Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS COMPRISING Continental books of the 15TH to the 19TH century ; books relating to science and natural HISTORY, EXODUS,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 05, 1981 - May 05, 1981
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Varinus Camers and others, Compilers] | ALDINE PRESS | Venice | 1496 |
GBP 300.00 - 450.00 | 600.00 |
| 2 | Lectionary | GBP 90.00 - 120.00 | 120.00 | |||
| 3 | Muratori (L. A.) | Anecdota Graeca quae ex mss | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 40.00 | ||
| 4 | ANDREAE (ANTONIUS) | Quaestiones de tribus principiis rerum naturalium | Padua | 1475 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 240.00 |
| 5 | APPIANUS Alexandrinus | Venice | 1477 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,300.00 | |
| 6 | Johannes Vercellensis. Sermones vademecum | Strassburg | c. 1488-93 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 320.00 | |
| 7 | Ovidius Naso (Publius) | Metamorphoses | Venice | 7 September 1493 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 220.00 |
| 8 | SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS) | Opera | Venice | 5 August, 1493 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 280.00 |
| 9 | SCHEDEL (HARTMANN) | LIBER CHRONICARUM | Nuremberg | 12 July, 1493 |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 6,800.00 |
| 10 | ARISTOPHANES | Venice | 15 July 1498 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Collection of mainly German woodcuts | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 160.00 | |||
| 12 | Cornazzano (Antonio) | Il Pianto della gloriosa Vergine Maria | Italy | c. 1500 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 40.00 |
| 13 | Gerson (J.) | De contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 160.00 | ||
| 14 | Holkot (Robertus) | Super quatuor libros sententiarum questiones | Paris | 15 July, 1505 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 55.00 |
| 15 | Gulielmus III | (Avernus, Bishop of Paris) | USD 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 16 | [PACIOLI (LUCA)] | DIVINA PROPORTIONE | Venice | 1 June, 1509 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Orosius (Paulus) | Opus prestantissimum | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 85.00 | ||
| 18 | GREGORIUS IX | DECRETALES | Venice | 20 May 1514 |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | 150.00 |
| 19 | AESOP | Basle | January, 1518 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 140.00 | |
| 20 | JACOBUS de Voragine | Venice | 2 August, 1518 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | 420.00 | |
| 21 | Mancinellus (Antonius) | [Opera omnia] | Venice | 4 March-23 April, 1519 |
USD 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | HORE DEIPARE VIRGINIS MARIE | 1520 |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | 420.00 | ||
| 23 | Bernard (Saint, Abbot of Clairvaux) | Floretus Theologicus Carmine Descriptus | Cracow | 1525 |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | 38.00 |
| 24 | FISHER (JOHN, Bishop of Rochester) | ASSERTIONS LUTHERANAE CONFUTATIO | Venice | 1526 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 85.00 |
| 25 | Platina (Bartolomeo) | De vita et moribus summorum pontificum historia | [Cologne,] | 1529 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 55.00 |
| 26 | CATO (MARCUS) | MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO | Paris | February, 1533 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 160.00 |
| 27 | Diogenes Laertius | Cologne, Eucharius | March, 1535 |
GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 32.00 | |
| 28 | Boiardo (Matteo Maria) | Orlando Innamorato | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 60.00 | ||
| 29 | Virgil | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | 120.00 | |||
| 30 | Epigrammatum Graecorum libri VII | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 65.00 | |||
| 31 | Erasmus (D.) | Adagorium epitome | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 42.00 | ||
| 32 | Euclid | GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | 48.00 | |||
| 33 | Budaeus (Gulielmus) | Commentarii linguae Graecae | Paris | 1548 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 40.00 |
| 34 | GEISTLICH MAY (DER) | Coloured woodcut arms on title-page | Munich | 28 August, 1550 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 90.00 |
| 35 | (Robertus, editor) | Estienne or Stephanus | [Geneva,] | January 1553 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 70.00 |
| 36 | GIOVIO (PAOLO) | DIALOGO DELL'IMPRESSE MILITARI ET AMOROSE | 1559 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 160.00 | |
| 37 | SIMEONI (GABRIEL) | Le Imprese heroiche et morali | 1559 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 160.00 | |
| 38 | Ovidius Naso (Publius) | Epistole | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 55.00 | ||
| 39 | Mexia (P.) | Les diverses lecons | [colophon: 20 March, 1561 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 32.00 | |
| 40 | Sebastiani (Antonio) | L'arte poetica | Venice, Valvassori | 1563 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 50.00 |
| 41 | [RUXNER (GEORG)] | THURNIER BUCH | Frankfurt | 1566 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 420.00 |
| 42 | [Reisner (Adam)] | Historia Herrn Georgen vnnd Herrn Casparn von Frundsberg | 1568 |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | 110.00 | |
| 43 | Benzoni (G.) | La historia del mondo | Venice | 1572 |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 220.00 |
| 44 | Caesar (Caius Julius) | De bello gallico commentarii VII | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 75.00 | ||
| 45 | BEZE (THEODORE DE) | ICONES | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 46 | Plotinus | Basle | 1580 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 100.00 | |
| 47 | Sansovino (F., editor) | Propositioni | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 42.00 | ||
| 48 | SPANISH ARMADA | 1588 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 48.00 | ||
| 49 | DION CASSIUS (NICOLCOLAEUS) | Romanarum Historiarum libri XXV | [Paris] | 1591-2 |
USD 60.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | CAPACCIO (GIULIO CESARE) | Delle Imprese | Naples | 1592 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 160.00 |
| 51 | Krag (Niels) | De Republica Lacedaemoniorum Libri IIII | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 50.00 | ||
| 52 | Ariosto (L.) | Orlando furioso | Venice | 1609 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 65.00 |
| 53 | HENTZNER (PAUL) | Itinerarium Germaniae | Nuremberg | 1612 |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | 60.00 |
| 54 | Paez (B.) | Commentarii in Canticum Ezechiae | USD 10.00 - 15.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 55 | Zielen Lust-Hof (Der) | Inhoudende I | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 95.00 | ||
| 56 | Sucquet (Antonius) | Via vitae aeternae icqnibus illustrata | Antwerp | 1630 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 48.00 |
| 57 | Vernulaeus (N.) | Tragoediae decem | GBP 50.00 - 60.00 | 20.00 | ||
| 58 | STOCHOVE (VINCENT DE) | Voyage du Sieur de Stochove | Brussels | 1643 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 80.00 |
| 59 | Francis de Sales | Toulouse | 1637 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 32.00 | |
| 60 | Aretino (Pietro) | La Prima | Continent | c. 1651 |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | 90.00 |
| 61 | Le Moyne (P.) | La Galleries des Femmes Fortes | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 55.00 | ||
| 62 | Kort waerachtigh Verhael van de bloedige Rebellye in Moscovien | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 38.00 | |||
| 63 | TAVERNIER (JEAN BAPTISTE) | Les Six Voyages | [Amsterdam] | 1679 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 80.00 |
| 64 | RUDBECK (OLAUS) | ATLAND ELLER MANHEIM DEDAN JAPHETS AFKOMNE | 1679-86 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 500.00 | |
| 65 | Bossuet (J. B.) | Discours | Paris, Cramoisy | 1681 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 50.00 |
| 66 | GILLE (PARIS) | CORONA GRATULATORIA | Salzburg | 1681 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 85.00 |
| 67 | BIBLE | Luneburg | 1684 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 260.00 | |
| 68 | Leusden (J.) | Philologus Hebraeus | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 65.00 | ||
| 69 | [Zumbe (Carl)] | Nutz | Frankfurt & Leipzig | 1690 |
USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 70 | CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (M. DE) | Antwerp | 1697 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 500.00 | |
| 71 | Coffee and Chocolate | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 110.00 | |||
| 72 | VITA SERAPHICAE VIRGINIS S. MARIAE MAGDALENAE DE PAZZIS | [n.d. c. 1700] |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 55.00 | ||
| 73 | Giustinianus (Abbe Bernardus) | Amsterdam | 1721 |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | 130.00 | |
| 74 | Curtius Rufus (Quintus) | De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni | Leiden | 1724 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 42.00 |
| 75 | [Battellus (Joannes Christophorus)] | Brevis enarratio sacrorum ritum servatorum | Rome | 1726 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 18.00 |
| 76 | Voltaire (F. M. A. de) | Histoire de Charles XII | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 30.00 | ||
| 77 | RAMHOFFSKY (JOHANN HEINRICH) | DREY BESCHREIBUNGEN | Prague | [1743] |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 520.00 |
| 78 | Elogia S.R.E. | Rome | 1751 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 10.00 | |
| 79 | [MORIN (CLAUDE)] | La platine | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 70.00 | ||
| 80 | HORATIUS FLACCUS (QUINTUS) | EMBLEMATA | Florence | 1777 |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | 160.00 |
| 81 | VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE) | OEUVRES COMPLETES | 1785-89 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 400.00 | |
| 82 | Free-Masonry | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 15.00 | |||
| 83 | Paupie (Frnz Andreas) | BREWING | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | 160.00 | ||
| 84 | KLOPSTOCK (FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB) | Der Messias | Leipzig | 1799 |
GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | 28.00 |
| 85 | STUART (MARTINUS) | DE MENSCH | Amsterdam | 1802-18 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 86 | Umgebungen von Soma | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 80.00 | |||
| 87 | Butler (A. G.) | Foreign finches in captivity | 1899 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 90.00 | |
| 88 | EDWARDS (G.) | A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS | 1750 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 89 | Michaelis (H. von) | Birds of the gauntlet | 1952 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 30.00 | |
| 90 | MORRIS (F. O.) | A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS | 1857-63 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 91 | Morris (F. O.) | A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds | 1861-56 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | 45.00 | |
| 92 | Zoological Society of London | USD 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 93 | [BEWICK (THOMAS), AND OTHERS] | A Natural History of British Quadrupeds | Alnwick | [1814] |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 100.00 |
| 94 | Blunt (Wilfred) | Georg Dionysius Ehret | 1953 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 60.00 | |
| 95 | BOTANIC GARDEN (THE) | 1825-[?1851] |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 950.00 | ||
| 96 | BOULGER (GEORGE S.) AND [ISA SOUTHWELL PERRIN] | British Flowering Plants | 1914 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 30.00 | |
| 97 | Boulger (George S.) and Isa Southwell Perrin | British Flowering Plants | 1914 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 40.00 | |
| 98 | BREE (C. R.) | A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE | 1859-1863 |
GBP 300.00 - 350.00 | 380.00 | |
| 99 | Brown (Thomas) | Illustrations of the land and fresh water conchology of Great Britain and Ireland | 1845 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 60.00 | |
| 100 | COPERNICUS (NICOLAUS) | DE REVOLUTIONIBUS ORBIUM COELESTIUM | Basle | 1566 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 900.00 |