Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 11Dec1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 1934 - December 11, 1934

Page Size: 636 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Markham, G.	A Way to Get Wealth, and Lawson (Wm.) A New Orchard and Garden		1648	GBP -	3.05
102	Vitruvius	De Architectura libri decern, ... Additis Julii Frontini de Aqueductibus Libris	Lyons	1523	GBP -	1.18
103	Chenier, A. and J.; Michelet, J.	Oeuvres; Histoire de la Revolution Française	Paris	n. d., 1826	GBP -	0.10
104	Stephanus, Henricus	Annotationes in Sophoclem & Euripi-dem		1568	GBP -	0.10
105	Poggius, J. F.	Refutatorium errorum Fratris Hieronymi Sauonarole qui concionando ad populum Florentie in templo dei Summo Pontifici insurrexit		1498	GBP -	9.00
106	Venetian Ballads	Invito Amoroso d'alcuini Pastori	Venice	1617	GBP -	11.10
107	Speed, Adam	Adam out of Eden	Brome	1659	GBP -	1.15
108	Savot, Louis	L'Architecture Françoise des bastimens particvliers	Paris	1673	GBP -	1.02
109	Pererius, Benedictus	The Astrologer anatomiz'd: or, the Vanity of star-gazing art discovered rendered into English by Percy Enderbie	London	1661	GBP -	2.00
110	Gerbier, Sir B.	Counsel and Advise to all Builders		1663	GBP -	3.00
111	Peters, Hugh	A Dying Fathers last Legacy to an onely child or Mr. Hugh Peter's Advice to his daughter		[? 1665]	GBP -	1.12
112	Drope, Francis	A Short and Sure Guid sic in the Practice of Raising and Ordering of Fruit-Trees	Oxford	1672	GBP -	2.02
113	Duhamel du Monceau, H. L.; Merlet, J.	Traite de la Conservation des Grains; L'Abrege des bons Fruits		1667, 1753	GBP -	1.18
114	Goesius, W.	Las Casas. Narratio Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima; Rei Agrariae		1674, 1598	GBP -	2.05
115	Dickens, Charles	Sunday under Three Heads		1836	GBP -	0.16
116	Bekker, Balthasar	Le Monde Enchante		1694	GBP -	0.15
117	Gutierrez de Toledo, Julian	El sumario de las maravillosas : y espantables cosas que enel mundo han acontescido, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, woodcut initials, old calf, arms on sides, re-backed morocco Toledo, 1524		1524	GBP -	2.05
118	Pinder, U.	Epiphaniae Medicorum : Speculum videndi urinas hominum, etc.	Nuremberg	1506	GBP -	3.15
119	Willis, Thomas	Cerebri Anatome : cui accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus	London	1664	GBP -	12.00
120	Baranzani, G. A.; Rhodius, A.	Uranoscopia	Wittemburg	1620, 1617	GBP -	0.12
121	Dossie, R.	New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory;' Handmaid to the Arts		1834	GBP -	1.18
122	Steel, F. A.; R. C.; Kitchener, H. T.	Temple.; Letters on Marriage		1884	GBP -	0.05
123	Thicknesse, P.; Petty, Sir Wm.	Treatise on the Art of Decyphering and of Writing in Cypher		1772	GBP -	4.10
124	Gaffarel, James; Barbette, P.	Unheard of Curiosities concerning the Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, etc.; The Practice of the Most Successful Physician		1650	GBP -	3.05
125	Stoeffler, Joannes	Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque Astrolabii			GBP -	1.02
126	North, Hon. R.; Venables, Col. R.	A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds; The Ex perienced Angler		1714	GBP -	1.12
127		HORNBOOK with alphabet			GBP -	5.05
128	Pamphlets	Chapbooks			GBP -	2.18
129	Thackeray, W. M.	The Virginians		1857-8	GBP -	0.18
130	Thackeray, W. M.	Vanity Fair		1848	GBP -	0.15
131	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley Novels		1892-4	GBP -	4.15
132	Thackeray, W. M.; Jackson, Mrs. F. N.	Complete Works; History of Hand-Made Lace		1843	GBP -	3.00
133		Poems.			GBP -	1.00
134	D'Urfey, T.	Collin's Walk through London and West-minster		1690	GBP -	0.05
135	Burke, E.	An Account of the European Settlements in America, second edition		1758	GBP -	0.12
136	Bisselius, Jo.	Argonauticon Americanorum	Munich	1647	GBP -	0.05
137	FIELDING, H.	THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING	London	1749	GBP -	14.10
138	Sheridan, R. B.	The Rivals			GBP -	0.18
139	KINGSLEY, CHARLES	Westward Ho ! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh	Cambridge	1855	GBP -	2.00
140	Edwards, S.; J. Lindley	Botanical Register		1825-46	GBP -	9.10
141	Curtis, W. S.	Botanical Magazine		1787-1828	GBP -	27.00
142	SOWERBY, C. E.	ENGLISH BOTANY			GBP -	3.15
143	Dumas, A.	Napoleon	Paris	1840	GBP -	Not Sold
144	Dickens, C.	Pickwick Papers			GBP -	Not Sold
145	Curtis, W.	Botanical Magazine		1790-1818	GBP -	7.05
146	Lamb, Charles and Mary	Mrs. Leicester's School			GBP -	6.10
147	Swift, Jonathan	Letters to and from Dr. J. Swift	Dublin	1741	GBP -	Not Sold
148	Heydon, John	The Wise-Mans Crown		1664	GBP -	2.15
149	Scott, Sir Walter	Redgauntlet		1824	GBP -	Not Sold
150	DICKENS, CHARLES	THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST ... A New Edition		1846	GBP -	78.00
151	Dickens, C.	Playbill of a Performance of "Little Nelly" at the Royal Amphitheatre	March	1871	GBP -	Not Sold
152	Dickens, C.	Sketches by Box		1844	GBP -	0.14
153	Dickens, C.	David Copperfield		1853	GBP -	1.00
154	Smith, J. A.; Lodge, E.	Etchings of Remarkable Beggars .. in London; Portraits of Illustrious Personages			GBP -	0.12
155		Ainsworth's Magazine		1842-6	GBP -	1.15
155A	Dickens, C.	Martin Chuzzlewit		1843-4	GBP -	13.00
156	Dickens, C.	Bleak House		1852-3	GBP -	5.05
157	LE FANU, J. S.	THE FORTUNES OF COLONEL TORLOGH O'BRIEN, FIRST EDITION	Dublin	1846-7	GBP -	10.00
158	Lever, C.	Tom Burke of "Ours"	Dublin	1844	GBP -	2.00
159	Lever, C.	The O'Donoghue	Dublin	1845	GBP -	2.00
160	Lever, C.	Roland Cashel		1849-50	GBP -	1.10
161	MARRYAT, CAPTAIN F.	POOR JACK.		1840	GBP -	6.10
162	Thackeray, W. M.	The History of Pendennis			GBP -	2.15
163	SMITH, Andrew	ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA		1849	GBP -	27.00
164	Edwards, G.	Pictures of Birds		1741	GBP -	6.06
165	Sloane, W. M.	Life of Napoleon Bonaparte		1896	GBP -	0.05
166	Edwards, G.; Ellis, J.; Lettsom, J. C.; Ellis, J.	TRACTS.; Directions for Bringing over Seeds and Plants from the East Indies, etc.; Natural History of the Tea Tree; Additional Observations on the Method of Preserving Seeds from Foreign Parts		1743, 1770, 1772	GBP -	3.05
167	Ross, Sir John	Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North West Passage			GBP -	Not Sold
168	Burns, E.; Natter, L.	The Coinage of Scotland; Treatise of Engraving on Precious Stones		1887	GBP -	0.10
169	Derrick, Charles	Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy; Paston Letters			GBP -	Not Sold
170		Roxburghe Club.		1841	GBP -	1.12
171		Notitia Utraque cum Orientis turn Occidentis ultra Arcadii honoriique Caesarum tempora			GBP -	0.10
172	Fenn, J.	Original Letters written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III		1787-1823	GBP -	0.15
173	Newton, I.	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica		1726	GBP -	2.10
174	Guizot, M.	The History of France		1881	GBP -	0.12
175	James I.	Daemonologie	Edinburgh	1597	GBP -	2.00
176	Scot, Reginald	A Perfite platforme of a Hoppe Garden	London	1576	GBP -	8.00
177	Las Casas, B. de	Entre los remedios q do fray Bartolome de las casas refirio por mandado del Emperador rey nro senor : en los aynntamietos q mädo hazez su magestad de perlados y letrados y personas grädes en Valladolid el ano de mill & quinietos y quareta y dos : para ref	Seville	1552	GBP -	5.10
178	Heydon, Sir Christopher	A Defence of Iudicall Astrologie	Cambridge	1603	GBP -	2.10
179	Alchabitius	Preclaru Sumi in Astroru Scientia ... de Planetar coiunctioibus, diagrams	Venice	1521	GBP -	1.10
180	TUSSER, T.	FIUE HUNDRED POINTES OF GOOD HUSBANDRIE	London	1580	GBP -	15.10
181	BORDE, ANDREW	THE BREVIARIE OF HEALTH	London	1575	GBP -	21.00
182	GESNER, C.	THE TREASURE OF EVONYMVS	London	1559	GBP -	17.10
183	Cellini, B.	Dve Trattati vno intorno alle otto principali arte dell' oreficeria.		1568	GBP -	4.15
184	F., N.	The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard.	London	1609	GBP -	14.00
185	LEIGH, VALENTINE	The moste profitable and commendable science	London	1577	GBP -	8.10
186	LANGHAM, W.	The Garden of Health	London	1633	GBP -	7.15
187	Blith, W.	The English Improver improved or the Svrvey of Hvsbandry svrveyed discovering the improveablenes of all Lands	London	1652	GBP -	1.10
188	Rondelet, J.	Traite theorique et pratique de l'Art de Batir		1812-48	GBP -	1.10
189	Galluci, G. P.	Theatrum Mundi et Temporis	Venice	1588	GBP -	1.15
190	Origanus, D.; Briet, P.	Annorum Priorum 30 Incipientium ab Anno Christi 1595	Paris	1609, 1595, 1648	GBP -	0.10
191	Da Vinci, L.	Catalogus Librorum qui in officina Aldi ... Venetiis excuse sunt; Trattata della Pittura	Italian	1534-5	GBP -	4.00
192	MOLIERE, J. B. P. DE	OEUVRES.	Paris	1734	GBP -	6.10
193	Ives, E.; Stewart, D.; Merigot, S.	A voyage to India, etc.; Philosophy; Amateur's Portfolio		1773, 1827	GBP -	1.00
194	Moore, Thomas	Odes of Anacreon Translated			GBP -	0.10
195		Bible.	Basel	1569	GBP -	1.00
196	Scott, R.	late Brook & Co.		circa 1810	GBP -	2.10
197	Pedro de Peralta, Doctor Don	Historia de Espana Vindicada		1730	GBP -	0.05
198	Selden, John	Vindiciae Secundum integritatem Existima-tionis suae per Convitium de Scriptione Maris Clausi			GBP -	Not Sold
199	Caxton, W.	Kelmscott Press.		1892	GBP -	1.10

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