Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS., 03Jun1935,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 03, 1935 - June 03, 1935

Page Size: 889 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
598	Curtius Quintus; Barclay Jo.	Historia Alexandri Magni.; Argenis, old French red morocco.		1658, 1659	GBP -	3.00
599	Dodoens R.	De stirpium historia.	Antwerp	1559	GBP -	2.10
600	Donovan E.	The Natural History of British Birds.		1794-99	GBP -	3.15
601	Gesner C.	Historia Plantarum.	Paris	1541	GBP -	3.15
602	Goedart Jo.	De Insectis.		1685	GBP -	1.18
603	Harvie-Brown J. A.	Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty.; Of the Outer Hebrides.; Of the Orkney Islands.; Of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides.	Edinburgh	1887, 1888, 1891, 1892	GBP -	2.10
604	Hine R. L.	The History of Hitchin.		1927-29	GBP -	1.05
605	Hodgkin T.; Bond F.	Italy and her Invaders.; Gothic Architecture in England.		1880, 1905	GBP -	1.18
606	Horace	Opera.		1737	GBP -	4.05
607	Hudson W. H.	The Naturalist in La Plata.		1892	GBP -	2.15
608	Hudson W. H.	Idle Days in Patagonia.		1893	GBP -	2.05
609		IBIS THE A MAGAZINE OF GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY.		1859-1935	GBP -	31.00
610	Johnson S.; Boswell S.	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.; Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.		1775, 1785	GBP -	1.05
611	King P. P. R. Fitzroy and C. Darwin	Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of Adventure and Beagle 1826-36		1839	GBP -	9.00
612	Lang H. C.; Trimen R. and J. H. Bowker	Butterflies of Europe.; South-African Butterflies.		1884, 1887-89	GBP -	3.05
613	Lawrence T.; Borell Peter	Mercurius Centralis: or, a Discourse of Subterraneal Cockle.; A New Treatise, proving a Multiplicity of Worlds.		1664, 1658	GBP -	4.10
614	Magnus Olaus	Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus.	Antwerp	1558	GBP -	2.05
615	Marshall G. F. L. and L. De Niceville	The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.	Calcutta	1882-90	GBP -	3.00
616	Martinet M.	Histoire des Oiseaux.	Paris	1787-90	GBP -	1.10
617	Martyn T.	Flora Rustica: exhibiting figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry.		1792-4	GBP -	2.00
618	Moffett T.	Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum.	London	1634	GBP -	5.15
619		Naturalist's The Library. Conducted by Sir William Jardine	Edinburgh	1843	GBP -	5.00
620		The whole Booke of Psalmes.; The New Testament.		1633, 1635, 1635-33	GBP -	3.00
621		Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants.		1834-49	GBP -	9.00
622		The Treasury of Health.	London	1550	GBP -	3.00
623	Plat Sir Hugh; Stevenson H.; Bradley R.	The Garden of Eden. Or, an accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits.; The Young Gard'ner's Director.; A Complete Body of Husbandry.		1659-60, 1716, 1727	GBP -	4.05
624	Pratt Anne	Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain.		n. d.	GBP -	1.00
625	Ray John; Blount Sir Thomas Pope	Philosophical Letters between the late Mr. Ray and several ingenious Correspondents.		1718, 1693	GBP -	2.10
626	Rusden M.	A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating of the Nature, Government, Generation and Preservation of the Bee.		1679	GBP -	2.05
627	Seebohm H.; Patten C. J.; Seebohm H.	British Birds and their eggs.; Aquatic Birds of Great Britain and Ireland.; The Birds of Siberia.		1883-85, 1906, 1901	GBP -	1.10
628	Seth-Smith David	Parrakeets. A handbook to the imported species.		1903	GBP -	1.05
629	SOWERBY JAMES	ENGLISH BOTANY; or coloured figures of British Plants.		1790-1814-1829	GBP -	3.03
630	Sowerby James	English Botany.		1863-92	GBP -	7.05
631	Stephens J. F.; Day F.	Illustrations of British Entomology.; The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland.		1828-46, 1880-84	GBP -	1.10
632	Westwood J. O.; Wilson O. S.; Morris E. O.	Arcana Entomologica; or Illustrations of new, rare and interesting Insects.; The Larvae of the British Lepidoptera and their food plants.; History of British Butterflies.		1845, 1880, 1891	GBP -	2.10
633	White G.	A Naturalist's Calendar.; The Natural History of Birds.		1795, 1791	GBP -	2.00
634	Worlidge John; Cowell John	A Compleat System of Husbandry and Gardening.; The Curious and Profitable Gardener.		1716, 1730	GBP -	2.00
635	Albin E.	A Natural History of English Insects.		1749	GBP -	1.10
636	Bacon Sir Francis	Certaine Miscellany Works.	London	1629	GBP -	3.05
637	Bacon Sir F.	Essays or Covnsels, civill and morall.	London	1632	GBP -	1.00
638	Barbut J.; Westwood J. O.	Les genre des insectes de Linne.; The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology.		1781, 1848	GBP -	3.10
639	Bolton James	Harmonia Ruralis; or, an Essay towards a Natural History of British Song Birds.		1845	GBP -	1.10
640	E. A. Wallis Budge	Book The of the Dead. The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum.		1895	GBP -	0.15
641	Browne Sir Thomas	Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths...		1658	GBP -	1.15
642	Buller W. L.	A History of the Birds of New Zealand.		1873	GBP -	3.00
643	Butler A. G.	Lepidoptera Exotica, or Descriptions of exotic lepidoptera.		1874	GBP -	1.05
644	Clinton-Baker H.	Illustrations of Conifers.	Hertford	1909	GBP -	1.00
645		Copper Plate The Magazine.		1778	GBP -	0.10
646	William Alexander	Costume The of China.		1805	GBP -	1.01
647		Hortus Floridus.		1928-29	GBP -	2.05
648	Argenville A. J. D.	The Theory and Practice of Gardening.		1712	GBP -	3.05
649	Digby Sir Kenelm	Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul.		1669	GBP -	0.10
650	Distant W. L.	Rhopalocera Malayana: a Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula.		1882-86	GBP -	2.15
651	Donovan E.	An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China.		1798	GBP -	2.05
652	DRESSER H. E.	A History of the Birds of Europe.		1871-96	GBP -	19.00
653	Drury Dru	Illustrations of Exotic Entomology.		1837	GBP -	0.12
654		Flora and Sylva.		1903-5	GBP -	2.15
655	Fry Francis	Bibliographical Description of the Editions of the New Testament.		1878	GBP -	1.05
656	Furber R.	The Flower-Garden display'd.		1734	GBP -	2.15
657	Galle Philip	Virorum Doctorum ad disciplinis bene merentium effigies XLIIII.	Antverpiae	1572	GBP -	1.00
658	Gibbon E.	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.		1777-88	GBP -	1.15
659	Gould J.	An Analytical Index to the Works of the late John Gould by R. Bowdler Sharpe.		1893	GBP -	Not Sold
660	Grieve S.; Cory C. B.	The Great Auk, or Garefowl.; The Birds of the West Indies.		1885, 1889	GBP -	1.00
661	Grose F.	The Antiquities of England and Wales.		1773-87	GBP -	3.00
662	Harris Moise	Une Exposition des Insectes Anglois.	Londres	1776	GBP -	0.15
663	Hofmann E.; Lewin W.	Die gross-schmetterlinge Europas.; The Papilios of Great Britain.	Stuttgart	1894, 1795	GBP -	2.10
664	HOOKER J. D. AND B. D. JACKSON	Index Kewensis. An Enumeration of the genera and species of flowering plants.	1895-1926	Oxford	GBP -	15.10
665	Horsfield T. W.	History of Sussex.		1835	GBP -	1.05
666	Howard H. Eliot	The British Warblers.		1907-14	GBP -	3.15
667	Kennedy Sir A. B. W.	Petra, its history and monuments.		1925	GBP -	0.10
668	Keynes G.	A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne.		1924	GBP -	1.08
669	Kirby W. F.; Westwood J. O.	European Butterflies and Moths.; British Butterflies.; British Moths.		1882, 1841, 1843	GBP -	1.10
670	Latham John	A General Synopsis of Birds.		1781-1801	GBP -	2.10
671	Latham J.	General History of Birds.		1821-28	GBP -	3.05
672	Lilford Lord	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood.		1895	GBP -	0.18
673	Lindley Professor and Sir J. Paxton	Paxton's Flower Garden.		1850-53	GBP -	2.02
674	Marilaun Anton Kerner von	The Natural History of Plants.		1895	GBP -	1.00
675	Maund B.	The Botanic Garden.		1825-36 and n. d.	GBP -	4.04
676	Meager L.	The English Gardner: or, a sure Guide to young Planters & Gardners.		1699	GBP -	2.10
677	Meinertzhagen Col. R.	Nicoll's Birds of Egypt.		1930	GBP -	1.05
678		Monographs.			GBP -	14.00
679		Original Letters written during the Reigns of Henry VI.		1787	GBP -	0.15
680	Perrin Mrs. H.	British Flowering Plants.		1914	GBP -	2.00
681	Poynting F.	Eggs of British Birds. Limicolae.		1895-96	GBP -	1.05
682	PYNE W. H.	HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES.		1819	GBP -	13.00
683	Roemer Jo. Jac	Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii iconibus illustrata.		1789	GBP -	1.05
684	Rowley G. D.	Ornithological Miscellany.		1876-78	GBP -	1.18
685		Opera.	Lyons	1526	GBP -	2.05
686	Salt H.	A Voyage to Abyssinia.		1814	GBP -	1.10
687	Sclater P. L.	A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds.		1882	GBP -	0.10
688	Seebohm H.	The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their allies.		n. d.	GBP -	1.15
689	Seitz Dr.	The Macrolepidoptera of the Palaearctic Fauna.	Stuttgart	n. d.	GBP -	1.12
690	Sharpe R. B.	Monograph of the Alcedinidae: or, Family of Kingfishers.		1868-71	GBP -	4.10
691	Sheraton T.	The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book.		1895	GBP -	1.08
692	Sharpe R. Bowdler and C. W. Wyatt	A Monograph of the Hirundinidae or Family of Swallows.		1885-94	GBP -	2.15
693	SMITH ADAM	AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.		1776	GBP -	17.10
694	Strickland H. E. and A. G. Melville	The Dodo and its Kindred, plain and coloured plates, name cut from title.		1848	GBP -	1.00
695	Thorburn A.	British Mammals.		1920	GBP -	1.12
696	Tristram H. B.	The Survey of Western Palestine. The Fauna and Flora of Palestine.		1884	GBP -	2.10
697	Tusser T.	Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.		1672	GBP -	1.15

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