Sothebys: THE VERY CHOICE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY PRINCIPALLY OF IMPORTANT BOOKS IN ENGLISH and FRENCH LITERATURE AND OF FINE ILLUMINATED MANUSCHIPTS., 07Dec1931,

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 07, 1931 - December 07, 1931

Page Size: 299 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ALCORAN, L'	Des Cordeliers tant en Latin qu'en François; Amusemens François	Amsterdam; Venezia	1734; 1752	GBP -	1.05
2	ANNE OF BRITTANY	Le Livre d' Heures de La Reine Anne de Bretagne	Paris	1811	GBP -	6.10
3		APOCALYPSE WITH THE LIFE OF S. JOHN-ARS MORIENDI-ANATOMICAL AND MEDICAL DRAWINGS-ALLEGORICAL AND EMBLEMATICAL DRAWINGS. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM WITH A REMARKABLE SERIES OF TINTED OUTLINE DRAWINGS, NEATLY WRITTEN IN A COMPACT; CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF WOODEN B	GERMAN	EARLY XV CENT	GBP -	2,300.00
4	Apuleius	Works		1869	GBP -	4.15
5	Apuleius	The XI	London	1639	GBP -	8.00
6	Apuleius	The Metamorphosis; The Golden Ass newly translated by P. D. Byrne		1822	GBP -	5.00
7	E. Powys Mathers	Arabian Nights The		1923	GBP -	6.10
8		Arabian Nights	Paris		GBP -	7.00
9		Athenian Society's Publications		1895-1912	GBP -	7.10
10	AUGUSTINE, ST.	CONFESSIONES	GERMAN	EARLY XII CENT	GBP -	32.00
11	AUGUSTINE, ST.	Sermones et Confessiones	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	24.00
12	Augustine	Liber soliloquiorum	ITALIAN	1455	GBP -	13.00
13	AUGUSTINE, ST.	DE CIVITATE DEI	Rome	1468	GBP -	105.00
14	AUGUSTINE, ST.	DE CIVITATE DEI	Venice	1475	GBP -	24.00
15	Balzac, H. de	Les contes drolatiques	Paris	1861	GBP -	5.05
16	Bandello, Matt.	Novels translated by John Payne		1890	GBP -	6.05
17	Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher; Moliere, J. B. P.	Works; Plays translated by A. R. Waller		1904; 1902-3	GBP -	1.10
18	Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher	A King and no King		1625	GBP -	5.05
19	Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher	Cupids Revenge ... the Third Edition		1635	GBP -	1.15
20	Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher	The Maids Tragedy ... the sixth impression		1650	GBP -	2.00
21	BEDE	De natura rerum & de temporibus; CENSORINUS; De die natali; PRISCIANUS; Praeexercitamenta; MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	18.10
22	BERNARD, P. J.	Oeuvres	Paris	1797	GBP -	18.00
23		BIBLE. LATIN. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	FRENCH	1254	GBP -	52.00
24		BIBLE. LATIN. MANUSCRIPT ON FINE VELLUM WELL WRITTEN	FRENCH	XIII CENT	GBP -	24.00
25	BOAISTUAU, PIERRE	HISTOIRES PRODIGIEUSES; THE AUTHOR'S DEDICATION COPY TO QUEEN ELIZABETH WITH 42 MOST INTERESTING THREE-QUARTER PAGE MINIATURES OF PRODIGIES AND MONSTROSITIES COLOURED AND ILLUMINATED		1560	GBP -	95.00
26	BOCCACCIO, G.	DE LA LOUENGE ET VERTU DES NOBLES ET CLERES DAMES; the last leaf; citron morocco by Rivière decorated with coloured inlays to an interlacing arabesque design	PARIS	28 APRIL, 1493	GBP -	85.00
27	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron		1886	GBP -	2.00
28	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron		1893	GBP -	2.05
29	Boccaccio, G.	The Decameron		1906	GBP -	5.00
30		BREVIARIUM MONASTICUM SECUNDUM CONSUETUDINEM MONIALIUM MONASTERII MAIOEIS MEDIOLANI; ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM; THIRTY-ONE FINELY EXECUTED MINIATURES IN COLOURS ON A BURNISHED GOLD GROUND	NORTH ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	70.00
31	Brewer, A.	Lingua		1657	GBP -	2.00
32	Brome, R.	The Sparagvs Garden		1640	GBP -	3.00
33	BUTLER, S.	HUDIBRAS; HUDIBRAS; HUDIBRAS	London	1663; 1664; 1678; 1663-78	GBP -	17.00
34	Butler, S.	Hudibras	Londres	1819	GBP -	2.15
35	Carpenter, R.	A New Play call'd the Pragmatical Jesuit new-leven'd A Comedy			GBP -	3.15
36	Cartwright, W.	Comedies		1651	GBP -	5.10
37	Catullus; Estienne, H.	The Carmina translated by Sir R. F. Burton and L. C. Smithers; Apologie pour Hérodote	Paris	1894; 1879	GBP -	3.15
38	CASANOVA, J.	The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova written by himself now for the first time translated into English		1894	GBP -	16.00
39	Cent, Les	Nouvelles Nouvelles	à Cologne	1701	GBP -	6.05
40	Chapman, George	Al Fooles a Comedy		1605	GBP -	5.00
41	Chapman, G.	Monsieur D'Olive		1606	GBP -	8.00
42	CHAPMAN, G.	A Iustification of a strange action of Nero in burying with a solemne Fvnerall		1629	GBP -	14.00
43	CHAPMAN, G. AND OTHERS	EASTWARD HOE	At London	1605	GBP -	16.00
44	Chaucer, G.	Poetical Works		1854-56	GBP -	4.10
45	CHAUCER, G.	The Ellesmere Chaucer reproduced in facsimile	Manchester	1911	GBP -	14.00
46	Chaucer, G.	The Canterbury Tales		1861	GBP -	4.00
47	F. Bedford	CHRISTINE OF PISAN; IN VERY GOOD AND CLEAN CONDITION	WESTMINSTER	14 JULY, 1489	GBP -	310.00
48	Cicero, M. T.	De Amicitia	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	5.00
49	CICERO, M. T.	De Officiis	ITALIAN	C. 1450	GBP -	9.10
50	CICERO, M. T.	DE OFFICIIS	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	12.00
51	CICERO, M. T.	De Oratore [Pro Milone, etc.]	ITALIAN	1453	GBP -	19.00
52	Cicero, M. T.	Paradoxa	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	5.10
53	Cicero, M. T.	Quaestiones Tusculanae	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	3.00
54	Cicero, M. T.	Rhetorica vetus sen de inventione rhetorica	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	2.00
55	CICERO, M. T.	De finibus bonorum et malorum	Venice	6 Nov. 1480	GBP -	11.00
56	COCKE, T.	KITCHIN-PHYSICK	London	1676	GBP -	10.00
57	Cokain, Sir Aston	Small Poems of Divers sorts; The Tragedy of Ovid	London	1658; 1662	GBP -	30.00
58		Collection des auteurs latins avec la traduction en français publiée sous la direction de M. Nisard	Paris	1860-66	GBP -	4.05
59	COLUMNA, GUIDO DE	LA VRAYE HISTOIRE DE TROYE; SEVENTEEN VERY FINE MINIATURES WITH BORDERS	BURGUNDIAN SCHOOL	C. 1460	GBP -	240.00
60		Comedy	London	1630	GBP -	4.00
61	Congreve, W.; Brome, R.; Beaumont, F. and J. Fletcher	The Double-Dealer; The Northern Lass; The Humorous Lietenant		1694; 1684; 1697	GBP -	5.00
62	Cooke, J.	Greenes Tu Quoque	London	1628	GBP -	8.00
63		CORDYALE	WESTMINSTER	24 MARCH, 1479	GBP -	700.00
64	Cornelius Nepos	Aemilius Probus de illustrious ducibus exterarum gentium	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	4.10
65	CORYAT, T.	Coryats Crudities histily gobled up in five moneths Trauells in France		1611	GBP -	7.10
66	Cotgrave, Randle	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongves	London	1611	GBP -	7.00
67	Cotgrave, R.	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongves	London	1611	GBP -	3.10
68A	DEKKER, T.	SATIRO-MASTIX	London	c. 1825; 1602	GBP -	98.00
68	DEFOE, D.	Conjugal Lewdness		1727	GBP -	14.00
69	DEKKER, T.	THE BATCHELARS BANQUET; ONLY ONE OTHER PERFECT COPY IS KNOWN	London	1603	GBP -	55.00
70	DEKKER, T.	A STRANGE HORSE-RACE	London	1613	GBP -	20.00
71	DEKKER, T.	THE BELMAN OF LONDON		1616	GBP -	15.00
72	DEKKER, T.	THE HONEST WHORE; The Second Part of the Honest Whore		1616-30	GBP -	7.00
73	DOMINICI, Jo.	LUCULA NOCTIS contra Coluccium Salutatum de legendis gentilium libris	ITALIAN	EARLY XV CENT	GBP -	18.00
74	Dryden, J.	Marriage A-la-Mode		1673	GBP -	3.05
75		Elegidia et Poematia Epidietica unâ cum ad vivum expressis personarum iconibus	Upsaliae	1631	GBP -	1.00
76	Etherege, Sir G.	The Comical Revenge		1669	GBP -	2.00
77	Eutropius	Historiae Romanae lib. X.	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	3.00
78	Farmer, J. S.	Merry Songs and Ballads prior to 1800		1897	GBP -	5.10
79	Farquhar, G.	Dramatic Works		1892	GBP -	3.15
80	Field, N.	A Woman is a Weather-cocke		1612	GBP -	4.15
81	FIRDAUSI	SHAH-NAMAH; IT IS MOST GORGEOUSLY AND LAVISHLY ORNAMENTED IN GOLD; A SUMPTUOUS MANUSCRIPT WITH WIDE MARGINS AND IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION			GBP -	100.00
82	Fletcher, J.	The Tragoedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy	Oxford	1640	GBP -	1.10
83	FLETCHER, J.	Rvle a Wife and have a Wife	Oxford	1640	GBP -	5.10
84	Fletcher, J.	The Night-Walker		1640	GBP -	5.10
85	A. Chertsey	FLOWER. IHESUS	London	8 Oct. 1521	GBP -	14.10
86	Ford, John	Dramatic Works		1827	GBP -	2.15
87	Ford, John	Works		1869	GBP -	2.05
88	Ford, John	'Tis Pitty shee's a Whore		1633	GBP -	11.10
89	GASCOIGNE, GEORGE	THE PLEASAUNTEST WORKES OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE ESQUYRE	London	1587	GBP -	92.00
90	Gibbon, E.	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1848	GBP -	3.10
91	Gibbon, E.	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1855	GBP -	2.15
92	Gibbon, E.	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1897	GBP -	2.10
93	Glapthorne, H.	The Hollander		1640	GBP -	1.10
94	GOSSON, STEPHEN	THE EPHEMERIDES OF PHIALO	London	1579	GBP -	3.00
95	Gramont, Count de; Stubbes, P.	Memoirs; Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakspere's Youth		1889; 1877-9	GBP -	4.10
96	Greene, Robert	Dramatic Works		1831	GBP -	3.00
97	HARMAN, T.	THE GROUNDWORKE OF CONNY-CATCHING	London	1592	GBP -	21.00
98	Harpsfield, Nicholas	A Treatise on the Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon		1878	GBP -	1.05
99	Harsnet, S.	A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures ...	London	1603	GBP -	7.00

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