Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 26Jun1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 26, 1991 - June 26, 1991

Page Size: 560 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Humboldt, Alexander von; Helen Maria Williams	Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent	Longman	1818-29	GBP -	19.00
102	M'Clung, John A.	Sketches of Western Adventure, containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794	Maysville	1832	GBP -	30.00
103		A collection of twenty-five pamphlets comprising reports of surveys, progress-reports, etc.	New York	1864-1868	GBP -	Not Sold
104	Lewis, M. and W. Clark; Elliott Coues	History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri River, etc.	New York	1893	GBP -	20.00
105	Henry, Alexander and David Thomson; Alexander Henry and David Thomas, Elliott Coues	New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest. The Manuscript Journals	New York	1897, 1799-1814	GBP -	16.00
106	BELLOT, JACQUES	LE IARDIN DE VERTU, ET BONNES MOEURS plain de plusiers belles fleurs & riches sentences avec le sens d'icelles, recueillies de plusieurs autheurs, & mises en lumiere par, I.B. gen.		1581	GBP -	450.00
107	WERDMUELLER, OTTO; Miles Coverdale	A MOST FRUTEFULL/PITHTHIE AND LEARNED TREATYSE, how a Christē mā ought to behave himselfe in the daüger of death	no place	c. 1553	GBP -	200.00
108	Littleton, Sir Thomas	Tenures truly translated into English, Black letter	no place	1556	GBP -	15.00
109	Sutcliffe, Matthew	The practice, proceedings, and lawes of armes, mostly in black letter		1593	GBP -	32.00
110	Lambard, William	A Perambulation of Kent		1596	GBP -	15.00
111	DONNE, JOHN PSEUDO-MARTYR	Wherein out of certaine Propositions and Gradations, this Conclusion is evicted. That those which are of the Romane Religion in this Kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of Allegeance		1610	GBP -	90.00
112	Donne, John Biathanatos	A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Self-Homicide is not so naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwise		1648	GBP -	22.00
113	Daniel, Samuel	The Collection of the Historie of England [to the end of Edward III]		1618	GBP -	28.00
114	J. Mabbe	The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, the Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea		1631	GBP -	26.00
115	Fuller, Thomas	The Historie of the Holy Warre	Cambridge	1639	GBP -	10.00
116	Gearing, William	Philadelphia, or, A Treatise of Brotherly-Love		1670	GBP -	24.00
117	TRAHERNE, THOMAS	CHRISTIAN ETHICKS: or, Divine Morality		1675	GBP -	90.00
118	WOLLEY, HANNAH	THE QUEEN-LIKE CLOSET, or Rich Cabinet: stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery		1675	GBP -	65.00
119	Burton, Robert	The anatomy of melancholy		1676	GBP -	5.00
120	Crouch, Nathaniel; R.B.	Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland		1684	GBP -	30.00
121	Phillips, John	Responsio ad Apologiam Anonymi cujus dam tenebrionis pro Rege & Populo Angelicano infantissimam, Etat présent d' Angleterre sous la reyne Anne	Amsterdam, Amsterdam	1652, 1702, 1703	GBP -	3.00
122	Allestree, Richard; Levi, Philip	The Lively Oracles given to us	Oxford, Oxford	1678, 1705	GBP -	11.00
123	Cotton, Charles	Poems on several Occasions		1689	GBP -	10.00
124	Pepys, Samuel	Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England		1690	GBP -	45.00
125	Defoe, Daniel	A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Bom English-man		1703	GBP -	11.00
126		Book of Common Prayer		1717	GBP -	16.00
127	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Dictionary of the English Language		1755	GBP -	90.00
128	White, Gilbert	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP -	15.00
129		Poets of Great Britain, Bell's Edition		1776-1801	GBP -	15.00
130	Goethe, Wilhelm von; Schiller, Friedrich von; G. M. Lewis; Walter Scott, The minister, a tragedy	Goetz of Berlichingen with the iron hand		1799, 1798-99	GBP -	16.00
131	Owen, Robert, Editor	The Crisis; or the Change from Error and Misery, to Truth and Happiness		14th April, 1832-23rd Aug., 1834	GBP -	70.00
132	Byron, Lord	Marino Faliero, 1821; Sardanapalus, etc.		1821, 1823	GBP -	8.00
133	Carlyle, Thomas	On Heroes, etc.		1841	GBP -	4.00
134	Thackeray, William Makepeace; Mayhew, Brothers; Mr. M. A. Titmarsh	The Second Funeral of Napoleon, and The Chronicle of the Drum		1841, 1847	GBP -	25.00
135	Martin, Sir Theodore	The Life of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort	Christmas	1875, 1875-80	GBP -	18.00
136	Hazlitt, W.	Characters of Shakespeare's Plays		1817	GBP -	10.00
137	Moore, Thomas	The Loves of the Angels, Fables for the Holy Alliance, The Epicurean		1823, 1823, 1827	GBP -	5.00
138	Palacio, Manuel	Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America		1817	GBP -	20.00
139	Gutzlaff, C.; Murray, Hugh	A Sketch of Chinese History		1834	GBP -	4.00
140	Eliot, T. S.	The Waste Land		1923	GBP -	26.00
141	Apperley, C. J.	The Life of a Sportsman		1842	GBP -	50.00
142	Ashbee, H. S.	Centuria librorum absconditorum; Catena librorum tacendorum, together 2 vol.		1879-85	GBP -	16.00
143	Bessemer, Sir Henry; Mew, Egan; Howard, G. E.	An Autobiography, Battersea Enamels		1905, 1926	GBP -	11.00
144	BOYDELL, JOHN AND JOSIAH	AN 'HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES		1794-6	GBP -	80.00
145	Bradbury, F.	History of Old Sheffield Plate		1912	GBP -	24.00
146		Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London		1920	GBP -	2.00
147	Burton, W.	Josiah Wedgwood and his pottery		1922	GBP -	16.00
148	Butcher, E. and H. Haseler	Sidmouth Scenery, or views of the principal cottages and residences of the Nobility and Gentry at that admired watering place		1816-17	GBP -	30.00
149		Caricaturist's Scrap Book (The)		1834	GBP -	7.00
150	Cawthorne, G. J. and R. S. Herod	Royal Ascot		1900	GBP -	26.00
151	Chatelain, J. B.	Fifty small original, and elegant views of the most splendid Churches, Villages, Rural Prospects ... adjacent to London		1750	GBP -	45.00
152	Cornman, F.	Some Old London Shope Signes, etc.		1891, late 18th and early 19th century	GBP -	40.00
153	Crisp, R.; Chancellor, E. B.	Richmond and its Inhabitants		1866, 1885	GBP -	10.00
154	Ford, Simon; Ralph, James	Conflagratio Londinensis poetice depicta. The Conflagration of London ... the second edition, with large additions		1667, 1734, 1783	GBP -	20.00
155	Grego, Joseph	Rowlandson the Caricaturist		1880	GBP -	8.00
156	Hadeln, Detlev, Baron von; Campbell Dodgson	The Drawings of Antonio Canal called Canaletto		1929	GBP -	14.00
157	Hall, S. C.; Besant, Sir Walter	The Baronial Halls of England, 2 vol., London in the time of the Stuarts, etc.		1881, 1902-9	GBP -	3.00
158	Hassell, J.	Picturesque Rides and Walks with Excursions by water, thirty miles round the British Metropolis		1817-18	GBP -	44.00
159	Hassell, J.	Tour of the Grand Junction		1819	GBP -	16.00
160	Hassell, J.	Excursions of pleasure and sports on the Thames		1823	GBP -	34.00
161	Heal, Sir Ambrose	The London Goldsmiths, 1200-1800	Cambridge	1935	GBP -	13.00
162	Henderson, A.	The history. of ancient and modern wines		1824	GBP -	13.00
163	Jackson, Sir Charles J.	English Goldsmiths and their marks		1921	GBP -	9.00
164	Jackson, Mrs. E. Nevill; Mew, Egan; J. Munro Bell	Silhouette, Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite Furniture Designs, reproduced		1938, 1900, 1926	GBP -	7.00
165	JENKINS, JAMES	THE NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF GREAT BRITAIN		1816-17	GBP -	165.00
166	La Fontaine, J. de	Tales and novels in verse		1898	GBP -	4.00
167		London by Night, a descriptive novel		c. 1860	GBP -	6.00
168	Macquoid, P.	A history of English furniture: the Age of Oak, Walnut, Mahogany		1904-5-6	GBP -	9.00
169	MCIAN, R. R. AND JAMES LOGAN	THE CLANS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS		1845-7	GBP -	270.00
170	MCIAN, R. R. AND JAMES LOGAN	GAELIC GATHERINGS; or the Highlanders at home, on the heath, the river, and the loch		1848	GBP -	150.00
171	Miles, E. and L.	An Epitome ... of the Royal Naval Service of England		1841	GBP -	8.00
172	NATTES, J. C.	BATH, ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF VIEWS		1806	GBP -	200.00
173	Noble, W. B.	A Guide to the Watering Places on the coast between the Exe and the Dart, 3 parts in 1 vol.		1817-18	GBP -	20.00
174	Oppé, A. P.	Thomas Rowlandson: his drawings and water-colours		1923	GBP -	6.00
175		Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond, exhibiting every Object on both 'banks of the River [in two parts: "View of London from the Adelphi," and "View of the banks of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to Richmond,"]		c. 1830	GBP -	40.00
176	PAPWORTH, J. B.	SELECT VIEWS OF LONDON; with historical and descriptive sketches of some of the most interesting of its Public Buildings		1816	GBP -	70.00
177	Parton, J.; Cooke, W. B.	Some account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Fields		1822, 1819	GBP -	1.00
178	Pennell, E. R. and J.; Shaw-Sparrow, W.	The life of James McNeill Whistler		1908	GBP -	1.00
179	Prideaux, S. T.	Aquatint Engraving		1909	GBP -	5.00
180	Searle, Mark	Turnpikes and Toll-Bars		n.d.	GBP -	9.00
181	Seymour, R.; Greenaway, Kate; S. C. Hall, R. B. Peake	Humorous Sketches, illustrated in prose, The Book of British Ballads		1846, 1842-4, n.d.	GBP -	2.00
182		Shop-Fronts. A collection of about 550 small lithographic views of Shop-Fronts, Business Premises, Factories and Public Buildings, mostly in London and the Provinces		mid-19th century	GBP -	35.00
183	Siltzer, Frank	The Story of British Sporting Prints		1929	GBP -	9.00
184	Sparrow, W. Shaw	A Book of Sporting Painters		1929	GBP -	6.00
185	Stow, John; J. Strype	A Survey of London and Westminster, enlarged		1720	GBP -	11.00
186	TALLIS, JOHN	London Street Views		c. 1838	GBP -	65.00
187	Tassie, J. and R. E. Raspe	A descriptive catalogue of ancient and modem engraved gems, etc.		1791	GBP -	9.00
188	Tooley, R. V.; Clarke, H. G. and J. H. Rylatt.; Harrington, H. N.	Some English books with coloured plates, The Centenary Baxter Book	Liverpool	1935, 1936, 1910	GBP -	4.00
189		A collection of ninety-four 18th and early 19th century Trade Cards, London and the Provinces, including Hotels and Inns, Wines and Spirits (42); Grocers and Tea Dealers (15); Furniture (14); Glass and China (10); Hatters and Hosiers (10); Gun Makers (3)			GBP -	32.00
190	TRISTRAM, W. OUTRAM; H. Railton and Hugh Thomson	Coaching Days and Coaching Ways		1888	GBP -	85.00
191	Vertue, G.	A description of the works of Wenceslaus Hollar		1759	GBP -	95.00
192		Victoria County Histories: Berkshire, vol.		1906-24	GBP -	14.00
193	Walton, Isaak and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler, Bagster's		1815	GBP -	5.00
194	Ward, Humphrey and W. Roberts.; Tuer, A.W.	Romney		1904	GBP -	7.00
195	WESTALL, W. AND S. OWEN	PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE RIVER THAMES		1828	GBP -	90.00
196	Wheatley, H.B.	London Past and Present		1891	GBP -	12.00
197	WINSTON, JAMES; Theatric Amateur	THE THEATRIC TOURIST ...		1805	GBP -	55.00
198	BEDDOES THOMAS LOVELL	FINE A.L.S., LARGELY IN VERSE (88 lines in heroic couplets beginning "To-day a truant from the odd old bones")	postmark	7 March, 1826	GBP -	60.00
199	BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL	A.L.S. to an un-named correspondent, Letters from W. Minton Beddoes and other members of the family, from Revell Phillips, members of the Kelsall family, Sir Edmund Gosse, Sir William Osler, Thomas J. Wise, and others, regarding the circumstances of Beddo	Basel	Jan., 1849, 1814-24	GBP -	40.00
200	BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL	Thomas Forbes Kelsall, address leaf with seal, postage stamp and postmarks	London	Sat., June 5, 1847	GBP -	15.00

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