Sothebys: Music, Continental Printed Books and Manuscripts including Science and Medicine comprising autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books, 4708,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 01, 1994 - December 01, 1994
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Weber (Carl Maria von) | Autograph letter in English | [London] | 4 April 1826 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 862.00 |
| 402 | Weill (Kurt) | Fine autograph letter signed ("Kurt Weill") | 27 February 1934 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,725.00 | |
| 403 | Wolf (Hugo) | Autograph manuscript of the song "Lieber Alles" | 1888-1889 |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 404 | Zarlino (Gioseffo) | Istitutioni harmoniche | Venice | 1573 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,530.00 |
| 405 | Znamenny chant | GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,150.00 | |||
| 406 | Cicero (Marcus Tullius) | Tusculanae disputationes | Bologna | 27 July 1496 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 407 | [Isocrates. Oratio de laudibus Helenae] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 408 | Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) | Opera | Rome | 1468 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 20,700.00 |
| 409 | Ovidius Naso (Publius) | Fasti | Venice | 27 October 1492 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 410 | Ars moriendi | USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 411 | Aeschylus | [Geneva] | 1557 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 483.00 | |
| 412 | Antoninus Florentinus | Saint | 30 June 1487 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 413 | Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence | Suma de confession liamade defecerunt | Toledo | 28 January 1511 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 414 | Bernard of Clairvaux | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 | |||
| 415 | Berosus, Babylonicus | Paris | July 1509 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 416 | Bible | Venice | 1576 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 920.00 | |
| 417 | Bible | Paris | January 1512 [i.e. 1511?] |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 418 | Bible | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 10,350.00 | |||
| 419 | Bisschop (Jan de) | Signorum veterum icones | [?The Hague] | [c.1670] |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 |
| 420 | Bodin (Jean) | Discours sur le rehaussement et diminution des monnoyes | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,530.00 | ||
| 421 | Bodoni Press | Parma | 1793 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 422 | Book of Hours | Paris | [calendar: 1508-1528] |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 12,075.00 | |
| 423 | Book of Hours | Paris | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,220.00 | ||
| 424 | Capo Bianco (Alessandro) | Corona e palma militare: di arteglieria | Venice | 1598 |
USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 425 | Cassianus (Johannes) | De institutis cenobiorum | Basel | [after 24 September] 1485 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 426 | Catherine of Siena | Venice | 15 [but 19] September 1500 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,140.00 | |
| 427 | [Colonna (Francesco)] | La hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo | Venice | 1545 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 428 | Cicero (Marcus Tullius) | Secundo volumine haec continentur De natura deorum [etc.] | Venice | August 1523 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 747.00 |
| 429 | Creed (Cary) | The Marble Antiquities | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 | ||
| 430 | Dante Alighieri | La commedia (commentary by Christoforo Landino, edited by Piero da Figino) | GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 4,370.00 | ||
| 431 | Dante Alighieri | Convivio, first edition | Florence | 20 September 1490 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 432 | Dostoyevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich, editor) | Dnevnik pisatelya 1876, 1877, 1880 & 1881 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 433 | FULVIO (Andrea) | ILLUSTRIUM imagines | Rome | 15 November 1517 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,910.00 |
| 434 | [Duclos (Charles Pinot)] | Memoires pour servir de suite aux considerations sur les moeurs de ce siecle | [Paris] | 1767 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,185.00 |
| 435 | Early Printing | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 805.00 | |||
| 436 | Elzevir Press | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,325.00 | |||
| 437 | Girard (Pierre Jacques Francois) | Traite des armes | The Hague | 1740 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,150.00 |
| 438 | Gregory I, Pope | Dialogo | Venice | 20 February 1487 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 |
| 439 | Gregory IX, Pope | Decretales | Venice | 20 May 1514 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 440 | Hesychius | GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,955.00 | |||
| 441 | Horapollo | Paris | 1551 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 460.00 | |
| 442 | Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) | Opera cum quibusdam annotationibus [by Jacob Locher] | Strassburg | 12 March 1498 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 443 | Hugo de Prato Florido | Nuremberg | 6 May 1483 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,265.00 | |
| 444 | Huysmans (Joris Karl) | Un dilemme | Paris | 1887 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 445 | justinus | Leiden | 1760 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 517.00 | |
| 446 | Kafka (Franz) | In der Strafkolonie | Leipzig | 1919 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 690.00 |
| 447 | Kriegl (Georg Christoph) | Erb-Huldigung | Vienna | [c.1742] |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 448 | [La Fayette (Marie Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de)] | La Princesse de Cleves | Paris | 1678 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 4,025.00 |
| 449 | Liturgy | GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 | 3,910.00 | |||
| 450 | Liturgy | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 451 | Liturgy | 1777-1799 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 452 | Liturgy | Rome | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 453 | Machiavelli (Niccolo) | Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 632.00 | ||
| 454 | Macrobius (Aurelius Theodosius) | In somnium Scipionis expositio [Saturnalia] | Brescia | 15 May 1485 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 455 | Manuale chori secundum usum sanctae romanae ecclesiae | 1564 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 456 | Martialis (Marcus Valerius) | Epigrammata | Venice | 1480 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 457 | Mexia (Pedro) | Historia imperial y cesarea | Seville | 30 June 1545 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 632.00 |
| 458 | Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de) | Oeuvres | London | 1767 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 459 | Petrus Lombardus | Nuremberg | 1475-1476] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 460 | Ramhoffsky (Johann Heinrich) | Drey Beschreibungen | Prague | [1743] |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 977.00 |
| 461 | Renan (Ernest) | Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse | Paris | 1883 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 462 | Renan (Ernest) | Aristophanes | Paris | 1843 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 463 | Rossi (Giovanni Giacomo) | Insigniores statuarum urbis Rome icones | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,380.00 | ||
| 464 | Rousseau (Jean Jacques) | Les confessions | Geneva | 1782 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 465 | Rousseau (Jean Jacques) | Emile | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 466 | Sade (Donatien Alphonse Francois marquis de) | La philosophie dans le boudoir | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 14,950.00 | ||
| 467 | Sade (Donatien Alphonse Francois marquis de) | La nouvelle Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu | 1797 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 862.00 | |
| 468 | Sallustius Crispus (Gaius) | Opera cum plusculis additamentis [by jodocus Badius Ascensius] | Paris | 23 August 1508 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 |
| 469 | Sallustius Crispus (Gaius) | La conjuracion de Catilina y ia guerra de Jugurta | Madrid | 1772 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 470 | Savonaroia (Girolamo) | Apologia dei frati di San Marco | Florence | 1497 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 471 | Statius (Publius Papinus) | Opera | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 747.00 | ||
| 472 | Stendhal (Henri Beyle) | Racine et Shakspeare | Paris | March 1825 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 690.00 |
| 473 | [Thomas a Kempis] | Liber de imitatione Christi cum tractatu de cordis meditatione | Cologne | 1509 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 690.00 |
| 474 | Trithemius (Johannes) | De triplici regione claustralium et spirituali exercitio monachorum | Mainz | 6 August 1498 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 475 | Turrecremata (Johannes de) | Summa de ecclesia contra impugnatores potestatis summi pontificis | Rome | 27 April 1489 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 476 | Turrecremata (Johannes de) | Expositio super psalterio | Augsburg | [not after 1471] |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 477 | Verstegan (Richard) | Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis | Antwerp | 1592 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 575.00 |
| 478 | Vincentius Ferrerius | Sermones de sanctis | Lyons | 1490 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 460.00 |
| 479 | Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) | Vitruvius iterum et Frontinus a Iocundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licuit | Florence | October 1513 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 480 | Agricola (Georgius) | De ortu & causis subterraneorum [and other works] | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,025.00 | ||
| 481 | Agricola (Georgius) | De la generatione de le cose [and other works] | Venice | 1550 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 |
| 482 | Agricola (Georgius) | De i.'arte of metalli | Basel | 1563 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 920.00 |
| 483 | Agricola (Georgius) | De re Metallica | Basel | 1657 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,380.00 |
| 484 | Albertus Magnus | Liber mineralium | Cologne | 1499 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 10,350.00 |
| 485 | Biringuccio (Vanoccio) | Pirotechnia | Venice | 1559 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,725.00 |
| 486 | Caesius (Bernardus) | Mineralogia | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,840.00 | ||
| 487 | Ercker (Lazarus) | Beschreibung: Allerfurnemisten Mineralischen Ertzt unnd Berckwercks arten | Frankfurt am Main | 1580 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 488 | Lohneyss (Georg Engelhard von) | Bericht von Bergkwerk | 1617 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,900.00 | |
| 489 | Lohneyss (Georg Engelhard von) | Bericht von Bergwercken | Leipzig | 1690 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,955.00 |
| 490 | Mercati (Michele) | Metallotheca | Rome | 1719 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 491 | Pettus (Sir John) | Fodinae recales | 1670 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 575.00 | |
| 492 | Pettus (Sir John) | Fleta minor | 1683 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,955.00 | |
| 493 | Reaumur (R.A. Ferchault de) | L'art de convertir ee fer forge en acier et l'art d'adoucir le fer fondu | Paris | 1722 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 483.00 |
| 494 | Saxony | Zwickau | 1535 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 495 | Swedenborg, (Emanuel) | Opera philosophica et mineraeia | 1734 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 5,750.00 | |
| 496 | Agricola (Georgius) | De re Metallica | Basel | 1556 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 10,350.00 |
| 497 | Andry (Nicolas) | L'orthopedie | Paris | 1741 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,645.00 |
| 498 | Archimedes | Basel | 1544 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 13,800.00 | |
| 499 | Beverwijck (Jan van) | Wercken der Gennes-Konste bestaende in den Schat der Gesontheyt | Amsterdam | 1672 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 500 | Boodt (Anselmus Boetius de) | Gemmarum et lapidum historia | Hannover | 1609 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | 3,910.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
