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
301	Dumas Fils, Alexandre	La Dame aux Camélias	Paris	n.d.	GBP -	1.08
302	Read, Herbert	English Stained Glass		1926	GBP -	2.00
303	Booth, W. S.; Gervais, F. P.; Bormann, E.	Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy. Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon, Shakespeare not Bacon, Francis Bacon's Cryptic Rhymes		1909, 1901, 1906	GBP -	3.03
304	F. Würthle, Martens, Basilio Armani, and others	TYROLESE VIEWS		n.d.	GBP -	6.10
305	Walton, I. and C. Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1888	GBP -	2.00
306	Hodges, William	Select Views in India		1785-8	GBP -	7.00
307	La Gueriniere, P. Robichon de.	Ecole de Cavalerie	Paris	1733	GBP -	1.00
308	C. RORDORF, AFTER J. J. WETZEL	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE AUX LACS MAJEUR ET DE LUGANO, VOYAGE PITTORESQUE AU LAC DE GARDA OU BENACO		1823, 1824	GBP -	48.00
309		Nine Sections of a Mahogany Book Case			GBP -	9.00
310	ALLEN, William	An Apologie and True Declaration of Institutions and Endevours of the two English Colleges in Rome and Rhemes		1581	GBP -	1.08
311		A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family; who were surprised by the Indians	Philadelphia	1784	GBP -	5.05
312	Blackstone, Sir William	Analysis of the Laws of England	Oxford	1756	GBP -	0.10
313	Brissot de Warville, J. P.	New Travels in the United States of America		1792	GBP -	1.12
314	Brown, John	The Description and Use of a Joynt-Rule, The Triangular Quadrant		1661, 1662	GBP -	3.10
315	Browne, Sir Thomas	Christian Morals		1756	GBP -	1.10
316	BUNYAN, JOHN	REST FOE A WEARIED SOUL: or, the Pilgrim at his Journey's End	Coffee Yard	n.d.	GBP -	0.15
317	Byron, Lord Lara Rogers, Samuel	Jacqueline		1814	GBP -	0.08
318	Byron, Lord	Sardanapalus, etc.		1821	GBP -	0.18
319	Coligny, Admiral Gaspard	Gasparis Colinii Castellonii Vita		1575	GBP -	0.15
320	Collins, W. Wilkie	Memoirs of William Collins, Esq., R.A.		1848	GBP -	0.05
321	CONGREVE, WILLIAM Villars, Abbé de Montfaucon de.	Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les Sciences Secretes	Paris	1670	GBP -	1.15
322	Cruikshank, George Chamisso, A. von and P. H. C. de Lamotte Fouqué	Peter Schlemihl		1824	GBP -	0.05
323	Dale, W.	Calculations ... for the use of the Societies instituted for the Benefit of Old Age		1772	GBP -	1.05
324	Darwin, Charles	Journal of Researches in Geology and Natural History		1839	GBP -	4.00
325	Derham, William	The Artificial Clock-maker		1714	GBP -	1.12
326		Du Perier. General History of all Voyages and Travels [including America]		1708	GBP -	0.10
327	Earle, Augustus	A Residence in New Zealand in 1827		1832	GBP -	0.15
328	Egan, Pierce; Coleridge, S. T. and R. Southey	The Pilgrims of the Thames		1838, 1812	GBP -	Not Sold
329	Finett, Sir John	Som Choice Observations touching the Reception, etc.		1656	GBP -	1.00
330	Glanvil, Joseph; Serre, J. P. de la	Sadducismus Triumphatus, The Mirrour which Flatters Not		1726, 1639	GBP -	1.08
331	Halley, Edmund; Dalton, John	Catalogue des Estoilles Australes	Paris	1679, 1793	GBP -	2.00
332	Hardy, Thomas	A Laodicean		1881	GBP -	0.10
333		Homer. Les Iliades	Paris	1571	GBP -	0.08
334	Hunt, Leigh	The Reflector, a Quarterly Magazine		1811	GBP -	0.10
335	Hunt, Leigh	The Story of Rimini		1816	GBP -	0.10
336	Newton, Sir Isaac	Treatise of the System of the World		1728	GBP -	1.10
337	Oughtred, William; Etten, H. van and W. Oughtred	Arithmeticae in Numeris et Speciebus Institutio, Mathematicall Recreations		1631, 1653	GBP -	2.00
338	Owen, Robert	A New View of Society		1818	GBP -	8.10
339	Pater, Walter; Maugham, W. S.	Marius the Epicurean, The Land of the Blessed Virgin		1885, 1905	GBP -	0.10
340	Polidamus, Valentinus; Beverovicius, Joh	De Re Medica, Idea Medicinae Veterum		1540, 1637	GBP -	1.12
341	Seiden, John; Howell, James; Jenkins, David	The Priviledges of the! Baronage of England, Some Sober Inspections [Long Parliament], The Works of Judge Jenkins		1642, 1656, 1648	GBP -	1.00
342	Stanes, W.; Harvey, Gideon; Helmont, P. M., Baron of	Enquiry into the Reasons and Grounds of the Contempt of Physicians, The Disease of London, The Spirit of Diseases, Pharmocopceia Radcliffeana		1678, 1675, 1694, 1716	GBP -	4.05
343	Stuart, Martinus	en Jaques Kuyper. De Mensch		1818	GBP -	0.08
344	Svinine, Paul	Sketches of Russia		1814	GBP -	0.14
345	Swift, Jonathan	The Hibernian Patriot: being a Collection of the Drapier's Letters, History of the Pour Last Years of the Queen		1730, 1758	GBP -	1.10
346	J. J. Scheurman	Panorama du Mont-Righi	Zurich	1845	GBP -	1.12
347	Tachard, Guy; Choiry, Abbé de.	Voyage de Siam des Peres Jesuites, Suite du Voyage de Siam		1688, 1687	GBP -	1.05
348	Thackeray, W. M.	Lovel the Widower		1861	GBP -	Not Sold
349	Welwod, William; Sheppard, W.	An Abridgement of all Sea-Lawes, Of the Office of the Clerk of the Market, The Great and Ancient Charter of the Cinque-Ports		1636, 1665, 1682	GBP -	3.00
350	Barrow, John	Voyage to Cochinchina		1806	GBP -	2.02
351	Bertuch, F. J. und C.	Bilderbuch für Kinder		1801-13	GBP -	7.00
352	Proctor, Robert	Bibliographical Society. The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century		1900	GBP -	1.15
353	Bougainville, Lewis de.	Voyage round the World [with Vocabulary of the Language of Tahiti]		1772	GBP -	2.10
354	Browne, Sir Thomas; Read, Alexander, Physician	Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Workes		1658, 1650	GBP -	1.15
355	Cumming, Alexander	The Elements of Clock and Watch-work, adapted to Practice		1766	GBP -	2.10
356	Davy, Humphrey	On the Analysis of Soils, as connected with their Improvement		1805	GBP -	0.10
357	DEFOE, DANIEL, Cowley, Abraham	The Mock Mourners. A Satyr, The Double Welcome. A Poem to the Duke of Marlbro', A Hymn to Victory, The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, Ode, upon the Blessed Restoration and Returne of His Sacred Majestie, Charls the Second		1702, 1705, 1704, 1701, 1660	GBP -	3.05
358	E., T.	The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights		1632	GBP -	2.10
359	Fleurieu, Captain Charles P.	Discoveries of the French to the South-East of New Guinea		1791	GBP -	0.10
360	Haywarde, Sir John	The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie the IIII		1599	GBP -	0.05
361	Malthus, T. R.; Edgeworth, M. and R. L.; Pownall, T.; Governor of New Jersey, etc	Essay on the Principle of Population, Practical Education, Principles of Polity		1803, 1798, 1752	GBP -	1.08
362	Scarlatti, Domenico	Music. XLII Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin		1738-9	GBP -	2.00
363	Newton, Sir Isaac	Philosophise Naturalis Principia Mathematica		1714, 1726	GBP -	1.00
364	Nivelon, F.	The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour		1737	GBP -	0.10
365		Oratio Dominica [The Lord's Prayer in more than 100 Languages, including Mexican, Virginian and Poconchi]		1726	GBP -	0.10
366	PAPWORTH, JOHN B.	SELECT VIEWS OF LONDON		1816	GBP -	44.00
367	Rameau, J. P.; Scarlatti, Domenico	A Treatise of Musick, XLII Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin		1752, 1738-9	GBP -	3.10
368	Sauer, Martin	Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia [and the N.W. Coast of America]		1802	GBP -	1.08
369	Steele, Sir Richard	The Crisis		1714	GBP -	1.00
370		Swedish Intelligencer (The) [and The German History], The Swedish Discipline, The Principal Passages of Germany		1632-5, 1632, 1636-7	GBP -	5.10
371	Thackeray, W. M.	Mrs. Perkins's Ball, " Our Street,", Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Doctor Birch		1847, 1848, 1849, 1849	GBP -	0.10
372	Hakewill, J.	Watts, Medland and others. Select Views in London and Westminster, Picturesque Tour of Italy		plates dated 1795-1800, 1820	GBP -	0.12
373	Bentley, R.	Designs for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray		1753	GBP -	6.00
374		Biblia cum concordantiis, Novum Testamentum [Greek and Latin] ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum		1520, 1522	GBP -	3.00
375	Buchanan, George	Rerum Scoticarum Historia	Edimburgi	1582	GBP -	1.02
376		Burlington Fine Arts Club. Pictures of the School of Siena		1904	GBP -	1.08
377	Chardin, Sir John; Digges, Sir Dudly	Travels into Persia and ye East Indies, The Compleat Ambassador		1686, 1655	GBP -	1.05
378		Pires. Trade Sheet of John Bristow		ca. 1750	GBP -	1.05
379	Ireland, Samuel	Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare		1796	GBP -	0.12
380	Locke, John; Seiden, John	Essay concerning Humane Understanding, Mare Clausum		1694, 1663	GBP -	1.02
381		London Gazette (The) 44 odd nos. of			GBP -	0.16
382	Monro, Col. Robert	Monro his Expedition with the worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keyes Regiment)		1637	GBP -	1.05
383	Sanctorius, Sanctorius	Methodi Vitandorum Errorum Omnium, qui in Arte Medica contingunt libri XV		1603	GBP -	1.00
384	Vincent, Augustine	Discourse of Errours in the Catalogue of Nobility		1622	GBP -	1.10
385	Wirtzung, Christopher	The General Practise of Physicke		1617	GBP -	4.10
386	Damiano da Odemira	The Pleasant and wittie Playe of the Cheasts renewed; And now set furth in Englishe by lames Rowbothum		1562	GBP -	8.15
387	Boyle, Hon. Robert	Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters 1684/5; Of the Reconcile-ableness of Specifick Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy		1684, 1685	GBP -	9.10
388	Sterne, Laurence	Nouveau Voyage en France, et Fragments, traduit de l'Anglois		1784	GBP -	0.10
389	Linnaeus, C.; Lamarck, J. B.	Philosophia Botanica, Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques	Paris	1763, 1794	GBP -	1.15
390	Martialis, M. V.; Erasmus, D.	Epigrammatum Libri, Euclidis Elementa Geometrica, Encomium Moriae	Paris	1754, n.d., 1702	GBP -	0.08
391	Barlandus, H.	Bindings. Agenda sive Exequiale Sacramentorum, De Rebus Gestis Ducum Brabantie	Argentine	1508, 1532	GBP -	5.10
392	Schwarz, G. G.	De Ornamentis Librorum		1756	GBP -	0.10
393	Pope, A.	Essay on Man, The Dairyman's Daughter	New York	1807, 1821	GBP -	Not Sold
394		Fragment of Byzantine or Greek Church Embroidery			GBP -	0.10
395	Boccaccio, Giovanni	Il Decamerone	Vinegia	1556	GBP -	0.10
396	Burton, William; Ffoulkes, Charles; Longman, W.	Porcelain, Armour and Weapons, Spink's Catalogue of H. Montagu's Collection of Coins, Tokens of the 18th Century (Booksellers and Bookmakers)	Oxford	1906, 1909, 1891, 1916	GBP -	0.10
397	Challamel, A.; Wilton, Countess of	History of Fashion in France, The Book of Costume		1882, 1847	GBP -	1.05
398		Liturgy, Armenian		1702	GBP -	0.08
399	Poppius, Menso	Septem Cyclopeidon Libri		1555	GBP -	1.08
400	Arena, Antoine	Meygra Entreprisa Catoliqui Imperatoris		1760	GBP -	1.18

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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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