Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS. THE EXTENSIVE AND WELL-KNOWN BOTANICAL LIBRARY of the late Charles Carmichael Lacaita, Esq., J.P. Selham House, Petworth., 09Apr1934,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 09, 1934 - April 09, 1934

Page Size: 622 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Maiden, J. H.	A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus		1903-30	GBP -	4.10
102	Maw, G.	A Monograph of the Genus Crocus		1886	GBP -	15.00
103	Moris, J. H.	Flora Sardoa, seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis	Taurini	1837	GBP -	3.15
104	Moris, J. H.; Barbey, W.	Flora Sardoa, seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis; Florae Sardoæ Compendium	Taurini	1837-43	GBP -	2.15
105	Plukenett, L.; Cavanilles, J.	Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustro orum; Dissertationes Botanicae		1691	GBP -	3.10
106	Pojero, M. L.	Flora Sicula	Palermo	1889-1909	GBP -	4.10
107	Pritzel, G. A.	Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae		1872	GBP -	3.15
108	Reichenbach, H. G. L.	Iconographia Botanica seu Plantae Criticae		1823-32	GBP -	2.02
109	Reichenbach, L.	Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae		1850-1915	GBP -	26.00
110	Sanguinette, P.	Florae Romanae		1864	GBP -	2.10
111	Scheuchzero, J. J.	Itinera Alpina		1723	GBP -	2.10
112	Thellung, A.; Handel-Mazzetti, H. F.; Beck, G. R.	Die Gattung Lepidium; Der Gattung Taraxacum; Der Gattung Orobanche		1906, 1907	GBP -	1.15
113	Tournefort, J. P.; Alpinus, P.	Institutiones rei Herbariae; Plantis Ægypti		1719	GBP -	3.15
114	Visiani, R.	Flora Dalmatica		1842	GBP -	4.00
115	Willkomm, M.; Costa, A.; Terracoini, N.	Recherches sur l'organographie et la classiiiation des Globulariees; Degl'Insetti nocivi aH'Agricottura; Synopsis Plant-arum Montis Pollini	Roma	1850, 1877, 1890	GBP -	1.02
116	Willkomm, M.	Plantarum Europae Austro-Occidentalis praecipuae Hispaniae		1852	GBP -	16.00
117	Wolf, T.	Monographic der Gattung Potentilta		1908	GBP -	4.05
118	Aldinus, T.	Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Plantarum in Horto Farnesiano		1744	GBP -	3.15
119	Allionius, C.	Flora Pedemontana		1785	GBP -	0.05
120	Barla, J. B.	Iconographie des Orchidees		1868	GBP -	4.15
121	Barrelierus, A. R. P. J.; Garidel, M.	Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam; Histoire des Plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix		1714, 1715	GBP -	0.10
122	Bauhinus, J.	Historia Plantarum Universalis		1651-1	GBP -	2.05
123	Blackwell, Elizabeth	A Curious Herbal		1737	GBP -	7.10
124	Boissier, E.	Voyage Botanique dans le Midi de l'Espagne	Paris	1839-45	GBP -	16.10
125	BOOTH, F.	Illustrations of the Genus Carex		1858-67	GBP -	22.00
126	Boyle, J. F.	Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayan Mountains		1839	GBP -	0.10
127	Brotero, F. A.	Phytographia Lusitaniae Selectior		1816	GBP -	5.15
128	Cavanilles, A. J.	Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum quae aut sponte in Hispania crescent		1791-1801	GBP -	12.10
129	Cavanilles, A. J.	Observaciones sobre la Historia Natural, etc.		1795	GBP -	1.15
130	Chabraeus, D.	Stirpium Sciagraphia et Icones		1677	GBP -	1.05
131	Clusius, C.	Rariorum Plantarum Historia		1605	GBP -	1.10
132	Curtis, W.; W. J. Hooker	Flora Londinensis		1817-28	GBP -	5.15
133	Decandolle, A. P.	Astragalogia		1802	GBP -	3.00
134	De Coincy, A.	Ecloga Plantarum Hispanicarum	Paris		GBP -	3.00
135	Desfontaines, R.	Flora Atlantica		1800	GBP -	8.05
136	Dodonaeus, R.	Stirpium Historiae		1583	GBP -	3.10
137	Dodonaeus, R.	Herbarius oft Cruydt-Boeck		1644	GBP -	2.15
138	Eresius, T.	De Historia Plantarum		1644	GBP -	3.00
139	Fuchsius, L.	De Historia Stirpium		1542	GBP -	15.10
140	Gerarde, J.	The Herball or Generall Historie of Plartes		1636	GBP -	5.00
141	Gesate, V.	Stirpes Italicae	Mediolani	1840	GBP -	1.08
142	Gibelli, G.	e S. Belli. Specie di Trifolium Italiane	Torino	1888	GBP -	1.06
143	Haller, A.	Historia Stirpium Indigenarum	Bernae	1768	GBP -	2.00
144	Hill, John; Sole, W.	The British Herbal; British Mints		1756	GBP -	1.05
145	Hoffmansegg, Comte de	et H. F. Link. Flore Portugaix, ou Description de toutes les Plantes en Portugal	Berlin	1809-20	GBP -	41.00
146	JACQUIN, N. J.	FLORAE AUSTRIACAE		1771-78	GBP -	20.00
147	Jacquin, N. J.	Observationum Botanicarum		1764	GBP -	2.00
148	Kotschy, T.	Die Eichen Europas und des Orients		1862	GBP -	9.05
149	L'Heritier, C. L.	Stirpes Novae aut minus cognitae quas descriptionibus, etc.	Parisiis	1784	GBP -	Not Sold
150	L'Heritier, C. L.	Geranologia Historia		1787-88	GBP -	1.15
151	Linnaeus, C.	Hortus Cliffortianus Plantas ex hibens		1737	GBP -	5.15
152	Lobel, Matthew De	Nova Stirpium Adversaria		1576	GBP -	3.10
153	Lobel, M. De	Kruydtboeck oft Beschyruinghe		1581	GBP -	4.00
154	Lonicerus, A.	Krauter-Buch		1703	GBP -	Not Sold
155	Matthiolus, P. A.	Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscoridis de Materia Medica		1583	GBP -	4.00
156	Miller, P.	The Gardener's Dictionary		1759	GBP -	0.05
157	Miller, P.	Figures of Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary		1760	GBP -	6.10
158	Miller, P.	Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary		1807	GBP -	0.10
159	Morandus, J. B.	Historia Botanica Practica, seu Plantarum quae ad usum Medicinae pertinent		1744	GBP -	2.15
160	Morison, R.	Plantarum Historiae Universitatis Oxoniensis		1672-99	GBP -	0.18
161	Oeder, G. C.	Flora Danica		1766-1806	GBP -	1.02
162	Pallas, P. S.	Species Astragalorum		1800	GBP -	5.00
163	Parkinson, J.	Theatrum Botanicum		1640	GBP -	4.15
164	Ray, J.; Gunner, J. E.	Historiae Plantarum; Flora Norvegica		1686-1714	GBP -	3.05
165	Rivino	Ordo Plantarum quae sunt flore irregulari Monopetalo, etc.		1766, 1690-91	GBP -	1.02
166	Rovillius, Guil	Historia Generalis Plantarum		1587	GBP -	2.10
167		Schmidel (D. C. C.) Icones Plantarum, coloured plates, con-temporary calf 1762		1762	GBP -	3.05
168	Schrader, H. A.; Durand, E.	Hortus Gottingensis; et G. Barrate. Florae Libycae Prodromus on Catalogue Raisonne des Plantes de Tripolitaine		1809, 1910	GBP -	1.10
169	Scopolus, J. A.	Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae		1786	GBP -	3.08
170	SPACH, J. and E.	Illustrationes Plantarum Orientalium		1842-3	GBP -	14.10
171	SIBTHORPE, J.	FLORA GRAECA		1806-40	GBP -	174.00
172	Sternberg, C, Comite de	Revisio Saxifragarum, with two Supplements		1810-31	GBP -	4.10
173	Strutt, J.	Silva Britannica, plates, half calf		1822	GBP -	Not Sold
174	Tenore, M.	Flora Napolitana		1811-18	GBP -	0.10
175	Tilli, M. A.	Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani		1723	GBP -	0.10
176	Vahl, M.	Symbolae Botanicae		1790-91	GBP -	1.15
177	Vaillant, S.	Botanicon Parisiense		1727	GBP -	0.12
178	Waldstein, F., Comites	et P. Kitaibel. Descriptione et Icones Plantarum Rariorum Hungariae		1802-12	GBP -	55.00
179	Webb, P. B.	Otia Hispanica, seu Delectus Plantarum Rariorum		1853	GBP -	0.14
180	Willkomm, M.	Illustrationes Florae Hispaniae insularumque Balearium	Stuttgart	1881-5	GBP -	16.00
181	Zanoni, G.; Michelius, P. A.	Istoria Botanica; Nova Plantarum Genera	Bologna	1675	GBP -	1.16
182	Zanonius, J.	Rariorum Stirpium Historia.		1742	GBP -	1.00
183		Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity		1920-32	GBP -	4.00
184	Armstrong, Sir W.	Gainsborough		1898	GBP -	1.10
185	Armstrong, Sir Walter	Sir Joshua Reynolds		1900	GBP -	2.05
186	Armstrong, Sir Walter	Sir Henry Raeburn		1901	GBP -	2.08
187	Armstrong, Sir Walter	Turner		1902	GBP -	1.02
188		Arundel Club.		1904-16	GBP -	1.08
189		ASHENDENE PRESS.		1909	GBP -	100.00
190	Bankart, G. P.	The Art of the Plasterer		1908	GBP -	2.12
191	Beerbohm, Max	A Book of Caricatures		1907	GBP -	0.18
192	Belcher, J.; M. E. Macartney	Later Renaissance Architecture in England,		1901	GBP -	3.00
193	Belloc, H.; Richter, L. M.	The Old Road; Chantilly		1904, 1913	GBP -	1.08
194	BERENSON, BERNHARD	THE DRAWINGS OF THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS, with a Copious Catalogue Raisonne		1903	GBP -	19.05
195	Berenson, B.; Middleton, C. H.	Venetian Painting in America; The Etched Work of Rembrandt		1916	GBP -	1.05
196		Bibliographica		1895-97	GBP -	3.05
197	Binyon, L.; J. J. O'B. Sexton	Japanese Colour Prints		1923	GBP -	1.10
198	Blomfield, Reginald	History of Renaissance Architecture in England		1911	GBP -	1.18
199		Book of Common Prayer		1844-91	GBP -	3.05
200		Book of Common Prayer, with the Psalter [Prayer Book of Edward VII]		1903	GBP -	2.05

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