Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 26Jun1961,

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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
400	Hortleder, F.	Der Romischen Keyser-und Koniglichen Maiesten ... Handlungen	Gotha	1645	GBP -	18.00
401	Montfaucon, Bernard de	Les Monuments de la Monarchie Françoise	Paris	1729-33	GBP -	5.00
402	RUXNER, GEORG	THURNIER-BUCH. Von Anfang, Ursachen, Ursprung, und Herkommen der Thurnier im heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation	Franckfurt-am-Mayn	1566	GBP -	60.00
403	Masson, F.; Kolstoi, C. S.	Napoléon et son fils, no. 505 of 800	Paris, Boston	1904, 1886	GBP -	10.00
404	VOLTAIRE, F. M. AROUET DE	OEUVRES COMPLETES	De l'Imprimerie de la Société typographique	1784-89	GBP -	80.00
405	Laensbergh, Mat	Almanach pour cette année 1782	Liège	1782	GBP -	12.00
406		Napoleonic Relics. A collection of relics (including a few grains of soil from Napoleon's grave at St. Helena, fragments of the coffin and of the flag which covered it at the state funeral in France in 1840, some silver thread and the stub of a candle fro			GBP -	16.00
407	Vecellio, Cesare	Habiti Antichi et Moderni di tutto il Mondo	Paris	1859-60	GBP -	7.00
408	Riancey, Henry de	La vie des Saints	Paris	1873	GBP -	12.00
409	Garnier, Ed.	The soft porcelain of Sèvres		1892	GBP -	13.00
410	Ovidius Naso, Publius	L'art d'aimer	Paris	1935	GBP -	160.00
411	BRUEL, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS	HISTOIRE AERONAUTIQUE par les Monuments Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des Origines à 1830	Paris	1909	GBP -	120.00
412	Ricci, P. Matteo	Il Mappa Mondo Cinese del P. Matteo Ricci S.I.	Terza Edizione, Vatican City	1602, 1938	GBP -	9.00
413	Mauro, Fra	Il Mappa di Fra Mauro, a cura di Tullia Gasparrini Leporace, presentazione di Roberto Almagiá	Venice	1956	GBP -	10.00
414	Ariosto, Ludovic	Orlando Furioso		1584	GBP -	12.00
415	Barrow, John	An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa		1801-4	GBP -	8.00
416	Beechey, F. W.; Barrow, Sir John	A voyage of discovery towards the North Pole		1843	GBP -	6.00
417	Belcher, Capt. Sir Edward	Narrative of a Voyage round the World in H.M.S. Sulphur		1843	GBP -	12.00
418	Borrow, George; Mill, James; Thackeray, W. M.	The Bible in Spain		1843, 1821	GBP -	14.00
419	Brunet, J. C.	Manuel du Libraire	Bruxelles	1838-45	GBP -	13.00
420	Bryan, M.	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1903-5	GBP -	40.00
421		Chinese Drawings. An album containing twenty-five Chinese coloured drawings on rice paper including flowers and butterflies (15) junks (2) occupations (5) and birds (3)		early 19th century	GBP -	30.00
422		Claude le Lorrain. Liber Veritatis	Rome	1815	GBP -	30.00
423	Combe, Wm.	The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque		1813	GBP -	12.00
424	Congreve, W.	Works	Birmingham	1761	GBP -	13.00
425	Cruise, Richard	Journal of a ten months' residence in New Zealand		1823	GBP -	13.00
426	Damberger, G F.; Campbell, J.	Travels in the Interior of Africa		1801	GBP -	4.00
427	Daniell, Thomas and William	A Picturesque Voyage to India by way of China		1810	GBP -	38.00
428	EDWARDS, GEORGE	A NATURAL HISTORY OF UNCOMMON BIRDS and of some other rare and undescribed animals		1743-51, 1758-64	GBP -	500.00
429	Egan, Pierce	Diorama Anglais ou Promenades Pittoresques à Londres	Paris	1823	GBP -	4.00
430	Erskine, Capt. J. E.	Journal of a cruise among the Islands of! the Western Pacific		1853	GBP -	8.00
431	Fitzclarence, Lieut.-Col., Earl of Munster	Journal of a Route across India through Egypt to England		1819	GBP -	8.00
432	Franklin, John; Dodwell, Edward	Narrative of a Journey to the shores of the Polar Sea		1823, 1819	GBP -	9.00
433	Fryer, John	A New Account of East India and Persia		1698	GBP -	14.00
434	GIBBON, E.	The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire		1776-88	GBP -	6.00
435	Gisborne, Lionel	The Isthmus of Darien in 1852. Journal of the expedition of Inquiry for the junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans		1853	GBP -	1.00
436	Graves, George	British Ornithology		1821	GBP -	28.00
437		Hakluyt Society Publications, First Series		1847-53	GBP -	150.00
438	Hall, Capt. Basil	Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island		1818	GBP -	7.00
439	HARRIS, MOSES	L'AURELIEN: ou Histoire Naturelle des Chenilles, Chrysalides, Phalenes et Papillons Anglois		1794	GBP -	220.00
440	Harris, Sir W. C.	Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa	Bombay	1838	GBP -	20.00
441	Irving, Washington; Hamilton, Capt. Thomas; MacMicking, Robert	America and the Americans, Men and Manners in America		n.d., 1833, 1851	GBP -	7.00
442	Johnson, Lieut. Col John	A Journey from India to England through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland and Prussia		1818	GBP -	5.00
443	Jukes, J. Beete	Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly ... in Torres Strait, New Guinea and other Islands		1847	GBP -	22.00
444	Kaemfer, Englebert	The History of Japan		1727	GBP -	28.00
445	King, P. P.	Narrative of the survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia		1827	GBP -	22.00
446	LANGSDORFF, G. H. VON	Voyages and Travels in various parts of the World		1813-14	GBP -	90.00
447	Laplace, S. P. T.	Voyage autour du Monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine		1833-35	GBP -	32.00
448	Latrobe, C. J.; Haliburton, T. B.; Bonnycastle, Sir R. H.	The Rambler in North America, The English in America, Canada and the Canadians		1835, 1851, 1846	GBP -	11.00
449	Lilford, Lord	Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands		1891-97	GBP -	30.00
450	Mariner, W. and J. Martin	An account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands		1817	GBP -	14.00
451	Mathison, G. F.	Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich Islands		1825	GBP -	14.00
452	Meyer, H. L.	Illustrations of British Birds		1835-31	GBP -	110.00
453	McLeod, J.; Lobo, Jerome; Fauz, W.	Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea		1817, 1789, 1823	GBP -	8.00
454	McLeod, J.; Maw, H. L.; Humboldt, A. de	Narrative of a voyage ... to the Yellow Sea, Journal of a passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Personal Narrative of travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent		1817, 1829, 1818	GBP -	10.00
455	Morier, James	A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor to Constantinople, and a second Journey		1812-18	GBP -	19.00
456	Morris, F. O.	A History of British Birds		1851-57	GBP -	35.00
457	Napoleon I.	Tableaux Historiques des Campagnes d'Italie depuis l'an IV jusqu'à la bataille de Marengo, portrait of Napoleon		1806	GBP -	20.00
458	Niebuhr, Carsten	Voyage en Arabie	Amsterdam and Utrecht	1776-80, 1774	GBP -	17.00
459	Parry, W. E.	Journal of a Voyage [and of a Second Voyage] for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific		1821-24	GBP -	5.00
460	Paterculus, P. Velleius	Historiae Romanae	Basel	1520	GBP -	10.00
461	Pine, John	The Procession and Ceremonies observed at the time of the installation of the Knights Companions of the most honourable military Order of the Bath		1730	GBP -	30.00
462		Polybius. Historiae	Paris	1619	GBP -	2.00
463	Repton, Humphrey	Observations on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening		1803	GBP -	58.00
464	Reresby, Sir John; Scrope, Wm.	Travels and Memories, plates, some in colour, red straight-grained morocco, g.e.		1813	GBP -	3.00
465	Robinson, J. H.; Caldcleugh, A.	Journal of an Expedition 1400 miles up the Orinoco, Travels in South America		1822	GBP -	25.00
466	Scoresby, William	Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland	Edinburgh	1823	GBP -	7.00
467	Scoresby, William	An account of the Arctic Regions	Edinburgh	1820	GBP -	10.00
468	Seebohm, Henry	A History of British Birds with coloured illustrations of their eggs		1883-85	GBP -	1.00
469	Southey, Robert	The Life of Nelson		1813	GBP -	1.00
470	Symes, Michael	An Account of an Embassy, to the Kingdom of Ava		1800	GBP -	7.00
471	Tavernier, J. B.; J. Phillips	The Six Voyages .... through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies .... made English		1678	GBP -	16.00
472	Tournefort, Pitton de	Relation d'un Voyage du Levant	Amsterdam	1718	GBP -	12.00
473	Tully, Richard; Browne, W. G.; Buchanan Francis	Narrative of a ten years residence at Tripoli, Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria		1816, 1799, 1807	GBP -	10.00
474	Turner, Capt. Samuel	An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet		1800	GBP -	7.00
475	Walpole Hon. Fred	Four Years in the Pacific in H.M.S. Collingwood		1849	GBP -	8.00
476	Webster, W. H. B.	Narrative of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean .... in H.M.S. Sloop Chanticleer		1834	GBP -	13.00
477	Wordsworth, William	Poems		1807	GBP -	3.00
478		HORNBOOK OF SILVER, OF UNUSUAL TYPE		second quarter of the 18th century	GBP -	140.00
479		Playing Cards. A complete set of 52 cards illustrating the reign of Queen Anne and Marlborough's victories		c. 1706	GBP -	60.00
480	Bainbridge, George C.	The Fly Fisher's Guide	Liverpool	1816	GBP -	1.00
481	Surtees, R. S.	The Analysis of the Hunting Field		1846	GBP -	1.00
482	Landi, G.	A Collection of Designs of Architecture, Decorations and Ornaments, both Exterior and Interior, comprising whatever is relative to Furniture: also Designs of Town Houses, Country Houses, Villas, etc.		1810	GBP -	110.00
483	Egan, Pierce	Life in London		1822	GBP -	16.00
484	Patterson, Paul	The Play fair Papers, or Brother Jonathan	Saunders and Otley	1841	GBP -	16.00
485	Lytton, Lord	The Last of the Barons	Saunders and Otley	1843	GBP -	24.00
486	Blake, William; Gilchrist, Alexander	Illustrations of the Book of Job	Methuen	1903	GBP -	1.00
487	Huth, F. H.	Works on Horses and Equitation; a Bibliographical Record of Hippology		1887	GBP -	7.00
488	John, W. D.	Nantgarw Porcelain		1948	GBP -	7.00
489	ACKERMAN, RUDOLPH	THE MICROCOSM OF LONDON		1808-10	GBP -	140.00
490	Ibbetson, J., J. Laporte and J. Hassell	A Picturesque Guide to Bath		1793	GBP -	35.00
491	Turner, J. M. W., and others	The Northern Cambrian Mountains; or, a Tour through North Wales		1820	GBP -	13.00
492	BOYDELL, JOHN and JOSIAH	AN HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES		1794-1796	GBP -	85.00
493	MALTON, JAMES	A PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN		plates dated 1792-99 and mostly watermarked 1795	GBP -	45.00
494	LORY, G.	VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE GENEVE A MILAN PAR LE SIMPLON	Paris	1811	GBP -	220.00
495	Schomburgck, Robert H.	Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana		1841	GBP -	50.00
496	Kingsborough, Viscount	Antiquities of Mexico		1830-48	GBP -	200.00
497	Gill, S. T.	THE AUSTRALIAN SKETCHBOOK	Melbourne	c. 1864	GBP -	62.00
498	Duplessis-Bertaux, J.	Collection complète de soixantes portraits des personnages qui ont le plus figuré dans la révolution francaise	Paris	n.d., c. 1800	GBP -	3.00
499	Rechberg, Charles de	Les peuples de la Russie	Paris	1812-13	GBP -	85.00

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