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Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. ILLUMINATED & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ETC., 26Jul1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 26, 1937 - July 26, 1937

Page Size: 664 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Horatius Opera	Venice	1501	GBP -	22.00
2		Ovid Metamorphoseon, Libri Quindecim, Metamorphoses, Libri XV, Juvenal et Persius. Opera		1502, 1535	GBP -	0.15
3	Brookes R., Carroll W., Shipley Wm. and E. Fitzgibbon	Angling. The Art of Angling, Angler's Vade Mecum, True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing	Edinb.	1774, 1818, 1838	GBP -	3.00
4		Angling. The Whole Art of Fishing., The Gentleman Angler containing Short Plain and Easy Instructions		1714, 1726	GBP -	2.10
5	Barham Thomas	The Ingoldsby Legends		1840-42-47	GBP -	5.10
6	Milton John	Paràdise Lost and Paradise Begained	Birmingham	1758	GBP -	4.00
7	Addison Joseph	Works		1761	GBP -	3.15
8	Congreve William	Works	Birmingham	1761	GBP -	6.00
9	Beaumont F. and J. Fletcher	Comedies and Tragedies		1647	GBP -	5.05
10	Behn Mrs. Aphra	Poems upon Several Occasions : With a Voyage to the Island of Love		1684	GBP -	2.15
11	Bewick Thomas	History of Quadrupeds, 1790; History of British Birds		1797-1804	GBP -	4.00
12	BOCCACCIO G.	THE TRAGEDIES		1558	GBP -	8.00
13	BOSWELL JAMES	LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON		1791	GBP -	13.10
14	Boswell J.	Life of Samuel Johnson		1912	GBP -	2.00
15	Browning Robert	Bells and Pomegranates, Eight Numbers in 1 vol.		1841-46	GBP -	12.00
16	BURNS ROBERT	POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT		1786	GBP -	780.00
17	Burns R.	Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Edinburgh	1787	GBP -	7.10
18	Burns R.	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	London	1787	GBP -	3.10
19	BURTON ROBERT	THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY	Oxford	1621	GBP -	38.00
20	Butler Samuel, Junius	Hudibras, Letters		1684, 1772	GBP -	1.10
21	Byron Lord	The Bride of Abydos, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte		1813, 1814, 1821	GBP -	1.15
22	Chaucer Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales		1913	GBP -	5.00
23		Cicero. De Officiicum commentariis Petri Marsi ejusque recognitione. Cujus epistolas quaeso perlegas et in principio et in calce operis editas	Venice	24. March 1492	GBP -	2.15
24	M. Tullii	Cicero. In hoc volumine infrascripta. Ciceronis opera continentur una cum cometariis suis videlicet. Orator. de sato. Topica et de universitate		16. July 1492	GBP -	4.05
25	Coleridge S. T.	Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep		1816	GBP -	3.10
26	Combe Wm.	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax : Vol. I In Search of the Picturesque; Vol. II In Search of Consolation; Vol. III In Search of a Wife			GBP -	15.10
27	Bacon Sir N.	Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, The Recreations of his Age, (issued 1919)	Oxford	1894, 1903	GBP -	0.15
28	De Quincey Thomas	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater		1822	GBP -	1.18
29	Dibdin T. F.	A Bibilographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany		1821	GBP -	4.05
30	Dickens Charles	Pickwick Papers		1837	GBP -	1.05
31	DEFOE DANIEL	THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE OF YORK MARINER: who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America ... [and Part II] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe		1719	GBP -	275.00
32	Dryden John	An Evening's Love. Or the Mock Astrologer		1671	GBP -	0.10
33	Dryden J.	The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Two Parts in 1 vol.		1672	GBP -	2.00
34	Dryden J.	Marriage a-la-Mode. A Comedy		1673	GBP -	1.05
35	DRYDEN J.	Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem [The First Part), The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel		1681, 1682, 1681-82	GBP -	14.10
36	Dryden J.	Satyr to his Muse		1682	GBP -	0.15
37	Dryden, J. and N. Lee	The Duke of Guise, A Tragedy		1683	GBP -	1.15
38	Dryden, J. and N. Lee	The Duke of Guise		1683	GBP -	1.10
39	Dryden J.	A Vindication ... of the, ... Play called the Duke of Guise		1683	GBP -	0.10
40	Dryden J.	The Hind and the Panther, the same		1687, 1687, 1687	GBP -	3.00
41	Dryden J.	Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: A Tragedy		1690	GBP -	1.10
42	Dryden J.	Amphitryon; or The Two Sosia's. A Comedy		1691	GBP -	1.15
43	Dryden J.	King Arthur: or The British Worthy. A Dramatick Opera		1691	GBP -	0.10
44	Dryden J.	Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem		1692	GBP -	0.15
45	Dryden J.	Cleomenes, The Spartan Herœ. A Tragedy		1692	GBP -	0.10
46	Dryden J. and Others	The Satires of Juvenal Translated into English Verse, Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius		1693	GBP -	Not Sold
47	Dryden J.	Love Triumphant ... A Tragi-Comedy		1694	GBP -	1.05
48		Drydeniana. The New Atlantis. A Poem in three Books		1687	GBP -	0.18
49	J. W. Clay	Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions		1899-1907, 1909-12	GBP -	2.10
50	Egan Pierce	Life in London		1821	GBP -	4.10
51	Etherege George	The Comical Revenge		1669	GBP -	1.05
52	Fielding Henry	Miscellanies		1743	GBP -	3.05
53	FIELDING H.	THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A Foundling, (Anon.) History of Tom Jones the Foundling, in his Married State		1749, 1750, 1749-50	GBP -	22.00
54	Fielding H.	Amelia		1752	GBP -	4.00
55	France Anatole	Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, 2 vol., no. 67 of 75 numbered copies on "papier des manufactures impériales du Japon"		1909	GBP -	3.00
56	GERARDE JOHN	THE HEBBALL or Generali Historie of Plantes		1597	GBP -	27.00
57	Gibbon Edward	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1776-88	GBP -	7.00
58	Gibbon E.	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1909-14	GBP -	7.05
59	GLASSE HANNAH	THE ART OF COOKERY made Plain and Easy		1747	GBP -	40.00
60	Goldsmith Oliver	The Life of Richard Nash of Bath		1762	GBP -	2.00
61	GOLDSMITH OLIVER	THE TRAVELLER, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem		1765	GBP -	8.00
62	GOLDSMITH OLIVER	THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD : A TALE.		1766	GBP -	66.00
63	GOLDSMITH O.	The Good Natur'd Man		1768	GBP -	2.00
64	GOLDSMITH O.	The Deserted Village, A Poem		1770	GBP -	21.00
65	Goldsmith O.	She Stoops to Conquer: or, the Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy		1773	GBP -	3.10
66	Hazlitt Wm., Young A.	The Plain Speaker, Junius. Letters, Travels ... [in] the Kingdom of France	Dublin	1826, 1814, 1793	GBP -	1.05
67	Heywood John	Workes ... A Dialogue conteyning the number of the effectuall Proverbes in the English tong ... With One Hundred of Bpigrammes, etc.		1587	GBP -	9.00
68	Hogg James, Chalmers G.	The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, Poetic Remains of some of the Scottish Kings, Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin	Edinb	1818-21, 1824, 1799	GBP -	Not Sold
69		Humours (The) of Whist. A Dramatic Satire, as Acted every Day at White's and other Coffee Houses and Assemblies		1743	GBP -	0.10
70	JOHNSON DR. SAMUEL	THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated		1749	GBP -	18.00
71	JOHNSON S.	Irene: A Tragedy		1749	GBP -	4.00
72	JOHNSON S.	THE RAMBLER, A Complete Set of the 208 Numbers, bound in 2 vol.		March 20th, 1749 to March 11th, 1752	GBP -	9.10
73	Johnson S.	Rasselas The Prince of Abissinia, A Tale		1759	GBP -	5.10
74	Johnson Samuel	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland		1775	GBP -	1.10
75	Johnson S.	A Journey to the Western Islands		1775	GBP -	1.10
76		Johnsoniana; or Supplement to Boswell		1836	GBP -	4.00
77	KEATS JOHN	ENDYMION : A Poetic Romance		1818	GBP -	6.10
78	Keats John	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems		1820	GBP -	7.15
79	Keats John, Meredith George	Poems, Poetical Works		1915, 1912	GBP -	3.05
80	LA FONTAINE J. DE	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS	Amsterdam, Paris	1762	GBP -	105.00
81	William Blake	LAMB (CHARLES AND MARY) TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR.		1807	GBP -	29.00
82	LAMB CHARLES	ELIA, 1823; The Last Essays of Elia, 1833		1833	GBP -	11.00
83	Macaulay T. B., Lord, Lockhart J. G.	Critical and Historical Essays, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott		1843, 1837-38	GBP -	1.18
84	Marchesinus Joannes	Mammotrectus super Bibliam, gothic letter	Venice	1476	GBP -	4.00
85	Maxwell Sir Herbert	Memories of the Months, Series I to V and VII		1910-22	GBP -	2.05
86	MILTON JOHN	AREOPAGITICA; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing		1644	GBP -	52.00
87	MILTON JOHN	POEMS BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN		1645	GBP -	170.00
88	Milton John	Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books		1668	GBP -	7.00
89	Milton J.	The History of Britain, that part especially now call'd England		1670	GBP -	0.18
90	MOLIERE J. B. P. DE	OEUVRES avec des Remarques par M. Bret	Paris	1773	GBP -	21.00
91	MONTAIGNE M. DE	THE ESSAYES or Morall		1603	GBP -	50.00
92	Montaigne M. de	Les essais Accompagnés d'une Notice par E. Courbet et Ch. Royer	Brussels	1860	GBP -	2.10
93	Morier J., Milnes R. M., Lord Houghton	Adventures of Hajji Baba, Palm Leaves		1824, 1844	GBP -	2.10
94	Moryson Fynes	An Itinerary ... containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through the twelve dominions of Germany Bohmer-land, Sweitzerland, Netherland ... England, Scotland and Ireland		1617	GBP -	2.00
95	Nobbes Robert	The Compleat Troller, or the Art of Trolling ... As also a Brief Acount of most of the Principal Rivers in England		1682	GBP -	5.05
96		[H] ORTUS SANITATIS. DE HERBIS ET PLANTIS. De Animalibus et reptilibus. De Avibus et volatilibus. De Piscibus et natatilibus. De Lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus. De Urinis et ead speciebus. De facile acquisibilibus		1511	GBP -	40.00
97		Petrarch. Annotatio nonnullorum librorum seu epistolarum Francisci Petrarche			GBP -	1.10
98	Phiorant Leonard	Three Exact Pieces ... His Rational Secrets and Chirurgery ... with a Book of Excellent Experiments and Secrets		1652	GBP -	3.05
99	Pope Alexander	Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Landsdown		1713	GBP -	7.10
100	POPE A.	The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem		1714	GBP -	5.10

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