Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING Books on Science, Music, Bibliography, Natural History and Travel; Attractive Continental Books of the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century MANY WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES, KENSING,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 14, 1980 - July 14, 1980
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addison (Joseph) | The Works | 1804 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 30.00 | |
| 2 | Ariosto (Lodovico) | L'Orlando Furioso | 1821 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 30.00 | |
| 3 | [Barbauld (Anna Laetitia)] | Poems | 1773 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 70.00 | |
| 4 | Baretti (G.) | Dizionario Italiano | GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | 80.00 | ||
| 5 | Bowles (W.) | Introduction a la historia natural | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 160.00 | ||
| 6 | Bryant (Jacob) | A New System | 1807 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 60.00 | |
| 7 | Chalmers (Alexander) | A History of the Colleges | 1810 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 40.00 | |
| 8 | Church (John) | A Cabinet of Quadrupeds | 1805 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 60.00 | |
| 9 | CLINTON-BAKER (H.) | ILLUSTRATIONS OF CONIFERS | Hertford | 1909-13 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 |
| 10 | CLUTTERBUCK (ROBERT) | THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD | 1815-27 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 130.00 | |
| 11 | [Coxe (William)] | Constantio and Selima | 1795 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 120.00 | |
| 12 | Dallaway (James) | Observations on English Architecture | 1806 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 15.00 | |
| 13 | Dryden (John) | The Works | 1808 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 40.00 | |
| 14 | Euripides | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 50.00 | |||
| 15 | Evelyn (John) | Silva [etc.] | 1801 |
GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | 35.00 | |
| 16 | Fielding (Henry) | The Works | 1806 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | 55.00 | |
| 17 | Fuseli (H.) | Lectures [One to Six] on Painting | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 90.00 | ||
| 18 | Ganilh (Charles) | An Inquiry into the Various Systems of Political Economy | 1812 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 | |
| 19 | Gilpin (William) | Observations on the River Wye | 1800 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 30.00 | |
| 20 | Goodwin (Joseph) | A New System of Shoeing Horses | 1824 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 35.00 | |
| 21 | JARDINE (Sir WILLIAM) AND PRIDEAUX JOHN SELBY | Illustrations of Ornithology | Edinburgh | [1836-43] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | 950.00 |
| 22 | Johnson (Samuel) | A Dictionary of the English Language | 1799 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 90.00 | |
| 23 | [Knight (Ellis Cornelia)] | Description of Latium | 1805 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 45.00 | |
| 24 | LANDSEER (THOMAS) | Monkey-ana | 1827 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 130.00 | |
| 25 | Lodge (Edmund) | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain | 1823-34 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | 90.00 | |
| 26 | Lumisden (Andrew) | Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs | 1812 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 10.00 | |
| 27 | Millais (John Guille) | A Breath from the Veldt | 1895 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 45.00 | |
| 28 | Pinkerton (John) | Modern Geography | 1807 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 10.00 | |
| 29 | Pope (Alexander) | The Works | 1770 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 5.00 | |
| 30 | [Rundell (Mrs. Maria Eliza)] | The New Family Receipt Book | 1824 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 25.00 | |
| 31 | Salmon (N.) | The History of Hertfordshire | 1728 |
GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | 60.00 | |
| 32 | Smith (Adam) | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | 1805 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 25.00 | |
| 33 | SMITH (C.) | NEW ENGLISH ATLAS | 1804 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 280.00 | |
| 34 | Southey (Robert) | History of the Peninsular War | 1823-32 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 65.00 | |
| 35 | Stewart (Dugald) | Biographical Memoirs of Adam Smith | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 60.00 | ||
| 36 | VENUTI (R.) | Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichita di Roma | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 130.00 | ||
| 37 | Warton (T.) and others | Essays on Gothic Architecture | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 25.00 | ||
| 38 | [Warton (T.) and others] | The Oxford Sausage | Oxford | [c. 1780] |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 2.00 |
| 39 | Wilson (Sir Robert) | Brief Remarks on the Character and Composition of the Russian Army | 1810 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 20.00 | |
| 40 | Winckelmann (Johann Joachim) | Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi | 1783-84 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 130.00 | |
| 41 | Acharius (Erik) | Methodus qua omnes detectos lichenes secundum organa carpomorpha ad genera | Stockholm | 1803 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 90.00 |
| 42 | Heath (F. G.) | The Fern Portfolio | 1885 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 20.00 | |
| 43 | [New Zealand Ferns] | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 35.00 | |||
| 44 | HARVEY (W. H.) | PHYCOLOGIA AUSTRALICA | 1858-63 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 300.00 | |
| 45 | Johnstone (W. G.) and A. Croall | The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds | 1859-60 |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 55.00 | |
| 46 | Gatty (Mrs. Alfred) | British Sea-Weeds | 1872 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 20.00 | |
| 47 | Pratt (Anne) | The Ferns of Great Britain | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 15.00 | ||
| 48 | ESTIENNE (ROBERT) | DE LATINIS ET GRAECIS NOMINIBUS arborum | Paris | 8 August 1544 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 49 | GREW (NEHEMIAH) | THE ANATOMY OF PLANTS | 1682 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 250.00 | |
| 50 | Grew (Nehemiah) | The Anatomy of Plants | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 30.00 | ||
| 51 | SALMON (WILLIAM) | BOTANOLOGIA | 1710 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 210.00 | |
| 52 | Senebier (Jean) | Physiologie Vegetale | Geneva | [1800] |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 130.00 |
| 53 | Evelyn (John) | Kalendarium Hortense | 1669 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | Not Sold | |
| 54 | KENNION (EDWARD) | An Essay on Trees in Landscape | 1844 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 15.00 | |
| 55 | Lindley (J.) and Sir J. Paxton | Paxton's Flower Garden | 1882-83 |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 56 | [FURBER (ROBERT) AND RICHARD BRADLEY.] | THE FLOWER-GARDEN DIS-PLAY'D | 1732 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 880.00 | |
| 57 | Maddock (J.) | The Florist's Directory | 1810 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 20.00 | |
| 58 | Trimen (Henry) | A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon | 1893-1900 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 59 | HORSFIELD (THOMAS) and others | Plantas Javanicoe Rariores | 1838-52 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 170.00 | |
| 60 | OLIVIER (G. A.) | ENTOMOLOGIE | Paris | 1780-89 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 400.00 |
| 61 | PANZER (G. W. F.) | FAUNAE INSECTORUM GERMANICAE INITIA ODER DEUTSCHLANDS INSECTEN | Nuremberg | 1793-94 |
GBP 150.00 - 205.00 | 300.00 |
| 62 | Donovan (E.) | The Natural History of British Insects | 1792-93 |
GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 63 | LEWIN (WILLIAM) | A COLLECTION OF FORTY-SIX WATER COLOUR DRAWING | 1809 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 260.00 | |
| 64 | SEITZ (ADALBERT) | THE MACROLEPIDOPTERA OF THE WORLD | Stuttgart | 1925 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 220.00 |
| 65 | LEECH (J. H.) | Butterflies from China | [1892-94] |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 55.00 | |
| 66 | ANDERSON (JOHN) | ZOOLOGY OF EGYPT | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 67 | DONOVAN (E.) | THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH SHELLS | 1799-1803 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 200.00 | |
| 68 | BROOKSHAW (GEORGE) | Six Birds | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 | ||
| 69 | EDWARDS (GEORGE) | A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS | 1743-58 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,100.00 | |
| 70 | Baines (Thomas) | The Birds of South Africa | Johannesburg | 1972 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 71 | NICOLL ([M. J.]) | NICOLL'S BIRDS OF EGYPT | 1930 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 40.00 | |
| 72 | Muller (Adolf and Karl) | Thiere der Heimath | Cassel | 1897 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 10.00 |
| 73 | Wood (W. T.) | Curiosities of Ornithology | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 5.00 | ||
| 74 | SMITH (ANDREW) | Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa | 1849 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 75 | HOWITT (SAMUEL) | A New Work of Animals | 1811 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 170.00 | |
| 76 | Shaw (G.) and F. P. Nodder | The Naturalist's Miscellany | 1793-1801 |
GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 77 | Accum (Fredrick) | A Practical Essay on Chemical Re-Agents | Philadelphia | 1817 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
| 78 | Adams (George) | Astronomical and Geographical Essays | 1790 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 | |
| 79 | Agrippa (Cornelius) | The vanity of arts and sciences | 1676 |
GBP 50.00 - 90.00 | 40.00 | |
| 80 | Bacon (F., Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) | Sylua Syluarum | 1631 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 50.00 | |
| 81 | Bacon (F., Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) | The Essayes | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 82 | BOYLE (ROBERT) | TRACTS CONSISTING OF OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE SALTNESS OF THE SEA [etc.] | Oxford | 1674 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 280.00 |
| 83 | B[OYLE] (R[OBERT]) | A FREE ENQUIRY INTO THE VULGARLY RECEIV'D NOTION OF NATURE | 1685/6 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 320.00 | |
| 84 | BOYLE (ROBERT) | EXPERIMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING COLOURS | 1664 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | |
| 85 | BERGMAN (TORBERN) | Sciagraphia regni mineralis | Leipzig & Dessau | 1782 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 170.00 |
| 86 | [Charnieres (C. F. P. de)] | Memoire sur l'observation des longitudes en mer | Paris | 1767 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 50.00 |
| 87 | DELISLE ([JOSEPH-NICOLAS]) | PROJECT DE LA MESURE DE LA THRRE EN RUSSIE | St. Petersburg | 1737 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 480.00 |
| 88 | Descartes (Rene) | Les Passions de l'Ame | Amsterdam | 1649 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 520.00 |
| 89 | Duduict (Jacques) | Le nouueau sciatere | Blois | 1642 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 210.00 |
| 90 | Euclid | 1573 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 35.00 | ||
| 91 | EUCLID | Oxford | 1703 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 150.00 | |
| 92 | FARADAY (MICHAEL) | Experimental Researches in Electricity | 1839-55 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 93 | GALILEI (GALILEO) | OPERE | Milan | 1808-11 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 |
| 94 | Galilei (Galileo) | Opere | Padua | 1744 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 260.00 |
| 95 | GALILEI (GALILEO) | OPERE | Bologna | 1656 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | 300.00 |
| 96 | GALILEI (GALILEO) | Dialogo | Florence [Naples] | 1710 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 100.00 |
| 97 | Gradenigo (G.) | Novissima inventione per dissegnare | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 95.00 | ||
| 98 | Gravesande (W. J.) | Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy | 1747 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 55.00 | |
| 99 | HILL (THOMAS) | A PLEASANT HISTORY | 1613 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 100 | HORST (TIELEMAN VAN DER) | THEATRUM MACHINARUM UNIVERSALE | Amsterdam | 1739 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 190.00 |
