Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 08May1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 08, 1961 - May 08, 1961

Page Size: 510 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
199	Pyne W. H.	The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore			GBP -	16.00
200	Robson George Fennell	Scenery of the Grampian Mountains		1819	GBP -	28.00
201	Bradford Rev. William	Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain		1811-12	GBP -	26.00
202	Jacob William	Travels in the South of Spain		1811	GBP -	19.00
203		Picturesque Description (A) of North Wales		1823	GBP -	12.00
204	Alken Henry	The National Sports of Great Britain		1823	GBP -	24.00
205	Lefebvre-Duruflé N.	Ports et côtes de France de Dunkerque au Havre	Paris	1832	GBP -	17.00
206	DUBOURG M.	Views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its Vicinity		1820	GBP -	38.00
207	Burn and Sons	Album containing drawings of views, etc. including two gouache drawings of Naples, nine water-colour drawings of flowers (one pulls out to disclose verses below it), and a sand-picture		1835	GBP -	10.00
208	G. C. Diller	Album containing drawings, prints, etc.		1840	GBP -	12.00
209	G. C. Diller	Album containing drawings, prints, etc.		1840	GBP -	12.00
210	Akenside Mark	The Pleasures of Imagination, to which is prefixed A Critical Essay on the Poem		1795	GBP -	18.00
211	Combe William	The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem		1817	GBP -	16.00
212	Aspin J.	The Naval and Military Exploits which have distinguished the Reign of George the Third]		1820	GBP -	11.00
213	ASHTON JOHN	English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I		1884	GBP -	85.00
214	Cruikshank George	The Comic Almanack		1835-1853	GBP -	22.00
215	Leech John	Pictures of Life and Character		1861-1869	GBP -	1.00
216	Greenaway Kate	Almanacks for 1883-1895, 1897 and 1929		1883-1929	GBP -	75.00
217	Falk Bernard	Rachel the Immortal		n.d.	GBP -	5.00
218	Bosschère Jean de	Eighty-one pen-and-ink and wash drawings for book-illustrations		one set dated 1922	GBP -	16.00
219	Furniss Harry	A series of sixteen pen-and-ink drawings for illustrations of a children's book		n.d.	GBP -	5.00
220		Chinese Drawings.		early 19th Century	GBP -	10.00
221		Chinese Drawings.		early 19th Century	GBP -	10.00
222		Chinese Drawings.		early 19th Century	GBP -	22.00
223		Indian Drawings on mica.		19th Century	GBP -	2.00
224	Bewick John	A water colour drawing of a bird perched on a branch			GBP -	18.00
225	Bewick John	Nine small water-colour drawings			GBP -	50.00
226	Bewick John	A pen and ink sketch of a pastoral scene, with seven Bewick woodcuts			GBP -	12.00
227		BEWICK.			GBP -	45.00
228	Roberts J. and H.	The sportsman's companion, or portraiture of ... Race horses and stallions]		1760	GBP -	11.00
229	Howitt Samuel	British Sports		1809 -1811	GBP -	6.00
230	Lawrence John, "William Henry Scott"	British Field Sports		1818	GBP -	7.00
231		Oracle of Rural life (The), an almanack for sportsmen (after wards the Sporting Almanac and Oracle)		1839-44	GBP -	1.00
232	Radcliffe F. P. Delmé	The noble science, a few general ideas on fox-hunting		1839	GBP -	3.00
233		Sportsman Magazine (The) or Chronicle of games and pastimes		August 1823-January 1825	GBP -	20.00
234	Gosden Thomas	Sportsman's Buttons, a set of seventeen brass buttons with embossed designs of animals, birds, huntsmen, etc.			GBP -	7.00
235	LEVAILLANT FRANÇOIS	HISTOIRE NATURELLE D'UNE PARTIE D'OISEAUX NOUVEAUX ET RARES DE L'AMERIQUE ET DES INDES	Paris	1801	GBP -	130.00
236	Wilson Alexander and Prince C.-L.-J.-L. Bonaparte	American Ornithology	Philadelphia	n.d.	GBP -	36.00
237	Baker E. C. Stuart	The Indian Ducks and their Allies		1908	GBP -	4.00
238	Baker E. C. Stuart	The Game-Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon		1921-1930	GBP -	9.00
239	Seebohm Henry	The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies		1888	GBP -	8.00
240	Paulli Simon	Flora Danica det er Dansk Urtebog		1647	GBP -	18.00
241	Theophrastus	De historia plantarum libri X, ed. M. Bodaeus and J. C. Scaliger	Amsterdam	1644	GBP -	24.00
242	Barrelier Jacques	Plantae par Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam ...	Paris	1714	GBP -	12.00
243	Noisette L.	Le Jardin Fruitier	Paris	1821	GBP -	12.00
244	I. B. Pole Evans, E. P. Phillips and R. Allen Dyer	FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA (THE)	Capetown, Pretoria	1921, 1959	GBP -	130.00
245		Geographical Present (A)	New York	1831	GBP -	5.00
246	Barton William P. C.	Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States	Philadelphia	1818-25	GBP -	16.00
247	Dykes W. R.	Notes on Tulip Species		1930	GBP -	2.00
248	R. F. Burton	Arabian Nights. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night		1894-1897	GBP -	4.00
249	Blavatsky H. P.; Elsum John	Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, The Art of Painting after the Italian Manner	New York	1877-1882, 1704	GBP -	1.00
250	Chatterton E. Keble	Old Ship Prints, Old Sea Paintings		1927, 1928	GBP -	5.00
251	CURTIS WILLIAM	THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE		1787-1850, 1926 and 1906 Index	GBP -	240.00
252	Dykes W. R.	Notes on Tulip Species		1930	GBP -	2.00
253		Flowers and Fruit, 135 hand-coloured engraved plates after James Andrews, Larkins, Miss Andrews and S. Holden		mid-19th Century	GBP -	10.00
254	Harrison Joseph	The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine		1833-1858	GBP -	1.00
255	Hogg Thomas	A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula [etc.]		1824	GBP -	3.00
256	Hooker Sir William Jackson	A Century of Ferns		1870	GBP -	8.00
257	Knight Thomas Andrew	Pomona Herefordiensis		1811	GBP -	42.00
258	LEMAIRE C, SCHEIDWEILER, L. VAN HOUTTE and others	FLORE DES SERRES ET DES JARDINS DE L'EUROPE		1845-1880	GBP -	170.00
259	Lowe E. J.	Ferns: British and Exotic, A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns		1856-1860, 1862	GBP -	4.00
260	Maund Benjamin	The Botanic Garden		n.d. and 1829-1836	GBP -	28.00
261	McDonald Alexander	A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening		1807	GBP -	26.00
262	Morris Richard	Flora Conspicua		1826	GBP -	18.00
263	PAXTON Sir JOSEPH	MAGAZINE OF BOTANY		1834-1849	GBP -	32.00
264	Robinson Charles N.; Cescinsky Herbert and Ernest R. Gribble	Old Naval Prints, their Artists and Engravers, Early English Furniture and Woodwork		1924, 1922	GBP -	4.00
265	SWEET ROBERT	GERANIACEAE, THE NATURAL ORDER OF GERANIA		1820-1830	GBP -	55.00
266	BACON Sir EDWARD, half-brother of Sir Francis Bacon	A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)		d. 1618	GBP -	32.00
267	BECKFORD WILLIAM, of Fonthill, author of "Vathek,"	FINE A.L. (unsigned)		1760-1844	GBP -	30.00
268	BECKFORD WILLIAM, of Fonthill	SIXTY-ONE A.LS. (third person)		1760-1844, 1819-32	GBP -	20.00
269	BECKFORD WILLIAM, Lord Mayor of London, father of the author of "Vathek,"	A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)	Fonthill, Hertford [Jamaica]	1705-70, 29 June, 1765, 26 April 1777	GBP -	14.00
270	BRADSHAW JOHN	L.s.		1602-59, 20 March, 1648-9	GBP -	6.00
271	CAREW ELIZABETH	Charming A.L.s.		1600	GBP -	20.00
272	CONSTABLE JOHN	A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)			GBP -	8.00
273	DISRAELI BENJAMIN, Earl of Beaconsfield	Amusing early A.L.			GBP -	16.00
274	JAMES I King of England	Doc.s.		7 October, 1624	GBP -	22.00
275		LITERARY AND HISTORICAL.			GBP -	12.00
276	MOORE THOMAS; W. L. Bowes	Autograph Manuscript Verses entitled Corn-Law Visions.	William Pickering	10 May, 1837	GBP -	26.00
277	MYTTON JOHN, sportsman	A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)		1796-1834, 1825	GBP -	26.00
278	Denis Bond	NAVAL. Interesting Collection of eight 17th -Century letters and documents	Portsmouth	15 May, 1694	GBP -	26.00
279	WELLINGTON ARTHUR WELLESLEY, first Duke of	2 A.Ls.s.	Merida, Badajoz	30 August, 1809, 7 September, 1809	GBP -	12.00
280	WILKES JOHN	A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)		11 November, 1776	GBP -	14.00
281		REMARQUES sur l'Estat de France	France	first half of the 17th Century	GBP -	48.00
282		COMMONPLACE BOOK	England	second half of the 17th century	GBP -	140.00
283		CHRONICLES OF SCOTLAND.			GBP -	42.00
284	CLARKE MANSHIP	HISTORY OF GREAT YARMOUTH		1724-1759	GBP -	42.00
285	GEORGE II King of England	An Account of Different Departments in the King's Household 1727"		1727	GBP -	55.00
286		Royal Letters Patent of George II in favour of Anne, Sarah, Catharine, George, Elizabeth and Mary Bradley	New York	26 March, 1739	GBP -	18.00
287	FRANKLIN BENJAMIN	Autograph Docs.		Dec. 3, 1771	GBP -	220.00
288	WRIGHT WILBUR, pioneer of aviation	Interesting A.L.s.		25 January, 1912	GBP -	115.00
289	Gibson Thomas	Journal of a Voyage from Liverpool to Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, in 1837-8			GBP -	45.00
290	Fergusson William, Governor of Sierra Leone	SIERRA LEONE.			GBP -	36.00
291		NAPIER FAMILY.		late 18th-19th Century	GBP -	65.00
292	MOORE Sir JOHN, Lieutenant-General	Seven A.Ls.s.		1761-1809	GBP -	18.00
293		PENINSULAR WAR.		13 March-7 December, 1812	GBP -	16.00
294		BOOK COLLECTORS.			GBP -	80.00
295	CROWE EYRE, A.R.A.	Correspondence addressed to him and to a few other correspondents		1824-1910	GBP -	52.00
296		ALBUM containing A.Ls.s. of Charles Dickens (15 February, 1845)			GBP -	60.00
297	SEWARD ANNA, "the Swan of Lichfield"	Characteristic Series of 5 A.Ls.s.		1747-1809, 29 March, 1793	GBP -	38.00
298	Eliot Francis Perceval, and others	The Ægis; or Independent Weekly Expositor		1818	GBP -	5.00

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