Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 28Mar1960,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 28, 1960 - March 28, 1960

Page Size: 552 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
489c	Antoninus, Pius Augustus	Itinerarium.		1600-15	GBP -	7.00
489d	Vera y Figueroa, J. A.	E1 Fernando.	Milan	1632	GBP -	9.00
490	Leupold, Jacob	Theatrunt Machinarum Hydrotechnicarum.	Leipzig	1724	GBP -	48.00
491	Leonardo da Vinci	I mjinoscritti Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie, pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff.	Paris	1893	GBP -	11.00
492	Leonardo da Vinci	I manoscritti della Reale Biblioteca di Windsor.	Paris	1898	GBP -	17.00
493	Agricola, Georgius	De Re Metallica.		1912	GBP -	15.00
494	Manget, Jean-Jacques	Theatium Anatomicum.	Geneva	1717	GBP -	26.00
495	James, Robert	Dictionnaire universel de medecine.	Paris	1746-48	GBP -	18.00
496	DIDEROT, DENIS ET D'ALEMBERT JEAN	ENCYCLOPEDIE.		1751-80	GBP -	270.00
497	RIRE, LE	Journal humoristique.	Paris	10 November 1894-31, December 1937	GBP -	15.00
498	BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES	LES FLEURS DU MAL, EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES (COPY NO. 7 OF FIFTY ON PAPIER DU JAPON DE LA MANUFACTURE DE SHIDZUOKA).	Paris	1916	GBP -	22.00
499	Mennechet, E.	Le Plutarque francais.	Paris	1836-41	GBP -	3.00
500	Angeli, Johannes	Astrolabium planum in tabulis ascendens.	Venice	9 June 1494	GBP -	18.00
501	Apianus, Petrus	Instrumentum primi mobilis.			GBP -	85.00
502	Apianus, Petrus	Cosmographia, per Gemmam Frisium jam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta.	Antwerp	1545	GBP -	14.00
503	BLAGRAVE, JOHN	Astrolabium Uranicum Generale.		1596	GBP -	200.00
504	Blagrave, John	The Art of Dyalling in Two Parts.			GBP -	7.00
505	Brown, John	The Description and Use of the Trianguler Quadrant.		1671	GBP -	60.00
506	Brown, J.	The Description and Use of a Joynt-Rule: fitted with Lines for the finding the Hour of the Day, and Azimuth of the Sun, to any particular Latitude.			GBP -	65.00
507	Collins, John	Geometrical Dyalling.		1659	GBP -	50.00
508	Cunn, Samuel	A New Treatise of the Construction and Use of the Sector, now carefully revised by Edmund Stone.			GBP -	10.00
509	Dalence, J.	Traittez des barometres, thermometres, et notiometres. ou hygrometers.	Amsterdam	1688	GBP -	17.00
510	Derham, William	The Artificial Clock-Maker, a Treatise of Watch & Clock-work.		1700	GBP -	28.00
511	Desaguliers, J. T.	A Course of Experimental Philosophy.			GBP -	4.00
512	Descartes, René	Opera philosophica.	Amsterdam	1672	GBP -	5.00
513	Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel	Historische Nachricht von den Nurn-bergischen Mathematicis und kunstlern.	Nuremberg	1730	GBP -	32.00
514	DUDLEY, Sir ROBERT	DELL' ARCANO DEL MARE LIBRI SEI.	Florence	1646	GBP -	150.00
515	Fale, Thomas	Horologiographia, The Art of Dialling, teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plat howsoever placed.		1593	GBP -	36.00
516	Gunter, Edmund	The Description and Use of the Sector, Crosse-Staffe, and other Instruments, the second edition much augmented.		1636	GBP -	42.00
517	Mandey, Ven	The Mystery of Nature and Art unvail'd.		1709	GBP -	18.00
518	Marinari, Onorio	Fabbrica et uso dell'annulo astronomico.	Florence	1674	GBP -	24.00
519	MORGAN, SILVANUS	Horologiographia Optica.		1652	GBP -	42.00
520	Morland, Samuel	The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments.		1673	GBP -	20.00
521	Morland, Samuel	The Description and Use of Two Arithmetic Instruments.		1673	GBP -	12.00
522	Moxon, Joseph	A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography.		1686	GBP -	9.00
523	MÜLLER, JOHANN	EPYTOMA IN ALMAGESTUM PTOLOMEI.	Venice	31 August 1496	GBP -	60.00
524	Münster, Sebastian	Compositio horologiorum.			GBP -	18.00
525	Münster, Sebastian	Furmalung und kunstlich beschreibung der Horologien.	Basle	1537	GBP -	14.00
526	Orontius, Finaeus	De solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor.			GBP -	16.00
527	Oughtred, William	A Collection of many Problems extracted out of the Ancient and Modern Philosophers.	W. and J. Leake	1674	GBP -	42.00
528	Paduanius, Joannes	De compositione.	Venice	1582	GBP -	11.00
529	Partridge, Seth	The Description and Use of an Instrument.		1671	GBP -	50.00
530		A Pocket Book.		n.d.	GBP -	42.00
531	Ubaldi, Guido	Planisphaeriorum universalium theorica.	Pesaro	1579	GBP -	16.00
532	Reisch, Gregorius	Margaijita philosophica.	Freiburg	1503	GBP -	62.00
533	Sacrobosco, Joannes de	Textus de sphera [with the commentary of Jacobus Faber Stapulensis].	Paris	12 February 1494/95	GBP -	45.00
534	Smith, John	Horological Dialogues.		1675	GBP -	38.00
535	Stirrup, Thomas	Horometria: or the Compleat Diallist.		1652	GBP -	4.00
536	Stöffler, Johann	Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii.	Oppenheim	1513	GBP -	44.00
537	Stöffler, Johann	Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii.			GBP -	9.00
538	Stone, Nicholas	Enchiridion of Fortification.			GBP -	17.00
539	VIMERCATO, GIOVANNI BATISTA	Dialogo della descrittione teorica et pratica de gli horologi solari.	Ferrara	1565	GBP -	30.00

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