Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS., 03Jul1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 03, 1939 - July 03, 1939

Page Size: 928 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
200	Du Cerceau J. A.; Chancellor E. B.	French Chateaux and Gardens in the XVIth Century, Book of Psalms, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, etc.		1909, 1930, 1839, 1928	GBP -	0.18
201	Hussey C.; Harcourt E. V.	Eton College; An Eton Bibliography, ONE OF 200 COPIES		1923, 1898	GBP -	1.04
202	Levinsohn A.	Léon Bakst		n.d.	GBP -	2.00
203		Museum Florentinum; exhibens Insigniora Vetustatis Monumenta quae Florentiae sunt	Florence	1731-42	GBP -	Not Sold
204		Plutarch. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Komanes		1929-30	GBP -	0.14
205	Spenser E.	Works		1930-32	GBP -	2.05
206	Thomson James	Poetical Works; Salvator Rosa; A Collection of Prints	Glasgow	1784	GBP -	0.08
207	Laking Sir George; Cripps-Day F. H.	Record of European Arms and Armour, and Armour Sales; A Record of Armour Sales	buckram	1920-25, 1925	GBP -	3.05
208	Ffoulkes C. J.	Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London		1916	GBP -	1.05
209	Cripps-Day F. H.	A Record of Armour Sales; On Armour Preserved in English Churches	buckram	1925, 1922	GBP -	0.12
210		Æsop. Fables		1912	GBP -	0.10
211	Rackham Bernard and Herbert Read	English Pottery, ONE OF 75 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER	pigskin	1924	GBP -	1.10
212	Binyon Laurence and J. J. O'Brien Sexton	Japanese Colour Prints, ONE OF 100 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER	pigskin	1923	GBP -	1.18
213		Annual (The) of the British School at Athens, Vol. VIII to XXII		1901-1918	GBP -	0.12
214	Hinton J. H.	History of the United States of America; The History of the Fayette Country, Iowa	Chicago	1850, 1878	GBP -	0.05
215	Morris F. O.; Scrope William; Weld Isaac	A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds; Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing; Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney, two title-pages		1892, 1885, 1812	GBP -	0.05
216	Coke Sir E.; Brittar J. and Brayley E. W.	The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated		1628, 1832	GBP -	Not Sold
217		History of the Works of the Learned (The) : or an Impartial Account of Books lately Printed in all Parts of Europe		1699-1707	GBP -	0.15
218	Baxter Richard	The English Nonconformity, 1690; The True History of the Councils, 1682; Christian Concord, 1653; An Apology for the Nonconformists Ministry, 1681; Confession of his Faith, 1655; A Treatise of Justifying Righteousness, 1676			GBP -	0.18
219	Steele R.; Defoe D.	Tracts. Party-Tyranny, or an Occasional Bill in Miniature; The Englishman; A Hymn to Peace		1705, 1714, 1706	GBP -	3.05
220	Prynne W.; Sibs T.	The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, Bowels Opened		1641, 1639	GBP -	0.18
221	Locke J.	An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding		1690	GBP -	3.10
222		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	1.15
223	MATHER COTTON	Magnalia Christi Americana : or the Ecclesiastical History of New-England		1702	GBP -	4.10
224	Milton John; Burton W.; Bacon Sir F.	Works; Description of Leicestershire, engraved title; Sylva Sylvarum		1697, n.d., 1635	GBP -	Not Sold
225	Tyndall John; Perkins W.	The Whole Workes; Workes	Cambridge	1573, 1616-18	GBP -	0.05
226	WILLIAMSON CAPT. THOMAS AND SAMUEL HOWITT	ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS	oblong	1807	GBP -	15.10
227		Galerie Agréable du Monde [Perse, Mogol, ' Indes Orientales, Japon, Païs d'Eso, etc.]		n.d.	GBP -	1.18
228	Simpson William	The Seat of War in the East		1855-56	GBP -	Not Sold
229	Swarbreek S. D.	Sketches in Scotland		1839	GBP -	1.06
230	Swarbreek S. D.	Sketches in Scotland		1845	GBP -	1.02
231	Scott R. L.	Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock, described by Felix Joubert		1924	GBP -	4.10
232	Speed John	Map of Huntingdonshire, framed and glazed		1610	GBP -	0.05
233	Vernet C.; Bartolo P. S.	Cris de Paris, Admiranda Romanarum anti-quitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia, Columna Cochtis	worn, Paris, Romae	n.d., 1693, 1704	GBP -	5.10
234		Annals (The) of Scottish Natural History		1907-37	GBP -	0.10
235	Babington Churchill; D'Urban W. S. M. and Mathew M. A.	Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk; The Birds of Devon		1884-86, 1895	GBP -	0.10
236	Baker E. C. S.	The Indian Ducks and their Allies		1908	GBP -	1.15
237	Hamilton G. E. H.; Seebohm H.	Barrett-A History of British Mammals; Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds	Sheffield	1910, 1896	GBP -	0.18
238	Beebe C. W.; Macpherson H. A.	The Bird, its Form and Function; A History of Fowling, plates and illustrations	Edinburgh	1907, 1897	GBP -	0.12
239	Bewick Thomas	A History of British Birds		1847	GBP -	Not Sold
240	Bewick Thomas	A General History of Quadrupeds		1790	GBP -	0.05
241		British Birds		1907-8--1937-8	GBP -	6.05
242	Chapman Abel and Buck Walter J.	Wild Spain		1893	GBP -	1.10
243	Dresser H. B.	A Manual of Palæarctic Birds		1902-03	GBP -	0.10
244	Fowler W. Warde; Coon B. H.	Tales of the Birds; Summer Studies of Birds and Books; William Warde Fowler, an Oxford Humanist	Oxford	1889, 1895, 1934	GBP -	0.12
245		Fur, Feather and Fin Series		1895-1906	GBP -	0.10
246	Grey Viscount	Falloden Papers; The Charm of Birds, woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, AUTOGRAPHED LETTER FROM VISCOUNT GREY'S SISTER, Oct. 25, 1927		1926, 1927	GBP -	0.08
247	Brown J. A. and Buckley T. B.; Graham H. D.	Harvie-A Fauna of the Tay Basin and Strathmore; The Birds of Iona and Mull		1906, 1890	GBP -	1.10
248	Harting J. E.	A Handbook of British Birds; Recreations of a Naturalist		1901, 1906	GBP -	0.05
249	Hewitson William C.	Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds		1856	GBP -	0.07
250	Hudson W. H.	Nature in Downland; Birds and Man; A Hind in Richmond Park		1900, 1901, 1922	GBP -	0.14
251		IBIS (THE) FOR THE YEARS 1891-1938, AND 1ST QUARTER 1939		1891-93, 1894-1936, 1895-1912, 1913-1930, 1891-1939	GBP -	1.00
252	Lilford Lord	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood		1895	GBP -	0.05
253	LILFORD LORD; Gladstone H. S.	COLOURED FIGURES OF THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS; Handbook to Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands		1885-97, 1917	GBP -	10.10
254	Macgillivray William	A History of British Birds		1837-52	GBP -	0.05
255		Miscellaneous Pamphlets, odd numbers of magazines, etc.			GBP -	0.10
256	Mullens W. H. and Swann H. K.	A Bibliography of British Ornithology... to the end of 1912; A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology... to the end of 1918 (with F. C. Jourdain)		1917, 1920	GBP -	1.15
257		Ornithological and other Pamphlets			GBP -	2.00
258	Patten C. J.; Dixon Charles	The Aquatic Birds of Great Britain and Ireland; Our Rarer Birds, frontispiece and illustrations		1906, 1888	GBP -	5.05
259	Seebohm Henry; Bree C. R.	A History of British Birds; A History of the Birds of Europe		1883-85, 1875-76	GBP -	2.14
260	Selous F. C.	A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa; Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa; Bird Life Glimpses		1881, 1893, 1915	GBP -	1.12
261	Shelley G. E.	A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt		1872	GBP -	0.08
262	Stevenson Henry	The Birds of Norfolk		1866-90	GBP -	0.05
263	Thomson Ian M.; Turner E. L.	Birds from the Hide; Bird Watching on Scolt Head		1933, 1928	GBP -	0.08
264	Thorburn A.; Coward T. A.	British Birds; The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs		1925, 1919, 1920, 1926	GBP -	2.02
265		Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society	Norwich	1869-1934, 1874-1935	GBP -	0.10
266	Verner Col. W.; Chapman Abel	My Life among the Wild Birds in Spain, Savage Sudan		1909, 1921	GBP -	2.00
267	Witherby H. F.; Swann H. Kirke	A Practical Handbook of British Birds; A Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds		1920-24, 1913	GBP -	0.08
268	Yarrell William; Saunders Howard	A History of British Birds; An Illustrated Manual of British Birds		1874, 1879	GBP -	0.14
269	Alphéraky Sergius	The Geese of Europe and Asia		1905	GBP -	2.05
270	Arnold E. C.; Scott Peter	British Waders; Morning Flight	Cambridge	1924, 1936	GBP -	3.05
271	BEEBE WILLIAM	A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS		1918-22	GBP -	28.00
272	Booth E. T.	Rough Notes on the Birds observed... in the British Islands		1881-87	GBP -	2.15
273	Butler A. G.	British Birds with their Nests and Eggs		1905	GBP -	0.05
274	DRESSER H. E.	A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE		1871-96	GBP -	10.10
275	Dresser H. E.	Eggs of the Birds of Europe		1910	GBP -	1.16
276	Godman F. du C.	A Monograph on the Petrels		1907-10	GBP -	4.07
277		Grouse (The) in Health and Disease		1911	GBP -	1.00
278	Horsburgh Major B.	The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa		1912	GBP -	3.10
279	Howard H. E.	The British Warblers		1907-14	GBP -	1.15
280	Knight Capt. C. W. R.; Macpherson H. R.	The Book of the Golden Eagle; The Home-Life of a Golden Eagle		n.d., 1909	GBP -	1.01
281	Legge W. V.	A History of the Birds of Ceylon		1880	GBP -	1.05
282		Linnean Society Transactions; A Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds		1825	GBP -	0.05
283	Lloyd Lewis	The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway		1867	GBP -	0.05
284	MATHEWS G. M.	THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA		1910-27	GBP -	16.10
285	Millais J. G.	Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches		1892	GBP -	0.05
286	Millais J. G.	British Deer and their Horns		1897	GBP -	0.10
287	Millais J. G.	The Natural History of the British Surface feeding Ducks		1902	GBP -	6.10
288	Millais J. G.	The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland		1904-06	GBP -	1.00
289	Millais J. G.	British Diving Ducks		1913	GBP -	12.10
290	Millais J. G.	The Wildfowler in Scotland; A Breath from the Veldt		1901, 1899	GBP -	1.18
291	Millais J. G.; Grieve Symington; Irby Lieut.-Col. L. H.	Newfoundland and its Untrodden "Ways"; The Great Auk, or Garefowl; The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar		1907, 1885, 1895	GBP -	2.00
292	Nelson T. H. and Clarke W. E. and Boyes F.; Fatio Victor	The Birds of Yorkshire; Fanne des Vertébrés de la Suisse... Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux	Genève	1907, 1899	GBP -	0.10
293	Nicoll M. J.	Birds of Egypt		1930	GBP -	1.00
294	Seebohm Henry	A Monograph of the Turdiæ		1902	GBP -	5.05
295	Selous F. C.; Millais J. G. and Chapman A.	The Big Game of Africa and Europe		1914	GBP -	0.10
296	Thayer A. H. and G. H.	Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom	New York	1918	GBP -	1.06
297	Thorburn A.	British Birds		1915-18	GBP -	8.05
298	Thorburn A.	A Naturalist's Sketch Book		1919	GBP -	1.08
299	Thorburn A.	British Mammals		1920-21	GBP -	1.10

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