Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY INCLUDING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND NATURAL HISTORY. COMPRISING, The Property , 1977(OMEGA),

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 25, 1977 - July 25, 1977

Page Size: 625 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300	PYNE (W. H.)	THE COSTUME OF GREAT BRITAIN		1804	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	450.00
301	SOLVYNS (F. B.)	The Costume of Hindostan, English and French text		1807	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	160.00
302		BONIFACIUS VIII (Pope) Sextus liber [decretalimn]...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	95.00
303	D'Huvettere (Loys loseph)	De generale Legende van alle Heylighen. .. Met't leuen Iesu ende Maria	Antwerp	1628	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	55.00
304		Iconum Biblicarum, pars II only; Thesaurus historiarum Novi Testamenti elegantissimis Iconibus expressus			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	65.00
305		Misse haer korte uyt-legginghe. . . soo die in de. . . Roomsche kercke ge-oeffent worden...	Antwerp	[c. 1713]	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	16.00
306	[Pascal (Blaise)]	Les Provinciales Ou Lettres ecrites par Louis de Montalte	Cologne [Amsterdam]	1657	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	80.00
307	Rabelais (Francois)	Oeuvres... Contenant... la vie. .. de Gargantua, & de son fils Pantagruel	Lyons	1599	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	85.00
308	SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)	LIBER CHRONICARUM	Nuremberg	12 July 1493	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	7,500.00
309	SUCQUET (ANTONIUS)	DEN WECH DES EEUWICH LEVENS Beschreven int Latijn. . . over-geset door Gerardus Zoes	Antwerp	1623	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	500.00
310	TERENTIUS AFER (PUBLIUS)	[COMOEDIAE] Terenti' cu Directorio Vocabuloru. . . Glosa Iterlineali Cometarijs Donato Guidone Ascensio	Strassburg	11 February, 1499	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,150.00
311	[VESALIUS (ANDREAS)]	[DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA libri septem]	Basle	June 1543	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,900.00
312	PETRUS DE ABANO	Tractatus de Venenis	Rome	29 April, 1484	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	320.00
313	POGGIUS BRACCIOLINI (J. F.)	[FACETIAE]	Impressus Antwarpie	1486	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	3,000.00
314		BIBLE, LATIN. [BIBLIA CUM POSTILLIS NICOLAI DE LYRA et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgen-sis replicisque Matthiae Doering]	[Nuremberg]	[3 December, 1487]	GBP 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
315	SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)	LIBER CHRONICARUM	Nuremberg	12 July 1493	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,500.00
316	ANNIUS (JOHANNES)	[De futuris Christianorum triumphis in Saracenos]	Cologne	19 Aug. 1497	GBP 90.00 - 120.00	380.00
317	Paraldus (Gulielmus)	[Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis]			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	120.00
318		PRINTED EPHEMERA. A small quantity including 9 leaves (3 defective) from the Nuremberg Chronicle, Koberger			GBP 70.00 - 80.00	130.00
319	Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius	[Carmina]	[Venice]	[1502]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
320	Gregorius Nazianzenus	Carmina	Venice	1504	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	40.00
321	THOMAS A KEMPIS	De imitatioe christi	Paris	21 July, 1507	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	110.00
322	[Vivaldus (Johannes Ludovicus)]	Aureum opus de veritate co[n]tritionis	Paris	4 October, 1510	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
323		BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome. Les presentes heures a lusaige de Rome, etc.	Paris	[c. 1510]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	350.00
324		Liber faceti cum comento	[Paris?]	[c. 1510]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
325		BIBLE (LATIN) Biblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum	Lyons	1511	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	130.00
326	Emser (Hieronymus)	Dialogisimus. . . de origine propinadi vulgo compotandi	Leipsig	1513	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
327		Postille maiores totius anni cii questionibus de nono additis. . . Expositiones. . . Ny.de Lyra, Ny.de Gorra	[? Lyons]	[1518]	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
328	CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS)	Commentiariorum de bello Gallico [and other works]	Venice	1519	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	85.00
329		Cyprian (Saint) Opera. . . Erasmus Roterodamus [edidit]...			GBP 50.00 - 75.00	120.00
330	Cicero (Marcus Tullius)	In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII [and other works]	Venice	October 1521	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	38.00
331	Bullinger (H.)	De Scripturae Authoritate...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
332	Gratius, A. O. Nemesianus, P. Ovidius Naso and others	Poetae tres egregij nunc primum in lucem editi	Venice	1534	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	60.00
333	Cicero (M. Tullius)	Epistolarum ad Titum Pomponium Atticum lib. XVI [etc.]	Leyden	1536	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	16.00
334	BONAVENTURA (Saint)	SECUNDUM LUCAM EVANGELIUM COMMENTARII	Antwerp	1539	GBP 170.00 - 200.00	280.00
335		BIBLE, Hebrew. [Biblia Hebraica cum punctis]	Paris	1544-46	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	450.00
336		Lucanus (M. A.) De Belli Civili libri decem...			GBP 25.00 - 35.00	40.00
337		Borgia (Francesco, Duke of Gandia) Tutte l'opere spiritali...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	70.00
338	Calvin (Jean)	Institutio christianae religionis	Geneva	1568	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	70.00
339		Bible. Testamenti Novi	Lyon	1569	GBP 25.00 - 30.00	30.00
340		New Testament, Greek. Nouum Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia	Paris	1569	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	25.00
341	STOBAEUS (JOANNES)	Eclogarum libri duo: quorum prior physicas, posterior ethicas complectitur... interprete Gulielmo Cantero. Vna & G. Gemisti Plethonis De rebus Peloponncs., orationes duae		1575	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	60.00
342		LITURGY, Latin Rite, Ritual of Augsburg. Ritus Ecclesiastici Augusten-sis Episcopatus...	Dillingen	1580	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
343		Petrarca (F.) II Petrarcha con l'espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	160.00
344	Saluste Du Bartas (G.)	Les Oeuvres...			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
345	RAMUSIO (G. B., Editor)	NAVIGATIONI ET VIAGGI	Venice	1565-88	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	500.00
346		Alamanni (L.) La Coltivazione...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	75.00
347	Ranzovius (H.)	Hypotyposis Archium, Patatiorum, Librarorum [etc.] ed. P. Lindeberg	Frankfort	1592	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	55.00
348	LIPSIUS (J.)	POLIORCETICON SIVE DE MACHINIS, TORMENTIS, TELIS, libri quinque	Antwerp	1596	GBP 90.00 - 120.00	130.00
349	[VERSTEGAN (RICHARD)]	Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum	Antwerp	1604	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	100.00
350	COLERUS (JOHANNIS)	Oeconomia Oder Hauszbuch, Erste [-Dritte] Theil...	Wittemberg	1604-7	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	420.00
351	[COLONNA (FRANCESCO)]	LE TABLEAU DES RICHES INUENTIONS COUUERTES DU VOILE DES FEINTES AMOUREUSES, QUI SONT REPRESENTEES DANS LE SONGE DE POLIPHILE, desvoilees des ombres du songe & subtilement exposees par Beroalde	Paris	1600 [1610 or later]	GBP 450.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
352		Tacitus (P. C.) Tacito espanol ilustrado con Aforismos, por Don Baltasar Alamos de Barrientos...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	110.00
353	PINTO PEREYRA (ANTONIO)	HISTORIA DA INDIA no tempo em que a governou o Visorey Dom Luis de Ataide	Coimbra	1616	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
354		Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme liberata...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	70.00
355	[REMESAL (ANTONIO DE)]	[Historia de la Provincia de S. Vicente de Chyapa y Guatemala de la Orden de nro Glorioso Padre Sancto Domingo]	[Madrid]	[1619]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	160.00
356	CATZ (J.)	Self-Stryt, dat is: Krachtighe beweginghe. Van Vleesch ende Geest	[Middelburg]	[1620]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	160.00
357	Hugo (Hermann, S. J.)	Pia Desideria Emblematis	Antwerp	1628	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
358	Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)	[Opera] Accedunt nunc Danielis Heinsii De Satyra Horationa Libri duo	Leiden	1629	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	130.00
359	LANSBERGEN (PHILIPPUS VAN)	Commentationes in Motum Terrae Diurnum, & Annuum	Middelburg	1630	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	160.00
360		Ville (Anthoine de) De la Charge des Gouverneurs des Places...			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	220.00
361	Le Laboureur (Jean)	Les Tombeaux des Personnes illustres	Paris	1642	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	35.00
362	Galeota (Fabio Capece)	Responsa fiscalia selectiora. .. pro defensione Regii Patrimonii in Neapolitano Regno. . . accesserunt indices locupletissimi	Naples	1643	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	20.00
363		Severus (Sulpitius) Historia Sacra...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	12.00
364		Baudoin (Jean) Recueil d'Emblemes divers...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	75.00
365		Bibliana, Dutch. Bibels Tresoor...	Amsterdam	1646	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	120.00
366	Greaves (John)	Pyramidographia...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	22.00
367		RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SERVICE BOOK. Sluzhebnik of Joseph the Patriarch	[Moscow]	[18 July 1651]	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	65.00
368	Terentius Afer (Publius)	Comoediae Sex	Leyden	1651	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	10.00
369	Glauber (J. R.)	Explicatio Tractatuli, qui Miraculum Mundi...			GBP 40.00 - 50.00	38.00
370	Shapiro (Nathan)	Matzat Shemurim (Kabbalistic treatise on Matzah [unleavened bread] and other matters	Venice	1660	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	45.00
371		New Testament, Hebrew. Quatuor Evangelia Novi Testamenti ex Latino in Hebraicum sermonem versa ab loanne Baptista Iona	Rome	1668	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	35.00
372	Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de)	Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha	Anvers	1673-72	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	45.00
373	Schaten (N.)	Carolus M. Romanorum Imperator et Francorum Rex Romano-Catholicus	'Neuhusii'	1674	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	90.00
374		Marcus ab Abaco. D. O. M. Cyclus Philosophicus in Suscitatorum Academia, siue Conclusiones ex Vniuersa Philosophia	Venice	1676	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	25.00
375		Stephanus Byzantinus [i.e. Stephen, of Byzantium] De Urbibus...			GBP 30.00 - 45.00	40.00
376		Pardies (I. G.) Oeuvres de Mathematiques...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	48.00
377		Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Epigrammata...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	14.00
378	[La Feuille (D. de)]	Devises et Emblemes Anciennes & Modernes tirces des plus celebres Auteurs	Augsburg	1695	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
379		BIBLE, Dutch. BIBLIA, dat is, de gantsche H[eylighe] Schriftuure. . . des Ouden ende Nieuwen Testaments	Amsterdam	1702	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
380	Vauban ([Sebastien Le Prestre] de)	Veritable maniere de bien fortifier	Amsterdam	1702	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	42.00
381	LORENZ DE RADA (FRANCISCO)	Nobleza de la Espada	Madrid	1705	GBP 75.00 - 100.00	50.00
382		Venice-Degl' Istorici delle cose Veneziane, i quali hanno scritto per Pubblico Decreto	Venice	1718-22	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	160.00
383	[HELYOT (P.) AND M. BULLOT.]	Histoire des ordres monastiques religieux et militaires	Paris	1721	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
384	Cats (J.)	Huuwelyk, dat is, het gantsche beleyt des Echten Staats; afgedeelt in ses Hoost-stukken	Amsterdam	1723	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	95.00
385	Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius	[Poemata]	Paris	1723	GBP 30.00 - 45.00	42.00
386		Grotius (Hugo) De Veritate Religionis Christianae...			GBP 15.00 - 25.00	15.00
387	CELLINI (BENVENUTO)	Vita	Cologne [Naples]	[1728]	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	260.00
388	Brumoy (Pierre)	Le Theatre des Grecs	Paris	1730	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	100.00
389		STICHTZE ALMANACH na den nieuwen Stijl	Utrecht	1733	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	240.00
390	Duval (Nicolas)	Nouvelle Methode pour apprendre facilement l'Art de toutes les Ecritures	Paris	1735	GBP 70.00 - 80.00	45.00
391	La Rue (Pieter de)	Staatkundig en heldhaftig Zeeland...			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	160.00
392	Picart (B.)	Le Temple des Muses	Amsterdam	1742	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	120.00
393	Lairesse (Gerard de)	Les Principes du Dessein	Amsterdam	1746	GBP 25.00 - 35.00	85.00
394	Rexach (Baldiri)	Instruccions per la Ensenyansa de Minyons			GBP 30.00 - 40.00	8.00
395		BIBLE, DUTCH, STATES-GENERAL VERSION. BIBLIA, dat is de gantsch H[eylighe] Schrifture...	Dordrecht	1756, 55	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
396	Boccaccio (Giovanni)	Il Decamerone	" Londra" [Paris]	1757	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	120.00
397	BRAVO (B.) AND P. DE SALAS	Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus utriusque linguae verbis...			GBP 70.00 - 80.00	45.00
398		CATALOGUE DES LIVRES DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE. . . LA MARQUISE DE POMPADOUR	Paris	1765	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	220.00
399		Juicio Imparcial sobre las Letras, en forma de Breve, que ha publicado la Curia Romana, en que se intentan derogar ciertos Edictos del. . . Duque de Parma			GBP 50.00 - 70.00	35.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.