Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., 23Mar1936,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 23, 1936 - March 23, 1936

Page Size: 453 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ACON SIR FRANCIS	The Wisedome of the Ancients.		1619	GBP -	9.00
2	Baltimore F. Lord	A Tour to the East...		1767	GBP -	Not Sold
3	Bible	Russian.			GBP -	0.10
4		Book of Common Prayer.	J. Baskett	1717	GBP -	0.15
5	Bunyan John	The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate.		circa 1700	GBP -	1.00
6	Deriliam Sir John	Cato Major.		1669	GBP -	6.05
7		Fancy (The).			GBP -	1.05
8	Fielding Henry	Histoire de Tom Jones...	à Londres	1751	GBP -	2.00
9		Fore-Edge Painting.	Denbigh	1818	GBP -	3.15
10		Geographical (A) Present.			GBP -	0.18
11	Heylyn Peter; Bowen E.	Microcosmos A Little Description of the Great World.; Britannia Depicta.	Oxford	1639, 1720	GBP -	1.05
12	HORAE B. V. M.	MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.		14th Century	GBP -	5.10
13	Johnson Samuel; Lessing G. E.	Diary of a Journey into North Wales.; Laokoon.	Berlin.	1816, 1766	GBP -	0.10
14	Johnson S.	Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.		1781	GBP -	1.18
15	Jonas Justus; Bale John; Tyndale Wm.	The true hystorie of the Christen departynge of... Martyne Luther...; The epistle eschortatorye of an Englyshe Christiane.; An exposycyon upon the V. VI. VII.			GBP -	12.00
16	Kipling Rudyard	The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.		1894-95	GBP -	5.00
17	Kipling R.; Barrie J. M.	The Five Nations.; Margaret Ogilvy.	Calcutta	1896, 1888	GBP -	1.08
18	Kipling R.	The Years Between.		1919	GBP -	1.10
19	Luther Martin	A Commentarie upon the Galatians.		1588	GBP -	0.15
20	Lambarde William	Eirenarcha: or of The Office of the Justices of Peace.		1581	GBP -	2.15
21	Magna Carta	The boke of Magna Carta.		1534	GBP -	11.00
22	MILTON JOHN	Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books.		1668	GBP -	25.00
23	Newman Card. J. H.	Tracts for the Times.		1868	GBP -	1.10
24		Petrarch.	Venice	1532	GBP -	4.10
25		Psalms carefully suited to the Christian Worship in the United States of America.	New York, New Brunswicke	1788, 1810	GBP -	0.14
26	Roscoe T.; Whishaw F.	The London and Birmingham Railway.; Analysis of Railways.		1839, 1837	GBP -	2.10
27	Scott Sir Walter	Jvanhoe.	Edinb	1820	GBP -	4.10
28	Sillar David	Poems.	Kilmarnock,	1789	GBP -	2.05
29	Temple Sir Peter	Mans Master-Piece.	Paris	1540	GBP -	2.00
30	Tennyson Lord.; Hemans Airs	Idylls of the King.; Poetical Remains.		1859, 1836	GBP -	0.05
31	Turner Thomas	Narrative of a Journey from Gloucester to Aberyst.	Oxford	1814	GBP -	Not Sold
32	Warren Samuel	Ten Thousand a Year.		1841	GBP -	2.10
33	BZACKSTONE WILLIAM	Commentaries on the Laws of England.	Oxford	1765-69	GBP -	9.00
34		Book of Common Prayer.		1636-06	GBP -	2.05
35		Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms of David.	Edinb	1637	GBP -	0.10
36	Chaucer G.	Canterbury Tales.		1478	GBP -	6.00
37	Handel G. F.	The Messiah an Oratorio.		n.d.	GBP -	0.10
38	Luther Martin	Ein Sermon uber das Evangelion Johannis.	Venice	1531, 1526	GBP -	0.18
39	Malcolm J. P.	Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century.		1808	GBP -	1.10
40	Pepys Samuel	Memoirs comprising his Diary Edited by Lord Braybrooke.		1825	GBP -	32.00
41	BIBLE	Latin.	Zurich	1543	GBP -	10.10
42	Bonaventura St. J. F.	Super secundum Sententiarum.		XIIIth Century	GBP -	10.00
43		Costume of Yorkshire.		1814	GBP -	10.10
44	James I.	Workes.		1616	GBP -	Not Sold
45	Jamison J.	Geographia Antiqua.		n.d.	GBP -	1.05
46	Livy	Decades, cum annotationibus Henrichi Loriti Glareani.	Basel	1540	GBP -	4.10
47	Mercator Gerard	Atlas or a geographicke description of...	Amsterdam	1636	GBP -	28.00
48		The Holy Bible.		1924-27	GBP -	9.00
49	Nuremberg	Der Stat Nurmberg verneute Reformation.	Nuremberg	1564	GBP -	0.15
50	Pettus Sir J.; Enderbie P.	Fodinae Regales or.; Cambria Triumphaus.		1670, 1661	GBP -	3.05
51	Raleigh Sir Walter	History of the World.		1614	GBP -	5.05
52	Westall Wm.	Views of the Lake of the Vale of Keswick.; Jon Bon and Mast person.	n. d., boards	1820	GBP -	0.12
53	Rousseau J. J.; Goldsmith O.	Confessions.; An History of England.		1783, 1772	GBP -	0.05
54	by S. Fortrey;	Trade.; Some Considerations about the Raising of Coin.; Tracts concerning the Present State of Ireland.		1713, 1696, 1729	GBP -	1.08
55	I. Swainson; Middleton A.; Bywater John; Lowndes F.	Medical.; A concise Relation of the effects of an extraordinary styptic.; A chemical analysis of the Lemington Waters.; A Letter (by Fra. Duncan).; An Essay on light and vision.; Observations on medical electricity.		1797, 1785, 1814, 1801, 1813, 1787	GBP -	3.00
56	Northmore T.; Chrysel C.	Narrative of the operations to raise the Royal George in 1783.; A Quadruplet of Inventions.; A New Invention of constructing and setting Boilers.; An Essay on the draught of fire in furnaces.	Bristol	1785, 1799, 1774	GBP -	2.05
57	British Guiana; Spilsbury F. B.	Almanack and local guide of British Guiana.; New Commission of the Governor of Quebec and other Instruments of Authority.	Demerary,	1832, 1776, 1807	GBP -	0.12
58	Gibbon E.; Hill Rowland	A Vindication of some passages in the 15th and 16th Chapters of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.; The History of Israel Jobson.; The Life of Mother Gin; The State and Prospects of Penny Postage.	New York	1779, 1757, 1736, 1844, 1830, 1829	GBP -	4.05
59	Bradley R.; Wolfius Dr.; Wright T.	The Country Gentleman and Farmer's Monthly Director frontispiece.; A Discovery of the True Cause of the wonderful multiplication of Corn frontispiece.; The Art of floating lands.		1726, 1734, 1733, 1799	GBP -	1.08
60		Trade.; The State of the Silk and Woollen Manufacture.; Some further observations on the Treaty of Navigation and Commerce and on the Scheme of the French Trade.		1713, 1713, 1713, 1713	GBP -	3.15
61	Leigh Edward and Henry	Select and Choyce observations containing.		1657	GBP -	0.15
62	Howlett Robert	The School of Recreation: or a guide to...		1696	GBP -	2.00
63	Ricraft josiah	Peculiar Characters of Oriental Languages.		circa 1650	GBP -	2.10
64	Hayward Sir John	The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII.	John Wolfe	1599	GBP -	1.05
65		Wonders of the Telescope.		1805	GBP -	1.18
66	Moxon Joseph	The Use of the Astronomical Playing-Cards.	Moxon	1676	GBP -	1.01
67	Whiston W.; Becket J. B.	The Longitude and Latitude found by the Inclinatory or Dipping Needle.; The Use of the Hydrostatic Balance made easy.	Bristol	1721, 1775	GBP -	3.10
68	Vigo Jo. de	Opera in Chyrurgia.	Lugduni	, 23 Feb., 1531	GBP -	2.05
69	Dickens C.	The Chimes: a Goblin Story.	Philadelphia	1845	GBP -	0.12
70	Bronte C, E. & A.	Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.	Smith	1816	GBP -	2.00
71		Portiforium seu Breviarium ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis pars estivalis.	Paris	1556 (1557 at end)	GBP -	2.10
72	EUSEBIUS	Hier beghint die epistel des heiligh.	FLEMISH	XV CENTURY	GBP -	7.00
73		PSALTER with Calendar, Canticles, Litany & Prayers.	ITALIAN	XV CENTURY	GBP -	10.10
74		HOURS. WITH CALENDAR, USE OF PARIS.	FRENCH PARIS	LATE XV CENTURY	GBP -	42.00
75	ALLESTREE DR. R.	THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING.	R. Norton for R. Pawlet	1676	GBP -	16.00
76		Bible.		1676	GBP -	6.00
77	Binding	Embossed silver book-cover with centre panel on upper cover of King David and scenes.			GBP -	9.00
78	HENRY MACKENZIE	EDWARDS OF HALIFAX.	London	1782-3	GBP -	39.00
79	GASTRELL FRANCIS	THE CERTAINTY OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION.	T. Bennet	1699	GBP -	28.00
80	Horneck A.	The Great Law of Consideration.		1684	GBP -	3.00
81		HOUKS OF THE VIRGIN WITH CALENDAR.	FRENCH PARIS	XV CENTURY	GBP -	58.00
82	Lucan	De bcllo civili.	Lipsiae	1589	GBP -	0.10
83	MILTON JOHN	PARADISE LOST.	Birmingham	1760	GBP -	62.00
85	PETRARCH FR.	I TRIONFI.	ITALIAN	LATE XV CENTURY	GBP -	145.00
86	COMBER T.	A COMPANION TO THE TEMPLE, CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO BY THE "KING'S BINDER".	S. Roycroft for Joanna Brome	1684	GBP -	4.00
87	COMBER T.	A COMPANION TO THE TEMPLE.		1702	GBP -	1.15
88	WRIGHT EDWARD	CERTAINE ERRORS IN NAVIGATION.	Felix Kingston	1610	GBP -	27.00
89	Baker Tho.; Urquhart Sir T.	The Geometrical Key: or the Gate of Equations unlock'd.; The most easy and exact manner of resolving all sorts of Triangles.		1650, 1684	GBP -	2.15
90		Catullus.		1788	GBP -	0.18
91		Tracts.; Arguments and Materials for a Register of Estates.; A Letter to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.	wormed	1655, 1698, 1720	GBP -	2.05
92		Tracts.	John Vicars	1643, 1693, 1699	GBP -	4.05
93		His Maiesties Directions for the ordering and settling of the Courts.		1632	GBP -	1.10
94	Rudyard Sir B.	East & West Indies.; A Speech concerning a West Indie Association.		1681	GBP -	2.05
95		Mid-Wives (The) Just Petition.		1643	GBP -	2.05
96	Anderson J.	East India Company.; Letters for the culture of bastard cedar trees on the coast of Coromandel.	Madras	circa 1794, 1794	GBP -	6.10
97	Brerewood E.	Enquiries touching the diversity of Langvages.; Convention between his Britannick Majesty and the most Christian King.		1614, 1787	GBP -	0.10
98	NORMAN R.	THE SAFEGARDE OF SAYLERS, or great Rutter.		1590	GBP -	14.00
99	GASCOIGXE GEORGE	THE PLEASAUNTEST WORKES...	Abell leffes	1587	GBP -	5.10
100	Hartlib Samuel	A Discoverie for Division or Setting" out of Land, as to the best Form...		1653	GBP -	8.15
101	Znbler L.	Fabrica et usus Instrumenti Chorographici...; Novum Instrumentum Geometricum.	Basle	1607, 1607	GBP -	1.15

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