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
802 Poggio Les Contes de Pogge Florentine, avec des Reflexions Amst.

1712

GBP - Unknown
803 Politiano (Angelo) Stanze, cominciate per la Giostra del Magnifico Giuliano di Piero de Medici Venet.

1521

GBP - Unknown
804 Pollard (A. W.) Last Words on the History of the Title-page

1891

GBP - Unknown
805 [Poole (S. R.)] The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany

1830

GBP - Unknown
806 Pope (Alex.) Works in Prose and Verse

1806

GBP - Unknown
807 Portius (Simon) An Homo Bonus vel mains volens fiat disputatio; De Dolore Liber; et de Coloribus Oculorum Florentiae

1551-1550

GBP - Unknown
808 Portraits. Physiognomical Portraits. One-hundred distinguished Characters from undoubted originals

1824

GBP - Unknown
809 Postellus (Gul.) Syriae descriptio Paris

1540

GBP - Unknown
810 Postellus (Guil.) Eversio Falsorum Aristotelis clogmatum authore D. Justino Martyre Paris

1552

GBP - Unknown
811 Postellus (Guil.) La Doctrine du Siecle d'Or, ou de l'Evangelike (sic) Begne de Jesus Roy des Roys Paris

1553

GBP - Unknown
812 Povey (Chas.) The Visions of Sir Heister Ryley in King Street, Westminster

1711

GBP - Unknown
813 [Powell (Thos. Canon of S. Davids)] Humane Industry; a History of most Manual Arts

1661

GBP - Unknown
814 Power (John) A Handy-Book about Books and Book-Lovers, Book Buyers and Book-Sellers

1870

GBP - Unknown
815 PRAYER. QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1590. A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN PRAYERS

1590

GBP - Unknown
816 Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, etc. with the Psalms in Meter, etc. Oxf.

1749-1748

GBP - Unknown
817 Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, etc. Cambridge

1761

GBP - Unknown
818 Preston (John, D.D. of Emmanuel College, Camb.) The Doctrine of the Saints Infirmities

1636

GBP - Unknown
819 Prime (Dr. W. C.) Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations New York

1878

GBP - Unknown
820 [Priorius (P.)] Animadversiones in Librum Prae-Adamitarum, authore Eusebio Romano, editio Elzeviriana

anno 1656

GBP - Unknown
821 Protestants Vade Mecum (The), or Popery display'd in its proper colours in Thirty Emblems

1680

GBP - Unknown
822 Prout (Sam.) Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany, and drawn on stone

(1833)

GBP - Unknown
823 Prout (Sam.) Sketches in France

(1839)

GBP - Unknown
824 PSALTERIUM DAVIDLS REGIS, cum Canticis, Litania Sanctorum, Vigilia Mortuorum, etc. una cum Calendario

INITIO SAEC. XIV

GBP - Unknown
825 PSALTERIUM. Psalmorum Codex cum Canticis, Credo, Litania, etc.

SAEC. XIV

GBP - Unknown
826 Psalter. The Psalms of David

(1850)

GBP - Unknown
827 Ptolemacus (Claudius) Magnae Constructionis Basil.

1538

GBP - Unknown
828 PUBLICIUS (JACOBUS) ORATORIAE ARTIS EPITOMATA; sive quae ad Consumatum spectaut Oratorem; ex Antiquo Rhetoz. gymnasio dicendi scribendiq. breves rationes; Artis Memoriae, etc.

GBP - Unknown
829 Publicius (Jacobus) Oratoriae Artis Epitoma; vol quae brevibus ad consumatum spectant Oratorem Venetiis

1485

GBP - Unknown
830 John Britton, editor Pugin and Le Keux. Historical and Descriptive Essays accompanying a series of engraved specimens of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy

1828

GBP - Unknown
831 Pugin (A. W.) Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume

1844

GBP - Unknown
832 Pugin (A. and A. W.) Examples of Gothic Architecture

1850

GBP - Unknown
833 Pugin (A. W.) Photographs from his Sketches by Steph. Ayling

1865

GBP - Unknown
834 Quaritch (B.) Monuments of Typography and Xylography

1897

GBP - Unknown
835 Quarles (Francis) Emblems divine and moral; together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

1777

GBP - Unknown
836 [Quarles] The School of the Heart, in Forty-Seven Emblems

1778

GBP - Unknown
837 Quinze Joycs de Mariage (Les) [Paris]

[1837]

GBP - Unknown
838 Redus (Fr.) Experimenta circa generationem Insectorum Amst.

1671

GBP - Unknown
839 Reed (Talbot Baines) History of the Old English Letter Foundries

1887

GBP - Unknown
840 Rees (J. Rogers) The Brotherhood of Letters...

GBP - Unknown
841 Regnier (Sieur Mathurin) Les Satyres et autres OEuvres a Leiden

1652

GBP - Unknown
842 Reimmannus (J. F.) Idea Systematis Antiquitatis Literariae Generalioris & Specialioris Hillesheim

1718

GBP - Unknown
843 Reisch (Greg.) Margarita Philosophica; totius Philosophiae Rationalis, Naturalis & Moralis principia dialogice duodecim libris complectens, EDITIO PRIMA

1503

GBP - Unknown
844 Reisch (Greg.) MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA NOVA Argentorati

1505

GBP - Unknown
845 Renaldini (Panfilo di) Innamoramento di Ruggeretto Figliuolo di Ruggero Re di Bulgaria In Vinegia

1554

GBP - Unknown
846 Renouard (A. A.) Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde Paris

1825

GBP - Unknown
847 Renouvier (Jules) Des Types et des Manieres des Maitres Graveurs Montpellier

1853-4

GBP - Unknown
848 Renouvier (Jules) Histoire de l'Origine et des Progres do la Gravure dans les Pays-Bas et en Allemagne Brux.

1860

GBP - Unknown
849 Reusner (Nic.) Embleniata, partim Ethica et Physica, partim vero historica et hieroglyphica, etc. Francof.

1581

GBP - Unknown
850 Reusner (Nic.) Icones, sive Imagines Virorum literis illustrium quorum fide et doctrina religionis & bonarum literarum studia nostra patrumque memoria Argent

1597

GBP - Unknown
851 Richeome (Louis) Tableaux Sacrez des figuiers mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et Sacrement de l'Eucharistie Paris

1601

GBP - Unknown
852 Rime Scelte da diversi Autori di nuovo corrette et ristampate Vinegia

1564

GBP - Unknown
853 Ripa (Caesar) Iconologie ou la Science des Emblemes, Devises, etc. Amst.

1698

GBP - Unknown
854 Ritson (Jos.) Bibliographia Poetica; a Catalogue of English Poets of the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries

1802

GBP - Unknown
855 Robertson (Dr. Wm.) Historical Works Oxford

1825

GBP - Unknown
856 Robinson (Henry Crabb) Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence

1869

GBP - Unknown
857 Rogers (Thos.) A Philosophical Discourse, entituled The Anatomie of the Minde

1576

GBP - Unknown
858 Rollenhagius (Gabr.) Nucleus. Emblematum selectissimorum quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant Coloniae et Ultrajecti

1613

GBP - Unknown
859 Romain de Hooghe Spiegel om wel te Sterven; aanwyzende met prent verbeeldingen van het Lyden onzes Zaligmakers Jesu Christi, etc. Amst.

[c. 1700]

GBP - Unknown
860 Romain de Hooghe La Maniere de se bien Preparer a la Mort Anvers

1700

GBP - Unknown
861 Rondelet (Jean) Traite Theorique et Pratique de l'Art de Batir Paris

1838

GBP - Unknown
862 [Rosario (Simeon)] Antithese des Faicts de Jesus Christ et du Pape mis en Vers francois Imprime a Rome

1600

GBP - Unknown
863 Rosarium Philosophorum. Secunda Pars Alchimiae, de Lapide Philosophico vero modo praeparando Francof.

1550

GBP - Unknown
864 Roxburghe Club. The Hystorie of the Noble Knight Plasidas, and other Rare Pieces

1823

GBP - Unknown
865 Roy (Wm.) Rede me and be nott wrothe for I saye no thynge but trothe printed at Chiswick

1845

GBP - Unknown
866 Royal Institute of British Architects. Transactions, vol. I, in 2 parts, 1835-42

1835-92

GBP - Unknown
867 Royaumont. History of the Old and New Testament...

GBP - Unknown
868 RUSKIN (JOHN) Works...

1846-55

GBP - Unknown
869 Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

1823

GBP - Unknown
870 Saavedra Faxardo (Diego) Idea Principis Christiano-Politici, centum symbolis expressa; Editio omnium locupletissima Pestini

1748

GBP - Unknown
871 Sabatelli Pensieri diversi di Luigi Sabatelli Roma

1795

GBP - Unknown
872 Sacro Busto (Joannes de) Sphaera Mundi. Sphaerae Mundi Compendium. . cum additionibus, Disputationibus Joannis de Monte Regio contra Cremonensia; nec non Georgii Purbachii de Motu Planetarum Venetiis

1490

GBP - Unknown
873 Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Francis Bedford and Osterley Park

1884-5

GBP - Unknown
874 Sanctorum Septem Dormientium Historia ex Ectypis Musei Victorii expressa; Dissertatione et Veteribus Monumentis sacris profa-nisque illustrata Romae

1741

GBP - Unknown
875 Sandby (Paul, R.A.) A Collection of Etchings

n. d. (1809)

GBP - Unknown
876 Savage (Wm.) Practical Hints on Decorative Printing

1822

GBP - Unknown
877 Savage (Wm.) Dictionary of the Art of Printing

1841

GBP - Unknown
878 Scaligeri dalla Fratta (Camillo) La Nobilta dell' Asino di Attabalippa dal Peru, reformata di Griffagno delli Impacci et accresciuta di molte cose piacevoli, etc. Venez.

1598

GBP - Unknown
879 Searle (W. G.) The Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of the Fitzwilliam Museum...

GBP - Unknown
880 Scheusselle (C. late Professor of Art in Pennsylvania Academy of the Pine Arts of Philadelphia) 120 Tracings and Drawings of Mediaeval Costume

(c. 1850)

GBP - Unknown
881 Schoell (Fr.) Histoire de la Litterature Grecque Profane Paris

1825-32

GBP - Unknown
882 Schoepflinus (Jo. de) Vindiciae Typographies; Argent.

1760

GBP - Unknown
883 Schoonhovius (Plorent.) Emblemata, partim moralia, partim etiam civilia, cum latiori eorundem eiGBPem Auctoris nterpretatione Amst.

1648

GBP - Unknown
884 Schopper (Hartmann) De Omnibus illiberalibus sive Mechanicis Artibus, humani ingenii sagacitate atque industria jam inde ab exordio nascentio mundi usque ad nostram aetatem adinventis Francof. a. M. G.

1574

GBP - Unknown
885 Scott (Leader) The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild

1899

GBP - Unknown
886 Sears (M. U.) Specimens of Stereotype Ornaments (24 ll) Islington

1826

GBP - Unknown
887 Seemiller (Seb.) Bibliothecae Academicae Ingoldstadiensis Incunabula Typographica ante Annum 1500 Ingoldstadii

1787-92

GBP - Unknown
888 Seilliere Library. Sale Catalogue of an Important Portion of the Library of Baron Seilliere

1887

GBP - Unknown
889 Sermones preclarissimi viris devotis utiles; cum duobus libris Sancti Crisostomi de Compunctionis Cordis

GBP - Unknown
890 Serna Santander (C. de la) Dictionnaire Bibliographique choisi du quinzieme Siecle, ou description des Editions les plus rares du quinzieme Siecle Brux.

1805

GBP - Unknown
891 Servetus Historia Michaelis Serveti, auctore Henricus ab Allwoerden Helmstadii

1727

GBP - Unknown
892 Seyssel (Claude de) La Grad Monarchie de France, La Loy Salicque, premiere loy des Francoys Paris

1540-41

GBP - Unknown
893 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) Mr. William / Shakespeares / Comedies / Histories and / Tragedies. / Published according to the true Originall Copies /. The Second Impression. / title containing portrait by Droeshout ["Printed at London"]

1632

GBP - Unknown
894 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) Mr. William Shakespear's / Comedies, / Histories, / and / Tragedies. / Published according to the true original copies. / Unto which is added, Seven / Plays, / Never before printed in Folio. / The Fourth Edition. /

1685

GBP - Unknown
895 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) PLAYS

1807

GBP - Unknown
896 SHAKESPEARE (WM.) WORKS

1881

GBP - Unknown
897 SHAKESPEARE BOYDELL'S SHAKESPEARE GALLERY

1803

GBP - Unknown
898 Shakespeare Portraits. Boaden (Jas.) An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints offered to the public as Portraits of Shakespeare...

GBP - Unknown
899 Boaden (Jas.) Shakespeare Portraits. An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints offered as Portraits of Shakespeare

1824

GBP - Unknown
900 Sharpe (Edm.) Architectural Parallels; or the Progress of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England through the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries

1848

GBP - Unknown
901 Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the 7th to the 17th Centuries

1840-43

GBP - Unknown
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