Sothebys: The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven, L22425, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- 05/18/2022 - 05/18/2022
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | John Abbot and James Edward Smith | The natural history of the rare lepidopterous insects of Georgia, 1797, 2 volumes | London | 1797 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 47,880.00 |
2 | Eleazar Albin | A natural history of birds, 1731-1734, 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt | London | 1731-1734 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
3 | Eleazar Albin | A natural history of English insects, 1735, contemporary calf | London | 1735 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,276.00 |
4 | Eleazar Albin | A natural history of spiders, and other curious insects, 1736, contemporary calf gilt | London | 1736 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
5 | Eleazar Albin | A natural history of birds [and] A natural history of English insects, 1738-1749, 4 volumes, contemporary calf | London | 1738-1740 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
6 | William Alexander | Picturesque Representations... Chinese, Austrians, Russians, Turks, English, 1814, 5 volumes | London | 1814 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
7 | Henry Andrews | The botanist's repository, London, 1797 [-1812], 10 volumes, green armorial morocco gilt | London | 1797-1812 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
8 | Audebert and Viellot | Oiseaux dorés ou a reflets métalliques, Paris, 1802, 2 volumes, contemporary russia | Paris | 1800-1802 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 9,450.00 |
9 | John James Audubon and John Bachman | The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, New York, 1845-1848, 3 volumes | New York | 1845-1848 | GBP 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 | GBP 201,600.00 |
10 | Jacques Bailly | Diverses fleurs mises en boucquets, Paris, circa 1670 | Paris | circa 1670 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 |
11 | Jean-Baptiste Barla | Flore illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Iconographie des orchidées, Nice, 1868 | Nice | 1868 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
12 | James Bateman | The orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala, London, 1843 | London | 1843 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 52,920.00 |
13 | Franz Bauer | Illustrations of orchidaceous plants, 1830-1838 | London | 1830-1838 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
14 | William Beebe | A monograph of the pheasants, 1918-1922, 4 volumes | London | 1918-1922 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
15 | John Whitchurch Bennett | A Selection of... Fishes... of Ceylon... third edition, 1841 | London | 1841 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 |
16 | Lady Harriet Bentinck | An album of flower drawings, mid-nineteenth century | mid-nineteenth century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 | |
17 | Jean-Pierre Bergeret | Phytonomatotechnie universelle, Paris, 1783-1784, 2 volumes, contemporary calf | Paris | 1783-1784 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 |
18 | Abbé Lorenzo Berlèse | Iconographie du genre camellia, Paris, [1839]-1841-43 | Paris | 1839-1841-1843 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 21,420.00 |
19 | Adolf Bernhard Meyer and L.W. Wiglesworth | The birds of Celebes, 1898, 2 volumes | Berlin | 1898 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,788.00 |
20 | Friedrich Justin Bertuch | Die Rosen-arten nach Natur, 1804, contemporary morocco portfolio | Legations Raths, | 1804 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 50,400.00 |
21 | Pancrace Bessa et al. | An album of botanical drawings by Bessa et al. from the collection of the Duchesse de Berry | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 163,800.00 | ||
22 | Watercolour drawings by Lodge, Wolf, Huggins and Bright, 2 volumes, 1820-1899 | 1820-1899 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 68,040.00 | ||
23 | A portfolio of ornithological drawings, [circa 1790] | circa 1790 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 37,800.00 | ||
24 | Frans Ernst Blaauw | A monograph of the cranes, Leiden, 1897, original pictorial cloth gilt | Leiden; London | 1897 | GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
25 | Karl Ludwig Blume | Flora Javae, 1828-1858; Rumphia, 1835-1848, together 8 volumes (bound in 7), green half morocco | Brussels: | 1828-1836 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 40,320.00 |