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
99		Racine.	Paris	1676	GBP -	15.00
100		Racine.	Paris	1697	GBP -	6.10
101		Racine. Oeuvres			GBP -	2.05
102		Regnard.	A Paris	1708	GBP -	6.00
103		Regnard.	Paris	1708-7	GBP -	3.05
104	Louvet de Couvray; Longus	Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas; Daphnis et Chloé	A Londres	1779; 1798	GBP -	2.10
105	La Harpe	Tangu et Félime; Voltaire	Paris	1780; 1769-70	GBP -	2.15
105A	CORNEILLE, P.	Le menteur	à Paris	1644	GBP -	2.10
106		LONGUS.		1745	GBP -	46.00
107	Segar, Sir Wm. and J. Edmondson	Baronagium Genealogicum : Or the Pedigrees of English Peers		n. d. and 1784	GBP -	0.10
108	REYNOLDS, SIR JOSHUA	Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds		1861-65	GBP -	5.00
109		Musée Royal publié par Henri Laurent		1816-18	GBP -	2.05
110		Musée Francais		1803-09	GBP -	3.10
111	Lebrun, J. B. P.	Galerie des Peintres Flamands		1792-96	GBP -	3.15
112	Clutterbuck, Robert	History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford		1815-27	GBP -	1.01
113	GOULD, JOHN	THE BIRDS OF EUROPE		1837	GBP -	17.10
114	Lodge, Edmund	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain		1821-34	GBP -	3.05
115	Lucas, David; Turner, J. M. W. and others	English Landscape Scenery from Pictures Painted by John Constable; Picturesque Scenes in Richmondshire		1855; 1843	GBP -	1.15
116	Shirley, E. P.	History of the County of Monaghan		1879	GBP -	0.05
117		Arabian Nights.		1897	GBP -	7.00
118	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	THE WORKS, Revis'd and Corrected		1710	GBP -	17.00
119	ACKERMANN, R.	THE MICROCOSM OF LONDON		1808-10	GBP -	33.00
120	ACKERMANN, R.	HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE		1815	GBP -	32.00
121		Baskerville Press.		1761-73	GBP -	2.15
122	BERTHIER, GENERAL	RELATION DE LA BATAILLE DE MARENGO		1806	GBP -	34.00
123	Wilkes, Benjamin	English Moths and Butterflies : Together with the Plants whereon they feed		n. d.	GBP -	7.00
124	Bateman, James	A Monograph of Odontoglossum		1874	GBP -	3.10
125	Boydell, J. and J.	An History of the River Thames		1740-96	GBP -	14.00
126	Dykes, W. R.	The Genus Iris	Cambridge	1913	GBP -	7.15
127	Elwes, H. J.	A Monograph of the Genus Lilium		1877-80	GBP -	27.00
128	Elwes, H. J.; Burgess, H. W.	Monograph of the Genus Lilium; Views of the General Character and Appearance of Trees		1877-80	GBP -	10.10
129	GOULD, JOHN	BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN		1862-73	GBP -	17.00
130	Hooker, J. D. and Sir W. J. Hooker	The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya		1849	GBP -	2.15
131	Hooker, J. D.	Illustrations of Himalayan Plants		1855	GBP -	5.10
132	Lothian, Marquess of	The Genus Masdevallia		1896	GBP -	4.00
133	Warner, R. and B. S. Williams	Select Orchidaceous Plants, 40 coloured plates, half morocco 1862-65		1862-65	GBP -	2.15
134	Bullen, F. T.	The Cruise of the Cachalot		1898	GBP -	5.05
135	Coleridge, S. T.	Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People			GBP -	19.00
136	DICKENS, CHARLES	PICKWICK PAPERS		1837	GBP -	14.10
137	Disraeli, Benjamin	The Young Duke		1831	GBP -	3.10
138	Douglas, Norman	Unprofessional Tales by Normyx		1901	GBP -	4.00
139	Eliot, George	Brother and Sister		1869	GBP -	2.00
140	Fellowes, W. D.	A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe		1820	GBP -	1.00
141	FIELDING, HENRY	Miscellanies [contains Poems, Essays, Jonathon Wild, etc.]		1743	GBP -	16.00
142	FIELDING, HENRY	Amelia		1752	GBP -	4.10
143	Garnett, David	Lady into Fox		1922	GBP -	3.10
144	HOUSMAN, A. E.	A SHROPSHIRE LAD		1896	GBP -	24.00
145	Kipling, Rudyard	Just So Stories for Little Children		1902	GBP -	3.00
146	Mansfield, Katherine	In a German Pension		1911	GBP -	8.10
147	Maugham, W. S.	Liza of Lambeth		1897	GBP -	4.15
148	McFee, William	Letters from an Ocean Tramp		1908	GBP -	4.15
149	SHELLEY, P. B.	Posthumous Poems		1824	GBP -	6.10
150	Stevenson, R. L.	Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes		1879	GBP -	2.10
151	TENNYSON, A., LORD	THE CUP		1881	GBP -	Not Sold
152	WILDE, OSCAR	Intentions		1891	GBP -	9.00
153	Wilde, O.	Letters after Reading	New York	1921	GBP -	4.00
154	Woolf, Virginia	The Voyage Out, FIRST EDITION, original green cloth 1915		1915	GBP -	4.10
155	Ackermann, R.	History of the Abbey of St. Peter's Westminster		1812	GBP -	6.00
156	Boydell, J. and J.	Select Views of Great Britain		1813	GBP -	1.00
157	Burger, G. A.	The Chase and William and Helen; Two Ballads from the German	Edinb.	1796	GBP -	3.05
158	Cervantes, M. de	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha		1780	GBP -	10.00
159	CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF	LETTERS TO HIS SON		1744	GBP -	30.00
160		Costume		c. 1800	GBP -	3.00
161	EVELYN, JOHN	MEMOIRS		1818	GBP -	8.10
162	FIELDING, T. H. AND J. WALTON	Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes		1821	GBP -	11.10
163	WHITE, GILBERT	Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP -	11.10
164		Act (An) declaring and constituting the People of England to be a Commonwealth and Free-State		1649	GBP -	0.10
165	Adams, Thomas	Sermons. Heaven and Earth reconcil'd			GBP -	0.12
166	Addison, J.	A Poem to his Majesty.		1695	GBP -	0.10
167		Alphabet (An) of Capital Letters from Italian Choral Books of the 15th and 16th Centuries; La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante dichiarata in vi tavole da Michelangelo Caetani		1862; 1872	GBP -	1.00
168		Anacreon done into English out of the Orginal Greek	Oxford	1683	GBP -	2.05
169	Anderton, Lawrence	The Triple Cord or a Treatise proving the Truth of the Roman Religion		1634	GBP -	1.05
170	Antonio, M. C.	Bibliotheca Hispana vetus		1788	GBP -	1.05
171	Argoli, A.	Tabulae primi mobilis		1644	GBP -	1.05
172	Audley or Anderson, Henry	The Court Convert			GBP -	1.01
173	AUGUSTUS, Duke of Brunswick and Luneberg	Gustavi Seleni Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae libri IX.		1624	GBP -	5.10
174		Autograph Prices Current, vol. 1-5, 1914-21, cloth 8vo. (1916-22)		1916-22	GBP -	1.05
175	AYLET, ROBERT	DIVINE, AND MORAL SPECULATIONS IN METRICAL NUMBERS		1654	GBP -	1.15
176	Aytoun, W. E.; Barham, R. H.	The Book of Ballads : edited by Bon Gaultier; The Ingoldsby Lyrics		1845; 1881	GBP -	0.10
177	B., A.	Learn to Lye Warm, or, an Apology for that Proverb Tis good Sheltring under an old Hedge; containing Reasons		1672	GBP -	4.15
178	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	A DECLARATION OF THE PRACTISES & Treasons attempted and committed by Robert	London	1601	GBP -	2.00
179	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	A DECLARATION OF THE PRACTISES, etc.	London	1601	GBP -	2.15
180	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	Historia vitae & mortis ... quae est Instau-rationis Magnae pars tertia	London	1623	GBP -	5.00
181	Bacon, Sir Francis	Nevf Livres de la dignité et de l'accroissement des sciences ... traduits de latin ... par le sieur de Golefer	Paris	1632	GBP -	6.05
182		Ballads.			GBP -	2.10
183	BARNARD, JOHN	THE FIRST BOOK OF SELECTED CHVRCH MVSICK	London	1641	GBP -	6.00
184	Baxter, R.	The Saints Everlasting Rest		1650	GBP -	1.05
185		Bednal-Green.		n. d. [c. 1680-90]	GBP -	0.05
186	Behmen, J.	Alle theosophische wercken	Amsterdam	1682	GBP -	1.00
187	Bembo, P.	Gli Asolani [Rime]	Venice	1540	GBP -	1.10
188		Bibliographical Society.			GBP -	1.15
189		Bibliographical Society.			GBP -	0.15
190		Bibliographical Society.		1900	GBP -	1.15
191		Bibliographical Society.		1903	GBP -	1.05
192		Bibliographical Society.		1922-32	GBP -	1.08
193		Bibliographical Society.		1926	GBP -	1.10
194	Biggs, N.	Mataeotechnia Medicinae praxeros.		1651	GBP -	4.00
195	Blagrave, John, of Reading	The Art of Dyalling in two parts.	London	1609	GBP -	4.05
196	Blake, William; Neville, H.	A Serious Letter Sent by a Private Christian to the lady Consideration ... which she is desired to communicate in Hide-Park to the Gallants of the times a little after Sun-set; Shufling, Cutting, and Dealing; The Reflections of ... Monsieur Jurieu		1655; 1659	GBP -	2.10
197	Blancas, Jer	Aragonensivm rervm Commentarii		1588	GBP -	0.05

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