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Auction 20751
19 Mar 2013, starting at 14:00 GMT.
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Sold for £115,250 inc. premium
HAWARDEN (CLEMENTINA MAUDE, Viscountess) An excptional archive comprising 37 albumen prints by Lady Hawarden, a pair of pencil sketches of ...
Sold for £63,650 inc. premium
DE LA GRANGE (ALEXIS) An album of 49 architectural views of major sites in northern India, most of which are ...
Sold for £42,050 inc. premium
RECIPES – HOUSEHOLD and MEDICAL. A FINELY BOUND RECIPE BOOK BELONGING TO ROBERT PASTON, FIRST EARL OF YARMOUTH, OF OXNEAD HALL ...
Sold for £31,250 inc. premium
BEATO (FELICE) An album of architectural views in India, comprising Lucknow, Delhi, Agra and Benares, [c.1858]

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1 ALBIN (ELEAZAR) A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life, 1720 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
2 ALBUM AMICORUM. Album Amicorum kept by Carl Wi[l]helm Gödicke at Halle in 1780-81 £875
€1,021
US$ 1,366
4 ARISTOTLE [LE FEVRE (JACQUES D'ETAPLES) Totius philosophiae naturalis paraphrases et familiaris commentarius], 1501 £937
€1,094
US$ 1,464
5 ARMENIA Armenia and its neighbouring countries [in Armenian] £5,000
€5,839
US$ 7,810
6 AUSTEN (JANE) Emma, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1816 £8,125
€9,489
US$ 12,691
9 BARROW (JOHN) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793... with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants, 1806 £1,750
€2,043
US$ 2,733
10 BERNARDUS Claravallensis. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis una cum homiliis et epistolis, Venice, 1495 £1,250
€1,459
US$ 1,952
11 BIBLE, in English, Bishop's version [The Holie Bible], 1568 £2,250
€2,627
US$ 3,514
12 BINION (SAMUEL AUGUSTUS) Ancient Egypt or Mizraim, 2 vol., NUMBER 300 OF 800 EDITION DE LUXE COPIES, 1887 £2,500
€2,919
US$ 3,905
13 BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome Hore beate Marie viginis secu[n]du[m] usu[m] Romanum, Paris, Vostre, 1507 £5,250
€6,131
US$ 8,200
14 BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome. Hor[a]e dive virginis Marie sedm veru[m] usum Romanu[m], Paris, Thielman Kerver, 1511 £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
15 BOSWELL (JAMES) Ode by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their Supposed Approaching Nuptials, FIRST EDITION, 1784 £5,000
€5,839
US$ 7,810
16 BOWYER (ROBERT, publisher) An Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe, 1815; bound with Campaign of Waterloo, 1816, 2 works in one vol. £2,125
€2,481
US$ 3,319
17 CALANDRI (FILIPPO) Aritmetica], incomplete, 1491 £1,125
€1,313
US$ 1,757
18 CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, 1598 £1,125
€1,313
US$ 1,757
19 CHIPPENDALE (THOMAS) The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director. Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Hous[e]hold Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese, and Modern Taste, 1754 £3,250
€3,795
US$ 5,076
20 CHURCHE (ROOKE)] An Olde Thrift Newly Revived. Wherein is Declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving and Husbanding Yong Trees of Divers Kindes for Timber and Fuell, 1612 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
21 CHURCHILL (AWNSHAM AND JOHN) A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, 6 vol., 1704-1732 £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
24 D'ESPAGNE (JEAN)] Antiduello: or, a Treatise, in which is Discussed the Lawfulnesse and Unlawfulneses of Single Combats, 1632; bound with other works on Bohemia and the Thirty Years War £2,375
€2,773
US$ 3,709
25 DANIELL (THOMAS AND WILLIAM) A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China, 1810 £3,125
€3,649
US$ 4,881
26 DANIELL (WILLIAM) A Voyage Round Great Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and Commencing From the Land's-End in Cornwall, by Richard Ayton, With a Series of Views Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, 8 vol. in 4, FIRST EDITION, 1814-1825 £17,500
€20,439
US$ 27,335
27 DARWIN (CHARLES), ROBERT FITZROY and PHILIP PARKER KING Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, describing the Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe, 4 vol. (including Appendix to volume 2), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of volume 3 £8,125
€9,489
US$ 12,691
28 DIGGES (THOMAS) An Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos, 1590 £5,000
€5,839
US$ 7,810
29 EUCLID BYRNE (OLIVER) The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners, 1847 £1,500
€1,751
US$ 2,343
32 GALLIERI (GASPARE) and others An album of 67 prints after theatre designs by Gaspare Galliari, Francesco Fontanesco, Pietro Gonzaga, Lodovico Pozzetti, and Alessandro Sanquirico, [Milan, c.1800-1820] £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
33 GEORGE III. Letter signed, in French, to Wilhelm Frederick, King of Prussia, 1796 £475
€554
US$ 741
34 GEORGE IV and BRAZIL. Commission signed, 1828 £687
€802
US$ 1,073
35 GIBBON (EDWARD) [BUAT-NANCY (LOUIS GABRIEL)] Les origines, ou l'ancien gouvernement de la France, 4 vol., EDWARD GIBBON'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE, and label ("E Gibbon"), Hague, 1757 £812
€948
US$ 1,269
36 GUILLERMUS ALVERNUS, Episcopus Parisiensis. Opera [edited by Petrus Danhauser and Johann Rosenbach], Nuremburg, 1496, bound with 2 others incunables by same author £2,500
€2,919
US$ 3,905
38 HENRY VIII. Initial letter portrait, 1540 £13,750
€16,059
US$ 21,477
39 HERALDRY. Illuminated tree of the Aucher and related families, with evidences tracing the genealogy of Sir Anthony Aucher of Hautsborne, Kent, nineteenth century £375
€437
US$ 585
40 HISTORY and POSTAGE - Collection of letters and documents of historical and postal interest (collection) £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
41 HISTORY, ROYALTY and LITERATURE. Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor, partly relating to his service as confidential agent or secretary to British sovereigns and other members of the Royal Family between 1805 and 1837 £1,375
€1,605
US$ 2,147
42 HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL)] The First and Second [ and Third] Volumes of Chronicles, IN 2 VOL., 1587 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
44 HUMFREY (PELHAM) Indenture signed twice ("Pelham: Humfrey") as witness to a deed signed by his future father-in-law, the singer and composer Captain Henry Cooke, 1661 £500
€583
US$ 781
45 HYGINUS (CAIUS JULIUS) Poeticon astronomicon [edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter], Venice, 1488 £2,250
€2,627
US$ 3,514
46 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, c.1475-85 £6,000
€7,007
US$ 9,372
47 INDIA - COMPANY SCHOOL WATERCOLOURS An album of 60 Company School watercolours, including Sikh rulers, views and trades, [nineteenth century] £15,000
€17,519
US$ 23,430
48 INDIA - NORTHWEST FRONTIER. Series of over twenty autograph letters signed by James Lindsay Steven, Bengal Horse Artillery, from Peshawar and Umballa, 1852-1855 £6,875
€8,029
US$ 10,738
50 JEFFREYS (THOMAS) A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies, 1762 £3,500
€4,087
US$ 5,467
51 KNOX (ROBERT) An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon, in the East-Indies, 1681 £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
53 LEWKENOR (LEWIS)] The Estate of English Fugitives Under the King of Spaine and His Ministers, WILLIAM HERBERT'S COPY, 1595 £1,000
€1,167
US$ 1,562
54 LINDEN (JEAN-JULES and LUCIEN) Lindenia. Iconography of Orchids, 72 Parts only, 1891-1897 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
55 LITERATURE, POLITICS, RELIGION AND ART. Collection of autograph letters signed, etc., by Ruskin, Edmund Blunden, Helen Allingham, Gladstone and others £1,625
€1,897
US$ 2,538
57 LONDON - THE NEW RIVER Large album, with manuscript title "This Collection of views &ca, relating to the New River, and objects of interest in Parishes through which it passes, from London to its Source, near Ware, in Hertfordshire, was made, principally during the years 1842 & 1843. By one of the Companys Officers, at his own expence. Robert Percy Smith, Esq.r, Governor. London, 1844"; with series of prints of New River by Jukes (4) £6,000
€7,007
US$ 9,372
58 LORD (HENRY) A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies. Viz. The Sect of the Banians, the Ancient Natives of India and the Sect of the Perses, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia, together with the Religion and Maners of Each Sect, 2 parts in one vol., 1630 £1,000
€1,167
US$ 1,562
59 MILTON (JOHN) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books... the Second Edition, Revised and Augmented by the Same Author, 1674 £2,000
€2,335
US$ 3,124
60 MOLL (HERMAN) The World Described, or a New and Correct Sett of Maps. Collection of 23 hand-coloured maps, 1708-1739 £10,625
€12,409
US$ 16,596
61 MÜNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Kalendarium Hebraicum; Chaldaica grammatica, 2 works in one vol, 1527 £812
€948
US$ 1,269
62 NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph free-front, 1801 £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
63 NORDEN (JOHN) Speculum Britanniae. The First Parte. An Historicall, & Chorographicall Discription of Middlesex, 1593 £1,062
€1,240
US$ 1,659
64 PERCY (THOMAS) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, WITH A LOOSELY INSERTED NOTE PARTLY IN THE AUTHOR'S HAND, 1765 £1,375
€1,605
US$ 2,147
65 PETRUS LOMBARDUS Sententiarum libri IV [with Commentary by Bonaventura], 5 parts in 4 vol., 1493 £4,750
€5,547
US$ 7,419
68 POPE (ALEXANDER) Receipt signed, for two guineas for the translation of Homer's Iliad, [c.1715] £687
€802
US$ 1,073
69 PREVOST d'EXILES (ANTOINE FRANÇOIS)] Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par er et par terre, qui ont été publiées, vol 1-19 (of 20), 1746-1789 £3,500
€4,087
US$ 5,467
70 RAFFLES (THOMAS STAFFORD) The History of Java, 2 vol., 1817 £3,000
€3,503
US$ 4,686
71 RECIPES – HOUSEHOLD and MEDICAL. A FINELY BOUND RECIPE BOOK BELONGING TO ROBERT PASTON, FIRST EARL OF YARMOUTH, OF OXNEAD HALL AND HIS WIFE REBECCA, [c.1680-1695] £42,050
€49,112
US$ 65,682
72 RECIPES – MEDICAL £2,625
€3,065
US$ 4,100
73 RESTORATION LONDON. Late seventeenth century manuscript of the 'Mysteria Revelata' of John Collins, 1674 £6,250
€7,299
US$ 9,762
74 ROBERTS (DAVID) Holy Land, 6 vol. in 3, 4to, 1855-6 The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vol. bound in 3, 1855-1856 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
75 ROBERTS (JAMES AND HENRY)] The Sportsman's Commpanion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the Most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, Represented in Variety of Attitudes, [c.1825] £3,125
€3,649
US$ 4,881
76 ROE (THOMAS) The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, in His Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, from the Year 1621 to 1628 Inclusive, 1740 £1,125
€1,313
US$ 1,757
78 S. (E.) An Heavenly Portion of Spiritual Treasure, and Divine Truths; Bequeathed by a Parent to Children, 1668 £2,750
€3,211
US$ 4,295
79 SCOTT (WALTER) Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 1808 £1,187
€1,386
US$ 1,854
80 SCOTT (WALTER) File of papers relating to the authorial career of Walter Scott, in relation to his publishers, Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and to his printers, James Ballantyne & Co £12,500
€14,599
US$ 19,525
82 SMITH (THOMAS) De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Governement or Policie of the Realme of England, FIRST EDITION, 1583 £1,750
€2,043
US$ 2,733
83 SONNERAT (PIERRE) Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, 2 vol., 1782 £1,625
€1,897
US$ 2,538
84 SPIERA (AMBROSIUS DE) Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae, Venice, 1488 £1,375
€1,605
US$ 2,147
85 SPINOZA (BARUCH)] Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertationes aliquot, 1670 [but later]; bound with Renati Des Cartes principiorum philosophiae Pars I, & II, 1663 £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
86 STOW (JOHN)] The Summarye of the Chronicles of Englande, 1573 £1,500
€1,751
US$ 2,343
87 SWEET (ROBERT) The British Flower Garden; Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the Most Ornamental & Curious Hardy Herbaceous Plants, vol. 1-3 (first series), 1823-1829 £1,500
€1,751
US$ 2,343
88 SWEET (ROBERT) The Florist's Guide, and Culitvator's Directory; Containing Coloured Figures of the Choicest Flowers, Cultivated by Florists, 2 vol., 1827-1832 £6,875
€8,029
US$ 10,738
89 SWIFT (JONATHAN) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver... Second Edition, 2 vol., 1727 £750
€875
US$ 1,171
90 TEXTORIS (GUILERMUS, de Aquisgrano) Sermo de passione Christi, Basel, 1486 £1,125
€1,313
US$ 1,757
91 TURRECREMATA (JOANNES DE) Summa de ecclesia contra impugnatores potestatis summi pontificis et LXXIII quaestiones, 1496 £1,500
€1,751
US$ 2,343
92 VANCOUVER (GEORGE) A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, 6 vol., 1801 £2,875
€3,357
US$ 4,490
93 VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS) [Du fait de guerre et fleur de chevalerie], Paris, 1536 £812
€948
US$ 1,269
95 WATHEN (JAMES) Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returnimg by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the H.C.S. The Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass, 1814 £1,375
€1,605
US$ 2,147
96 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Poems, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1807 £1,250
€1,459
US$ 1,952
97 BEATO (FELICE) An album of architectural views in India, comprising Lucknow, Delhi, Agra and Benares, [c.1858] £31,250
€36,498
US$ 48,813
98 BONFILS (FELIX) Architecture antique. Égypte. Grèce. Asie Mineure. Album de photographies, 1872 £27,500
€32,118
US$ 42,955
99 CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) "Déjatch Alámayou & Báshá Félika | King Theodore's Son & Captn Speedy", 1868 £6,875
€8,029
US$ 10,738
100 CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) "Déjatch Álámáyou, King Theodore's son", [July] 1868 £5,625
€6,569
US$ 8,786
101 COBURN (ALVIN LANGDON) London...with an Introduction by Hilaire Belloc, [1909] £3,500
€4,087
US$ 5,467
103 DAMMANN (CARL and FREDERICK W.) Ethnological Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Mankind, Huddersfield, Trübner, [c.1875] £3,750
€4,379
US$ 5,857
104 DE LA GRANGE (ALEXIS) An album of 49 architectural views of major sites in northern India, most of which are mughal, [c.1849-1851] £63,650
€74,340
US$ 99,422
106 EROTICA - Album of approximately 300 photographic images, and approx. 70 postcards, [early twentieth edition] £8,125
€9,489
US$ 12,691
107 HAWARDEN (CLEMENTINA MAUDE, Viscountess) An excptional archive comprising 37 albumen prints by Lady Hawarden, a pair of pencil sketches of Clementina Hawarden and her husband, and 15 associated albumen prints, [c.1857-1864] £115,250
€134,606
US$ 180,022
109 MACAULAY (COLMAN, of the Bengal Civil Service) [Confidential]. Report of a Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier with a Memorandum on Our Relations with Tibet, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in pencil on flyleaf "J.D. Hooker from the author, June 1885", 1885 £3,500
€4,087
US$ 5,467
110 MENZIES (WILLIAM) The History of Windsor Great Park and Windsor Forest, 1864 £2,000
€2,335
US$ 3,124
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