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
686 Caspar Schatzgeier Apologia status fatrum ordinis minorum de observantia nuncupatorum declaratoria adversus patrem Bonifacium provincie Francie ministrum Basle

1516

 GBP - 40.00
687 Hartman Schopper LTANOÍIAIA omnium liberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens Frankfurt

1568

 GBP - 170.00
688 Sectanus Amsterdam

1700

 GBP - 14.00
689 Seneca Seville

28 May 1491

 GBP - 140.00
690 Seneca Venice

31 October 1492

 GBP - 100.00
691 Seneca Venice

7 September 1505

 GBP - 10.00
692 L. Annanis Seneca Des motz dorez Paris

GBP - 20.00
693 Seneca Paris

20 April 1527

 GBP - 12.00
694 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Opera quae extant omnia Basle

August 1557

 GBP - 10.00
695 Bartholomaeus Sibylla Speculum peregrinarum questionum Lyons

9 August 1521

 GBP - 8.00
696 Sibylle francoise (La) Paris

1621

 GBP - 5.00
697 Gaius Sollius Sidonius Apollinaris Lucubrationes Basle

March 1542

 GBP - 18.00
698 Carolus Sigonius Historiarum de Occidentali Imperio Libri XX

GBP - 15.00
699 Gajus Silius Italicus De bello Púnico Aldine anchor on title and last leaf Venice

July 1523

 GBP - 24.00
700 Caius Silius Italicus De bello púnico libri septemdecim Paris

1531

 GBP - 10.00
701 Silius Italicus Paris

1531

 GBP - 4.00
702 Silius Italicus

GBP - 14.00
703 Gabriele Simeoni Livre premier [-second] de Caesar renouvelle Lyon

1570

 GBP - 95.00
704 Josais Simler De Helvetiorum república Paris

1577

 GBP - 30.00
705 Paolo Soave Historia del Concilio Tridentino Geneva

1629

 GBP - 8.00
706 Society of Jesus Rome

1568-70

 GBP - 28.00
707 Bartholomasus Socinus Fallen Lyons

1541

 GBP - 8.00
708 Caius Julius Solinus Polyhistor Lyons

1539

 GBP - 8.00
709 Solomon Venice

16 October 1501

 GBP - 32.00
710 Sophocles Paris

1557

 GBP - 7.00
711 Sophocles Cambridge

1669

 GBP - 5.00
712 Baptista Spagnuoli Buccolica Lyons

1526

 GBP - 45.00
713 Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti Tragedia Venice

1546

 GBP - 20.00
714 William Howard Stafford Proces de ... pour crime de haute trahison Cologne

1681

 GBP - 10.00
715 Strabo Paris

15[12]

 GBP - 75.00
716 Strabo Basle

1571

 GBP - 110.00
717 Jacobus de Strada Thesauri antiquitatum hoc est Impp Zurich

1557

 GBP - 26.00
718 Josephus Struthius Sphygmicae artis libri V Basle

[1555]

 GBP - 16.00
719 Caius Suetonius Commentationes condite a Philippo Beroaldo adjecta paraphrastica M. Ant. Sabellici interpretatione in Suetonium Tranquillum Paris

1512

 GBP - 10.00
720 C. Suetonius Duodecim Caesaris ex Erasmi recognitione Paris

1543

 USD - Not Sold
721 Caius Suetonius Duodecum Caesares Paris

1543

 GBP - 4.00
722 Henricus de Suso Pulcherrimum sapientie horologii quod specio-sissimus decoratum rosis Paris

24 April 1511

 GBP - 12.00
723 Etienne Tabourot Les bigarrures du Seigneur des accords Paris

1585

 GBP - 22.00
724 Publius Cornelius Tacitus Les annales [Books I-V and XI-XVI] Paris

1581

 GBP - 20.00
725 Torquato Tasso La Gerusalemme liberata Padua

1628

 GBP - 28.00
726 Taxe cancellariae apostolice & taxe sacre penitentiate itidem aplice .. . cum descriptione Italiae ac compendio Universitatis Parisiensis Paris

1520

 GBP - 26.00
727 Terentius Afer Florence

1517

 GBP - 24.00
728 Publius Terentius Afer Andria Lyons

1548

 GBP - 10.00
729 Opera Terentius Afer in quern triplex edita est P. Atesignani Rapista-gnensis commentatio Lyons

1560

 GBP - 22.00
730 Publius Terentius Afer Comoediae sex Antwerp

1588

 GBP - 18.00
731 Theodoretus (Bishop of Cyrus) De curatione Graecarum affectionum libi XII Paris

1519

 GBP - 10.00
732 Andre Thevet La cosmographie untverselle Paris

1575

 GBP - 600.00
733 Thomas A. Kempis Le livre tressalutaire Paris

1 April 1494

 GBP - 60.00
734 Thomas de Argentina Ordinis Heremitarum Strassburg

1490

 GBP - 40.00
735 Thomas de Garbo Summa medicinalis . . . de restauratione humidi radicalis . . . de reductione medicinarum ad actum Lyons

6 April 1529

 GBP - 50.00
736 Thomas Ulyricus Turin

8 id. July 1524

 GBP - 85.00
737 Thucydides Paris

10 August 1527

 GBP - 32.00
738 Thucydides Paris

(c. 1530)

 GBP - 18.00
739 Thucydides Paris

1555

 GBP - 12.00
740 Thucydides Cologne

1550

 GBP - 10.00
741 Tibullus Venice

19 May 1500

 GBP - 55.00
742 Tocsain (Le) Rheims

1577

 GBP - 95.00
743 Trabisonda historiata con le figure alio soi canti nela quale se contiene nobilissime battaglie con la vita & morte de Rinaldo Venice

February 1535

 GBP - 14.00
744 Veit Traut Turkische Kayser Ankunfft Krieg und Sig wider die Christen biss auff den zwelfften . . . Soleymannum Augsburg

1543

 GBP - 110.00
745 Marx Treitzsauerwein Der Weiss Kunig . . . von den Thaten Kaiser Maximilian Vienna

1775

 GBP - 380.00
746 Jean Trenchant L'arithmetique ... ensemble un petit traite des changes Lyons

1558

 GBP - 60.00
747 Patricio Tricasso Enarratio pulcherrima principiorum chyromantiae Nuremberg

1560

 GBP - 42.00
748 Tristan Paris

26 May 1520

 GBP - 30.00
749 Johannes Tritheim Compendium sive breviarium primi voluminis annalium sive historiarum de origine regum et gentis Francorum Mainz

12 July 1515

 GBP - 20.00
750 Johannes de Tritheim De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis Paris

16 October 1512

 GBP - 40.00
751 Ubertinus de Casali Venice

12 March 1485

 GBP - 45.00
752 Matthias Ugonius De patriarchali praestantia (a-e8 ff)

15 July 1510

 GBP - 10.00
753 Mattias Ugonius De conciliis sinodia Venice

1563

 GBP - 55.00
754 Philipp Ulstadt Coelum philosophorum Paris

1544

 GBP - 48.00
755 Michael Uranius Epithalamium nuptiis .. . Christophori Hofmanni . .. ac .. . Annae Ackerman Mulhausen

1571

 GBP - 40.00
756 Leonardus Vairus De fascino libri tres Paris

1583

 GBP - 18.00
757 Guillaume Valdory Discours du siege de la ville de Rouen au mois de novembre 1591 Rouen

[1592]

 GBP - 26.00
758 Ioannes Valerianus Hieroglyphica sive de sacris Aegyptiorum uteris commentarii Basle

1556

 GBP - 95.00
759 Valerius Maximus [Factorum et dictorum memorabilium liber] cum duplici commentario ... Oliverii Arziganensis . . . Jodoci Badii Ascensii Paris

1510

 GBP - 22.00
760 Valerius Maximus Paris

1532

 GBP - 10.00
761 Valerius Maximus Paris

1540-44

 GBP - 6.00
762 Valerius Maximus Venice

1546

 GBP - 10.00
763 Valerius Maximus Lyons

1550

 GBP - 9.00
764 [Valladier (Abbe Andre] Labyrinthe royal de l'Hercule Gaulois triom-phant aur le suject des fortunes Avignon

[1601]

 GBP - 24.00
765 Franciscus Valieriola Observationum medicinalium libri sex Lyons

1573

 GBP - 35.00
766 Benedetto Varchi L'Hercolano Florence

1570

 GBP - 16.00
767 Jean de Vauxelles Le genese de M. Pierre Aretin Lyon

1542

 GBP - 140.00
768 Cesare Vecellio Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo Venice

1598

 GBP - 28.00
769 Jean Venette La vie des trois Maries de leur mere Lyons

6 July, 1519

 GBP - 12.00
770 Michel Verinus De puerorum moribus disticha Lyon

1560

 GBP - 48.00
771 Nicoletus Vernia Theatinus Contra perversam Averoys opinionem de unitate intellectus and de anime felicitate questiones . . . de gravibus and levibus

GBP - 18.00
772 Fabius Victorinus Commentarii in M. Tullii Ciceronis

GBP - 16.00
773 Marcus Hieronymus Vida Opera Lyons

1592

 GBP - 12.00
774 Joannes de Vigo Opera... in chyrurgia ... Additur chyrurgia Mariani sancti Barolitani Lyons

1538

 GBP - 42.00
775 Vincent Ferrer (Saint) Sermones estivales de tempore Lyons

c. 1515

 GBP - 18.00
776 Publius Virgilius Maro Tria opera Lyons

1502

 GBP - 24.00
777 Publius Virgilius Maro Oper Vergiliana cum decern commentis Lyons

1527-28

 GBP - 25.00
778 Publius Virgilius Maro Opera accuratissime castigata . . . commentariis Servii Venice

September, 1532-January, 1533

 GBP - 38.00
779 Virgilius Paris

1649

 GBP - 20.00
780 Gulielmus Philander Vitruiries Rome

1544

 GBP - 65.00
781 Johannes Ludovicus Vivaldus Aureum opus de veritate contritionis Paris

24 April, 1509

 GBP - 10.00
782 Johannes Ludovicus Vivaldus Opus regale in quo continentur opuscula epistola consolatoria

GBP - 16.00
783 Johannes Ludovicus Vives De anima et vita libri tres ejusdem argument Viti Amerpachii de anima libri IV Basle

(c. 1550?)

 GBP - 42.00
784 Raphael Maffei Volaterranus Commentariorum Urbanorum . . . Oeconomicus Xenophontis Basle

1559

 GBP - 18.00
785 Johannes de Voragine Legendario de sancti vulgare hystoriado Venice

2 June, 1509

 GBP - 20.00
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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.