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
198		Conciliorum quatuor generalium Niceni Constantinopolitani Ephesini et Calcedonensis . . . aliorum aliquot Conciliorum generalium . . . Constantino-politana Constantiensis	Cologne	March 1530	GBP -	20.00
199	Cosme-Jean-Baptiste Concini	A fine collection of 32 pamphlets	Paris	1617-20	GBP -	180.00
200		Concordata inter sanctissimu dominu . . . Leone decimum et . . . nostrum regem Francisco huius nominis primu	Avignon	1519	GBP -	75.00
201		Constituciones Sinodales del Arcobiscopado de Zaragoza hechas por . . . Don Fray luan Cebrian	Zaragoza	1656	GBP -	8.00
202		Contenance (La) de la table	Paris		GBP -	24.00
203	Guillaume Coquillart	Les droits nouveaux	Paris	[c. 1520]	GBP -	20.00
204	Bernardino Corio	L'historia di Milano volgarmente scritta . . . di nuovo ristampate et . . . ristaurata	Venice	1554	GBP -	26.00
205	Luigi Cornaro	Trattato de la vita sobria	Padua	1558	GBP -	60.00
206	Gilies Corrozet	Propos memorables des nobles et illustres hommes de la Chrestiente	Lyons	1579	GBP -	14.00
207	Hieronimo Cortes	Phisionomia y varios secretos de naturaleza contiene cinque tratados de materias differentes	Perpignan	1610	GBP -	50.00
208		Council of Trent	Lyons	1563	GBP -	10.00
209		Council of Trent	Rouen	1618	GBP -	5.00
210		Courtisan a la mode (Le)			GBP -	50.00
211	Thomas de Sonnet	Courval	Rouen	1631	GBP -	55.00
212		Coustumes du pays et seigneurie de Lodunoys			GBP -	10.00
213		Coustumier (Le grant) de Bourgogne Bartholomei a Chasseneo Pontifici Cesareique . . . tertia recognitio	Paris	1534	GBP -	70.00
213a	Guillaume Dubois Cretin	Chantz royaulx	Paris	25 April 1527	GBP -	1,100.00
214	Petrus Crinitius	De honesta disciplina	Paris	15 October 1525	GBP -	22.00
215		Cronica cronicarum abbrege et mis p. figures descentes et rondeaux contenant deux parties principales	Paris	[c. 1525]	GBP -	26.00
216		Croniques (Les) et excellentz faitz des Diez	Paris	(c. 1510-20)	GBP -	30.00
217	Joannes Curio and Jacobus Crellius	De conservanda bona valetudine			GBP -	85.00
218	Quintus Curtius Rufus	De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. . . historia	Lyons	1548	GBP -	10.00
219	J. Dagonneau or G. Regnault	Legende de Domp Claude de Guyse	Paris	1581	GBP -	14.00
220	Eloy Damerval	Le livre de la diablerie	Paris	c. 1508	GBP -	30.00
221	Josst de Damhouder	Practycke in civile (- criminele) saken . . .uyt de Latijnsche in de Nederduytsche tale over - geset	Rotterdam	1660	GBP -	50.00
222	Nicolaus Denyse	Proclarissimum atque divinum opus quod gemma praedicantium nuncupatur			GBP -	22.00
222a	Philippes Des Portes	Les premiers oeuvres			GBP -	16.00
223		Destructorium viciorum	Paris	15 February 1516	GBP -	20.00
224		Dictys	Paris	1560	GBP -	7.00
225		Diodorus Siculus	Paris	1554	GBP -	35.00
226		Diodorus Siculus	Paris	1545	GBP -	50.00
227		Diogenes ou du moyen d'establir . . . une bonne et assuree paix en France and la rendre plus florissante	Paris	1582	GBP -	10.00
228		Diogenes	Lyons	1562	GBP -	3.00
229		Diomedes	Venice	14 November 1511	GBP -	25.00
230		Diomedes	Venice	24 September 1522	GBP -	28.00
231		Dion Cassius	Paris	1542	GBP -	80.00
232		Dionysius Areopagita	Paris	1556	GBP -	14.00
233		Dionysius Carthusianus	Cologne	September (at end: April) 1533	GBP -	22.00
234	Pedacius Dioscorides	Libri octo Graece et Latine	Paris	1549	GBP -	40.00
235		Diurnale ad usum sacri ordinis Cluniacensis nuper recognitum	Paris	1507	GBP -	16.00
236	Lodovico Dolce	Le trasformationi [Di Ovidio]	Venice	1553	GBP -	30.00
237	Lodovico Dolce	Le trasformationi			GBP -	22.00
238	Jean Donneau de Vise	Nouvelles galantes	Paris	1680	GBP -	38.00
239	Theodoricus Dorstenius	Botanicon continens herbarum aliorumque simplicium	Frankfurt	March 1540	GBP -	110.00
240	Martin Du Bellay	Les memoires contenant le discours de plusieurs choses advenues au royaume de France depuis MDXII . . . mis nouvellement en lumiere . . . par Rene du Bellay	La Rochelle	1573	GBP -	10.00
241	J. Dubois-Olivier	Le pourtraict royal de Henry le Grand Quatriesme du nom . . . Roy de France	Paris	1610	GBP -	16.00
242	Richard Du Buc	Devot traicte compile du livre de Genese	Paris	1539	GBP -	22.00
243	Jacques Du Fouilloux	Le Venerie . . . de nouveau reue et augmentee	Paris	1614-18	GBP -	150.00
244		Duns Scotus	Colonia	22 November 1481	GBP -	60.00
245	Johannes Duns Scotus	Tertius (-quartus) liber . . . ed. Mauritius Hivernicus de Porti	Paris	1513	GBP -	22.00
246	Guilielmus Durandus	Rationale divinorum officiorum	Lyons	1536	GBP -	14.00
247	Albrecht Durer	Les quatre livres . . . de la proportion des parties et pourtraicts des corps humains traduicts par Loys Meigret			GBP -	200.00
248	Paulus Eber	Calendarium historicum	Basle	1550	GBP -	42.00
249	Johannes Ebser	Onus ecclesiae	Cologne	June 1531	GBP -	65.00
250	Georg Eder	Oeconomia Bibliorum sive partitionum theologicarum libri V	Cologne	1571	GBP -	14.00
251	Baron d' Eisenberg	La perfezione e i difetti del cavallo	Venice	1753	GBP -	200.00
252	Angelo Elli da Milano	Specchi spirituale del principio et fine della vita humana	Viterbo	1643	GBP -	6.00
253		Emblem book	Siena	22 December 1625	GBP -	32.00
254	Diego Enriques Basurto	El triumpho de la virtud	Rouen	1649	GBP -	55.00
255	Saint Ephraim	Sermones ingeniosissimi ac sanctissimi . . . per Fr. Ambrosium Camaldulensem de greco in latinum conversi	Paris	14 February 1505	GBP -	14.00
256		Epiphanias (Bishop of Constantia) Contra octoaginta haereses opus	Paris	March 1544 (at end: 1534)	GBP -	18.00
257	Desiderius Erasmus	Christiani matrimonii institutio	Basle	1526	GBP -	30.00
258	Desiderius Erasmus	Dilucida et pia explanatio symboli quod Apostolorum dicitur	Basle or Antwerp	1534	GBP -	32.00
259	Desiderius Erasmus	De duplici copia commentarii duo			GBP -	14.00
260	Desiderius Erasmus	Familiarium colloquiorum . . . opus	Basle	1537	GBP -	24.00
261	Desiderius Erasmus	Epistolae familiares	Basle	1541	GBP -	18.00
262	Desiderius Erasmus	Carmen D. Genovefae sacrum	Paris	1566	GBP -	50.00
263	Charles Estienne	Vinetum in quo varia vitium . . . vinorum . . . nomina . . . continentur			GBP -	65.00
264	Charles Estienne	Praedium rusticum in quo cuiussui soli vel culti vel inculti plantarum vocabula ac descriptiones . . . describuntur	Paris	1554	GBP -	26.00
265	Charles Estienne	De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres	Paris	1545	GBP -	65.00
266	Charles Estienne	Paradoxes	Paris	1553	GBP -	22.00
267	Henri Estienne	Ciceronianum Lexicon GrEecolatinum [-In M.T. Ciceronis qua plurimos locos castigationes]	Paris	1557	GBP -	16.00
268	Henri Estienne	Hypomneses de Gall			GBP -	38.00
269	Robert Estienne	Dictionariums propriorum nominum virorum	Paris	1541	GBP -	75.00
270	Robert Estienne	De latinis et gratis nominibus arborum	Paris	1544	GBP -	26.00
271		Eusebius			GBP -	12.00
272		Eutropius	Paris	1512	GBP -	60.00
273		Eutychius (Patriarch of Egypt) Ecclesiae suae origines			GBP -	12.00
274		Evangeliorum Dominicalium summafia sanctorumque historiae . . . juxta Kalendarium Romanum	Antwerp	1584	GBP -	36.00
275a		Extraict de plusieurs sainctz Docteurs propositions dictz et sentences contenant les graces . . . du . . . sacrement de Lautel	Paris	1604	GBP -	5.00
275		Extraict de plusiers salcts	Paris	1586	GBP -	38.00
276	Antonius de Fantis	Tabula generalis Scotice subitilitatis octo sec-tionibus universam doctoris subtilis peritiam complectens	Pavia	17 May 1517	GBP -	26.00
277	Johannes Faber	In Justinianum codicem breviarium . . . necnon torturarum ac questionum insignis repetitio cum de . . . armis Bartoli tractatu	Paris	15 December 1499	GBP -	220.00
278	Joannes Ferrarius	Adnotationes in IIII Institutionum Iustiniani libros	Marburg	1532	GBP -	24.00
279	Marsilio Ficino	Le commentaire . . . sur le banquet d'Amour de Platon	Poitiers	1546	GBP -	42.00
280	Marsilio Ficino	De vita libri tres	Venice	1548	GBP -	14.00
281		Figures de la Sainte Bible	Troyes	[c. 1728]	GBP -	18.00
282	Oronce Fine	Arithmetica practica libris quatuor absoluta	Paris	1542	GBP -	85.00
283	John Fisher	De veritate corporis et sanguinis Christi in Eucharistia	Cologne	March 1527	GBP -	45.00
284		Fleur (La) des commandemens de Dieu	Paris	1536	GBP -	35.00
285	Andreas Dominicus Floccus	De magistratibus			GBP -	12.00
286	Juan de Flores	La deplourable fin de Fiamete	Lyons	1535	GBP -	38.00
287	Jacques Focard	Paraphrase de l'astrolabe . . . revue & corrigee par laques Bassentin	Lyons	1555	GBP -	75.00
288	Teofilo Folengo	Macaronicorum opus	Venice	1573	GBP -	20.00
289	Teofilo Folengo	Merlinus Cocaius	Venice	1581	GBP -	20.00
290	Teofilo Folengo	Poemata	Venice	1561	GBP -	14.00
291	Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle	Lettre . . . sur la resurrection			GBP -	6.00
292	Bernard de Fontenelle	Relation de l'isle de Borneo	Paris	1807	GBP -	14.00
293	Jacobus Forestus Bergomensis	Supplementum Supplement	Venice	20 August 1513	GBP -	100.00
294		French Tracts			GBP -	280.00

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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