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
401 ANNALS OF SPORTING AND FANCY GAZETTE

1822-8

 GBP - 35.00
402 CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE; Sterne, L.; Reid, G. W. A Collection of Works; Tristram Shandy; Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank

1833, 1831

 GBP - 14.00
403 Combe, Wm. Life of Napoleon, by Doctor Syntax

1815

 GBP - 5.00
404 CAREY, DAVID Life in Paris

1822

 GBP - 14.10
405 Cruikshank, George The Humourist, A Collection of entertaining tales

1819-19-19-20

 GBP - 4.05
406 DICKENS, C. LITTLE DORRIT

1855-7

 GBP - 4.05
407 Livy Epitome.

1535

 GBP - 1.10
408 FROISSART, SIR JOHN Cronycles Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier

1927-28

 GBP - 19.00
409 Venner, Tobias Via Recta ad Vitam Longam,

1650

 GBP - 0.16
410 Cries of London

1804

 GBP - 2.15
411 Thackeray, W. M.; Bangs, J. K. English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century; A House-Boat on the Styx

1853

 GBP - 0.08
412 Stephens, J. The Crock of Gold

1914

 GBP - 0.08
413 Nouveau Secretaire de la Cour

1830

 GBP - 0.15
414 Liturgia, seu liber Precum

1685

 GBP - 1.10
415 Book of Common Prayer; Gossard. Motifs de Penitence

1731

 GBP - 1.10
416 Swinburne, A. C. Collected Poetical Works

1924

 GBP - 0.18
417 Pepys, Samuel Diary Edited by H. B. Wheatley

1893-99

 GBP - 4.05
418 Curzon, Lord Persia and the Persian Question

1892

 GBP - 8.05
419 Bryce, James The American Commonwealth

1888

 GBP - 1.05
420 Plato Oxford

1871

 GBP - 0.18
421 Burton, Sir R. F. The Land of Midian

1878

 GBP - 1.12
422 Whistler, J. McN. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

1890

 GBP - 1.00
423 Stevenson, R. L. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

1879

 GBP - 9.00
424 Stevenson, R. L. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

1881

 GBP - 5.00
425 Almer, Christian A Facsimile of Christian Aimer's Führerbuch reproduced by C. D. Cunningham and Capt. W. de W. Abner

1896

 GBP - 0.16
426 The ALPINE JOURNAL A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation

1864-1932

 GBP - 10.10
427 Institute of Bankers

1880-1932

 GBP - 9.05
428 A'Beckett, G. Comic History of England

1847-8

 GBP - 4.10
429 Ainsworth, W. H. Rookwood

1836

 GBP - 1.10
430 Ainsworth, W. H. Jack Sheppard

1839

 GBP - 4.10
431 Ainsworth, W. H. The Tower of London

1840

 GBP - 3.10
432 Ainsworth, W. H. The Miser's Daughter

1842

 GBP - 3.10
433 Ainsworth, W. H. Windsor Castle

1843

 GBP - 5.05
434 Barham, R. H. The Ingoldsby Legends

1840-42-47

 GBP - 8.00
435 Barham, R. H. The Ingoldsby Legends

1864

 GBP - 1.15
436 Boswell, James Life of Samuel Johnson Oxford

1826

 GBP - 2.00
437 Britten, F. J.; Oliphant, Mrs. Old Clocks and Watches; The Makers of Florence

1911, 1876

 GBP - 1.02
438 Brough, Robert Life of Sir John Falstaff

1858

 GBP - 4.15
439 Burns, R.; Jesse, J. H. Poetical Works; Memoirs of the Court of England under the Stuarts

1839, 1857

 GBP - 1.15
440 Clarke, Wm. Three Courses and a Dessert

1830

 GBP - 2.05
441 Cruikshank, George Points of Humour; Illustrated by the Designs of George Cruikshank

1823-24

 GBP - 2.05
442 Cruikshank, G.; Inglis, H. D. Italian Tales; Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote

1824

 GBP - 1.02
443 Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist, by Boz,

1838

 GBP - 2.02
444 Dickens, Charles Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

1838

 GBP - 2.00
445 Dickens, C. Sketches by Boz

1848

 GBP - 1.12
446 Dickens, C. Nicholas Nickleby

1839

 GBP - 2.05
447 Dickens, C. Master Humphrey's Clock

1840-41

 GBP - 2.10
448 DICKENS, C. A Christmas Carol

1843

 GBP - 28.00
449 Dickens, C. Martin Chuzzlewit

1844

 GBP - 1.10
450 Dickens, C. The Chimes, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846

1845, 1846

 GBP - 3.10
451 Dickens, C. David Copperfield

GBP - 2.02
452 Dickens, C. A Tale of Two Cities

1853

 GBP - 2.00
453 Dickens, Charles Pickwick Papers

1862

 GBP - 2.10
454 DICKENS, C. Pickwick Papers, Victoria Edition

1887

 GBP - 8.05
455 Doran, Dr.; Harper, C. G. Their Majesties Servants, Annals of the English Stage; Old Inns of Old England

1864

 GBP - 2.00
456 Eliot, George Works

n. d.

 GBP - 2.10
457 Goldsmith, O.; Reade, C.; Thackeray, W. M. The Vicar of Wakefield; Peg Woffington; Esmond, 1895

1890, 1891, 1899

 GBP - 2.00
458 Greenaway Kate Mother Goose

n. d.

 GBP - 1.10
459 Hamilton, Count A. Memoirs of Count Grammont

1836

 GBP - 3.03
460 Howitt, W.; Jesse, J. H. Northern Heights of London; London, Its Celebrated Characters

1869

 GBP - 0.18
461 Hunt, Leigh The Town

1848

 GBP - 2.10
462 Pepys, Samuel Diary, Edited by H. B. Wheatley

1893-99

 GBP - 4.00
463 Reynardson, C. T. S. B. Down the Road; Annals of the Road

1875

 GBP - 2.05
464 Rogers, Samuel; Bunyan, J. Italy, 1830; and Poems, 1834; Pilgrims Progress

GBP - 3.15
465 Thackeray, W. M. Esmond

1849

 GBP - 3.10
466 Thornbury, Walter Haunted London

1865

 GBP - 5.00
467 Walton, I.; C. Cotton The Complete Angler with Essay by John Major

1823

 GBP - 3.10
468 Wheatley, H. B. and P. Cunningham.

1891

 GBP - 1.12
469 Wright, J. Mornings at Bow Street and More Mornings at Bow Street

1824-7

 GBP - 4.00
470 Armstrong, E. A. Axel Herman Haig and his Work

1905

 GBP - 0.14
471 Bailey, J. T. H.; Whitman, A. George Morland; Print Collectors Handbook

1906

 GBP - 0.15
472 Caldecott, R. A Collection and a Second Collection of Pictures and Songs

n. d.

 GBP - 1.00
473 Cruikshank, George Illustrations for the Fairy Library: Cinderella; Hop o' my Thumb; Puss in Boots; and Jack and the Bean Stalk

n. d.

 GBP - 1.05
474 Irving, W. Rackham Illustrations.

1907

 GBP - 1.12
475 Sheridan, R. B.; Goldsmith, O. The School for Scandal; She Stoops to Conquer

n. d.

 GBP - 1.10
476 Tristram, W. O. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

1888

 GBP - 1.12
477 Foster, Joseph Alumni Oxonienses, The Members of the University of Oxford Oxford

1891

 GBP - 3.15
478 Desborough, Lord; A. C. M. Groome Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford and Cambridge

1913

 GBP - 0.05
479 Bone, D. W. and M. Merchantmen-at-Arms

1919

 GBP - 0.14
480 De la Marche, A. L.; Volkman, L. Saint Martin; Inconografia Dantesca

1881

 GBP - 1.15
481 Blades, W. The Pentateuch of Printing

1859

 GBP - 2.05
482 Jefferys, Thomas Collection of the Dresses of the Different Nations

1773

 GBP - 5.05
483 Westall, R. Victories of the Duke of Wellington

1819

 GBP - 1.10
484 Porter, R. K.; Pinkerton, R. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden; Russia

1809

 GBP - 2.05
485 Cervantes, M. de Don Quixote, Con Notas por Jaime Fitz-maurice Kelly Y Juan Ormsby Edinb.

1898

 GBP - 0.10
486 Williamson, G. C. Andrew and Nathaniel Plimer

1903

 GBP - 3.03
487 Barker, M. H. Greenwich Hospital

1826

 GBP - 7.00
488 Bindley, Chas. The Hunting Field by Harry Hie-over

1850

 GBP - 1.06
489 Bolton, J. Harmonia Ruralis.

1824

 GBP - 1.10
490 Chanler, I. The Doctrines of Glorious Grace unfolded ... by Isaac Chanler

1744

 GBP - 1.05
491 Barham, R. H. Album of cuttings, chiefly in verse, from News-papers and Periodicals with note of ownership

GBP - 3.00
492 Andrewes, Lancelot An Apologie for svndrie proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, of late times by some challenged

1593

 GBP - 0.10
493 Albertus, Abbas Stadensis. Chronicon

1586

 GBP - 0.05
494 Dominis, M. A. de Archbishop of Spalatro in Dalmatia] Papatus Romanus, liber de origine progessu, atque extinction ipsius

1617

 GBP - 1.02
495 Milton, J. Mr. John Milton's Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in 1641.

1681

 GBP - 3.15
496 Olhagaray, P. Histoire de Foix, Bearn, et Navarre

1609

 GBP - 1.00
497 SELDEN, JOHN TABLE TALK

1689

 GBP - 3.15
498 Steele, Sir R. The Crisis : or, a Discourse representing from the most authentick Records, the just causes of the late happy Revolution

1714

 GBP - 3.00
499 Ariosto, Lodovico Orlando Furioso Paris

1795

 GBP - 4.05
500 Beaumont, F.; J. Fletcher Works with Notes by Rev. A. Dyce

1843-46

 GBP - 3.05
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