Sothebys: The Browning Collections. CATALOGUE OF OIL PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & PRINTS; AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND MANUSCRIPTS; BOOKS; STATUARY, FURNITURE, TAPESTRIES, AND WORKS OF ART; THE PROPERTY OF R. W. BARRETT BROWNING, ESQ. (DECEASED), of Asolo, Veneto, and La Tor, May011913,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 01, 1913 - May 01, 1913
Page Size: 1415 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1106 Snow (R.) Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

1843

 GBP - Unknown
1107 Sophocles': Tragoediae Septem Etonae

1799

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1108 Sophocles: OEdipus Tyrannus....

GBP - Unknown
1109 Southey (R.) Thalaba the Destroyer

1821

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1110 Spence (J.) Anecdotes, with a Life of the Author, etc.

1820

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1111 [Spinckes (N.)] The Case stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of England

1713

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1112 Stanley (A. P.) Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey...

GBP - Unknown
1113 Stephens (F. G.) English Children as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds

1867

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1114 Stevenson (R. L.) St. Ives...

GBP - Unknown
1115 Stewart (D.) Philosophical Essays Edinb.

1816

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1116 Story (W. W.) Roba di Roma...

GBP - Unknown
1117 Story (W. W.) He and She, or a Poet's Portfolio...

GBP - Unknown
1118 Stow (J.) Chronicle of England

GBP - Unknown
1119 Stratemannus (W.) Theatrum Historicum Jenae

1656

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1120 Stubbes (P.) The Anatomie of Abuses

1836

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1121 Suetonius Opera

1647

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1122 Suetonius Lives of the First Twelve Caesars

1796

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1123 Sunday Book of Poetry (The)

1864

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1124 Surrey (Henry Howard, Earl of) Poems

1831

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1125 Swinburne (A. C.) Erechtheus: a Tragedy

1876

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1126 Swinburne (A. C.) Poems and Ballads...

GBP - Unknown
1127 Symonds (John Addington) The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Gampanella

1878

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1128 Tacitus (C. C.) Opera Amsterod

1623

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1129 Tacitus (C. C.) Opera quae exstant ex rec. et cum animad. T. Ryckii

1687

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1130 Tacitus (C. C.) Opera ex edit. J. J. Oberlini

1817

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1131 Talfourd (T. N.) Ion, a Tragedy in Five Acts

n. d.

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1132 Talfourd (T. N.) Ion, a Tragedy

GBP - Unknown
1133 [Talfourd (T. N.)] Glencoe; or the Fate of the Macdonalds, a Tragedy in five Acts

1840

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1134 Talfourd (T. N.) Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps in August and September

n. d.

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1135 Talfourd (Sir T. N.) Vacation Rambles...

GBP - Unknown
1136 Tassini (G.) Curiosita Veneziane ovvero Origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venozia Venezia

1887

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1137 Tasso (T.) Gioie di rime e prose Venetia

1587

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1138 Taylor (Bayard) Poems of the Orient...

GBP - Unknown
1139 Taylor (Jane) Memoirs and Poetical Remains

1825

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1140 Taylor (J. E.) Michael Angelo considered as a Philosophic Poet...

GBP - Unknown
1141 Tennyson (Alfred Lord) Poems

1830

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1142 Tennyson (A. Lord) Poems

1843

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1143 Tennyson (A. Lord) Poetical Works Boston

1867

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1144 Tennyson (A. Lord) Works

1878

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1145 Tennyson (A. Lord) In Memoriam

1850

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1146 Tennyson (A. Lord) Enoch Arden, etc.

1864

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1147 Tennyson (A. Lord) Selection from the Works

1865

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1148 Tennyson (A. Lord) Enoch Arden

1866

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1149 Tennyson (A. Lord) Elaine

1867

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1150 Tennyson (A. Lord) Gareth and Lynette, etc.

1872

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1151 Tennyson (A. Lord) Queen Mary, a Drama

1875

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1152 Tennyson (A. Lord) The Cup and the Falcon

1884

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1153 Tennyson (A. Lord) Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After, etc.

1886

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1154 Tennyson (A. Lord) Demeter, and other Poems

1889

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1155 Tennyson (A. Lord) The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian

1892

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1156 Tennyson (Frederick) Days and Hours

1854

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1157 Testament. Novi Testamenti libri omnos, recens nunc editi, Graece

1633

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1158 Testament. The Greek Testament Oxford

1881

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1159 Thackeray (Miss) Toilers and Spinsters, and other Essays...

GBP - Unknown
1160 Theophrastus Characters translated from the Greek (with Greek Text)

1824

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1161 Thompson (A. C.) Preludes

1875

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1162 Thucydides Oxford

1881

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1163 Tolstoi (Leon) Anna Karenine...

GBP - Unknown
1164 Tolstoi (L.) La guerre et la paix...

GBP - Unknown
1165 Tourgueneff (I.) Memoires d'un Seigneur Russe...

GBP - Unknown
1166 [Towgood (M.)] An Essay towards attaining a True Idea of the Character and Reign of K. Charles the First

1748

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1167 Trelawny (E.J.) Recollections of the last Days of Shelley and Byron

1858

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1168 Trench (Abp. R. C.) Plutarch, his Life, his Lives and his Morals

1873

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1169 Trench (Abp. R. C.) Essay on the Life and Genius of Calderon

1880

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1170 Trench (Abp. R. C.) Poems...

GBP - Unknown
1171 Trollope (T. A.) A History of the Common wealth of Florence

1865

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1172 Trussell (J.) Continuation of the Collection of the History of England

1636

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1173 Turner (D.) Dissertations, Moral and Philosophical, on Natural and Revealed Religion

1775

 GBP - Unknown
1174 Turner (C. T.) Collected Sonnets

1880

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1175 Turner's Annual Tour...

GBP - Unknown
1176 Vaenius (O.) Vita D. Thomae Aquinatis Bruxellis

1778

 GBP - Unknown
1177 Field (Michael) Vale Press. Fair Rosamund

1897

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1178 Valras (Comte de) Don Carlos VII et l'Espagne Carliste Paris

1876

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1179 A. Michiels Van Dyck et ses eleves

1881

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1180 Varillas (Sieur de) Les Anecdotes de Florence, on l'histoire secrete de la Maison de Medicis a la Haye

1687

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1181 Varillas (Sieur de) Secret History of the House of Medicis

1686

 GBP - Unknown
1182 Vasari (G.) Ee Vite de piu excellenti Pittori, Scultori e Architetti Firenze

1846-57

 GBP - Unknown
1183 Velasquez (M.) Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages

1878

 GBP - Unknown
1184 Venice. Views of Venice

GBP - Unknown
1185 Viardot (L.) and others Brief History of the Painters of all Schools

1877

 GBP - Unknown
1186 Vida (M. H.) Opera, autograph signature of "Robert Browning, from W. S. Landor," on title Antverpiae

1558

 GBP - Unknown
1187 Viger's Greek Idioms

n. d.

 GBP - Unknown
1188 Villars (Abbe de) Le Comte de Gabalis, on Entretiens sur les sciences secretes Cologne

n. d.

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1189 [Villars (Abbe de)] Comte de Gabalis, on Entretiens sur les sciences secretes

n. d.

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1190 Vindication of the Clanronald of Glengary" against the attacks made upon them in the Inverness Journal, etc. Edinb.

1821

 GBP - Unknown
1191 Virgilius, Opera, Pauli Manutii notationibus in libri margine ob studiosorum commodum adscriptis illustratus Romae

1588

 GBP - Unknown
1192 Virgilius, accurante Nic. Heinsio Dan Fil

1717

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1193 Virgilii Evangelisantes Christiados libri XIII instante Alex. Rosaeo

1638

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1194 Vocabolario Italiano-Latina et Latino-Italiano per uso degli studiosi di belle lettere nelle Regie Seuole di Torino Napoli

1818

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1195 Waite (S. C.) Graceful Riding: a Pocket Manual for Equestrians

1859

 GBP - Unknown
1196 Waldstein (Ch.) Essays on the Art of Pheidias Cambridge

1885

 GBP - Unknown
1197 Wallace (R.) Saggio sopra la differenza del numero degli uomini nei tempi Antiehi e Moderni Livorno

1757

 GBP - Unknown
1198 Warburton (E.) The Crescent and the Cross

1845

 GBP - Unknown
1199 Ward (A. W.) A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne

1875

 GBP - Unknown
1200 Ward (Mrs. H.) The Marriage of William Ashe

1905

 GBP - Unknown
1201 Warren (John Leicester, Lord De Tabley) Rehearsals, a Book of Verses

1870

 GBP - Unknown
1202 Warton (T.) Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser

1754

 GBP - Unknown
1203 Warton (T.) The History of English Poetry

1824

 GBP - Unknown
1204 Waserus (C.) Grammatica Syra...

GBP - Unknown
1205 Wedmore (F.) A Snapt Gold Ring...

GBP - Unknown
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