Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 26Jun1961,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
500	Gualtierus, Nicolaus	Index Testarum Conchyliorum quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri, Philosophi et Medici Collegiati Florentini	Florence	1742	GBP -	20.00
501	EDWARDS, GEORGE	A NATURAL HISTORY OF UNCOMMON BIRDS		1751, '48, '51, '51, '58, '60, '64	GBP -	320.00
502	MEYER, H. L.	ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH BIRDS		plates dated 1837-1844 and n.d.	GBP -	130.00
503	BESLER, BASILIUS	Hortus Eystettensis		n.d.	GBP -	34.00
504	Lindley, John	Rosarum Monographia: or, a Botanical History of Roses		1820	GBP -	24.00
505	Mcintosh, Charles	Flora and Pomona; or, the British Fruit and Flower Garden		1836	GBP -	8.00
506	Loudon, Mrs	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants		1848	GBP -	28.00
507	Apperley, C. J.; Nimrod	Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq.		1835	GBP -	8.00
508	Apperley, C. J.; Nimrod	Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq.		1837	GBP -	20.00
509	Apperley, C. J.; Nimrod	Memoirs of the life of John Mytton, Esq.		1837	GBP -	10.00
510	Apperley, C. J.	The life of a sportsman		1842	GBP -	58.00
511	BOYDELL, JOHN AND JOSIAH	THE HISTORY OF THE RIVER THAMES		1794-96	GBP -	125.00
512	Bury, T. T.	Coloured views on the Liverpool and Manchester railway		1831	GBP -	100.00
513	Butler, Samuel	Hudibras		1819	GBP -	3.00
514	Combe, William	The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque		1813	GBP -	7.00
515	Combe, William	The English dance of death		1815-16	GBP -	19.00
516	Combe, William	The dance of life		1817	GBP -	14.00
517	Combe, William	The second tour of Dr. Syntax in search of consolation		1820	GBP -	7.00
518	Compton, T.	The northern Cambrian mountains or a tour through North Wales		1820	GBP -	22.00
519	Cox, David	A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours		1828	GBP -	8.00
520		English views. A collection of 70 water-colour drawings		1843-1851	GBP -	30.00
521	Fielding, T. H. and J. Walton	A picturesque tour of the English lakes		1821	GBP -	16.00
522	Gerning, J. J. von	A PICTURESQUE TOUR ALONG THE RHINE FROM MENTZ TO COLOGNE		1820	GBP -	80.00
523	Hardy, J.	A picturesque and descriptive tour in the mountains of the High Pyrenees		1825	GBP -	6.00
524	Harley, George	First principles of landscape-drawing		1830	GBP -	7.00
525	Hassell, J.	Picturesque rides and walks with excursions by water thirty miles round the British metropolis		1817-18	GBP -	28.00
526	Hassell, J.	Tour of the grand junction		1819	GBP -	8.00
527	Hempel, Charles William	The commercial tourist or gentleman traveller		1822	GBP -	9.00
528	Lory, J. and J.	Picturesque tour from Geneva to Milan by way of the Simplon		1820	GBP -	30.00
529	Noble, W. B.	A guide to the watering places between the Exe and the Dart		1817	GBP -	16.00
530	Papworth, J. B. Wrangham and W. Combe	Poetical sketches of Scarborough		1813	GBP -	3.00
531	Rawstorne, Lawrence	Gamonia		1837	GBP -	4.00
532		Real Life in London		1821-24	GBP -	9.00
533	Rowlandson, Thomas	Six coloured etchings, views from nature		25 April 1807	GBP -	15.00
534	Surtees, R. S.	Jorrock's jaunts and jollities		1843	GBP -	16.00
535	Surtees, R. S.	The analysis of the hunting field		1846	GBP -	5.00
536	Syntax, Dr.	Tour of Dr. Syntax through London (The)		1820	GBP -	6.00
537	WESTALL, WM. and SAMUEL OWEN	PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE RIVER THAMES		1828	GBP -	110.00
538	Williams, D. and J. Gardnor	The history of Monmouth shire, map, two genealogical tables	London & Monmouth	1796	GBP -	38.00
539	HAYDON, BENJAMIN ROBERT	THREE PEN-AND-INK DRAWINGS: page of studies of a hand, feet, horses, etc.; a woman with a child in her arms; a Roman warrior, with studies of hands and feet, signed B. R. Haydon 1829, in a lady's album, containing copies of poems, with a few water-colour		c. 1830	GBP -	12.00
540	GREENAWAY, KATE	Five pen-and-ink drawings of children, single figures			GBP -	32.00
541		Chinese drawings on rice paper. A series of twelve drawings illustrating manufacture and smoking of opium		early 19th century	GBP -	4.00
542		Chinese drawings on rice paper		early 19th century	GBP -	10.00
543		Chinese drawings on rice paper.		early 19th century	GBP -	15.00
544		Chinese coloured drawings of flowers with butterflies		early 19th century	GBP -	28.00
545		Chinese coloured drawings of flowers with butterflies		early 19th century	GBP -	30.00
546		Chinese drawings on rice paper. An album containing sixty-two drawings of processions, mandarins and ladies, court-scenes, street-traders, peasants, tortures, junks, fish, etc.		early 19th century	GBP -	22.00
547		Chinese drawings on rice paper. Album containing fifty-four drawings of flowers, fruit, and insects (32), junks (12), birds (6), and mandarins and ladies (4)		early 19th century	GBP -	18.00
548		Chinese drawings on rice paper. Album containing 79 small drawings of butterflies and moths		early 19th century	GBP -	4.00
549		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF FLOWERS (61), VERY FINE QUALITY		c. 1817	GBP -	320.00
550		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF BIRDS WITH FLOWERS (40), VERY FINE QUALITY		c. 1821	GBP -	180.00
551		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF MANDARINS AND MANDARINS' WIVES (26), VERY FINE QUALITY		c. 1794	GBP -	130.00
552		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF SHOPS AND TRADES IN CANTON (52), VERY FINE QUALITY		c. 1821	GBP -	230.00
553		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF FURNITURE (8), LANTERNS (12) AND LADIES PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (3), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	90.00
554		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF HOME LIFE (16), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	75.00
555		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF SCENERY IN THE PROVINCE OF SOO-CHOO (12), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	100.00
556		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF SCENERY ON THE CANTON RIVER (24), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	200.00
557		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF SCENERY ON THE CANTON RIVER (6), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	65.00
558		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF BIRDS WITH FLOWERS, FRUIT, ETC.		c. 1819	GBP -	90.00
559		CHINESE COLOURED DRAWINGS OF SCENERY IN SOO-CHOO PROVINCE, CANTON AND PEKIN (12), VERY FINE QUALITY		early 19th century	GBP -	75.00

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