Sothebys: THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE BRIDGEWATER LIBRARY Sold by Order of the Rt. Hohble. the Earl of Ellesmere, VINE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 19, 1951 - March 19, 1951
Page Size: 375 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 D'Artagnan D'Artagnan. Memoires Cologne

1701

GBP - 1.25
102 [Defoe (D.)] The History of the Wars of . . . Charles XII

1715

GBP - 1.25
103 [Defoe (D.)] he Secret History of the White-Staff

1714-15

GBP - 15.00
104 Descartes (R.) Meditationes de Prima Philosophia Amsterdam

1642

GBP - 13.00
105 Descartes (R.) Opera Philosophica Amsterdam

1664

GBP - 5.00
106 [Diderot (D.)] Les Bijoux Indiscrets

[1748]

GBP - 4.50
107 [Digby (Sir K.)] Two Treatises Paris

1644

GBP - 30.00
108 Dissertation sur les Nouvelles Reflexions de la Nature de l'Astme

GBP - 3.00
109 [DONNE (J.)] PSEUDO-MARTYR

1610

GBP - 450.00
110 Donne (J.) Biathanatos

1648

GBP - 8.00
111 Dorisus (J.) Curiosae Quaestiones de Ventorum Origine

1646

GBP - 6.00
112 Downame (I.) Consolations for the Afflicted

1613

GBP - 12.00
113 Du Bail. La Cefalie Paris

1637

GBP - 1.00
114 Du Bellay (J.) Oeuvres Rouen

1597

GBP - 6.00
115 [Dugdale (Sir W.)] A Short View of the Late Troubles in England

GBP - 4.50
116 Dumbell (J.) The Commercial Aqueduct

1799

GBP - 18.00
117 Dumont (J.) and J. Rousset Corps Universal Diplomatique du Droit des Gens Amsterdam

1726-39

GBP - 7.50
118 [Du Noyer (Madame)] Lettres Historiques et Galantes

GBP - 5.00
119 Durfe (H.) and Le Sieur Baro L'Astree

1638

GBP - 4.00
120 Eadmer, Monk of Canterbury. . Historiae Novorum . . . Libri VI

1622

GBP - 6.00
121 edited by F. J. Furnivall Early English Text Society. Early English Meals and Manners,

1868

GBP - 5.00
122 Edwards (E.) Memoirs of Libraries

1859

GBP - 11.00
123 Egerton (T. and J.) Theatrical Remembrancer

1788

GBP - 4.00
124 Ellis (Sir H.) A General Introduction to Domesday Book

1833

GBP - 6.50
125 Elsynge (H.) The Ancient and Present Manner of holding Parliaments in England

GBP - 6.00
126 Enderbie (P.) Cambria Triumphans

1661

GBP - 6.00
127 Erasmus (D.) Epitome Chiliadum Adagiorum

1646

GBP - 30.00
128 Exton (J.) The Maritime Dicaeologie

1664

GBP - 22.00
129 Fagel (G.) Sale Catalogue of the Library of

1646

GBP - 2.50
130 Favehtinus (L.) Practica Medicinalis

1646

GBP - 4.50
131 Fernellius (I.) Universa Medicina Frankfort

1592

GBP - 7.00
132 F[ITZHERBERT] (Sir A.) THE NEWE BOKE OF JUSTICES OF THE PEAS

1646

GBP - 520.00
133 Fitzherbert (T.) The First Part of a Treatise concerning Policy

GBP - 6.00
134 FLORIO (J.) FLORIOS SECOND FRUTES

1591

GBP - 400.00
135 FLORIO (J.) A WORLDE OF WORDES

1598

GBP - 360.00
136 FLORIO (J.) Queen Anna's New World of Words

1611

GBP - 42.00
137 Fogg Art Museum. Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings

1927

GBP - 2.00
138 Fontenelle (B. de) Oeuvres

GBP - 1.00
139 Foster (J.) Pedigrees of the County Families of England

GBP - 1.25
140 Frois (L.) Literae Annuse Iaponenses Anni 1591 et 1592 Cologne

1596

GBP - 7.00
141 Galitzin (M.) Prince Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque du Moscow

1866

GBP - 2.50
142 [Garnet (R.)] The Book of Oaths

GBP - 5.00
143 Gassendus (P.) Tychonis Brakei The Hague

1655

GBP - 8.50
144 GENTILIS (Albericus) De Jure Belli Hanover

1598

GBP - 28.00
145 ed. F. Junius et T. Mareschallus Gospels Dordrecht

1665

GBP - 1.25
146 Graaf (R. de) De Virorum Organis Generatione inservientibus Leyden and Rotterdam

1668

GBP - 12.00
147 [Graffigny (Madame de)] Lettres d'une Peruvienne

[? 1747]

GBP - 3.00
148 Gray (T.) Poems

1768

GBP - 1.50
149 Guevara (A. de) Bishop

1619

GBP - 18.00
150 Gunter (E.) Works

1673

GBP - 7.50
151 Gunton (S.) The History of the Church of Peterborough

GBP - 1.00
152 Hailey (C.) Thoroughbred Sires Newmarket

1908

GBP - 4.00
153 Maynarde (T.) Hakluyt Society

1849

GBP - 9.00
154 D'Orleans (P. J.) Hakluyt Society

1855

GBP - 26.00
155 Halliwell [Phillipps] (J. O.) A Dictionary of Old English Plays

1860

GBP - 3.50
156 Handel (G. F.) Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Organ [Op. IV]

GBP - 16.00
157 Harris (J.) Lexicon Technicum

1704

GBP - 8.00
158 [Harvey (G.)] The Conclave of Physicians

GBP - 4.50
159 Hazlitt (W. C.) Hand-Book to Early English Literature

1867-93

GBP - 19.00
160 Hereford (Francis, Bishop of) Annales of England containing the Reignes of Henry VIII

1630

GBP - 6.00
161 Heylyn (P.) A Full Relation of two Journeys

1656

GBP - 5.50
162 Hieronymus (St.) Epistolse

GBP - 3.50
163 Hippocrates Opera Omnia Frankfort

1595

GBP - 4.00
164 [ed. R. Twysden] Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X, Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis, Johannes Prior Hagustaldensis, etc.

1652

GBP - 4.00
165 [Hoddesdon (H.)] A Treatise of the Sinne against the Holy Ghost

1614

GBP - 32.00
166 Hodges (J.) Construction of the Great Victoria Bridge in Canada

1860

GBP - 4.00
167 Hodges (N.) Loimologia

1672

GBP - 10.00
168 Homer Iliads

1660

GBP - 6.50
169 Homer Iliad and Odyssey

1715-26

GBP - 3.50
170 Homer Odysseys

1665

GBP - 1.50
171 Homer Odysses

GBP - 14.00
172 Hooke (R.) Lectiones Cutlerianae

1679

GBP - 88.00
173 Hooker (R.) Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie

1648

GBP - 8.50
174 HORSEMANSHIP

GBP - 52.00
175 HOWELL (J.) LEXICON TETRAGLOTTON

[1659]

GBP - 16.00
176 Hunt (Leigh) Poetical Works

GBP - 2.00
177 Hutton (J.) Dissertations on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy Edinburgh

1792

GBP - 2.50
178 Hutton (T.) The Second and Last Part of Reasons for Refusall of Subscription to the Booke of Common Prayer

GBP - 10.00
179 Hyde (T.) Catalogus Impressorum Librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi Oxford

1674

GBP - 4.50
180 Impartial Inquiry (An) into the Management of the War in Spain

GBP - 4.00
181 Ingratitude (L') Punie Histoire Cyprienne ou Ton void les Avantures d'Orphize Paris

1633

GBP - 2.00
182 Ives (E.) A Voyage from England to India

1773

GBP - 2.00
183 [Jacob (G.)] The Poetical Register

1719-20

GBP - 7.00
184 James (M. R.) The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Cambridge

1900-1904

GBP - 5.00
185 [Jenney (G.)] A Catholike Conference betweene a Protestant and a Papist

GBP - 26.00
186 Jonston (J.) De Quadrupedibus Amsterdam

1657

GBP - 4.50
187 Journal des Scavans (Le) Amsterdam

1685-1702

GBP - 1.00
188 Juvenal Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men,-

1660

GBP - 4.00
189 Keating (G.) A General History of Ireland

1738

GBP - 1.00
190 Keats (J.) Poetical Works

GBP - 2.50
191 [EEPE] (H.) Monumenta Westmonasteriensia

1682

GBP - 3.00
192 King (J.) Cenotaphium Iacobi

GBP - 11.00
193 Rnolles (R.) The Turkish History

1687-1700

GBP - 5.50
194 Englished [by A. Ross], Koran

1649

GBP - 3.50
195 Labat (J. B.) Nouvelle Relation de l'Afrique Occidentale Paris

1728

GBP - 5.00
196 Labbe (P.) Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum curis secundis auctior

GBP - 5.50
196A La Bigne (M. de) Magna Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum Paris

1654

GBP - 7.00
197 La Fontaine (J. de) Contes et Nouvelles en Vers Paris

1669

GBP - 28.00
198 LA FONTAINE (J. DE) CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS Paris

1671

GBP - 50.00
199 La Fontaine (J. de) Fables Choisies Paris

1668

GBP - 100.00
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