Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT LIBRARY. FORMED BY THE LATE H. B. WHEATLEY, ESQ. F.S.A., Author of "Pepysiana," and Editor of "Pepys' Diary." FIRST AND SECOND DAYS' SALE. PART I. AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS, ENG, Apr081918,

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 08, 1918 - April 08, 1918

Page Size: 1534 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1202		CABAL MINISTRY. Lord Clifford, Warrants, for payment of £2,000, March 27, 1672...			GBP -	Unknown
1203	CHARLES II	Copy or Draft of his speech to Parliament		Jan. 18, 1668	GBP -	Unknown
1204	RUPERT (Prince)	L. s. 1 p. folio, on naval affairs, July 9, 1666, also signed by the Duke of Albemarle, and a Doc. s. by the latter			GBP -	Unknown
1205	MONCK (George, afterwards Duke of Albemarle)	L. s. 1 p. 4to, Chatham, Jan. 12, 1653; and other Civil War Documents...			GBP -	Unknown
1206		Privy Council Letter (imperfect), 1/2 p. folio, May, 1614, signed by Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the Rolls, and Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer			GBP -	Unknown
1207	JAMES II	L. s. 1 p. folio, Feb. 5, 1665, to Lord Townshend		Feb. 5, 1665	GBP -	Unknown
1208	SHEERES (Sir Henry)	A. L. s. 1 p. folio, Hounslow, Dec. 11, 1688 (the day James II left London), to William Plathwayt, Secretary at War	Hounslow	Dec. 11, 1688	GBP -	Unknown
1209	ALBEMARLE (George Monck, Duke of)	Two Doc. s. (one the concluding portion only), 1667-8, both signed also by Clifford and Sir W. Coventry		1667-8	GBP -	Unknown
1210		NORFOLK (Henry Howard, Duke of) A. L. s. 3 folio, March 12, 1679, from Bruges, to Sir R, Bulstrode...			GBP -	Unknown
1211		STATESMEN AND DIPLOMATISTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, including Sir William Temple, L. s. and Doc. s....			GBP -	Unknown
1212	HERIOT (George)	Goldsmith to James I, Scott's "Jingling Geordie"		Oct. 20, 1620	GBP -	Unknown
1213	DRYDEN (John)	Essayon Satire		1675	GBP -	Unknown
1214		MISCELLANEOUS, including Sir H. M. Stanley, John Bannister, Ferdinand de Losseps, the Ladies of Llangollen, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Fry, Thomas Coutts, Lady Burdett Coutts, French Revolutionary Documents, etc.			GBP -	Unknown
1215		BUST OF POPE			GBP -	Unknown
1216		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). William Altham, of Mark Hall, Essex, Chippendale...			GBP -	Unknown
1217		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). A collection of upwards of 270 plain and other Armorial specimens			GBP -	Unknown
1218		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris) by C. W. SHERBORN. H. S. Ash bee...			GBP -	Unknown
1219		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris) by G. W. EVE. P.P. Royal Library, Windsor Castle (King Edward VIIth's book-plate)...			GBP -	Unknown
1220		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). A collection of ninety five specimens...			GBP -	Unknown
1221		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). A collection of seventy Plates...			GBP -	Unknown
1222		Book Plates (Ex-Libris). A very miscellaneous lot, consisting of over one hundred modern specimens			GBP -	Unknown
1223		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). A collection of fifty-two Armorial, Jacobean, Chippendale and other Book-Plates			GBP -	Unknown
1224		Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). Catalogue of the Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Ex-Libris Society...			GBP -	Unknown
1225	DRAYTON (M.)	Poems		1608	GBP -	Unknown
1226	Shirley (James)	The Gratefull Servant		1637	GBP -	Unknown
1227	FORD (JOHN)	THE LADIES TRIALL., acted by both their Majesties Servants at the private house in Drury Lane		1639	GBP -	Unknown
1228	Beaumont (F.) and J. Fletcher	Knight of the Burning Pestle		1635	GBP -	Unknown
1229	Massinger (Philip)	The Bondman, an ancient Storie		1638	GBP -	Unknown
1230	Heywood (Thomas)	A True Description of his Majesties Royall Ship ["Sovereign"] built this yeare 1637 at Wooll-witch in Kent		1637	GBP -	Unknown
1231	COOKE (JOHN)	GREENES TU QUOQUE, or the Cittie Gallant, as it hath beene divers times acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants	Printed at London	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1232	Shirley (James)	Hide Parke, a Comedy		1637	GBP -	Unknown
1233	Shirley (James)	Changes, or Love in a Maze, a Comedie		1632	GBP -	Unknown
1234	Fletcher (John)	The Faithfull Shepheardesse		1629	GBP -	Unknown
1235	Beaumont (F.) and J. Fletcher	Cupid's Revenge, as it was often acted (with great applause) by the Children of the Revels		1635	GBP -	Unknown
1236	Prynne (W.)	Healthes: Sicknesse, or a compendious and briefe Discourse...			GBP -	Unknown
1237		Proctor (The) and Parator their Mourning...			GBP -	Unknown
1238	[Southwell (R.)]	Saint Peter's Complaint, with other Poems		1595	GBP -	Unknown
1239	Barclay (J.)	His Argenis, translated out of Latine into English...			GBP -	Unknown
1240	Stow (J.)	The Annales or Generall Chronicle of England		1615	GBP -	Unknown
1241		CHAUCER (GEOFFREY). THE WORKES OF		1602	GBP -	Unknown
1242	Pepys (S.)	Diary and Correspondence		1875-7	GBP -	Unknown
1243	Houblon (A. A.)	The Houblon Family		1907	GBP -	Unknown
1244	York (James, Duke of)	Memoirs of the English Affairs...			GBP -	Unknown
1245	PEPYS (S.)	Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Nary of England		Printed Anno MDXC (1690)	GBP -	Unknown
1246	PEPYS (S.)	Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Nary of England		1690	GBP -	Unknown
1247	PEPYS (S.)	Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Nary of England		1690	GBP -	Unknown
1248	Charles II	Instructions for the Lord High Admiral of England and for the Commissioners and other Subordinate Officers of His Majesties Navy, asertain'd and Published by his Royal Highness the Duke of York			GBP -	Unknown
1249	Pepys (S.)	Life, Journal and Correspondence		1841; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1250	Pepys (S.)	Diary		1897	GBP -	Unknown
1251		Order (The) of the Hospitalls of K. Henry the VIIIth and K. Edward the VIth		(1557), n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1252	Carleton (M.)	The Memoirs of Mary Carleton. commonly stiled the German Princess		1673	GBP -	Unknown
1253	Shelton (T.)	Tachy-Graphy: The most exact and compendious methode of short and swift writing that bath ever yet been published by any	Cambridge	1647	GBP -	Unknown
1254		Gaussen (A. C.) A Later Pepys: The Correspondence of Sir Wm. Weller Pepys...			GBP -	Unknown
1255		Moorhouse (E. H.) Samuel Pepys, administrator, observer, gossip...			GBP -	Unknown
1256	CHARLES II	THE DUKE OF YORK'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NAVY OFFICE		XVII CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
1257	CHARLES II	THE DUKE OF YORK'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NAVY OFFICE		XVII CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
1258	CHARLES II	THE DUKE OF YORK'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NAVY OFFICE		XVII CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
1259		Admiralty: An Account of the Names of the Lord High Admirals and Commissioners for executing that office from the year 1673		XVIII CENT.	GBP -	Unknown
1260	Pepys (S.)	Memoirs		1825	GBP -	Unknown
1261	Pepys (S.)	A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys...			GBP -	Unknown
1262		Pepys (W. C.) Genealogy of the Pepys' Family...			GBP -	Unknown
1263	Charles II, William III, etc.	A Collection of Declarations, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
1264	Charles II	State Tracts		1689; etc.	GBP -	Unknown
1265	Charles II	At the Parliament begun at Westminster...			GBP -	Unknown
1266		Portsmouth (Duchess of) Articles of High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours against the Dutchess of Portsmouth...			GBP -	Unknown
1267	PEPYS (Samuel)	A Collection of Engravings of places or people connected with him: Portraits			GBP -	Unknown
1268		PEPYS (Samuel) AND THE NAVY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. An important series of Documents...			GBP -	Unknown
1269	WREN (Matthew)	A.L. s. 1 p. 4to, to S. Pepys about the impressment of seamen, and a Doc. s.			GBP -	Unknown
1270	PEPYS (Samuel)	L. s. to the Lords of the Admiralty			GBP -	Unknown
1271	Beaumont (E.) and J. Fletcher	Works	Cambridge	1905-12	GBP -	Unknown
1272	Smith (J. T.)	Nollekens and-his Times		1828	GBP -	Unknown
1273		Green (J. P.) The Making of England...			GBP -	Unknown
1274	Brydges (Sir E.)	Excerpta Tudoriana, or Extracts from Elizabethan Literature...			GBP -	Unknown
1275		Tedder (A. W.) The Navy of the Restoration...			GBP -	Unknown
1276		Thackeray (W. M.) loose Sketches...			GBP -	Unknown
1277		Seaton (R. C.) Napoleon's Captivity in relation to Sir Hudson Lowe...			GBP -	Unknown
1278		Binns (R. W.) Catalogue of a Collection of Worcester Porcelain...			GBP -	Unknown
1279		Ralston (W. R. S.) Russian Folk-Tales...			GBP -	Unknown
1280		Blake (William) Life of		1863	GBP -	Unknown
1281		Britton (John) Autobiography...			GBP -	Unknown
1282		Burton (R. F.) Etruscan Bologna...			GBP -	Unknown
1283		Blake (Wm.) Poetical Works...			GBP -	Unknown
1284	Gay (John)	Fables, with a Life of the Author		1793	GBP -	Unknown
1285		Maitland (F. W.) Domesday Book and beyond...			GBP -	Unknown
1286	Lacroix (Paul)	Science and Literature in the Middle Ages...			GBP -	Unknown
1287		Morgan (Thos.) Romano-British Mosaic Pavements...			GBP -	Unknown
1288		Christie (W. D.) Life of A. A. Cooper...			GBP -	Unknown
1289		Kentish Garland...			GBP -	Unknown
1290		Rossetti (Christina) Goblin Market...			GBP -	Unknown
1291		Cooper (C. H. and T.) Athenae Cantabrigienses...			GBP -	Unknown
1292		Doran (J.) 'Mann' and Manners at the Court of Florence...			GBP -	Unknown
1293		Maidment (James) A Book of Scottish Pasquils...			GBP -	Unknown
1294		Spilsbury (W. H.) Verses to Friends on various occasions...			GBP -	Unknown
1295		Crowe (J. A.) and G. B. Cavalcaselle. Life and Times of Titian...			GBP -	Unknown
1296		De Quincey (Thomas) Collected Writings of	Edinburgh	1889-90	GBP -	Unknown
1297		Timperley (C. H.) Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote...			GBP -	Unknown
1298	Turner (T. H.) and J. H. Parker	Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England	Oxford	1851-9	GBP -	Unknown
1299	Jonson (Ben)	Works		1875	GBP -	Unknown
1300		Thausing (M.) Albert Durer...			GBP -	Unknown
1301		Cartwright (Julia) Madame, a Life of Henrietta, daughter of Charles I...			GBP -	Unknown

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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