Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 51424, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 14, 2024 - May 14, 2024

Page Size: 207 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	William (Aiton)	Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew...	London:	1810-1813	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
102	Andrews (Henry C.)	Geraniums: or a Monograph of the Genus Geranium: Containing Coloured Figures of All the Known Species and Numerous Beautiful Varieties,		1805	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 630.00
103	Audubon (John James)	The Birds of America,		1972-73.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
104	Bauer (Franz)	Collection of plates. [Delineations of Exotick Plants, Cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew]		1796-1803	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
105	Bergius, (Peter Jonas)	Descriptiones plantarum ex Capite Bone Spe,	Stockholm:	1767	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
106	Boerhaave (Herman)	Index Alter Plantarum quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo Aluntur	Leiden	1727	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 126.00
107	Harrison (Joseph)	The Horticultural Cabinet,		1839 & 1841	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 756.00
108	Breyne (Jakob)	Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima.	Danzig:	1674-1678.	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,284.00
109	Breyne, Jakob	Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum primus et secundus... accedunt icones rariorum et exoticarum plantarum.	Danzig:	1739	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,512.00
110	Burmann (Johannes)	Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum,	Apud Henricum Boussiere	1738-39	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 756.00
111	Tremaux (Pierre)	Origine et Transformation de L'Homme....	Paris	1865	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 189.00
112	Darwin (Charles)	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,	New York	1860	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 945.00
113	Darwin (Charles)	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,	New York	1860	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,260.00
114	Darwin (Charles)	The Origin of the Species.....		1872	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 428.00
115	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Frederic)	Ten hand-coloured lithographs from 'Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes avec les figures originales d'apres des animaux vivants' [Natural History of Mammals with Original Pictures after Living Animals],	Paris	1819 -- 1842.	GBP 280.00 - 320.00	Not Sold
116	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Frederic)	Ten hand-coloured lithographs from 'Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes avec les figures originales d'apres des animaux vivants' [Natural History of Mammals with Original Pictures after Living Animals],	Paris	1819 -- 1842.	GBP 280.00 - 320.00	Not Sold
117	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Estienne) & Cuvier (Frederic)	Ten hand-coloured lithographs from 'Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes avec les figures originales d'apres des animaux vivants' [Natural History of Mammals with Original Pictures after Living Animals],	Paris	1819 -- 1842.	GBP 280.00 - 320.00	Not Sold
118	Gerard (John)	The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes,		1636	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,268.00
119	Gilpin (William)	Collection of mixed titles.- Observations on the Western Parts of England,		1789	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 378.00
120	Gould (John)	A collection of 27 hand-coloured lithographs from 'The Birds of Europe' (1837) and 'The Birds of Asia' (1850 - 1883), many after Elizabeth Gould, species			GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	Not Sold
121	Heresbach (Conrad)	Foure Bookes of Husbandrie,		1586	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 819.00
122	Herman (Paul)	Paradisus Batavus, Innumeris Exoticic Curiosis Herbis, & Rarioribus Plantis, Magno Sumptu.....	Leiden,	1755	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 315.00
123		Flora capensis.	Stockholm:	1760	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 164.00
124	Mason (Francis)	Stapeliae Novae: a collection of several new species of that genus discovered in the interior parts of Africa,		1796	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 164.00
125	Steuart (Sir Henry.	The Planter's Guide;		1828	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 239.00

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