Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FINE BINDINGS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS COMPRISING The Property of Rt. Hon. Lord Northbourne The Property of Mrs. H. A. Ridley The Property of Maj.-Gen. J. H. T. Priestman, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. The Property of the late Hugh Gledhill, Esq. formerly of St. John's College, Oxford AND Other Properties., ORE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 29, 1957 - July 29, 1957
Page Size: 672 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
191 Amici (Domenico) Nuovo Raccolta della Vedute

GBP - 9.00
192 [Merigot (J.)] A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome

1827

GBP - 58.00
193 ROSSINI (LUIGI) Le Antichita Romane Rome

1829

GBP - 90.00
194 Borghesi (G.) Le Principali Vedute di Venezia Venice

GBP - 26.00
195 Moro (M.) and J. Rebellato Das malerische Venice

1857

GBP - 20.00
196 Lund (F. C.) [Danske Nationaldragter] Copenhagen

1890

GBP - 10.00
197 Gille Paris

1808

GBP - 5.00
198 VERSAILLES Paris

GBP - 48.00
199 Eckert (H. A.) Das deutsche Bundesheer in characteristischen Gruppen entworfen und gezeichnet [Wurzburg]

[1838-43]

GBP - 22.00
200 Deveria (Eugene) Costumes de la Vallee d'Ossau

1844

GBP - 14.00
201 Maygrier (J. L.) Nuevas Demostraciones de lose Par tos Paris and Mexico

1828

GBP - 1.00
202 Badger (Mrs C. M.) Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden New York

1867

GBP - 28.00
203 [Jones (Col. Wm. D.)] Records of the Royal Military Academy

1851

GBP - 5.00
204 Ammon (Dr F. R. von) Klinische Darstellungen der Krankheiten und Bildungsfehler des menschlichen auges

1838

GBP - 9.00
205 [Marie Theresa (Queen)] Erb-Huldigung Vienna

[1740]

GBP - 9.00
206 Pettenkoffer (A.) und A. Strassgschwandtner Die k. k Vienna

[1850]

GBP - 19.00
207 CHORALE

GBP - 26.00
208 Munchener Bilderbogen

GBP - 4.00
209 Morton (John) The Natural History of Northampton-shire

1712

GBP - 3.00
210 Thoresby (Ralph) Yorkshire and Lancashire

1872-76

GBP - 2.00
211 Barrow (J. C.) Picturesque Views of Churches and other Buildings

1791

GBP - 1.00
212 Farington (Joseph) Views of the Lakes

1789

GBP - 3.00
213 Knipe (I. A.) Grampian Mountains from the Summit of Ben Cleuch

GBP - 1.00
214 FRANKLAND (SIR ROBERT, Author of "Indispensable Accomplishments," 1811) WATER-COLOUR

GBP - 6.00
215 Richardson (Thomas M., senior and junior) Sketches at Shotley Bridge Spa

GBP - 4.00
216 Prout (Samuel) Fac Similes of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany

GBP - 58.00
217 Condy (Nicholas) and F. V. J. Arundell Cothele

GBP - 17.00
218 Greenwood (C and J.) Atlas of the Counties of England

1834

GBP - 2.50
219 Palmer (Samuel) An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil

1883

GBP - 1.00
220 [Farewell (James)] The Irish Hudibras

GBP - 5.50
221 Ruskin (J.) Kelmscott Press

1892

GBP - 4.00
222 Wycherley (W.) Works

1713

GBP - 5.00
223 Atlases

1776-77

GBP - 9.00
224 Voragine (Jacobus de) Kelmscott Press

1892

GBP - 13.00
225 Lavater (J. C.) Essays on physiognomy

1789

USD - Not Sold
226 BUCK (SAMUEL AND NATHANIEL) VIEWS OF ANTIQUITIES in England and Wales

1720-42

GBP - 26.00
227 Cook's Voyages

[1784]

GBP - 13.00
228 Cotton (Sir Robert) Abridgement of the Parliamentary Records in the Tower of London

GBP - 9.00
229 Dugdale (Sir William) The history of imbanking and draining

1772

GBP - 7.00
230 HOLBEIN (HANS) IMITATIONS OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

1792

GBP - 65.00
231 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) KELMSCOTT PRESS

1896

GBP - 185.00
232 King (Daniel) The Vale-Royall of England (wanting printed title)

1656

GBP - 5.00
233 Kitchin (T.) and others A general atlas describing the whole universe

1787

GBP - 18.00
234 LEONARDO DA VINCI Paris

1881-91

GBP - 55.00
235 Ludolphus (Job)

1682

GBP - 9.00
236 Raleigh (Sir Walter) The history of the world

1652

GBP - 8.00
237 COMMONPLACE-BOOK

GBP - 4.50
238 NOUVELLE COLLECTION de Costumes Suisses

1821

GBP - 20.00
239 CURTIS (WILLIAM) The Botanical Magazine

1793-1819

GBP - 68.00
240 Miller (John) An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus

1794-89

GBP - 4.00
241 Flora Medica

1829-30

GBP - 2.00
242 Cobbett (William) Gardening and Cookery

GBP - 8.50
243 Lowe (E. J.) Ferns

GBP - 2.00
244 Buffon (G.-L. L., comte de) Oeuvres completes Paris

1845

GBP - 5.00
245 Gervais (H.) and R. Boulart Les Poissons Paris

1877

GBP - 22.00
246 (Adolf Friedrich, Duke of) Mecklenburg Leipzig

1911-27

GBP - 28.00
247 Volckamer (Johann Georg) Flora Noribergensis Nuremberg

1718

GBP - 2.00
248 Ferrari (Giovanni Battista) Flora seu de Florum Cultura Lib. IV Amsterdam

1664

GBP - 2.00
249 Rapin (Rene) Hortorum Libri IV [Poem] Paris

1665

GBP - 4.00
250 REDOUTE (PIERRE JOSEPH) AND AUGUSTIN PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE PLANTARUM SUCCULENTARUM HISTORIA Paris

1799-c.1805

GBP - 32.00
251 Maund (B.) The Botanic Garden

1827-39

GBP - 32.00
252 Morris (Maria, afterwards Mrs. Miller) Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia [First Series] Halifax

1840-66

GBP - 32.00
253 LINDEN (J.) LUCIEN LINDEN Ghent

1891-97

GBP - 110.00
254 Lechner (A. A. van Pelt) "Oologia Neerlandica."

1910-13

GBP - 15.00
255 Castelnau (Comte Francis de) Animaux Nouveaux ou Rares recueillis pendant l'Expedition dans les Parties Centrales de l'Amerique du Sud Paris

1855

GBP - 9.00
255A Jenkins (James) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies from 1799 to 1815

1834

GBP - 32.00
255B Seitz (Adalbert) The Macrolepidoptera of the World Stuttgart

[1909] -1914

GBP - 26.00
256 Joblot Paris

1754

GBP - 6.00
257 Schaeffer (Jacob Christian) Piscium Bavarica-Ratisbonensium Pentas Ratisbon

1761

GBP - 2.50
258 DURELLI (ANTONIO) RACCOLTA DI DIVERSI COSTUMI Religiosi

1824

GBP - 4.00
259 [Mayer (Luigi)] Eleven Coloured Plates from "Views in the Ottoman Dominions"

GBP - 1.50
260 Costume Paris

1827

GBP - 1.00
261 Costume

GBP - 1.50
262 Galerie Royale de Costumes Paris

[1842-48]

GBP - 19.00
263 Costume

GBP - 30.00
264 Fashion Plates

1827-36

GBP - 9.00
265 TEXTILE FABRICS

GBP - 6.00
266 TEXTILE FABRICS

GBP - 7.00
266A TEXTILE FABRICS

GBP - 11.00
267 Ruellius (Joannes) De Natura Stirpium Libri Tres Basle

1543

GBP - 12.00
268 Pena (Petrus) and Matthias de l'Obel Stirpium Adversaria Nova

1570-71

GBP - 28.00
269 Clusius (Carolus) Exoticorum Libri Decem [Antwerp]

1605

GBP - 12.00
270 L'Obel (Matthias de) In G. Rondelletii

1605

GBP - 28.00
271 Zanoni (Giacomo) Istoria Botanica Bologna

1675

GBP - 6.00
272 Lonicerus (Adamus) Kreuterbuch Naunhof bei Leipzig

1934

GBP - 7.50
273 Wawra (Heinrich) Botanische Ergebnisse der Reise seiner Majestat des Kaisers von Mexico Maximilian I nach Brasilien (1859-60) Vienna

1866

GBP - 20.00
274 SCHLEGEL (H.) AND G. F. WESTERMAN DE TOERAKO'S Amsterdam

1860

GBP - 45.00
275 Blaauw (F. E.) A Monograph of the Cranes Leyden

1897

GBP - 32.00
276 Sowerby (James de Carle) and Edward Lear Tortoises

1872

GBP - 42.00
277 Cervantes (M. de) Don Quixote

1908

GBP - 0.50
278 CURTIS (W.) THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE

1793-1828

GBP - 42.00
279 Florist (The)

1857-70

GBP - 2.50
280 Florist (The)

GBP - 7.00
281 GUARINI (GIAMBATISTA) IL PASTOR FIDO Paris

1782

GBP - 55.00
282 Loudon (J. C.) Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum

1844

GBP - 1.00
283 Notable British Trials

1911-35

GBP - 15.00
284 Shakespeare's England Oxford

1916

GBP - 1.50
285 Sowerby (J. and J. E.) English Botany

1902

GBP - 3.50
286 Stephenson (J.) and J. M. Churchill Medical Botany

1831

GBP - 9.00
287 Irmisch (T.) Beitrage Biologie und Morphologie der Orchideen

GBP - 14.00
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