Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 21Jul1931,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 21, 1931 - July 21, 1931

Page Size: 762 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
403	Basan, R.	Collection de Cent vingt Estampes gravées d'après les Tableaux et Dessins qui composoient le Cabinet de M. Poullain	Paris	1781	GBP -	5.05
404	Cervantes, M. de.	Les Principales Aventures de l'Admirable Don Quichotte, representées en figures par Coypel	La Haye	1746	GBP -	1.18
405	Cervantes, M. de.	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha	Madrid, Ybarra	1780	GBP -	7.00
406	Cervantes, M. de	The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant		1652	GBP -	3.00
407	Cervantes, M. de.	Les Principales Aventures de l'Admirable Don Quichotte, representées en figures par Coypel	Liège, Bassompierie	1776	GBP -	1.03
408	Gayton, E.	Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot		1654	GBP -	1.03
409	Chaucer, G.	Workes, compiled by Jhon Ledgate		1561	GBP -	1.00
410	Keating, G.	The General History of Ireland, translated by D. O'Connor	Dublin	1723	GBP -	1.02
411	Chardin, Sir John	Travels into Persia and the East Indies		1686	GBP -	0.05
412	Fox, Geo.	A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, &c		1694	GBP -	0.05
413	Raleigh, Sir Walter	History of the World		1634	GBP -	0.05
414	LOCKE, John	ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING		1690	GBP -	4.10
415	Hobbes, T.	Leviathan		1651	GBP -	0.18
416		Mohammedan Law	N. Africa	c. 1695	GBP -	0.05
417		Missale Romanum	Rome	1846	GBP -	0.16
418		Missale Romanum		1685	GBP -	2.00
419	Eutropius	De Inclytis totius Italice Provincie ac Romanorum gestis libri xviij	Paris		GBP -	1.12
420		Bible. English, "Great" Version	Rouen	1566	GBP -	9.10
421	Guillim, J.; Walsingham, T.	A Display of Heraldry; Historia Brevis		1724; 1574	GBP -	2.05
422	Purcell, H.	Orpheus Britannicus (vol. I only)		1706	GBP -	2.00
423	La Fontaine, J. de.	Fables Choisies	Paris	1755-9	GBP -	20.10
424	Coats, W. A.	Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French	Glasgow	1904	GBP -	0.10
425		Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg	Paris	1710	GBP -	1.05
426	Gell, Sir W.; Lecomte, H.	Topography of Troy; Twenty-seven Coloured Costume Plates		1804	GBP -	2.05
427	Butler, Capt. H.	South African Sketches: illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter		1841	GBP -	3.00
428	Nicholson, W.	History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution		c. 1837	GBP -	0.14
429	Palladio, A.	Architecture, Revised by E. Hoppus		1736	GBP -	0.05
430		London Evening Post			GBP -	1.08
431	Yriarte, C.	Venise, Histoire, Art, Industrie; Florence, L'Histoire, Les Medicis, Les Humanistes, etc		1878; 1881	GBP -	4.10
432	Harris, Moses	The Aurelian		1840	GBP -	0.14
433	Chamberlaine, S.	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII Engraved...		1828	GBP -	2.10
434	Brown, M. E., W. A.	Musical Instruments and their Homes	New York	1888	GBP -	0.10
435	Frankau, Julia	Eighteenth Century Colour Prints		1900	GBP -	1.15
436	Armstrong, W.	Gainsborough and his Place in English Art		1898	GBP -	1.05
437	Jones, Owen	The Grammar of Ornament		1868	GBP -	0.12
438		Album of Illustrations, containing a coloured Engraving La Mère Intéressante			GBP -	0.10
439	A'Beckett, G. A.; Carleton, W.	The Comic History of Rome; Valentine M'Clutchy	Dublin	1854	GBP -	0.18
440	Davies, T.	Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick		1781	GBP -	0.16
441	Defoe, D.	The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		1790	GBP -	0.18
442	Funnell, W.	A Voyage round the World		1707	GBP -	6.10
443	Lassels, R.; Bernier, F.; Verstegan, R.; Du May, L.	The Voyage of Italy; The History of the late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul; Restitution of Decayed Intelligence; The Estate of the Empire		1670; 1671; 1673; 1664	GBP -	2.05
444	Shakespeare, W.	Works		1745	GBP -	2.10
445	Sheridan, T.; Gilpin, W.	The Life of the Rev. Doctor Johnathan Swift; Remarks on Forest Scenery		1784; 1791	GBP -	0.10
446	Boyle, R.	New Experiments and Observations touching Cold		1683	GBP -	2.10
447	Bradley, R.	A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature		1721	GBP -	0.15
448	Perkins, W.; Wotton, A.	A Golden Chaine; An Answere to a Popish Pamphlet	Cambridge	1600; 1605	GBP -	0.14
449	Livy	The Romane Historie translated by Philemon Holland		1600	GBP -	7.05
450	Paruta, P.; Raleigh, Sir W.	The History of Venice, made English by Henry Earl of Monmouth; The Historie of the World		1658; 1652	GBP -	1.00
451	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir T. North		1657	GBP -	2.05
452	Rycaut, P.; Boccalini, T.	The Present State of the Ottoman Empire; The History of the Turkish Empire; I ragguagli di Parnasso or Advertisements from Parnassus		1668; 1680; 1657	GBP -	0.14
453	Sandoval, P. de; Gualdo, G.	The Civil Wars of Spain; The History of the Cardinals of the Roman Church; An History of the late Warres		1652; 1670; 1648	GBP -	1.16
454	Suetonius	The Historie of the Twelve Cæsars, translated by Philemon Holland		1606	GBP -	0.16
455	Yorke, J.	The Union of Honour		1641	GBP -	2.10
456	APPERLEY, C.J.	Nimrod's Hunting Tours		1835	GBP -	0.05
457	Apperley, C. J.	The Chase, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod		1837	GBP -	1.10
458	Apperley, C. J.	Hunting Reminiscences.		1843	GBP -	0.18
459	Apperley, C. J.	Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton		1851	GBP -	11.00
460	E. W. Lane	Arabian Nights' Entertainments		1839-41	GBP -	2.10
461	Arnold, T. J.; Rogers, S.	Reynard the Fox; Aesop; Poems	Italy	1855; 1818; 1830; 1834	GBP -	1.01
462	Milton, J.	Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, from the Text of T. Newton	Birmingham	1758	GBP -	3.08
463	Beckford, Peter	Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting		1796	GBP -	4.05
464	Berkeley, Hon. G. F.	Reminiscences of a Huntsman		1854	GBP -	1.10
465	Grant, J.; Birrell, A.	Bradshaw's Railway Companion; Sketches in London; Obiter Dicta, A. L. s. inserted		1843; 1838; 1884	GBP -	0.05
466		British Poets		1831-53	GBP -	18.00
467	Bunbury, H. W.	Academy for Grown Horsemen; The Annals of Horsemanship		1808	GBP -	5.05
468	Burton, J. H.	History of Scotland		1867-53	GBP -	2.00
469	Carlyle, T.; Apuleius	Sartor Resartus; On Heroes and Hero-Worship; The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, Translated by T. Taylor		1841; 1882	GBP -	2.10
470	Chaucer, G.	The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay by T. Tyrwhitt		1822	GBP -	7.15
471	Combe, W.	The Toui of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque		1812	GBP -	1.05
472	Cook, Colonel John	Observations on Fox-hunting		1826	GBP -	3.00
473	Couch, J.	History of the Fishes of the British Islands		1867	GBP -	2.00
474	Dennistoun, James; Buckle, H. T.	Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; History of Civilization in England		1851; 1858-64	GBP -	2.02
475	Evelyn, J.; Pepys, S.; North, R.	Memoirs, Edited by W. Bray; Memoirs Edited by Lord Braybrooke; Lives of the Norths, with Notes by H. Roscoe		1826-8	GBP -	11.00
476	Finlay, G.	History of Greece, Edited by H. F. Tozer	Oxford	1877	GBP -	0.10
477	Froude, J. A.	Works		1858-91	GBP -	15.10
478	A. E. T. Watson	Fur, Feather and Fin Series		1893-9	GBP -	0.08
479	Gilbert, W. S.	The "Bab" Ballads; More "Bab" Ballads		1869	GBP -	9.00
480	Goldsmith, Oliver	Works, Edited by P. Cunningham, and Life by Foster		1854	GBP -	4.10
481	Green, J. R.	History of the English People		1877-80	GBP -	1.00
482	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	The Scarlet Letter, A Romance	Boston	1850	GBP -	3.10
483	Horlock, K.; Eardley Wilmot, Sir J. E.; Astley, Sir J. D.	Recollections of a Fox-Hunter, by Scrutator; Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith; Fifty years of my Life		1861; 1860; 1894	GBP -	0.10
484	Jerrold, D. W.; Dickens, C.	Handbook of Swindling; Sketches of Young Couples; Sketches of Young Ladies; Sketches of Young Gentlemen		1839; 1840; 1837; 1838	GBP -	0.18
485	Jerrold, Douglas	Cakes and Ale; Punch's Letters to his Son; Story of a Feather		1842; 1843; 1844	GBP -	1.10
486	Johnson, Samuel	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland		1775	GBP -	1.15
487	Kaye, J. W.; Malleson, G. B.	History of the Sepoy War; Lives of Indian Officers; History of the Indian Mutiny		1864-75; 1867; 1878-80; 1864-80	GBP -	0.10
488	Kinglake, A. W.	The Invasion of the Crimea		1863-87	GBP -	2.10
489	Lamb, Charles	Works		1818	GBP -	6.05
490	Lamb, Charles	Elia		1823-33	GBP -	16.10
491	Lang, A.	Ballades in Blue China; The Library		1881; 1892	GBP -	0.10
492	Lecky, W. E. H.	History of England in the Eighteenth Century		1878-90; 1865-1908	GBP -	5.10
493	Lowell, J. R.; Hole, Dean	The Biglow Papers; A Little Tour in Ireland		1859	GBP -	4.00
494	McCarthy, Justin	History of Our Own Times		1881-1903	GBP -	1.00
495	Mills, J.	Life of a Foxhound; Sportsmans' Library	Edinb	1861; 1845	GBP -	2.02
496	Morier, James	Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, in England		1828	GBP -	1.15
497	Plutarch's Lives	The Translation called Dryden's		1893	GBP -	2.12
498	Prescott, W. H.	Works		1848-60	GBP -	5.00
499	Radcliffe, F. P. D.; vyner, R. T.	The Noble Science: A few general ideas on Fox-Hunting; Notitia Venatica		1839	GBP -	0.10
500	Scrope, William	The Art of Deer-Stalking		1838	GBP -	6.00
501	Scrope, William	Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed		1843	GBP -	6.00
502	Smith, A.; Smedley, F. E.	Christopher Tadpole; Lewis Arundel		1848; 1852	GBP -	2.00

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