Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS INCLUDING HEBREW BOOKS, ESTHER,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 24, 1977 - October 24, 1977
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown (T.) and others | Letters from the Dead to the Living | GBP - | 40.00 | ||
| 2 | Butler (A. G.) | Foreign Finches in Captivity | GBP - | 42.00 | ||
| 3 | Confession (The) | GBP - | 28.00 | |||
| 4 | More (Hannah) | Fore-edge Painting | 1819 |
GBP - | 45.00 | |
| 5 | [Mitford (John)] | My Cousin in the Army; or | [c. 1825] |
GBP - | 60.00 | |
| 6 | Borlase (William) | Observations on the Antiquities | Oxford | 1754 |
GBP - | 65.00 |
| 7 | Lily (W.) | Christian Astrology | GBP - | 35.00 | ||
| 8 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended | 1728 |
GBP - | 45.00 | |
| 9 | Ovidius Naso (Publius) | Heroical Epistles | 1677 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 10 | Picart (B.) and others | The Temple of the Muses | GBP - | 60.00 | ||
| 11 | Addison (J.) | The Works | GBP - | 110.00 | ||
| 12 | Agnew (Sir Andrew) | The hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway | GBP - | 90.00 | ||
| 13 | [Bury (Lady Charlotte)] | 'Alia Giornata' | GBP - | 65.00 | ||
| 14 | Delamarche (F.) | Atlas de la Geographie | Paris | 1824 |
GBP - | 55.00 |
| 15 | Drummond (Dr. W. Abernethy-) | A Dialogue between Philalethes and Benevolus | GBP - | 80.00 | ||
| 16 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden) | Poems | 1656 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 17 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden) | The History of Scotland | 1681 |
GBP - | 40.00 | |
| 18 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden) | The History of Scotland | 1696 |
GBP - | 40.00 | |
| 19 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden) | The History of Scotland | GBP - | 25.00 | ||
| 20 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden)-Heywood (John) | The Workes | 1598 |
GBP - | 400.00 | |
| 21 | Drummond (William, of Hawthornden)-SPENSER (E.) | THE FAERIE QUEENE | 1609 |
GBP - | 3,200.00 | |
| 22 | DRUMMOND (WILLIAM, of Hawthornden) | An important collection of eleven rare early 16th | GBP - | 4,500.00 | ||
| 23 | Gay (John) | Fables | GBP - | 70.00 | ||
| 24 | Gibbon (E.) | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | GBP - | 95.00 | ||
| 25 | Giraldus Cambrensis | GBP - | 110.00 | |||
| 26 | Goldsmith (O.) | The complete Works | GBP - | 130.00 | ||
| 27 | [Hamilton (Capt. T.)] | The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton | GBP - | 60.00 | ||
| 28 | Ireland (J.) | Hogarth illustrated | GBP - | 65.00 | ||
| 29 | JONSON (B.) | WORKES | 1616[-40] |
GBP - | 2,600.00 | |
| 30 | Lavater (J. C.) | Essays on Physiognomy | GBP - | 75.00 | ||
| 31 | Macgibbon (D.) and T. Ross | The castellated and domestic Architecture of Scotland | Edinburgh | 1887-92 |
GBP - | 90.00 |
| 32 | Ramsay (A.) | The gentle Shepherd | Glasgow, Foulis | 1788 |
GBP - | 120.00 |
| 33 | Ramsay (A.) | The gentle Shepherd | GBP - | 30.00 | ||
| 34 | Scott (Sir Walter) | The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland | GBP - | 80.00 | ||
| 35 | Scott (Sir Walter) | The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland | GBP - | 45.00 | ||
| 36 | [Scott (Sir Walter)] | The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte | GBP - | 38.00 | ||
| 37 | Scott (Sir Walter) | [Novels] | GBP - | 200.00 | ||
| 38 | Scrap Album | 1853 |
GBP - | 70.00 | ||
| 39 | Shakespeare (W.) | The Plays | GBP - | 55.00 | ||
| 40 | Shirley (T.) | The Angler's Museum | GBP - | 100.00 | ||
| 41 | Suffolk (Earl of) and others | The Encyclopaedia of Sport | GBP - | 32.00 | ||
| 42 | Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Educational Society | GBP - | 12.00 | |||
| 43 | Society of Biblical Archaeology | GBP - | 75.00 | |||
| 44 | Theologische Studien und Kritiken | GBP - | 200.00 | |||
| 45 | American Philosophical Society | Philadelphia | 1786-93 |
GBP - | 120.00 | |
| 46 | Amoretti (Carlo) | Instruction sur la Culture et l'Usage des Pommes de Terre | GBP - | 25.00 | ||
| 47 | Andry (Nicholas) | De la Generation des Vers dans le Corps de l'Homme | Paris | 1700 |
GBP - | 25.00 |
| 48 | BAGLIVI (GIORGIO) | Opera omnia medico-practica et anatomica | Lyons | 1704 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 49 | BAILLY (JEAN-SYLVAIN) | Lettres sur l'origine des sciences | London & Paris | 1777 |
GBP - | 30.00 |
| 50 | [Beccaria (Guiseppe)] | Traite des delits et des peines | Lausanne | 1766 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 51 | BECQUEREL (HENRI) | Recherches sur une propriete nouvelle de la matiere | Paris | 1903 |
GBP - | 68.00 |
| 52 | BEMBO (PIETRO) | Prose nellequali si ragiona della volgar lingua | Venice | 1525 |
GBP - | 90.00 |
| 53 | Bergman (Torbern) | Manuel du Mineralogiste | Paris | 1784 |
GBP - | 35.00 |
| 54 | Bernard (Claude) | Sur le mecanisme de la formation du sucre dans le foie | Paris | 1855 |
GBP - | 30.00 |
| 55 | Bolsec (Hierosme Hermes) | La vie | Lyons | 1664 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 56 | Born (Max) | Der Aufbau der Materie | GBP - | 28.00 | ||
| 57 | Brisson (Mathurin Jacques) | Traite elementaire de Physique | Paris | 1789 |
GBP - | 42.00 |
| 58 | BURCKHARDT (JOHN LEWIS) | Arabic Proverbs | 1830 |
GBP - | 160.00 | |
| 59 | Brouardel (Paul) | La Mort et la Mort Subite | Paris | 1895 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
| 60 | BURNS (ALLEN) | Observations of the Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck | Edinburgh | 1811 |
GBP - | 40.00 |
| 61 | Cabet (Etienne) | Revolution de 1830 | GBP - | 20.00 | ||
| 62 | Caneparius (Petrus Maria) | De Atramentis Cujuscunque Generis | 1660 |
GBP - | 45.00 | |
| 63 | Cassini (Jacques) | Elements d'Astonomie | Paris | 1740 |
GBP - | 70.00 |
| 64 | Cole (F. J.) | History of Comparative Anatomy | GBP - | 40.00 | ||
| 65 | Colquhoun (Patrick) | Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames | 1800 |
GBP - | 70.00 | |
| 66 | DARWIN (CHARLES) | Power of the Movement of Plants | 1880 |
GBP - | 60.00 | |
| 67 | Davy (Sir Humphry) | Diverse espirenze sopra la combustione del diamante ed altre sostanze carbonacee | [n.p., c. 1814] |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
| 68 | Davy (Sir Humphry) | Elemens de Chinie appliquee a l'Agriculture | Paris | 1820 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
| 69 | Esnault-Pelterie (Robert) | L'Astronautique | GBP - | 28.00 | ||
| 70 | Fenelon (Francois de Salinac de la Motte) | Aventures de Telemaque | [Stuttgart] | 1745 |
GBP - | 20.00 |
| 71 | FREUD (SIGMUND) | Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unterbewussten | Leipzig & Vienna | 1905 |
GBP - | 42.00 |
| 72 | GALTON (FRANCIS) | Finger Prints | 1892 |
GBP - | 120.00 | |
| 73 | GRANDVILLE (J. J.) | Scenes de la vie privee et publique des animaux | Paris | 1842-44 |
GBP - | 130.00 |
| 74 | Gray (Thomas, Railway Pioneer) | Observations on a General Iron Rail-Way | 1825 |
GBP - | 48.00 | |
| 75 | GUILLE (SEBASTIAN) | Sur l'Instruction des Aveugles | Paris | 1817 |
GBP - | 60.00 |
| 76 | HAUKSBEE (FRANCIS) | Esperienze fisico-meccaniche | Venice | 1716 |
GBP - | 100.00 |
| 77 | Henry (Edward Richard) | Classification and Uses of Finger Prints | 1900 |
GBP - | 65.00 | |
| 78 | HOOKE (ROBERT) | Conamen ad motum Telluris probandum | [Oxford] | 1679 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
| 79 | Jacobi (Carolus Gustavus Jacobus) | Disquisitiones analyticae de fractionibus simplicibus | GBP - | 22.00 | ||
| 80 | KIRCHOFFER Di KIRCHOFFEN (FRANCESCO MATTIA) | Aritmetica mascherata | Venice | 1673 |
GBP - | 25.00 |
| 81 | LA CONDAMINE (CHARLES MARIE DE) | JOURNAL DU VOYAGE | GBP - | 400.00 | ||
| 82 | [LA ROCHEFOUCAULT (FRANCOIS DUC DE)] | Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes morales | Paris, Barbin | 1665 |
GBP - | 70.00 |
| 83 | Le Pileur d'Apligny (-) | Essai sur les moyens de perfectionner l'art de la teinture | Paris | 1770 |
GBP - | 32.00 |
| 84 | Lorentz (Hendrik Antoon) | Ergebnisse und Probleme der Elektronen-theorie | GBP - | 20.00 | ||
| 85 | [LORRY (ANNE CHARLES DE)] | Tractatus de morbis cutaneis | Paris | 1777 |
GBP - | 260.00 |
| 86 | Los Rios (Francois de) | Bibliographie instructive ou notice de quelque Livres rares | Avignon & Lyon | 1777 |
GBP - | 58.00 |
| 87 | MacPherson (James) | Fingal | 1762 |
GBP - | 42.00 | |
| 88 | Mariotte (Edmund) | Oeuvres | The Hague | 1740 |
GBP - | 45.00 |
| 89 | Massa (Antonius) | Contra l'uso del duello | Venice | 1555 |
GBP - | 25.00 |
| 90 | [Mirabeau (Victor Riquetti, Marquis de) and Francois Quesnay] | L'ami des hommes | Hamburg | 1760 |
GBP - | 55.00 |
| 91 | MITCHELL (JOHN KEARSLEY) | On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers | Philadelphia | 1849 |
GBP - | 45.00 |
| 92 | MONGE (GASPARD) | Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons | Paris | [1973/4] |
GBP - | 130.00 |
| 93 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | Treatise of the System of the World | 1731 |
GBP - | 85.00 | |
| 94 | Nicholson (William) | First Principles of Chemistry | 1790 |
GBP - | 75.00 | |
| 95 | [Pattullo (Henri)] | Essai sur l'amelioration des terres | Paris | 1758 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
| 96 | Paulinus S. Bartholomaeus | Voyage aux Indes Orientales | Paris | 1808 |
GBP - | 35.00 |
| 97 | Penicillin | GBP - | 12.00 | |||
| 98 | Pinel (Philippe) | La Medicine Clinique | Paris | 1802 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
| 99 | Pinel (Philippe) | Von den Blutflussen im Allgemeinen | Leipzig | 1821 |
GBP - | 12.00 |
| 100 | PLENCK (JOSEPH JACOB) | Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis | GBP - | 140.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
