Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, ILLUMINATED AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, &c., 29Jun1938,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 29, 1938 - June 29, 1938
Page Size: 770 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
498 HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY A COLLECTION OF 100 LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS OF WHICH 64 ARE ADDRESSED TO LADY HAMILTON AND 9 TO NELSON.

GBP - 75.00
499 HAMILTON, Emma, Lady A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

GBP - 8.10
500 CHARLES I, D. s.

14 June, 1673

GBP - 4.00
501 DICKENS, Charles A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

May, 1857

GBP - 9.00
502 HASTINGS, Warren Two A. L. s.

1777

GBP - Not Sold
503 JENNER, Dr. Edward A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

July 1814

GBP - 6.10
504 MIRABEAU, Comte de Auto. note

GBP - 0.15
505 SIDDONS, Sarah A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

1808

GBP - 1.05
506 SMITH, Adam "Wealth of Nations," A. L. s. Glasgow

9 April, 1792

GBP - 3.10
507 TENNYSON, Alfred Lord A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

1874

GBP - 0.18
508 THACKERAY A. L. s.

GBP - 1.05
509 Sir T. Picton; Sir Joseph Banks WELLINGTON A. L. s. 1808, Admiral Saumarez, Earl of Marchmont 1739

GBP - 30.00
510 BURNS, ROBERT HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER

GBP - 410.00
511 Eck, Johann; Koellin, Conrad; Manutius, Paulus Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum Arbitrium M. Lutheri, Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutheranos, Adversus caninas M. Lutheri nuptias, De legibus romanis, anchor on title vellum, Bâle, Proben, vellum, Tubingen, Venice, Aldus

1526, 1527, 1530, 1569

GBP - 2.00
512 Breviarium romanum cum Calendario, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Lucca

1464

GBP - 6.10
513 JEROME, SAINT Epistolae

1439-40

GBP - 16.00
514 Voragine, Jacobus de Legenda aurea, gothic letter

16 Aug. 1490

GBP - 2.00
515 Mariale, sive de laudibus beatae Mariae virginis Strassburg

1493

GBP - 3.10
516 DURANDUS, GULIELMUS Bationale divinorum officiortun Cologne, Ulrich Zel

c. 1475

GBP - 5.10
517 Campanus, J. A. Opera Rome

31 Oct. 1495

GBP - 2.05
518 Lactantius. Opera Venice

12 Mar. 1478/9

GBP - 4.10
519 Metamorphoses, with the commentary of Raphael Regius Venice

8 July, 1497

GBP - 4.00
520 Bossus, Matthaeus Recuperationes Faesulanae, Part II (Epistles) Bologna

20 July, 1493

GBP - 2.05
521 PLAUTUS. COMOEDIAE Venice

17 Sept. 1499

GBP - 9.10
522 Bessarion, Johannes In calumniatorem Platonis lib. Yenice, Aldus, Antwerp, Plantin

1516, 1575

GBP - 1.10
523 HILTON, WALTER; BOLLE, RICHARD SCALA PERFECTIONIS; BONAVENTURA (SAINT) STIMULUS AMORIS, TRANSLATED BY WALTER HILTON, THE PRICK OF CONSCIENCE

GBP - 60.00
524 LA DIVINA COMMEDIA con commente di Chr. Landino Venice

11 Oct. 1497

GBP - 17.00
525 Berkely, G. M. Maria, or the Generous Rustic, title scribbled on, original sheep Philadelphia

1785

GBP - 0.15
526 Caesar. Opera, ed. Sam. Clarke London

1712

GBP - 1.10
527 Noetuae speculum. Omnis res memorabiles, variasque et admirabiles, Tyli Saxonici machinationes complectens, plane novo more nunc primum ex idiomate Germanico latinitate donatum Frankfort

1567

GBP - 3.10
528 EVANGELIA FESTIVALIA, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Flemish

GBP - 15.00
529 Horae B. V. M. ad usum Romanum, PRINTED ON VELLUM Paris, Almanac

n.d., 1487-1520

GBP - 4.10
530 HORAE B. V. M. AD USUM ROMANUM, PRINTED ON VELLUM Paris, Almanac

n.d., 1507-1520

GBP - 18.00
531 HORAE B. V.M. AD USUM ROMANUM, PRINTED ON VELLUM Almanac

1507-1520

GBP - 24.00
532 HORAE B. V. M. AD USUM ROMANUM, PRINTED ON VELLUM, in red and black in roman letter Paris

29 May, 1510

GBP - 16.10
533 OPERA, EDITA A FRANCISCO MODIO Frankfort

1588

GBP - 3.00
534 Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloë lib. IV Paris

1754

GBP - 1.10
535 Milton, John The History of Britain

1670

GBP - 5.00
536 Penitential Psalms, Prayers, Vigils of the Dead, etc.

GBP - 14.10
537 HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, USE OF PARIS, PRINTED ON VELLUM, GOTHIC letter Paris

20 Jan. 1500

GBP - Not Sold
538 SPECULUM MONACHORUM BEATI BERNARDI, etc.

GBP - 5.10
539 Leaf from an English Psalter with borders in gold and colours and grotesque ornaments 14th cent

GBP - 0.15
540 Leaf from a French Book of Hours

GBP - 4.10
541 Leaf from a French Book of Hours

GBP - 2.05
542 Leaf from a French Book of Hours containing a miniature of David 15th cent

GBP - 1.15
543 Leaf from a French Book of Hours with a border in gold and colours

GBP - 2.10
544 Initial S cut from an Antiphonal containing a miniature in gold and colours French 15th cent

GBP - 2.00
545 Leaf from a French Book of Hours containing

GBP - 2.15
546 Leaf from a French 15th century Book of Hours

GBP - 2.10
547 Manuscript fragments

GBP - 3.05
548 Manuscript fragments

GBP - 3.00
549 Folio leaf from a Liturgical volume with an initial and marginal decorations finely executed in gold and colours Spanish 15th cent

GBP - 2.10
550 Antiphonal leaf with a large initial E in gold and colours Italian 15th cent

GBP - 3.10
551 Antiphonal leaf with a large initial C in colours and gauffred gold with marginal elongations Italian 15th cent

GBP - 3.10
552 Antiphonal leaf with large initial D in gold and colours Italian 15th cent.

GBP - 3.10
553 Antiphonal leaves

GBP - 1.10
554 Antiphonal leaf with initial D in gold and colours Italian 15th cent.

GBP - 1.15
555 GREEK, A VERY FINE AND RARE MS. ON VELLUM

GBP - 360.00
556 APOCALYPSIS GLOSATUS, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

c. 1150

GBP - 150.00
558 COMOEDIAE NOVEM, GRAECE Venice, Aldus

15 July 1498

GBP - 41.00
559 Spiera, Ambrosius de Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae Venice

18 Dec, 1476

GBP - 10.10
560 ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM

1592

GBP - 28.00
561 DANCKERTS, J. ATLAS

n.d.

GBP - 12.10
562 CARTA FORESTE, MANUSCRIPT on paper, "Here begynnethe the Booke named-Carta Foreste, "the fly-leaf is inscribed: "

1562

GBP - 28.00
563 Blaeu, Johannes Theatrum Civitatum et Admirandorum Italiae Amsterdam

1663

GBP - 6.00
564 De, Wit Frederick Germania Inferior Amsterdam

c. 1680

GBP - 1.10
565 Museum Florentinum exhibens Insigniora Vetustatis 4tonumenta

1731-32

GBP - Not Sold
566 WEYHE, M. F. and Nees von Esenbeck Plantae Officinales oder Sammlung Officineller Pflanzen. Mit Lithographirten Abbildungen von A. Henry

1828

GBP - 4.10
567 Kretschmer, Konrad Die Entdeckung Amerika's in ihrer bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes Berlin

1892

GBP - 3.00
568 VICTORIUS, PETRUS VARIARUM LECTIONUM LIBRI XXV

1553

GBP - 140.00
569 BOCCACCIO, G. LE DÉCAMERON Londres (really Paris)

1757-61

GBP - 7.10
570 La Fontaine, J. de Oeuvres complètes, avec vie, notes, etc. Paris

n.d.

GBP - 8.10
572 TEIZI, FRANCESCO AUSTRIACAE GENTIS IMAGINUM

1569-1573

GBP - 13.00
573 Schrenck, Jac Augustissimorum imperatorum, seren. regum, atque archiducum, etc.

1601

GBP - 3.00
574 Jolimont, J. Recueil d'objets d'art et de curiosités Paris

1837

GBP - 0.18
575 Rüxner, G. Turnirbuch Thurnier-Buch

1566

GBP - 4.05
576 Treitzsaurwein, M. Der Weiss Kunig

1775

GBP - 2.10
577 WILSON, JOHN LYDE The Code of Honor; or Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling

1858

GBP - 2.00
578 Pignatelli, Cesare and Fabritio Duelling. Manifesto et Successo di tutto il seguito Florence

1548

GBP - 0.12
579 ASH, THOMAS; Browne, Thomas; Wood, Thomas; Clagett, William CAROLINA; or a Description of the Present State of that Country and the Natural Excellencies thereof ..., The Natural History of Coffee, Thee, Chocolate, Tobacco ... with a tract of Elder and Juniper-Berries, Miracles Work's above and contrary to Nature:

1682, 1683

GBP - 50.00
580 Bouton, J. Relation de l'establissement des François depvis l'an 1635

1640

GBP - 3.00
581 Relation des Missions des Evesques François aux royaumes de Siam Paris

1674

GBP - 2.10
582 Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume dv Tibet Paris

1629

GBP - 3.05
583 TAPP, JOHN The Path-way to Knowledge

1613

GBP - 9.00
584 Gee, Joshua The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered

1731

GBP - 0.10
585 J. B. Gent Characters (The) or Pourtraicts of the Present Court of France ... made English

1668

GBP - Not Sold
586 Moore, Jonas Moores Arithmeticke. In Two Bookes

1650

GBP - 1.10
587 Refuge, E. du Arcana Aulica: or Walsingham's Manual

1655

GBP - 1.00
588 Swift, Jonathan Viaggi del Capitano Lemuel Gulliver in diversi Paesi lontani Venice

1749

GBP - 1.10
589 Marconville, Jean de De l'Heure et Malheur de Mariage, De la Bonté et Mauvaistié des Femmes Lyons

1602, ib., 1602

GBP - 1.15
590 Limojon, A. T. de, Sieur, de Saint Didier The Hermetical Triumph

1723

GBP - 1.00
591 FITZHERBERT, Sir Anthony The New Bokf of Justices of Peace

1551

GBP - 5.10
592 Fienus, Joannes De Flatibus Humanuni Corpus molestanti-bus

1592

GBP - 0.15
593 Elsynge, Henry; Somers, John, Lord The Ancient and Present Manner of holding Parliaments in England, some side-notes, etc., The Security of English-Men's Lives

1633, 1681

GBP - 1.00
594 Johnston, M. The Ladies' Companion: or the Housekeeper's Guide Cambridge

1755

GBP - 1.10
595 Digby, Sir Kenelm A Late Discourse ... touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Smpathy [sic]

1660

GBP - 1.05
596 Stevenson, Mathew Occasions Off-spring, or Poems upon Severall Occasions

1654

GBP - 4.00
597 Grotius, Hugo Politick Maxims and Observations

1654

GBP - 1.00
598 Amours of Messalina

1689

GBP - 1.10
599 BAGWELL, W. THE MYSTERY OF ASTRONOMY made plain to the meanest Capacity

1655

GBP - 3.00
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