remove his ashes to France			GBP -	34.00
363	NAPOLEON I	THE EIGHTH CODICIL TO HIS WILL			GBP -	820.00
364	NAPOLEON I	AUTO DRAFT FOR A MEMORANDUM			GBP -	64.00
365	NAPOLEON I	D.s. "Bonaparte"		[1800]	USD -	Not Sold
366	CRAGGS (James, Secretary of State)	L.s.		1720	GBP -	12.00
367	SHAW (G. Bernard)	Three Typed Letters			GBP -	0.50
368	HANRIOT (F.)	Partisan of Danton		1793	GBP -	1.75
369	FOURNIER ("Pamericain")	One of the leaders of the fishwives' march to Versailles with the younger Maillard		Oct. 5th, 1789	USD -	Not Sold
370	COCHON (Charles)	Revolutionary			GBP -	0.25
371	FRANQOIS I	Fine L.s.			GBP -	5.00
372	GASTEN D'ORLEANS	A.L.s.		1629	GBP -	1.50
373	HENRI IV OF FRANCE	A.L.s.		1507-9	GBP -	3.50
374	DANTON (G. J.)	Doc.s.	Paris	11 septr 1792	GBP -	5.75
375	Louis XVIII	A.L.s.		16 Octr. 1797	GBP -	6.50
376	NICHOLAS I	Tsar of Russia		1837	GBP -	0.25
377	POPE PIUS V	Ex-communication and Deposition of Queen Elizabeth			GBP -	54.00
378	BEAUMARCHAIS (Canon de)	Manuscript Acting Copy			GBP -	3.50
379	CAUCHON (Pierre)	Bishop of Beauvais and Lisieux			GBP -	24.00
380	PANIS (Etienne J.)	French Revolutionary		Sept. 1792	USD -	Not Sold
381	MATHIEU, French Revolutionary	L. s.			GBP -	1.00
382	COULOMBEAU	L. s.		21 Octr. 1792	GBP -	0.50
383	Louis XIII OF FRANCE	A.L.s.			GBP -	25.00
384	LOUIS XIV	D. s. when only 8 years old		1646	GBP -	46.00
385	LAVOISIER (A. L.)	A. L. s.		1792	GBP -	5.00
386	STEVENSON (R. L.)	Auto		Sep. 6, 1892	GBP -	1.00
387	GOETHE (J. W. von)	Pine L.s.		6 Jan. 1830	GBP -	4.50
388	BELLINI (V.)	Composer			GBP -	2.25
389	CRANMER (Thomas)	Archbishop of Canterbury		[1544]	GBP -	40.00
390	CATHERINE THE GREAT	A. L. s.		Sep. 1762	GBP -	7.50
391	RUBENS (Peter Paul)	A fine A.L.s.		30 May 1625	GBP -	34.00
392	BORGIA (Lucrezia)	A fine A.L.s.		5 April 1498	GBP -	11.50
393	BONAPARTE (Elisa)Princess Bacchiochi	A. L. s.			GBP -	1.75
394	SIDNEY (Sir Philip)	A very fine A.L.s.		8th Feb. 1526	GBP -	30.00
395	MASQUERIEK (J. J.)	English painter	Brighton	May 17 1835	GBP -	0.25
396	NAPOLEON I	Doc.s.		1811	GBP -	1.75
397	TALLEYRAND (Prince)	A.L.s.		Dec. 1809	GBP -	27.00
398	MARIE LOUISE	A.L.s.		27 Feb. 1816	GBP -	1.75

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