Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ETC., 23Mar1936,

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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
102 BURGO Jo. DE Pupilla oeuli. Paris

1510

 GBP - 5.10
103 MANUALE ad usum per Celebris ecclcsie Sarisburiesis. London

1554

 GBP - 10.00
104 Tragus Pompeius. London

1570

 GBP - 8.10
105 Tracts Seasonable Considerations relating to the Smugglers.; Reasons offered by the Company.; The Trial of William Baker Sugar baker.; A Letter to the Gamester.

1740, 1724, 1751

 GBP - 3.15
106 Vegerius Opuscula, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. ITALIAN

XV CENTURY

 GBP - 2.00
107 Aeneae et sofistae viri cl. Dialogus qui Theophrastus inscribitur. ITALIAN

XV CENTURY

 GBP - 1.00
108 BIBLE VULGATE, ISAIAH TO MALACHI, MANUSCRIPT OK VELLUM.

XII CENTURY

 GBP - 76.00
109 ORIGEN ADAMANTIUS.

XII CENTURY

 GBP - 32.00
110 PSALTER WITH SARUM CALENDAR.

EARLY XV CENTURY

 GBP - 38.00
111 Braun G. and F. Hogcnberg Civitates Orbis Terrarum.

1577

 GBP - 6.10
112 Rocque John A Xcw and Accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster.

1748

 GBP - 3.05
113 America.

circa 1740

 GBP - 2.02
114 Broadsides and Proclamations. Broadside, Broadside

n. d., [late XVIII CENTURY], n. d., 1774

 GBP - 2.15
115 Tracts and Broadsides.; A Christian Exhortation to the People.; The King of Terrors; or, the Great Messenger of Mortality.; A Proclamation (on the gold coinage). Broadside, Broadside, Broadside

n. d., 1 June, 1749, 1778, 1774

 GBP - 2.05
116 BINDING. large folio

1744

 GBP - 11.00
117 SHAKESPEARE W. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES.

1632

 GBP - Not Sold
118 ARISTOTLE OPERA, LATINE. folio

1538

 GBP - 35.00
119 BARTHÉLEMY J. J. VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANACHARSIS EN GRÈCE. Paris

1788

 GBP - 58.00
120 Bourgeois C. Voyage Pittoresque a la Grande Chartreuse. Paris

1821

 GBP - 17.00
121 COLONNA FRANCESCO.; Boccaccio Giovanni DISCOUKS DE LA SONGE DE POLIPHILE.; Philocope.; Primaleon de Grece. Paris, folio

1561, 1542

 GBP - 32.00
122 DOMENICHI LODOVICO Facecies & rnotz subtilz. Lyons

1559

 GBP - 6.10
123 La Chau L'Abbé de and 1'Abbé Le Blond Description des principales Pierres Gravées du Cabinet du Due d'Orléams. Paris

1780-84

 GBP - 16.00
124 Norvins J. M. de Histoire de Napoleon. Paris

1839

 GBP - 6.10
125 Ovid La Metamorphose d'Ovide Figurée. Lyons

1557

 GBP - 13.00
126 Petrarca Francesco Trionfi: Sonetti e Canzone. Venice

6 Mar., 28 Apr., 1500

 GBP - 17.10
127 PROCESSIONARIUM ORDINIS FRATRUM PREDICATORUM. Venice

9 Oct. 1494

 GBP - 21.00
128 ROMANCES A COLLECTION OF ROMANCES IN FRENCH.

GBP - 120.00
129 TABOUROT JEAN ORCHESOGRAPHIE. Langres

1588

 GBP - 60.00
130 TASSO TORQUATO LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA. Paris

1784-86

 GBP - 21.00
131 VALLA GEORGIUS DE RATIONS SCRIBENDI. Milan

circa 1477

 GBP - 5.10
132 VOLTAIRE F. M. A. de ROMANS ET CONTES.

1778

 GBP - 15.00
133 Virgil Opera. Birmingham

1766

 GBP - 2.05
134 Biblia Latina.; Terenti Comoediae.; Justini ex Trogi Pompeii Historiis libri. Antwerp, Edinb., Lyons

1567, 1758, 1573

 GBP - 2.05
135 Butler S. Hudibras.; Chesterfield (Earl of) Letters.

1709, 1774

 GBP - 2.10
136 Combe W. The English Dance of Death.

1815-16

 GBP - 7.10
137 Combe W. The Dance of Life.

1817

 GBP - 3.05
138 Fellowes W. D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe.

1823

 GBP - 1.15
139 Goldsmith O. Works.

1854

 GBP - 1.10
140 Horatius Opera aeneis tabulis incidit Johannes Pine.

1733-7

 GBP - 2.15
141 Hyde T. De Ludis Orientalibus: Mandragorias; Historia Nerdiludii. Oxford

1694

 GBP - 0.08
142 Richardson S. Works.

1811

 GBP - 5.05
143 Terence; Homer Comoediae.; Batrachomyomachias.

GBP - 0.15
144 Horace Opera. Birmingham

1770

 GBP - 4.05
145 Terence Comoediee. Birmingham

1772

 GBP - 2.05
146 Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis recognita. Paris

1653

 GBP - 1.05
147 Butler S. Hudibras edited by T. Nash.

1793

 GBP - 4.00
148 Horace Opera cum variis lectionibus Ted. H. Homer et C. Combe.

1792-3

 GBP - 3.00
149 Ludolphus de Saxonia; Vincentius; Verstegan R. Vita Jesu Christi.; Liber Ritualis pro recta Sacramentorum.; A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. Lyons

1536

 GBP - 0.10
150 PERSIAN MS. Jalal al Din Rumi.

GBP - 5.00
151 Lucan Pharsalia cum Notis H. Grotii et R. Bentlen.

1760

 GBP - 0.10
152 Yonge N. Musica Transalpina: The Second Booke of Madrigalles.

1597

 GBP - 3.00
153 Pyne W. H. The Costume of Great Britain.

1808

 GBP - 3.15
154 BROWNING Robert Concluding portion of A L. s.

GBP - 6.15
155 BURNS Robert Auto. signature "Robert Burns" on a title-page of vol. Edinburgh

1751

 GBP - 5.05
156 COTMAN J.S. A.L.s. (Author Letter Signed)

GBP - 1.00
157 CROMWELL Oliver A very-fine L.s.

GBP - 12.00
158 DICKENS Charles An interesting A. L. s. Bideford

First November, 1860

 GBP - 25.00
159 DICKENS C. A. L. s. Cambridge

17 Oct., 1859

 GBP - 5.10
160 GARFIELD J. H. L. s.

GBP - 0.05
161 Fort William; T. PHILLIPS; BISHOP KEN HASTINGS Marquess of Doc.s.

1820

 GBP - Not Sold
162 JOHNSON Dr. Samuel A complimentary note in French.

GBP - 3.00
163 LIVINGSTONE David A. L. s.

GBP - 10.10
164 LOWELL J. R. D. Livingstone portion of A. L.

GBP - 4.00
165 MACKENNA Stephen A. L. s.

GBP - Not Sold
166 NEISON Admiral Viscount A. L. s.

GBP - 9.15
167 VOLTAIRE F. A. M. L. s.

GBP - 2.10
168 WORDSWORTH Wm. L. s.

GBP - 13.00
169 NIGHTINGALE Florence A. L. s.

GBP - 7.00
170 LIVINGSTONE David Portion of A. L. s.

GBP - 4.05
171 NELSON Admiral Viscount A. L. s.

GBP - 15.10
172 HAMILTON Emma, Lady A. L. s.

GBP - 10.00
173 HAMILTON E., Lady A. L. s.

GBP - 10.00
174 KAUFFMANN Angelica A. L. s.

GBP - 1.05
175 ROMNEY George A fine A. L. s.

GBP - 3.15
176 BROWNING Robert A. L. s.

GBP - 18.10
177 BASTIDE J. J. L. A. L. s. Boston

Feb. 1, 1774-5

 GBP - 2.10
178 WEST INDIES Admiral Bickerton.

GBP - 1.15
179 GEORGIA: Edward Teefair, Captain-General.

GBP - 1.00
180a RALEIGH Sir W. Copies of Letters to his Wife and Sir Robt. Carr.

GBP - 4.00
180 RALEIGH Sir Walter MS. Commission for Guyana.

GBP - 5.05
181 CHARLES II AND SAMUEL PEPYS Royal Sign Manual.

GBP - 5.10
182 RUSSIA Tsar Michael Fedorowitz.

GBP - 4.00
183 WILMOT SARAH ANNE Journal of a Tour 14th Angst 1793.

1793-1802

 GBP - 31.00
184 LEE Henry A VERY FINE A. L. s. Canada

1792-4

 GBP - 38.00
185 SIMCOE JOHN GRAVES A JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE QUEEN'S RANGERS. Exeter

n. d.

 GBP - 82.00
186 AMERICA Draft of a Dispatch to Mr. Pinkney. [1810].

GBP - 3.00
187 BURKE Edmund A. L. s.

GBP - 4.10
188 CANNING; Peel; Russell; Palmerston; George III Wellington.

GBP - 2.05
189 CLIVE Edward; CAMPBELL Sir Colin A. L. s.; A. L. s.

GBP - 0.15
190 DARWIN Charles A. L. s.

GBP - 2.05
191 ELIZABETH Queen Privy Council.

GBP - 2.05
192 GORDON C. G. A. L. s.

GBP - 1.15
193 GORDON C. G. A. L. S.

GBP - 2.15
194 GORDON C. G. A. L. s.

GBP - 6.00
195 HALIFAX C. M. A. L. s.

GBP - 0.15
196 HOLMES Oliver Wendell A. L. s.

GBP - 3.00
197 KIPLING Rudyard A. L. s.

GBP - 3.00
198 LEECH John A. L. s.

GBP - 1.05
199 NELSON Admiral Viscount A. L. s.

GBP - 16.00
200 NELSON Admiral Viscount A. L. s.

GBP - 6.00
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