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
488 Clement Marot and Theodore Beza Les pseaumes mis en rime francais Lyon

1564

 GBP - 32.00
489 Hippolytus de Marsiliis Practica causarum criminalium . . . correcta ac emendata Lyons

1529

 GBP - 24.00
490 Hippolytus de Marsiliis Tractatus de questionibus in quo materia maleficiorum pertractantur Lyons

1528-29

 GBP - 16.00
491 Marcus Valerius Martialis Epigrammata (with commentary by Domitius Calderinus) Venice

12 June 1482

 GBP - 45.00
492 Marcus Valerius Martialis Epigrammaton libri XIIII Paris

1528

 GBP - 5.00
493 Marcus Valerius Martialis Epigrammaton libri XIIII Lyons

1550

 GBP - 6.00
494 Charles Mavelot Nouveau livre de chiffres . . . ouvrage utile aux peintres Paris

1680

 GBP - 5.00
495 Francois Maynard Les oeuvres Paris

1646

 GBP - 50.00
496 Jacobus Mazzochius Epigrammata antiquae urbis Rome

April 1521

 GBP - 75.00
497 Joannes Meder Parabola filii glutonis profusi atque prodigi [Quadragesimale] Paris

17 July 1511

 GBP - 18.00
498 Richard de Mediavilla In primum (-secundum) sententiarum (Petri Lombardi) questiones Venice

1 June 1507-28 March 1509

 GBP - 20.00
499 Meffreth Basle

20 January 1487

 GBP - 45.00
500 Anselmus Meiani Enchiridion naturale continens sexaginta questiones Paris

5 November 1500

 GBP - 25.00
501 Georg Meier Sentential veterum poetarum Lyons

1551

 GBP - 5.00
502 Pomponius Mela De orbis situ libri tres Paris

1530

 GBP - 16.00
503 Michael Menotus Perpulcher tractatus in quo tractatur perbelle de federe et pace ineunda media ambassiatrice penitentia Paris

3 March 1519

 GBP - 14.00
504 Mercurius (or Hermes) Trismegistus Paris

1505

 GBP - 130.00
505 F. Marinus Mersenne Harmonicorum Libri in quibus agitur de sonorum natura Paris

1636

 GBP - 32.00
506 Mesue Venice

23 June 1502

 GBP - 130.00
507 Jean de Meung Le plaisant jeu du Dodechedron de fortune Paris

1577

 GBP - 40.00
508 Joannes Ludovicus Micquellus Aurelias urbis memorabilis ab anglis obsidio Paris

1560

 GBP - 60.00
509 Tomas Mieres Prima pars aurei apparatus . .. super constitutionibus et capitulis curiarum Cathaloniae Barcelona

28 July 1533

 GBP - 10.00
510 Mirabilis liber qui Prophetias Revelationes necnon res mirandas preteritas presentes et futuras aperte demonstrat Paris

25 May 1522

 GBP - 22.00
511 Octavianus Mirandula Illustrium poetarum flores Lyons

1553

 GBP - 12.00
512 Mirouer dor (Le) de lame pecheresse Paris

[after 1532]

 GBP - 170.00
513 Missal for the use of Marseille Lyons

30 August 1530

 GBP - 28.00
514 Missale Romanum Venice

1572

 GBP - 10.00
515 Petrus de Monte Monarchia Lyons

1512

 GBP - 60.00
516 Alonso Morgado Historia de Sevilla Seville

1587-1586

 GBP - 100.00
517 Georg Morgenstern Sermones contra omnem mundi puersum statum Leipzig

1501

 GBP - 16.00
518 Anthonius Muretus Terentius . . .t emendatus nunc primum figuris artificiosis illustratus Frankfurt

1579

 GBP - 10.00
519 M. Antonius Muretus Variarum lectionum libri XV Antwerp

1586

 GBP - 10.00
521 Huldericus Mutius De Germanorum prima origine moribus institutis legibus et memorabilibus

GBP - 45.00
522 Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis Rerum a Fernando & Elisabe Hispaniarum . . . regibus gestarum decades duae . . . annexa Archiep Granada

1545

 GBP - 45.00
523 Giovanni Nevizzano Sylva nuptialis Lyons

1540

 GBP - 10.00
524 New Testament

GBP - 8.00
525 New Testament Gryphius

1543

 GBP - 1.00
526 New Testament Paris

1573

 GBP - 3.00
527 New Testament Geneva

1622

 GBP - 22.00
528 Nicolaus de Ausmo Venice

1482

 GBP - 35.00
529 Nicolaus de Lyra Lyons

1487

 GBP - 110.00
530 Nicolaus de Lyra Paris

c. 1495

 GBP - 55.00
531 Johannes Nider Praeceptorium divinae legis Cologne

c. 1490-93

 GBP - 90.00
532 Augustinus Niphus Parva naturalia Venice

2 March, 1523

 GBP - 38.00
533 Normandy Rouen

1539

 GBP - 200.00
534 Notitia utraque cum orientis turn occidentis ultra Arcadii honoriique Caesarum tempora Basle

1552

 GBP - 24.00
535 Officium B.M.V. Venice

c. 1515

 GBP - 220.00
537 Optatus (Saint, Bishop of Milevum in Africa) Delibatio Africanas historas ecclesiastica Paris

1569

 GBP - 4.00
538 Orden de los cinco ayunos por estile seguido y corriente Amsterdam

(?c. 1700-1720)

 GBP - 28.00
539 Ordonnancien Statuten Gent

1559

 GBP - 60.00
540 Ordonnances (Les) et statuz royaulx faicts per les tres chrestiens roys de France Paris

10 April 1517

 GBP - 12.00
540a Ordonnances et instructions faictes par feu de bonne memoire les Roys Charles VII Paris

[? c. 1530]

 GBP - 8.00
541 Origenes Adamantius Venice

21 November 1502

 GBP - 18.00
542 Origenus Adamantius Paris

15 July 1522

 GBP - 20.00
543 Regnault d' Orleans Les observations de diverses choses remarquees sur l'estat Vennes

1597

 GBP - 45.00
544 Regnault d' Orleans Les observations de diverses choses remarqees sur l'estat couronne & peuple de France Vennes

1597

 GBP - 16.00
545 Paulus Orosius Opus prestantissimum Paris

21 January 1506

 GBP - 16.00
546 Publius Ovidius Naso Opera (edited by Barnabas Celsanus) Vicenza

12 August 1480

 GBP - 20.00
547 Publius Oviidius Naso Libri de Ponto cum . . . commentariis . . . Bartholomaei Merulae Venice

9 October 1507

 GBP - 24.00
548 Publius Ovidius Naso Fastorum libri diligenti emendatione . . . Antonio Constantio Fanensi Venice

1520-1517

 GBP - 150.00
549 Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphosis libri moralizati . . . cum Lac-tantii . . . argumentis . . . tropologica favularum per . . . Petrum Lavinium . . . denuo Raphaeli Regii.. . enarrationes Lyons

13 September 1524

 GBP - 28.00
550 Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoseos librorum xv opus auctum et recognitum Lyons

22 October 1527

 GBP - 40.00
551 Publius Ovidius Naso Heroides Venice

1543

 GBP - 6.00
552 Publius Ovidius Naso Fastorum lib Lyons

1547

 GBP - 8.00
553 Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoseon libri XV Venice

1574

 GBP - 26.00
554 Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoseon libri XV Venice

1586

 GBP - 22.00
554a Ovid

GBP - 18.00
555 Georgius Pachymeres In universam Aristotelis disserendi artem epitome

GBP - 30.00
556 Julius Pacius Ad novam Imperatoris Friderici constitutionem Speier

1587

 GBP - 35.00
557 Santes Pagninus Habes hoc in libro . . . Hebraicas institutiones Lyons

1 October 1526

 GBP - 85.00
558 Giovambattista Palatino Libro nelqual s'insegna a scriver ogni sorti lettera antica & moderna Venice

1561

 GBP - 38.00
559 Guido Pancirolus Notitia utraque dignitatum cum Orientis turn Occidentis ultra arcadii honoriique tempora Lyons

1608

 GBP - 8.00
560 Heinricus Pantaleon Prosopographiae herorum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniae pars tertia equeprimaria Basle

1566

 GBP - 18.00
561 Claude Paradin Alliances genealogiques des Rois et Princes de Gaule Lyons

1561

 GBP - 20.00
562 Paratus Paris

1518

 GBP - 8.00
563 Estienne Pasquier Les lettres Avignon

1590

 GBP - 24.00
564 Saint and Apostle Paul Epistolae Paris

1545

 GBP - 4.00
565 Paulus Venetus

GBP - 38.00
566 Pausanius Leipzig

1696

 GBP - 9.00
567 Alvarus Pelagius De planctu ecclesiae desideratissimi libri duo Lyons

1517

 GBP - 45.00
568 Alvarus Pelagius De planctu ecclesie libri duo Lyons

1517

 GBP - 50.00
569 Pelbartus de Themeswar

1520

 GBP - 10.00
570 Camillo Pellegrino Apparato alie antichita di Capua overo discorsi della Campania delice Naples

1651

 GBP - 8.00
571 Guilelmus Pepin De Imitatione Sanctorum Paris

1520

 GBP - 8.00
572 Guilelmus Pepin Rosarium aurem mysticum nuper editum Paris

[? c. 1520]

 GBP - 25.00
573 Gulielmus Peraldus Sermones moralissimi super evangelia dominicalia totius anni Avignon

20 July-20 November 1519

 GBP - 32.00
574 Bernardo Perez de Vargas Segunda parte de la Fabrica del Universo llamado Repertorio perpetuo en que se tratan grandes . .. materias de astrologia .. . con un breve sommario de las hystorias y cosas notables Toledo

1563 (dated at end: 1560)

 GBP - 24.00
575 Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopia sive commentariorum linguae latinae Milan

28 October 1510

 GBP - 60.00
576 D. Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopie quod est erarium latine linguae rerumque ac verborum foecundissimum Paris

12 July 1514

 GBP - 24.00
577 Aulus Flaccus Persius Satyrae Paris

1523

 GBP - 14.00
578 Francesco Petrarca Opera latina Venice

27 March 1501

 GBP - 85.00
579 Francesco Petrarca Li sonetti canzoni e triumphi con li soi commenti Venice

May 1513

 GBP - 60.00
580 Francesco Petrarca Trionfi Venice

1522

 GBP - 7.00
581 Petrarca Venice

1581 (dated at end: 1582)

 GBP - 22.00
582 Silvester Petrasancta Notae in epistolam Petri Molinaei ad Balzacum cum responsione ad haereses Antwerp

GBP - 8.00
583 Titus Petronius Arbiter Satyricon Paris

1587

 GBP - 22.00
584 Petronius Cologne

1696

 GBP - 22.00
585 Melchior Pfintzing Der aller-durchleuchtigste Ritter oder die... Gross-Thaten Augsburg

[? 1679]

 GBP - 240.00
586 Phasdrus Leiden

1598

 GBP - 10.00
587 Franciscus Philelfus De librorum educatione aurei libri sex Paris

1520

 GBP - 4.00
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <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. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>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…</i>
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    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.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> 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. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    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.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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. <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>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> 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.
    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.