Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. INCLUDING, BOOKS ON NATURAL HISTORY INCLUDING BONAPARTE'S Iconographie despigeons, 1857; JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE'S Plantes de la France, 1808-09; LEVAILLANT'S Oiseaux d'Afiique, , 1972(Eden),

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 23, 1972 - October 23, 1972
Page Size: 544 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 BOSWELL (JAMES) AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA Glasgow

1768

GBP - 10.00
202 Boswell (James) Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

1785

GBP - 6.00
203 HAMILTON (ANTOINE) Memoires du Comte de Grammont

1772

GBP - 80.00
204 SCALE (BERNARD) AN HIBERNIAN ATLAS; or general description of the Kingdom of Ireland

1776

GBP - 70.00
205 HASTED (EDWARD) THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT Canterbury

1778-90

GBP - 260.00
206 Johnson (Samuel) A dictionary of the English language, Harrison's edition, title printed in red and black

1786

GBP - 14.00
207 Smith (Adam) An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

1791

GBP - 24.00
208 M'Phail (James) A treatise on the culture of the cucumber

1794

GBP - 28.00
209 Fry (Edmund) Pantographia containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets of the world

1799

GBP - 52.00
210 Broadside. The case of the Book-binders of Great Britain

[eighteenth century]

GBP - 65.00
211 WORDSWORTH (W.) [and S. T. COLERIDGE] Lyrical Ballads

1800

GBP - 85.00
212 [Raucourt de Charleville] A manual of lithography or memoir on the lithographical experiments made in Paris

1820

GBP - 50.00
213 Galt (John) [Works] Edinburgh

1821-26

GBP - 140.00
214 ROGERS (SAMUEL) Italy, a poem...

GBP - 30.00
215 BEETON (Mrs. ISABELLA) The book of household management

1861

GBP - 28.00
216 Hood (Thomas, senior) Memorials

1869

GBP - 24.00
217 Hood (Thomas, senior) Whims and Oddities...

GBP - 16.00
218 Hood (Thomas junior) An album containing over 100 drawings for illustrations

GBP - 35.00
219 LUCRETIUS (CARUS) De rerum natura...

GBP - 65.00
220 PSALTERIUM ROMANUM . . . cuius cantus per . . . fratrem Franciscum de Brugis ordinis minorum . . . revisi Venice

21 July 1507

GBP - 700.00
221 Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera, cum adnotationibus Philippi Beroaldi Paris

June-November 1507

GBP - 38.00
222 Bible

GBP - 42.00
223 POLITIANUS (ANGELUS) OPERA (ed. Alexander Sartius) Venice

July 1498

GBP - 280.00
224 BIBLE, LATIN Venice

8 May, 1498

GBP - 85.00
225 [FORESTI (JACOBUS PHILIPPUS, Bergomensis)] NOVISSIME HYSTORIARUM OMNIUM REPERCUSSIONES . . . QUE SUPPLEMENTUM SUPPLEMENTI CRONICARUM NUNCUPANTUR

GBP - 210.00
226 STAMLER (JOANNES) Dyalogus . . . de diversarum gencium sectis et mundi religionibus Augsburg

22 May, 1508

GBP - 130.00
227 [GUILLERMUS PARISIENSIS] [POSTILLA sive expositio epistolarum tam dominicalium q[uam] ferialium necnon quattuor temporum per decursum totius anni] [Lyons]

[c. 1510]

GBP - 18.00
228 Albericus, de Rosate. Dictionariu [juris]...

GBP - 60.00
229 SCHREIBER (HEINRICH "GRAMMATEUS") AYN NEW KUNSTLICH BUECH / WELCHES GARE GEWISS UND BEHEND / LERNET NACH DER GEMAINEN REGEL DETRE WELSCHEN / PRACTIC... Nuremberg, Vienna

[1518 or 1521]

GBP - 500.00
230 Maynus (Joannes) Joannis Mayni adulesce[n]tis nobilissimi Agenniensis Exadelphia [?Paris]

[1519 or later]

GBP - 10.00
231 VERINI (JOANNES BAPTISTA) [LUMINARIO] Incipit liber primus (-quartus) elementorum litterarum [? Toscolano]

[c. 1527]

GBP - 200.00
232 TAGLIENTE (GIOVANANTONIO) LO PRESENTE LIBRO & INSEGNA LA VERA ARTE DELO EXCELLENTE SCRIVERE DI diverse varie sorti de litere Venice

1530

GBP - 160.00
233 Alciatus (Andreas) Les emblemes . . . mis in rime francoise Paris

1542

GBP - 180.00
234 Canticum Canticorum, Ruth, Lamentationes Jeremiae, Ecclesiastes & Eesther [Paris]

[1546]

GBP - 85.00
235 Obsequens (Julius) Prodigiorum Liber [and other works] Basle

1552

GBP - 40.00
236 Widmanstadt (F.) Syriacae linguae prima elementa Vienna

February, 1556

GBP - 120.00
237 Symeoni (Gabriel) Illustratione de gli epitaffi et medaglie antiche Lyon

1558

GBP - 45.00
238 BIBLE IN POLISH. Biblia swieta, Tho iest Ksiegi y Novego Zakonu wiasnie z Zydowskiego, Greckiego y Lacinskiego nowo na Polski . . . wylocone

[1563]

GBP - 200.00
239 REUSNER (NICOLAUS) ICONES SIVE IMAGINES VIRORUM LITERIS ILLUSTRIUM Strassburg

1587

GBP - 95.00
240 Psalms. Liber Psalmorum Davidis Regis et Prophetae ex Arabico idomate in latinum translatus Rome

1614

GBP - 24.00
241 Scaliger (Joseph) and Thomas Erpenius, ed. Proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae Leiden

1614

GBP - 80.00
242 Brogiottus (Andreas) Sanctissimi D. N. Urbani PP. VIII ac illustrissimorum . . . S.R.E. Cardinalium nun viventium Rome

1628

GBP - 120.00
243 Novum Jesu Christi domini nostri testamentum Sedan

1628

GBP - 100.00
244 Bible. La Bible Sedan

1633

GBP - 120.00
245 Rusconi (Gio. Antonio) I dieci libri d'architettura Venice

1660

GBP - 110.00
246 Reconditorium ac recluriorium opulentiae sapientiaeque numinis mundi magnis Amsterdam

1666

GBP - 65.00
247 SPINOZA (BARUCH or BENEDICT DE) TRACTATUS THEOLOGICOPOLITICUS Hamburg

1670

GBP - 290.00
248 Icones historicae veteris et novi Testamenti Geneva

1681

GBP - 65.00
249 Baldinucci (Filippo) Cominciamento e progresso dell'arte dell'intagliare in rame colle vite de' piu eccellenti maestri della stessa professione Florence

1686

GBP - 42.00
250 Pradalini (Crateo) Il martirio di S. Eustachio Rome

1690

GBP - 40.00
251 Schaaf (Carolus, ed.) Novum Testamentum Syriacum, Lexicon Syriacum concordantiale omnes Novi Testamenti Syriaci Leiden

1717

GBP - 70.00
252 Ahmed Suheyly [A history of modern and ancient Egypt, edited by Ibrahim Muteferrika] Constantinople

1729-30

GBP - 40.00
253 [Holdermann (J. B.)] Grammaire Turque ou methode courte et facile pour apprendre la langue Turque Constantinople

1730

GBP - 28.00
254 LAMESLE (CLAUDE) EPREUVES GENERALES DES CARACTERES Paris

1742

GBP - 170.00
255 Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Dissertation sur la musique moderne Paris

1743

GBP - 32.00
256 [Grimm (F. M.)] Le petit prophete de Boehmischbroda [Paris]

[1755]

GBP - 12.00
257 PAPILLON (J. M.) Traite historique et pratique de la gravure en bois with the supplement Paris

1766

GBP - 150.00
258 De Lille (Abbe) Les jardins ou Part d'embellir les paysages Paris

1782

GBP - 16.00
259 Carteromaco (Niccolo) Ricciardetto in ottava rima Orleans

1785

GBP - 24.00
260 [Castaing (J.)] Opuscules d'un amateur imprimes par lui-meme [Alencon]

1785

GBP - 38.00
261 Peignot (Etienne Gabriel) Dictionnaire raisonnee de bibliologie Paris

1802-04

GBP - 60.00
262 Rareke (Hendrik) Algemeene ophelderende verklaring van het Oud Letterscrhift in steenplaatdruck Leiden, etc.

1818

GBP - 30.00
263 Balzac Annuaire et liste de Messieurs les Perruquiers et coiffeurs de la ville de Paris pour l'an 1827 Paris

17 [1827]

GBP - 48.00
264 BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (JULES) UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE Paris

1851

GBP - 170.00
265 CHURCH SLAVONIC GOSPELS, with Church calendar and Gospel readings for Passion week Kiev

1875

GBP - 65.00
266 CHURCH SLAVONIC GOSPELS Moscow

1892

GBP - 60.00
267 CICERO OPERA Paris

1554

GBP - 30.00
268 Balzac (J. L. G. de) Oeuvres, premiere partie Paris

1628

GBP - 6.00
269 Kegelius (P.) Zwolf geistliche Andachten, darinnen gar schone Trostreiche Gebehte begriffen Amsterdam

1660

GBP - 52.00
270 Gospels, Russian, printed in black and red, purple silk Kicno

1891

GBP - 70.00
271 Bible, English

1632

GBP - 24.00
272 PSALMS. THE PSALTER OF DAVID

1650

GBP - 140.00
273 [Allestree (R.)] The lively oracles given to us Oxford

1678

GBP - 18.00
274 Psalms. Les pseaumes de David mis en vers francais...

GBP - 55.00
275 MASSON (GEORGINA) ITALIAN VILLAS AND PALACES

1959

GBP - 50.00
276 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE ISLAND RACE

1964

GBP - 55.00
277 CHURCHILL (Sir WINSTON) THE ISLAND RACE

1964

GBP - 50.00
278 [AUBIN (N.)] Dictionaire de Marine Amsterdam

1722

GBP - 40.00
279 Bion (N.) L'Usage des Globes...

GBP - 16.00
280 [D'Anfreville (Abbe)] Apologie du Cardinal de Bouillon Koln [i.e. Amsterdam]

1706

GBP - 3.00
281 Desgenettes (R.) Histoire medicale de l'Armee d'Orient Paris

1802

GBP - 16.00
282 GRAINCOURT (A.) Les Homines illustres de la Marine francoise Paris

1780

GBP - 5.00
283 Guerin (L.) Histoire maritime de France...

GBP - 6.00
284 Roux (J.) Recueil des principaux Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Mediterranee Leghorn

[c. 1780]

GBP - 65.00
285 Verneuil (M. P.) Etude de la Mer. Faune et Flore de La Manche et de l'Ocean Paris

[1913-14]

GBP - 3.00
286 Weindel (H. de) Histoire des Soviets...

GBP - 5.00
287 Academiae Oxoniensis Comita Philologica ... in Honorem S. R. Annae Pacificae...

GBP - 2.00
288 Addison (J.) Remarks on several Parts of Italy

1705

GBP - 20.00
289 Addison (J.) Works

1721

GBP - 20.00
290 Agricola (G.) De Mensuris & Ponderibus Romanorum atque Graecorum [and other works] Basle

1550

GBP - 70.00
291 [Arbuthnot (C.)] Tables of ancient Coins...

GBP - 18.00
292 Aristotle Historia de Animalibus Toulouse

1619

GBP - 24.00
293 [Arnauld (A).] The Art of Speaking...

GBP - 30.00
294 Bacon (Francis) Philosophical Works

1733

GBP - 24.00
295 BIBLE, LATIN Venice

1498

GBP - 75.00
296 BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT... Basle

1527

GBP - 85.00
297 Bingham (J.) Origines Ecclesiasticae: or the Antiquities of the Christian Church...

GBP - 28.00
298 Biragus (F. Mediobarbus) Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata...

GBP - 38.00
299 BLACKMORE (Sir RICHARD) Eliza: an epick Poem

1705

GBP - 35.00
300 Boccalini (T.) I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus

1657

GBP - 26.00
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