Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS., 03Aug1939,

Auction Details

Auction Date
August 03, 1939 - August 03, 1939
Page Size: 676 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
306 THICKNESSE PHILIP A Sketch of the Life and Paintings of Thos. Gainsborough Esqr. watermark

1831

GBP - 5.00
307 Winckelmann J. J.; Smith J. T.; D'Argenville A. J. Dezallier; Williams D. E. Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, Nollekens and his Times, Abregé de la Vie des plus fameux Peintres, Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence worn, Paris

1765, 1828, 1762, 1831

GBP - 1.01
308 Yarrell William A History of British Fishes

1836

GBP - 1.01
309 ATLAS Russicus Leningrad

1725

GBP - 0.05
310 Fricx E. H. and Georges Cartes des Pays Bas; Plans des Villes, Sieges et Batailles Brussels

1712 c., 1750

GBP - 0.06
311 Homann J. B. Atlas Major Nuremberg

n.d.

GBP - 0.08
312 Kitchen Thomas A General Atlas, describing the Whole Universe

1790

GBP - 1.05
313 Lea Philip Maps of England and Wales

c. 1670

GBP - 6.00
314 Mount Richard and Thomas Page Atlas Maritimus Novus

1702

GBP - 1.10
315 Mount R. and T. Page Thirteen Charts from the Atlas Maritimus Novus

c. 1700

GBP - 0.14
316 Tirion Isaac Maps of the Low Countries

c. 1790

GBP - 0.05
317 Bacon Francis The Essays

1680

GBP - 1.10
318 Barbados. Acts of Assembly passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648 to 1718

1721

GBP - 1.05
319 Barbon Nicholas A Discourse Concerning Coming the New Money Lighter. In Answer to Mr. Lock's Considerations about raising the Value of Money

1696

GBP - 2.00
320 Blank Paper. Thirty-one sheets of woven paper

c. 1820

GBP - 0.05
321 Boyle Roger Earl of Orrery. Parthenissa

1676

GBP - 0.18
322 Browne Sir Thomas Certain Miscellany Tracts

1686

GBP - 2.00
323 Burnaby Andrew Travels through the Middle Settlements in North-America ...

1775

GBP - 0.12
324 CHAUCER GEOFFREY THE WORKES, THIRD COLLECTED EDITION

c. 1550

GBP - 13.00
325 COLERIDGE S. T. SIBYLLINE LEAVES

1817

GBP - 48.00
326 Davenant Charles; Gee Joshua Discourses on the Publick Revenues, and on the Trade of England, Part 1 (only), Considerations sur le Commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne Geneva

1698, 1750

GBP - 1.01
327 Wood John A Description of the Windwood Passage, and Gulf of Florida (A-G in twos), A Description of the Exchange of Bristol Bath

1739, 1745

GBP - 2.15
328 Fielding Henry; Bailey William; Ilive Jacob; Welch Saunders A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, A Treatise on the Better Employment ... of the Poor in Workhouses, Resons offered for the Reformation of the House of Correction in Clerkenwell

1753, 1758, 1757, 1758

GBP - 3.00
329 Floyer Sir John An Enquiry into the Bight Use and Abuses of ... Baths in England

1697

GBP - 2.05
330 Gauden John double-page frontispiece

1648

GBP - 0.10
331 Leges novae reipublicae Genuen, Criminalium jurium civitatis Genuae lib. IV, Statutorum civilium reipublicae Genuensis lib. VI vellum, Genoa

1576, ib. 1616, ib. 1663

GBP - 0.15
332 Halfpenny William The Art of Sound Building

1725

GBP - 2.02
333 Hill John Eden: or, A Compleat Body of Gardening

1757

GBP - 1.05
334 Horace.; Opera

1737, etc.

GBP - 2.15
335 Howard John The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, Appendix to the State of the Prisons Warrington

1777, ib. 1780

GBP - 5.00
336 Johnson Samuel A Dictionary of the English Language

1755

GBP - 7.00
337 Langford T. Plain and Full Instructions to raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees ... The Second Edition revised and enlarged ...

1696

GBP - 1.00
338 Le Muet Pierre The Art of Fair Building

1670-75

GBP - 2.05
339 Leybourn William The Compleat Surveyor ...

1674

GBP - 1.18
340 Lloyd David; Gauden John Or, the true Pourtraiture of ... Charls the II, folding frontispiece, Almack, 22

1660, 1648

GBP - 0.05
341 Lyttelton (George, Lord) and Elizabeth Montague Dialogues of the Dead

1760

GBP - 0.05
342 Macpherson James Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem

1762

GBP - 1.05
343 Mallet David; Dodsley Robert; Tasso Torquato Mustapha, Cleone, Amintas ...

1739, 1758, 1737

GBP - 0.05
344 Marbecke John A Booke of Notes and Common places

1581

GBP - 2.00
345 Martyn Thomas Thirty-eight Plates ... intended to illustrate Linnæus's System of Vegetables

1788

GBP - 0.05
346 Maryland. Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of Mary-land, From 1692 to 1715

1723

GBP - 3.15
347 Massachusetts.

1724

GBP - 3.05
348 Moryson Fynes An Itinerary ... containing his ten Yeeres Travell

1617

GBP - 3.10
349 MULLER S. VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA

1761

GBP - 9.00
350 Mun Thomas England's Treasure by Forraign Trade

1664

GBP - 3.03
351 Mun T. England's Treasure

1698

GBP - 2.02
352 New York. Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of New-York

1719

GBP - 3.00
353 Palladio Andrea; Hammond John; Hoare Michael The First Book of Architecture ..., The Practical Surveyor, The Builder's Pocket-Companion

1742, 1725, 1728

GBP - 1.15
354 Pietas Corcagiensis: Or, a View of the Green-Coat Hospital: and other Charitable Foundations, In ... Corke

1721

GBP - 2.15
355 T. Williams Prints, mostly from Taylor's Gems of Genius

1784-87

GBP - 0.10
356 Ramsay Allan The Ever Green, being a Collection of Scots Poems Edinburgh

1724

GBP - 12.10
357 Rousseau J. J. Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloïse. Lettres de Deux Amans

1761

GBP - 0.05
358 Scamozzi Vicenzo; Wotton Sir Henry The Mirror of Architecture: or the Ground-Rules of the Art of Building, The Ground-Rules of Architecture

1687, 1686

GBP - 2.05
359 SMITH ADAM AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

1776

GBP - 118.00
360 Trott Nicholas The Laws of the British Plantations in America

1725

GBP - 6.15
361 Van Zyl Jan; Van der Horst Tileman Theatrum machinarum universale, Theatrum machinarum universale

1734, 1736-39

GBP - 3.15
362 Vignola G. B. da; Wright Thomas The Regular Architect, Universal Archi tecture. Book I. Six Original Designs of Arbours Book II. Six Original Designs of Grottos

1669, 1755

GBP - 2.15
363 Thomas Phaer ... and ... Thomas Twyne The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos ...

1596

GBP - 5.15
364 Whiston William; Norman Robert; Brown John; Beaumont Sir Harry The Longitude and Latitude found by the Inclinatory or Dipping Needle, The Newe Attractive, An Explanatory Defence of the Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, Crito: or, a Dialogue on Beauty

1721, 1720, 1758, 1752

GBP - 3.00
365 Young Arthur The Farmer's Tour through the East of England

1771

GBP - 4.00
366 Zabaglia Niccola Castelli e ponti, con alcune ingeniose pratiche e con la descrizione del trasporto dell' obelisco vaticano Rome

1743

GBP - 0.10
367 Ruskin John The Nature of Gothic

1892

GBP - 0.10
368 Beckford Wm.; Lawrence D. H.; Lamartine A. de Vathek, Love among the Haystacks, Graziella

1929, 1930, 1929

GBP - 0.18
369 Galsworthy J.; Tomlinson H. M. Soames and the Flag, A Rambling Discourses, All Our Yesterdays

1930, 1929, 1930

GBP - 0.15
370 O'Flaherty Liam The Tent, The Assassin, The House of Gold

1926, 1928, 1929

GBP - 1.00
371 Woburn Books, Criterion Miscellany

GBP - 0.05
372 Boswell J. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

1785

GBP - 0.08
373 WORDSWORTH WILLIAM TWO ADDRESSES TO THE FREE-HOLDERS OF WESTMORELAND

1818

GBP - 25.00
374 KIPLING RUDYARD THE JUNGLE BOOK

1894

GBP - 4.15
375 Kipling Rudyard Many Inventions, The Day's "Work, From Sea to Sea, Traffics and Discoveries

1893, 1898, 1900, 1904

GBP - 0.10
376 Boswell James An Account of Corsica

1768

GBP - 0.16
377 Dalton John Meteorological Observations and Essays

1834

GBP - 0.05
378 Babelais François Œuvres

1663

GBP - 0.15
379 Suckling Sir John A Coppy of a Letter found in the Privy Lodgeings at White-Hall

1641

GBP - 0.10
380 Malefactor's Register (The), or the Newgate and Tyburn Calendar

n.d.

GBP - 0.10
381 Depons F.; Andrews Capt. Joseph Travels in South America, Journey from Buenos Ayres

1807, 1827

GBP - 1.01
382 Otway Thomas Works

1712

GBP - 0.12
383 Youth's Monthly Visitor (The)

1822-23

GBP - 1.12
384 Blank Paper (modern)

1808

GBP - 0.08
385 Adams W. The Modern Voyager and Traveller

1832

GBP - 1.00
386 Morris William and Eiríkr Magnússon The Saga Library

1893-95

GBP - 0.05
387 World's Fair (The) or, Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851

n.d.

GBP - 0.05
388 Steele Sir Richard The Englishman

1714

GBP - Not Sold
389 A List of the Officers of the Army and Marines

1798

GBP - 0.08
390 Downe John A Treatise of the True Nature and Definition of Justifying Faith Oxford

1635

GBP - Not Sold
391 Vere Aubrey de; Powys J. C. The Foray of Queen Meave, Mediaeval Records and Sonnets, Jobber Skald

1882, 1893, 1935

GBP - 0.08
392 Cust Lionel; Poynter Sir E. J. The National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery

1901-02, 1900

GBP - 0.10
393 Jacobs J. editor More Celtic Fairy Tales

1894

GBP - 0.05
394 Panorama of the Coronation Procession of King George TV

c. 1821

GBP - 3.15
395 CRUHCSHANK I. R. The Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst

1819

GBP - 6.00
396 Gilchrist Alex.; Jackson J. Life of William Blake, Treatise on Wood Engraving

1863, 1839

GBP - 0.12
397 Gaskell E. C.; Bewick T. and J. Life of Charlotte Brontë, Select Fables

1857, 1820

GBP - 0.10
398 Miller Thomas Our Old Town, Sports and Pastimes of Merry England

1857, n.d.

GBP - Not Sold
399 Boccaccio Giovanni Il Decamerone, Virgil. L'Eneide del Commendatore Annibal Caro Venice, Padua

1552, 1613

GBP - 0.05
400 Clarkson Thomas; Babington Charles An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, The Influence of Christianity in promoting the Abolition of Slavery in Europe Cambridge

1788, 1846

GBP - 0.12
401 George Weddell Collection (A) of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, Arcana Fair-faxiana Manuscripta

1714, 1890

GBP - 1.10
402 Corke H. E. and G. C. Nuttall; Bean W. J. Wild Flowers as they Grow, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

1912-14, 1908

GBP - 1.15
403 Wedmore F.; Layard G. S. Fine Prints, Suppressed Plates, Wood Engravings, etc.

1897, 1907

GBP - 0.05
404 Henslow T. G. W.; Gatty Mrs. A. Ye Sundial Booke, The Book of Sun dials ... new and enlarged edition

1914, 1889

GBP - 0.05
405 Jekyll Gertrude; Harper C. G. Old West Surrey, The Brighton Road

1904, 1906

GBP - 0.14
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