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Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Henry Aiken The horse

1866

 USD - 56.00
2 Gaspar Aguilar Expulsion de los Moros de Espana po Don Phelipe Tercero Valencia

1610

 USD - 56.00
3 Pietro Aretino Caprissiosi & Piacevoli ragionamenti

USD - 84.00
4 John Barclay Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon Amberg

1606

 USD - 50.40
5 Henry de Beauvau Relation journaliere du voyage du Levant Toul

1608

 USD - 44.80
6 P. Bertius Breviarium totius orbis terrarum Paris

1626

 USD - 50.40
7 Giovanni Boccaccio La Fiametta per Messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi Venice

e. 1510

 USD - 56.00
8 Bouton (Jacques, S. J.) Relation de l'establissement des Francois depuis l'an 1635 en l'isle de la Martinique Paris

1640

 USD - 19.60
9 A. G. Busbequius Omnia quae extant

USD - 19.60
10 J. Camerarius De tractandis equis

USD - 25.20
11 Thomas Campion Observations in the art of English poesie

1602

 USD - 3,920.00
12 Miguel de Cervantes Novelas exemplares Brussels

1614

 USD - 50.40
13 Miguel de Cervantes Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavaliere Don Quixote de la Mancha

1697

 USD - 33.60
14 Petrus Gualterius Cabotius Expositio analytica in Q. Horatii Fiacco poema

USD - 30.80
15 M. T. Cicero Opera

USD - 28.00
16 Cicero

USD - 33.60
17 Classics

USD - 61.60
18 Classics

USD - 61.60
19 Philippe de Commines Memoires

USD - 44.80
20 Quintus Curtius The life and death of Alexander the Great

1661

 USD - 8.40
21 Dante Alighieri

1595

 USD - 134.40
22 I. G. D'Astros Lou trimfe de la lengovo Gascovo Toulouse

1643

 USD - 33.60
23 Sieur Dralse de Grandpierre Relation des divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique Paris

1718

 USD - 72.80
24 Du Bartas (G. S., Sieur) Hadriani Dammanis a Bysterveldt Dn Edinburgh

1600

 USD - 2.80
25 Eustathius De Ismeniae et Ismenes amoribus libri XI Paris

1618

 USD - 8.40
26 F. Fortin Les ruses innocentes dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les oiseaux

USD - 5.60
27 Giovanbatista Gelli Le Circe

USD - 106.40
28 Anthonis Goeteeris Iournael der legatie inde Iaren 1615 ende 1616 by Heer Reynhout van Brederode . . . aende Coninghen van Sweden ende Denemercken . . . aenden Groot-Vorst van Moscovien Hague

1619

 USD - 280.00
29 Galeazzo Gualdo Historia de Christina Alessandra

USD - 89.60
30 William Halfpenny Practical architecture

USD - 39.20
31 George Herbert The temple Cambridge

1635

 USD - 39.20
32 Quintus Horatius Flaccus De arte poetica

USD - 30.80
33 Quintus Horatius Flaccus Opera

1733-37

 USD - 22.40
34 J. H. Hottinger Archaeologia Orientalis exhibens compendium theatri Orientalis de Arabum Heidelberg

1662

 USD - 22.40
35 Nic. Matthias Kioping and Oloff Willman Een kort Beskriffning uppa Trenne Resor och Peregrinationet sampt Konungarijket Japan I Beskrifwes een Rees som genom Asia Africa och manga andra Hedniska Konungarijken Wisingsborg

1667

 USD - 134.40
36 Jean de La Bruyere Les caracteres de Theophraste Paris

1689

 USD - 2.80
37 Jean de La Bruyere Works

USD - 16.80
38 Johannes Lasitzki De Russorum Moscovitarum et Tartarorum religione

USD - 39.20
39 Johannes Laurenberg Graecia antiqua Amsterdam

1609

 USD - 16.80
40 Louis Le Comte Beschryvinge van het machtige Keyserryk China

USD - 14.00
41 Leti (Greg., "Abbate Gualdo") Vita di Donna Olimpia Maldachini

USD - 25.20
42 I. Lipsius Saturnalium sermonum -libri II Antwerp

1585-86

 USD - 2.80
43 Giovanni de Lucena Vita del B. P. Francesco Xavier della Compagnia di Giesu Rome

1613

 USD - 22.40
44 H. Magius De Tintinnabulis

USD - 16.80
45 Jean Baptiste Moliere Oeuvres Paris

1730

 USD - 8.40
46 Jean Baptiste Moliere Works

1755

 USD - 8.40
47 George de Montemayor Los siete libros de la Diana Antwerp

1580-81

 USD - 2.80
48 Wilhelm Johann Muller Die Africanische auf der Guineischen Gold-Cust gelegene Landschaft Fetu Hamburg

1673

 USD - 61.60
49 Bernardus Pez Bibliotheca Benedictino-Mauriana seu de ortu Augsburg and Grata

1716

 USD - 11.20
50 Plaisante et amoureuse histoire du chevalier dore et de la PUCELLE surnommee cuEUR DACIER

1541

 USD - 126.00
51 Jean Baptiste Racine Oeuvres Paris

1736

 USD - 2.80
52 Regnier de la Planche (Louis, "Francis de Lisle") A legendarie conteining an ample discourse of the life and behaviour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine Geneva

1577

 USD - 140.00
53 H. Relandus Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata

USD - 50.40
54 J. B. de Rocoles Vienne deux fois assiegee par les Turcs

USD - 56.00
55 Fernando de Rojas Tragicomedia di Calisto y Melibea Seville

25 January, 1550

 USD - 252.00
56 Francesco Sansovino Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare Venice

1581

 USD - 30.80
57 Johannes Scheffer Upsalia cujus occasione plurima in religione

1666

 USD - 25.20
58 Hartmann Schopper Opus poeticum de admirabili fallacia et astutia Vulpeculae Reinikes Frankfurt

1567

 USD - 28.00
59 Sir Walter Scott Chronicles of the Canongate

USD - 11.20
60 Thomas Spencer A true and faithful relation of the proceedings of the forces of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary in their expedition against the French in the Caribby islands

1691

 USD - 84.00
61 N. Tassin Description de tous les cantons Paris

1635

 USD - 224.00
62 Sir William Temple Memoirs of what past in Christendom from 1672 to 1679

USD - 50.40
63 Thesaurus Dramaticus containing all the celebrated passages . . . in English plays

USD - 28.00
64 Francois Mauriceau The Diseases of Women with Child

1683

 USD - 50.40
65 Joannes Maria Lancisius Dissertatici Historica de Bovilla Peste Rome

1715

 USD - 33.60
66 Sir Isaac Newton Optice: sive de Reflexionibus

1706

 USD - 78.40
67 Sir Isaac Newton Philosophise Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1726

 USD - 2.80
68 Sir Isaac Newton Lectiones Opticae

1729

 USD - 84.00
69 Francesco Algarotti Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of Ladies

1739

 USD - 19.60
69a J. L. La Grange Mechanique analitique Paris

1788

 USD - 95.20
70 Bernard Siegfried Albinus Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body

USD - 14.00
71 Jost Amman Schopper (Hartmann) De Omnibus Illiberalibus sive Mechanics Artis

1574

 USD - 336.00
72 Jost Amman Habitus Proecipuorum Populorum Nuremberg

1577

 USD - 392.00
73 Asselineau Armes et Armures du Moyen Moyen Age et de la Renaissance

USD - 44.80
74 Hans Burgmair Kaiser Maximilians I. Triumph [Text in German and French] Vienna

1796

 USD - 280.00
75 Hans Burgmair Images de Saints et Saintes issus de la Famille de l'Empereur Maximilien I Vienna

1799

 USD - 140.00
76 John Charnock An History of Marine Architecture

1800-1802

 USD - 50.40
77 Collection (A) of the Dresses of different Nations

1757

 USD - 106.40
78 John Sell Cotman Liber Studiorum

1838

 USD - 2.80
79 O. Dalvimart Costume de la Turquie

USD - 5.60
80 Engravings

USD - 2.80
81 Filippo Ferrari Costumi Ecclesiastici Rome

1823

 USD - 61.60
82 Leonhard Fronsperger Kriegssbuch

1573

 USD - 168.00
83 Jacob de Gheyn Waffenhandlung von den Roren Hague

1608

 USD - 117.60
84 Graduale Dominicale ad Consuetudinem Sacrosancte Romane Ecclesie Venice

1583

 USD - 50.40
85 Herbe Costumes Francais Civils Paris

[1835] -37

 USD - 39.20
86 Hans Holbein Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII ... in the Collection of His Majesty . . . published by John Chamberlaine

1828

 USD - 75.60
87 Romeyn de Hooghe L'Academie de l'Admirable Art de la Lutte Leyden

USD - 72.80
88 Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament

USD - 11.20
89 Franz-Niklaus Konig Neue Sammlung von Schweizertrachten [Text in German and French] Zurich

1811

 USD - 78.40
90 Franz Niklaus Konig, Lory and others Nouvelle Collection des Costumes Suisses des XXII Cantons [Text in French and German] Zurich

[c. 1818]

 USD - 78.40
91 Paul Lacroix Les Arts

USD - 11.20
92 Hippolyte Lecomte Costumes Civils et Militaires de la Monarchie Franc[ai]se depuis 1200 jusqu'a 1820 Paris

[1818-20]

 USD - 112.00
93 P. Mercurj and Camille Bonnard Costumes Historiques des XIIIe

1844

 USD - 30.80
94 Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour

USD - 112.00
95 Joseph Nash The Mansions of England in the Old Time

1839-49

 USD - 11.20
96 William Cavendish Newcastle Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux

1737

 USD - 154.00
97 Price (Lake) Interiors and Exteriors in Venice

1843

 USD - 58.80
98 Maurice Sand Masques et Bouffons (Comedie Italienne) Paris

1860

 USD - 56.00
99 Henry Shaw Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages

USD - 16.80
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