Sothebys: VALUABLE FRENCH & ENGLISH BOOKS., 07May1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 07, 1934 - May 07, 1934

Page Size: 546 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ANACRÉON, Sapho, Bion et Moschus	traduction nouvelle en prose		1773-4	GBP -	11.10
2	Boccaccio, G.	Contes et Nouvelles	à Amsterdam	1697	GBP -	5.10
3	BOCCACCIO, G.	LE DÉCAMERON		1757-61	GBP -	96.00
4	Cent, Les	Nouvelles Nouvelles	à Cologne	1701	GBP -	4.10
5	Demoustier, C. A.	Lettres à Emilie sur la mythologie	Paris	1809	GBP -	3.05
6	Dionis de Séjour, Mlle	Origine des Graces	à Paris	1777	GBP -	2.05
7	DORAT; Pezay, Le Marquis de	Les Baisers; Zélis au bain, poëme		1770	GBP -	6.10
8	Fénélon, F.	Les Aventures de Télémaque fils d'Ulysse	à Paris	1784	GBP -	4.10
9	Gessner, Salomon	Oeuvres	Paris	1795	GBP -	5.00
10	La Fontaine, J. de	Contes et Nouvelles en vers	à Amsterdam	1743	GBP -	4.05
11	LA FONTAINE, J. de	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS ("Fermiers généraux" edition)	à Amsterdam	1762	GBP -	17.00
12	La Fontaine, J. de	Fables avec figures gravées par MM. Simon et Coiny	Paris	1796	GBP -	9.00
13	LA FONTAINE, J. de	Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon	Paris	1797	GBP -	36.00
14	Le Sage, A. R.	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane	Paris	1795	GBP -	1.10
15		Lucretius.	Amsterdam (Paris)	1754	GBP -	7.10
16	MOLIÈRE, J. B. P.	OEUVRES AVEC DES REMARQUES PAR M. BRET	à Paris	1773	GBP -	16.00
17	MONTESQUIEU, C. S. DE	Le Temple de Gnide	Paris	1772	GBP -	3.10
18	RACINE, J.	Oeuvres avec des Commentaires par M. Luneau de Boisjermain	Paris	1768	GBP -	14.00
19	Voltaire, F. M. A. De	Romans et Contes		1778	GBP -	21.00
20	Fénélon, F.	Les Aventures de Télémaque	Paris	1785	GBP -	7.10
21	La Fontaine, J. de	Contes et Nouvelles en vers	Paris	1795	GBP -	11.00
22		Longus.	à Paris	1757	GBP -	3.05
23	MOLIÈRE, J. B. P.	OEUVRES	Paris	1734	GBP -	14.00
24	OVID	LES METAMORPHOSES en Latin et en François de la Traduc-tion de M. l'Abbé Banier	Paris	1767-71	GBP -	20.00
25	TASSO, T.	LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA		1771	GBP -	25.00
26	LA FONTAINE, J. DE	FABLES CHOISIES	Paris	1755-59	GBP -	12.00
27	ZOLA, EMILE	Nais Micoulin.	Paris	1884	GBP -	2.05
28	Rousseau, J. J.	Emile, ou de l'Education	Amsterdam	1762	GBP -	8.00
29	Rousseau, J. J.	à M. d'Alembert sur son Article Genève dans le VIIme Volume de l'Encyclopédie	Amst.	1758	GBP -	0.15
30	Voltaire, F. M. A.	La Henriade	Paris	1770	GBP -	5.05
31	Molière, J. B. P.	La Critique de l'Escole des Femmes	Paris	1663	GBP -	110.00
32	Molière, J. B. P.	Le Sicilien Comédie	Paris	1668	GBP -	4.05
33	Molière, J. B. P.	Amphitryon	Paris	1668	GBP -	65.00
34	Molière, J .B. P.	Les Oeuvres	Paris	1676-5	GBP -	21.00
35	Molière, J. B. P.	Monsieur de Pourceaugnac		1790	GBP -	1.00
36	Molière, J. B. P.	Le Marriage Forcé.		1869	GBP -	1.00
37	MOLIÈRE, J. B. P.	Le Misanthrope			GBP -	2.05
38		Montaigne.		1580	GBP -	2.05
39		New Testament.	Paris	1545	GBP -	4.05
40	Bibiena; Trissino. I.	Calandra, Comedia; Simillimi	Venice	1530-48	GBP -	8.00
41	Piis, De	Chansons Nouvelles	Paris	1785	GBP -	6.10
42		Polybius.		1517	GBP -	1.05
43	ST. EVRÉMOND	OEUVRES		1740	GBP -	88.00
44	BOCCACCIO, J.	LE DECAMERON DE JEAN BOCCACE [traduit par Le Maçon]	Londres, [Paris]	1757-61	GBP -	58.00
45	Boccaccio, J.	Le Décameron	Londres, [Paris]	1757-61	GBP -	2.10
46	Coryat, T.; Moryson, Fynes	Coryat's Crudities; An Itinerary		1905; 1907	GBP -	0.18
47	DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS	The World Encompassed ... Being his next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios		1635	GBP -	2.10
48	Evelyn, John	Sculptura; Epigrammata, a Baventio, ex optimis quibusque authoribus selecta		1755; 1523	GBP -	2.05
49	W. M. Rossetti	Germ (The)		1850	GBP -	4.10
50	Hollar, Wenc	Theatrum Mulierum		[?1663]	GBP -	1.00
51		Leopold dux Austrie.	Venice	1520	GBP -	1.05
52	Verdizotti, G. M.	Cento Favole Morale	Venice	1586	GBP -	2.05
53	Walker, A.; Growe, J. A. and G. B.	Beauty Illustrated by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman; Cavalcaselle Titian : his Life and Times		1852; 1877	GBP -	0.05
54	Benson, Robert and Evelyn	Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16 South Street and Buckhurst, LIMITED EDITION, plates, half parchment 1914		1914	GBP -	8.00
55		Bible.	London	1593	GBP -	1.05
56	Blochet, E.; Delen, A. J. J.	Les Peintures des Manuscrits Orientaux de la Biblio-theque Nationale; Histoire de la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas des origines à 1500		1920; 1924	GBP -	2.15
57	Blondel, J. F.	De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance et de la Decoration des Edifices en general	Paris	1737-8	GBP -	3.15
58	Breton, Nicholas	A Poste with a Packet of Mad Letters		1634	GBP -	1.05
59	Cohen, Henry	Guide de l'Amateur de Livres à Vignettes du XVIIIe Siècle, fourth edition, half morocco, 1880; and another (2)		1880	GBP -	0.05
60	Delteil, Loys	Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIX et XX siècles)		1906-19	GBP -	10.10
61	Durrieu, Comte; Byvanck, Prof. Dr. A. W.	Les tres belles Heures de Notre Dame du Duc Jean de Berry; Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale du Pays-Bas et du Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum		1922; 1924	GBP -	1.15
62	Grose, S. W.	Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins [in the Fitzwilliam Museum], vol. 1 and 2, plates, cloth Cambridge, 1923-6	Cambridge	1923-6	GBP -	2.00
63	Heseltine, Arthur	A Collection of 40 etchings		1894	GBP -	Not Sold
64	Howell, J.; Vaenius, O.	Epistolae Ho-Elianae; Amorum Emblemata		1645; 1608	GBP -	0.10
65		Inventaire général des Dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles		1907-13	GBP -	4.04
66		JOACHIM ABBATIS VATICINIA		c. 1590	GBP -	12.10
67	Jombert, C. A.	Methode pour apprendre le Dessein	Paris	1755	GBP -	2.05
68		Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben	Stuttgart and Leipzig	1905-13	GBP -	5.15
69	Lami, Stanilas	Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française du Moyen Age au Dix-Huitième Siècle, 4 vol., half red morocco 1898-1911		1898-1911	GBP -	2.02
70	Lami, S.	Dictionnaire des Sculptures de l'Ecole Française au XIX Siècle, 4 vol., half blue morocco 1914-21		1914-21	GBP -	1.10
71	Marot, J.; Browne, A.	Le Magnifique Chasteau de Richelieu; Ars Pictoria : or an Academy Treating of Painting		n.d.	GBP -	2.05
72	Mariette, P. J.	Abecedario sur les Arts et Les Artistes		1851-60	GBP -	3.05
73	Montaigne, M. De	Les Essais avec de courtes Remarques par Pierre Coste, 3 vol., portrait, contemporary calf gilt à Londres, 1724	à Londres	1724	GBP -	1.10
74	Northcote, James	Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, portraits, morocco gilt, g. t., uncut 1813		1813	GBP -	0.05
75	Poynter, Sir E. J.; Finberg, A. J.	The National Gallery; History of Turner's Liber Studiorum		1899-1900; 1924	GBP -	1.15
76	Réau, Louis; Dimier, L.	Histoire de la Peinture Française au XVIIIe Siècle; Histoire de la Peinture Française		1924-26	GBP -	3.10
77		Sites et Monuments à la France, 6 vol., maps and illustrations, half morocco gilt 1900-06		1900-06	GBP -	2.00
78	Walpole, Horace	Anecdotes of Painting in England		1762-3	GBP -	1.18
79	Walpole, H.	Essay on Modern Gardening		1785	GBP -	1.15
80	Wilde, Oscar	A House of Pomegranates		1891	GBP -	1.00
81	BERGOMENSIS, JACOBUS PHILIPPUS	DE CLARIS SELECTISQUE MULIERIBUS		29 April, 1497	GBP -	43.00
82		Boccaccio.	Paris	1545	GBP -	5.15
83	Browne, Sir Thomas	Pseudodoxia Epidemicas, or Enquiries into very many received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths		1646	GBP -	6.00
84	Burton, Robert	The Anatomy of Melancholy		1632	GBP -	2.00
85	Durrieu, Comte Paul; Valentiner, Dr. W. R.	Le Boccace de Munich; Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings exhibited at the Duveen Galleries	New York	1926; 1909	GBP -	2.10
86		Geyler von Keyserberg.	Strassburg	1520	GBP -	5.15
87	Gonse, Louis	Les Chefs-D'Oeuvre des Musées de France		1900-04	GBP -	1.00
88		Leonardo da Vinci.	Paris	1883-98	GBP -	4.05
89	Montaigne, M. de	Essayes		1613	GBP -	4.00
90	Montaigne, M. de	The Essayes [Translated by John Florio]		1632	GBP -	3.00
91	Moryson, Fynes	An Itinerary ... Containing his ten yeeres Travell through the twelve dominions, FIRST EDITION, original calf J. Beale, 1617		1617	GBP -	2.10
92	Rondeletius, G.	Libri de Piscibus Marinis		1554-5	GBP -	3.00
93	Rüxner, G.	Anfang ursprung und herkommen des Thurniers inn Teutscher nation		1532	GBP -	1.05
94	Thompson, Henry Yates	Illustrations from one hundred Manu-scripts in his Library		1915-16	GBP -	5.15
95B	TERENCE	Comoediae VI commentaria Fr. Lindinbruch	Paris	1602	GBP -	2.05
95A		TACITUS.	Paris	1611	GBP -	26.00
95	Wren, Christopher, Junior	Parentalia : or Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens		1750	GBP -	2.05
96	Scenecae, sic	Tragoediae.		1517	GBP -	8.00
97	PONTANUS, JOANNIS	Opera Omnia (Aldine anchor)		1518-19	GBP -	3.05
98		Pseaumes de David traduis en François selon I'Hebreu		1689	GBP -	2.10

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