Sothebys: THE WILLIS KING III LIBRARY THE THIRD PORTION. CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS OF THE 16th to 20th CENTURY. The Property of a Gentleman. ART REFERENCE BOOKS AND BOOKS ON PORCELAIN AND POTTERY, FACSIMILES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, TRAVEL , 1971(SHR2),

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 21, 1971 - October 21, 1971

Page Size: 675 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1536		Machiavelli ([Nicolo]) The Art of War; The Prince; The Florentine History...			GBP -	8.00
1537	Machiavelli (Niccolo)	The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings	Boston & New York	1891	GBP -	10.00
1538	Mackay (Charles)	Memoirs of extraordinary Popular Delusions		1841	GBP -	18.00
1539	Mackenzie ([Sir] Alexander)	Voyages from Montreal . . . through . . . North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans...	New York	1802	GBP -	17.00
1540	Macquoid (Percy)	A History of English Furniture		1938	GBP -	68.00
1541		Magna Charta, cum Statutis, turn antiquis, turn recentibus		1602	GBP -	5.00
1542	Malo (Henri)	Les tres riches Heures du Due de Berry	Paris	1945	GBP -	11.00
1543	Mansfield (Edward D.)	The Mexican War: A History of its Origin, and a Detailed Account of the Victories which terminated in the Surrender of the Capital; with the Official Despatches of the Generals	New York & Cincinnati	1848	GBP -	26.00
1544	Marcoy (Paul)	Travels in South America from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean	New York	1875	GBP -	14.00
1545	Mardrus (J. C.)	Histoire charmante de l'Adolescente sucre d'Amour	Paris	1927	GBP -	26.00
1546	Marillier (H. C.)	Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life		1899	GBP -	23.00
1547	MASEFIELD (JOHN)	SALT-WATER BALLADS		1902	GBP -	60.00
1548	MATHISON (GILBERT FARQUHAR)	Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands		1825	GBP -	26.00
1549	MAUNDEVILE (Sir JOHN)	THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE, which treateth of the way to Hierusalem, and of marvayles of Inde	New York	1928	GBP -	110.00
1550		Maundeville (Sir John) The Voyageand Travel . . . edited by J. O. Halliwell...			GBP -	6.00
1551	[Maximilian I (Kaiser)]	The adventures and a portion of the story of . . . Tewrdannckh. A reproduction of the edition printed at Augsburg		1884	GBP -	5.00
1552	MAXIMILIAN I (Kaiser)	Freydal. Turnier und Mummereien	Vienna	1880-82	GBP -	32.00
1553	MAXIMILIAN I (Kaiser)	Weisskunig . . . herausgegeben con H. Th. Musper	Stuttgart	1956	GBP -	14.00
1554	Medina (J. T.)	El descubrimiento del Oceano Pacifico, Nunez de Balboa [Documentos relativos a Nunez de Balboa]		1913-14	GBP -	24.00
1555	MERCATOR (GERARD)	Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura	Brussels	1963	GBP -	28.00
1556		Mexico. Coleccion de grandes Cronicas Mexicanas	Mexico	1955-57	GBP -	28.00
1557	Mezeray ([Francois Eudes] Sieur de)	A General Chronological History of France		1683	GBP -	24.00
1558		Michell (Sir Lewis) The Life and Times of Cecil Rhodes...			GBP -	11.00
1559		Mielot (Jehan) Les Miracles de Nostre Dame. Etude concernant trois manuscrits du XVe siecle par Le Comte A. de Laborde...			GBP -	16.00
1560	MILLAR (ERIC GEORGE, editor)	The Luttrell Psalter		1932	GBP -	48.00
1561	MILTON (JOHN)	Paradise Lost. A Poem in twelve books...			GBP -	110.00
1562	MILTON (JOHN)	Paradise Lost	Glasgow	1770	GBP -	50.00
1563	MILTON (JOHN)	The Poetical Works of. . . printed from the original editions with a life of the author by John Mitford		1851	GBP -	18.00
1564	Milton (John)	The Prose Works, with a Life...		1806	GBP -	2.00
1565		MIRROUR (THE) OF THE WORLD translated and printed by William Caxton in MCCCCLXXXI	Kentfield, Calif	1964	GBP -	55.00
1566		Missale Romanum ... ad exemplar Romanum anni MDCCCLVI	London, Paris and Vienna	1861	GBP -	3.00
1567	MODY (N. H. N.)	A collection of Nagasaki colour prints and paintings		1939	GBP -	36.00
1568	Mommsen (Theodor)	The History of Rome		1908	GBP -	10.00
1569	Mongan (Agnes) and Paul J. Sachs	Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art	Cambridge, Mass.	1946	GBP -	20.00
1570	MONTAIGNE (MICHAEL DE)	Essays . . . done into English by John Florio	New York	1902-04	GBP -	85.00
1571	MORGAN (J. PIERPONT)	CATALOGUE OF THE MORGAN COLLECTION OF CHINESE PORCELAINS	New York	1904-11	GBP -	350.00
1572	MORLEY (SYLVANUS GRISWOLD)	THE INSCRIPTIONS OF PETEN	Washington	1937-38	GBP -	80.00
1573	MORRISON (ARTHUR)	THE PAINTERS OF JAPAN		1911	GBP -	58.00
1574	Morse (Edward S.)	Catalogue of the Morse collection of Japanese Pottery	Cambridge, [Mass.]	1901	GBP -	34.00
1575	Morse (Hosea Ballou)	The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China	Oxford	1926	GBP -	28.00
1576	Moryson (Fynes)	An Itinerary, containing his Ten Yeeres Travell [etc.]	Glasgow	1907-08	GBP -	12.00
1577	Moskowitz (Ira, editor)	Great Drawings of all Time	New York	[1962]	GBP -	23.00
1578	MOTLEY (JOHN LOTHROP)	[The Works]	New York and London	1900	GBP -	28.00
1579	Murray (Charles Murray)	Travels in North America . . . 1834[-36] . . . and a Visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands		1839	GBP -	36.00
1580		Narragansett Club. Publications	Providence	1867-70	GBP -	11.00
1581	Nash (E. Gee)	The Hansa		1929	GBP -	4.00
1582	Browning (Elizabeth Barrett)	Sonnets from the Portuguese	SAN FRANCISCO	1927	GBP -	16.00
1583	Dryden (John)	All For Love or, the World well Lost: A Tragedy	SAN FRANCISCO	1929	GBP -	20.00
1584	Goldsmith (Oliver)	The Deserted Village A Poem	SAN FRANCISCO	1926	GBP -	10.00
1585	Gray (Thomas)	An Elegy written in a country Church-Yard	SAN FRANCISCO	1925	GBP -	12.00
1586	Gray ([Thomas])	Ode on the pleasure arising from Vicissitude	SAN FRANCISCO	1933	GBP -	13.00
1587	Poe (Edgar Allan)	Tamerlane & other Poems	SAN FRANCISCO	1923	GBP -	21.00
1588	Pope (Alexander)	An Essay on Criticism	SAN FRANCISCO	1928	GBP -	13.00
1589	Shelley (Percy Bysshe)	Adonais	SAN FRANCISCO	1922	GBP -	11.00
1590	North (Eric M.)	The Book of a Thousand Tongues: Being some Account of the Translation and Publication of the Holy Scriptures into more than a Thousand Languages and Dialects	New York & London	1938	GBP -	6.00
1591	Oman (Sir Charles)	A History of the Peninsular War	Oxford	1902-14	GBP -	11.00
1592	Omar Khayyam	Rubaiyat...			GBP -	9.00
1593	Omar Khayyam	The Rubaiyat		1928	GBP -	14.00
1594	O'Meara (Barry E.)	An Exposition of some of the transactions that have taken place at St. Helena ... in answer to an anonymous pamphlet entitled "Facts illustrative of the treatment of Napolean Bonaparte"		1819	GBP -	9.00
1595	ORANGE (JAMES)	The Chater Collection; pictures relating to China, Hong-kong, Macao, 1655-1860		1924	GBP -	58.00
1596		Orozco y Berra (Manuel) Historia de la Dominacion Espanola en Mexico...			GBP -	21.00
1597	Ottley (William Young)	A collection of 129 facsimiles of scarce and curious prints . . . illustrative of the history of engraving		1828	GBP -	38.00
1598	OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)	METAMORPHOSES, ARGUMENTIS BREVIORIBUS EX LUCTATIO GRAMMATICO COLLECTIS EXPOSITAE: UNA CUM VIVIS SINGULARUM TRANSFORMATIONUM ICONIBUS IN AES INCISIS	Antwerp	[1591]	GBP -	210.00
1599	Palgrave (William Gifford)	Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)		1865	GBP -	23.00
1600		Paradin (Guillaume) Cronique de Savoie...			GBP -	6.00
1601	Pardoe ([Julia]) and W. H. Bartlett	Beauties of the Bosphorus		[n.d., c. 1840]	GBP -	24.00
1602	Pennell (Joseph)	The Graphic Arts: Modern Men and Modern Methods	Chicago	[1921]	GBP -	6.00
1603	PEPYS (SAMUEL)	THE DIARY		1893-99	GBP -	100.00
1604	Percy (Thomas)	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry		1927	GBP -	4.00
1605	PERRY (M[ATTHEW] C.)	Narrative of the expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan	Washington	1856	GBP -	92.00
1606	PETRARCH (FRANCESCO)	Sonnets, Saint Dunstan edition		[?1902]	GBP -	105.00
1607	Philby (H. StJ. B.)	A Pilgrim in Arabia		1943	GBP -	32.00
1608	Phillip ([Arthur])	The Voyage to Botany Bay	Adelaide	1950	GBP -	12.00
1609	Pichon (Jerome)	The Life of Charles Henry, Count Hoym . . . Eminent French Bibliophile	New York	1899	GBP -	24.00
1610	Pijoan (Joseph)	History of Art		1933	GBP -	13.00
1611	Piozzi (Mrs. HESTER LYNCH)	Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson LL.D. to which are added some poems never before printed		1788	GBP -	23.00
1612	Plan (Pierre-Paul)	Jacques Callot, Maitre Graveur (1593-1635)	Brussels and Paris	1911	GBP -	40.00
1613		Plato. The Dialogues translated by Benjamin Jowett...			GBP -	5.00
1614	Pollard (A. F.)	Henry VIII		1902	GBP -	10.00
1615	Polo (Marco)	The Book concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East...		1875	GBP -	12.00
1616	Polo (Marco)	The Book concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East		1903-20	GBP -	30.00
1617		Polo (Marco) The Description of the World...			GBP -	14.00
1618	Pope (Alexander) and others	Pope's Own Miscellany: Being a reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717...		1935	GBP -	11.00
1619	Pope-Hennessy (Una)	Early Chinese Jades		1923	GBP -	30.00
1620	Pottle (Frederick A.)	Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay	New York	1937	GBP -	5.00
1621	Prescott (William H.)	History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation, and the Life of Hernando Cortes	New York	1843	GBP -	30.00
1622	Prescott (William H.)	History of the Conquest of Mexico	New York	1843	GBP -	19.00
1623		Primer (The) set furth by the kinges maiestie & his Clergie		[n.d., c. 1710]	GBP -	3.00
1624	Prior (James)	The Life of Oliver Goldsmith		1837	GBP -	5.00
1625	PRIOR (MATTHEW)	Poems on Several Occasions		1718	GBP -	44.00
1626	[Prior (Matthew)]	Poems on Several Occasions		1718	GBP -	9.00
1627	Ptolemy (Claudius)	Geography	New York	1932	GBP -	22.00
1628	Ptolemy (Claudius)	Geography	New York	1932	GBP -	15.00
1629	Pugin (A. Welby)	Details of Antient Timber Houses of the 15th & 16th. cent.; Designs for Gold & Silversmiths		1836	GBP -	20.00
1630	PURCHAS (SAMUEL)	HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES	Glasgow	1905-07	GBP -	140.00
1631		Purchas (Samuel) Purchas His Pilgrimes in Japan . . . edited ... by Cyril Wild...			GBP -	7.00
1632		Quivira Society. Publications, vol. II-XIII...	Los Angeles	1921-58	GBP -	95.00
1633	RACINET (M. A.)	LE COSTUME HISTORIQUE	Paris	1888	GBP -	230.00
1634	Racinet (M. A.)	L'Ornement polychrome	Paris	[n.d.]	GBP -	28.00
1635	RADCLIFFE (ANN)	THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, a Romance; interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry		1794	GBP -	120.00

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