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
501 Boccaccio

1558

 GBP - 1.00
502 Browne, Sir Thomas Hydriotaphia, Urne Buriall ... Together with The Garden of Cyrus

1568

 GBP - 5.05
503 Chaucer, G.; Spenser, E. The Canterbury Tales with Essay by T. Tyrwhitt; Poetical Works

1822

 GBP - 3.10
504 Crowe, J. A.; G. B. Cavalcaselle History of Painting in Italy

1864-82

 GBP - 0.05
505 Defoe, D. Novels and Miscellaneous Works Oxford

1840

 GBP - 3.00
506 Dickens, Charles Pickwick Papers

1838

 GBP - 2.10
507 Elzevir Press. Leyden

1633-65

 GBP - 2.05
508 Gibbon, E.; Goldsmith, O. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Works

1827, 1854

 GBP - 0.18
509 Boiardo, M. M. Giraldi Cinthio; Orlando Innamorato

1566

 GBP - 3.05
510 Jonson, Ben; Dryden, J. Works with notes by W. Gifford; Miscellaneous Works

1816

 GBP - 1.12
511 Massinger, P.; Cervantes, M. de Plays with Notes by W. Gifford; Don Quixote

1813, 1749

 GBP - 1.18
512 Milton, John Prose Works, with life by C. Symmons

1806

 GBP - 1.06
513 Molière, J. B. P. de Œuvres avec des Avertissemens par M. Bret, 6 vol., portrait and plates, old calf 1788

1788

 GBP - 2.10
514 Swift, Dean J. Works with Notes by John Hawkesworth and Letters

1766-69

 GBP - 3.00
515 Atkyns, Sir Robert The Ancient and Present State of Gloucester

1768

 GBP - 1.10
516 Bacon, Sir Francis Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning

1676

 GBP - 0.12
517 Berners, Dame J. The Book of Saint Albans, 1881; Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, 1880

1881

 GBP - 0.14
518 Drayton, Michael Poly-Olbion [Part I]

1613

 GBP - 1.00
519 Shakespeare, W. Dramatic Works

1866

 GBP - 1.12
520 Sidney, Sir Philip The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

1627

 GBP - 3.10
521 Stoddart, R. R.; Nisbet, A. Scottish Arms; System of Heraldry Edinb.

1881

 GBP - 1.15
522 Ces sont les grans seign[eu]rs a baniers ki le Roy Edward amena en Escoce l'an XXVI

GBP - 2.05
523 Biondi, G. F. Donzella Desterrada, or, The Banished Virgin ... Englished by I[ames] H[ayward]

1635

 GBP - 3.10
524 Sidney, Sir Philip The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia now the fovrth time published, with some new Additions

1613

 GBP - 3.10
525 Beaumont, Francis; John Fletcher Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, all in one volume

1679

 GBP - 3.10
526 Ludolphus, J.; Dart, J. The History of Ethiopia, made English by J. P.; Westmonasterium, or History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters, Westminster

1684

 GBP - 0.05
527 Purchas, Samuel Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes

1625-6

 GBP - 8.00
528 Fox-Davies, A. C. The Art of Heraldry

1904

 GBP - 7.15
529 Costume of the Russian Empire

1811

 GBP - 2.00
530 Fossati, G. Aya Sofia Constantinople

1852

 GBP - 7.15
531 Foster, J. J. British miniature painters

1898

 GBP - 0.10
532 Shakespeare

1807

 GBP - Not Sold
533 Hogarth, William; Simpson, W. Works from the original plates restored by James Heath; The seat of war in the East

1822

 GBP - Not Sold
534 Jenkins, J. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and her Allies from 1799 to 1815

[1835 ?]

 GBP - 4.15
535 Historical Memento of the Celebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814

1814

 GBP - 1.05
536 Bowyer, R. Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe

1815

 GBP - 2.02
537 Alken, H. Symptons of being Amused

1822

 GBP - 1.05
538 Alken, H. A Touch at the Fine Arts

1824

 GBP - 0.15
539 Alken, H. British Proverbs

1824

 GBP - 1.00
540 Alken, H. Illustrations to Popular Songs

1825

 GBP - 1.10
541 Heath, W. Studies from the Stage

1823

 GBP - 1.12
542 Egerton, D. T. Fashionable Bores

1822

 GBP - 2.00
543 MURRAY, C. F. CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS in the Library of C. Fairfax Murray

1913

 GBP - 14.00
544 Addison, Pope, Steele; The Spectator Edinburgh

1766

 GBP - 7.00
545 Æsop. Fables woodcuts by T. Bewick

1818

 GBP - 2.00
546 Arabian Nights.

1923

 GBP - 5.05
547 Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice, with a preface by G. Saintsbury, and illustrations by Hugh Thomson

1894

 GBP - 2.02
548 Bage, John Barham Downs

1784

 GBP - 5.00
549 Bage, Robert Hermsprong: or Man as He is Not

1796

 GBP - 6.15
550 Belot, A. Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme Paris

1890

 GBP - 1.18
551 Bewick, T. A General History of Quadrupeds

1790

 GBP - 7.15
552 Borel, P.; Fievee, J. Champavert; La Dot de Suzette Paris

1839

 GBP - 4.15
553 Cervantes, M. de The History of Don Quixote

1896

 GBP - 6.05
554 Cervantes, M. de Don Quixote, translated by T. Shelton

1906-7

 GBP - 6.10
555 Combe, W. Three Tours of Dr. Syntax

1823

 GBP - 6.05
556 D'Arblay nee Burney F. Cecilia

1782

 GBP - 3.15
557 D'Arblay nee Burney F. Camilla

1796

 GBP - 2.00
558 D'Arblay nee Burney F. The Wanderer

1814

 GBP - 2.05
559 Esquemeling, J.; B. Ringrose The History of the Bucaniers of America

1699-98

 GBP - 4.05
560 Fielding, H. Works, with the Life of the author

1762

 GBP - 4.00
561 Goldsmith, O.; Austen, Jane The Vicar of Wakefield; Pride and Prejudice, preface by G. Saintsbury

1890, 1894

 GBP - 1.12
562 Illustrated Library of Coloured Books.

1903

 GBP - 3.05
563 Keats, John Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, edited by R. Monckton Milnes Moxon

1848

 GBP - 2.15
564 Le Sage. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

1795

 GBP - 2.05
565 Le Sage. The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana, translated by Henri Van Laun Edinburgh

1886

 GBP - 1.02
566 Louvet de Couvray.

1842

 GBP - 1.12
567 The Malefactor's Register; or the Newgate and Tyburn Calendar

n.d.

 GBP - 5.00
568 Margaret, Queen of Navarre.

1894

 GBP - 3.05
569 Marryat, Capt. Masterman Ready

1841-2

 GBP - 3.03
570 Maturin, Charles Robert Melmoth the Wanderer Edinburgh

1820

 GBP - 11.10
571 Smollett, T. Works with Memoirs of his Life, etc.

1797

 GBP - 2.00
572 Trollope, Mrs. F. The Vicar of Wrexhill

1837

 GBP - Not Sold
573 Trollope, Mrs. F. The Widow Barnaby

1839

 GBP - 1.01
574 Trollope, Mrs. F. The Widow Married

1840

 GBP - 0.10
575 Trollope, A. The Kellys and the O'Kellys

1848

 GBP - 18.00
576 Trollope, A. The Warden

1855

 GBP - 1.12
577 Trollope, A. Barchester Towers

1857

 GBP - 10.10
578 Trollope, A. Doctor Thorne

1858

 GBP - 2.00
579 Trollope, A. The Bertrams

1859

 GBP - 1.12
580 Trollope, A. The West Indies and the Spanish Main

1859

 GBP - 0.05
581 Trollope, A. Castle Richmond

1860

 GBP - 0.10
582 Trollope, A. Tales of All Countries

1861-3

 GBP - 1.01
583 Trollope, A. Framley Parsonage

1861

 GBP - 3.12
584 Trollope, A. Orley Farm

1862

 GBP - 0.18
585 Trollope, A. North America

1862

 GBP - 0.05
586 Trollope, A. Rachel Ray

1863

 GBP - 0.05
587 Trollope, A. The Small House at Allington

1864

 GBP - 7.15
588 Trollope, A. Can you Forgive Her ?

GBP - 1.10
589 Trollope, A. Miss Mackenzie

1865

 GBP - 1.05
590 Trollope, A. Hunting Sketches

1866

 GBP - 1.05
591 Trollope, A. Nina Balatka

1866

 GBP - 1.10
592 Trollope, A. The Last Chronicle of Barset

1867

 GBP - 2.00
593 Trollope, A. The Last Chronicle of Barset

1867

 GBP - 1.10
594 Trollope, A. The Claverings

1867

 GBP - 1.01
595 Trollope, A. The Claverings

1867

 GBP - 1.08
596 Trollope, A. Lotta Schmidt, etc.

1868

 GBP - 0.10
597 Trollope, A. He Knew He was Right

1868-9

 GBP - 7.00
598 Trollope, A. Phineas Finn

1869

 GBP - 1.02
599 Trollope, A. The Struggles of Brown

1870

 GBP - 0.15
600 Trollope, A. Ralph the Heir

1871

 GBP - 1.00
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