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
498	Swift, J.	An Epistle to a Lady		1734	GBP -	1.15
499	Swift, J.	An Imitation of the sixth satire of the second book of Horace		1738	GBP -	1.15
500	Swift, J.	Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift		1739	GBP -	3.10
501		Swiftiana		1714	GBP -	2.00
502	Smedley, Jonathan, Dean of Clogher	Swiftiana		1728	GBP -	3.10
503	SYLVESTER, J.	LACHRIMAE LACHRIMARVM or the Distillation of Teares shede for the vntymely Death of the incomparable Prince Panaretvs		1612	GBP -	1.00
504	Symoneta, Bonifacius	In persecutionum christianarum historiam : Pontificumque commentarios : ad optimum maximum deum oratio		JAN., 1492	GBP -	0.10
505	Symons, W.; Mangin, E.	An Essay on weighing of gold; Utopia found : being an Apology for Irish Absen tees; Oxford and Locke		1756; 1813; 1829	GBP -	0.05
506	Talfourd, Sir T. N.; Pottinger, I.; Steele, Sir R.	Ion; a tragedy; The Duenna : a comic opera; The State of the case between the Lord-Chamberlain ... and the Governor of the Royal Company of Comedians		1720; 1835; 1776	GBP -	0.05
507	Taylor, John, the Water Poet	All the Workes ... collected into one volume		1630	GBP -	3.00
508	Taylor, John	A Seasonable Lecture, or A most learned Oration : Disburthened from Henry Walker	London	1642	GBP -	1.00
509	Taylor, John	Aqua-Musae : or, Cacafogo	Oxford	1643	GBP -	3.15
510	Tennyson, Lord	The Silent Voices; Pearl, an English poem of the XIV century		1891; 1892	GBP -	Not Sold
511	Thoinan, E.	Les relieurs français (1500-1800) biographie critique et anecdotique	Paris	1893	GBP -	0.10
512	Travers, Walter	A Svpplication made to the Privy Counsel	Oxford	1612	GBP -	0.10
513	Valentine, B.	Basil Valentine		1678	GBP -	0.08
514		Valerius Maximus.	Venice	24 Oct., 1508	GBP -	1.08
515	Valla, L.	De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione Libellus		1506	GBP -	1.12
516	Vane, Sir H.	A Letter from Sir Henry Vane to Sir Arthur Hasilrig (23 Feb., 1659); Sir Harry Vane's Last Sigh for the Committee of Safety breathed forth in Discourses and Conferences with Vice-Admiral Lawson (17 Dec, 1659)		1659	GBP -	0.15
517	Buonaccorsi, B.	Venice; Diario dé successi piu im portanti seguiti in Italia; Las obras de Pierre Goudelin		1612; 1568; 1648	GBP -	0.05
518	Vera y Zuniga, J. Ant.	El Enbaxador por Don Ivan Antonio de vera i cvniga Comedador de la Barra en la orde de S. Tiago (sic).		1620	GBP -	Not Sold
519	Verstegan, Richard	A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence : In antiquities.	Antwerp	1605	GBP -	0.15
520	Valverde, Gio.	Anatomia del corpo humano	Rome	1560	GBP -	2.10
521	Voltaire, F. M. A. De	Le Brutus	A Paris	1731	GBP -	0.05
522	Voltaire, F. M. A. De	Remerciment sincère a un homme charitable	à Amsterdam	1750	GBP -	Not Sold
523	WALLER, EDMUND	TO the King, upon His Majesties Happy Return		1660	GBP -	2.10
524	Wallis, Ralph	Room for the Cobler of Gloucester and his wife : With several Cartloads of Abominable Irregular		1686	GBP -	0.10
525	Walpole, Horace; Klebs, A. C. and E. Droz; Jusserand, J. J.	Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill; Remèdes contre la peste; Jacques Ier d'Ecosse fut-il poète ?	Paris	1925; 1923; 1897	GBP -	0.15
526		War Horns		1682	GBP -	0.10
527	Wesley, Charles	An Elegy on the late Reverend George Whitefield		1771	GBP -	0.10
528	WESLEY, JOHN	A Calm Address to our American Colonies		1775	GBP -	1.00
529	Wesley, John and Charles	Graces, before meat			GBP -	0.10
530		Westminster Projects or the Mystery of Iniquity of the Committee of Darby House discovered; The Manifesto of Lord Peter; Rosemary & Bayes : or, Animadversions upon a Treatise called		1648; 1672; 1726	GBP -	0.05
531	WHEELER, JOHN	A TREATISE OF COMMERCE.	London	1601	GBP -	2.00
532	WHITE, THOMAS, Founder of Sion College	A Serm? preached at Pawles Crosse (3 Nov. 1577) ... in the time of the Plague	London	1578	GBP -	1.10
533	Wilkins, J.	[A Discourse concerning a New World and Another Planet in 2 Bookes].			GBP -	0.10
534	Wilkins, John	An Essay towards a real character, and a philoso-phical language		1668	GBP -	0.10
535	Wilkins, J.	Mathematical Magick : or, the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanichal Geometry, portrait and engravings, original calf 8vo. 1680		1680	GBP -	1.12
536	Williams, Iolo A.; Wilson, G. F.; Martindell, E. W.; Webb, A. P.	Seven 18th century bibliographies; A Bibliography of W. H. Hudson; A Bibliography of R. Kipling (1881-1921); A Bibliography of Thomas Hardy (1865-1915)		1924; 1922; 1916	GBP -	0.18
537	Willis, T.; Jennings, J.	Pathologiae Cerebri; A Practical Treatise on Tobacco	Amsterdam	1670; 1830	GBP -	0.10
538	Wise, T. J.	The Ashley Library.		1908	GBP -	0.12
539	Wise, T. J.	A Catalogue of the Ashley Library		1926	GBP -	2.00
540	Wise, T. J.	A Catalogue of the Ashley Library		1927	GBP -	2.00
541	Wither, G.?; Starbucke, W.; Whitehouse, John	Articles presented against this Parliament; A Briefe Exposi tion ... upon the Lord of Canterburies Sermon or Speech; A Few Words ... to the Teachers		1648; 1645; 1662	GBP -	0.18
542	Wittie, Robert, Dr. in Physick	Ouranoscopia.		1681	GBP -	1.12
543	Ziegler, C.	Circa regicidivm Anglorum Exercitationes		1653	GBP -	1.15

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