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
100	HAUGHTON, W.	English-men for my Money		1626	GBP -	4.00
101	HERRICK, ROBERT	HESPERIDES		1648	GBP -	240.00
102	Herrick, R.	Complete Poems		1876	GBP -	3.10
103	Heywood, John	Workes ... namelie		1598	GBP -	5.05
104	Heywood, T.	Dramatic Works		1853	GBP -	3.00
105	Heywood, T.	The Silver Age		1613	GBP -	3.15
106	Heywood, T.	A Pleasant Comedy		1634	GBP -	5.15
107	Heywood, T.	The Fayre Maide of the Exchange		1637	GBP -	2.05
108	Heywood, T.	The Royal King		1637	GBP -	3.00
109	Heywood, T.	The Rape of Lucrece		1638	GBP -	3.00
110	HILL, T.	A Pleasant History		1613	GBP -	7.00
111		HORACE his arte of Poetrie	London	1567	GBP -	6.05
112	HORAE B.V.M.	CUM CALENDARIO [USE OF AMIENS]; FOUR LARGE MINIATURES; seven other pages decorated with large illuminated initials and three-quarter borders; the lower margin of the first leaf renewed	FRENCH	XV CENT	GBP -	27.00
113	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM PARISIENSEM CUM CALENDARIO; TWENTY SMALLER MINIATURES AT END IN THE MEMORIAE OF SAINTS WELL EXECUTED IN GOLD AND COLOURS ALL WITH MARGINAL DECORATION	FRENCH	XV CENT	GBP -	92.00
114	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM PARISIENSEM CUM CALENDARIO; THIRTEEN VERY FINE FULL-PAGE MINIATURES; FIVE OTHER LARGE MINIATURES BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLOURS	FRENCH	XV CENT	GBP -	190.00
116	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM ROMANUM CUM CALENDARIO; A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED FULL-PAGE MINIATURE OF THE ANNUNCIATION	FRENCH	SECOND HALF OF xv CENT	GBP -	80.00
117	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM ROMANUM CUM CALENDARIO; FOURTEEN LARGE MINIATURES FINELY PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLOURS; SIXTEEN SMALLER MINIATURES OF EVANGELISTS AND SAINTS	FRENCH	LATE XV CENT	GBP -	125.00
118	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM BOMANUM CUM CALENDARIO; FIVE LARGE ARCHED MINIATURES; FORTY-SIX SMALLER MINIATURES	FRENCH	LATE XV CENT	GBP -	46.00
119	HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO	MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM; TWELVE LARGE MINIATURES IN GOLD AND COLOURS	NORTHERN FRENCH	MID. XV CENT	GBP -	50.00
120	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM BOMANUM CUM CALENDARIO; FIFTEEN LARGE AND VERY FINE HISTORIATED INITIALS ENCLOSING BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED MINIATURE'S; OTHERWISE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THROUGHOUT WITH WIDE MARGINS	NORTH ITALIAN	C. 1480	GBP -	135.00
121	HORAE B.V.M.	ad usum Romanum cum Calendario	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	14.00
122	HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO	IN FLEMISH; FOUR FINELY EXECUTED FULL-PAGE MINIATURES IN GOLD AND COLOURS WITH BORDERS	FLEMISH	EARLY XV CENT	GBP -	40.00
123	Horae B.V.M.	MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	FLEMISH	EARLY XV CENT	GBP -	11.00
124	HORAE B.V.M.	AD USUM BOMANUM CUM CALENDARIO; EIGHT FINE FULL-PAGE MINIATURES	SPAIN; BARCELONA	c. 1480	GBP -	26.00
125	HORAE	REIMS USE	Paris	1515	GBP -	40.00
126	HORAE	ROMAN USE	Paris	1509	GBP -	17.00
127	HORAE	ROMAN USE	Paris	1510	GBP -	47.00
128	HORAE	ROMAN USE	Paris	1515	GBP -	23.00
129	Howell, James	Instructions and Directions for Forren Travell		1650	GBP -	3.05
130	Hyginus; Cicero, M. T.	Poeticon Astronomicon; De somnio Scipionis-Cicero Q.		c. 1487	GBP -	5.10
131	JONSON, BEN	WORKS	London	1616	GBP -	3.05
132	Jonson, B., J. Fletcher and T. Middleton	The Widdow		1652	GBP -	2.00
133	JUSTINIAN	Digestum Novum cum glossis		XIII CENT	GBP -	26.00
134	JUSTINUS, F.	In Trogi Pompei historiarum libros XLIV epithoma	ITALIAN	MID. XV CENT	GBP -	13.00
135	Juvenal	Sixteen Satyrs ... by Sir Robert Stapylton Knight; Another copy		1647	GBP -	1.10
136	JUVENAL & PERSIUS	SATYRAE	ITALIAN	MID. XV CENT	GBP -	13.00
137	Juvenal & Persius	Satyrae	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	7.00
138	KATHERINE OF ARAGON, Queen of Henry VIII	A MAGNIFICENT HOLOGRAPH LETTER		8th February, 1534	GBP -	390.00
139	La Fontaine, J. de	Contes et Nouvelles en vers		1777	GBP -	5.15
140	Lecky, W. E. H.	History of European morals; History of Rationalism in Europe		1869; 1865	GBP -	1.05
141	Lecky, W. E. H.	History of European morals		1882-77	GBP -	1.15
142	Lefevre, R.; Scot, R.	The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye; The Discoverie of Witchcraft		1894; 1886	GBP -	2.05
143	LIVY	DECADI (In Italian, with the Guerra Punica of Aretinus)	Venice	13 Aug. 1485	GBP -	8.00
144	LODGE, T.	ROSALYNDE	London	1590	GBP -	2,400.00
145		Loeb Classical Library		v. y.	GBP -	18.10
146	LONGUS	Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé	Paris	1731	GBP -	4.10
147	Lowndes, W. T.	The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature revised by H. G. Bohn (with appendix)		1857-64	GBP -	3.15
148	Lucian	Works		1905	GBP -	3.00
149	Lucian	Certaine select Dialogves translated by Mr. Francis Hickes	Oxford	1634	GBP -	1.00
150	MACHEN, Arthur	Fantastic Tales; The Carmina of Catullus now first completely Englished by Sir R. F. Burton and L. C. Smithers		1890; 1894	GBP -	5.15
151	MACROBIUS	In Somnium Scipionis expositiones et saturnalia	Brescia	31 May, 1485	GBP -	20.00
152	Maréchal, Sylv	Contes saugrenus	Bassora	1789	GBP -	0.15
153	Marguerite de Valois	Les Sept Journées de la Reine de Navarre		1872	GBP -	4.04
154	Marlowe, C.	Works		1826	GBP -	3.15
155	Marlowe, C.	Works		1850	GBP -	3.10
156	Marlowe, C.	Works		1885	GBP -	3.05
157	MARLOWE, C.	THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE RICH IEW OF MALTA	London	1633	GBP -	40.00
158	Marston, John	Works		1856	GBP -	1.12
159	Marston, J.	Works		1887	GBP -	3.15
160	MARSTON, J.	THE MALCONTENT	London	1604	GBP -	16.00
161	Martial	Opera	Venice	1501	GBP -	1.05
162	MASCALL, LEONARD	A PROFITABLE BOOKE DECLARING DYUERS APPROOUED REMEDIES, TO TAKE OUT SPOTTES AND STAINES, IN SlLKES, VELUETS, LINNEN AND WOOLLEN CLOTHES	London	1588	GBP -	33.00
163	MASSINGER, P.	THE BOND-MAN	London	1624	GBP -	2.00
164	Massinger, P.	The Bond-man		1638	GBP -	1.10
165	Massinger, P.	The Pictvre		1630	GBP -	8.00
166	Massinger, P.	The Renegado		1630	GBP -	4.05
167	Massinger, P.	The Emperovr of the East		1632	GBP -	7.15
168	Massinger, P.	A New Way to pay old debts		1633	GBP -	7.15
169	Massinger, P.	A New Way, etc		1633	GBP -	3.00
170	Massinger, P.	The Great Dvke of Florence		1636	GBP -	2.15
171	Massinger, P.	The Dvke of Millaine		1638	GBP -	1.15
172	Massinger, P.	The Vnnatvrall combat		1639	GBP -	4.00
173	MASSINGER, P.	THREE NEW PLAYES		1655	GBP -	3.05
174	Merivale, C.	A History of the Romans under the Empire		1850-62	GBP -	0.05
175	Merivale, C.	History of the Romans under the Empire		1864	GBP -	1.10
176	THE MERRY	DEUILL OF EDMONTON	London	1631	GBP -	13.10
177	Middleton, T.	Works		1840	GBP -	7.05
178	Middleton, T.	The Mayor of Quinborough		1661	GBP -	3.00
179	MILTON, J.	LYCIDAS	CANTABRIGIAE	1638	GBP -	430.00
180		MINIATURE; the knights	FRENCH	c. 1400	GBP -	19.00
181		MISSALE AD USUM ROMANUM	ITALIAN	c. 1400	GBP -	11.00
182		MISSALE AD USUM BOMANUM CUM CALENDARIO MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM; on the first page A FINE MINIATURE OF S. CHRYSOGONUS; THE SECOND LEAF WITH A FINE HISTORIATED INITIAL OF DAVID PRAYING, THE WHOLE PAGE WITHIN ANOTHER FINE BORDER OF SIMILAR STYLE; THREE OTHER VE	ITALIAN	1480	GBP -	300.00
183		MISSALE AD USUM SARUM CUM CALENDARIO	ENGLISH	EARLY XV CENT	GBP -	64.00
184	MOLIERE, J. B. P.	LE MISANTROPE FIRST EDITION	Paris	1667	GBP -	34.00
185	MOLIERE, J. B. P.	LE MARIAGE FORCE	Paris	1668	GBP -	23.00
186	MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE	ESSAIS	A BOVRDEAVS	1580	GBP -	130.00
187	Mynshull, G.	Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners	London	1638	GBP -	5.10
188	Nares, R.; Halliwell, J. O.	A Glossary or collection of customs; A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words		1859; 1847	GBP -	3.05
189	ORDER OF S. MICHAEL	LE LIVRE DE LORDRE DU TRESCRESTIEN ROY DE FRANCE LOYS Xlme a lhonneur de Sainct Michel		EARLY XVI CENT	GBP -	21.00
190	Ovid	De arte amandi	GERMAN	Dated at end 1491	GBP -	4.00
191	PARKER, HENRY	DIVES AND PAUPER	WESTMINSTER	3 DEC. 1490	GBP -	80.00
192	PEELE, GEORGE	MERRIE CONCEITED IESTS	London	1620	GBP -	30.00
193	Persius	Aulus Persius Flaccus his Satyres		1617	GBP -	3.00
194	Phalaris	Francisci Aretini in Phalaridis tyranni Agrigentini epistolas ad illustrem Principem Malatestam Novellum de Malatestis	ITALIAN	XV CENT	GBP -	1.05
195	FIELD, N.; MIDDLETON, W. AND W. ROWLEY; SHARPMAN, E.	PLAYS; Amends for Ladies; A Faire Quarrell; THE MERRY DIVEL OF EDMONTON; The Fleire		1618; 1617; 1615	GBP -	200.00
196	PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS	HISTORIA NATURALE	Venice	1476	GBP -	160.00
197		Pontificale romanum	GERMAN	EARLY xv CENT	GBP -	5.10
198	Pope, A.; Montesquieu, Baron de	The Rape of the Lock; Lettres Persanes	à Cologne	1714; 1721	GBP -	1.15
199	PREVOST, ABBÉ	HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX	à Amsterdam	1753	GBP -	9.00
200	Rabelais, F.; Voltaire, F. M. A. de	Oeuvres collationnées par MM. Burgaud des Marets et Rathery; A Philosophical Dictionary	Paris	1870-73; 1824	GBP -	5.05

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