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
198	Blondo, G.	A Relation of the death, of the most illvstriovs lord		1620	GBP -	2.10
199	Bodin, J.	De la Demonomanie des sorciers	Paris	1580	GBP -	3.00
200	Boffin, Tobias	The strange History of Tobias Boffin	London	1894	GBP -	1.10
201	Bohatta, H.	Bibliographie der livres d'heures des XV und XVI. Jahrhunderts, wrappers 8vo. Wien, 1909		1909	GBP -	0.14
202	Bohemia	Bohemiae Regnum Electivum.	London	1620	GBP -	1.00
203	Bonaventura, St.; Erasmus, D.	Breveloquium theologie; Exomologesis sive modus confitendi		c. 1510; 1524	GBP -	1.02
204		Book of Common Prayer		1687	GBP -	1.05
205	Boyle, Hon. Robert	New Experiments Physico-mechanical	Oxford	1662	GBP -	4.00
206	Boyle, Hon. R.	Some Considerations touching the vsefvlnesse of experimental Naturali Philosophy.	Oxford	1663-71	GBP -	2.10
207	Boyle, Robert	Some Considerations touching the Vsefvlnesse of experimental Naturali Philosophy	Oxford	1663	GBP -	2.00
208	Boyle, Robert	Some Considerations touching the vsefvlnesse of experimental Naturali Philosophy	Oxford	1663	GBP -	0.10
209	Boyle, Robert	Occasional Reflections upon several svbiects.		1665	GBP -	4.00
210	Boyle, R.	Die Lufftige Noctiluca	Hamburg	1682	GBP -	1.10
211	Boyle, Robert	A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things ... Some Uncommon Observations about vitiated sight		1688	GBP -	4.10
212	Boyle, Robert	Essays of the Strange Subtility	London	1673	GBP -	4.15
213	Bradley, E.	The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green		1853-7	GBP -	1.15
214	BRINSLEY, JOHN, the elder	LVDVS LITERARIVS : OR, THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLE; shewing how to proceede from the first entrance into learning	London	1612	GBP -	5.05
215		Britannia Rediviva; Academiae Cantabrigiensis Sostra		1660	GBP -	0.08
216		British Museum.		1884	GBP -	2.05
217	Birch, W. de G.; Bradshaw, Henry	British Museum; The Utrecht Psalter; Collected Papers		1924; 1876; 1889	GBP -	0.05
218		British Museum.		1930	GBP -	1.00
219	Brookes, R.	The Art of Angling		1740	GBP -	0.16
220	Buchanan, George	Tyrannical-Government Anatomized : or, a Discourse concerning Evil-Councellors	London	1642	GBP -	1.10
221	Burger, K.	Supplement zu Hain und Panzer.	Leipzig	1908	GBP -	0.14
222	Burton, W.	The Description of Leicestershire		1622	GBP -	1.00
223	Butler, Samuel, author of "Erewhon "	Seven Sonnets and a Psalm of Montreal		1904	GBP -	1.00
224	Butler, S.	A Bibliography of the writings of Samuel Butler		1925	GBP -	Not Sold
225	Byron, Lord	English Bards and Scotch Reviewers		1811	GBP -	0.05
226	BYRON, LORD	MANFRED, A DRAMATIC POEM		1817	GBP -	0.05
227	Byron, Lord	Seventeen Letters to an unknown lady		1887	GBP -	Not Sold
228	Campbell, M. F. A. G.	Annales de la typographie Néerlandaise au XVe siècle		1874-90	GBP -	0.18
229	Canning, Elizabeth	A Collection of pamphlets			GBP -	5.00
230	Carleton, Sir Dudley	Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton		1757	GBP -	1.00
231		Carthusian Statutes.		1681	GBP -	Not Sold
232		Catharine of Sienna (Saint) Dialogo de la seraphica uergine santa catharina da siena ... Insieme con la sua uita : & canonizione	Venice	4 Nov., 1517	GBP -	1.00
233	Milton, J.	Catullus; Paradise Lost		1894; 1796	GBP -	1.10
234		Cato variegatvs or Catoes Morali Distichs : Translated and Para-phras'd	London	1636	GBP -	0.10
235	Caus, S. de	La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs	London	1612	GBP -	1.10
236	Caussin, Nicolas	The Holy Court.	Paris [? St. Omer]	1631	GBP -	0.15
237		Cento Novelle.		1572	GBP -	1.05
238	Cespedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de	Poema tragico del Español Gerardo; Segunda Parte del Español Gerardo		1615-17	GBP -	0.15
239	CHAMPIER, SYMPHORIAN	Rosa Gallica omnibus sanitatem affect-antibus vtilis ... vna cum sua preciosa Margarita : De Medici atq; egri officio		1514	GBP -	8.00
240	Charles I.	An Elegie on the Meekest of Men		1649	GBP -	0.10
241	Charles I.	An Act for the Abolishing the Kingly office		19th March, 1648 [1649]	GBP -	0.10
242	Charles II	The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles the Second ... as it was acted and done at Scoone		1651	GBP -	1.00
243		Cheapside Cross.	London	1641	GBP -	1.15
244	CHERUBINO DA SPOLETO	Spiritualis uite compendiosa regula	FLORENCE	30 Sept., 1490	GBP -	5.05
245	Chrysostom, St.	Homiliae super Joannem	Cologne	1486	GBP -	3.00
246	Collier, J. P.	The Poet's Pilgrimage : an allegorical poem		1825	GBP -	0.05
247	Collier, J. P.	An Old Man's Diary		1871-2	GBP -	0.15
248		Confessionale sive Libellus modum confitendi complectens ... editus a magistro Godscalco Rosemondo	Antwerp	1519	GBP -	0.15
249		Conspiracy (The) of Aeneas & Antenor Against the State of Troy.	London	[15 Aug.], 1682	GBP -	0.10
250	CONTRE-LESINE, La; Pascal, B.	ou plutost discours; Les Provinciales		1604; [c. 1755]	GBP -	0.10
251	Conway, W. M.; Edmond, J. P.; Willems, A.	The Woodcutters of the Netherlands in the 15th century; The Aberdeen Printers; Les Elzevier	Cambridge	1884; 1886; 1880	GBP -	1.00
252	Copinger, W. A.	Catalogue of the Copinger Collection of editions of the Latin Bible		1886	GBP -	0.10
253	Copinger, W. A.	Supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographi-cum	Berlin	1926	GBP -	2.05
254	CORDIER, M.	CORDERIVS DIALOGVES translated grammatically.	London	1636	GBP -	3.15
255	Cosin, Richard	Conspiracie, for Pretended Reformation : viz.		1592	GBP -	1.15
256	Cox, Sir Richard	Some Observations on the Present State of Ireland		1731	GBP -	0.10
257	Cromwell, O.	La Tyrannie heureuse ou Cromwel politique		1671	GBP -	0.05
258	Crowne, William	A Trve Relation of all the remarkable Places and passages observed in the Travels of ... Thomas Lord Howard	London	1637	GBP -	1.05
259	Cyprian, St.	Opera repurgata per Des. Erasmum	Basle	1530	GBP -	1.05
260	Dallington, Sir R.	A Svrvey of the Great Dvkes	London	1605	GBP -	1.10
261	Danes, John	Paralipomena Orthographiae		1638	GBP -	2.00
262	Bourdillon, F. W.; Bacon, Sir Nicholas	Daniel Press; The Recreations of his age		1890; 1903	GBP -	0.18
263		Daniel Press. Memorials of C. H. O.	Oxford	1921	GBP -	0.05
264	Dante	Catalogue of the Dante Collection presented by Willard Fiske to Cornell University Library compiled by T. W. Koch		1898-1900	GBP -	0.10
265	DAVENANT, SIR W.	Lvminalia, or the Festivall of Light.	London	1637	GBP -	4.15
266	D'Avenant, Sir W.	Poem, to the King's most Sacred Majesty		1663	GBP -	0.18
267	Davies, John, of Hereford	The Muses-Teares for the Losse of their hope; heroick and ne're-too-much praised	London	1613	GBP -	3.15
268	Davies, Sir John	Sir Martin Mar-People		1923	GBP -	0.05
269	Day, John	Day's Dyall or his Twelve Howres.	Oxford	1614	GBP -	0.10
270	Defoe, D.	More Reformation.		1703	GBP -	0.05
271	Defoe, D.	Jure Divino : a Satyr	London	1706	GBP -	1.10
272	Defoe, D.	A Declaration of Truth to Benjamin Hoadly ... By a Ministring Friend			GBP -	0.15
273	Defoe D.	Fair Payment No Spunge : or, some Considerations on the unreasonableness of Refusing to Receive back Money lent on Publick Securities.		1717	GBP -	7.00
274	Defoe, D.	Daniel Defoe : his life, and recently discovered writings : extending from 1716 to 1729.		1869	GBP -	0.05
275	Desbarreaux-Bernard	Catalogue des incunables de la bibliothèque de Toulouse		1878	GBP -	0.05
276	Dickson, R. and J. P. Edmond	Annals of Scottish Printing		1890	GBP -	0.10
277	Dodgson, C. L.	Some Popular Fallacies about vivisection.	Oxford	June, 1875	GBP -	3.05
278	Dodgson, C. L.	An Easter Greeting to every child who loves "Alice" (2 leaves), FIRST EDITION 8VO. 1876		1876	GBP -	0.10
279	Dodgson, C. L.	An Index to "In Memoriam "		1893	GBP -	0.10
280	Draxe, Thomas	Bibliotheca scholastica instructissima.	London	1616	GBP -	3.15
281	Du Bois, Jacques	Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio		1548	GBP -	Not Sold
282	Du Moulin, P.	An Apology for the Holy Svpper of the Lord ... translated ... by Edward Skipwith, Esquire	London	1612	GBP -	0.10
283	Edmond, J. P.; Forman, M. B.; Rohde, E. S.	The Aberdeen Printers; Meredithiana; The Old English Herbals		1884-6; 1924; 1922	GBP -	1.00
284	Egerton, Sir Thomas, Lord Ellesmere	Speech touching the Post-nati	London	1609	GBP -	1.10
285		Epigrams.		1797	GBP -	0.18
286		Epistolae et Evangelia tarn de tempore quam de Sanctis	Paris	1762	GBP -	1.00
287	ERASMUS, D.	In Evangelivm Lvcae paraphrasis	Basle	1523	GBP -	5.10
288	Erasmus, D.	De dvplici copia verborum et rervm commentarii duo	London	1569	GBP -	0.05
289	Erasmus, D.; Sheridan, L. H.	Opus de scribendis epistolis; The Comic Offering		1522; 1831	GBP -	1.05
290		EUCHOLOGION	Heirs of Antonio Vinelli	1602	GBP -	1.00
291		Euclid.		1926	GBP -	0.10
292		Eusebius.	Venice	13 Sept., 1483	GBP -	2.05
293	Evelyn, John	Navigation and Commerce		1674	GBP -	0.15
294	Volkmann, Lud.	Facsimiles from early illustrated books from catalogues issued by P. M. Barnard; Iconografia Dantesca		n. d.; 1898	GBP -	Not Sold
295	FENNER, DUDLEY	CERTAIN GODLY AND LEARNED TREATISES		1592	GBP -	6.15
296	Ferguson, James; Veslingius, Jo.	Lectures on select subjects in mechanics; Syntagma anatomicum	Amsterdam	1659; 1764	GBP -	0.10
297		Florence of Worcester.	London	1592	GBP -	0.10

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