Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS DUPLICATES FROM THE LIBRARY AT LONGLEAT HOUSE The Property of the Bath Settled Estates (sold by order of the Trustees), LEO,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 11, 1979 - June 11, 1979
Page Size: 180 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ACKERMANN (R.) THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. PETER'S WESTMINSTER

1812

GBP - 420.00
2 ADDISON (JOSEPH) The works Birmingham

1761

GBP - 220.00
3 AMES (JOSEPH), WILLIAM HERBERT, AND THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES

[1810]-19

GBP - 1,200.00
4 ANDREWS (H. C.) COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS

1802-05

GBP - 3,800.00
5 ARISTIDES (AELIUS) AOROI Florence

20 May 1517

GBP - 950.00
6 ARISTOPHANES COMOEDIA ENOVEM Venice

15 July 1498

GBP - 6,000.00
7 ASHMOLE (ELIAS) THE INSTITUTION, LAWS & CEREMONIES OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER

1672

GBP - 300.00
8 ATHENAEUS edited by Aldus Manutius and M. Musurus EDITIO PRINCEPS Venice

August 1514

GBP - 1,700.00
9 ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS) AND JAMES WALKER A PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE RUSSIANS

GBP - 1,600.00
10 AUBREY (JOHN) The natural history and antiquities of the county of Surrey

1719

GBP - 290.00
11 AUDEBERT (JEAN BAPTISTE) AND LOUIS JEAN PIERRE VIEILLOT OISEAUX DORES OU A REFLETS METALLIQUES Paris

1802

GBP - 12,000.00
12 Barret (William) The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol

[1789]

GBP - 150.00
13 BLACKWELL (ELIZABETH) A CURIOUS HERBAL containing five hundred of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick

1737-39

GBP - 4,000.00
14 BLOMEFIELD (FRANCIS) AND CHARLES PARKIN AN ESSAY TOWARDS A TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK Fersfield and Lynn

1739-75

GBP - 250.00
15 BORLASE (WILLIAM) Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Stilly Oxford

1756

GBP - 300.00
16 BOYLE (Hon. ROBERT) THE WORKS

1772

GBP - 380.00
17 BURNEY (CHARLES) A GENERAL HISTORY OF MUSIC

1789

GBP - 460.00
18 Brand (John) The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne

1789

GBP - 90.00
19 BRIDGES (JOHN) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE [edited] by Peter Whalley Oxford

1791

GBP - 420.00
20 BRUCE (JAMES) TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE Edinburgh

1790

GBP - 450.00
21 BURCKHARDT (JOHN LEWIS) TRAVELS IN NUBIA

1819

GBP - 320.00
22 BURCKHARDT (JOHN LEWIS) TRAVELS IN SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND

1822

GBP - 420.00
23 CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS) [OPERA] QUAE EXTANT

1712

GBP - 450.00
24 CAMDEN (WILLIAM) Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

1717

GBP - 220.00
25 CAMDEN (WILLIAM) BRITANNIA: or, a chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England

1789

GBP - 750.00
26 CARY (JOHN) NEW AND CORRECT ENGLISH ATLAS

1787

GBP - 280.00
27 CHAUNCY (Sir JOHN) THE HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES OF HERTFORDSHIRE

1700

GBP - 250.00
28 CLUTTERBUCK (ROBERT) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD

1815-17

GBP - 500.00
29 Collins (Arthur) Historical collections of the noble families of Cavendishe

1752

USD - Not Sold
30 COLLINS (DAVID) AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES

1798-1802

GBP - 1,500.00
31 COLLINSON (JOHN) The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset

1796

USD - Not Sold
32 COLONNE (GUIDO DELLE) THE AUNCIENT HISTORIE and only trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans

1555

GBP - 350.00
33 COOK (Captain JAMES) [FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD VOYAGES]

1773-77-84

GBP - 4,600.00
34 COTMAN (JOHN SELL) AND DAWSON TURNER ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF NORMANDY

1822

GBP - 340.00
35 COUCHE (JACQUES) GALERIE DU PALAIS ROYAL gravee d'apres les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent Paris

1786-1808

GBP - 600.00
36 CROZE-MAGNAN (S. C.) AND OTHERS LE MUSEE FRANCAIS Paris

1803-09

GBP - 1,400.00
37 Dale (Samuel) The history and antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt

1730

GBP - 130.00
38 DALLAWAY (JAMES) CONSTANTINOPLE ANCIENT AND MODERN

1797

GBP - 200.00
39 DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM) A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO INDIA

1810

GBP - 1,900.00
40 DART (JOHN) Westmonasterium

1742

GBP - 60.00
41 DENON (DOMINIQUE VIVANT, Baron) VOYAGE DANS LA BASSE ET LA HAUTE EGYPTE Paris

1802

GBP - 800.00
42 DESFONTAINES (RENE LOUICHE) FLORA ATLANTICA sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante Paris

[1800]

GBP - 650.00
43 DESMAREST (ANSELME-GAETAN) HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES TANGARAS Paris

1805 [-07]

GBP - 6,500.00
44 DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN AND PICTURESQUE TOUR IN FRANCE AND Germany

1821

GBP - 400.00
45 DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON

1817

GBP - 300.00
46 Dibdin (Thomas Frognall) Bibliomania; or book madness: a bibliographical romance

1811

GBP - 120.00
47 DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) BIBLIOTHECA SPENCERIANA

1814-22

GBP - 500.00
48 DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) An introduction to the ... Greek and Latin classics

1827

GBP - 220.00
49 DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL) An introduction to the ... Greek and Latin classics

1827

GBP - 100.00
50 Dodsworth (William) An historical account of the episcopal see, and cathedral church Salisbury

1814

GBP - 200.00
51 DODWELL (EDWARD) A CLASSICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL TOUR THROUGH GREECE

1819

GBP - 480.00
52 DONOVAN (EDWARD) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES

1802-06 [-08]

GBP - 1,400.00
53 DONOVAN (EDWARD) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS

1792-1813

GBP - 1,600.00
54 DRAKE (FRANCIS) Eboracum: or the history and antiquities of the city of York

1736

GBP - 480.00
55 DUGDALE (Sir WILLIAM) THE ANTIQUITIES OF WARWICKSHIRE

1730

GBP - 300.00
56 DUGDALE (Sir WILLIAM) THE HISTORY OF IMBANKING AND DRAYNING OF DIVERS FENNS AND MARSHES

1662

GBP - 420.00
57 EDWARDS (GEORGE) A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS

1743-64

GBP - 6,000.00
58 EURIPEDES TRAGOEDIAE SEPTENDECIM Venice

February 1503

GBP - 1,600.00
59 EYTON (ROBERT WILLIAM) ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE

1854 [1853]-60

GBP - 660.00
60 Ferrey (Benjamin) and Edward Wedlake Brayley The antiquities of the priory of Christ-Church

1834

GBP - 120.00
61 [FORBES (JAMES)] SALICTUM WOBURNENSE: or, a catalogue of willows

1829

GBP - 1,150.00
62 [FORSYTH (ROBERT)] The beauties of Scotland Edinburgh

1805-08

GBP - 110.00
63 Fuller (Thomas) The church-history-of Britain

1655

GBP - 120.00
64 Fuller (Thomas) Ths history of the worthies of England

1662

GBP - 120.00
65 Gage (John) The history and antiquities of Hengrave

1822

USD - Not Sold
66 Gibson (William Sidney) The history of the monastery founded at Tyne-mouth

1846-47

GBP - 400.00
67 GOULD (JOHN) THE BIRDS OF EUROPE

1837

GBP - 17,000.00
68 GREEN (VALENTINE) The history and antiquities of the city and suburbs of Worcester

1796

GBP - 170.00
69 GROSE (FRANCIS) THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES

1773-1811

GBP - 900.00
70 GUNTON (SIMON) The history of the church of Peterburgh

1686

GBP - 100.00
71 HAKLUYT (RICHARD) HAKLUYT'S COLLECTION OF THE EARLY VOYAGES

1809-12

GBP - 550.00
72 HAMILTON (Sir WILLIAM) CAMPI PHLEGRAEI Naples

1776-79

GBP - 6,200.00
73 HARRADEN (R. B.) CANTABRIGIA DEPICTA

1809

GBP - 380.00
74 HASTED (EDWARD) THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT Canterbury

1778-99

GBP - 1,000.00
75 [HELYOT (PIERRE) AND MAXIMILIEN BULLOT] HISTOIRE DES ORDRES MONASTIQUES Paris

1714-19

GBP - 400.00
76 Herbert (W.) Antiquities of the Inns of Court and Chancery

1804

GBP - 90.00
77 HOARE (Sir RICHARD COLT) AND OTHERS THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF SOUTH [NORTH] WILTSHIRE

GBP - 2,600.00
78 HOARE (Sir RICHARD COLT) Journal of a tour in Ireland

1807

GBP - 300.00
79 HOARE (Sir RICHARD COLT) MONASTIC REMAINS OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES AT WITHAM

1824

GBP - 240.00
80 H[OLLAND] (H[ENRY]) HERWOLOGIA ANGLICA hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliquot Anglorum

1620

GBP - 420.00
81 HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) OPERA

1792-93

GBP - 420.00
82 Horne (Thomas Hartwell) An introduction to the study of bibliography

1814

GBP - 100.00
83 HORSLEY (JOHN) BRITANNIA ROMANA

1732

GBP - 160.00
84 HOUEL (JEAN) VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DES ISLES DE SICILE Paris

1782-87

GBP - 2,600.00
85 HUTCHINS (JOHN) THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET

1796-1815

GBP - 1,000.00
86 HUTCHINSON (WILLIAM) The history and antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham

GBP - 100.00
87 Hutchinson (William) The history of the county of Cumberland Carlisle

1794

GBP - 150.00
88 HUTCHINSON (WILLIAM) A view of Northumberland with an excursion to the abbey of Mailross in Scotland Newcastle

1778

GBP - 90.00
89 INGRAM (JAMES) MEMORIALS OF OXFORD Oxford

1837

GBP - 380.00
90 IRELAND (SAMUEL) [WORKS]

1792-1800

GBP - 450.00
91 JONES (THEOPHILUS) A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK

1805-09

GBP - 190.00
92 KNELLER (Sir GODFREY) THE KIT-CAT CLUB

1735

USD - Not Sold
93 KNIP (Madame ANTIONETTE PAULINE JACQUELINE) and C. J. THEMMINCK LES PIGEONS Paris

[1809]-11

GBP - 7,000.00
94 LABILLARDIERE (JACQUES JULIEN HOUTON DE) NOVAE HOLLANDIAE PLANTARUM SPECIMEN Paris

1804-06

GBP - 2,200.00
95 LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE) FABLES CHOISIES Paris

1755-59

GBP - 8,000.00
96 [LATHAM (JOHN)] A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF BIRDS

GBP - 2,400.00
97 LAURENT (HENRI) LE MUSEE NAPOLEON [ROYAL] Paris

1812-18

GBP - 480.00
98 LESSON (RENE PRIMEVERE) HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OISEAUX-MOUCHES

GBP - 1,900.00
99 LESSON (RENE PRIMEVERE) HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OISEAUX-MOUCHES

GBP - 950.00
100 LAVATER (JOHANN CASPAR) ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY

1789-98

GBP - 340.00
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR