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
201 Calvin (John) Of the Life or Conversation of a Christian Man, a right godlie treatise, written in the latin tonge...

1549

 GBP - Unknown
202 Calvin (John) Two Godly and notable Sermons Preached . . in theyere 1555...

n. d. (c. 1560)

 GBP - Unknown
203 Camerarius (Joachimus) Symbolorum et Emblematum ex Herbaria, Animalibus, Quadrupedibus, Volatilibus et Insectis, Aquatilibus et Reptilibus desumptorum, Centuriae quatuor Norimb.

1590-1604

 GBP - Unknown
204 Camerarius Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae quatuor Mogunt.

1668

 GBP - Unknown
205 Camerarius Symbolorum ac Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuriae quatuor

1697

 GBP - Unknown
206 Campbell (M. F. A. G.) Annales de la Typographie Neerlandaise au XV Siecle La Haye

1874

 GBP - Unknown
207 Campbell (Thos.) Gertrude of Wyoming, a Pennsylvanian Tale, and other Poems

1809

 GBP - Unknown
208 Capel (Edw.) Prolusions; or Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry; containing The Notbrowne Mayde, etc.

1760

 GBP - Unknown
209 Cartwright (Wm.) Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems

1651

 GBP - Unknown
210 Castermans (Aug.) Parallele des Maisous de Bruxelles et des Principales Villes la Belgique Paris et Liege

(1854)

 GBP - Unknown
211 Catalogues. Catalogue of a Splendid Collection of English Literature...

GBP - Unknown
212 Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Hon. G. H. Holliday...

GBP - Unknown
213 Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Coins, Paintings, Antiquities, etc. the Collection of the late J. C. Walker, Author of the Memoirs of the Irish Bards, etc. Dublin

1817

 GBP - Unknown
214 Catalogue of Valuable Duplicate Books in the British Museum...

GBP - Unknown
215 Catalogue de l'Exposition de Gravures Paris

1881

 GBP - Unknown
216 Catherine de Medicis Cest l'Ordre et Forme qui a este tenue au Sacre & Couronnement de tres-hault & tres-illustre Dame Paris

1549

 GBP - Unknown
217 Cats (Jacob) Self-Stryt, dat is Krachtighe beweginghe van Vleesch ende Geest (Joseph and Potiphar's Wife) k. o. o. n. [Amst.]

[1660?]

 GBP - Unknown
218 CAULFIELD (JAS.) PORTRAITS, MEMOIRS AND CHARACTERS OF REMARKABLE PERSONS...

GBP - Unknown
219 Caumont (A. de) Abecedaire ou Rudiment d'Archeologie, religieuse, civile et militaire Paris, etc.

1854-8

 GBP - Unknown
220 Caveler (Wm.) Select Specimens of Gothic Architecture

(1830)

 GBP - Unknown
221 HIGDEN (RANULPH) CAXTON. THE POLYCHRONICON (TRANSLATED OUT OF LATIN INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN OF TREVES)

(1482)

 GBP - Unknown
222 Blades (Wm.) Caxton. Life and Typography of William Caxton

1863

 GBP - Unknown
223 Price (F. C.) Caxton. Facsimiles illustrating the Labours of William Caxton at Westminster, and the Introduction of Printing into England

1877

 GBP - Unknown
224 Caxton Celebration, 1877. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities and Appliances connected with the Art of Printing

1877

 GBP - Unknown
225 Cercle de la Librairie. Premiere Exposition Paris

1880

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226 Chambers (Sir Wm.) Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture

1825

 GBP - Unknown
227 Chartarius (Vincent.) Imagines Deorum qui ab Antiquis colebantur...

GBP - Unknown
228 Chatto (W. A.) Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

1848

 GBP - Unknown
229 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) WORKES

1561

 GBP - Unknown
230 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Workes; with the Siege of Thebes by John Lidgate; with Life and a Table of Obscure Words (Speght's edition)

Printed in the year 1687

 GBP - Unknown
231 Cheron (Elizabeth Sophia) A Series of Designs illustrating Greek and Roman Mythology from Ancient Gems engraved by Tardieu, Picart, Thomassin, Simmoneau, Cochin, etc. Paris

(1714)

 GBP - Unknown
232 Chiffletius (J. J.) De Linteis Sepulchralibus Christi Servatoris Crisis Historica Antw.

1624

 GBP - Unknown
233 Chinese. Sketches of Chinese Princesses and Ladies [Canton]

[1836?]

 GBP - Unknown
234 Chippendale (Thos.) Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director (German reissue of the edition of 1762) Berlin

GBP - Unknown
235 CHRONICON NUREMBERGENSE. THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. Libri Chronicarum cum figuris et Ymaginibus ab inicio Mundi (auctore Hartmanno Schedel) Koberger

1493

 GBP - Unknown
236 Cicero De Natura Deorum; De Divinatione; De Fato; De Legibus; Liber ad Hortensium; De Disciplina Militari; de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum; De Petitione Consulatus; de Universitate et de Somno Scipionis

1498-1499

 GBP - Unknown
237 Cicero In hoc volumine haec continentur; Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII Venet.

1514

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238 Cicero Le Lettere familiari Latine, commentate in Lingua Volgare Toscana da Giovanni Fabrini di nuovo ristampate, etc. Venet.

1576

 GBP - Unknown
239 Clarke (J. B. B.) Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the European and Asiatic MSS. in the Library of Dr. Adam Clarke

1835

 GBP - Unknown
240 Clarke (Wm) Repertorium Bibliographicum; or some Account of the most celebrated British Libraries; View of the Bodleian

1819

 GBP - Unknown
241 Clayton (John) A Collection of the Ancient Timber Edifices of England

1846

 GBP - Unknown
242 Cleaveland (John) Poems by John Cleavland (sic)...

GBP - Unknown
243 Cleaveland (John) Clievelandi Vindiciae; or Clievelands genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc.

1677

 GBP - Unknown
244 COBBETT (WM.) HISTORY OF THE REGENCY AND REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE FOURTH

1830

 GBP - Unknown
245 Cohen (Henry) Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Figures et a Vignettes du XVIIIe Siecle Paris

1876

 GBP - Unknown
246 Collier (J. P.) Poetical Decameron, or Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I Edinb.

1820

 GBP - Unknown
247 Collier (J. P.) Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language New York

1866

 GBP - Unknown
248 [COLUMNA (FR. DE)] LA HYPNEROTOMACHIA di Poliphilo, cioe'pugna d' Amore in Sogno; dov' egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che Sogno: etc. In Venegia

1545

 GBP - Unknown
249 Contant (Clement) Parallele des Principales Machines Theatrales modernes de l'Europe Paris

1864

 GBP - Unknown
250 Copinger (W. A.) Incunabula Biblica, or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible, 1450-1500, a Bibliographical Account

1892

 GBP - Unknown
251 Coriate. Thomas Coriate Traveller for the English Wits; Greeting; from the Court of the Great Mogul, etc.

1616

 GBP - Unknown
252 Cotton (Rev. H.) Editions of the Bible and Parts thereof in English...

GBP - Unknown
253 Coussemaker (E. de) Memoire sur Hucbald et sur ses Traites de Musique; suivi de Recherches sur la Notation Paris

1841

 GBP - Unknown
254 Cresy (Edw.) and G. L. Taylor Architecture of the Middle Ages in Italy

1829

 GBP - Unknown
255 CROWE (J. A.) and G. B. Gavalcaselle History of Painting in North Italy

1871

 GBP - Unknown
256 Crowley (Robert) The Confutation of the Mishapen Aunswer to the misnamed wicked Ballade called the Abuse of the blessed Sacrament of the Aultare, etc

1548

 GBP - Unknown
257 Cundall (Jos.) On Bookbindings Ancient and Modern

1881

 GBP - Unknown
258 [Curio (C. S.)] Pasquine in a Traunce

n.d. (1576 ?)

 GBP - Unknown
259 Daly (Ctesar) L'Architecture Prive'e au XIX Siecle Paris

1863

 GBP - Unknown
260 DANCE OF DEATH. [Basle]. Todten-tanz der loblischen Statt Basil Franckfurt

1649

 GBP - Unknown
261 Dance of Death. Basle. Todten-Tanz der Stadt Basels Franckfurt

1696

 GBP - Unknown
262 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Dance des Morts telle qu'on la voit depeinte dan la celebre Ville de Basle; traduite de l'Alleniand en Francois par les soins des Heritiers de feu Matthieu Merian Berlin

1697

 GBP - Unknown
263 Dance of Death. [Basle]. La Danse des Morts a Basle

1744

 GBP - Unknown
264 Dance of Death. [BASLE]. La Danse des Morts pour servir de Miroir a la Nature Huniaine; avec le Costume dessine" a la Moderne et des vers a chaque figure...

GBP - Unknown
265 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Der Totden-Tantz wie derselbe in der weitberuhmten Stadt Basel ... zu sehen ist Basel

1796

 GBP - Unknown
266 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Der Todten-Tantz der Stadt Basel. La Dance des Morts Bale

1843

 GBP - Unknown
267 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Emblems of Mortality represented by numerous engravings of Death seizing all Ranks and Conditions of People Charleston and New Haven

1846

 GBP - Unknown
268 Maszmann (H. F.) Dance of Death. [Basle]. Die Baseler Todtentanze in getreuen Abbildungen Stuttgart and Leipzig

1847

 GBP - Unknown
269 Massmann (H. F.) Dance of Death. [Basle]. Die Baseler Todtentanze in getreuen Abbildungen, nebst geschichtlicher Untersuchung Leipz.

1847

 GBP - Unknown
270 Dance of Death. [Basle] Basel

1858

 GBP - Unknown
271 Dance of Death. [Basle]. Todtentanz der Stadt Basel, a reproduction of Merian's plates Basel

(1860)

 GBP - Unknown
272 Borup (T. L.) Dance of Death. [Danish]. Det menneskelige Livs Flugt, eller Dode-Dands Kiobenhavn

1814

 GBP - Unknown
273 Dance of Death. [Lucerne]. Todten-Tanz oder Spiegel menschlicher Hinfulligkeit in acht Abbildungen welche Lucerne

1838

 GBP - Unknown
274 Dance of Death. [Macabre]. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, historiee & renouvelle'e de Vieux Gaulois en language le plus poli de notre temps

s. d. (1728)

 GBP - Unknown
275 Dance of Death. Trois Dances des Morts, soizante deux gravures en bois, epreuves de l'Artiste Paris

1856

 GBP - Unknown
276 Dance of Death. La Grant Danse Macabre des homes et des femes Paris

1858

 GBP - Unknown
277 Dance of Death. La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes, etc. Paris

s. d. (c. 1850)

 GBP - Unknown
278 Vallardi (Giuseppe) Dance of Death. Danse Machabre. Trionfo e Danz delle Morte Milano

1859

 GBP - Unknown
279 Dance of Death. Danse Machabre. Chorea ab eximio Macabro Versibus alemanicis edita et a Petro Defrey trecacio quoda oratore nuper emendata, etc. [Paris]

[reprinted 1868, s. l. ou nom.]

 GBP - Unknown
280 Dance of Death. La Danse Macabre peinte en 1425 au Cimetiere des Innocents; Facsimile del'Editionde 1484 precede de Recherches par l'Abbe" V. Dufour Paris

1875

 GBP - Unknown
281 Dance of Death. La Dance Macabre composee par Maistre Jean Gerson...

GBP - Unknown
282 [HOLBEIN] Dance of Death. Imagines Mortis; hisaccesserunt Emblemata e Gallico idiomata a Georgio AEmylio in Latinum translata...

GBP - Unknown
283 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Imagines Mortis; his accesserunt Epigrammata e Gallico idiomate a Geo. AEmylio in Latinum translata... Colon.

1567

 GBP - Unknown
284 [Holbein, etc.] Dance of Death. Valvasor (Jo. Weichard) Theatrum Mortis Humanae tripartitum: I. Pars

1682

 GBP - Unknown
285 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Les Images de la Mort, avec quelles sont adjoustees douze figures a Lyon

1547

 GBP - Unknown
286 Dance of Death. [Holbein]. Les Images de la Mort, aux-quelles sont adjoustees dix-sept figures. Davantage a Lyon

1562

 GBP - Unknown
287 [Holbein] Dance of Death. OEuvre de Jean Holbein premiere partie a Basle

1780

 GBP - Unknown
288 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Le Triomphe de la Mort (Paris]

(1860)

 GBP - Unknown
289 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Le Triomphe de la Mort, grave d'apres les Dessins de Holbein par W. Hollar (avec les explications) [Lond.]

[1794]

 GBP - Unknown
290 [Holbein] Dance of Death. La Danse des Morts dessinee par Hans Holbein, gravee sur pierre par Jos. Schlotthauer Paris

s.d. (1842)

 GBP - Unknown
291 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Simolachri, Historie e Figure de la Morte... Venet.

1545

 GBP - Unknown
292 [Holbein, etc.] Dance of Death. GLISSENTI (S. FABIO) Discorsi Morali, contra il Dispiacer del Morire, detto Athanatophilia, divisa in cinque Dialoghi, occorsi in cinque Giornate... Venet.

1596

 GBP - Unknown
293 [Holbein] Dance of Death. L'Alphabet de la Mort de Hans Holbein Paris

1866

 GBP - Unknown
294 [Holbein] Dance of Death. L'Afabeto della Morte di Hans Holbein, Scelto di Anatole de Montaiglon Parigi

1866

 GBP - Unknown
295 Holbein (H.) Dance of Death. Der Todtendantz durch alle Stende uund Geschlecht der Meuschen, etc.

1560

 GBP - Unknown
296 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Wolsschaten (Geeraerdt Van) De Doodt Vermaskert met des weerelts Ydelheyt af-ghedaen t'Antwerpen

1654

 GBP - Unknown
297 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Todten Dantz durch alle Stande und Geschlecht der Meuschen, etc. k. o. o. j. (Franckfort)

(c. 1600)

 GBP - Unknown
298 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Der Todtentanz. Ein Gedicht von Ludwig Beckstein Leipz.

1831

 GBP - Unknown
299 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Hans Holbein's Todtentanz in 53 getreu nach den Holzschnitten lithographirten Blattern Munchen

1832

 GBP - Unknown
300 [Holbein] Dance of Death. Der Todtentanz von Hans Holbein, nach dem exemplar der ersten Ausgabe in Kgl. Kupferstichcabinet zu Berlin in Lichtdruck nachgebildet herausg. von Fr. Lipmann Berlin

1879

 GBP - Unknown
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