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
201 Mundy (Major-General) The Life and Correspondence of the late Admiral Lord Rodney

GBP - 5.50
202 Muratori (L. A.) A Relation of the Missions of Paraguay

1759

GBP - 6.00
203 Mure (Wm.) A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece

GBP - 7.50
204 Musical (The) Miscellany

GBP - 15.00
205 Musical (The) Miscellany

1829-31

GBP - 16.00
206 Napier (W. F. P.) History of the War in the Peninsula

1829-40

GBP - 4.50
207 Nicolas (Sir N. H.) A History of the Royal Navy

GBP - 9.00
208 O'Brien (Henry) The Round Towers of Ireland

GBP - 4.50
209 [Oldmixon (J.)] The British Empire in North America

1741

GBP - 9.00
210 Oliver (Stephen) Rambles in Northumberland

GBP - 5.00
211 O'Neil (A.) A Dictionary of Spanish Painters

GBP - 8.50
212 Pardoe Louis XIV and the Court of France

1847

GBP - 5.50
213 Paris (T. C.) Letters from the Pyrenees

GBP - 2.25
214 Parker (H. W.) Van Diemen's Land

GBP - 28.00
215 Parkman (F.) History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac

GBP - 28.00
216 Passavant (M.) Tour of a German Artist in England

GBP - 3.50
217 Penn (Granville) Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn

GBP - 6.50
218 Pepys (S.) Diary

GBP - 6.00
219 Percy (Bishop Thomas) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

GBP - 5.00
220 Pettigrew (T. J.) Memoirs of Lord Nelson

GBP - 12.00
221 Plutarch Lives

1826

GBP - 4.00
222 Poole (John) Phineas Quiddy

GBP - 6.50
223 Pope (Alexander) Works

1817-24

GBP - 17.00
224 Poulson (George) Beverlac

1829

GBP - 2.00
225 Prescott (W. H.) [Historical Works]

1844-55

GBP - 4.50
226 Prinsep (Mrs. A.) The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land

GBP - 32.00
227 Radcliffe (Anne) [Works]

GBP - 11.00
228 Ranke (L.) The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes

GBP - 10.50
229 Ranke (L.) History of the Reformation in Germany

GBP - 6.00
230 Raumer (F. von) England in 1835

GBP - 6.00
231 [Rigby (E.)] A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic

GBP - 7.00
232 Robinson (H. B.) Memoirs of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Picton

GBP - 7.50
233 Robinson (Mary) Memoirs of the late Mr. Robinson written by herself

1801

GBP - 14.00
234 Roby (J.) Traditions of Lancashire

1829-31

GBP - 3.50
235 Roby (J.) Traditions of Lancashire

1829-31

GBP - 4.50
236 Rogers (Samuel) Italy

GBP - 2.00
237 Roscoe (Thomas) The Italian Novelists

GBP - 7.50
238 Roscoe (Wm.) The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

GBP - 7.00
239 Ross (Sir John) Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez

GBP - 9.00
240 Sarrazin (General) History of the War in Spain and Portugal

GBP - 6.50
241 [Schindler (A.)] The Life of Beethoven

1841

GBP - 2.50
242 Scoresby (W.) The Whaleman's Adventures in the Southern Ocean

GBP - 19.00
243 [Edited by J. Ritson] Scotish Songs

GBP - 4.00
244 [Scott (Michael)] Tom Cringle's Log

GBP - 5.50
245 Scott (Sir Walter) Poetical Works

1825-27

GBP - 9.00
246 Scott (Walter) [Works in Prose] Edinburgh

1819-33

GBP - 13.00
247 Scott (Sir Walter) The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

GBP - 8.50
248 Scrope (William) The Art of Deer-Stalking

GBP - 8.00
249 Sedley (Sir Charles) Works in Prose and Verse

GBP - 15.00
250 Shakespeare (Wm.) Works

[1767-68]

GBP - 16.00
251 Shakespeare (Wm.) Works

1844-43

GBP - 15.00
252 Shakespeare (Wm.) Works

GBP - 11.00
253 Shakespeare (Wm.) The Plays and Poems

1821

GBP - 35.00
254 Shelley (P. B.) Poetical Works

1839

GBP - 6.00
255 [Shelley (P. B.)] History of a six weeks tour through a part of France

1817

GBP - 5.00
256 Shelley (P. B.) Queen Mab

GBP - 2.00
257 Sheridan (R. B.) Works

GBP - 5.50
258 Smedley (Frank) Harry Coverdale's Courtship

GBP - 9.00
259 Soames (Henry) The History of the Reformation of the Church of England

GBP - 5.00
260 Southey (Robert) Poetical Works

GBP - 8.00
261 Spenser (Edmund) Works

1862

GBP - 11.00
262 Stanhope (Lady Hester) Travels

GBP - 9.50
263 Stephen (Sir James) Lectures on the History of France

GBP - 6.50
264 Sterne (Lawrence) Works

1808

GBP - 3.00
265 Stevens (G. A.) Songs Comic and Satyrical

GBP - 8.00
266 Stone (W. L.) Life of Joseph Brant New York

1838

GBP - 4.50
267 Strickland (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England

1852

GBP - 13.00
268 Surtees (R. S.) Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds

1846

GBP - 6.00
269 Swift (Dean J.) Works Edinburgh

1824

GBP - 12.00
270 Sykes (John) Local Records

GBP - 4.00
271 Taylor (W. C.) Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth

GBP - 7.00
272 [Tennent (J. E.)] Letters from the Aegean

GBP - 14.00
273 Thackeray (W. M.) Mrs. Perkins's Ball

1846-42-47

GBP - 4.00
274 Thirlwall (Connop) The History of Greece

1845-52

GBP - 6.00
275 Thoresby (Ralph) Diary

GBP - 6.00
276 Thoresby (Ralph) Diary

GBP - 5.50
277 Ticknor (G.) History of Spanish Literature

GBP - 13.00
278 Tone (T. W.) Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone

GBP - 8.50
279 Trollope (Frances) The Vicar of Wrexhill

GBP - 14.00
280 Tucker (J. S.) Memoirs of Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent

GBP - 12.00
281 Turner (Sharon) The History of England

1820-29

GBP - 6.50
282 Twiss (H.) The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon

GBP - 8.00
283 Tytler (P. F.) History of Scotland

1845

GBP - 4.50
284 Vaughan (R.) Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty

GBP - 5.50
285 Vaughan (Robert) The Life and Opinion of John de Wycliffe

GBP - 8.50
286 Virgil Opera Oxford

1830

GBP - 6.00
287 Wace (Master) His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou

1837

GBP - 13.00
288 Walpole (Horace) A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors

1805

GBP - 6.00
289 Walpole (Horace) Anecdotes of Painting in England

1826-28

GBP - 4.00
290 [Walpole (H.)] The Castle of Otranto

GBP - 9.50
291 Walpole (Horace) Letters to Sir Horace Mann

1833-44

GBP - 7.00
292 Walpole (Horace) Memoirs of the Reign of King George the third

GBP - 6.00
293 Walton (I.) and C. Cotton The Complete Angler

1836

GBP - 10.00
294 Watkins (J.) Life

GBP - 10.00
295 Wellington (Duke of) The Dispatches

1837-38

GBP - 7.50
296 White (Gilbert) The Natural History of Selborne

GBP - 4.50
297 Wilkinson (Sir G.) Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians

GBP - 9.00
298 Williamson (Peter) Travels Among the different Nations and Tribes of Savage Indians in America Edinburgh

1768

GBP - 13.00
299 Wood (John) An Essay towards a Description of Bath

GBP - 6.00
300 Wordsworth (C.) Ecclesiastical Biography

GBP - 6.00
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