Sothebys: AN EXTENSIVE LIBRARY OF GENERAL LITERATURE REMARKABLE FOR ITS EXCEPTIONALLY SOUND AND HANDSOME BINDINGS Removed from Arthington Hall, Nr. Leeds The Property of Lt.-Col. A. C. Sheepshanks AND OF A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK WITH SOME BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY OTHER 19th CENTURY ARTISTS & ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY "ALFRED CROWQUILL" The Property of Richard Maddocks, Esq., CROW,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 29, 1951 - October 29, 1951
Page Size: 469 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ABRANTES (Duchess d')Madame Juanot Memoirs,

1831

GBP - 6.00
2 Aikin (Lucy) Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First

GBP - 7.00
3 Alison (Archibald) History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution

1849-50

GBP - 5.50
4 Angas (G. F.) Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand

GBP - 32.00
5 Arabian (The) Nights Entertainments

1811

GBP - 8.50
6 A. Galland Arabian Nights Entertainments

GBP - 8.00
7 translated by E. W. Lane Arabian Nights' Entertainments

GBP - 10.00
8 Asylum (An) for Fugitive Pieces

GBP - 8.00
9 [Austen (Jane)] Mansfield Park

1814

GBP - 9.00
10 [Austen (Jane)] Emma

1816

GBP - 18.00
11 [Austen (Jane)] Northanger Abbey

1818

GBP - 15.00
12 Austen (Jane) Sense and Sensibility

GBP - 7.00
13 Bancroft (George) History of the United States

GBP - 7.50
14 [Barham (R. H.)] The Ingoldsby Legends

GBP - 7.00
15 [Barham (R. H.)] My Cousin Nicholas

GBP - 5.50
16 [Beckford (Wm.)] Popular Tales of the Germans

1791

GBP - 8.00
17 [Beckford (Wm.)] Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast

1796

GBP - 48.00
18 Bell (John) Rhymes of Northern Bards

GBP - 7.00
19 Bewick (T.) A General History of Quadrupeds

GBP - 5.00
20 Bewick (T.) History of British Birds

GBP - 5.00
21 Bonelli (L. H. de) Travels in Bolivia

GBP - 44.00
22 Borrow (George) Romantic Ballads

GBP - 4.00
23 Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson

GBP - 10.00
24 Bremer (Frederika) Works

1843-49

GBP - 6.50
25 Brenton (E. P.) The Naval History of Great Britain

GBP - 5.50
26 Browne (James) A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans

1849-50

GBP - 5.50
27 Buckingham (L. S. F.) Memoirs of Mary Stuart

GBP - 7.00
28 Bullock (W.) Sketch of a Journey through the Western States of North America

GBP - 35.00
29 Bunyan (John) The Pilgrim's Progress

GBP - 7.50
30 Burke (Edmund) Works and Correspondence

1852

GBP - 10.00
31 Burke (E.) An Account of the European Settlements in America

GBP - 15.00
32 Burgon (J. W.) The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham

GBP - 9.00
33 Burnet (Gilbert) The History of the Reformation of the Church of England

1829

GBP - 5.50
34 Burnet (G.) History of his own Time Oxford

1833

GBP - 6.50
35 Burton (J. H.) History of Scotland

GBP - 4.50
36 Byron (Lord) Poetical Works

1839

GBP - 5.00
37 Byroniana

GBP - 66.00
38 Campbell (John, Lord) The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England

1846-47

GBP - 4.50
39 Campbell (Thomas) Frederick the Great

GBP - 10.00
40 Carleton (Wm.) Valentine M'Clutchy

GBP - 3.50
41 Carlyle (Thomas) Collected Works

GBP - 19.00
42 Cavendish (G.) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

GBP - 7.50
43 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

GBP - 11.00
44 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

GBP - 11.00
45 Chalmers (George) The Life of Mary

GBP - 7.00
46 Chandler (R.) The Life' of William Waynflete

GBP - 6.00
47 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales

1830

GBP - 13.00
48 Churchill (Charles) Poetical Works

GBP - 5.00
49 Clarendon (Edward, Earl of) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Oxford

1826

GBP - 9.00
50 Cobbett (Wm.) Paper against Gold

GBP - 6.50
51 Coke (Thomas) Extracts of the Journals of the Rev. Dr. Coke's Five Visits to America

1793

GBP - 7.00
52 Coleridge (S. T.) Poetical Works

GBP - 5.50
53 Coleridge (S. T.) The Statesman's Manual

GBP - 15.00
54 Collier (Jeremy) An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain

1852

GBP - 5.50
55 Collier (J. Payne) The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the time of Shakespeare

1831

GBP - 6.00
56 Collier (J. P.) Shakespeare's Library

GBP - 7.00
57 Comyn (Sir Robert) The History of the Western Empire

GBP - 5.50
58 Cooke (Wm.) Memoirs of Samuel Foote

GBP - 18.00
59 Cooper (J. Fennimore) The Pioneers

GBP - 10.00
60 Cotton (H.) Editions of the Bible and Parts Thereof in English

GBP - 9.00
61 Couper (Robert) Poetry chiefly in the Scottish Language

GBP - 9.00
62 Cowper (William) Poetical Works

1853

GBP - 16.00
63 Cox (Nicholas) The Gentleman's Recreation

1721

GBP - 5.00
64 Coxe (Peter) The Social Day

1823

GBP - 1.50
65 Coxe (Wm.) Memoirs of the Kings of Spain

GBP - 5.50
66 Crabbe (George) Works

1834

GBP - 5.50
67 Cunningham (Allan) The Lives of the most eminent British Painters

1830-33

GBP - 2.50
68 Dampier (Capt. Wm.) The Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas and round the World

GBP - 14.00
69 Davy (Sir H.) Salmonia or Days of Fly Fishing

GBP - 6.00
70 Davy (Sir Humphry) Memoirs of his Life by his brother John Davy

GBP - 7.00
71 Defoe (Daniel) Novels and Miscellaneous Works Oxford

1840-41

GBP - 16.00
72 Defoe (D.) Robinson Crusoe

GBP - 7.50
73 Defoe (D.) Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton

GBP - 8.50
74 Dennistoun (James) Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino

GBP - 4.50
75 De Quincey (Thomas) Confessions of an English Opium Eater

GBP - 20.00
76 Dibdin (T. F.) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland

1838

GBP - 2.00
77 Dibdin (T. F.) Reminiscences of a Literary Life

GBP - 5.50
78 [Dickens (Charles)] Sketches by Boz

1836-37

GBP - 11.00
79 [Dickens (C.)] Oliver Twist

1838

GBP - 3.50
80 Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock

GBP - 9.00
81 Digby (Sir K.) The Broad Stone of Honour

GBP - 9.00
82 Disraeli (B.) A Collection of his Works

1823-50

GBP - 12.00
83 [Dodsley (Robert)] A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays

1852

GBP - 8.00
84 Dryden (John) Dramatick Works

1725

GBP - 8.00
85 Duff (J. G.) A History of the Mahrattas

GBP - 8.50
86 Eboracum or the History and Antiquities of the City of York

GBP - 5.50
87 Eccentric Biography

GBP - 7.00
88 Edgeworth (Maria) Tales and Novels

1832-33

GBP - 7.50
89 Egerton (F.) Journal of a Winter's Tour in India

GBP - 19.00
90 Eliot (George) Silas Marner FIRST EDITION

GBP - 6.50
91 Ellis (George) Specimens of the Early English Poets

GBP - 14.00
92 Elton (C. A.) Specimens of the Classic Poets

GBP - 3.50
93 English Poets

1810

GBP - 36.00
94 Erasmus Moriae Encomium

1709

GBP - 12.00
95 Euripides The Tragedies

GBP - 6.50
96 Fielding (Henry) Works

1821

GBP - 9.00
97 Fielding (Henry) [Novels]

GBP - 42.00
98 Ford (Richard) Gatherings from Spain

GBP - 7.50
99 [Franck (Richard)] The Admirable and Indefatigable Adventures of the Nine Pious Pilgrims

1707

GBP - 30.00
100 Francklin (Wm.) Military Memoirs of Mr. George Thomas

GBP - 5.00
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