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 ILLUMINATED & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ETC., 26Jul1937,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
397 COLERIDGE S. T. A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

13 May, 1796

GBP - 6.10
398 DOWNING Sir Geo Soldier and Diplomat Cambridge (Mass.)

8th June, 1668, 1806

GBP - 4.10
399 THACKERAY W. M. A. L. initials

GBP - 8.00
400 THACKERAY Wm. A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

31 Dec. 1862

GBP - Not Sold
401 WESLEY Rev. John A.L.s. (Author Letter signed) Wycombe

7 Nov. 1768

GBP - 20.00
402 WESLEY J. A. L. s. 1 p. London

21 Dec. 1779

GBP - 10.10
403 WESLEY J. A. L..s. Bristol

17 Sept. 1788

GBP - 22.00
404 WESLEY J. A. L..s. Cork

May 27, 1769

GBP - 16.10
405 ZOLA Emile A. L. s. 1882-1901

GBP - 4.05
406 ZOLA E. Fine A. L. s. Medan

24 May, 1884

GBP - 3.05
407 KIPLING Rudyard, BRIDGES Robert Two typed letters signed, A. L. s., 1916, A. Conan Doyle, A. L. s.; A. C. Benson

GBP - 2.15
408 KIPLING Rudyard A very fine autograph poem "The Heritage," signed

GBP - 34.00
409 GREENAWAY Kate A Series of 15 A. L. s. and 3 A. N. s., Original Pen-and-ink Drawing by Kate Greenway of a girl walking in the wind

29 May 1891-18 June 1894

GBP - 17.00
410 SWINBURNE A. C. An important. Series of seven A. L. s.

1876, 1871

GBP - 5.00
411 Swinburne A. C. Brechtheus. A Tragedy

1876

GBP - Not Sold
412 BEACONSPIELD (Earl of) Benjamin Disraeli morocco

GBP - 5.10
413 DRINKWATEE John MARY STUART, A PLAY, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT in pencil

GBP - 7.10
414 Morocco Album in which the letters and papers catalogued below have been kept

GBP - 0.10
415 MARSHAM R. Ten A. L. s.

1790

GBP - 7.10
416 WHITE Thomas Thirteen A. L. s., 1745/88

GBP - 0.10
417 BARRINGTON Daines, BUTCHER R., FAWKE R., COOKWORTHY W., MORGAN James A. L. s., Bedford (Duchess of) A. L. s. Peterborough

July 21, 1776, 1790, 1747, 1774

GBP - 1.15
418 WHITE Gilbert A.L. (Author Letter)

Jan. 6, 1787

GBP - 0.10
419 WHITE Gilbert A.L.s. (Author Letter signed)

April, 1785

GBP - 1.05
420 WHITE Gilbert Auto. Account of the White Family from 1601-1664

GBP - 0.10
421 WHITE Gilbert Auto. MS.

GBP - 1.15
422 WHITE Gilbert Concluding portion of Auto. MS., "For ponds and stews were multiplyed in the times of Popery, that the affluent might enjoy some variety at their tables on fast-days.

July, 1787

GBP - 1.05
423 WHITE (Gilbert), Inventory of the residue of Gilbert White's Estate

1787, 1713, 1793

GBP - 1.10
424 WHITE Gilbert A.L. (Author Letter) Tyfield

March 9, 1775

GBP - 4.00
425 WHITE Gilbert A.L.s. (Author Letter signed) Selborne

Aug. 11, 1786

GBP - 1.00
426 WHITE Gilbert Auto. MS., l 1/2

GBP - 2.10
427 WHITE Gilbert Auto. MS., 1 p.

GBP - 1.15
428 WHITE Gilbert Auto. page of Receipts for payments to John Stevens

1769

GBP - 1.10
429 WHITE Gilbert Auto. Memorandum concerning Thomas Holt

GBP - 1.10
430 WHITE Gilbert Accounts as Executor of Thos Holt

1752

GBP - 1.05
431 WHITE Gilbert A. L. s. "Gil. White" Seleburne

Jan. 12, 1785

GBP - 7.00
432 WHITE Gilbert A Meteorological Diary for Dec. 1782, kept at a village 50 miles S.W. of London, in a woodland, hilly district, and up at the head of rivulets that run into the Thames at Weybridge

Nov. 29, 1783

GBP - 8.10
433 WHITE Gilbert THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. A very fine Autograph Manuscript, Introduction "Advertisement" to his famous work

GBP - 62.00
434 WHITE Gilbert Grandfather of the famous Naturalist, A. L. s. 1 p.

GBP - 0.10
435 The Book of Ruth

1923

GBP - 3.05
436 Quarles Francis The Shepherds Oracles

1646

GBP - 0.10
437 Dryden John Threnodia Augustalis

1685

GBP - Not Sold
438 New Testament

1602

GBP - Not Sold
439 Missale Carthusiense Paris

1541

GBP - 0.15
440 BREVIARUM ORDINIS PRÆMONSTRATENSIUM. PARS HIEMALIS, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 269 ll. Flemish

GBP - 3.00
441 BINDING. The Country-Parson's Advice to his Parishioners, CONTEMPORARY BLACK MOROCCO GILT, THE SIDES TOOLED TO AN ELABORATE PATTERN COMPOSED OP DRAWER-HANDLE STAMPS, FLOWERS, ETC., G.E.

1680

GBP - 4.15
442 Chaucer Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales

1929-31

GBP - 10.15
443 Chaucer Geoffrey Troilus and Criseyde

1927

GBP - 8.10
444 Chrysostomus Johannes Homiliæ super Johannem, 193 ll.

1486

GBP - 3.05
445 Casali Ubertinus de Arbor Vitæ Crucifixæ Jesu Venice

12 March, 1485

GBP - 2.05
446 Gobius Johannes Scala Coeli Lübeck

1476

GBP - 4.15
447 CUNNINGHAM WILLIAM, Doctor in Physiche THE COSMO-GRAPHICAL GLASSE conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Georgraphie, Hydrographie, or Nauigation

1566

GBP - 88.00
448 Mr. Yorick STERNE (LAURENCE) A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY

1768

GBP - 76.00
449 Markham G., Prior M. Markham's Maister-Peece, Poems on Several Occasions

1651, 1725

GBP - 0.10
450 Tracts. A Brief Account of the proceedings at the yearly Meeting of Friends of Pennsylvannia, New-Jersey, etc., [Anon.] Observations on Bullion Payments, and on A Free Trade in Gold, Antidote to West-Indian Sketches, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 [Deals with t Philadephia

1805, 1819, 1816-17, 1816, 1741

GBP - 3.00
451 Featherstonehaugh G. W. Geological Report of an examinaTION in 1834 of the elevated Country between the Missouri and Red Rivers Washington [U.S.A.]

1835

GBP - 0.15
452 NARRATVE OF OCCURRENCES in the Indian Countries of North America since the connexion of the Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company

1817

GBP - 5.05
453 Stephens William A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia

1742

GBP - 5.10
454 Boyle Hon. Robert An Essay of the Great Effects of even languid and unheeded Motion. Whereunto is annexed An Experimental Discourse of some little observed Causes of Insalubrity and Salubrity of Air and its Effects

1690

GBP - 2.10
455 Arnold C. H. New and Impartial Universal History of North and South America

1783

GBP - 1.15
456 Scaramelli Baldassar Il giuditio d'un nuovo Paride

1585

GBP - 0.15
457 BECKFORD W. VATHEK in French

1787

GBP - 17.00
458 Eddowes Ralph Sermons delivered before the first Society of Unitarian Christians in the City of Philadelphia Philadelphia

1773

GBP - 0.15
459 Dampier William A New Voyage round the World

1697

GBP - 1.01
460 Giovanni Fiorentino Sr II Pecorone, vellum Milano, 1554 circa

1740

GBP - 0.05
461 Enchiridion Physicæ restitutæ ... Arcanum Hermeticæ Philosophise opus Paris

1642

GBP - 0.12
462 C. Marlowe Ovidius (P. N.) All Ovids Elegies : 3 Bookes. Middlebourgh

c. 1600

GBP - 3.00
463 Williams Zachariah The Mariner's Compass compleated : or, The Expert Seaman's best guide. In two Parts

1745

GBP - 4.10
464 Erasmus Desiderius, L. Elzevir Adagiorum

1650

GBP - 16.10
465 Pentateuchus Moysi, item Josue, liber Judicum, Ruth

1542

GBP - 6.15
466 MARCHANT P. La Jacobineide, Poeme Heroi-Comicivique. Par l'Auteur de la Chronique du Manège, des Sabat Jacobites, de la Constitution en Vaudevilles, etc. Paris

1792

GBP - 23.00
467 Marozzo Achille Opera Nova ... de l'Arte de l'Armi, wood-cuts showing the art of swordsmanship

1536

GBP - 2.05
468 Viviani Vincenzio Quinto Libro degli Elementi d'Euclide ovvero Scienza universale delle proporzioni spiegata colla dottrina del Galileo

1674

GBP - 1.05
469 Dissertazione sul Modo di Navigare sott' Acqua

n.d.

GBP - 0.15
470 Mexico. Estrella radiante ... El Glormo San Diego sermon q. predico ensu fiesta dia 12 de Nov. de 1773 a. en el Convto de francos Decabios de Sn Antonio de Quexetano fa.

1773

GBP - 1.05
471 Rwykter J. Upsalensis. De Adamidarum origine, MANU SCRIPT on paper Lovanii

1676

GBP - 1.15
473 Fairfax Sir T. Cromwell (Oliver), Proposals for Peace and a model for setling of the Kingdome

1648, Aug. 1, 1647

GBP - 1.10
474 Lilly Wm. An Astrologicall Prediction of Occurrances in England 1648, 1649, 1650... The standing or falling of this Parliament

1648

GBP - 1.15
475 Heliodorus. Historiae Æthiopicae libri Graece Hervagius

1534

GBP - Not Sold
476 Wadsworth James The Present Estate of Spayne

1630

GBP - 1.00
477 Weemse J. A Treatise of the fovre degenerate Sonnes, viz. the Atheist, the Idolater, the Magician, and the Jew. Wherein are handled many profitable questions concerning Atheisme, WITCHCRAFT, etc.

1636

GBP - 1.10
478 HUBBARD W. Minister of Ipswich THE PRESENT STATE OF NEW ENGLAND. Virginia, London

1677, 1751-58

GBP - 43.00
479 ADAIR JAMES THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS

1775

GBP - 15.10
480 Slave Trade. Abstract of the Evidence contained in the Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council relative to the Slave-Trade, Two Reports from Jamaica on the subject of the Slave Trade, The New Act of Assembly of the Island of Jamaica respecting Sla

1790, 1789

GBP - 1.12
481 Porta G. B. Della Fisonomia dell' Huomo

1615

GBP - 1.05
482 Collection of Papers relating to the present jucture of Affairs in England London

1688-89

GBP - 1.05
483 Collins John Salt and Fishery

1682

GBP - 2.05
484 East Indies. A Briefe Declaration of the Proceedings of the Peace that is now intreating of betweene the King of Spain, the Archduke, and the Generali States of the Vnited Prouinces : together with ... Reasons and Arguments ... to proue that the generali

1608

GBP - 3.15
485 HYGINUS. POETICA ASTRONOMICA Venice

14 Oct. 1482

GBP - 6.05
486 Acta concilii generalis Constantiensis Haguenau

11 Apr. 1500

GBP - 5.05
487 AUGUSTINUS DE ANCONA. SUMMA DE POTESTATE ECCLESIASTICA Augsburg

6 Mar. 1473

GBP - 7.15
488 AUSLEGUNG DER HYMNEN Strassburg

21 Jan. 1494

GBP - 2.00
489 Bernardinus (Saint), of Siena. Sermo de gloriosa virgine Maria Cologne

c. 1470

GBP - 8.15
490 BERNARDINUS (SAINT), of Siena. DE CONTRACTIBUS ET USURIS Strassburg

1474

GBP - 11.10
491 BIBLIA LATINA, PRINTED ON VELLUM

14 Aug. 1462

GBP - 4.10
492 Fenestella Lucius De Romanorum magistratibus Venice

about May, 1475

GBP - 3.00
493 Guido de Monte Rocherii Strassburg

1493

GBP - 4.05
494 NIDER JOHANNES CONSOLATORIUM TIMORATAE CONSCIENTIAE Cologne

c. 1470

GBP - 9.00
495 PETRUS LOMBARDUS SENTENTIARUM LIBRI QUATTUOR Strassburg

not after 1471

GBP - 7.10
496 RAINERIUS DE PISIS PANTHEOLOGIA Nuremberg

8 Apr. 1473

GBP - 11.00
497 Statuta Synodalia Herbipolensia Würzburg

n.d.

GBP - 23.00
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