Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 01Feb1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 01, 1937 - February 01, 1937

Page Size: 963 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
201	Henry, Françoise	La Sculpture Irlandaise pendant les douze premiers Siècles de l'Ere Chretienne	Paris	1933	GBP -	4.05
202	Henry, Paul	Les Eglises de la Moldavie du Nord	Paris	1930	GBP -	2.05
203		Hibernica: or some Antient Pieces relating to Ireland	Dublin	1747-50	GBP -	0.15
204	Mr. Pope	Homer. The Iliad		1715-20	GBP -	1.08
205		Leabhar Breac. The Speckled Book	Dublin	1872-76	GBP -	2.15
206	Lowe, E. A.	Scriptura Beneventana	Oxford	1929	GBP -	9.10
207	Mac Ceileachair, Moelmuiri	Leabhar Na H-Uidhri: a Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse in the Irish Language	Dublin	1870	GBP -	1.10
208	H. E. Winlock, W. E. Crum and H. G. Evelyn White	Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition	N.Y.	1926	GBP -	1.05
209	Millet, Gabriel, Monuments de l'Athos, Peintures, Diehl, C, M. Le Tourneau et H. Saladin	Monuments Byzantins de Mistra, Les Monuments Chrétiens de Salonique	Paris	1910, 1927, 1918	GBP -	12.00
210	Millar, E. G.	La Miniature Anglaise du Xe au XIIIe Siècle		1926	GBP -	2.15
211		Missae Episcopales, gothic letter, Missale Romanum	Paris	1563, 1578	GBP -	1.15
212		MS. Count Book of Adam Murray		1735-71	GBP -	0.10
213	Omont, Henri	Miniatures des plus anciens Manuscrits Grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale	Paris	1929	GBP -	1.15
214	Paulus, Beatus	Epistolae Glosatae Glosa Interlineali		1910	GBP -	2.00
215	Robinson, S. F. H.	Celtic Illuminative Art	Dublin	1908	GBP -	1.10
216	Rousseau, J. J.	La Botanique	Paris	1805	GBP -	9.00
217	Solis, A. de.	History of the Conquest of Mexico		1724	GBP -	0.14
218		Statutes at Large passed in the Parliaments held in Ireland (1310-1761)	Dublin	1765	GBP -	3.05
219	Texier, C. and R. P. Pullan; Ballu, A.	Byzantine Architecture, Le Monastere Byzantin de Tébessa	Paris	1864, 1897	GBP -	6.05
220	Theiner, Augustinus	Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum	Romce	1864	GBP -	3.00
221	Wharton, Henry	Anglia Sacra		1691	GBP -	5.10
222		Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrücke	Leipzig	1925-34	GBP -	Not Sold
223	Molière, J. B. P. de.	Ceuvres	Paris	1734	GBP -	4.10
224	Kippis, Andrew	Life of Captain Cook		1788	GBP -	2.15
225	Bligh, William	A Voyage to the South Sea in His Majesty's Ship Bounty including an Account of the Mutiny on board the said Ship		1792	GBP -	6.00
226	Clapperton, Capt. Hugh	Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa		1829	GBP -	0.12
227	Barry, Capt. Gerat	A Discourse of Military Discipline		1634	GBP -	2.00
228	Thorburn, A.	British Birds		1916	GBP -	7.00
229	Stacke, Capt. H. FitzM	The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War			GBP -	0.10
230	Thorburn, A.	British Mammals		1920-21	GBP -	1.15
231		Coloured Flower Plates (54)		1801-5	GBP -	3.05
232	Whitaker, T. D.	History of the Deanery of Craven		1805	GBP -	0.05
233	Rousseau, J. J.	L'Ile de St. Pierre dite l'Ile de Rousseau dans le lac de Bienne		n.d.	GBP -	5.05
234	Balfour, Robert	In Logicam Aristotelis		26 Sept. 1588	GBP -	2.10
235	Hayley, William	Translation into English Verse of the Poem Hero and Leander by Musaeus			GBP -	2.00
236		ACKERMANN'S HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE		1815	GBP -	27.00
237	Giovanni, Ser	Straparola. The Nights, Masuccio. The Novellino, The Pecorone		1894, 1895, 1897	GBP -	0.10
238	Rabelais, F.; Boccaccio, G.	Gargantua and Pantagruel; The Decameron		1892	GBP -	0.10
239	Cox, David	Studio Special Numbers, Early English Water-Colour Drawings		1922, 1919	GBP -	0.14
240	Baillie, G. H.; Green, F. H.	Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the world (Connoisseurs Library), Old English Clocks	Ditchling	1929, 1931	GBP -	2.00
241	Symonds, R. W.	English furniture from Charles II to George II		1929	GBP -	2.15
242	Vuillier, Gaston	History of Dancing		1898	GBP -	1.10
243	Mayer, Luigi	Views in Egypt, Palestine and the Ottoman Empire		1803-5	GBP -	2.15
244	Dodwell, Edward	Views in Greece		1830	GBP -	8.10
245	Robson, G. F.	Scenery of the Grampian Mountains		1819	GBP -	3.15
246	Daniell, T. and W.	Oriental Scenery		1816 Reprint, n.d.	GBP -	0.10
247	Macquoid, Percy	A History of English Furniture		1904-8	GBP -	5.10
248	Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett	The Antiquities of Athens		1762-94	GBP -	0.10
249	Reguenfous, François Michel	Recueil de Coquillages de Limaçons et de Crustacés [text in German and French]		1758	GBP -	2.05
250	Almeyda, M. d'.	Historia Gerai de Ethiopia a Alta	Coimbra	1660	GBP -	1.02
251	Chippendale, Thomas	Le Guide du Tapissier		1762	GBP -	8.00
252	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	THEATRE DE L'UNIVERS		1587	GBP -	24.00
253	Adam, Robert and James	Works in Architecture		1778-1822, 1900-2	GBP -	2.10
254	Piranesi, G. B.	Divers Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys, Lapides Capitolini, Antichità di Cora, Del Castello dell Acqua Giulia, Trofei di Ottaviano Augusta, Camere Sepolcrali, Le Antichità Romane		1769, 1762, n.d., 1761, 1753, n.d., n.d.	GBP -	2.15
255	Johnson, S.; Hamilton, A.	A Dictionary of the English Language, Mémoires du Comte de Grammont		1755, 1793	GBP -	2.15
256	Bentley, R.	Designs for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray		1753	GBP -	Not Sold
257	W. Read	Coloured English Costume Plates (21)		1807	GBP -	2.00
258	Mason, G. H.	The Costume of China		1800	GBP -	1.10
259	Curtis, William	Flora Londinensis		1777-98	GBP -	4.10
260	Goteh, J. A. and W. Talbot Brown	Architecture of the Renaissance in England		1894	GBP -	2.05
261	Scott, Sir Walter	Border Antiquities		1814	GBP -	Not Sold
262	Raleigh, Sir Walter	History of the World		1687	GBP -	0.16
263	Audsley, G. A.	Gems of Japanese Art and Handicraft		1913	GBP -	2.05
264	Morland, George	Sketches		1792-1807	GBP -	2.05
265	Jameson, Mrs	The Beauties of the Court of King Charles II		1833	GBP -	0.10
266	Mary Russell Mitford	Finden's Tableaux for 1840		1840	GBP -	Not Sold
267	Pyne, W. H.; Moleville, B. de; D'Alvemart, O.; Mason, G. H.; Harding, E.	COSTUME. The Costume of Great Britain; The Costume of Austria; The Costume of Turkey; The Military Costume of Turkey; The Costume of China; The Punishments of China; The Costume of the Russian Empire		1808, 1804, 1802, 1818, 1800, 1808, 1803	GBP -	17.00
268	Mason, G. H.; Solvyns, B.; Moleville, B. de; Harding, E.; Dalvimart, O.	COSTUME. The Costume of China; The Punishments of China, The Costume of Indostan, The Costume of Austria, The Costume of the Russian Empire, The Costume of Turkey, The Military Costume of Turkey		1800, 1804-5, n.d., 1804, 1811, 1804, 1818	GBP -	10.10
269	Blagdon, F. W.	Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horatio Nelson		1806	GBP -	3.00
270	Combe, W.	The Wars of Wellington		1819	GBP -	5.05
271	Ackermann, Rudolf	The Repository of Arts		1809-10	GBP -	2.05
272	Bentham, Jeremy	A Fragment on Government		1776	GBP -	1.18
273	Coraea, Thomas	Binding. In Librum de Arte Poetica Q. Horatii Placci Explanationes		1587	GBP -	1.15
274		Binding. Martialis Epigrammata		1612	GBP -	1.08
275	Sir Edward Sullivan	Binding. Lucien de la Traduction de N. Perrot		1664	GBP -	2.02
276	Racine, Jean; Allestree, R.	Binding. Lettres, The Gentleman's Calling		1747, 1677	GBP -	4.00
277	Sir E. Sullivan	Binding. Nizämï. Makhsen-oul errâr. MS. in Persian		1781	GBP -	0.12
278	Bourne, Vincent	Binding. Poetical Works	Cambridge	1838	GBP -	2.00
279	Hood, Thomas	Binding. Poems		1852	GBP -	2.10
280	Van Lerberghe, Charles	Binding. La Chanson d'Eve	Paris	1904	GBP -	3.15
281		Binding. MS. Prayers, etc. in Italian			GBP -	0.18
282	Butler, Samuel	Hudibras	Cambridge	1744	GBP -	0.14
283	Lord Acton, A. W. Ward and others	Cambridge Modern History (The)	Cambridge	1902-12	GBP -	4.00
284	Combe, William	The English Dance of Death		1815-16	GBP -	9.00
285	Combe, William	The First and Second Tours of Doctor Syntax		1817-20	GBP -	1.02
286	Egan, Pierce	Life in London		1821	GBP -	4.10
287	Firth, C. H.; Villari, P.	Henry VIII. Privy Purse Expenses (1529-32), The Last Years of the Protectorate, Life and Times of Savonarola		1827, 1909, 1889	GBP -	1.05
288	F. Bedford	Henry VIII. A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Man		1543	GBP -	3.15
289	Jekyll, G.	Oxford Poets (The); Wall and Water Gardens		1912-25, n.d.	GBP -	4.00
290	Surtees, R. S.	Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, Hillingdon Hall		1869, 1888	GBP -	2.05
291		ACKERMANN'S HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE		1815	GBP -	26.00
292		ASHENDENE PRESS. ECCLESIASTICUS		1932	GBP -	9.10
293	Boccaccio, G.	Amorus Fiammetta		1929	GBP -	0.05
294		Farces Joyeuses	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	0.12
295	Grammont, Comte de.	Mémoires, par le Comte A. Hamilton		1793	GBP -	1.02
296	Maspero, G.	The Dawn of Civilization		1910	GBP -	0.05
297	Meubles, Les, Lippmann, F.	et la Décoration en Angleterre (1680-1800), Wood-Engraving in Italy in the 15th Century	Paris	n.d., 1888	GBP -	1.08
298	More, Sir Thomas	Utopia	Boston	1878	GBP -	1.02
299	Doyle, J. E.	Chronicle of England (B.C. 55-A.D. 1485)		1864	GBP -	0.15
300	Dumas, Alexandre, Le Sage, A. R.	Les Trois Mousquetaires, Gil Blas	Paris	1894, n.d.	GBP -	1.10

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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