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
398		Minvcivs Felix his dialogue called Octavius.	Oxford	1636	GBP -	0.10
399	Mirabeau, Comte; Defoe, D.	Histoire secrette de la Cour de Berlin; The History of the Wars of ... Charles XII		1789; 1715	GBP -	0.10
400	Mirk, John	Liber Festivalis; Quatuor Sermones		1507	GBP -	2.15
401		Missale Carthusiense	Paris	9 Aug., 1520	GBP -	0.10
402	Molloy, F.	Lucerna Fidelium	Rome	1676	GBP -	0.10
403	Monardes, Nic.	Primera y segvnda y tercera partes		1580	GBP -	2.15
404	More, Henry	Philosophicall Poems; Selecta poemata Italorum qui latine scripserunt accurante A. Pope	Cambridge	1647; 1740	GBP -	0.15
405	More, H.; Wittie, Dr. Robert	Epistola H. Mori ad V.C. quae apologiam complectitur pro Cartesio; Ouranoscopia			GBP -	1.10
406	Morland, Sir Samuel	Elevations des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure	Paris	1685	GBP -	3.15
407	Mornay, P. de	A Notable Treatise of the Chvrch .. .Translated... by I[ohn] F[eilde]	London	1580	GBP -	0.15
408	Mornay, P. de	Meditations upon Psal.	London	1599	GBP -	Not Sold
409		MORNINGTON PAPERS.			GBP -	5.00
410		Muses (The) Farewell to Popery and Slavery, or, a collection of iscellany Poems		1689	GBP -	1.01
411	Napier, John, Laird of Merchiston	A plaine discovery of the whole euelation of Saint Iohn ... wherevnto are annexed certaine Oracles of Sibylla	Edinburgh	1593	GBP -	Not Sold
412		NEEDLEWORK BINDING; The Whole Booke of Psalmes (Sternhold and Hopkins)		1628; 1629	GBP -	6.15
413	Neville, Henry	Newes from the New Exchange, or the Common-wealth of Ladies	London	1650	GBP -	3.10
414	Nowell, A.	Christianae pietatis prima institutio ad vsum scholarum graece & latine scripta	London	1575	GBP -	0.10
415	Oudin, C.	Grammaire et observations de la langve espagnolle	Paris	1597	GBP -	1.06
416	Ovid	Ovids Remedy of Love.	London	1636	GBP -	1.15
417	Ovid	Ovid's Invective or Curse against Ibis		1658	GBP -	0.05
418	Pacquet, A.	from Parnassus : or, a Collection of Papers; The Reverend Dr. J. H 's Recantation Sermon upon Lunacy or Indiscretion; The Devil to pay at St. James's : or a full and true Account of a most horrid and bloody Battle between Madam Faustina and Madam Cuzzoni		1702; n. d. (c. 1700); 1727	GBP -	1.00
419	PALINGENIUS, MARCELLUS	The Firste thre Bokes of ... the Zodyake of lyfe : newly translated ... by Barnabe Googe	London	1560	GBP -	1.00
420	Pasquier, Etienne	The Jesuites Catechisme.	[? London]	1602	GBP -	2.15
421		Pasquin Pasquinaded ... in a Conversation between two celebrated walking Female Statues; A Learned Dissertation upon Old Women; A Letter sent from a Student in Grub street to a ... Head of a College in Oxford; The Glorious Life and Actions of St. Whigg		1749; 1720; 1708	GBP -	Not Sold
422	Pelham, Henry; Flatman, T.	King Harry the Ninth's Speech to both Houses of P 1 the 31 Day of November; A Pindarique Ode on the Death of Thomas Earl of Ossory		n. d.; 1681	GBP -	Not Sold
423	Penn, W.	Barton (William).		1668	GBP -	10.10
424	Perez, Antonio de ?	A Treatise Paraenetical	London	1598	GBP -	0.10
425		Petronius Arbiter.		1708	GBP -	1.00
426	Philelphus, Franciscus	Orationes cum quibusdam aliis operibus	Basle	n. d., c. 1496	GBP -	1.10
427		PLAGUE.	London	1630	GBP -	1.05
428		PLAGUE.	London	1630	GBP -	1.10
429		Plague.	London	1630	GBP -	0.18
430		Poems.			GBP -	0.10
431		Polybius.	Paris	1609	GBP -	0.15
432	Pope, A.	The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace imitated		1733	GBP -	0.10
433	Pope, A.	Sober Advice from Horace		1734	GBP -	0.10
434	Pope, A.	Sober Advice from Horace		1734	GBP -	Not Sold
435	Pope, A.	Sober Advice from Horace		1734	GBP -	0.05
436	Pope, A.	The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace		1737	GBP -	0.05
437	Pope, A.	The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace imitated		1737	GBP -	Not Sold
438	Pope, A.	Alexander Pope: A Bibliography by R. H. Griffith.		1922-27	GBP -	0.12
439	Popeana	A Compleat Collection of all the Verses		1728	GBP -	2.00
440		Popeana.		1729	GBP -	1.00
441	Hill, A.	Popeana; The Creation. A Pindaric Illustration of a poem originally written by Moses ... with a preface to Mr. Pope; Of the Characters of Women : An Epistle to a Lady		1733; 1735	GBP -	9.00
442	Pope Joan	Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne		1758	GBP -	0.05
443	Proctor, R.	Tracts on early printing I-III	Paris	1878	GBP -	5.00
444	Proctor, R.	An Index to the early printed books in the British Museum.		1903	GBP -	2.10
445	Prynne, William	Movnt-Orgveil : or Divine and Profitable Medita-tions		1641	GBP -	0.10
446		Psalmes (The) of King David.	Oxford	1631	GBP -	0.05
447	QUIÒONES, Juan	Tratado del Carbunco		1634	GBP -	1.04
448	RACSTER, JOHN	A BOOKE OF THE SEVEN PLANETS, or, Seuen wandring Motiues	London	1598	GBP -	1.10
449	RACSTER, JOHN	A BOOKE OF THE SEVEN PLANETS		1598	GBP -	3.10
450	Raleigh, George	Albania : or, certaine Concernments of Great Brittany.	London	1641	GBP -	0.05
451	Ramberti, Benedetto	Libri tre delle Cose de Tvrchi.	Venice	1539	GBP -	0.16
452	Randolph, Thomas	Aristippvs.	London	1631	GBP -	1.05
453		Rasis.			GBP -	0.15
454		Resolution (The) of the Women of London to the Parliament.		1649	GBP -	2.05
455	Hogarth, W.?	Resolutions of Parliament upon report from the Committee for suppressing licentious and impious practices; The Case of Designers		1650; n. d., [c. 1735]	GBP -	0.10
456	Rich, Jeremiah	The Whole Book of Psalms in Meter.		1659	GBP -	1.00
457	Richards, William	Wallography : or The Britton Describ'd : Being a pleasant relation of a Journey into Wales		1682	GBP -	5.00
458		Rituale Ambrosiano.		c. 1500	GBP -	1.10
459	Rogers, N.	A Mirrour of Mercy ... set out in two Parables.		1640	GBP -	0.10
460	Ross, Alexander	Medicus Medicatus : or the Physicians religion cured ... with some Animadversions upon Sir Kenelme Digbie's Observations on Religio Medici		1645	GBP -	0.15
461	Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of	Horace's Art of Poetry.		1680	GBP -	3.15
462	Rosenbach, A. S. W.; Williams, Iolo A.	An American Jewish Bibliography; Seven 18th century bibliographies		1926; 1924	GBP -	0.12
463		Rothschild Library.	Paris	1920	GBP -	0.10
464	Rowe, Henry; Young, E.; Philips, A.?	The Montem; a musical entertainment; Ocean; The Long Vacation		1808; 1728; 1708	GBP -	Not Sold
465	Rufo, J.	Las Seyscientas apotegmas			GBP -	0.10
466		Rump : or an exact collection of the choycest Poems and Songs relating to the Late Times.		1662	GBP -	3.00
467	Rupert, Prince	Observations vpon Prince Rvpert's white dog		1642	GBP -	3.05
468	Sachs, Hans, shoe-maker of Nuremberg	Der klagent waldbrüder uber alle Stendt/auff erden.	Nuremburg	n. d. [1553-4]	GBP -	1.00
469	Sandys, Sir Edwin	A Relation of the state of Religion : and with what Hopes and Pollicies it hath beene framed	London	1605	GBP -	0.10
470	Sayle, C.	Early English printed books in the University Library Cambridge (1475 to 1640), 4 vol. in 2, half morocco 8vo. 1900-07		1900-07	GBP -	2.12
471	Scott, Robert	Catalogus librorum ex varus Europae partibus advectorum		1674	GBP -	0.10
472	Scott, Sir W.; Birkbeck, Morris	Religious Discourses; Letters from Illinois		1828; 1818	GBP -	0.10
473		SCRIPTPORES REI RUSTICAE		1528	GBP -	1.00
474		Seneca.	London	1581	GBP -	Not Sold
475		Sermones thesauri novi de Sanctis	Strasburg	1515	GBP -	0.10
476	Shakespeare; F. A. Wheeler	A Catalogue of Shakespeareana		1899	GBP -	1.05
477	SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP	The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia ... now the third time published	London	1598	GBP -	3.05
478	Sidney, Sir P.	The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia	London	1613	GBP -	1.00
479	Smith, Sir Thomas	De Repvblica Anglorum.	London	1584	GBP -	1.10
480	South, Robert	Sermons		1679	GBP -	0.10
481		Spain.	London	1594	GBP -	1.10
482	Speed, Samuel	Fragmenta Carceris : or, the Kings-Bench Scuffle; with the Humours of the Common-Side.		1674	GBP -	2.05
483	Spinola, George, pseudonym	Rules to get children by with handsome faces : or, Precepts for the Extemporary Sectaries which preach	London	1642	GBP -	4.10
484	Mannagetta, J. G.	Statutes of Albenga [in Latin]; Corona duodecim Caesarum		1519; 1654	GBP -	1.05
485	Stow, J.	The Abridgement ... of the English Chronicle		1607	GBP -	5.05
486	STUBBES, JOHN	The Discoverie of a Gaping Gvlf whereinto England is like to be swallowed by an other French marriage	London	1579	GBP -	5.10
487	Suckling, Sir John	A Letter sent by Sir Iohn Svckling from France		1641	GBP -	2.00
488	Suckling, Sir John; Charles I.	The Coppy of a Letter written to ... Parliament touching divers grievances and inconveniences of the state; His Majesties Declaration to all his subjects		1639; 1647	GBP -	2.10
489	Summers, Will	A Pleasant History of the Life and Death of Will Summers; Familiar Verses from the Ghost of Willy Shakspeare to Sammy Ireland; A Packet of Pestilent Pasquils (2 copies)		1794; 1796; 1782	GBP -	1.10
490	Swan, John	Speculum Mundi, or A glasse representing the face of the world; shewing both that it did begin	Cambridge	1635	GBP -	3.00
491	Swift, J.	A Proposal for correcting		1712	GBP -	2.05
492	Swift, J.	A Letter of Thanks from my Lord W n to the Lord Bp of S. Asaph		1712	GBP -	5.05
493	Swift, J.	A Preface to the B p of S--r--m's introduction to the third volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England.	Dublin	1749	GBP -	3.05
494	Swift, J.	The Publick Spirit of the Whigs : set forth in their generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis		1714	GBP -	1.00
495	SWIFT, J.	A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE FROM BEING A BURTHEN TO THEIR PARENTS	Dublin	1729	GBP -	16.00
496	Swift, J.	A Serious and Useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables ... to which is added		1733	GBP -	2.00
497	Swift, J.	On Poetry : a Rapsody; Mully of Mountown	London	1704; 1733	GBP -	3.00

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