Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE LIBRARY OF Ancient & Modern Printed Books. (ENGLISH AND FOREIGN), and Illuminated & other Manuscripts OF THE LATE WILLIAM WHEELER SMITH, ESQ. of New York City, U.S.A. (SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS) COMPRISING, MANUSCRIP, Dec131909,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 13, 1909 - December 13, 1909
Page Size: 1019 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
902 Shaw (Henry) Hand Book of Medieval Alphabets and Devices

1853

GBP - Unknown
903 Shaw (Henry) Handbook of the Art of Illumination as practised during the Middle Ages

1866

GBP - Unknown
904 Shaw (R. Norman) Sketches for Cottages and other Buildings de-signed to be constructed in the Patent Cement Slab System of W. H. Lascelles

1878

GBP - Unknown
905 Sheraton (Thomas) The CABINET-MAKER and UPHOLSTERER'S DRAWING BOOK

1802

GBP - Unknown
906 [Singer (S. W.)] Some Account of the Book Printed at Oxford in MCCCCLVII under the title of Exposicio Sancti Jeronimi in Simbolo Apostolorum; in which is examined its claim to be considered the First Book Printed in England

1812

GBP - Unknown
907 Singer (S. W.) Researches into the History of Playing Cards; with illustrations of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood

1816

GBP - Unknown
908 Singer (S. W.) Text of Shakespeare Vindicated...

GBP - Unknown
909 Skeen (Wm.) Early Typography Colombo

1872

GBP - Unknown
910 Smids (L.) Pictura Loquens, sive Heroicarum Tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck, ennaratio et explicatio Amst.

1695

GBP - Unknown
911 Smith (Wm.) History of the Holy Jesus: with the Lives and Deaths of the Holy Evangelists and Apostles

1724

GBP - Unknown
912 Soane (Geo.) New Curiosities of Literature, and Book of the Months

1849

GBP - Unknown
914 Soane Museum. Description of the House and Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields

1835

GBP - Unknown
915 Syston Park Library. Sale Catalogue of the Important Library of Sir John Hayford Thorold, Bart

1884

GBP - Unknown
916 Soleil (Felix) Les Heures Gothiques et la Litterature Pieuse, au XV et XVI Siecles, etched frontispiece by J. Adeline Rouen

1882

GBP - Unknown
917 Sonnius (Fr. Canonicus Ultrajectensis) Examen Tyronum Militiae Christianae an Christiane instituti sunt Ultrajecti

1554

GBP - Unknown
918 Spence (Jos.) Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men Carpenter

1820

GBP - Unknown
919 Stephens (Leslie) Hours in a Library

1874-76

GBP - Unknown
920 Stevens (Henry) Historical Nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana: a Descriptive Account of my Collection of Rare Books relating to America

1853-62

GBP - Unknown
921 Stevens (Henry) The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition...

GBP - Unknown
922 Stevens (Henry) Benjamin Franklin's Life and Writings: a Bibliographical Essay on the Stevens' Collection of Books and MSS. relating to Doctor Franklin

1881

GBP - Unknown
923 Stewart (C. J.) Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Ashton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire

1833

GBP - Unknown
924 Stothard (Thos.) Life

1851

GBP - Unknown
925 Stothard (Thomas) Life

1851

GBP - Unknown
926 Stowe (John) Chronicles of England from Brute unto this Present Yeare of Christ

1580

GBP - Unknown
927 Sturt (John) The Book of Common Prayer, etc.

1717

GBP - Unknown
928 Sturt (John) The Orthodox Communicant, by Way of Meditation, or the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper

(1721)

GBP - Unknown
929 Suckling (Sir John) Works

1709

GBP - Unknown
930 Suckling (Sir John) Works

1719

GBP - Unknown
931 Sucquet (Ant. S.J.) Via Vitae AEternae iconibus illustrata per Boetium a Bolswert Antwerpiae

1620

GBP - Unknown
932 Symeoni (Gab.) Les Illustres Observations Antiques en son dernier Voyage d'ltalie l'an 1557 Lyon

1558

GBP - Unknown
933 Everat (AEg.) Tobacco. De Herba Panacea quam alii Tabacum alii Petum, ant Nicotianum vocant brevis commentariolus [item Jo. Neandii Tabacologia cum Appendice; Misocapnus, sive de Abusu Tobacci Lusus Regius; Hymnus Tabaci autore Raph. Thorio] Ultrajecti

1644

GBP - Unknown
934 Taine (H. A.) History of English Literature

1877

GBP - Unknown
935 Talbert (B. J.) Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries, Decorations, etc. Batsford

1876

GBP - Unknown
936 Tarbuck (E. L.) Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentery and Joinery Leipz. and Lond.

n. d.

GBP - Unknown
937 Tasso (Bernardo) Rime Vinegia

1560

GBP - Unknown
938 Taylor (Chas.) A Familiar Treatise on Drawing, for Youth, being an Elementary Introduction to the Fine Arts

1822

GBP - Unknown
939 Taylor (G. L.) and Edw. Cresy Architectural Antiquities of Rome

1821-2

GBP - Unknown
940 TAYLOR (JOHN, Water Poet) ALL THE WORKES; being Sixty and three in Number; collected into one volume by the Author; with Sundry New Additions

1630

GBP - Unknown
941 Taylor (John, Water Poet) The Pennyles Pilgrimage, or the Money-lesse Perambulation

1618

GBP - Unknown
942 Taylor (John, Water Poet) A Short Relation of a Journey through Wales made in the Year 1652

1859

GBP - Unknown
943 Ternaux-Compans (H.) Bibliotheque Asiatique et Africaine, ou Catalogue des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Asie et a l'Afrique Paris

1841

GBP - Unknown
944 Ternaux-Compans (H.) Notice surles Imprimeries qui existent ou ont existe en Europe (avec les Nouvelles Additions et Supplement)...

GBP - Unknown
945 Testament. [Luther, 1522.] Das Neue Testament deutsch von Martin Luther Berlin

1883

GBP - Unknown
946 Thomas (Fr.) Historia Illust. Romanorum a Jano usq. ad Criptam a Gotthis urbem jam pridem edita Romae

1510

GBP - Unknown
947 Thomson (Jas.) De Courci; a Tale in two cantos, with other Poems, and commemorative Festival Addresses

1817

GBP - Unknown
948 Toovey (Jas.) Catalogue of an Extensive and Extraordinary Assemblage of the Productions of the Aldine Press...

GBP - Unknown
949 Tory (Geoffrey) Peintre et Graveur, Premier Imprimeur Royal, etc. Paris

1865

GBP - Unknown
950 Tractatus Variis. Augustinus de Ancona; de Amori Spiriti Sancti-- Conrad Zolkow

1420-23

GBP - Unknown
951 Triumphus Amoris, de Cnnctis Universi hujus Incolis Actus, Emblematibus ac Symbolis Latinis, Italicis, Gallicis, Germanicis oculis exhibitus; oder; die uber den gantzen Erd-Craisz Triumphirende Liebe, etc. Augspurg

1695

GBP - Unknown
952 Trissino. La Italia Liberata da Gotthi Roma

1547-48

GBP - Unknown
953 Truefitt (George) Designs for Country Churches

1850

GBP - Unknown
954 Turner (Dawson) Synopsis of the British Fuci Yarmouth

1802

GBP - Unknown
955 Twining (Louisa) Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art

1852

GBP - Unknown
956 Typotius (Jac.) Symbola Divina & Humana Pontificum, Impcratorum, Regium; accessit brevis et facilis Isagoga Francof.

1642

GBP - Unknown
957 Upjohn (Rich.) Rural Architecture: Designs New York

1852

GBP - Unknown
958 Urines. Here begynneth the Seynge of Urynes

1548

GBP - Unknown
959 Uzanne (O.) Nos Amis les Livres. Causeries sur la Litterature Curieux et La Librairie...

GBP - Unknown
960 Vacquer (Th.) Maisons Remarquables de Paris construites pendant les trois dernieres Annees Paris

(1862)

GBP - Unknown
961 Vaenius (Otho) Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa Antwerpiae

1608

GBP - Unknown
962 Vaenius (Otho) Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa

1608

GBP - Unknown
963 Vaenius (Otho) Amorum Emblemata Figuris aeneis incisa. Emblems of Love with Verses in Latin

1608

GBP - Unknown
964 Vaenius (Otho) Amoris Divini Emblemata Antwerpiae

1615

GBP - Unknown
965 Vaenius (Otho) Les Emblemes de l'Amour Humain A Brusselles

1668

GBP - Unknown
966 Vaenius (Otho) Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata Imaginibus in aes incises notisq. illustrata Antwerpiae

GBP - Unknown
967 Vaenius (Otho) Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, imaginibus in aes incisis notisque illustrata Bruxellis

1683

GBP - Unknown
968 Vallee (Leon) Bibliographie des Bibliographies divisee en deux Parties Paris

1883

GBP - Unknown
969 Van Praet (Jos.) Catalogue des Livres Imprimes sur Velin de la Bibliotheque du Roi; et des Bibliotheques tant Publiques que Particulieres Paris

1822-28

GBP - Unknown
970 Varin (A. et E.) L'Architecture Pittoresque en Suisse ou Choix de Constructions Rustiques Paris

1861

GBP - Unknown
971 Vatout (J.) Histoire Lithographiee du Palais Royal Paris

1836

GBP - Unknown
972 VECELLIO (CESARE) HABITI ANTICHI ET MODERNI

1598

GBP - Unknown
973 Velleius Paterculus Historia Romana, cum notis ad usum Delphini Paris

1675

GBP - Unknown
974 Velserus (Marcus) Conversio et Passio SS. Martyrum Afrae, Hileriae, Dignae, Eunomiae, Eutropiae Venet.

1591

GBP - Unknown
975 Vergilius (Polidorus, Urbinatis) De Inventoribus rerum prior editio Paris

1528

GBP - Unknown
976 Vergilius (Polydorus) De Rerum Inventoribus lib. VIII et de Prodigiis lib. III Amst.

1671

GBP - Unknown
977 Vernes (M.) Le Voyageur Sentimental, ou ma Promenade a Yverdun a Londres

1786

GBP - Unknown
978 Versor (Joannes) Versoris sup. Octo Partes Orationis Donati pulcher'rimu comentu cum optimis Argumentis ac Replicis eidem adiectis Colonie

1507

GBP - Unknown
979 Verstegan (R.) A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities Antwerp

1605

GBP - Unknown
980 Vicus (AEneas) Ex-libris XXIIICommentariorumin Vetera Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata Venet.

1560

GBP - Unknown
981 VIOLLET-LE-DUC DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DE L'ARCHITECTURE FRANOAISE du XI au XVI Siecle Paris

1867-70

GBP - Unknown
982 Viollet-le-Duc (E. E.) Discourses on Architecture translated Boston

1875

GBP - Unknown
983 Virgilius. Carolina Omnia...

GBP - Unknown
984 Vivaldus (J. Lud.) Opus Regale in quo continentur infra-scripta opuscula. [Epistola Consolatoria... Lugduni

1508

GBP - Unknown
985 Vives (Lodovicus) De Anima & Vita lib. III ejGBPem Argumenti Viti Amerbachii de Anima lib. IIII Ph. Melancthoni liber unus; ac-cedit nunc primum C. G-esneri do Anima liber, etc. Tiguri

s.a. [c. 1566]

GBP - Unknown
986 Vives (Lodovicus) An Introduction to Wysedome

1540

GBP - Unknown
987 Walpole (Horatio, Earl of Orford) Works

1798-1825

GBP - Unknown
988 Walpole (H.) Anecdotes of Painting in England, and Catalogue of Engravers

1828

GBP - Unknown
989 Walpole (H.) Letters

1857-9

GBP - Unknown
990 Waring (J. B.) The Arts connected with Architecture illustrated by examples in Central Italy from the 13th to the 15th Century

1858

GBP - Unknown
991 Warrington (Wm.) History of Stained Glass

1848

GBP - Unknown
992 Washington (President George) Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain

1795

GBP - Unknown
993 Washington (George) Facsimile of Washington's Accounts with the United States from June

(1833)

GBP - Unknown
994 Watelet (C. H.) L'Art de Pcindre, Poeme, avec des Reflexions Paris

1760

GBP - Unknown
995 Wazin (P. Joannes) Christliche Leichpredig mit acht ehrenkriintzen gehalten zu Munchcn in S. Michaelis Kirchen der Societcr Jesu, nach dem sceligisten Ableiben de Frawen Maria Renata Pfals-griifin bey Rhein, etc.

GBP - Unknown
996 Weale (John) Quarterly Papers on Architecture

1844

GBP - Unknown
997 Weigel (J. C.) Sinnbild-Kunst oder Hieroglyphische Bildor, vorstellung der Tugenden, etc. Nurnberg

(c. 1710)

GBP - Unknown
998 Weigel (K.) Holzschnitte beruhmter Meister; eine Auswahl von schonen, charactcristichen und seltenen Original-Formschnitten, etc. Leipz

1851-7

GBP - Unknown
999 Weigel Katalogue fruhester Erzcugnisse der Druckerkunst de T. O. Weigel'schen Sammlung Leipz

1872

GBP - Unknown
1000 [Westmacott (C. Molloy)] Memoirs of the Life, Public and Private Adventures, etc.

1839

GBP - Unknown
1001 Westwood (J. O.) Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria: a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible

1843-1845

GBP - Unknown
1002 Westwood (J. O.) Palaeographia Sacra

n. d. (1845)

GBP - Unknown
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