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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
388 Grew (Nehemiah) The Anatomy of Plants

1682

GBP - 7.00
389 [Highmore (Nathaniel)] Corporis Humani Disquisitio Anatomica The Hague

1651

GBP - 1.00
390 Riverius (L.) N. Culpeper and A. Cole

USD - Not Sold
391 Baillie (Matthew) The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Body

GBP - 13.00
392 Spachius (Israel) Gynaeciorum sive de Mulierum Strassburg

1597

GBP - 17.00
393 GLASSE (HANNAH) The Art of Cookery made plain and easy

[1747]

GBP - 52.00
394 Hooker (Richard) Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

1622

GBP - 3.50
395 [Sorel (Charles)] The Extravagant Shepherd

1660

GBP - 5.00
396 Virgil

1698

GBP - 3.50
397 Pozzo (Andrea) Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects

1707

GBP - 10.00
397A Kip (John) Britannia Illustrata

1749

GBP - 11.00
398 CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS) The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director

1754

GBP - 38.00
399 Macaroni (A) ASS-Match between the F

1773

GBP - 5.00
400 GOULD (JOHN) THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN

1862-73

GBP - 180.00
401 Ancient Irish Histories Diblin

1809

GBP - 8.00
402 Carlyle (Thomas) The French Revolution

1837

GBP - 32.00
403 Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Friend

1809-10

GBP - 32.00
404 Gaskell (Mrs.) Wives and Daughters

1866

GBP - 2.00
405 Surtees (R. S.) Handley Cross

GBP - 16.00
406 Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels in South Africa

1857

GBP - 1.50
407 Meyer (H. L.) Coloured Illustrations of British Birds and their Eggs

1857

GBP - 9.00
408 Koran (The)

1734

GBP - 4.50
409 Bible

[1838]

GBP - 7.50
410 Humphreys (H. N.) and J. O. Westwood British Butterflies and Moths and their Transformations

1841-45

GBP - 4.00
411 [Phillips (Sir Richard)] Modern London

1805

GBP - 18.00
412 St. Petersburg Souvenirs de St.-Petersbourg

1825

GBP - 9.00
413 Album containing 9 Coloured Plates of Indian Scenery (cut close)

GBP - 4.00
414 Album containing Water-Colour Drawings of Flowers

GBP - 4.00
415 Vigano (Luigi) [Twenty-Three Coloured Lithographic Views of Venice

GBP - 7.00
416 [Batty (E. F.) and C. Heath] The Scenery of Italy

GBP - 1.50
417 Chinese Drawings on Rice-paper

GBP - 22.00
418 Chinese Drawings on Silk

GBP - 3.00
419 Chinese Drawings

GBP - 12.00
420 Noritane (Ninagawa) Kwan Ko setsu

1877-80

GBP - 1.00
421 FLOWER DRAWINGS

GBP - 100.00
422 Chandler (Alfred) and William Beattie Booth Illustrations and Descriptions of the Plants which Compose the Natural Order

1830

GBP - 32.00
423 FLOWER PRINTS

[circa 1800]

GBP - 8.00
424 Charts

1715-26

GBP - 7.00
425 COAST-LINE DRAWINGS

GBP - 100.00
426 MAPS

GBP - 26.00
427 Naval

1903-6

GBP - 3.00
428 Stackelberg (Baron O. M. de) [Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grece Modem] [Paris

c.1835]

GBP - 22.00
429 Album containing 10 Tinted Lithographic Views of Port Leopold

GBP - 2.00
430 Album containing 34 coloured Caricatures by G. Cruikshank, H. Heath and others

GBP - 3.50
431 Robson (George Fennell) Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

1819

GBP - 22.00
432 Simpson (W.) The Seat of War in the East

1855-6

GBP - 0.50
433 Eton Sketch'd a Series of Designs illustrative of an Eton Life

1841

GBP - 4.00
434 Chemar (L.) Domaine Royal a Ardennes-sur la Lesse

1847

GBP - 6.00
435 Alciat (A.) Emblemata

GBP - 5.00
436 ALMANACII ROYAL annee bissextile

GBP - 13.00
437 Parker (George) Almanachs

GBP - 44.00
438 Anacreon

GBP - 4.00
439 Ange (L') conducteur dans la devotion Chretienne

GBP - 6.00
440 Antiquarian (The)

1807

GBP - 3.00
441 Badeslade (T.) and W. H. Toms Chorographia Britanniae

GBP - 15.00
442 Bertius (P.) Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri septem Amsterdam

1616

GBP - 15.50
443 Bertius (P.) Tabulae geographicae contractae Leyden

1618

GBP - 12.00
444 Bible Edinburgh

1772

GBP - 9.00
445 Bible

GBP - 9.00
446 Blome (R.) A series of 39 County maps of England

GBP - 11.00
447 Roncalli (Conte Carlo) Bodoni Press

GBP - 1.50
448 Book of Common Prayer Oxford

1781

GBP - 9.00
449 Burke (J. and J. B.) The extinct and dormant Baronetcies of England

GBP - 12.00
450 Calliope

GBP - 13.00
451 Carriden (W) Britannia

GBP - 9.00
452 Combe (Wm.) The First and Second Tours of Doctor Syntax

1819-20

GBP - 2.50
453 Comber (T.) A companion to the Temple

GBP - 7.00
454 CURTIS (w) The Botanical Magazine

GBP - 16.00
455 De la Serre. L'esprit de Seneque CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BROWN MOROCCO

GBP - 32.00
456 Description (A)

1775

GBP - 3.50
457 Diario Eoclesiastko para o Reino de Portugal para o Anno de 1809 Lisbon

1809

GBP - 11.00
458 Dufrenoy (Mme.) La petite menagere

GBP - 15.00
459 Edwards's Botanical Register

GBP - 7.00
460 Erdeswicke (S.) A Survey of Staffordshire

GBP - 4.50
461 Excursions in the Counties of Kent

1818-22

GBP - 6.00
462 Ferrario (G.) Descrizione della Palestina

1831

GBP - 20.00
463 Hall (S. C.) Ireland

GBP - 3.50
464 Hawkesworth (J.) An account of voyages for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

1785

GBP - 26.00
465 Holbein (H.) The Dance of Death

GBP - 5.00
466 Ignatius of Antioch (St.) Epistolae

GBP - 4.00
467 Ireland (S.) Picturesque views on the River Medway

GBP - 2.00
468 Italy

GBP - 30.00
469 Johnson (S.) The Rambler

GBP - 4.00
470 Justinus

GBP - 4.00
471 Ladies Calling (The)

GBP - 4.00
472 La Fontaine (J. de) Oeuvres Completes

1814

GBP - 8.00
473 Le Keux (J.) Memorials of Cambridge

GBP - 8.00
474 Maps

GBP - 10.00
475 Maps

GBP - 13.00
476 Maps

GBP - 10.00
477 Ortelius (A.) Epitome of his theatre of the world

GBP - 46.00
478 Otway (T.) Works

GBP - 6.00
479 Pass (Crispin de) Liber Genesis

1612

GBP - 8.00
480 Paterson (D.) British itinerary

GBP - 3.00
481 Pauw (C. de) Recherches philosophiques sur les Americains

1770

GBP - 3.00
482 Phaedrus

1718

GBP - 1.50
483 Physionomies Nationales des Peuples

1719

GBP - 14.00
484 Pindar

GBP - 8.00
485 Pocket-book

[c.1790]

GBP - 30.00
486 Psalms

GBP - 5.00
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