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
295	Ioannes Fucherius	Ritus iudiciales	Paris	1548	GBP -	12.00
296	Leonhart Fuchs	De sanandis totius humani corporis ejusdem partium . . . malis libri V ... obiter etiam .. . epistola impudentissimum plagium Gualtheri Riffi . . . detegitur	Paris	1543	GBP -	45.00
297		Gabriel	Rouen	1515	GBP -	12.00
298	Robert Gaguin	Compendium de gestis Francorum	Paris	1507	GBP -	16.00
299	Robert Gaguin	Compendium super francorum gestis	Paris	11 December 1511	GBP -	10.00
300	Robert Gaguin	Compendium super Francorum gestis	Paris	12 July 1514	GBP -	12.00
301	Bartholomaeus Gajus	Epitome historico-chronologica gestorum omnium Patriarcharum Ducum	Rome	1751	GBP -	7.00
302	Claudius Galenus	Definitiones medice Jona philologo interprete			GBP -	48.00
303	Pietro de Torrigiano or Galenus-Turisanus	Plusquam commen-tum in Microtechni Galeni cum questione ejusdem de hypostasi	Venice	26 September 1517	GBP -	32.00
304	Claudius Galenus	De locorum affectorum notitia libri sex	Lyons	1549	GBP -	24.00
305		Galenus	Venice	1625	GBP -	32.00
306	Servatius Gallaeus	De Sibyllis earumque oraculis	Amsterdam	1688	GBP -	26.00
307	Antonius Gallonius	De SS. martyrum cruciatibus liber	Rome	1594	GBP -	26.00
308	Antonio Gallonio	De SS. Martyrum cruciatibus . . . liber	Rome	1594	GBP -	24.00
309	Angelus de Gambilionibus	De maleficiis	Lyons	12 May 1532	GBP -	14.00
310		Gassion	Londres	1744	GBP -	22.00
311		Joannes [Gastius] Convivalium sermonum liber	Basle	1541	GBP -	18.00
312	Theodorus Gaza	Institutionis grammaticae liber primus (-secundus)			GBP -	80.00
313	Aulus Gellius	Noctium atticarum libri XX summa accuratione Ioannis Connelli ad recognitionem Beroaldinam repositi	Paris	1511	GBP -	14.00
314	Aulus Gellius	Noctium Atticarum libri XXI	Paris	August-5 September 1517	GBP -	16.00
315	Aulus Gellius	Noctium Atticarum libri XXI			GBP -	60.00
316	Joannes Gerson	Opera	Strassburg	13 December 1494	GBP -	40.00
317	Johannes Gerson	De imitatione Christi			GBP -	22.00
317a	Joannes Gerson	Sermo de passione domini juxta mentem Evan-gelistarum ex vernaculo Gallico . . . donatus latinitati	Basle	1518	GBP -	14.00
318	Johannes Gerson	Sensuyent le doctrinal de la foy catholique livre tres bon et proffitable . . . de nouvel traduit de latin en francoys a l'utilite de tous bons chrestiens	Paris	1538	GBP -	10.00
318a		Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus morali satis ac mysticis de virtutibus et vitiis	Lyons	[?1510]	GBP -	22.00
319	Paolo Giovio	Dialogo dell' imprese militari et amorose	Lyon	1574	GBP -	65.00
320		Girofflier aux dames (Le)			GBP -	20.00
321		Girofflier aux dames (Le)			GBP -	18.00
322	Ranulphus de Glanvill	Tractatus de legibus et consuetidinibus regni Angliae		1604	GBP -	16.00
323	S. Fabio Glissenti	Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire	Venice	1596	GBP -	60.00
324	Denis Godefroy	Maintenue & defense des princes	Geneva	1592	GBP -	65.00
325	Hubert Goltz	C. Julius Caesar sive historiae Imperatorum Caesarum-que Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus	Bruges	1563	GBP -	48.00
326	Francesco Gonzaga	De origine Seraphicae religionis Franciscanae eiusque progressibus	Rome	1587	GBP -	26.00
327	Nicolaus de Gorra	Fundamentum aureum omnium anni sermonum	Paris	1509	GBP -	14.00
328		Grans regretz (Les) et coplainte de madamoyselle Du Pallais			GBP -	8.00
329	Cornelius Grapheus	Spectaculorum in susceptione Philippi Hisp. Prin. Divi Caroli V. Caes. F. An. MDXLIX Antwerpiae aeditorum mirificus apparatus			GBP -	16.00
330		Gratianus	Paris	22 March 1522	GBP -	28.00
331		Gratianus	Venice	May 1525	GBP -	14.00
332		Gratianus	Paris	1538	GBP -	10.00
333	Antonius Maria Gratianus	De bello Cyprio libri V	Rome	1624	GBP -	20.00
334		Gregorius I (Saint) Liber moralium in beatum Job	Basle	1503	GBP -	42.00
335		Gregorius IX (Pope) Decretales accurata . . . emendate	Venice	20 May 1514	GBP -	35.00
336		Gregorius Nazanzenus	Venice	June 1504	GBP -	40.00
337		Gregorius Turonensis	Paris	18 October 1512-13 November 1522 (for 1512)	GBP -	24.00
337a	Pierre Gringoire	Contredicts de songe-creux	Paris	1532	GBP -	32.00
338	Antonio de Guevara	Livre dore de Marc Aurele	Turin [Paris]	1535	GBP -	200.00
339	Francesco Guicciardini	La historia d'ltaiia . . . con le annotationi. . . dal Padre Remigio Fiorentino	Venice	1565	GBP -	12.00
340	Lodovico Guiccardini	Les heures de recreation et apres dinees	Paris	1573	GBP -	48.00
341		Guido de Monte Rochen			GBP -	58.00
342		Guillermus Arvernus			GBP -	30.00
343		Guillermus Arvernus (Bishop of Paris) Opera summa divinarum humanarumve rerum difficultates profundissime resolvens	Paris	5 July 1516	GBP -	12.00
344		Guillermus Parisiensis	Lyons	16 September 1506	GBP -	14.00
345	Johann Habermann	Praecationes in singulos septimanse dies	Strasbourg	1584	GBP -	24.00
346	Benedictus van Haeften	Schola cordis	Antwerp	1663	GBP -	22.00
347	Franciscus Haemus	Poemata	Antwerp	1578	GBP -	85.00
348	John Hay	Demandes faictes aux ministres d'Ecosse	Lyon	1583	GBP -	45.00
349		Henri II (King of France) Edict du Roy sur l'exemption des droictz de la traicte foraine	Paris	1559	GBP -	8.00
350		Henry II (King of France) Ordonnance du Roy nostre sire par laquelle II est defendu de mettre doresnavant eschallatz de quartier es vignes suivant lordonance du feu Roy	Paris	1548	GBP -	18.00
351		Henry III (King of France) Coppie d'une lettre envoyee par un gentil-homme estant a la suitte du camp du Roy . . . contenant les discours . . . de ce qui s'y est passe depuis le partement de Sa Majeste	Paris	1587	GBP -	16.00
352		Henri III (King of France)	Paris	1589	GBP -	26.00
353		Henry III (King of France) Le recueil de toutes les impressions les plus veritables mises en lumiere depuis le departement du Roy le XII de May 1588 jusques a present	Paris	1588	GBP -	12.00
354		Henri IV (King of France)	Lyons	1594	GBP -	18.00
354a		Henry IV (King of France) Traicte du mariage de Henry IV Roy de France . . . avec la Princesse de Florence			GBP -	22.00
355	Nicolas de Herberay	Le premier livre de la cronique du tres-vaillant & redoute Dom Flores de Grece			GBP -	150.00
356		Herodianus	Lyons	1554	GBP -	38.00
357		Herodotus Halicarnasseus	Paris	1566	GBP -	10.00
358	Gabriel Alonso Herrera	Libro de agricultura		1563	GBP -	16.00
359		Heures de Notre-Dame	Paris	c. 1540	GBP -	52.00
360		Hierocles			GBP -	30.00
361	Saint Hieronymus	Epistolae	Paris	1512	GBP -	16.00
362		Histoire (La tres joyeuse, plaisante et recreative) compose par le loyal serviteur des faitz	Paris	1527	GBP -	10.00
363		Histoire de nostre temps contenant les commentaires de l'estat de la religiS & republique sous les rois Henry & Francois seconds		1566	GBP -	4.00
364		Histoire pitoyable du prince Erastus	Paris	1584	GBP -	60.00
365	Robert Holkot	Opus revera insignissimum in librum sapientiae Salomonis editum	Paris	1518	GBP -	40.00
366		Homer			GBP -	32.00
367		Homiliae seu			GBP -	16.00
368		Homiliarius Doctorum	Cologne	[c. 1478]	GBP -	150.00
369	Andreas Hondorff	Promptuarium exemplorum das ist	Frankfurt	1577	GBP -	50.00
370		Horatius Flaccus	Milan	24 August 1508	GBP -	6.00
371	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Opera	Paris	28 September-! October 1519	GBP -	18.00
372	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Poemata omnia	Venice	March 1540	GBP -	12.00
373	Quintus Horatius Flaccus	Opera cum quatuor commentariis Acronis	Paris	1543	GBP -	14.00
374		Hours of the Virgin (Use of Bayeux)	Paris	(calendar 1502-1520)	GBP -	130.00
375		Hours of the Virgin (Use of Poitiers)	Paris	(calendar 1506-1520)	GBP -	95.00
376		Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rome) 74 leaves (imperfect)	Paris	1 August 1507	GBP -	20.00
377	Juan Huarte de San Juan	Anacrise ou parfait jugement et examen des esprits propres et naiz aux sciences . . . mis en francois . . . par Gabriel Chappuis	Lyons	1580	GBP -	35.00
378	Juan Huarte de San Juan	Anacrise	Lyons	1580	GBP -	35.00
378a	Hermann, S. J. Hugo	Pia desideria emblematis et affectibus . . . illustrata			GBP -	22.00
379		Humbertos de Romanis	Nuremberg	c. 1495	GBP -	80.00
380		Humbertus de Romanis	Paris	8 September, 1513	GBP -	22.00
381		Huon de Bordeaux	Paris	c. 1520	GBP -	10.00
382	Caius Julius Hyginus	Fabularum liber . . . ejusdem poeticon astrono-micon (and other works)	Basle	August 1570	GBP -	38.00
383	Caius Julius Hyginus	Fabularum liber [and other works]	Paris	1578	GBP -	14.00
384		Hylarius (Saint, Bishop of Poitiers) Opera complura	Paris	1510-11	GBP -	14.00
385		Iamblichus	Rome	1556	GBP -	32.00
386	Johannes ab Indagine	Chiromantia	Paris	1543	GBP -	32.00
387		Isidore (Saint, Bishop of Seville) Libellus soliloquiorum			GBP -	60.00
388		Iurisconsultus catholicus de theologorum assertione		1590	GBP -	12.00
389		Joachim (Abbot of Fiore) Expositio in Apocalipsim Psalterium	Venice	7 February, 1527	GBP -	20.00

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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.

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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.