Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 27Mar1933,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 27, 1933 - March 27, 1933

Page Size: 827 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300	Cussans, J. E.	History of Hertfordshire		1870-81	GBP -	3.00
301	Defoe, Daniel	Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,		1790	GBP -	2.08
302		De Walden Library. Some Feudal Lords and their Seals,		1904	GBP -	1.01
303	DICKENS, CHARLES	WORKS,		n. d.	GBP -	11.00
304	Dickens, C.; Trollope, Frances; Du Maurier, G.	Master Humphrey's Clock; Jessie Phillips; Trilby			GBP -	0.18
305	Disraeli, Earl Beaconsfield, B.	Works		1882	GBP -	1.08
306	Dugdale, Sir W.	Antiquities of Warwickshire		1730	GBP -	4.05
307	Egan, Pierce; Meadows, L.; Cockton, Henry	Sporting Anecdotes; Dame Perkins and her Grey Mare; Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox			GBP -	0.15
308	Blew, W. C. A.	Encyclopaedia of Sport edited by the Earl of Suffolk and others; The Quorn Hunt and Its Masters			GBP -	0.10
309	Foster, J.; Anon	Pedigrees of the County Families, vol. I, Lancashire; Stemmata Shirleiana: or, the Annals of the Shirley Family			GBP -	1.06
310	Gay, John	Fables with a Life of the Author,		1793	GBP -	1.10
311	Gotch, J. A.; Markham, C. A.	Early Renaissance Architecture in England; Pewter Marks and old Pewter Ware			GBP -	1.02
312	Creighton, Bishop M.; Holmes, Sir R. R.; Skelton, Sir J.; Skelton, Sir J.; Gardiner, S. R.; Lang, Andrew; Pollard, A. F.	GOUPIL'S HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS.; Queen Elizabeth, 1896; Queen Victoria, 1897; Mary Stuart, 1898; Charles I, 1898; Oliver Cromwell, 1899; Prince Charles Edward, 1900; Henry VIII, 1902			GBP -	7.00
313	Granville, Mary, Mrs. Delany; Ranke, L.; Hume, M.	Autobiography and Conespondence, edited by Lady Hanover; History of the Popes; Wives of Henry VIII			GBP -	1.05
314	Grote, George	History of Greece,		1812	GBP -	0.12
315	Heath, S. and W. de C. Prideaux.; Foster, J.	Some Dorset Manor Houses; Some Feudal Coats of Arms			GBP -	0.12
316	Hughson, David	London		n. d.	GBP -	2.05
317		Index Library		1888-1912	GBP -	11.00
318	Lamb, Charles	Works, edited by William Macdonald,		1903	GBP -	1.15
319	Lang, Andrew	History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation		1900-07	GBP -	1.15
320	Lemery, N.; Wilson, G.	A Course of Chymistry, the fourth edition; A Compleat Course of Chymistry			GBP -	1.08
321	Lever, Charles; Eliot, George	Novels; Novels			GBP -	1.13
322	Lipscomb, G.	History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham		1847	GBP -	4.10
323	Lydekker, R.	The Royal Natural History,		1893-6	GBP -	1.00
324	Lysons, D. and S.	Magna Britannia,		1806-22	GBP -	1.10
325	Madan, F.; Baildon, W. P.	The Gresleys of Drakelowe; Baildon and the Baildons			GBP -	2.00
326	Marryat, Capt. F.	Novels,		1862-4	GBP -	1.10
327	Morant, P.	History and Antiquities of Essex,		1768	GBP -	10.10
328	Morris, Rev. F. O.	History of British Birds		1895-7	GBP -	1.10
329	Nash, T.	Collection for the History of Worcestershire,		1781-99	GBP -	3.15
330		The New Sporting Magazine Old Series,		1831-44	GBP -	2.00
331		Northumberland. History of Northumberland issued under the direction of the Northumberland County History Committee,	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1893-1914	GBP -	3.10
332	Ormerod, J.	History of the County Palatine and City of Chester,		1882	GBP -	1.15
333	Osbaldeston, Squire; Sparrow, W. Shaw	Autobiography; Henry Alken			GBP -	0.08
334	Pepys, Samuel	Diary, with Lord Braybrooke's Notes, edited by H. B. Wheatley,		1893-6	GBP -	6.10
335		Pipe Roll Society. Publications,		1884-88	GBP -	1.15
336	Plantagenet-Harrison, G. H. De S. N.	The History of Yorkshire, Wapentake of Gilling West,		1885	GBP -	0.10
337	D'Urfey, T.	Poems. A Collection of Poems by several hands; Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to purge Melancholy			GBP -	1.18
338	Prescott, W. H.	Works,		n. d.	GBP -	2.05
339	Radcliffe, F. P. D.; Vyner, R. T.	The Noble Science. A few general Ideas on Fox-Hunting; Notitia Venatica, A Treatise on Fox Hunting			GBP -	0.14
340	Reynardson, C. T. S. B.; Harper, C. G.	Down the Road; The Brighton Road			GBP -	0.10
341	Robertson, Archibald	Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol,		1892	GBP -	1.05
342	Rocheterie, M. de la; Le Normand, M. A.; Lamballe, Princess	Life of Marie Antoinette; Memoirs of Margaret de Valois; Memoirs of the Empress Josephine; Secret Memoirs of the Royal Family of France			GBP -	4.00
343	Round, J. H.	Peerage and Pedigree; Studies in the Peerage, 1901; Feudal England, 1909; The Commune of London, 1899;			GBP -	3.05
344		Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Buckinghamshire		1912-30	GBP -	6.15
345	Scott, Sir Walter	Waverley Novels		1894-5	GBP -	3.15
346		Selden Society Publications,		1887-89 and 1899	GBP -	1.15
347	SHAKESPEARE, W.	WORKS, edited by W. A. Wright		1893-5	GBP -	6.00
348	Shaw, G. B.	Man and Superman,		1903	GBP -	1.02
349	Shaw, S.	History and Antiquities of Staffordshire		1798-1801	GBP -	2.15
350	Sloane, W. M.	Life of Napoleon Bonaparte		1896	GBP -	1.05
351		Society of Antiquaries of London		1920-31	GBP -	6.10
352	Somerville, W.; Pennell-Elmhirst, Capt	The Chase. A Poem; Across Country by "Wanderer; The Cream of Leicester, 1883; The Best Season on Record, 1884;			GBP -	0.08
353	Spenser, Edmund	Faerie Queene, Introduction by J. W. Hales		1897	GBP -	1.10
354		The Sporting Review vol. 1-10, 12-15, 17, and 22-60 (vol. 34-60 incorporating the Sporting Magazine and the New Sporting Magazine),			GBP -	6.00
355		The Sporting Magazine Old Series		1792-1870 and 1892	GBP -	15.10
356	Smith, T.; Thornton, Col. T.; Berkeley, G. F.; Scrope, W.	Sportsman's Library, edited by Sir. H. Maxwell; Life of a Fox, 1896; Sporting Tour, 1896; Reminiscences of a Huntsman, 1897; Art of Deer Stalking, 1897			GBP -	2.00
357	Stephenson, M.; Newton, W.	List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles; Display of Heraldry			GBP -	1.02
358	Sterne, L.	Works; The New Foundling Hospital for Wit			GBP -	4.15
359	Surtees, R. S.	Plain or Ringlets; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds			GBP -	2.05
360	Surtees, R. S.	Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities		1869	GBP -	1.00
361	Surtees, R. S.	Hillingdon Hall,		1888	GBP -	3.15
362	Surtees, R. S.	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Ask Mamma; Hawbuck Grange; Handley Cross			GBP -	1.14
363	Tasso, T.	La Gerusalemme Liberata,	Parigi	1771	GBP -	2.15
364	Tennyson, Alfred, Lord	Life and Works,		1898-9	GBP -	0.10
365	Thackeray, W. M.	Vanity Fair		1848	GBP -	3.00
366	Thackeray, W. M.	The Kickleburys on the Rhine		1850	GBP -	1.02
367	Thoroton, R.	Antiquities of Nottingham,		1790	GBP -	2.10
368	Throsby, J.; Nichols, J.	Select Views in Leicestershire; History and Antiquities of Leicester; History and Antiquities of Aston Flamvile and Burbach; History and Antiquities of Hinckley			GBP -	2.15
369		Victoria Histories of the Counties of England, Derby, edited by William Page,		1905-7	GBP -	2.15
370	Barron, Oswald	Victoria Histories. Northamptonshire, edited by W. R. D. Adkins and R. M. Serjeantson; Northamptonshire Families			GBP -	4.05
371		Victoria Histories. Lancaster, edited by W. Farrer, and J. Brownhill,		1906-11	GBP -	8.05
372	White, Gilbert; Leslie, C. R.	Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne; Memoirs of John Constable			GBP -	0.05
373	White, R.	The Dukery Records, Being Notes and Memoranda Illustrative of Nottinghamshire Ancient History			GBP -	0.05
374	Whyte-Mclville, G. J.	Novels,		n. d.	GBP -	5.00
375	Wright, James	History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, with the Additions		1684	GBP -	1.05
376	WALTON, I.	THE COMPLETE ANGLER, with memoirs by Sir Harris Nicolas,		1836	GBP -	4.05
377	Latimer, H.	A notable Sermo ... in ye Shrouds at paules churche in Londo, on the xviii daye of Januarye. The yere of oure Lorrde M.D. xi. viii, Hark letter.		1548	GBP -	1.00
378	Pilkington, James	The burnynge of Paules church in London in ... 1561, and the iiii day of June by lyghtnynge, at three of the clocke, at after noone, which continued terrible and helplesse vnto nyght, Nark letter,	W. Seres	?1569	GBP -	1.05
379		HORAE B. V. M. ROMAN USE,	Paris	1507	GBP -	4.05
380		Book of Common Prayer,		1699	GBP -	1.15
381	Hassell, J.	Tour of the Isle of Wight,		1790	GBP -	5.00
382	Walpole, H.	Il Castello di Otranto,	In Londra	1795	GBP -	4.15
383	More, Sir T.	The Commonwealth of Utopia		1639	GBP -	1.02
384	BROWNE, WILLIAM	Britannia's Pastorals			GBP -	1.08
385	Harvey, W.	Anatomical Exercitations, concerning the Generation of Living Creatures		1653	GBP -	10.00
386	Lostan, James	The Mercantile Manual, second book, concerning Decimal Arithmetick ... for universal mercantile computations ... of merchandizes and publick stocks, etc.		1735	GBP -	0.10
387	Goldsmith, O.	Essays,		1765	GBP -	2.00
388	Piozzi, H. L.	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life,		1786	GBP -	Not Sold
389	CARLYLE, T. NOEHDEN, G. H.	A Grammar of the German Language		1818	GBP -	3.15
390	Ariosto, L.	Orlando Furioso	Birmingham	1773	GBP -	5.05
391	Walpole, H.	Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose		1758	GBP -	2.15
392	Cheke, Sir J.	De Pronuntiatione Graecae potissimum linguae disputationes cum Stephano VVintoniensi Episcopo,	Basel	1555	GBP -	0.12
393	More, Sir T.; Partridge, S.	Utopia translated into English [by G. Barnet]; Rabdologia			GBP -	0.10
394	Aesop	Fables; The Humours of New Tunbridge Wells at Islington			GBP -	0.12
395	Somervile, W.	The Chase,	Birmingham	1767	GBP -	0.14
396	Philips, John; Piers, Sarah, Lady; Evans, Abel	Cyder ... with the Splendid Shilling, etc.; George for Britain, 1714; The Apparition			GBP -	0.12
397	Poems. Milton, J.; Lovell, Robert and Robert Southey	Comus: A Masque (Now adapted to the Stage); Poems: containing The Retrospect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, etc.			GBP -	0.10
398	Denham, Sir John; Breval, J. D.; Plowden, Pilgrim; Walpole, Horace	Coopers Hill; The Art of Dress; Female Piety and Virtue; Farrago; The Mysterious Mother			GBP -	0.15
399	Swift, Jonathan	The Right of Precedence between Physicians and Civilians Enquir'd into; A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub; A True and Faithful Account of the Entry and Reception of Three Extraordinary Irish Ambassadors; A Letter from a Clergyman to his Friend with an A			GBP -	2.10

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