Decorative Arts & Collectables (#488) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-15 of 15. Previous|1|Next Lot 1303a A group of very early printed books: "Gothicarum et Langobardicarum" by Vulcanius [Leiden, 1617] octavo, half leather; "Annales et Historiae de Rebus Belgicis" by Grotius [Amsterdam, 1658], 16mo, vellum; "Satyrae: by Juvenal [London, 1699] octavo, full leather; "Thesaurus Locorum Communium Iurisprudentiae" by Barbosa [Leipzig, 1707] folio, vellum; and "Cornelii Vepotis Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum" by Nepos [Leiden, 1774] octavo, full leather. (5 volumes). View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1304 "Selectae Antiquitatis..." by Christoph Philipp von Waldenfels [Nuremburg, 1677] in 17th century leather binding; "Caussa Dei ac religionis revelatae; et quidem CHRISTIANAE adversus Judaeos...." by Johann Joachim Lange [Halle, Saxony, 1727] in 18th century vellum binding; "History of the reign of Charles the Fifth..." by William Robertson [London : George Routledge, 1857] in contemporary full leather binding; and, "From the land of the Shamrock" by Jane Barlow. (4). View details Quantity4Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1305 SIR NATHANIEL WILLIAM WRAXELL (1751 - 1831), (edited by Henry B. Wheatley), The Historical and the Posthumous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1772 - 1784 in five volumes, [London : Bickers & Son, 1884], octavo, three-quarter leather bindings over cloth boards; spines with 5 raised bands with gilt titles and decoration; With bookplates of Sir Tresham Joseph Philip Lever. (5 vols.) View details Quantity5Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1306 A shelf of superbly bound English literature, mainly 18th & 19th century editions, with works by Samuel Butler, William Makepeace Thackeray, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Spenser, Walter Scott and W.S. Gilbert. (56 volumes). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$3,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1307 A shelf of superbly bound books on English history, some poetry, commentaries, etc., mainly in sets, 18th to early 20th Century editions with works by Green, Milton, Bridges, Prior, Emerson, Hallam, Ruskin, Butler and others. (39 volumes). View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1308 A collection of beautiful leather-bound books with a European theme - ancient to modern - with some in translation and some in their original languages, 1728 - 1905. Noted works by Hallam, Chompre, Calderon, Froude, Corneille, Hyde, James, Vacaresco and Church. (15 volumes). View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1309 RELIGION: A range of leather-bound volumes comprising "The Works of Josephus" [1683, London] with replaced preliminaries, title and map; "Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion" by Wilkins [London, 1734]; "Novum Missale Romanum" [Augsburg, 1739]; "The Bible" in six volumes [London, 1812]; "The Holy State and the Profane State" by Fuller [London, 1841]; "L'Imitation de Jesus Christ" by Kempis [Tours, 1885], "Sacred and Legendary Art" by Jameson [London, 1890] and "Boy - Life" by Benson. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1310 EDWARD GIBBON, "The Works of Edward Gibbon", [New York, Fred De Fau, 1907], a complete set of 15 volumes, this set limited to 1000 numbered copies. Bound in half brown morocco over brown marbelled boards and matching endpapers. With 5 raised spine bands and titles in gilt, as are the page tops. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1311 WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT (1796 - 1859), History of the Conquest of Peru, [London : Bickers & Son, 1903], 8vo, (xxiv), 510pp; frontispiece map, marbled endpapers and edges; Wellington College prize label to paste down. Handsome tree calf binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1312 HUGH STOWELL SCOTT (Henry Scott Merriman), various works, [London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1904], matching half-leather bindings by Mudie. (9 vols.). View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1313 [ANTHROPOLOGY & ART] A group of hard cover books including "Aku-Aku - The Secret of Easter Island" by Thor Heyerdahl [George Allen & Unwin, 1958] signed by the author and with dust jacket; "Art of the Pacific" by Brake, McNeish & Simmons [OUP, 1979] with d/j; "Oriental Carpets" by Schurmann [Octopus, 1979] with d/j; "Dehua Wares" by Zeng Fan, et al. [Hong Kong, 1990]; "Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteeth Century" by Sayers [OUP, 1994] with d/j; plus others. (9 vols.) View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1314 FOLIO SOCIETY: A selection of FS publications, all housed in their own slipcases; includes "The Nude" by Kenneth Clark; "Mapping the World" by Peter Whitfield; "The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution" by Mark Roseman; "Five Days in London, May 1940" by John Lukacs; "Egypt Revealed - Artist-Travellers in an Antique Land" by T.G.H. James; plus seven others. Also, "The History of Violin Playing" by Boyden. (Total: 13 vols.). View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1315 HISTORY, group of 14 books, mainly hardcover View details Quantity14Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1316 SPORTING: A group including "The Book of the Fly-Rod" by Sheringham & Moore (1936); "Fishing in Many Waters" by Hornell (1950); "The Angler's Bedside Book" by Wiggin (1965); "Gough Thomas's Gun Book" by Garwood (1980); "The Field Book of Cricket" by Allen (1991); "The Royal Yacht Squadron" by Dear (1985); plus six others; all hardcover. (12 vols.) View details Quantity12Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1317 A diverse range incl. "Universal Dictionary of Violin and Bow Makers" by Henley (1973); "Violin-Making, as it was and is" by Heron-Allen (1984); "Tudor Music" by Wulstan (1985); "The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop" by E.E.Dunlop (1989, with dedication from the author); "Dostoevsky - A Writer in his Time" by Frank (2010); plus nine others. (14 vols.) View details Quantity14Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next