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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
390		Joachim (Abbot of Fiore) Expositio in Apocalipsim	Venice	7 February 1527	GBP -	16.00
391		Johannes Gallensis	Venice	30 July 1496	GBP -	60.00
392		Johannes de Lapide	Perigueux	1498	GBP -	2,400.00
393		Johannes (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) Policraticus de nugis curialium et vestigiis philosophorum	Paris	25 May 1513	GBP -	16.00
394		Johannes de Sancto Geminiano	Venice	10 April 1497	GBP -	50.00
395		John XXII (Pope) Extravagantes viginti	Venice	1514	GBP -	10.00
396	Jean de Joinville	Histoire et chronique du treschrestien roy sainct Loys IX	Geneva	1596	GBP -	12.00
397	Flavius Josephus	Opera	Paris	April-May 1519	GBP -	30.00
398	Flavius Josephus	Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri XX	Basle	1534	GBP -	32.00
399	Gui Jouenneaux	In latine lingue elegantias tam a Laurentio Valla quam a Gellio memorie proditas interpretatio dilucida	Paris	30 August, 1515	GBP -	35.00
400		Joujou (Le) des Demoiselles avec de nouvelles gravures	Paris	c. 1752	GBP -	30.00
401	Paulus Jovius	Vitae illustrium virorum	Basle	1578-77 (dated at end: 1575)	GBP -	40.00
402		Julianus Imperator	Paris	1583	GBP -	16.00
403	Lorenzo Justiniano	Opera utilissima . . . chiamata de monastica conversatione	Venice	May 1527	GBP -	28.00
404		Juvenal	Venice	22 October 1522	GBP -	18.00
405		Juvenal	Venice	1539	GBP -	28.00
406		Juvenal	Venice	1548	GBP -	12.00
407	Georg Wolfgang Knorr	Allgemeine Kunstler Historie oder beriihmter K mistier Leben	Nuremberg	1759	GBP -	20.00
408	Albertus Krantzius	Chronica regnorum Aquilonarium Saniae	Strassburg	8 February 1548 (privilege on title: 1546)	GBP -	32.00
409	I. H. Krul	Pampiere Wereld ofte Wereldsche Oeffeninge waer in begrepen zijn meest alle de rijmen en werken	Amsterdam	1681	GBP -	20.00
410	Gundisalvus de La Cera	Commentaria in epistolam ad Romanos			GBP -	75.00
411	Lucius Coelius Lactantius	Divinarum institutionum libri septem (and other tracts)	Florence	October 1513	GBP -	10.00
413	Lucius Coelius Lactantius	Opera	Venice	1509	GBP -	10.00
414		Lactantius	Paris	1543 (dated at end: 1542)	GBP -	20.00
415	Jean de La Fontaine	Fables choisies	Paris	1755-59	GBP -	130.00
416	Andre Le Fournier	La decoration dhumaine nature et adornement des dames	Lyons	1533	GBP -	9.00
417	Vincent de La Loupe	Premier et second [et tiers] livte des dignitez	Paris	1560	GBP -	32.00
418		Lanfrancus (Archbishop of Canterbury) In Berengarium Turonensem	Rouen	1540	GBP -	12.00
418a	Constantinus Lascaris	De octo partibus oratione etc.	Venice	1512	GBP -	75.00
419	Jean Puget de La Setre	Mausolee erige a la memoire de . . . Isabelle Claire Eugenie d'Autriche	Brussels	1634	GBP -	65.00
420	Pierre Le Loyer	IV livres des spectres ou apparitions et visions d'esprits	Angers	1586	GBP -	85.00
421	Robert Le Macon	Les funerailles de Sodome et de ses filies		1610	GBP -	85.00
422	Pope Leo I.	Sermones	Paris	2 March 1515	GBP -	20.00
423		Leo X (Pope) Nove regule cancellarie	Lyons	1505	GBP -	10.00
424		Leo X	Paris	1538	GBP -	10.00
425	Francois Le Roy	Le livre de la femme forte et vertueuse declaratif du cantique de Salomon	Paris	[? 1505]	GBP -	100.00
425a		[Les miracles nostre dame] 48 leaves only (? of 52, lacks sig. a at beginning	Paris	22 October, 1506	GBP -	8.00
426	Dionysius de Leuwis	De perfecto mundi contemptu	Cologne	1534	GBP -	26.00
427		Liber Psalmorum	Paris	1533	GBP -	7.00
428		Liber sacerdotale nuperrime ex libris Sanete Romane ecclesie	Venice	March 1548	GBP -	28.00
429		Libri de re rustica	Paris	1529	GBP -	24.00
430	Fortunius Licetus	Hieroglyphica sive antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium quaesita moralia	Padua	1653	GBP -	24.00
431	Geofroy Linocier	L'histoire des plantes . . . simples aromatiques	Paris	1584	GBP -	75.00
432	Sir Thomas Littleton	Les tenures		1583	GBP -	32.00
433	Titus Livius	Decadi (with the Guerra Púnica of Aretinus)	Venice	11 February 1493	GBP -	90.00
434	Titus Livius	Decas prima (-quinta) Rerum ab urbe condita	Florence	1522	GBP -	22.00
435	Titus Livius	Le premier (-tiers) volumes des gras decades (translation P. Berchorius)	Paris	27 June 1530	GBP -	26.00
436	Titus Livius	Dat is de Roemsche historie oft Gesten . . . eerstmel in onser Nederlantscher spraken ghedruckt	Antwerp	1541	GBP -	100.00
437	Titus Livius	Ex XIII Decadibus Historiae Romanae ab urbe condita ... cum studio ... Beati Rhenani & Sigismundi Gelenii(with other commentaries)	Paris	1543-42	GBP -	12.00
438	Titus Livius	Romische Historien jetzundt... gebessert und gemehret	Mainz	1546	GBP -	50.00
439	Titus Livius	Les concions et harengues de Tite Live	Paris	1567	GBP -	16.00
440	Titus Livius	Von Ankunfft unnd Ursprung des Romischen Reichs	Strassburg	1581	GBP -	45.00
441	Titus Livius	Romanae historiae principis libri omnes	Geneva	1609	GBP -	10.00
442	Titus Livius	Romainsche historien sedert de bouwing van Romen to aan d'ondergang van't Macednische Rijk	Amsterdam	1646	GBP -	18.00
443		Livre (Le) de la discipline damour divine	Paris	22 January 1538	GBP -	80.00
444	Christophorus Longolius	Orationes duae pro defensione sua ab lese majestatis crimine... oratio una ad Luteranos ... epistolarium Bembi & Sadoleti			GBP -	18.00
445	Philippus Lonicerus	Chronicorum Turcicorum in quibus Turcorum origo	Frankfurt	1578	GBP -	30.00
446	Marguerite de Lorraine,	Le romant royal ou par plusieurs histoires et sous noms emppruntez sont representez les divers effets de l'amour	Paris	1621	GBP -	38.00
447	Jo. Petrus Lotichius	Rerum Germanicarum sub Matthia	Frankfurt	1646	GBP -	130.00
448		Lucan	Paris	22 December 1490	GBP -	140.00
449	Marcus Anneus Lucanus	Pharsalia	Paris	1514	GBP -	18.00
450		Lucanus	Paris	1543	GBP -	26.00
451	M. Annaeus Lucarnas	De bello civili libri decern			GBP -	42.00
452		Lucianus	Frankfurt	March 1538	GBP -	24.00
453	Cams Lucretius	De rerufn natura	Paris	12 August 1514	GBP -	55.00
454		Ludolphus de Saxonia Carthusiensis	Paris	30 January 1506	GBP -	28.00
455		Ludolphus de Saxonia Carthusiensis	Lyons	1542	GBP -	8.00
456		Ludolphus de Saxonia	Seville	1551	GBP -	35.00
457		Ludolphus de Saxonia	Venice	1581	GBP -	22.00
458		Ludolphus de Saxonia	Paris	1529	GBP -	20.00
459		Ludolphus de Saxonia	Paris	c. 1535	GBP -	28.00
460		Luis	Venice	1574	GBP -	12.00
461	Jacobus de Lusanna	Opus moralitatum . . . pro declamandis sermonibus . . . necessarium	Limoges	19 November 1528	GBP -	18.00
462	Ottomarus Luscinius	Iovi ac sales mire festivi	Augsburg	1524	GBP -	50.00
463	Martin Luther	Der erste Theil der Bucher	Eisleben	1564	GBP -	28.00
464	Conrad Lycosthenes	Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon	Basle	August 1557	GBP -	220.00
465	Conrad Lycosthenes	Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon	Basle	August 1557	GBP -	85.00
466		Macrobius Aurelius			GBP -	80.00
467	Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius	In somnium Scipionis libri II	Basle	1535	GBP -	18.00
468	Olaus Magnus	Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus	Antwerp	1562	GBP -	48.00
468a	Olaus Magnus	(Archbishop of Upsala) De gentium septentrionalium varus conditonibus	Basle	March, 1567	GBP -	75.00
469	Olivier Maillard	Sermones de adventu quadragesimales dominicales de stipendio peccati et gratiae praemio	Lyons	22 August 1498	GBP -	22.00
470	Olivier Maillard	Quadragesimale opus	Paris	4 October 1520	GBP -	4.00
471	Jacobus Mainoldus Galeratus	De titulis Philippi Austrii Regi Catholici liber atque in ipsas titulorum successiones tabulae	Bologna	1573	GBP -	6.00
472	M. Manilius	Astronomicon libri quinque	Heidelberg	1590	GBP -	38.00
473	Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus	Bucolica seu adolescentia in decern aeglogas divisa			GBP -	14.00
474		Devotions in French prose and verse (a few texts in Latin) addressed to St. Emilian		c. 1500 and later	GBP -	70.00
475		"L'Esprit du Calvaire 1687"			GBP -	32.00
476		New Testament in Latin		1443	GBP -	160.00
477		Philosophy	Caen	1690-1	GBP -	10.00
478		Philosophy	France		GBP -	14.00
479		"Recueil"		[c. 1717-47]	GBP -	20.00
480		Religious and moral texts in verse and prose	Northern Italy		GBP -	65.00
481		"Speculum Monastice Conversacionis editum per venerabilem D."	Northern Italy	c. 1480	GBP -	35.00
482	Aldus Manutius	Eleganze insieme con la copia della lingua Toscana	Venice	1572	GBP -	24.00
483	Paulus Manutius	Antiquitatum Romanarum liber de senatu	Venice	1581	GBP -	24.00
484	Joannes Marchesinus	Mammotrectus super Bibliam	Milan	29 August 1481	GBP -	45.00
485	Antonius Mancinellus	Speculum de moribus et officiis			GBP -	24.00
486		Merchandise spirituelle	Lyons		GBP -	90.00
487	Giovanni Marinello	La prima (-seconda) parte della copia delle parole ove si mostra una nuova arte di divenire il piu copioso & eloquente dicitore nella lingua volgare	Venice	1562	GBP -	30.00

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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