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Auction Details

Auction Date: November 12, 1941 - November 12, 1941

Page Size: 975 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
501	George A. Audsley	JAPANESE ARTS. The Ornamental Arts of Japan.	London	1882-4	USD -	Unknown
502	George A. Audsley, and James L. Bowes	JAPANESE ART. Keramic Art of Japan.	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
503	JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM	The Naturalists' Library.	Edinburgh	1833-41	USD -	Unknown
504	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	D.s.	Washington	1803	USD -	Unknown
505	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	A.L.s.	Washington	1805	USD -	Unknown
506	Junius Philaenus	[JEFFERSON, THOMAS.] A Letter to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.	New York	1802	USD -	Unknown
507	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	Writings.	Washington, D. C	1907	USD -	Unknown
508	JEFFERSON, THOMAS	Writings.	Washington, D. C	1907	USD -	Unknown
509	JOHANNES XXII	Pope. Extravagantes communes [edited by Jean Chappuis].	Paris	July 31, 1513	USD -	Unknown
510	JOHANNES XXII	Pope. Extravagantes [cum vita Johannis xxii].	[Paris]	[1513]	USD -	Unknown
511	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Dictionary of the English Language.	London	1755-6	USD -	Unknown
512	JOHNSTONE, JOHN	[Natural History.]			USD -	Unknown
513	JONES, OWEN	[Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra.]	[London]	[1845]	USD -	Unknown
514	JONES, OWEN	The Grammar of Ornament.	London	circa, 1865	USD -	Unknown
515	JONSON, BEN.	The Works of Beniamin Jonson.	Imprinted at London	1616 [-40]	USD -	Unknown
516	JONSON, BEN.	The Works of Ben Jonson.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
517	JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS	Opera [Greek]. Greek and roman letters.	Basle	1544	USD -	Unknown
518	JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS	Flavii Josephi quae reperiri Potuerunt, Opera omnia Graece et Latine cum notis & nova versione ...	Amsterdam	1726	USD -	Unknown
519	[M. Le Hodey de Saultchevreuil]	JOURNAL DES ETATS GENERAUX.	Paris	1789	USD -	Unknown
520		JOURNAL DES ETATS GENERAUX, convoques par Louis xvi. le 27 Avril 1789.	Paris	1789-91	USD -	Unknown
521		JOURNAL OF INDIAN ART, THE. Hundreds of illustrations, many in color.	London	1886-1916	USD -	Unknown
522		JOURNEY TO GREAT-SALT-LAKE CITY, A. (Remy), map and engravings, 2 vols., London, 1861; Public ...	V.p.	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
523	JUSTINIAN	Institutiones [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius].	Mainz	May 23, 1476	USD -	Unknown
524	JUSTINIAN	JUSTINIAN. Inslitutiones Imperiales [edited by Jean Chappuis].	Paris	December 5, 1505	USD -	Unknown
525	JUSTINIAN	Codicis Justiniani amplissmi Argumentum.	[Colophon:] Lugduni . . .	1509	USD -	Unknown
526	JUSTINIAN	Institutiones Imperiales . . .	[Parisius]	[1511]	USD -	Unknown
527	JUSTINIAN	Infortiatum . . .	[Lugduni]	[1531-2]	USD -	Unknown
528	JUSTINIAN	Institutiones Juris Civilis, Venetiis, 1568; The Four Books of Justinian's Institutions, London ...			USD -	Unknown
529	KAEMPFER, ENGELBERT	The History of Japan . . .	London	1727	USD -	Unknown
530	William Morris	KELMSCOTT PRESS. News from Nowhere.	[Hammersmith]	[1892]	USD -	Unknown
531	[Jacobus de Voragine]	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Golden Legend.	[Hammersmith]	[1892]	USD -	Unknown
532	John Keats	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems. [Edited by F. S. Ellis.]	[Hammersmith]	[1894]	USD -	Unknown
533	A. C. Swinburne	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy.	[Hammersmith]	[1894]	USD -	Unknown
534	Percy B. Shelley	KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poetical Works.	[Hammersmith]	[1894-5]	USD -	Unknown
535	William Morris	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Well at the World's End.	[Hammersmith]	1896	USD -	Unknown
536	Geoffrey Chaucer	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.	[Hammersmith]	[1896]	USD -	Unknown
537	William Morris	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Earthly Paradise.	[Hammersmith]	[1896-7]	USD -	Unknown
538	William Morris	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs.	[Hammersmith]	[1898]	USD -	Unknown
539		KIDNAPPED (Stevenson), 1886; first published edition; Catriona (Stevenson), 1893; First Edition; The ...	London	1886-98	USD -	Unknown
540	KINGSBOROUGH, EDWARD, LORD	Antiquities of Mexico: comprising Facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics ...	London	1831-48	USD -	Unknown
541	LABORDE, ALEXANDRE DE.	Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Espagne.	Paris	1806-20	USD -	Unknown
542	LACROIX, PAUL	Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance, 1878; Directoire, Consulat ...	Paris	1878-85	USD -	Unknown
543	LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE.	A.L.s. Lafayette.	Paris	1787	USD -	Unknown
544	LANE, EDWARD W.	An Arabic-English Lexicon.	London	1863-93	USD -	Unknown
545	LANG, ANDREW	Aucassin & Nicolete.	East Aurora	1899	USD -	Unknown
546	LASCARIS, CONSTANTIN	De octo partibus orationes, etc.	[Florentiae]	[1515]	USD -	Unknown
547		LAST POEMS (E. B. Browning), London, 1862; First Edition; The Innocents Abroad (Clemens), Hartford ...			USD -	Unknown
548	LATHAM, ROBERT G.	A Dictionary of the English Language.	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
549	LAVATER, JOHN C.	Essays on Physiognomy . . .	London	1789-98	USD -	Unknown
550	LAVATER, JOHN C.	Essays on Physiognomy . . .	London	1789-98	USD -	Unknown
551	LAVATER, JOHN C.	Essays on Physiognomy . . .	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
552	LECKY, WILLIAM E. H.	Democracy and Liberty.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
553	LEE, ROBERT E.	A.L.s.	Petersburg	1864	USD -	Unknown
554	Ralph Thoresby	LEEDS, ENGLAND. Loidis and Elemete; or, An Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described in those ...	Leeds	1816	USD -	Unknown
555	LELAND, JOHN	Itinerary in England and Wales.	London	1907-10	USD -	Unknown
556	LEMERY, NICCOLO	Farmacope Universale. Tradotta dalla Lingua Francese.	Venice	1742	USD -	Unknown
557	LEO I.	Sermones, &c. [Edited by Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria]	[Rome]	[1470]	USD -	Unknown
558	LEPIDUS	Lepidi Comici Veteris Philodoxios Fabvla ex antiquitate eruta ab. Aldo Manvccio.	Lvcae	1588	USD -	Unknown
559		LETTERS Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, 4 vols ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
560	LIBRI DE RE RVSTICA	M. Catonis . . . M. Terentii Varronis . . . L. Ivnii Moderati Colvmellae . . . Palladii . . .	[Venetiis]	1533	USD -	Unknown
561	LIPSIUS, JUSTIUS	Lovanivm, . . . With two folding plates, one being of Louvain, pictorial device on title-page and on ...	Antverpiae	1605	USD -	Unknown
562	LIVIUS, TITUS	Prima Decas.	[Italy]	September 21, 1456	USD -	Unknown
563	LIVIUS, TITUS	Historiae Romanae Decades. Roman letter.		October 23, 1480, 1470	USD -	Unknown
564	LIVIUS, TITUS	Historiae Romanae decades. Roman letter.	[Venice]	[1506?]	USD -	Unknown
565	LIVIUS, TITUS	Deche di Tito Livio Padovano delle Historie Romane Gia tradotte da M. Iacopo Nardi . . .	Venetia	1575	USD -	Unknown
566	LIVIUS, TITUS	Historiarum ab urbe condita Libri qui supersunt . . . ad optimas editiones castigati, accurante Tho ...	Edinburgh	1751	USD -	Unknown
567	LOCKE, JOHN	Works.	London	1714	USD -	Unknown
568	LODGE, EDMUND	Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.	London	1821-34	USD -	Unknown
569	LOUDON, J. C.	Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
570	LUCIANUS	Vera historia [With other tracts. Translated by various hands.]	[Venetiis]	[1500]	USD -	10.00
571	LUCRETIUS	De Rerum Natura.	Londini	1712	USD -	Unknown
572	LUCRETIUS	De Rerum Natura, 1824; Another edition, 1832.	Londini	1824-32	USD -	Unknown
573		LUXEMBOURG GALLERY. La Galerie du Palais du Luxembourg.	[Paris:]	1710	USD -	Unknown
574	LYCOPHRON	[Portion of title in Greek.]	[Basileae]	[1546]	USD -	Unknown
575	LYCOPHRON	Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra . . .	Oxonii	1702	USD -	Unknown
576	LYSIAS	[Portion of title in Greek.] Orationes et Fragmenta.	Londini	1739	USD -	Unknown
577	MACAULAY, THOMAS B, LORD	The History of England from the Accession of James ii.	London	1849-61	USD -	Unknown
578	MACROBIUS	Macrobij interpretatio in somnium Scipionis a Cicerone confictum . . .	[Floretiae]	[1515]	USD -	Unknown
579		MAGIAE NATURALIS (Pora Neapolitano), Antwerpiae, 1562; Musaei opusculum de Herone & Leandro [ ...			USD -	Unknown
580	MAITTAIRE, MICHAEL	Annales Typographici ab Artis Inventae Origine ad Annum MD.	Hagae-Comitum	1719-25	USD -	Unknown
581		MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, 12 vols., 1884-90; The ...	Manchester	1884-92	USD -	Unknown
582	MANILIUS, MARCUS	Astronomicon.	Rome	October 26, 1484	USD -	Unknown
583	Marcus T. Cicero	MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. De Officiis.	Probably Italian	late xv or early xvi century	USD -	Unknown
584		MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.			USD -	Unknown
585	J. O. Westwood	MANUSCRIPTS. Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria.	London	1843-5	USD -	Unknown
586	W. Wright	MANUSCRIPTS. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum.	[London]	1871-2	USD -	Unknown
587		MANUSCRIPTS. Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts.	London	1908	USD -	Unknown
588	MANUTIUS, ALDUS	De literis graecis: ac diphthongis: & quedmodu ad nos veniant . . .	[Paris:]	[1513]	USD -	Unknown
589		MAPS. Four Colored Maps of Yorkshire, with letterpress.	N.p	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
590		MARBLES AND TERRACOTTAS. A Description of the collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, 7 ...	London	1812-35	USD -	Unknown
591	MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER	Elegans, Illvstris, et Facilis Rervm, Praesertim Britannicarvm, et Aliarvm Obiter . . .	[London]	1567	USD -	Unknown
592	MATTHIOLI, PIER ANDREA	I Discorsi nelle Sei Libri de Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia Medicinale.	Venice	1568	USD -	Unknown
593	MAUCLAIR, CAMILLE	Les Miniatures de l'Empire et de la Restauration.	Paris	[1913]	USD -	Unknown
594	J. Baptista Van Helmont	MEDICAL. Ortvs Medicinae, id est Initia Physicae inavdita . . .	Lugduni	1767	USD -	Unknown
595		MEDICINE. Das Buch der Cirurgia des Hieronymus Brunschwig. Strassburg, Johann Gruninger, 1497.	Munchen	1911	USD -	Unknown
596		MEMORIALS OF CAMBRIDGE (Wright and Jones), 2 vols., London, 1845; Memorials of Oxford (Ingram), 3 ...			USD -	Unknown
597	MENDES, CATULLE	Hesperus.	Paris	1904	USD -	Unknown
598		MERCURIUS seu HERMES TRIGMEGISTUS, M. [Portion of title in Greek.]	Parisiis	1554	USD -	Unknown
599	MILLER, HUGH	First Impressions of England and Its People, 1869; The Cruise of the Betsey, 1879; Essays, 1869; and ...	Edinburgh	1869-81	USD -	Unknown
600	MILLER, JOHN	An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus.	London	1777	USD -	Unknown

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