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Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, SEAL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 25, 1956 - June 25, 1956
Page Size: 799 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
302 [Farquhar (George)] The Beaux Stratagem

1755

GBP - 8.00
303 Langbaine (Gerard) An Account of the English Dramatick Poets Oxford

1691

GBP - 13.00
304 Otway (Thomas) Venice Preserv'd

1682

GBP - 1.00
305 [ROXAS DE LA PUEBLA DE MONTALVAN (FERNANDO DE)] The Spanish Bawd

1631

GBP - 30.00
306 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Tragedie of Macbeth

[1632]

GBP - 7.00
307 SLOANE (SIR HANS) A Voyage to the Islands Madera

1707-25

GBP - 46.00
308 [STEVENSON (WILLIAM) OR JOHN STILL] A RIGHT PITHY

1661

GBP - 90.00
309 WELCH EMBASSADOUR (THE)

GBP - 58.00
310 Wycherley (William) Love in a Wood

1672

GBP - 10.00
311 Wycherley (William) The Country-Wife

1675

GBP - 34.00
312 Wycherley (William) The Plain-Dealer

1677

GBP - 5.00
313 LATIMER (HUGH) The fyrste Sermon

GBP - 32.00
314 [Pilkington. (James, Bishop of Durham)] The Burnynge of Paules Church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561

[10th March, 1563]

GBP - 9.00
315 Hunt (Robert) Researches on Light

GBP - 6.00
316 Boyle (Robert) New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall Oxford

1660

GBP - 13.00
317 Freart (Roland) An Idea of the Perfection of Painting

1668

GBP - 5.00
318 Petty (Sir William) Political Arithmetick

1691

GBP - 7.00
319 Alchemy

1698

GBP - 16.00
320 Aristotle Manual of Choice Secrets

1699

GBP - 38.00
321 [Kornmann (H.)] Sibylla Trig-andriana

GBP - 4.00
322 Sutton (Christopher) Godly Meditations upon the most Holy Sacrament

1635

GBP - 5.00
323 [Raynal (G. T., Abbe)] The Sentiments of a Foreigner on the Disputes of Great-Britain with America Belfast

1775

GBP - 5.00
324 Carr (Daniel L.) and Joseph P. Brown Mfantsi Grammar Cape Coast

1868

GBP - 16.00
325 Warder (Joseph) The True Amazons

1743

GBP - 3.00
326 Horace Opera

1749

GBP - 10.00
327 [COLERIDGE (S. T.)] The Elements of Euclid Edinburgh

1775

USD - Not Sold
328 MECHANICAL MANIPULATION

[c. 1850]

GBP - 4.00
329 SCIENCE NOTE-BOOK

[c. 1849-54]

GBP - 3.00
330 Braim (T. H.) New Homes in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand

1870

GBP - 4.00
331 STANBRIDGE (JOHN) ACCIDENTIA ex stabrigiana editione nuper recognita et castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissima Oxoniensi academia laureati

[13 June], 1521

GBP - 1,300.00
332 Legh (Gerard) The Accedens of Armory

1568

GBP - 1.00
333 Huarte Navarro (Juan de Dios) Examen de Ingenios

1594

GBP - 24.00
334 James I (King) Daemonologie

1603

GBP - 24.00
335 Montagu (Walter) Miscellanea Spiritualia

GBP - 4.00
336 Elizabeth I (Queen) Speech to her last Parliament

[? 1601]

GBP - 8.00
337 CORYATE (THOMAS) Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells

1611

GBP - 34.00
337A Milton (John) CIVIL WAR

1640-43

GBP - 62.00
338 Power (Henry) Experimental Philosophy

1664

GBP - 22.00
339 Form of Prayer (A) and Thanksgiving to Almighty God

GBP - 3.00
340 [Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of)] To all Gentlemen

GBP - 8.00
341 Evelyn (John) Silva

1776

GBP - 1.00
342 THE GRETE HERBALL which geueth parfyt knowlege and under

GBP - 400.00
343 BRANDT (SEBASTIAN) STULTIFERA NAVIS

1570

GBP - 60.00
344 Le Roy (Louis) Of the Interchangeable Course

1594

GBP - 30.00
345 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes

1598

GBP - 30.00
346 Hale (Sir Matthew) The Primitive Origination of Mankind

1677

GBP - 16.00
347 Bible Oxford

1680

GBP - 5.00
348 Angelo (D.) The School of Fencing

1765

GBP - 13.00
349 Boccaccio (G.) The tragedies gathered by Jhon Bochas of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune

[c. 1555]

GBP - 34.00
350 Clavell (John) A recantation of an ill led life or a discoverie of the high-way law [in verse] third edition

1634

GBP - 13.00
351 [Cleveland (John)] The character of a London diurnall

1647

GBP - 8.00
352 Colonne (Guido delle) The auncient and onely ttrewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans

1555

GBP - 38.00
353 Daniel (Samuel) The Works

GBP - 55.00
354 Davenant (Sir William) Poems upon his sacred majesties most happy return to his dominions

1660

GBP - 26.00
355 Du Bartas (Guillaume de Saluste) His divine Weekes and Workes

1605-06-07

GBP - 11.00
356 Elegie (An) on the most reverend father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

1644

GBP - 8.00
357 Fleming (Robert) The Mirrour of divine love unvail'd in a poetical paraphrase of the high and mysterious song of Solomon

1691

GBP - 13.00
358 Fletcher (Phineas) Sicelides

1631

GBP - 9.00
359 Gigantomaxia

1682

GBP - 20.00
360 Gower (John) De confessione amantis

1554

GBP - 38.00
361 Gratius Faliscus Cynegeticon or a poem on hunting

1654

GBP - 8.00
362 Heywood (Thomas) Pleasant Dialogues and Drammas

1637

GBP - 5.00
363 JORDAN (THOMAS) Pictures of Passions

1641

GBP - 52.00
364 Lyly (John) Sixe Court Comedies

1632

GBP - 12.00
365 Maxwell (James) A monument of remembrance erected in Albion in honor of the magnificent departure from Britannie

1613

GBP - 20.00
366 [May (Thomas)] The victorious reigne of King Edward the third [in verse]

1635

GBP - 9.00
367 [Francis Willis and others] Miscellany Poems and translations by Oxford hands Oxford

1685

GBP - 16.00
368 Ovid All Ovid's Elegies

GBP - 65.00
369 Ovid Tristia

1672

GBP - 9.00
370 Poets (The) Complaint

1682

GBP - 32.00
371 [Prior (Matthew) and Montagu, Earl of Halifax] The Hind and the panther transvers'd to the story of the country mouse and the city mouse

1687

GBP - 5.00
372 Quaesumus te

1660

GBP - 11.00
373 Reasonable (A) Motion in the behalf of such of the clergie as are now questioned in parliament

1641

GBP - 7.00
374 [Rowley (Samuel)] The noble souldier

1634

GBP - 4.00
375 [Sandys (George)] Christs Passion a Tragedy with annotations [translated from the Latin of Hugo Grotius in verse]

1640

GBP - 16.00
376 Scandalum Magnatum

1682

GBP - 8.00
377 [Sherman (Thomas)] Youths Tragedy

1671

GBP - 2.00
378 Shotterel (Robert) and Thomas Durfey Archerie reviv'd

1676

GBP - 19.00
379 Speed (Samuel) Prison-Pietie

1677

GBP - 10.00
380 Stirry (Thomas) A rot amongst the bishops

1641

GBP - 29.00
381 Stuart (George) A Joco-serious discourse in two dialogues between a Northumberland Gentleman and his tenant a Scotchman [in verse]

1686

GBP - 34.00
382 Temple (the) of death

1695

GBP - 15.00
383 Theocritus The Idylliums of Theocritus Oxford

1684

GBP - 3.00
384 Thorius (Raphael) Hymnus Tabaci

1651

GBP - 10.00
385 Vaughan (William) The Church Militant

1640

GBP - 4.00
386 Waller (Edmund) Poems

1645-90

GBP - 10.00
387 Watts (Richard) The younge mans looking glasse

1641

GBP - 38.00
388 Whitehall (John) Miscellaneous Poems

1685

GBP - 9.00
389 [Willis (R.)] Mount Tabor

1639

GBP - 17.00
390 Wither (George) Opobalsamum Anglicanum

1646

GBP - 22.00
391 Wither (George) A paraphrase on the ten commandments in divine poems

1697

GBP - 19.00
392 [Wood (Thomas)] Juvenalis Redivivus

1683

GBP - 9.00
393 Wortley (Sir Francis) Characters and Elegies

GBP - 10.00
394 [Zouch (Richard)] The sophister a comedy

1639

GBP - 13.00
395 Egan (Pierce) The Life of an Actor

GBP - 6.00
396 Dibdin (Rev. T. F.) The Bibliographical Decameron

GBP - 19.00
397 [Hughes (Thomas, Judge)] Tom Brown at Oxford Cambridge

1861

GBP - 2.00
398 [Steele (Sir Richard) and Joseph Addison] The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

GBP - 7.00
399 [Dodgson (C. L.)] "Lewis Carroll."

GBP - 5.00
400 [Dodgson (C. L.)] "Lewis Carroll."

1889

GBP - 3.00
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