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
588	Franciscus Philelphus	Epistolarum libri sedecim .. . cum oratione diviAmbrosii.. . et Alani Aurigae	Paris	1513	GBP -	30.00
589		Philo Judaeus	Paris	1575	GBP -	48.00
590		Philo			GBP -	55.00
591	Franciscus de Platea	Opus restitutionum usurarum et excom-municationum	Venice	22 January 1477	GBP -	100.00
592	Bartolomeo Platina	Hystoria de vitis pontificum periucunda diligenter recognita	Venice	22 August 1504	GBP -	38.00
593	Bartolomeo Platina	De vitis maxi	Venice	29 October-! November 1511	GBP -	24.00
594	Bartolomeo Plantina	Le vite di tutti i Pontefici da S. Piero in qua ridotte in epitome da Tomaso Costo .. . seconda la descrizzione del Platina	Venice	1592	GBP -	14.00
595	Bartholomaeus Platina de Cremona	Platine de honeste volupte	Lyons	June 1528	GBP -	380.00
596		Plautus	Venice	1522	GBP -	18.00
597	C. Plinius Secundus	Historiae naturalis libri 37 ab Alexandro Benedicto ... emendatiores			GBP -	50.00
598	Caius Pliñius Secundus	Historiae naturalis libri 37 aptissimi figuris exculti Benedicto Vefronensis]... redditi	Venice	20 August 1513	GBP -	35.00
599	C. Plinius Secundus	Historia naturale di lingua latina in florentina per Christophoro Landino	Venice	14 August 1516	GBP -	45.00
600	Caius Plinius Secundus	Historia mundi	Basle	February-March 1535	GBP -	22.00
601	Caius Plinius Secundus	Historiae mundi libri xxxvii	Lyons	1561-1560	GBP -	10.00
602	Caius Plinius	Des furtrefflichen hochgelehrten alten Philosophi Bucher und Schriften von der Natur art und eigenschafft der Creaturen. .. verteutscht durch Johan Heyden	Frankfurt	1565	GBP -	75.00
603	C. Plinius Caelius Secundus	Epistolarum libri X	Paris	January 1533	GBP -	20.00
604	C. Plinius Caelius Secundus	Epistolarum libri X	Paris	January 1533	GBP -	14.00
605	C. Plinius Secundus junior	Liber illustrium virorum	Strassburg	March 1510	GBP -	22.00
606	C. Plinius Secundus junior	De viris illustrious liber [and other works]			GBP -	10.00
607		Plutarch	Paris	15 July 1520	GBP -	28.00
608		Plutarch	Paris	February 1532	GBP -	4.00
609		Plutarch	Venice	March 1532	GBP -	8.00
610		Plutarch	Basle	1542	GBP -	14.00
611		Poggius Florentinus	Venice	8 March-12 February 1476	GBP -	260.00
612	Benigne Poissenot	L'este	Paris	1583	GBP -	42.00
613	Angelus Politianus	Omnia opera	Paris	20 February 1519	GBP -	24.00
614		Polybius	Antwerp	1582	GBP -	10.00
615	Franciscus Pomey	Pantheum mythicum seu fabulosa deorum historia	Amsterdam	1741	GBP -	5.00
616	Franciscus Pomey	Pantheum mythicum seu fabulosa deorum historia		1752	GBP -	4.00
617	Petrus de Ponte	Ad diversos amicos epistole familiares	Paris	[c. 1515]	GBP -	60.00
618		Pontificate Romanum	Lyons	8 May 1511	GBP -	95.00
619		Porphyrius	Paris	1537	GBP -	10.00
620		Porphyrius and Aristoteles	Louvain	1553	GBP -	30.00
621		Portraits	Holland	1623	GBP -	14.00
622		[Postel (Guillaume "Elias Pandochus") IiANOENftZIA compositio omnium dissidorum circa aeternam veritatem aut verisimilitudinem versantium	Paris	1540	GBP -	60.00
623		Precationes aliquot celebriores e sacris bibliis desumptae	Paris	1554	GBP -	30.00
624		Precationes Biblicae Sanctorum Patrum. . . utriusque testamenti	Lyons	1538	GBP -	26.00
625	Caesariensis Procopius	Agathias Myrrinaeus and Iornandus Alanus	Geneva	1594	GBP -	14.00
626		Prosper of Aquitaine (Saint, Bishop of Reggio) Opera	Lyons	1539	GBP -	18.00
627		Prothocolle (Le) des secretaires et aultres gens desirans scauoir l'art et maniere de dicter en bon francoys toutes lettres	Lyons	1534	GBP -	160.00
628		Psalter		1575	GBP -	80.00
629		Psalter	Paris	1575	GBP -	16.00
630		Ptolemaeus [De judiciis etc.] In Claudii Prolemaei quadripartitum enarrator ignoti nominis	Basle	September 1559	GBP -	42.00
631	Paris de Puteo	De sindicatu ... in materia sindicatus omnium official-ium tractatus	Lyons	1533	GBP -	5.00
632		Pythagoras	Pavia	12 March 1516	GBP -	38.00
633	M. Fabius Quintilianus	Institutiones oratorie ac declamationes.. G. Philandri recognite	Paris	February 1531-November 1530	GBP -	20.00
634	Marcus Fabius Quintilianus	Oratiorarium Institutionum libri XII	Paris	1519-20	GBP -	22.00
635	Francois Rabelais	Les oeuvres contenant cinq livres de la vie	Lyons	1599	GBP -	28.00
636	Wilhelm Radelantius	Decisiones posthumae curiae provincialis Traiectinae	Utrecht	1637	GBP -	10.00
637	Juan Francisco Ramos del Manzano	Tribonianus sive errores Triboniani de poena parricidii	Leiden	1752	GBP -	10.00
638	Petrus Ramus	Dialectique de Pierre de la Ramee a Charles de Lorraine	Paris	1555	GBP -	750.00
639	R. Rapin	Eclogae	Paris	1723	GBP -	5.00
639a	Johannes Raulin	Doctrinale mortis sacrarum litterarum			GBP -	6.00
640	Johannes Ravisius Textor	De memorabilibus et Claris jmuliebribus	Paris	8 November 1521	GBP -	28.00
641		Raymondo de Capua	Siena	1524	GBP -	100.00
642		Registre (Le) des ans passez	Paris	1532	GBP -	200.00
643		Registre (Le) des ans passes depuis la creation du monde jusqu'a l'annee presente	Paris	1532	GBP -	16.00
644	Nicolaus Reusner	Icones sive imagines virorum uteris illustrium	Strassburg	1587	GBP -	70.00
645	Nicolaus Reusner	Icones sive imagines vivae uteris cl. virorum Italiae	Basle	1589	GBP -	35.00
646		Reveve (La) des trouppes d'amour a Madame D. S. P. D. D.A. L. R.	Paris	1667	GBP -	10.00
647	Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus	Lectionum antiquarium libri XVI	Venice	February 1516	GBP -	85.00
648	Bartholomseus Riccius	Triumphus Iesu Christi Crucifixi	Antwerp	1608	GBP -	22.00
649	Paulus Ricius	In apostolorum simbolum . . . dialogue	Pavia	16 November 1517	GBP -	12.00
650	Innocentio Ringhieri	Dialoghi della vita et della morte	Bologna	1550	GBP -	26.00
651	Cesare Ripa	Iconologia overo descrittione di diverse imagini cavate dairantichita	Rome	1603	GBP -	16.00
652	Cesare Ripa	Iconologie ou explication nouvelle de plusieurs images	Paris	1636	GBP -	40.00
653	Cesare Ripa	Iconologie ou explication nouvelle de plusieurs images	Paris	1644	GBP -	38.00
654	Cesare Ripa	Icomologie ou explication nouvelle des de plusieurs images	Paris	1644	GBP -	55.00
655	Johannes Franciscus de Sancto Nazario Ripa	Interpretationum et responsorum	Avignon	1527	GBP -	18.00
656	Antich Rocha da Gerona	Arithmetica... de varios auctores recopilada	Barcelona	1564-65	GBP -	35.00
657	Werner Rolewink	Fasciculus temporum	Strassburg	1490	GBP -	32.00
658	Werner Rolewinck	Fasciculus temporum	Lyons	1495	GBP -	190.00
659	Werner Rolewink	Formula videndi canonicorum			GBP -	190.00
660	Nicolas Rolland	Censure d'un livret nagueres imprime a Paris	Paris	1594	GBP -	42.00
661	Joannes Romberch de Kyrspe	Congestiorum artificiose memorie . .. omnium de memoria observantie predicatorie	Venice	9 July 1520	GBP -	20.00
662	Gerardus de Roo	Ármales rerum belli domique ab Austriacis Hab-spurgicae gentis principibus a Rudolpho primo usque ad Carolum V. gestarum	Innsbruck	1592	GBP -	18.00
663	Gerardus de Roo	Annales rerum belli domique ab Austriacis Hab-spurgicae gentis principibus a Rudolpho primo usque ad Carolum V. gestarum	Innsbruck	1592	GBP -	16.00
664	Gerardus de Roo	Der Oestereichischern Fursten Geschicht Besch-reibung	Innsbruck	1592	GBP -	22.00
665		Rosario della ... Maria Vergine . . . racolta dal R. P. M. Benedetto Zoioso da Udine	Venice	1589	GBP -	10.00
666	Filippo de' Rossi	Ritratto di Roma moderna	Rome	1652	GBP -	18.00
667	Frederik Rostgaard	Delicias quorundam poetarum Danorum	Leiden	1693	GBP -	16.00
668	Richard alias Verstegen Rowlands	Theatrum crudelitatum haere-ticorum nostri temporis first edition	Antwerp	1588	GBP -	240.00
668a	Guy de Roye	Le doctrinal de sapience qui contient tous les estaz du monde	Paris	[c. 1520]	GBP -	35.00
669	Don Robert Rusca	Breve compendio di alcuni huomini illustri per dignita	Milan	1598	GBP -	10.00
670	Girolamq Ruscelli	Lettera ... a M. Girolarrio Mutio	Venice	1551	GBP -	10.00
671	Diego de Saavedra Fajardo	Ida principis Christiani politici	Amsterdam	1659	GBP -	26.00
672	Raymundus de Sabunde	Theologia naturalis sive liber creaturarum specialiter de hoie et de natura ejus inquantum homo	Lyons	15 May 1526	GBP -	18.00
673	Joannes de Sacro Bosco	Libellus de anni ratione	Antwerp	1551	GBP -	28.00
674	Jacobus Sadoletus	De bello suscipiendo contra Turcos ad Ludovicum regem Galliarum oratio	Rome	c. 1509	GBP -	60.00
675	Octavien Saint Gelais	Le seiour dhonneur	Paris	1503	GBP -	260.00
676		Salomon	Venice	16 October 1501	GBP -	48.00
677	Crispus Gaius Sallustius	Ópera Ascensii familiaris interpretatio	Lyons	27 October 1506	GBP -	12.00
678	Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas	La sepmaine	Paris	1592	GBP -	32.00
679	Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas	Premiere (-seconde-suite des oeuvres)	Rouen	1601-1593	GBP -	50.00
680	Diego de San Pedro	Petit traite	Lyons	1570	GBP -	32.00
681	Telesphore de Sanees	Livre merveilleux	Lyon	1574	GBP -	26.00
682	S. Pietro Sardi	Architettura militare	Venice	1639	GBP -	60.00
683	Hieronymus Savonarola	Prediche sopra amos propheta	Venice	1528	GBP -	16.00
684	Ducato di Savoia Statuta (Sabaudiae)	Savoy	Turin	21 September 1530	GBP -	90.00
685	Bartolomeo Scappi	Opera dell'arte del cucinare con laquale di puo ammaestrare qual si voglio cuoco	Venice	1610	GBP -	85.00

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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.