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
300 Regis (P. S.) Systeme de Philcsophie Lyons

1691

GBP - 2.50
301 Renneville (C. de) L'Inquisition Francoise

GBP - 3.25
302 [Rigault (N.)] Ierakosophion Paris

1612

GBP - 3.00
303 [Ritson (J.)] Robin Hood

GBP - 3.00
304 Rodriguez (I.) and Riccius (M.) Litterae Iaponicae Anni M.DC.VI Antwerp

1611

GBP - 4.50
305 Ronsard (P. de) Oeuvres Paris

1597

GBP - 19.00
306 Ronsard (P. de) Oeuvres Paris

1629-30

GBP - 10.00
307 ROSINUS (J.) Romanarum Antiquitatum Libri Decem Lyons

1585

GBP - 2.00
308 Ross (A.) The History of the World

1652

GBP - 2.25
309 Rousseau (J. J.) A Mr. d'Alembert . . . sur son Article Geneve Amsterdam

1758

GBP - 7.00
310 Roxburghe Club. Le Pelerinage de Vie Humaine Manchester

1912

GBP - 11.00
311 Roxburghe Club. Le Pelerinage de Vie Humaine Manchester

1912

GBP - 11.00
312 Royal Society. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections

1734-49

GBP - 1.00
313 Rozemire ou l'Europe delivree Paris

1657

GBP - 0.50
314 Ruvigny and Raineval (Marquis of) The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal

GBP - 2.50
315 Rycaut (Sir P.) The Present State of the Ottoman Empire

1668

GBP - 2.25
316 Rycaut (Sir P.) The History of the Turkish Empire

1680

GBP - 3.50
317 Rymer (T.) The Tragedies of the last Age Consider'd and Examin'd

1678

GBP - 5.00
318 Sammes (A.) Britannia Antiqua Illustrata

1676

GBP - 1.00
319 Sandford (F.) A Genealogical History of the Kings of England

GBP - 6.50
320 [Sandys (G.)] Anglorum Speculum

1684

GBP - 3.50
321 Scarron (P.) Oeuvres

GBP - 3.00
322 [Schott (C.)] Ioco-Seriorum Naturae et 'Artis

[circa 1665]

GBP - 14.00
323 Scudery (G. de) Le Cabinet de Mr. de Scudery Paris

1646

GBP - 8.00
324 Scudery (G. de) Ibrahim

1652

GBP - 4.50
325 Selden (J.) Uxor Ebraica

1646

GBP - 7.50
326 Shakespeare (W.) Works

1740

GBP - 2.00
327 Shakespeare (W.) Works

GBP - 8.00
328 Shakespeare (W.) A small Collection of Books relating to Shakespeare, including [Taylor (E.)] Cursory Remarks on Tragedy

GBP - 8.00
329 [Shaw (J.)] Explicatio qusestionis controversse de abrogatione legum Mosis judicialium

1605

GBP - 9.00
330 Sincerus (J.) Itinerarium Gallise

GBP - 2.00
331 Sitwell (S.) Conversation Pieces

GBP - 1.50
332 Somner (W.) Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum

GBP - 5.00
333 Spelman (Sir H.) Glossarium Archaiologicum

GBP - 2.25
334 Spotswood (J.) The History of the Church of Scotland

GBP - 3.00
335 Sprat (T.) The History of the Royal-Society of London

1667

GBP - 9.00
336 St. Petersburg St. Petersburg

1825

GBP - 4.00
337 Stanley (T.) The History of Philosophy

1655-60

GBP - 5.00
338 [Steele (Sir R.) and J. Addison] The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff

1710-11

GBP - 2.50
339 [Steele Sir R. and J. Addison] The Guardian

GBP - 1.25
340 Sturt (J.) Chronological Tables of Europe

[circa 1726]

GBP - 1.00
341 SUTCLIFFE (M.) De Vera Christi Ecclesia adversus Rob. Bellarminum

1600

GBP - 30.00
342 Sutcliffe (M.) De Missa Papistica

1603

GBP - 15.00
343 Swift (J.), Pope (A.) and others

1749-51

GBP - 1.00
344 [Symson (P.)] The Historie of the Church

1624

GBP - 4.00
345 [Tabourot (E.)] Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords

GBP - 6.00
346 [Taylor (J.), Bishop] The Golden Grove . . . also Festival Hymns

1655

GBP - 12.00
347 Taylor (J.) Bishop

GBP - 6.00
348 Temple (Sir J.) The Irish Rebellion

GBP - 3.00
349 Thesaurus Theutonicse Linguae

GBP - 8.50
350 T[hompson] (N.) A Collection of 86 Loyal Poems

1685

GBP - 7.00
351 Three Choice Novels

GBP - 28.00
352 TORPORLEY (N.) DICILIDES COELOMETRICAE SEU Valvae Astronomicae universales

1602

GBP - 100.00
353 [Tumor (T.)] The Case of the Bankers and their Creditors

GBP - 5.00
354 ULUGH BEIGH Tabula Long, ac Lat. Stellarum Fixarum . .. Oxford

1665

GBP - 20.00
355 Ussher (J.) Archbishop of Armagh Dublin

1639

GBP - 2.00
356 Valerianus (J. P.) Hieroglyphica Lyons

1610

GBP - 3.25
357 VAUGHAN (RICHARD) M.A. of Christ Church College

1599

GBP - 150.00
358 Villanova (A. de) Medicina Salernitana

GBP - 7.50
359 Voltaire (F. M. Arouet de) An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France

1728

GBP - 18.00
360 Voltaire (F. M. Arouet de) Candide

1759

GBP - 24.00
361 [Voltaire (F. M. Arouet)] Zadig

GBP - 12.00
362 Wallace (A. R.) A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro

1853

GBP - 4.50
363 Ware (Sir J.) Rerum Hibernicarum Annales

GBP - 2.00
364 Watt (R.) Bibliotheca Britannica Edinburgh

1824

GBP - 9.00
365 Wecker (J. J.) Antidotarium Generale et Speciale Basle

1617

GBP - 9.50
366 Wharton [Sir G.] Works

GBP - 10.00
367 White (J.) The Way to the True Church

GBP - 4.50
368 Wilkins (J.) Bishop of Chester

1668

GBP - 15.00
369 Wilkins (J.) Bishop of Chester

1680

GBP - 6.00
370 Wilkinson (H.) Babylons Ruine

GBP - 42.00
371 Wilkinson (N. R.) Wilton House Pictures

1907

GBP - 0.50
372 [Willet (A.)] Tetrastylon Papismi

1599

GBP - 11.00
373 Zanchius (H.) Miscellaneorum Libri Tres

1592-99

GBP - 5.00
374 Zeiller (M.) Topographia Gallias Frankfort

1655-56

GBP - 6.50
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