Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING The Property of Charles Easler. Esg The Property of Sir Edward Ellington, B.C.B The Property of Mrs. E. E. James The Property of B. H. fielding Esg The Property of P. G. Goyd, Esg, KNOSSOS,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 19, 1962 - November 19, 1962
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | PAMPHLETS | USD - | 252.00 | |||
| 502 | Hills Press. A collection of twenty poetical pieces | USD - | 53.20 | |||
| 503 | PAMPHLETS | [c. 1798-1810] |
USD - | 154.00 | ||
| 504 | Pamphlets | USD - | 112.00 | |||
| 505 | A collection of 36 pamphlets relating to the Irish union | London and Dublin | 1799-1800 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 506 | Chambers (Sir William) | Designs of Chinese buildings | 1757 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 507 | Cipriani (Giovanni Battista) | A collection of prints after the sketches and drawings of | 1789 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 508 | Book of Common Prayer (The) | USD - | 22.40 | |||
| 509 | Reading (William) | Bibliothecae Cleri Londinensis in Collegio Sionensi Catalogus | 1724 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 510 | Laurence (John) | A new system of agriculture | 1726 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 511 | Swift (Jonothan) | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World | 1727-1726 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 512 | Wesley (John) | A collection of moral and sacred poems | Bristol | 1744 |
USD - | 4.20 |
| 513 | Hoyle (Edmond) | A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 514 | Roscommon (Wentworth Dillon, Earl of) and others | The works of celebrated authors | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 515 | Neumann (Caspar) | Works | 1759 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 516 | Virgilius Maro (Publius) | Opera | Glasgow | 1778 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 517 | Hasting (Warren) | Minutes of the evidence taken at the trial of Warren Hastings at the House of Lords | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 518 | Burney (Charles) | An account of the musical performances in commemoration of Handel | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 519 | Boswell (James) | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 1793 |
USD - | 12.60 | |
| 520 | Burchett (Josiah) | A Complete History of the most remarkable Transactions at Sea | 1720 |
USD - | 2.80 | |
| 521 | Fielding (Henry) | The History of Tom Jones | 1749 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 522 | Fielding (Henry) | The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon | 1755 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 523 | Jones (Mary) | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | Oxford | 1750 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 524 | Shaftesbury (Anthony, Earl of) | Characteristics | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 525 | Wilson (Alexander) and Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte | American Ornithology | Edinburgh | 1831 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 526 | Strutt (Joseph) | A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England | 1796-99 |
USD - | 53.20 | |
| 527 | BOWYER (ROBERT) | THE TRIUMPHS OF EUROPE | 1814-15 |
USD - | 182.00 | |
| 528 | Kenneth Alexander Howard | Coronations of George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria | 1821-1837 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 529 | Grandville (J. J.) | Scenes de la Vie Privee et Publique des Animaux | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 530 | Pickering (Charles) | The races of man and their geographical distribution | 1849 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 531 | Scrap Book containing about 200 Christmas, New Year, Birthday and other cards, scraps, etc., | 1865-1876 |
USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 532 | Calvert (F.) | The Isle of Wight | 1846 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 533 | Beattie (William) and W. H. Bartlett | Caledonia Illustrated | USD - | 11.20 | ||
| 534 | Whittock (N.) | The Modern Picture of London | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 535 | Hill (John) | The British Herbal | 1756 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 536 | CURTIS (WILLIAM) | THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE | 1787-1803 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 537 | Audouit (Edmond) | Atlas de l'herbier des Demoiselles | Paris | USD - | 28.00 | |
| 538 | Donovan (E.) | An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China | 1798 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 539 | Edwards (George) | A Natural History of Birds | 1743-47 |
USD - | 168.00 | |
| 540 | Buffon (G.-L. L., comte de) | Histoire naturelle | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 541 | Hume (Allan) and C. H. T. Marshall | The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon | Calcutta | [1879]-1881 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 542 | Murphy (Robert Cushman) | Oceanic Birds of South America | New York | 1936 |
USD - | 16.80 |
| 543 | Wolf (Joseph) | Zoological sketches | 1861 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 544 | Millais (J. G.) | The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland | 1904-1906 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 545 | Osborn (Henry Fairfield) | The Age of Mammals in Europe | New York | 1910 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 546 | Kneller (Sir Godfrey) and John Faber | Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat Club | 1821 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 547 | Ottley (William Young) and P. W. Tomkins | Engravings of the Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures | 1818 |
USD - | 7.00 | |
| 548 | Clerk (John) | Etchings chiefly in Scotland 1773-79 | Edinburgh | 1825 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 549 | Ritson (Joseph) | A Select Collection of English Songs | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 550 | Cordellier-Delanoue | Jacques Coeur | 1847 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 551 | Tissot (J. James) | The Life of Jesus Christ | 1909 |
USD - | 2.80 | |
| 552 | Naville (E.) | Das Aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII | Berlin | 1886 |
USD - | 33.60 |
| 553 | Ainsworth (William Harrison) | The Town of London | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 554 | Alken (Henry) | The National Sports of Great Britain | New York | 1904 |
USD - | 84.00 |
| 555 | Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton | Angling | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 556 | Apperley (Capt. C. J.) | Nimrod | USD - | 19.60 | ||
| 557 | Beckford (Peter) | Thoughts on Hunting | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 558 | Beckford (Peter) | Thoughts upon Hunting | USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 559 | [Bindley (Charles)], Harry Hieover | Stable Talk and Table Talk | USD - | 36.40 | ||
| 561 | Blew (William C. A.) | The Quorn Hunt and its Masters | USD - | 30.80 | ||
| 562 | Bree (Charles Robert) | A History of the Birds of Europe | 1875-76 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 563 | Bunbury (H. W.) | Geoffrey Gambado | 1825 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 564 | Camden (William) | Britannia | 1722 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 565 | Cook (Col. John) | Observations on Fox-Hunting | USD - | 39.20 | ||
| 566 | [D'Avigdor (Elim H.)], Wanderer | Across Country | USD - | 36.40 | ||
| 567 | Dixon (William Scarth) | Hunting in the Olden Days | 1912 |
USD - | 2.80 | |
| 568 | DRESSER (HENRY E.) | A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE | 1871-81 |
USD - | 246.40 | |
| 569 | Essay on Hunting (An) | 1733 |
USD - | 7.00 | ||
| 570 | Fairbairn (James) | Book of Crests | USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 571 | [Fairfax (Thomas)] | The New Complete Sportsman | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 572 | Foxhunting | USD - | 22.40 | |||
| 573 | GRAY (GEORGE ROBERT) | THE GENERA OF BIRDS | 1849 |
USD - | 532.00 | |
| 574 | Harleian Miscellany (The) | 1808-13 |
USD - | 75.60 | ||
| 575 | Harris (Stanley) | Old Coaching Days | USD - | 36.40 | ||
| 576 | Hawkes (John) | The Meynellian Science | 1848 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 577 | Hewitson (William C.) | British Oology | USD - | 7.00 | ||
| 578 | Hints to Purchasers of Horses | 1825 |
USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 579 | Horses | USD - | 36.40 | |||
| 580 | Humphreys (Henry Noel) | The Origin and Progress of Writing | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 581 | Kirchmann (Johannes) | De Annulis Liber Singularis | Schleswig | 1657 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 582 | Lacroix (Paul) | Les Arts | Paris | 1871-73 |
USD - | 25.20 |
| 583 | [Lawrence (John)] W. H. Scott | British Field Sports | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 584 | Malet (Capt.) | Annals of the Road | USD - | 36.40 | ||
| 585 | MEYER (HENRY LEONARD) | ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS | [1835-41] |
USD - | 476.00 | |
| 586 | Meyer (H. L.) | Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs | 1853-57 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 587 | Morris (F. O.) | A History of British Birds | 1870-79 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 588 | Nevill (Ralph) | Sporting Days and Sporting Ways | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 589 | Harting (J. E.) | Ornithology | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 590 | [Ritson (Joseph, Editor)] | Ancient Songs | 1792 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 591 | Shaw (Henry) | Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages | 1843 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 592 | Sport | USD - | 67.20 | |||
| 593 | Whitworth (Charles, Lord) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1758 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 594 | Surtees (Robert Smith) | Handley Cross | USD - | 21.00 | ||
| 595 | Thornton (Col. Thomas) | A Sporting Tour through France | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 596 | Tuer (Andrew W.) | History of the Horn-Book | 1897 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 597 | edited by P. H. Ditchfield and William Page | Victoria History of Berkshire (The) | 1906-24 |
USD - | 42.00 | |
| 598 | Vyner (Robert T.) | Notitia Venatica | USD - | 25.20 | ||
| 599 | Yarrell (William) | A History of British Birds | 1845 |
USD - | 117.60 |
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.