Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 29Nov1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 29, 1937 - November 29, 1937

Page Size: 911 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
500	Palisot de Beauvois A. M. F. J.	Flore d'Oware et de Benin	Paris	1804-7	GBP -	30.00
501		Poetical Works of George Lord Lyttelton and James Hammond		1787	GBP -	0.05
502	Pope A.	Works		1717-41	GBP -	2.00
503		Admiralty Charts		1844-81	GBP -	1.01
504		Rivington's New York Gazetteer		1775	GBP -	1.05
505	Cruikshank George	The Bottle and the Drunkard's Children		1847-48	GBP -	1.14
506	THORNTON R. J.	THE TEMPLE OF FLORA		1799 -1807	GBP -	62.00
507	Thornton R. J.	New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus		1807	GBP -	0.10
508	Thornton R. J.	Botanical Extracts: or Philosophy of Botany		1810	GBP -	0.10
509	Baker E. C. Stuart	The Indian Ducks and their Allies		1908	GBP -	2.00
510	Bartlett E.	Monograph of the Weaver Birds and Finches]		1888	GBP -	4.05
511	Bewick T.	History of British Birds, General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle	1809, 1824	GBP -	0.10
512		Binding. Bible. English		1616-18	GBP -	1.01
513	Blaauw F. E.	A Monograph of the Cranes		1897	GBP -	5.10
514	Blackwall John	The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland		1861-64	GBP -	0.08
515		Books on Ornithology, etc.			GBP -	6.06
516	Booth E. T.	Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 25 years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands		1881-87	GBP -	3.10
517	Bree C. R.	The Birds of Europe		1859-63	GBP -	1.01
518	Brodrick W.	Falconers' Favourites		1865	GBP -	9.05
519	Broinowski Gracius J.	The Birds of Australia		1887-91	GBP -	3.05
520	Buller Sir W. L.	History of the Birds of New Zealand		1888	GBP -	12.00
521	Butler A. G.	Foreign Pinches in Captivity		1894	GBP -	5.05
522	Butler A. G.	Birds of Great Britain and Ireland : Order Passeres		n.d.	GBP -	0.18
523	Butler A. G.	British Birds with their Nests and Eggs		n.d.	GBP -	0.18
524	Charpentier Toussaint de	Libellulinæ Europææ	Leipzig	1840	GBP -	0.10
525	Charpentier Toussaint de	Orthoptera	Leipzig	1841-45	GBP -	0.10
526	Couch Jonathan	The Fishes of the British Islands		1877	GBP -	1.05
527	Crawshay Richard	The Birds of Tierra del Fuego		1907	GBP -	2.00
528	Curtis William	The Botanical Magazine		1793-96	GBP -	3.10
529	Curtis John	British Entomology		1823-40	GBP -	3.15
530	Day Francis	The Fishes of India		1878-88	GBP -	1.10
531	Donovan E.	The Natural History of British Birds		1794-99	GBP -	2.15
532	Dresser H. E.	A Monograph of the Meropidæ or Family of the Bee-Eaters		1884-86	GBP -	5.05
533	Dresser H. E.	A Monograph of the Coracidæ, or Family of the Rollers		1893	GBP -	2.00
534	Drury D.	Illustrations of Exotic Entomology		1837	GBP -	0.12
535	ELLIOT D. G.	A MONOGRAPH OF THE TETRAONINÆ, or Family of the Grouse		1865	GBP -	14.10
536	ELLIOT D. G.	A MONOGRAPH OF THE PARADISEIDÆ, or Birds of Paradise		1873	GBP -	31.00
537	Elliot D. G.	A Monograph of the Bucerotidæ, or Family of the Hornbills		1882	GBP -	6.05
538	ELLIOT D. G.	A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats		1883	GBP -	9.00
539	ELLIOT D. G.	A MONOGRAPH OF THE PITTIDÆ, or Family of Ant-Thrushes		1893-95	GBP -	15.10
540	ELWES HENRY JOHN	A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS LILIUM		1880	GBP -	53.00
541	Godman F. du Cane	a Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares)		1907-10	GBP -	3.00
542	Gould John	A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains		1832	GBP -	7.10
543	GOULD JOHN	A Monograph of the Macropopidæ, or Family of Kangaroos		1841-42	GBP -	8.00
544	GOULD JOHN	A Monograph of the Odontophorinæ, or Partridges of America		1850	GBP -	10.00
545	GOULD JOHN	A Monograph of the Ramphastidæ, or Family of Toucans		1854	GBP -	13.00
546	GOULD JOHN	THE BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN		1873	GBP -	39.00
547	Gould John	A Monograph of the Trogonidæ or Family of Trogons		1875	GBP -	10.00
548	Gould John	The Birds of Asia		n.d.	GBP -	7.05
549	Gould John	A Monograph of the Trochilidæ or Humming Birds		1849-52	GBP -	6.10
550	Graves George	British Ornithology		1821	GBP -	3.05
551	Greene W. T.	Parrots in Captivity		1884-87	GBP -	2.05
552	Harvie-Brown J. A.	T. E. Buckley and others. A Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland	Edinburgh	1887-1911	GBP -	5.05
553	Harris Moses	The Aurelian		1766 1840	GBP -	3.03
554	HARRIS CAPT. W. CORNWALLIS	Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa		1840	GBP -	16.10
555	Howard H. Eliot	The British Warblers		1907-15	GBP -	2.05
556	Howitt S.	British Preserve		1824	GBP -	0.18
557	Humphreys H. N. and J. O. Westwood	British Butterflies and Moths		1841-45	GBP -	0.18
558	Hunt J.	British Ornithology		1815-22	GBP -	6.00
559	KNIP MADAME, ET C. J. THEMMINCK	LES PIGEONS	Paris	1811	GBP -	31.00
560	Leach W. E.	Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britannia		1815-75	GBP -	4.00
561	Leach W. E.	Malacostraca Podophthalmata Britanniæ		1815	GBP -	0.10
562	Lee O. A. J.	Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts		1897-99	GBP -	2.05
563	Leech J. H.	Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea		1892-94	GBP -	3.15
564	LILFORD LORD	Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands		1885-97	GBP -	19.00
565	Low David	The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands		1842	GBP -	4.10
566	Lydekker R.	The Deer of all Lands		1898	GBP -	2.10
567	Lydekker R.	Wild Oxen, Sheep and Goats of all Lands		1898	GBP -	2.02
568	MALHERBE A.	MONOGRAPHIE DES PICIDEES, OU HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES PICIDES, PICUMNINÉS, YUNCINES OU TORCOLS		1861-62	GBP -	54.00
569	Marshall C. H. T. and G. P. L.	A Monograph of the Capitonidæ or Scansorial Barbets		1870-71	GBP -	5.00
570	Millais J. G.	Game Birds and Shooting Sketches		1892	GBP -	2.00
571	Millais J. G.	A Breath from the Veldt		1895	GBP -	3.15
572	Millais J. G.	British Deer and their Horns		1897	GBP -	1.10
573	Millais J. G.	The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland		1904-06	GBP -	1.10
574	Millais J. G.	Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways		1907	GBP -	1.05
575	Morris Beverley R.	British Game Birds and Wildfowl		n.d.	GBP -	1.00
576	Morris F. O.	British Birds, The Nests and Eggs of British Birds, British Butterflies		1870, 1866, 1876	GBP -	1.05
577		Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. Transactions		1874-1909	GBP -	1.15
578	Owen Sir Richard	British Fossil Reptiles		1849-84	GBP -	0.10
579	Owen Richard	Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand		1879	GBP -	3.05
580	Petit-Thouars Abel du	Voyage autour du Monde sur la Frégate La Venus. Atlas of coloured natural history plates only	Paris	1846	GBP -	7.15
581	Pope A.	Upland Game Birds and "Water Fowl of the United States	New York	1878	GBP -	6.10
582	Poynting Frank	Eggs of British Birds		1895-96	GBP -	2.00
583	Rösel A. I. and C. F. C. Kleemann	Insecten Belustigung	[Nuremberg	1746-61	GBP -	2.15
584	Salmon William	Botanologia. The English Herbal		1710	GBP -	2.02
585	Saville-Kent W.	The Great Barrier Reef of Australia		1893	GBP -	1.05
586	Sclater P. L.	Monograph of the Birds forming the Tanagrine Genus Calliste		1857	GBP -	3.15
587	Sclater P. L.	A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-Birds		1882	GBP -	5.10
588	Sclater P. L. and D. Thomas	The Book of Antelopes		1894-1900	GBP -	7.15
589	Seebohm Henry	History of British Birds		1883-85	GBP -	1.10
590	Seebohm Henry and R. Bowdler Sharpe	A Monograph of the Turdidæ, or Family of Thrushes		1902	GBP -	6.00
591	Seebohm Henry	The Birds of the Japanese Empire, The Eggs of British Birds, The Birds of Siberia		1890, 1896, 1901	GBP -	3.10
592	Seebohm Henry	The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ		n.d.	GBP -	1.18
593	Sharpe R. Bowdler	A Monograph of the Alcedinidæ; or Family of Kingfishers		1868-71	GBP -	5.10
594	Sharpe R. Bowdler and C. W. Wyatt	A Monograph of the Hirundinidæ or Family of Swallows		1885-94	GBP -	4.15
595	SHARPE R. BOWDLER	MONOGRAPH OF THE PARADISEIDÆ, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidæ, or Bower-Birds		1891-98	GBP -	40.00
596	Shelley Capt. G. E.	A Monograph of the Nectariniidæ, or Family of Sun-Birds		1876-80	GBP -	10.00
597	Sowerby James and Sir J. E. Smith	English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants		1790-1814	GBP -	5.15
598	STAINES P. H.	A COLLECTION OF 93 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF AFRICAN ANIMALS		1860-69	GBP -	10.10
599	Strickland H. E. and A. G. Melville	The Dodo and its Kindred		1848	GBP -	1.15

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