Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, SEAL,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 1956 - June 25, 1956
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 598 | Chastelux (Francois Jean, Marquis de) | Voyage en Amerique | n. p., 1785 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 599 | Digges (Dudley) | The Unlawful- nesse of Subjects taking up Armes against their Soveraigne | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 600 | [Cox (Nicholas)] | The Gentleman's Recreation: in Four Parts | [1677] |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 601 | Girard (Berard de) | Le Trespas du treschrestien Roy de France Henry II [in verse] | Paris | 1559 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 602 | Grunbeck (Joseph) | Speculum Naturalis Coelestis et Propheticae Visionis | Nuremberg | [26th Oct.]1508 |
GBP - | 12.00 |
| 603 | [H]ORTUS SANITATIS | De Herbis et Plantis | Strassburg | not after 21st Oct. 1497 |
GBP - | 120.00 |
| 604 | Joachim (Abbot) | Re[ve]lationes super Statum [sic] sumorum Pontificum Romane Ecclesie | Venice | c. 1505-1527 |
GBP - | 26.00 |
| 605 | Mela (Pomponius) | Cosmographia sive de Situ Orbis | Venice | 1478 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 606 | Paule (Sir George) | The Life of John Whitgift | 1612 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 607 | [Rojas (Fernando de)] | Celestina | Venice | Nov., 1525 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 608 | Stimmer (Tobias) and Christoff Maurer | Kunstliche wolgerissene Figuren und Abbildunge etlicher Jagdbaren Thieren | Strassburg | 1605 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 609 | Usher (James, Archbishop of Armagh) | A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish and British [S.T.C., 24549] | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 610 | W[OLLEY (C[HARLES]) | A TWO YEARS JOURNAL IN NEW YORK: and Part of its Territories in America | 1701 |
GBP - | 440.00 | |
| 611 | [Coustumier de Normandie] | Rouen | 1494 or later |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 612 | GAGUIN (ROBERT) | COMPENDIUM SUPER FRANCORUM GESTIS | Paris | 1507 |
GBP - | 75.00 |
| 613 | Homer | [Opera Omnia (Greek)] | Venice | April 1524 |
GBP - | 30.00 |
| 614 | [Hurtado de Mendoza (Diego)] | La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes | Milan | 1587 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 615 | Vemulaeus (Nicolaus) | Henricus Octavus | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 616 | [CHARLES V (Emperor)] VALDES (Alfonso de) | Pro divo Carolo | GBP - | 50.00 | ||
| 617 | Salomon Ben Abraham of Urbino | Ohel Mo'ed [The Tent of Assignation (in Hebrew)] | Venice | 1548 |
GBP - | 17.00 |
| 618 | Azaria Ben Moise de Rossi | Meor Eynaim [The Light of the Eyes (in Hebrew)] | Mantua | 1574 |
GBP - | 15.00 |
| 619 | MONARDES (NICOLAS) | PRIMERA Y SEGUNDA Y TERCERA PARTES DE LA HISTORIA MEDICINAL de las Cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que siruen en Medicina | Seville | 1574 |
GBP - | 10.00 |
| 620 | Apianus (Petrus) | Libro de la Cosmographia | Antwerp | 1548 |
GBP - | 10.00 |
| 621 | GALVANI (LUIGI) | De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius | Modena | 1792 |
GBP - | 56.00 |
| 622 | NUNEZ (HERNAN) | Refranes | Salamanca | 1555 |
GBP - | 24.00 |
| 623 | Carrera (Pietro) Il Gioco de gli Scacchi | FIRST EDITION | 1617 |
GBP - | 28.00 | |
| 624 | Hippocrates. | Omnia Opera | Venice | May 1526 |
GBP - | 24.00 |
| 625 | Herodotus. | Libri Novem quibus Musarum indita sunt Nomina | Venice | Sept., 1502 |
GBP - | 46.00 |
| 626 | Pausanias | [Descriptio Graeciae], | Venice | July, 1516 |
GBP - | 28.00 |
| 627 | Thucydides | [De Bello Peloponnesiaco Lib VIII, etc.], | Venice | May, 1502 |
GBP - | 38.00 |
| 628 | Solennis Repetitio novissime Legis Centurio | Lyons | 17th Jan., 1518 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 629 | VITRUVIUS | Como | 15th July, 1521 |
GBP - | 72.00 | |
| 630 | COPIA contractus grani unius empti per Magistrum D. Bernardum Ferrerium a Magistro D. Paulo eius fratre | Palermo, c | 1572 |
GBP - | 115.00 | |
| 631 | [TENNGLER (ULRICH)] | Der neu Layenspiegel von rechtmassigen Ordnungen in burgerlichen und peinlichen Regimenten | GBP - | 20.00 | ||
| 632 | PONTUS AND SIDONIA | Von Adelischen Mannlichen Tugenten | Augsburg | 1548 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 633 | Agricola (Georgius) | De Re Metallica Libri XII | Froben | 1561 |
GBP - | 38.00 |
| 634 | Cardan (Hieronymus) | Opus Novum de Proportionibus Numer- orum | Basle | 1570 |
GBP - | 24.00 |
| 635 | Fabris (Salvatore) | De lo Schermo overo Scienza d'Arme | Copenhagen | 1606 |
GBP - | 40.00 |
| 636 | Reyner (Clement) | Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia | Douai | 1626 |
GBP - | 10.00 |
| 637 | Haller (Albert von) | Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Helvetiae Indigenarum | Gottingen | 1742 |
GBP - | 12.00 |
| 638 | Vaillant (Sebastien) | Botanicon Parisiense ou Denombrement par Ordre Alphabetique des Plantes | Leyden and Amsterdam | 1727 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 639 | Castiglioni Collection | Vienna | 1923 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 640 | ALVA (Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Due d') | L. s., Bruxelles | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 641 | AUGUSTUS III, King of Saxony | Doc.s. | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 642 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | DRAFT A.L. | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 643 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | Auto | Leipzig | 13th Dec., 53 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 644 | BIOT (JEAN BAPTISTE, 1774-1862, French scientist) | Fine A.L.s. | Paris | 1816 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 645 | BISMARCK (PRINCE QTTO VON) | A.L.s. | Berlin | 20 Dec, [18]75 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 646 | BRUNEL (Sir MARC ISAMBARD) | Fine A.L.s. | 20 July, [18]29 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 647 | BUSSY RABUTIN (Roger, comte de, author of the "Histoire amoureuse des Gaules") | Doc.s. | 8 June 1648 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 647A | ELGAR (SIR EDWARD) | A.L.s. | Hereford | 5 April, 1906 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 648 | FLAUBERT (GUSTAVE) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 15.00 | ||
| 649 | HAECKEL (ERNST HEINRICH, Germam Naturalist) | A.L.s. | Jena | 29.4.1905 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 650 | HARTMANN (KARL ROBERT EDUARD VON, German Philosopher, 1842-1906) | Auto | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 651 | LEONCAVALLO (RUGGIERO) | A.L.s. | [produced 1904] |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 652 | [LEOPOLD I (Emperor)] | Contemporary Copies of his correspondence | 1701-4 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 653 | LICHTENBERG (GEORG-CHRISTOPH, 1742-99, German physicist and satirist) | Fine and Long A.L.s. | Gottingen | 25 August, 1777 |
GBP - | 22.00 |
| 654 | LIND (JENNY) | A.L.s. | Vienna | 17 March, 1847 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 655 | LITERARY | GBP - | 14.00 | |||
| 656 | Louis XVI, King of France | Doc.s. | Paris | 16 Oct., 1791 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 657 | MAHLER (GUSTAV) | A.L.s. | [dated Nov., 1894, in another hand] |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 658 | MANET (EDOUARD) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 659 | MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (FELIX) | A.L.s. | Berlin | 4 Jan., 1842 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 660 | MEYERBEER (GIACOMO) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 661 | MOSCHELES (IGNAZ) | 2 A. Ls. s. to Maurice Schlesinger | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 662 | NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, Admiral) | FINE A.L.s. | London | August, 1805 |
GBP - | 26.00 |
| 663 | NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, Admiral) | A.L.s. (with his right hand) | GBP - | 20.00 | ||
| 664 | O'CONNELL (DANIEL, Irish statesman) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 665 | PIERCE (FRANKLIN, President of the U.S.A.) | Doc.s. | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 666 | PRIVY COUNCIL LETTER | Richmond | 20 December. 1586 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 667 | ROTHSCHILD (MAYER AMSHE; FILE) | L. s. relating to Treasury Bills | GBP - | 30.00 | ||
| 668 | STRAUSS (JOHANN) | A.L.s. mentioning his opera "Ritter Pasman" | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 669 | STRAUSS (RICHARD) | Auto. Postcard s. to Frau Professor Lili Bamberger regretting to hear that her husband is ill | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 670 | STRINDBERG (AUGUST) | A.L.s. | [Stockholm] | 27 June, 1909 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 671 | TALBOT (W. H. FOX, pioneer of photography) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 11.00 | ||
| 672 | TURGENIEFF (VAN) | A.L.s. | Baden | 15 Aug., 1866 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 673 | TYNDALL (JOHN, Scientist) | A.L.s. | 2 Sept., 1891 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 674 | TYSON (JOHN, Secretary to Admiral Nelson) | A.L.s. | 23 March, 1800 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 675 | VICTORIA (Queen of England) | Four Etchings executed by the Queen and Prince Albert | (1840-5) |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 676 | WILHELM I, King of Prussia | Doc.s. | 12 March, 1879 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 677 | ZWEIG (STEFAN) | Auto | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 678 | BERLIOZ (HECTOR) | A. L. s | Paris | 25 Dec, 1852 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 679 | GOUNOD (CHARLES) | A.L.s. | 2 Feb., [18]52 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 680 | LISZT (FRANZ) | Amusing A.L.s. | Weymar | 25 Jan., 1860 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
| 681 | WAGNER (RICHARD) | UBER Schauspieler und Sanger | 1872 |
GBP - | 29.00 | |
| 682 | AOSTA. Deed of Sale of Willentus and Martinus | 17 May, 1333 |
GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 683 | MARIA THERESA (Empress) | Doc.s. | Vienna | 24 Avril, 1775 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 684 | LEOPOLD I (Emperor) | Doc.s. | Vienna | 16 January, 1700 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 685 | CHARLES VI (Emperor) | Doc.s. | Vienna | 5 January, 1714 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 686 | OPITZ (MARTIN, 1597, 1639, German poet) | Autograph Sentiment (2 lines) from an Album Amicrum | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 687 | REINHARD (CHARLES, diplomatist) | A.L.s. | Paris | 7 Octobre, 1791 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 688 | EULER (JEAN-ALBERT, astronomer) | A.L.s. | Petersburg | 8 Mai, 1789 |
GBP - | 18.00 |
| 689 | BURKE (EDMUND) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 690 | FRENCH WRITERS | GBP - | 1.00 | |||
| 691 | FOUQUE (FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL DE LA MOTTE, Baron (1777-1843), German romantic writer, author of "Undine") | Holograph poem | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 692 | FREILIGRATH (FERDINAND (1810-76) German revolutionary poet) | Interesting A.L.s. | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 693 | GEIBEL (EMMANUEL, 1815-84, German poet) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 110.00 | ||
| 694 | GRIMM (JACOB LUDWIG CARL, 1785-1863 and WILHELM CARL, 1786-1859, German philologists and mythologists) | A Collection of 12 letters and one memorandum | GBP - | 19.00 | ||
| 695 | ZIMMERMANN (JOHANN GEORG, 1728-95, Swiss philosophical writer and physician) | A.L.s. | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 696 | KOTZEBUE (AUGUST FRIEDRICH FERDINAND VON, 1761-1819, German dramatist) | A Collection of 7 A.Ls.s. | GBP - | 1.00 |
