Sothebys: THE ALDENHAM LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY. The Property of the Rt. Honourable Lord Eldenham. THE SECOND AND FINAL PORTION., 03May1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 03, 1937 - May 03, 1937

Page Size: 703 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
367	Gardyne Alexander	ABBOTSFORD CLUB. A Garden of Grave & Godlie Flowers, etc.	Edinburgh	1845	GBP -	1.05
368	Acosta Joseph	The Naturall & Morall Historie of the East & West Indies		1604	GBP -	3.10
369	À Kempis Thomas	The Imitation of Christ, The Wyse Chylde		1879, 1860	GBP -	1.10
370	Aldenham Henry, Lord	The Game of Ombre		1873, 1878	GBP -	0.10
371	Aldenham Henry, Lord	The Game of Ombre		1874	GBP -	2.00
372	Aldenham Henry, Lord	The Game of Ombre		1874	GBP -	0.10
373	Aldenham Henry, Lord	The Game of Ombre		1878	GBP -	5.10
374		Aldenham Library. Catalogue of some Printed Books and MSS. at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, & Aldenham House, Herts		1888-98	GBP -	0.10
375	Helen Rudd	Aldenham Library. Catalogue of some Printed Books & MSS. at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, & Aldenham House, Herts.		1914	GBP -	0.10
376	Helen Rudd	Aldenham Library. Catalogue of the Aldenham Library, revised & brought up to date by Helen Rudd	Letchworth	1914	GBP -	1.00
377	Ames J., W. Herbert and T. P. Dibdin	Typographical Antiquities		1810-19	GBP -	4.15
378	E. W. Lane	Arabian Nights (The)		1839-41	GBP -	2.05
379	Painter W., Persius Charles	Arbuthnot (John) Of the Laws of Chance, A Guide to the Lottery, Cards, Dice, Draughts, etc., etc., Rouge et Noir		1738, 1787, 1823	GBP -	2.05
380		Archaeologia		1932-5	GBP -	1.05
381	Argote de Molina Gonçalo	Nobleza del Andaluzia		1588	GBP -	2.10
382	Ariosto Ludovico	Orlando Furioso	Venezia	1772-3	GBP -	0.10
383	Milton John	ASHENDENE PRESS. Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity		1928	GBP -	5.15
384	Augustine St.	Meditations in English, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER			GBP -	0.05
385	Aumale Duc d'	Histoire des Princes de Condé pendant les XVIe et XVIIe Siècles	Paris	1863-96	GBP -	3.10
386	Douglas Gawyn	Bannatyne Club. The Palice of Honour	Edinburgh	1827	GBP -	0.10
387		Bannatyne Club. A Diurnall of Remarkle Occurrents that have passed within the Country of Scotland (1513-75) from a MS. of the 16th Century	Edinburgh	1833	GBP -	0.10
388	Barclay J., Foord E.	Argenis, The Famous History of Montelion, Knight of the Oracle, some ll.	Dublin	1636, 1711	GBP -	3.05
389		Virgil, some ll.; Juvenal	Birmingham	1757, 1761	GBP -	1.18
390		The Book of Common Prayer	Cambridge and Birmingham	1762	GBP -	3.00
391	Bathe W., Skene John	Janua Linguarum, De Verborum Significatione	London	1627, 1641	GBP -	0.10
392	Beaumont	Gouverneurs, Lieutenans de Roy, Prévôts des Marchands, etc.	Paris	c. 1760	GBP -	8.05
393	Bellecour Abbé	The Academy of Play, Games most in Use, title slightly defective and repaired, Hoyle's Games		n.d., 1820	GBP -	2.05
394	Beresford James	The Miseries of Human Life		1807-10	GBP -	1.08
395	Bewick Thomas	Works	Newcastle	1885-7	GBP -	1.10
396		Bible. Latin. Biblia Sacrosancta	Venice, Iunta	1557	GBP -	2.00
397		Bible. English. Holy Bible			GBP -	1.12
398		Bible. English. Holie Bible	Douai	1609-10	GBP -	5.05
399		Bible. English. Holy Bible, The Booke of Common Prayer		1612, 1626	GBP -	2.00
400		Bible. English. Holy Bible, La Liturgia Ynglesa	Cambridge, Londres	1635, 1715	GBP -	1.12
401	John Wycliffe & his Followers	Bible. English. The. Holy Bible in the Earliest English Versions made from the Latin Vulgate	Oxford	1850	GBP -	5.00
402	Mackenzie	Bible. Dutch		1563	GBP -	0.10
403		Bible. Spanish. Transladada Español	Basle	1569	GBP -	0.05
404	Macfarlane John	Bibliographical Society		1900	GBP -	1.15
405	Pollard A. W. and G. R.	Redgrave. Bibliographical Society. A Short-Title Catalogue of English Books 1475-1640		1926	GBP -	2.05
406		Bibliothèque de Carabas		1887-93	GBP -	1.00
407	Biel Gabriel	Super Canone Misse, gothic letter, La Bibbia, tradotta da G. Diodati	Lugduni, Geneva	1527, 1607	GBP -	1.15
408	Fisher John	Binding. De Veritate Corporis et Sanguinis Christi in Eucharistia	Cologne	1527	GBP -	2.10
409		Binding. Demosthenes. Orationes Græcé	Lutetiœ	1570	GBP -	1.15
410		BINDING. Herodoti Historiarum Lib. IX	Geneva	1592	GBP -	4.15
411		Binding. Deliciæ Transmarinæ	Cologne	1610	GBP -	0.05
412	C. W. Sherborn	BINDING. Breviarium Romanum	Plantin	1614	GBP -	17.00
413		BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, New Testament and Psalter	Cambridge	1662	GBP -	1.00
414		BINDING. Capitols dels Drets, y altres Coses del General del Principat de Catharunya	Barcelona	1635	GBP -	4.05
415	Ripa di Aseoli	BINDING.		1642	GBP -	3.10
416		BINDING. Diploma granted to Marsilius Antonius Zanchetta, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 6 ll.	Padua	1st March, 1646	GBP -	2.04
417	Duncon John	BINDING. The Holy Life & Death of the Lady Letice Falkland		1653	GBP -	0.10
418		Binding. The Book of Common Prayer, black letter, 1660; etc.			GBP -	0.10
419	I. Chantry	Binding. The Laws and the Acts of the First Parliament of Charles II	Edinburgh	1661	GBP -	0.05
420		Binding. The Book of Common Prayer, Apocrypha and New Testament, in 1 vol.		1671	GBP -	0.10
421		BINDING. Le Nouveau Testament	Mons	1677	GBP -	3.00
422		Binding. The Book of Common Prayer		1680	GBP -	8.00
423	Sraythies Wm.	BINDING. The Unworthy Non-Communicant		1683	GBP -	1.00
424	Carafa C. M.	Binding. Instruecion Christiana de Principes, y Reyes	Palermo	1688	GBP -	2.10
425		Binding. Paradisis Urte-Gaard	Copenhagen	1691	GBP -	0.10
426		Binding. The Book of Common Prayer	Dublin	1662, 1721	GBP -	0.10
427		Binding. Het Nieuwe Testament	Amsterdam	1728	GBP -	0.10
428	Johnson Anthony	Binding. Publick Prayer an Indispensible Duty		1729	GBP -	8.05
429	Beeren J. C.	Binding. Des andächtigen Frauen-Zimmers geistliches Schatz-Kästlein	Nürnberg	1732	GBP -	0.10
430	Schmolck Benjamin	Binding. Andächtiger Herzen Beth-Altar zur Allerheiligsten Dreyfaltigkeit	Breslau und Leipzig	1738	GBP -	0.10
431	Salazar D. Antonis Martinez	BINDING. Coleccion de Memorias, y Noticias del Gobierno General y Politico del Consejo	Madrid	1764	GBP -	1.15
432		Binding. "Dummy" Volume			GBP -	0.10
433	Binyon Laurence	The Art of Botticelli		1913	GBP -	3.10
434	Binyon Lawrence	Dream Come True, The Sirens		1905, 1924	GBP -	1.00
435	Black W. H., Phillipps J. O.	Catalogue of the Ashmolean Manuscripts, Halliwell-Catalogue of Proclamations, Broadsides, etc.	Oxford	1845-66, 1851	GBP -	2.15
436	Bloomfield Robert	The Farmer's Boy		1800	GBP -	4.00
437	Blount Thomas	A "World of Errors discovered in the New World of Words		1673	GBP -	0.18
438	Blades William	The Life & Typography of William Caxton		1861-3	GBP -	4.00
439	Boccaccio Giovanni	Il Decamerone	Londra Paris	1757	GBP -	14.10
440	Boccaccio Giovanni	Il Decameron, Callimachi Hymni, etc.	Leyden	1527, 1761	GBP -	0.10
441	Tuer A. W.	Books about Books, Forgotten Children's Books		1893-4, 1898-9	GBP -	1.01
442		Book Auction Catalogues. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana, The Perkins Library	Puttick, Gadsden, Ellis	1881-3, 1873	GBP -	1.10
443		Book Auction Catalogues. The Ashburnham Library, Biblio theca Sussexiana, The Hamilton Palace Libraries	Sotheby, Evans	1897-1901, 1844-5, 1882-4	GBP -	3.10
444		Book Auction Catalogues, The Amherst Library	Sotheby	1923-7, 1908-9	GBP -	0.15
445		Book of Common Prayer (The)		1660, 1639	GBP -	2.00
446	John Sturt	Book of Common Prayer (The)		1717	GBP -	3.05
447	Fry F.	Book of Common Prayer (The), The Bible by Coverdale, 1535		1849-50, 1867	GBP -	1.05
448		Book of Common Prayer, Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Common Prayer, 1661-2		1871, 1891	GBP -	0.10
449		Booke of Christian Prayers (A), collected out of the Ancient Writers & best learned in our time		1590	GBP -	2.00
450	F. Bedford	Booke of Christian Praiers (A) Mark letter		1608	GBP -	3.00
451	Bordelon l'Abbé, Halifax Marquis of, De la Serre Sieur, Cordonnier H.	Gomgam, ou l'Homme Prodigieux transporté dans l'Air, etc., The Lady's New-years Gift, Le Breviare des Courtisans, History of Prince Titi	Amsterdam, Rouen	1713, 1688, 1678, 1736	GBP -	1.00
452	Boswell James, Junius	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson		1786, 1812	GBP -	1.10
453	Brathwait Richard	The English Gentleman & English Gentlewoman both in one volume couched		1641	GBP -	0.10
454	Walter Chepman	Breviarium Aberdonense	London	1854	GBP -	0.05
455	Bugg Francis, A Kempis Thomas, Westfield Thomas, Bishop of Bristol	The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity, The Christian's Pattern, Eleaven Choice Sermons		1700, 1726, 1655	GBP -	0.10
456	Briscoe John	Discourse on the Late Funds, Remarks upon the Bank of England		1696, 1705	GBP -	0.10
457	Willshire W. H.	British Museum. Catalogue of Playing & other Cards		1876	GBP -	0.10
458	Reginald Stuart Poole	British Museum. Catalogue of Greek Coins			GBP -	3.00
459	Reginald Stuart Poole	British Museum. Catalogue of Greek Coins, The Tauric Chersonese, etc.	Italy	1873, 1877	GBP -	5.00
460	Grueber H. A. & R. S. Poole, Head B. V.	British Museum. Catalogue of Roman Medallions, Historia Numorum	Oxford	1874, 1887	GBP -	1.00
461		British Museum. Catalogue of Bibles		1892-99	GBP -	1.15
462	Almack Edward	British Museum. Catalogue of Liturgies, Bibliography of the King's Book		1899, 1896	GBP -	1.10
463	Wordsworth C. & H. Littlehales	British Museum. Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900, The Old Service-Books of the English Church		1915, 1904	GBP -	1.10
464	Broughton Hugh, Napier John	Daniel his Chaldie Visions, (Laird of Merchiston) A Plaine Discovery of the whole Revelation of St. John		1596, 1594, 1657	GBP -	1.08
465	Brown Horatio F.	The Venetian Printing Press		1891	GBP -	1.18
466	Browne Sir Thomas, Taylor Jeremy	Christian Morals, Holy Living & Holy Dying, The Book of Common Prayer	W. Pickering	1863, 1847, 1853	GBP -	1.15

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