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Auction Details

Auction Date: April 17, 1972 - April 17, 1972

Page Size: 560 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Aesopus	[Vita Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi . . .],			GBP -	130.00
2	Mark Akenside	The pleasures of imagination: A Poem			GBP -	8.00
3	M. A. Lucan	Pharsalia	Venice	1502	GBP -	42.00
4	Richard Allestree	The Gentleman's Calling		1696, 1700	GBP -	5.00
5	Richard Allestree	The Ladies Calling			GBP -	30.00
6	F. Pond	Almanacks of 1606		1606	GBP -	130.00
7	Robert Anderson	A complete edition of the poets of Great Britain		1795	GBP -	55.00
8	Francis Bacon	Philosophical Works		1733	GBP -	12.00
9	Francis Bacon	Works		1753	GBP -	8.00
10	Noel van Barlement	New dialogues or colloquies		1639	GBP -	20.00
11	John Milton	Paradise Regain'd			GBP -	8.00
12	Beccaria Bonesana	An essay on crimes and punishments			GBP -	18.00
13		Bible			GBP -	6.00
14		Orthographia Espanola, compuesta y ordenada per la Real Academia Espanola	Madrid	1741	GBP -	38.00
15		Histoire du regne de Louis XIII			GBP -	40.00
16	Jeremiah Burroughs	The excellency of a gracious spirit			GBP -	18.00
17	J. Bodin	De la demonomanie des sorciers			GBP -	22.00
18		Book of Common Prayer ... with the Psalms of David			GBP -	26.00
19	Sebastian Brandt	Stultifera navis [translated by Jacob Locher	Paris	8 March 1498	GBP -	190.00
20	Timothy Brecknock	Droit le Roy: A digest of the Rights ... of the Imperial Crown of Great Britain			GBP -	16.00
21	Thomas Browne	Hydriotaphia Urne-buriall		1658	GBP -	10.00
22	Francois Bruys	L'Art de connoitre les femmes . . . par le Chevalier Plante-Amour			GBP -	7.00
23	Bishop Gilbert Burnet	Some passages in the life and death of the . . . Earl of Rochester			GBP -	12.00
24	Colin Campbell	Vitruvius Britannicus		1715-17	GBP -	55.00
25	William Caxton	An original leaf from the Chronicles of England		1933	GBP -	100.00
26	M. de Cervantes	Don Quixote			GBP -	16.00
27		Challenge (The) sent by a Young Lady to Sir Thomas-&c. or		1697	GBP -	42.00
28	Charles I	Bibliotheca Regia		1659	GBP -	16.00
29	Edward Cocker	The Young Clerks Tutor enlarged		1675	GBP -	20.00
30	Francis Columna	Hypnerotomachie	Paris	1546	GBP -	95.00
31	William Congreve	Amendments of Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations		1698	GBP -	38.00
32	Charles Cotton	Scarronides		1678	GBP -	24.00
33	Abraham Cowley	Works			GBP -	22.00
34	Rev. George Crabbe	The Borough			GBP -	16.00
35		Customs and Excise			GBP -	35.00
36	Daniel Defoe	Memoirs of a Cavalier		1720	GBP -	32.00
37	Daniel Defoe	The history of the Devil			GBP -	16.00
38	Michael Drayton	Poly-Olbion [or a chorographicall description of. . . Great Britain]		1612	GBP -	220.00
39	Michael Drayton	Poly-Olbion		1613	GBP -	360.00
40	John Dryden	The History of the League		1684	GBP -	12.00
41	H. L. Duhamel du Monceau	The elements of agriculture		1764	GBP -	28.00
42		Early Latin Syntax			GBP -	170.00
43		Early printing fragments			GBP -	12.00
44	Ovidius Naso	Opera			GBP -	24.00
45	William Hutchinson	An excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland			GBP -	80.00
46	George Farquhar	Works			GBP -	32.00
47	Henry Fielding	Works		1776	GBP -	9.00
48	John Fletcher	The Faithfull Shepheardesse		1629	GBP -	260.00
49	Jean Froissart	Le premier second		12 October, 1518	GBP -	30.00
50	A. Gallonius	De sanctorum martyrum cruciatibus	Paris	1660	GBP -	14.00
51	Edward Gibbon	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire		1797	GBP -	14.00
52	William Gilpin	Observations			GBP -	35.00
53	William Gilpin	Remarks on forest scenery . . . New-Forest in Hampshire			GBP -	42.00
54	Joseph Glanvill	Saducismus Triumphatus . . . concerning witches and apparitions		1681	GBP -	35.00
55	Oliver Goldsmith	The Traveller: A poem			GBP -	45.00
56	Thomas Gray-Richard Bentley	Designs ... for six poems by Mr. T. Gray		1753	GBP -	22.00
57	Gregorius de Arimino	Primus [Secundus] sententiarum . . .	Paris	c. 1510	GBP -	20.00
58	Gregory I	Super Cantica canticorum			GBP -	60.00
59	Guido de Monte Rocherii	[Manipulus curatorum],	Colophon: Geneva	29 March 1480	GBP -	260.00
60	Matthew Hale	Contemplations moral and divine		1676	GBP -	22.00
61	Richard Head	The English Rogue described		1666-68-80	GBP -	48.00
62	George Herbert	The Temple		1667	GBP -	6.00
63	Thomas Hobbes	Hobbs's Tripos			GBP -	26.00
64	Samuel Johnson	The Idler		1761	GBP -	24.00
65	Samuel Johnson	A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland		1775	GBP -	30.00
66	Benjamin Jonson	The Workes		1640	GBP -	45.00
67	Jornandes Jordanes	De rebus Gothorum			GBP -	45.00
68	J. A. Komensky "Comenius"	Porta linguarum . . . aperta: The gate of tongues unlocked		1631	GBP -	85.00
69	J. A. Komensky "Comenius"	Porta linguarum . . . aperta: The gate of tongues unlocked		1633	GBP -	16.00
70	J. A. Komensky "Comenius"	Orbis sensualium pictus: Comenius's Visible Vorlds		1729	GBP -	38.00
71	J. de La Fontaine	Fables choisies	Paris	1776	GBP -	46.00
72	Batty Langley	The London Prices of bricklayers materials and works		1749	GBP -	55.00
73	Jacques Le Fevre	Quincuplum Psalterium: Gallicum			GBP -	18.00
74		Legenda Aurea [part 2]: Passionael	Delft	1489	GBP -	65.00
75	John Leland	The Itinerary	Oxford	1770-69	GBP -	38.00
76	Titus Livius	The Romane History . . . translated out of Latine into English by Philemon Holland		1600	GBP -	9.00
77	Rev. C. Colton	Sampford Ghost...			GBP -	18.00
78	Michael Lochmaier	Sermones perutiles de Sanctis per circulum Anni	Colophon: Hagenau	14 March 1507	GBP -	30.00
79	John Lyly	Euphues		1617	GBP -	12.00
80	William Maitland	History of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	1753	GBP -	38.00
81	Marvel Andrew	A collection of Poems on Affairs of State . . . by A-M-1 Esq. and other Eminent Wits			GBP -	30.00
82	Pierre Matthieu	Unhappy prosperity expressed in the History of aelius Seianus . . . translated out of the originals by Sir T[homas] H[awkins]		1639	GBP -	30.00
83	John Milton	Eikonoklastes in answer to a book intitl'd Eikon Basilike		1649	GBP -	65.00
84	John Milton	Paradise Lost		1770	GBP -	18.00
85	Enguerrand de Monstrelet	[Chronicles] Le second [tiers] volume	Paris	1512	GBP -	40.00
86	Sebastian Munster	La cosmographie universelle	Basle	1556	GBP -	450.00
87		New display (A)of the beauties of England		1787	GBP -	35.00
88	William Oldys	The British Librarian			GBP -	40.00
89	Thomas Otway	Venice Preserv'd ... a tragedy			GBP -	55.00
90	Publius Ovidius Naso	Heroides			GBP -	30.00
91	Pope Paul III	Pontificate Romanum			GBP -	52.00
92	Henry Peacham	The art of drawing with the pen		1606	GBP -	10.00
93	Henry Peacham	The compleat gentleman . . . the gentlemans exercise		1661	GBP -	12.00
94	F. Petrarch	Il Petrarcha			GBP -	24.00
95	Caius Plinius Secundus	Naturalis historiae libri xxxvii e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari . . .	Venice	1525	GBP -	26.00
96	J. A. P. Pompadour	Memoires . . . ecrits par elle-meme	Liege	1766	GBP -	24.00
97	John Preston	The Saints Daily Exercise: A treatise			GBP -	8.00
98	C. T. Rango	De capillamentis seu vulgo Parucquen	Magdeburg	1663	GBP -	9.00
99	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene			GBP -	12.00
100	Christofer Syms	An introduction to . . . the Latine speach			GBP -	55.00

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