Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. ILLUMINATED & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ETC., 26Jul1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 26, 1937 - July 26, 1937
Page Size: 664 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Pope A. The Temple of Fame : A Vision

1715

GBP - 0.10
102 Pope A. Of the Use of Riches, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst

1732

GBP - 0.10
103 Pope A. An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham [Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men]

1733

GBP - 0.10
104 POPE A. AN ESSAY ON MAN, Part I, An Essay on Man, Epistle II, An Essay on Man, Epistle III, An Essay on Man, Epistle IV

1733, 1734

GBP - 37.00
105 Pope A. An Essay on Man.[The 4 Parts in 1 vol.)

1734

GBP - 1.00
106 Pope A. Sober Advice from Horace to the Young Gentle-men about Town : Imitated in the Manner of Mr. Pope

1734

GBP - Not Sold
107 Pope A. The First Satire of the second Book of Horace ... to which is added The Second Satire of the same Book

1734

GBP - 0.10
108 Pope A. Of the Characters of Women : An Epistle to a Lady

1735

GBP - 1.05
109 Pope A. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Bight. A Dialogue Something like Horace

1738

GBP - 0.10
110 RABELAIS FRANCOIS WORKS BOOKS I-V

1653-53-93-94-94

GBP - 11.00
111 Rabelais Francois Oeuvres, accompagnées d'une Notice par Ch. Marty-Laveaux Paris

1868-70

GBP - 6.05
112 RICHARDSON SAMUEL WORKS, Clarissa. or, the History of a Young Lady, History of Sir Charles Grandison, Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ... With Observations by Anna L. Barbauld

1741-42, 1748, 1755, 1804, 1741-1804

GBP - 125.00
113 SCOTT SIR WALTER WAVERLEY NOVELS, Ivanhoe

1816, 1818, 1820, 1814-32

GBP - 14.00
114 Scrope William The Art of Deer Stalking, Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed

1838, 1843, 1838-43

GBP - 5.10
115 Shakespeare Wm. Works

1902-05

GBP - 5.15
116 Shakespeare Wm. Julius Caesar, A Tragedy

n.d. before 1691

GBP - 3.00
117 Shakespeare Wm. Othello, The Moor of Venice

1705

GBP - 2.00
118 SHELLEY P. B. QUEEN MAB

1813

GBP - 8.00
119 SHELLEY P. B. THE CENCI. A Tragedy in Five Acts Italy, Leghorn

1819

GBP - 26.00
120 Shelley P. B. Miscellaneous Poems

1826

GBP - 0.10
121 Sheridan R. B. The School for Scandal Dublin

n.d.

GBP - 4.15
122 Sheridan R. B. The Rivals, A Comedy

1775

GBP - 5.00
123 Sheridan R. B. The Critic or a Tragedy Rehearsed

1781

GBP - Not Sold
124 Sheridan R. B. A Trip to Scarborough. A Comedy

1781

GBP - 0.15
125 Sheridan R. B. The Duenna : A Comic Opera

1794

GBP - Not Sold
126 SIDNEY SIR PHILIP THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA, WRITTEN BY SIR PHILIPPE SIDNEI

1590

GBP - 540.00
127 Smollett Tobias Travels through Prance and Italy

1766

GBP - 0.15
128 J. ADDISON AND SIR R. STEELE SPECTATOR (THE)

March 1. 1711 to Dec. 6th 1712

GBP - 40.00
129 SPENSER EDMUND THE FAERIE QUEENE, Disposed into twelve bookes, Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

1596

GBP - 24.00
130 Spenser E. The Shepheards Calender: Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues, proportionable to the twelve Moneths

1597

GBP - 10.10
131 Mr. Yorick STERNE (LAURENCE) A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY

1768

GBP - 31.00
132 Surtees R. S. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Handley Cross

1853, n.d.

GBP - 2.02
133 Swift Dean J. A Tale of a Tub ... to which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library

1704

GBP - 15.10
134 Swift Dean J. A Short Character of His Ex. T. E. of W. L. L. of I [Earl of Wharton]

1711

GBP - 1.05
135 SWIFT DEAN J. TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

1726

GBP - 5.05
136 Swift Dean J. On Poetry: A Rapsody

1733

GBP - 2.15
137 Swift Dean J. A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, according to the most Polite Mode and Method

1738

GBP - 2.00
138 Swinburne A. C. Atalanta in Calydon

1865

GBP - 1.15
139 Swinburne A. C. Poems and Ballads, Songs before Sunrise

1866

GBP - 0.10
140 Tennyson Lord In Memoriam

1850

GBP - 2.05
141 Thackeray William Vanity Fair

1848

GBP - 3.10
142 Thackeray Wm. Pendennis, The Virginians, The Newcomes

1849-50, 1858-59, 1855

GBP - 2.15
143 Voltaire P. M. A. de Candide ou L'Optimisme Traduit de l'Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph

1759

GBP - 1.10
144 Voltaire F. M. A. de, Gramont Duc de Le Siecle de Louis XIV, Memoires, Lettres de Mlle Ninon de l'Enclos au Marquis de Sevigné Berlin, Amsterdam

1751, 1716, 1777

GBP - 2.10
145 White Gilbert The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1789

GBP - 4.05
146 WORDSWORTH WILLIAM AND S. T. COLERIDGE LYRICAL BALLADS London

1798

GBP - 14.00
147 Wordsworth William Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems

1835

GBP - 1.05
148 Wycherley William The Plain Dealer. A Comedy

1677

GBP - 1.10
149 LIVY. ROMISCHE HISTORIE USZ TITO LIUIO GEZOGEN

1509

GBP - 5.05
150 MATTHAEUS DE CKACOVIA. TRACTATUS RATIONIS ET CON-SCIENTIAE DE SUMPTIONE PABULI SALUTIFERI CORPORIS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI

1459

GBP - 290.00
151 HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO AD USUM SARUM, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

c. 1530

GBP - 120.00
152 HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM PARISIENSEM CUM CALENDARIO, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 65.00
153 Bonaventura Saint Breviloquium de fide catholica, MANU-SCRIPT ON VELLUM, COLOPHON, contractions amplified : Explicit breuiloquium de fide catholica. editum a bonauentura cordigero

1405

GBP - 2.10
154 À Kempis T. Imitatione di Cristo Paris

1721

GBP - 0.08
155 Binding. Etrennes Mignonnes pour l'an 1759 Liège

1759

GBP - Not Sold
156 HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM ROMANUM, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 28.00
157 HORAE B.V.M. SECUNDUM USUM ROMANUM, CUM CALENDARIO, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 40.00
158 Horae B.V.M. ad usum Romanum, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 13.00
159 HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, WITH CALENDAR, USE OF TOUL, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 100.00
160 HOUES OF THE VIRGIN, WITH CALENDAR, USE OF ROME [preceded by Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Spirit, etc.] ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM in a neat gothic script in red and black

GBP - 95.00
161 GOSPEL LECTIONARY FOR HOLY WEEK, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 115.00
162 ANTIPHONALE, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP - 52.00
163 Booke (The) of Common Prayer ... for the Use of the Church of Scotland Edinburgh

1637

GBP - 2.00
164 Book (The) of Common Prayer ... abridged for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands, Contemporary MS. Transcript of Isaac Watts' Psalms and Hymns

1795

GBP - 1.15
165 Almanach Royal, 1782 : Etat de la marine, 1782 Paris

1782

GBP - Not Sold
166 Almanach des Héroides, contes, fables, etc. Amsterdam

1772

GBP - 5.15
167 Art of Playing on the Violin (The) London

c.1740

GBP - 2.00
168 BALDINUS C. PINAX ICONICUS seu veterum sepulchralis ritus Lugduni

1556

GBP - 2.10
169 Camstrup N. J. Journaal van's Oostindische compagnies Schip Blydorp Amsterdam

1735

GBP - 3.15
170 Caylus Comte de Mémoires de l'académie des Colporteurs

1748

GBP - 1.15
171 Cohen H. Guide de l'amateur de livres à vignettes Paris

1880

GBP - 0.12
172 Rogg G., Hollar W. Collecion general de los Trages que en la actualidad se usan en Espana, Encyclopaedia, oder Schau-Bühne curieuser Verstellungen, Life of Abraham Augsberg

1801, 1726

GBP - 6.15
173 Combe W. The English Dance of Death

1815-14

GBP - 2.00
174 Etrennes aux dames, almanach pour 1778, engraved plates, CONTEMPORARY NEEDLEWORK BINDING Amsterdam

1778

GBP - 3.10
175 Etrennes Galantes des promenades et amusemens de Paris Paris

1780

GBP - 3.10
176 Geertzen Christian Den Trygge Himmel-Vey Eller en Kort Bonne-Bog, gothic letter Copenhagen

1587

GBP - 1.05
177 Glen Jean de Des Habits, moeurs, cérémonies, etc. Liège

1601

GBP - 1.18
178 Gravelot H. et Cochin Almanach iconologique 1769 et 1775 (Les Muses : Les vertues et les vices) Paris

1769-75

GBP - 5.10
179 Gravelot H. et Cochin Almanach iconologique, année 1769, Les muses; idem, 1772, L'Homme; idem, 1777, Les vertues et les vices Paris

1769-77

GBP - 11.10
180 GRAVELOT H. ET COCHIN C. N. ICONOLOGIE PAR FIGURES, OU Traité complete des allégories, emblêmes, etc. Paris

c. 1790

GBP - 5.00
181 Heinsius Dan Lof-sanck van Iesus Christus Amsterdam

1622

GBP - 2.00
182 Heyden Johann von der Schöne ausserlassene Figuren

1618

GBP - 1.00
183 Hollar Wenceslaus Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus, or the Severall Habits of English. Women

1640

GBP - 2.10
184 J. Clark HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM ROMANUM Paris

1499

GBP - 15.00
185 HORAE. ROUEN USE. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Rouan au long sans requerir. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM Paris

1508

GBP - 62.00
186 Houwaert J. B. Sommare beschryvinghe väde triumphelycke Imcomst vanden Aerts-hertoge Matthias binnen die Princelyke stadt van Brussele (18 Jan. 1578)

1579

GBP - 8.10
187 LA FONTAINE J. DE CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS Amsterdam

1762

GBP - 52.00
188 Loyola St. Ignatius de Vita Beati Ignatii Loiolae Rome

1609

GBP - 3.00
189 Missale ad consuetudinem fratum Predicatorum Paris

1529

GBP - 4.05
190 BABELAIS FRANÇOIS LA PLAISSANTE ET IOYEUSE HISTOBYE du grand Gargantua / Second Livre de Pantagruel ... / Tiers Livre des Faictz .../ Le Quart Livre des Faictz .../ Valence

1547

GBP - 30.00
191 BESTIF DE LA BRETONNE N. E. LES PARISIENNES, OU xl caractères généreaux pris dans les moeurs actuelles

1787

GBP - 7.10
192 SCHÖN NEWES MODELBUCH oblong, Frankfurt

1629

GBP - 18.00
193 PIIs M. de CHANSONS NOUVELLES Paris

1785

GBP - 10.00
194 VOLTAIRE F. M. AROUET DE LA PUCELLE D'ORLEANS Genève

1777

GBP - 5.00
195 Wight J., Lever C. Sunday in London, Sportascrapiana, by celebrated Sportsmen, Davenport Dunn

1833, 1867, 1859

GBP - 1.00
196 Arnold Matthew Poems

1869

GBP - 6.15
197 Greenaway Kate Marigold Garden

n.d.

GBP - 2.00
198 Dickens Charles The Cricket on the Hearth

1846

GBP - Not Sold
199 DICKENS CHARLES BARDELL AND PICKWICK / MR. CHOPS, THE DWARF / MR. BOB SAWYER'S PARTY / Three Readings / each in one chapter / Privately Printed /

1866

GBP - 400.00
200 A Decree of Star Chamber concerning Printing, 1637

1884

GBP - 1.00
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