Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, CONTINENTAL BOOKS OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY, INCLUDING BRUNUS ARETINUS'S Historia Fiorentina, 1476, BIONDO'S Roma instaurata, 1481-82, Biblia Germanica, 1483, ST. BRIDGET'S Revelationes, 1500, Biblia , 1980(Oxford),

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 04, 1980 - February 04, 1980

Page Size: 305 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Angelucci (A.)	Catalogo della Armeria Reale	Turin	1890	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
2	BUCHNER (J. S.)	THEORIA ET PRAXIS ARTILLERIAE	Nurnberg	1683-1685	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	320.00
3	Chafrion (D. Joseph)	Plantas de las fortificaciones. .. del Estado de Milan	Milan (?)	[c. 1687]	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
4	COSSON (Baron DE)	LE CABINET D'ARMES DE MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD Due DE DINO	Paris	1901	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
5	Deidier (Abbe)	Le parfait Ingenieur Francois	Paris	1742	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	170.00
6	LORINI (BUONAIUTO)	LE FORTIFICATIONI	Venice	1609	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
7	VAUBAN (SEBASTIEN LE PRESTRE DE)	DE L'ATTAQUE ET DE LA DEFENSE DES PLACES. .. UN TRAITE PRATIQUE DES MINES	The Hague	1737-1742	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	350.00
8	[Zardetti (C.)]	Descrizione degli Scudi posseduti da Ambroglio Uboldo	Milan	[c. 1839]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
9	BRUNUS ARETINUS (LEONARDUS)	HISTORIA FIORENTINA	Venice	12 February, 1476	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	1,200.00
10		COLLECTION OF 29 LEAVES FROM INCUNABULA		1469-1500	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	1,500.00
11		[SCRIPTORES REI RUSTICAE. Cato. Varro. Columella. Palladius]	Venice	1472	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
12	BIONDO (FLAVIO)	ROMA INSTAURATA. DE ORIGINE ET GESTIS VENETORUM. ITALIA ILLUSTRATA	Verona	20 December 1481-7 February 1482	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	550.00
13		BIBLE, German. BIBLIA GERMANICA	Nuremberg	17 February 1483	GBP 6,000.00 - 10,000.00	8,500.00
14	AUGUSTINUS (AURELIUS)	[OPUSCULA, begins] Meditationes	Venice	23 July 1484	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	[SALIS (BAPTISTA DE)]	SUMMA CASUUM CONSCIENTIAE QUAE BAPTISTINIANA NUNCUPATUR	Nuremberg	14 April 1488	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	250.00
16	BAPTISTA [SPAGNUOLI]	MANTUANUS. PARTHENICE PRIMA SIUE MARIANA	Deventer	10 February 1492	GBP 300.00 - 450.00	260.00
17		[CATHARINA Senensis, S. DIALOGO. . . DELA DIVINA PROUIDENTIA]	Venice	17 May 1483	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	350.00
18	HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS)	OPERA. Cum quatuor com[m]entariis: & figuris nup[er] additis	Venice	5 February 14[9]5	GBP 700.00 - 800.00	900.00
19	VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE)	[LEGENDA AUREA] Lombardica hystoria que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sancto[rum] appellate	Nuremberg	2 April 1496	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	600.00
20	BRANT (SEBASTIAN)	STULTIFERA NAVIS. .. IA PRIDEM PER IACOBU LOCHER. .. IN LATINU TRADUCTA ELOQUIU	Strassburg	1 June 1497	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	800.00
21	VALLA (LAURENTIUS)	Dialectice. .. libri tres	[Milan]	[c. 1498]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	170.00
22	SULPITIUS Verulanus (JOANNES)	[METRICA, begins on f.2] De versuu scansione...	[Venice]	[c. 1495-1500]	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	400.00
23	Pico DELLA MIRDANDULA (GIOVANNI)	OPERA	Bologna, [i.e. Lyons]	20 March 1496-n.d. [1498-1500]	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	400.00
24	ARISTOTELES	TEXTUS ETHICORU. .. [ad Ni]comachum, commentary by Martinus Magistri and Johannes Buridanus			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
25	BRIDGET (Saint, of Sweden)	REUELATIONES	Nuremberg	21 September 1500	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
26	LUCRETIUS CARUS (TITUS)	[DE RERUM NATURA] libri sex nuper emendati	Venice	December 1500	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	2,800.00
27	[BUSTI (BERNARDINUS DE)]	[TESAURUS SPIRITUALIS]	[Lyons]	[23 March, 1500/1]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
28	LIVIUS (TITUS)	Decadis	Venice	1501	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	55.00
29	MARTIALIS (MARCUS VALERIUS)	[EPIGRAMMATA]	Venice	December 1501	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
30	VALERIUS MAXIMUS (GAIUS)	DICTORUM ET FACTORUM MEMORABILIUM LIBRI NOVEM	Venice	October 1502	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	260.00
31	AESOP AND OTHERS	VITA, & FABELLAE [etc.]	Venice	October 1505	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	500.00
32		HORAE, Use of Rome. [HORE DIUE V[IR]GINIS MARIE SCD'M VERO VSUM ROMANU]	[Paris]	[17 December 1505]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	400.00
33		OFFICIO BEATE MARIE S[ECUNDU]M VSUM ROMANU	[Venice]	[1512]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	400.00
34		BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome. Hor[a]e diu[ina]e v[ir]g[in]is Mari[a]e s[e]c[un]d[u]m vsum Romani	Paris	9 August 1514	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,900.00
35		HORAE, Use of Rouen. CES PRESENTES HEURES SONT A LUSAIGE DE ROUEN TOUTES AU LONG SANS RIENS REQUERIR			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,500.00
36		HORAE, Use of Rome. HORE IN LAUDEM. .. MARIE SECUNDUM CONSUETUDINEM. .. ECCLESIE ROMANE	Paris	[1537-50]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	600.00
37		BOOK OF HOURS. HEURES DE NOSTRE DAME A USAGE DE ROME...			GBP 350.00 - 500.00	400.00
38	BERGOMENSIS FORESTUS (JOHANNES PHILIPPUS)	SUPPLEMENTUM CHRONICARUM	Venice	4 May 1506	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,000.00
39		THOMAS A KEMPIS. Liber de imitatioe Christi...			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	500.00
40	RICOLDUS de Montecrucis	CONTRA SECTAM MAHUMETICAM. .. [et] libell[um] de vita & morib[us] Iudaeoru[m]	Paris	30 April 1511	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	320.00
41	IAMBLICHUS	DE MYSTERIIS, AEGYPTIORUM, CHALDAEORUM, ASSYRIORUM [and other works]	Venice	November 1516	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	380.00
42	MURTIUS (GALEOTTUS, OR EMMANUELE GALEOTTI)	DE HOMINE; Georgius Merula. In librum de homine Galeotti; Galeotus. Refutatio	Turin	20 February 1517	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
43	VIRGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS)	Opera	Lyons	20 August & 3 December, 1517	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
44		HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE SCRIPTORES. [OPERA] ex recognitione Des. Erasm Roterodami	Basle	June 1518	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	95.00
45	PLUTARCH	Opuscula quaeda	Basle	September 1518	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	110.00
46	BARTHOLOMAEUS Anglicus [de Glanvilla]	DE RERU[M] PROPRIETATIBUS, THOMAS HEARNE'S COPY	Nuremberg	3 May 1519	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	130.00
47	CAESAR (GAIUS JULIUS)	COMMENTARIORUM DE BELLO GALLICO LIBRI VIII...	Venice	November 1519	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	120.00
48	Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)	Poemata Omnia	Venice	November, 1519	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	50.00
49	[PFINTZING (MELCHIOR)]	[DIE GEUERLICHEITEN UND EINS TEILS DER GESCHICHTEN DES. . . HELDS UND RITTERS TEWRDANNCKHS]	[Augsburg]	[1519]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,400.00
50	Erasmus (Desiderius)	Ad reverendissimu Moguntinen. praesulem. .. cpistola, nonnihil D. Martini Lutheri negocium attingens	[Wittenberg]	1520	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	160.00
51	Erasmus (Desiderius)	[Adagiorum chiliades quattuor]	Basle	January 1523	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	150.00
52	Erasmus (Desiderius)	Adagiorum chiliades quatuor. .. [additae sunt], Henrici Stephani animadversiones in Erasmicas quorundam adagiorum expositiones	[Geneva]	1558	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	130.00
53	ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)	OPERA OMNIA	Leiden	1703-06	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	260.00
54	Erasmus (Desiderius)	L'eloge de la folie, traduit...	[Paris]	1751	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
55	LUTHER (MARTIN)	TOMUS PRIMUS [-SEPTIMUS] OMNIUM OPERUM	Wittemberg	1558-51 -57	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	280.00
56	LUTHER (MARTIN)	BIBLE, German. BIBLIA DAS IST: DIE GANTZE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT: DEUTSCH. DOCT. MART. LUTH	Wittemberg	1556	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
57	LUTHER (MARTIN)	TOMUS PRIMUS [-QUARTUS] OMNIUM OPERUM	Jena	1556-58 [1567]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	240.00
58	MELANCHTHON (PHILIP)	OMNIUM OPERUM PARS PRIMA [-QUARTA]	Wittemberg	1562-77	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	160.00
59	PONTANUS (PETRUS)	Petri Pontani caeci bruge[n]sis apologi[a]e tertia editio in literoedones [etc.]	Paris	May 1520	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	85.00
60	HORAPOLLO	DE HIEROGLYPHICIS notis a Bernandrino Trebatio Veicetino latinitate donatum	Paris	[c. 1520]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
61	ALCHABITIUS	OPUS AD SCRUTANDA STELLA[RUM] magisteria isagogicu[m]	Venice	18 June 1521	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
62	BUDE (GUILLAUME)	Libri V de Asse	Venice	1522	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	95.00
63	[DESREY (PIERRE)]	LE PREMIER VOLUME DES GRANDES POSTILLES et expositions des epistres et euangilles pour toute lannee	Paris	28 January 1531	GBP 150.00 - 225.00	140.00
64	DURER (ALBRECHT)	DE URBIBUS, ARCIBUS, CASTELLISQUE CONDENDIS, ac muniendis rationes aliquot, praesenti bellorum necessitati accommodatissimae	Paris	1535	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,000.00
65	BOEMUS (JOANNES)	OMNIUM GENTIUM MORES, LEGES, ET RITUS	Paris	1538	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
66		Strabo. Geographicorum lib. XVII	Basle	1539	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	40.00
67	MACHIAVELLI (NICCOLO)	Historie	Venice	January 1541	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
68	Placus (Andreas)	Lexicon Biblicon Sacrae Philosophiae	Cologne	1543	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	55.00
69		NEW TESTAMENT, Latin. Novi TESTAMENTI D. ERASMI ROTERODAMI AEDITIO POSTREMA	Mainz	1545	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
70	Lascaris (Constantinus)	Grammaticae compendium, Graecae linguae studiosis aptissimum	Basle	June 1547--	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
71	APIANUS (PETRUS)	LIBRO DELA COSMOGRAPHIA. . . augmentado por. . . Gemma Frisio. . . con otros dos libros del dicho Gemma	Antwerp	1548	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	700.00
72		NEW TESTAMENT, French. LE NOUUEAU TESTAMENT DE NOSTRE SEIGNEUR JESU CHRIST	Antwerp	1548	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	120.00
73	BRANDT (BERNHART)	VOLKUMNER BEGRIFF ALLER LOBWURDIGEN GESCHICH-TEN UND THATEN vorab Gottes wunderwercken. . . demnach aller Bapsten, Keysern, Kunigen, Landen, und Stetten bis auff das MDLIII	Basle	[1553]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
74	CHEKE (Sir JOHN)	De pronuntiatione Graecae potissimum linguae disputa-tiones cum Stephano Vuintoniensi Episcopo	Basel	1555	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
75	MEDINA (PEDRO DE)	L'ARTE DEL NAVEGAR	Venice	1555	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	850.00
76	Solinus (Gaius Julius)	Delle cose maravigliose del mondo	Venice	1559	GBP 25.00 - 40.00	35.00
77	Simeoni (Gabriele)	Dialogo pio et speculativo, con diverse sentenze Latine & volgari	Lyon	1560	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	60.00
78	GULIELMUS, Archbishop of Tyre	HISTORIA DELLA GUERRA SACRA DI GIERU-SALEMME. . . tradotta in lingua italiana da Gioseppe Horologgi	Venice	1562	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
79	ZOBEL (CHRISTOFF)	SACHSENSPIEGEL auffs newe ubersehen, mit Summary's und newen Addicionen	Leipzig	1563 (1561)	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	260.00
80		BIBLE, Polish. BIBLIA SWIETA	Brest-Litovski	4 September 1563	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
81	DONI (ANTONIO FRANCESCO)	La Zucca [Le Baie; Cicalamenti, Baie, et Chiachiere]	Venice	1551	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	380.00
82		BIBLIA SACRA, ex postremis doctorum vigiliis...	Lyon	1563	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	240.00
83		POETAE GRAECI PRINCIPES HEROICI CARMINIS, & alii nonnulli	[Geneva]	1566	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	85.00
84	Ariosto (Lodovico)	Orlando furioso	Venice	1568	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	75.00
85	Du Choul (Guillaume)	Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme un'altro discorso della castrametatione, & disciplina militare, bagni, & essercitii antichi di detti Romani. . . tradotti. .. da M. Gabriel Simeoni	Lyons	1569	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	70.00
86	MERCURIALIS (HIERONYMUS)	VARIARUM LECTIONUM LIBRI QUATUOR. .. Alexandir Tralliani De lumbricis epostola	Venice	1571-70	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	140.00
87	[CHAULIAC (GUY DE)]	FLORES DE GVIDO. .. POR ANTONIO IUAN DE VILLA FRANCA, MEDICO VALENCIANO		1514	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
88	BOIARDO (MATTEO MARIA)	HISTOIRE DE ROLAND L'AMOUREUX. .. mise en francois. .. part Iacques Vincent	Paris	1577	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	170.00
89	CIRCIGNANO (NICCOLO, called Pomarancio)	ECCLESIAE MILITANTIS TRIVMPHI...	Rome	1584-85	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
90	PADILLA (PEDRO DE)	GRANDEZAS Y EXCELENCIAS DE LA VIRGEN SENORA NUESTRA. Compuestas en otava rima	Madrid	1587	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	450.00
91	Machiavelli (Niccolo)	Tutte le opere	[? Geneva]	1550 [c. 1600]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	85.00
92	WOLFIUS (IOHANNES)	LECTIONUM MEMORABILIUM ET RECONDITARUM CEN-TENARII XVI	Lauingen	1600	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
93	DUCCHI (GREGORIO)	Il giuoco de gli scacchi ridotto in poema eroico, sotto prosopopea di due potenti re, & de gli eserciti loro	Vicenza	1607	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
94	Widdrington (Roger, pseud, i.e. Thomas Preston)	Apologia Cardinalis Bellarmini pro jure Principium. Adversus suas ipsius rationes	Cosmopoli [Paris]	1611	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	60.00
95	Sancius de Arevalo (Rodericus)	Speculum omnium statum totius orbis terrarum	Hanau	1613	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	70.00
96	AL-MAKIN (GEORGIUS IBN AL-AMID)	Historia Saracenica, qua res gestae Muslimorum inde a Muhammede Arabe, usque ad initium Imperii Atabacae. . . Latine reddita. . . studio Thomae Erpenii	Leyden	1625	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	130.00
97	KUSEL (MELCHIOR)	LES MISERES ET LES MAL-HEURS DE LA GUERRE	Augsburg	[c. 1630]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	340.00
98	Colom (Joannes)	Catalogue. Catalogus bibliothecae. . . D. Suffridi Sixtini...	Amsterdam	1650	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	1,000.00
99	LORET (J.)	LA MUZE HISTORIQUE; OU recuei'l des lettres en vers contenant les nouvelles du temps	Paris	1658-65	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
100	VILLE (ANTOINE DE)	Les fortifications	Paris	1666	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	100.00

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.
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