Sothebys: THE DISTINGUISHED LIBRARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CRITICISM, The Property of the late Colonel C. H. Wilkinson, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., SECOND DAY'S SALE, 27Mar1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 27, 1961 - March 27, 1961

Page Size: 746 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1053		NEW TESTAMENT, ENGLISH.		1582	GBP -	100.00
1054	Nicoll John	A diary of public transactions.			GBP -	6.00
1055		Nonesuch Press.			GBP -	14.00
1056	Henry Algernon Percy	Northumberland , 5th Earl of Household Book [preface by Bishop Percy].		1770	GBP -	18.00
1057		Ode (An) on the death of the late King James.			GBP -	38.00
1058		Of modern wit.			GBP -	1.00
1059	O'Kelly Seumas	The Shuiler's Child, Dublin.			GBP -	15.00
1060	W. Carew Hazlitt	Old English Jest-Books.			GBP -	9.00
1061	Olivier L'Abbe	Memoirs of the life and adventures of Signor Rozelli.			GBP -	16.00
1062		Order (The) of the House of Commons declaring the high breach of priviledge by His Majesties coming in person, etc.			GBP -	12.00
1063	Otway Thomas	Friendship in fashion.		1678	GBP -	22.00
1064		Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems.		Jan. 1707-8	GBP -	36.00
1065	Palgrave Sir Francis Turner	The Golden Treasury.			GBP -	1.00
1066	Moore J. R.	Pamphlets Defoe in the pillory.			GBP -	14.00
1067		Pamphlets--A bloudy fight in Ireland: between the Lord Deputies forces.			GBP -	18.00
1068		Paradox (A) against life.		1681	GBP -	18.00
1069	Patmore Coventry	The Angel in the house: The Betrothal and The Espousals.			GBP -	4.00
1070	Peacham Henry	The compleat gentleman.			GBP -	5.00
1071	Pember E. H.	Debita Flacco.		1891-1908	GBP -	1.00
1072	Pepys Samuel	Letters of Pepys and his family circle.			GBP -	7.00
1073	Percy Bp. Thomas	Reliques of ancient English poetry.		1765	GBP -	15.00
1074	Percy Thomas	Reliques of ancient English poetry.			GBP -	13.00
1075	Percy Thomas	Five Pieces of Runic Poetry translated from the Islandic Language.			GBP -	9.00
1076	Percy's Bishop	Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances.		1868	GBP -	10.00
1077		Percy Society's Publications.			GBP -	8.00
1078		Petronius. Works.			GBP -	10.00
1079	Philips Ambrose	To the Honourable Miss Carteret.		1725	GBP -	9.00
1080	Phillips John	Speculum Crape-Gownorum: or, a Looking-Glass for the young academicks.		1682	GBP -	38.00
1081	Philips John	The splendid shilling.		1705	GBP -	10.00
1082	Pinto	(V. de Sola) Rochester.			GBP -	12.00
1083		Piso's conspiracy, a tragedy.		1676	GBP -	16.00
1084	Pittis William	Miscellanies over claret ... Numb.		1697	GBP -	4.00
1085	Mrs. Mary	Pix Queen Catharine: or, the ruines of love.		1698-1708	GBP -	28.00
1086	Plot Robert	The natural history of Oxford-shire.		1677	GBP -	30.00
1087	Plot Robert	Enquiries to be propounded to the most ingenious of each county, etc.		1678/9	GBP -	34.00
1088	Plutarch	The Lives, translated by Sir Thomas North.			GBP -	3.00
1089		Poems on affairs of State.			GBP -	1.00
1090	Brome Alexander, Bond John, Watson Richard, Fuller Thomas, Brathwaite Richard, Fage Robert	POETICAL TRACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY		1641, 1659, 1660, 1662, 1667, 1666, 1679, 1686, 1641-86	GBP -	80.00
1091	Darby Charles, Settle Elkanah, Hoy Thomas, Flatman Thomas, D'Urfey Thomas, Flatman Thomas, Uzziah and Jotham, Ward Edward, Blackmore Sir Richard,	POETICAL TRACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.		1680, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686, c. 1680 1689, 1690, 1695, 1698, 1700, 1680-1700	GBP -	100.00
1092	Cartwright Willim, Sherman Thomas, Llewellyn Martin, Ford Simon, Phillips John, John Batt, Steere Richard, Arwaker Edmund, D'Anvers Mrs. Alicia, Ames Richard, Ward Edward, Cavendish William, Shippen William, Allibond John	POETICAL TRACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.		1671, 1672, 1676, 1680, 1682, 1686, 1691, 1693, 1693, 1698, 1709, 1704, 1717, 1671-1717	GBP -	70.00
1093	Halifax Charles Montagu, Prior Matthew, Tooke Charles, King William, King William, Addison J., Lyttelton George, Lord, Clay Stephen, Rowe Nicholas, Fenton Elijah, Blackmore Sir Richard, Gildon Charles, King William,	POETICAL TRACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.		1690, 1700, 1700, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1704, 1705, 1705, 1706, 1706, 1706, 1706, 1706, 1707, 1707, 1707, 1708, 1708, c.1706, 1708, 1708, 1690-1708	GBP -	240.00
1094	Wild Robert, ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT, Pocock Richard, ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT, Buckingham George Villiers, Wild Robert, Mr. Coleman's, ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT, OLDHAM JOHN, Speed John, MARVELL ANDREW, Caryll John, Duke Richard, ROCHESTER JOHN WILMOT, Darby Char	A COLLECTION OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VERSE BROADSIDES AND OTHER POETICAL PIECES IN FOLIO COLLECTED BY NARCISSUS LUTTRELL.		1673, 1678, 1679, 1679, 1679, 1679, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, 1660, 1679, c.1679, 1679, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, 1679, c.1679, 1679, c.1679, c.1679, 1679, 1680, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, c.1679, 1679, 1679, 1679, 1679, c.1679-80, c.1679-80, c.1	GBP -	3,600.00
1095		Poetical Reflexions ... on the vices and follies of the age.		1708	GBP -	38.00
1096		Political merriment: or, truths told to some tune.			GBP -	24.00
1097		Polite Gamester (The) or, the humours of whist.			GBP -	8.00
1098	Pope Alexander	Miscellaneous poems and translations.		1712	GBP -	40.00
1099	Pope Alexander	Windsor-Forest.		1713	GBP -	18.00
1100	Pope Alexander	the rape of the lock.		1714	GBP -	3.00
1101	Pope Alexander	The temple of fame.		1715	GBP -	3.00
1102	Pope Alexander	Works.		1717	GBP -	10.00
1103	Pope Alexander	The Dunciad.		1728	GBP -	45.00
1104	Pope Alexander	An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington		1731-35	GBP -	28.00
1105	Pope Alexander	An essay on man.		1733-34	GBP -	10.00
1106	Pope Alexander	Sober advice from Horace to the young gentlemen about Town.		1734-37	GBP -	16.00
1107	Pope Alexander	The first satire of the second book of Horace.		1733-37	GBP -	15.00
1108	Pope Alexander	of the characters of women.		1735	GBP -	8.00
1109	Pope Alexander	Bounce to Fop ... by Dr, S-1.		1736	GBP -	45.00
1110	Pope Alexander	The universal prayer.		1738	GBP -	1.00
1111	Pope Alexander	One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight.		1738	GBP -	3.00
1112	Pope Alexander	Of the use of riches.			GBP -	7.00
1113	Pope Alexander	The Dunciad variorum.			GBP -	7.00
1114	Pope Alexander	Works.		1871-86	GBP -	28.00
1115	Pope Alexander	Pope's Own Miscellany.			GBP -	9.00
1116		Popeana--The battle of the poets.		1725-53	GBP -	40.00
1117	William	Popeana--[Whitehead.		1733-42	GBP -	16.00
1118		Preparative (A) to study: or, the vertue of sack.		1641	GBP -	32.00
1119	Prior Matthew and Charles Montague	The hind and the panther transvers'd.		1687-91	GBP -	34.00
1120	PRIOR MATTHEW	AN ENGLISH PADLOCK.		1705	GBP -	80.00
1121	Prior Matthew	An epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King after the Battel of Ramillies.		1706	GBP -	40.00
1122		Priviledges and practice of Parliaments in England		1628-46	GBP -	18.00
1123	Winthrop Mackworth	Praed Lillian: a fairy tale, A. L. s.			GBP -	19.00
1124		Proclamation anent persons denunced fugitives.			GBP -	15.00
1125	Daggett George, Elys Edmund, Sprat Thomas, Crewe Nathaniel, Delamere Henry Booth, Sancroft William, Oates Titus, Smith Thomas	PROSE BROADSIDES AND TRACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COLLECTED BY NARCISSUS LUTTRELL:		1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1689, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1689, 1689, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1689, 1689, 1688, 1688, 1688, 1688, 168	GBP -	1,100.00
1126	Psalmanazaar George	An historical and geographical description of Formosa.		1704	GBP -	5.00
1127	P. W.	The history of witches			GBP -	30.00
1128	Quarles Francis	Divine poemes.			GBP -	6.00
1129	Rabelais Francois	Works.		1694, '93, '94	GBP -	28.00
1130	Radcliffe Alexander	The ramble: an anti-heroick poem.		1682	GBP -	18.00
1131	Radcliffe Ann	The Mysteries of Udolpho.		1794	GBP -	12.00
1132	Radcliffe Ann	The Italian.		1797	GBP -	5.00
1133	Raleigh Sir Walter	The historie of the world.		1652	GBP -	12.00
1134	Raleigh Sir Walter	The Riddle, a pleasant pastoral comedy.			GBP -	2.00
1135	Ramsay Allan	The Ever Green, 2 vol.		1724	GBP -	15.00
1136	Ravenscroft Edward	The careless lovers: a comedy.		1673	GBP -	85.00
1137		Remarques on the humours and conversations of the town.			GBP -	110.00
1138	Reynolds John Hamilton	The Battered Tar, or, the Waggoner's companion.		c. 1820	GBP -	32.00
1139	Reynolds Sir Joshua	Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President.			GBP -	7.00
1140	Ritson Joseph	Bibliographica poetica.			GBP -	14.00
1141	Ritson Joseph	Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems.			GBP -	14.00
1142	Ritson Joseph	Ancient songs from the time of Henry III.			GBP -	15.00
1143	Robert the Devyll	A Metrical Romance, from an Ancient Illuminated Manuscript.			GBP -	7.00
1144	Rollins H. E.	Old English ballads.			GBP -	12.00
1145	Ros Amanda McKittrick	Irene Iddesleigh.			GBP -	7.00
1146	Ross Alexander	Mel heliconium: or, poetical honey.			GBP -	19.00
1147	Rossetti D. G.	Sister Helen.		1857	GBP -	38.00
1148	Rowlands Samuel	A collection of eleven miscellaneous tracts, in 2 vol..		1874-80	GBP -	10.00
1149		Royal Cruising Club.			GBP -	1.00
1150	Rutherford Samuel	Joshua redivivus.	Amsterdam	1664	GBP -	65.00
1151	Sassoon Siegfried	Counter-attack and other poems.		1918	GBP -	5.00
1152	Sassoon Siegfried Vigils	engraved throughout.		1934	GBP -	38.00

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