Christies: Valuable Printed Books, Manuscripts and Historical Documents of the 13th to 17th Centuries from various sources, which will be sold at Auction by CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS LTD. J. A. FLOYD, A. G. GRIMWADE, GUY HANNEN, M.C., THE HON. PATRICK LINDSAY, JO, Mar101976,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 10, 1976 - March 10, 1976
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS | SUMA DE COFESSIO LAMADA DEFECERUT | Burgos | 6 July, 1499 |
GBP 250.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 102 | ARISTOTELES | COPULATA VETERIS ARTIS ARISTOTELIS... | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 103 | BALDUNG (HIERONYMUS) | APHORISMI COMPUNCTIONIS THEOLOGICALES | Strasbourg | January 6, 1497 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 104 | BALTHASAR DE PORTA | EXPOSITIO CANOIS SACRATISSIME MISSE | Leipzig | 1497 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 105 | BEROALDUS (PHILIPPUS) | DE FELICITATE OPUSCULUM | Bologna | April 1, 1495 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 106 | CARACCIOLUS (ROBERTUS, de Licio) | OPUS QUADRAGESIMALE. . . quod de Penitentia dictum est | Venice | 1476 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 107 | [CARACCIOLUS (ROBERTUS, de Licio) | SERMONES DE LAUDIBUS SANCTORUM] | Augsburg | February 23, 1490 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 108 | CARACCIOLUS (ROBERTUS, de Licio) | SERMONES DE TIMORE DIVINORUM JUDiciORUM ET DE MORTE | Nuremberg | 1479 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown |
| 109 | CARACCIOLUS (ROBERTUS, de Licio) | SERMONES QUADRAGESIMALES | Strasbourg | September 3 , 1485 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 110 | EPISTOLAE DIVERSORUM PHILOSOPHORUM, ORATORUM, RHETORUM [edited by M. Musuhus] | Venice | March [29--not before April 17], 1499 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown | |
| 111 | EUSEBIUS Caesariensis | CHRONICON [with the continuations of Prosper Florentinus and Matthaeus Palmerius Pisanus] | Venice | Septenber 13, 1483 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown |
| 112 | FERRERIUS (VINCENTIUS) | SERMONES DE SANCTIS (edited by Nicolaus de Segazonibus] | Milan | March 3 , 1488 |
GBP 250.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 113 | GERARDUS ZUTPHANIENSIS | Tractatus de Spiritualibus Ascensionibus | Montserrat | 16 May, 1499 |
GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 114 | GUILLERMUS, EPISCOPUS PARISIENSIS | RHETORICA DIVINA | [Basle] | [c. 1492] |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 115 | HORAE B. M. V. | HEURES A L'USAIGE DE ROME | Paris | [1514] (calendar from 1514 to 1527) |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 116 | HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) | OPERA CUM QUIBGBPAM ANNOTATIONIB[US] [of Jacob Locher] | Strasbourg | March 12, 1498 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 117 | HYGINUS (c. JULIUS) | POETICON ASTRONOMICON [edited by Jacobus Sentinus and J. L. Santritter] | Venice | January 22 , 1485 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 118 | IAMBLICHUS | DE MYSTERIES AEGYPTIORUM CHALDAEORUM. ASSYRIORUM [with other tracts. Translated into Latin by Marsilius Ficinus] | Venice | September 1497 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 119 | LEONARDUS DE UTINO | SERMONES AUREI DE SANCTIS | Venice | 1473 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 120 | LIVIUS (TITUS) | DECADI [with the Guerra Punica of Aretinus] | Venice | February 11, 1493 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 121 | MARCHESINUS (JOANNES) | MAMMOTRECTUS [SUPER BIBLIAM] | Strasbourg | 1494 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 122 | NICOLAUS de Auximo | SUPPLEMENTUM | Venice | 1474 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 123 | PETRARCA (FRANCESCO, attributed to): VITE DEI PONTEFICI ED IMPERATORI ROMANI | Florence | [not after February 3], 1478/ 79 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 124 | PHALARIS, pseud | EPISTOLAE | Venice | March 10, 1481 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 125 | PROCESSIONAL OF DOMINICAN USE: Incipit liber processionum secundum ordine fratru predicatorum | Seville | April 3rd, 1494 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 126 | [REUCHLIN (JOHANN)] | BREVILOQUUS VOCABULARI[US] CU Arte diphthongandi accentuandi & punctuandi | Cologne | 1486 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 127 | ROLEWINCK (WERNER) | FASCICULUS TEMPORUM | Venice | November 24,1480 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown |
| 128 | SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS) | OPERA | Rome | April 3, 1490 |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 129 | SCHEDEL (HARTMANN) | LIBER CHRONICARUM | Nuremberg | July 12, 1493 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 130 | [SERVASANCTUS] | ANTIDOTARIUS ANIMAE | Louvain | [c. 1485] |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 131 | SIMONETA (JOANNES) | COMMENTARII RERUM GESTARUM FRANCISCI SFORTIAE | Milan | 1490 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 132 | THOMAS Aquinas (Saint) | OPUSCULA edited | Venice | September 7, 1490 |
GBP 150.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 133 | TRACTATUS CONTRA VICIA | Strasbourg | December 5, 1498 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 134 | TURRECREMATA (JOANNES DE) | EXPOSITIO PSALTERII | Augsburg | May 6, 1472 |
GBP 500.00 - 750.00 | Unknown |
| 135 | URBANUS [BOLZANI] Bellunensis | INSTITUTIONES GRAECAE GRAMMATICES | Venice | January, 1497/98 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 136 | VALERIUS MAXIMUS | [FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA ] Cum Commento Oliverii Arzignanensis Vicentini | Venice | July 16, 1494 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 137 | ARISTOPHANES | KΩMΩΔIAI ENNEA . . . COMOEDIAE NOVEM | Venice | July 15, 1498 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 138 | AUGUSTINUS (Saint) | DE ACADEMICIS [With other tracts. Edited by Eusebius Conradus and Thaddeus Ugoletus] | Parma | March 31, 1491 |
GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 139 | EUCLIDES | ELEMENTA with notes by Campanus Novariensis | Vicenza | [June 20?] 1491 |
GBP 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 140 | GAZIUS (ANTONIUS) | CORONA FLORIDA MEDICINAE SIVE DE CONSERVATIONS SANITATIS | Venice | June 20, 1491 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 141 | HIERONYMUS (Saint) | EPISTOLAE [etc. in Italian], Regula Monachorum ex Epistolis s. Hieronymi excerpta | Ferrara | October 12, 1497 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 142 | RODERICUS [SANCTUS] Zamorensis | SPECULUM VITAE HUMANAE | Augsburg | January 11, 1471 |
GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 143 | BALE (JOHN) | ILLUSTRIUM MAIORIS BRITANNIAE SCRIPTORUM. . . SUMMARIU | [Wesel, Dirk van der Straten], Gippeswici [Ipswich] | July 31, 1548 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 144 | AUSTIN (WILLIAM) | BINDING--Devotionis Augustinianae Flamma, or Certayne Devout, Godly, & Learned Meditations | 1637 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 145 | GATAKER (THOMAS) | BINDING--Certaine Sermons | 1637 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown | |
| 146 | England, Statutes: The Acte concernyng the Subsidie graunted of the Temporaltee | Berthelet | 1547 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 147 | Heraldic Notebook | [English] | [mid sixteenth century] |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | Unknown | |
| 147A | LIVIUS (TITUS) | HISTORIAE ROMANAE DECADES [edited after Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria | Milan | May 25, 1495 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 147B | HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME TOUT AU LO[N]G SANS RICH REQUERIR, PRINTED ON VELLUM | Paris | c. 1510-15 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 148 | Cooke (Alexander) | Pope Joane. A Dialogue betweene a Protestant and a Papist. Manifestly proving | 1625 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 149 | [Cotton (Sir Robert Bruce)] | A Short View of the Long Life and Raigne of Henry the Third | 1627 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 150 | GERARDUS de Vliederhoven | CORDIALE QUATTUOR NOVIS-SIMORUM | [Paris] | [c. 1482-85] |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 151 | GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (JUAN) | THE HISTORIE OF THE GREAT MIGHTIE KINGDOME OF CHINA | 1588 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 152 | [Hotman (Francois)] | De Furoribus Gallicis (a few leaves soiled and dampstained) | 1573 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 153 | LIPSIUS (JUSTUS) | [Opera] | Antwerp | 1599-1606 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 154 | Mynsinger (Ioannes) | Singularium Observationum Iudicii Imperialis Camerae (uti vocant) Centuriae quatuor | Basle | 1563 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | Unknown |
| 155 | [ROLEWINCK (WERNER)] | FASCICULAS TEMPORUM ANTIQUORUM CRONICAS COMPLECTENS | [Strasbourg] | [not before 1490] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 156 | Scaliger (Julius Caesar) | Poetices Libri Septem. .. ad Sylvium Filium | [Lyons] | [1561] |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 157 | VIRGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS) | [Opera] | Venice | January 3, 1491/ 92 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown |
| 158 | CLUVERIUS (PHILIPPUS) | GERMANIAE ANTIQUAE LIBRI TRES | Leyden | 1616 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 159 | RUBEIS (DOMINICUS DE): Romanae Magnitudinis Monumenta... | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |||
| 160 | SEUTTER (MANG) | EIN SCHONES UND NUTZLICHES BISSBUECH | [Augsburg ?] | 1584 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 161 | [SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)] | [COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES] | 1685 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 162 | YORKE (JAMES) | The Union of Honour | 1640 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 163 | ANDREAE (JOANNES) | ARBOR CONSANGUINITATIS, ARBOR AFFINITATIS, ARBOR COGNATIONIS SPIRITUALIS | [Strasbourg] | [c. 1483] |
GBP 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 164 | NEWTON (SAMUEL) | AN IDEA OF GEOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION .. . also Tables of the Sun's Declinations. . . and other tables necessary in navigation | 1695 |
GBP 250.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 165 | AMMAN (JOST) | KUNSTLICHE UND WOLGERISSENE FIGUREN DER FURNEMBSTEN EVANGELIEN | Frankfurt-am-Main | 1579 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 166 | LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS) | [Pharsalia] | Venice | April, 1502 |
GBP 75.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 167 | LOPES (DUARTE) AND FILIPPO PIGAFETTA | A REPORT OF THE KINGDOME OF CONGO | 1597 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 168 | SUCKLING (Sir JOHN) | FRAGMENTA AUREA, A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces | 1646 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 169 | TUSSER (THOMAS) | Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry .. . mixed in every Moneth with Huswifery | 1638 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | Unknown | |
| 170 | [Vaughan (Thomas)] | Magia Adamica: or the Antiquitie of Magic... | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 171 | Charles IX (King of France) | L.S. in French | Orleans | 16th June, 1569 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | Unknown |
| 172 | Philip II (King of Spain) | L.S. in French | Madrid | 16th June, 1579 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | Unknown |
| 173 | Essex (Robert Devereux, 1st Earl of) | Top half of a bill for £505 8s. for work done by carpenters, coopers and smiths | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | ||
| 174 | HENRY THE NAVIGATOR (Prince Henry of Portugal, 1394-1460) | RARE DOC. S., CEDULA instructing Afonso Andre and Antonio Goncalves, magistrates of his lands of the Order of Christ | Lisbon | 30 August, 1448 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 175 | EDWARD II | ROYAL CHARTER, granting Oliver le Waleys the right of free warren in Dalby above Waldas and Swithland, Leicestershire, in Latin | Westminster | 26 June, 1316 |
GBP 75.00 - 95.00 | Unknown |
| 176 | CHARTER by William Byspham and Elizabeth his wife granting the manor of Swithland to John Leuenthorpe... | GBP 35.00 - 45.00 | Unknown | |||
| 177 | CHARTER by Henry the abbot of Lilleshall [Salop] granting the manor of Bolyngale [Boningale], to William de Shareshull knight and Dionisia his wife | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown | |||
| 178 | HENRY VIII | Royal Letters Patent granting the manors of Wilsford and Stratton St. Margaret | Westminster | 20 March, 1522 |
GBP 110.00 - 160.00 | Unknown |
| 179 | VAUGHAN--A considerable part of the 'Evidences' or Title Deeds of the Vaughan family of Camarthenshire and Wiltshire | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | Unknown | |||
| 180 | VARIOUS LEGAL DOCUMENTS mainly concerning the transfer of manors and lands, 1493-1685 | GBP 50.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |||
| 181 | HENRY III | ROYAL CHARTER granting Robert de Latham and Thomas de Chaworth the right to hold a weekly market on Mondays and a yearly fair at Alureton in Derbyshire | Marlborough | 16 July, 1252 |
GBP 90.00 - 130.00 | Unknown |
| 182 | EDWARD VI | LETTERS PATENT confirming the above [Lot 181] charter of Henry III at the request of Thomas Babington Esq. | Westminster | 18 October, 1551 |
GBP 160.00 - 210.00 | Unknown |
| 183 | CHARTER by John Fox granting the manor of Gobyons in the town of Northampton to John de Tiringham, John de Reyves, etc. | Northampton | Monday 27 December, 1395 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown | |
| 184 | ELIZABETH I | ROYAL LETTERS PATENT granting for £891.12s lands of the late priory of Ludlow etc. | Westminster | 18 March, 1560 |
GBP 110.00 - 160.00 | Unknown |
| 185 | EDWARD II | ROYAL LICENCE to John | 14 June, 1321 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 186 | HENRY VII | Doc. S., Royal Signet Warrant to the Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, in favour of Denys Bonde, ordering 'thre yerdes of blak Sattyn for a doblet, etc. | Greenwich | 7 February, 1499 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 187 | EDWARD VI | DOC. s., ROYAL LETTERS PATENT empowering the High Treasurer and other officers of the Mint at Canterbury to retain and discipline workmen... | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | ||
| 188 | Edward VI | List of Royal Payments to Armigall Wade by the Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations and the Treasurer of Calais | September 1551-January 1554 |
GBP 10.00 - 20.00 | Unknown | |
| 189 | Charles II | Proclamation | 1660 |
GBP 15.00 - 20.00 | Unknown | |
| 190 | OATES (TITUS) | DOC. S., THE ORIGINAL PETITION by Oates to James II | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 191 | Blount (Charles , Earl of Devonshire, Baron Mountjoy) | Doc. S., 'A booke of the Soldiers, Gonners and Others serving Her Majesty at Portsmouthe under the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mountjoy | GBP 15.00 - 30.00 | Unknown | ||
| 192 | James I | Doc. S., Passport with blanks to Sir John Vaux of Longcaster 'to depart and pass forth of our Realm to the parts | n.p. | 1600 |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 193 | Charles I | Proclamation of the Accession to the Throne of 'the most hopeful high and mighty Prince Charles | March, 1625 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | |
| 194 | Wentworth (Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford) | Doc. S., Contemporary copy of the Royal Letters Patent constituting Wentworth | Westminster | 15 December, 1629 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 195 | Monck (George, Duke of Albemarle) | L. S., Dalkeith | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | ||
| 196 | CHARLES II | Doc. S., ratifying the appointment by Charles I of James Murray as Underkeeper of the Royal Wardrobe in Scotland | Whitehall | 22 November, 1660 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 197 | Charles II | Soldiers' Petition | Landguard Fort | 14 May, 1663 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Unknown |
| 198 | Wriothesley (Thomas, 4th Earl of Southampton) | L. S., Southampton, 14 September, 1663, to Sir Robert Long | Southampton | 14 September, 1663 |
GBP 10.00 - 15.00 | Unknown |
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.