Sothebys: AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF 15th and 16th CENTURY CONTINENTAL BOOKS MAINLY PRINTED IN FRANCE, CIVIL,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 19, 1972 - June 19, 1972

Page Size: 806 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Leon Abravanel	Philosophic d'amour . . . traduite d'ltalien en Francois	Paris	1577	GBP -	30.00
2		Accord de la querelle de Mrs. les Dues de Nevers & Prince de Joinville faict par le Roy en presence de Mrs. les Princes du Sang et autres princes		1622	GBP -	6.00
3	Columna Aegidius	Romanus	Venice	4 May 1482	GBP -	90.00
4		Aelianus	Venice	1552	GBP -	20.00
5	Claudius AElianus	De varia historia libri XIIII	Lyons	1577	GBP -	12.00
6	Paulus Aemilius Veronensis	De rebus gestis Francorum . . . libri decern	Paris	1539	GBP -	4.00
7	Paulus Aemylius Veronensis	De rebus gestis Francorum . . . libri decern	Paris	1544	GBP -	22.00
8	Paulus Aemylius Veronensis	De rebus gestis Francorum libri X	Paris	1566	GBP -	10.00
9		Aeneas Platonicus or Gazaeus	Basle	1516	GBP -	32.00
10		Aeschines			GBP -	8.00
11		Aesop	Paris	c. 1495	GBP -	220.00
12		AEsop	Basle	1524	GBP -	16.00
13		AEsop	Lyons	1609	GBP -	10.00
14	Henricus Cornelius Agrippa	De occulta philosophia libri tres	Cologne	July 1533	GBP -	110.00
15	Henricus Cornelius Agrippa	De incertitudine & vanitate scientiarum declamatio		1537	GBP -	16.00
16		Alanus de Insulis	Leipzig	[14]99	GBP -	70.00
17	Govanni Battista Alberti	Opuscoli morali .. . tradotti ... da Cosimo Bartoli	Venice	1568	GBP -	26.00
18	Leon Battista Alberti	L'architecture et art de bien bastir	Paris	1553	GBP -	170.00
19		Albumasar			GBP -	170.00
20		Albumasar	Venice	5 September 1506	GBP -	55.00
21		Albumasar	Venice	31 May 1515	GBP -	120.00
22	Andreas Alciatus	Emblemata cum commentariis . . . per Claudium Minoem	Antwerp	1577	GBP -	22.00
23	Andreas Alciatus	Oratio ... in initio praelectionis habita	Paris	1536	GBP -	32.00
24	Andreas Alciatus	Paradoxorum	Basle	1531	GBP -	18.00
25	Petrus de Alliaco	Questiones . . . super libros sententiarum			GBP -	170.00
26	Joannes Altenstaig	Vocabularius theologie complectens vocabulorum descriptiones	Hagenau	13 December 1517	GBP -	22.00
27		Amadis de Gaule	Paris	1550	GBP -	12.00
28		Ammianus Marcellinus	Bologna	21 April 1517	GBP -	32.00
29	Michael Andreae or Andreas	De apparitionibus spiritum disputatio theologica per thesem proposita ad quas in Archiepiscopali Collegio Societatis Jesu Moguntiae . . . respondebit			GBP -	42.00
30		Annonius (or Aimonius) Monachus Benedictini (of the Abbey of Fleury sur Loire)	Paris	1514	GBP -	55.00
31		Annonius Benedictinus			GBP -	50.00
32		Antiphonarium Romanum abbreviatum pro dominicis & festis solemni-bus as usum pauperum ecclesiarum	Venice	1561	GBP -	75.00
33		Antoninus (Archbishop of Florence) Quarta pars (only, of 4) totius majoris beati Antonini	Venice	6 November 1503	GBP -	16.00
34		Antoninus Augustus	Lyons	[c. 1545]	GBP -	28.00
35		Appianus	Paris	1569	GBP -	32.00
36		Apuleius	Paris	1570	GBP -	60.00
37		Apuleius [Asinus Aureus] cum commento Beroaldi	Venice	16 September 1510	GBP -	55.00
38	Lucius Apuleius	Metamorphoseos	Paris	1536	GBP -	16.00
39	Lucius Apuleius	Apuleo volgare tradotto	Venice	1537	GBP -	65.00
40	Saint Thomas Aquinas	Summae theologiae tertia pars	Venice	10 April 1486	GBP -	50.00
41	Saint Thomas Aquinas	In tres Psalterii primos nocturnos . .. exposi-tiones	Venice	1505	GBP -	24.00
42	Saint Thomas Aquinas	Quaternarius	Lyon	1512	GBP -	95.00
43	Saint Thomas Aquinas	In omnes beati Pauli Apostoli epistolas commentaria adnotationibus illustrata. . . F. Jacobus Albertus Castrensis	Paris	1541	GBP -	26.00
44	Lionardo Aretino	La historia universale de suoi tempi... & special-mente da Fiorentini in diverso tempi fino al . . . 1560	Venice	1561	GBP -	12.00
45	Lodovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso .. . aggiuntovi Li cinque canti	Venice	1587	GBP -	55.00
46	Alexander Ariostus	Enchiridion sive interrogatorium perutile pro animabus regendis	Paris	6 June 1520	GBP -	28.00
47		Aristoteles	Siena	1508	GBP -	50.00
48	Hammonius Hermea	Aristoteles	Venice	1541	GBP -	12.00
49		Aristoteles	Paris	1559	GBP -	25.00
50		Aristoteles	Paris	1580	GBP -	20.00
51		Armure de patience	Paris	1534	GBP -	150.00
52	Juan de Arphe y Villafane	Quilatador de la plata oro y piedras	Valladolid	1572	GBP -	320.00
53	Juan de Arphe y Villafane	Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura	Madrid	1773	GBP -	12.00
54		Arnobius	Rome	1542	GBP -	14.00
55		Astrology			GBP -	260.00
56	Saint Aurelius Augustinus	Expositio de sermone Domini in monte	Paris	8 May [14]94	GBP -	70.00
57	Saint Augustinus	S. Augustijns innighe alleensprake der sielen tot God nu nyeu en gheheel over gheset	Antwerp	[c. 1520-30]	GBP -	90.00
58	Saint Augustinus	Libro primo de la predistinatione de sancti	Brescia	1537	GBP -	12.00
59	Saint Augustinus	Confessionum libri tredecim	Tournon	1588	GBP -	35.00
60	Sextus Aurelius Victor	Historias Romanas Breviarium	Antwerp	1579	GBP -	26.00
61	Decius Magnus Ausonius	Omnia . . . Opera . . . emendata . . . per Eliam Vinetum	Bordeaux	1580	GBP -	80.00
62	Decius Magnus Ausonius	Omnie . . . opera	Bordeaux	1580	GBP -	28.00
63	Martial d' Auvergne	Aresta amorum LI	Lyons	1546	GBP -	22.00
64	L. de Baif	De re vestiaria libellus	Paris	1541	GBP -	14.00
65	Petrus Baldus de Ubaldis and others	Tractatus exquisitissimi de questionibus et tormentis	Paris	3 October 1508	GBP -	34.00
66	Arnoldus Bartholomaeus	Parvulus philosophiae naturalis figuralis interpretatio in epitoma philosophic naturalis	Basle	December 1511	GBP -	32.00
67		Bartholomaeus degli Albizzi (da Pisa or de Rinonichi) Liber con-formitatis	Milan	18 August 1513	GBP -	65.00
68		Bartholomaeus degli Albizzi de Rinonichi	Bologna	1590	GBP -	20.00
69		Bartolus de Saxoferrato	Lyons	1537-38	GBP -	20.00
70	Bernardus Basin	De artibus magicis ac magorum malificiis opus praclarissimum	Paris	1506	GBP -	100.00
71	Venerable Bede	Operum tomus tertius in quo enarrationes in . . . D. Pauli epistolas continentur			GBP -	22.00
72	Francois de Belleforest	L'innocence de la tres illustre . . . Marie royne d'Ecosse	Lyon	1572	GBP -	100.00
73	Pierre Belon	Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia	Antwerp	1589	GBP -	50.00
74	Pietro Bembo	Rime . . . corrette & riuedute per Thomaso. Porcacchi	Venice	1569	GBP -	16.00
75	Guilelmus Bendictus	Repetitio capituli	Lyons	1544	GBP -	10.00
76	Michel Berauld	Brieve et claire defense de la vocation des Ministres de l'Euangile contre la replique de Messire laques Dauy Euesque d'Eureux	Montauban	1598	GBP -	35.00
77	Saint Bernardus	Sermones	Speier	[after 31 August 1481]	GBP -	70.00
78	Saint Bernardus	De concordantia statuum religiosorum De dispensatione et praecepto			GBP -	100.00
79	Saint Bernardus	Flores operum	Lyons	1570	GBP -	18.00
79a	Saint Bernardus	Opuscula			GBP -	18.00
80	Matthaeus Beroaldus	Chronicum	Geneva	1575	GBP -	10.00
81	Philippus Beroaldus	Declamarlo ... libellus de optimo statu (and other texts)			GBP -	28.00
82	J. B. Bertrand	Dissertatio de hygieine tuendae sanitatis	Valence	1710	GBP -	4.00
83		Biblia Latina	Basle	27 June 1491	GBP -	110.00
84		Biblia Latina (edited by Petrus Ángelus de Monte Ulmi)	Venice	7 September 1492	GBP -	50.00
85		Bible in Latin	Basle	1514	GBP -	42.00
86		Biblia Sacra	Lyons	26 October-15 December 1520	GBP -	22.00
87		Bible in Latin	Lyons	1526	GBP -	70.00
88		Bible in Latin	Basle	1538	GBP -	48.00
89		Biblia Sacra juxta Germanam Hebraici idiomatis proprietatem . . . interprete Xante Pagnino Lucense	Cologne	1541	GBP -	40.00
90		Biblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti	Lyons	1546	GBP -	24.00
91		Biblia Sacra ad optima quaeque veteris ut vocant tralationis exemplaria	Lyons	1569	GBP -	12.00
92		Bible	Antwerp	1541	GBP -	80.00
93		Bible	Lyons	1554	GBP -	55.00
94	Gabriel Biel	Inventarium generale breve et succinctum contentorum in quattuor collectoriis Gabrielis (Super primum (-quartum) sententiarum)	Basle	1512	GBP -	20.00
95	Gabriel Biel	Super canone misse cum additionibus	Lyons	10 September 1527	GBP -	4.00
96	Gabriel Biel	Supplementum in octo et viginti distinctiones ultimas Quarti Magistri Sent			GBP -	26.00
97	Francoys de Billon	Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur su sexe femenin	Paris	1555	GBP -	200.00
98	Modesto Paroletti	Binding	Turin	[c. 1800]	GBP -	22.00
99	Flavius Blondus	Le historie	Venice	1543	USD -	Not Sold

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.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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