Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF THE FAMOUS LIBRARY. THE ALDENHAM LIBRARY. The Property of the Rt. Honourable Lord Aldenham., 22Mar1937,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 22, 1937 - March 22, 1937

Page Size: 366 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A KEMPIS ST. THOMAS	De Imitatione Christi, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER		1531	GBP -	25.00
2	À KEMPIS ST. THOMAS	THE IMITATION OR FOLLOWING OF CHRIST ... [translated by EDWARD HAKE] ... wherevnto ... we haue adioyned another pretie treatise, entituled, The perpetuall reioyce of the Godlye, euen in this lyfe	London	1568	GBP -	17.00
3	Holloway	ALBERTUS MAGNUS.	Ulm	29 May, 1473	GBP -	10.00
4		ALBERTUS MAGNUS. DE LAUDIBUS BEATAE VIRGINIS MARIAE	STRASBURG	C. 1477-78	GBP -	32.00
5	ALES ALEXANDER	ORDO DISTRIBUTIONS SACRAMENTI ALTARIS SUB UTRAQUE SPECIE, ET FORMULA CONFESSIONIS FACIENDAE IN REGNO ANGLIAE.	Leipzig	1548	GBP -	4.10
6	Aleyn Charles	The Battailes of Crescey, and Poictiers (in verse)	London	1631	GBP -	5.00
7	ALLESTREE DR. R.	THE LADIES CALLING, IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING BY THE QUEENS' BINDER		1673	GBP -	13.10
8		Answere (An) for the Tyme, to the examination put in print, with out the authours name, pretending to mayntayne the apparrell prescribed against the declaration of the mynisters of London	Geneva	1566	GBP -	2.10
9	Barret Joseph	ARMORIAL., English Arms and pedigrees drawn and collected by Jos. Barrett		1715-16	GBP -	6.10
10	Salazar Ambrosio	ARMORIAL., Libro llamado Origen de Espana		1661	GBP -	18.00
11	Smith William, Rouge Dragon	ARMORIAL., The Alphabeth of Armes		1594	GBP -	5.10
12	Robert Cook	Armorial.		16th century	GBP -	9.00
13	ATKYNS RICHARD	THE ORIGINAL AND GROWTH OF PRINTING ... wherein is also demonstrated	London	1664	GBP -	18.00
14	AUGUSTINE ST.	DE ARTE PREDICANDI	MAINZ	BEFORE MARCH 1467	GBP -	92.00
15	AUGUSTINE ST.	DE CONSENSU EUANGELISTARUM	LAUINGEN	12 April, 1473	GBP -	50.00
16	AUGUSTINE ST.	DE CIVITATE DEi	Venice	9 Feb. 1486-7	GBP -	2.10
17	BARCLAY ALEXANDER	HERE BEGYNNETH THE EGLOGES OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY, PRIEST	Colophon.	1548	GBP -	64.00
18	BARET JOHN	AN ALVEARIE OR QUADRUPLE DICTIONARIE	London	1580	GBP -	7.00
19	Benlowes Edward	Theophila, Or Loves Sacrifice		1652	GBP -	30.00
20	Bentley Thomas	The Monvment of Matrones: conteining seuen seuerall Lamps of Virginitie, or distinct treatises	London	1582	GBP -	6.10
21	BERNERS DAME JULIANA	THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANS	ST. ALBANS	1486	GBP -	420.00
22		BIBLE. LATIN. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN		c. 1200	GBP -	72.00
23		BIBLE. LATIN. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH SCRIBE		C. 1250	GBP -	150.00
24		BIBLE. LYSTOIRE DE LA BIBLE. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		C. 1430	GBP -	50.00
25		BIBLE. POLYGLOT. BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA		1514-17	GBP -	160.00
26		BIBLE. LATIN	Strassbtirg	not after 24 May, 1466	GBP -	62.00
27	MILES COVERDALE	BIBLE. ENGLISH.	Zurich	1535	GBP -	195.00
28		BIBLE. ENGLISH. FIRST EDITION OF "MATTHEW'S VERSION." D. & M. 17.		1537	GBP -	40.00
29		BIBLE. ENGLISH. FIRST EDITION OF THE GREAT BIBLE. D. & M. 25.	London	1539	GBP -	35.00
30		BIBLE. ENGLISH THE FIRST EDITION OF TAVERNER'S BIBLE.	London	1539	GBP -	30.00
31		BIBLE. ENGLISH. THE SECOND EDITION OF THE GREAT BIBLE AND THE FIRST WITH CRANMER'S PROLOGUE. D. & M. 30.	London	April 1540	GBP -	24.00
32	Zaehnsdorf	Bible. English. Matthew's version. D. & M. 47.	London	17 Aug. 1549	GBP -	3.10
33	W. Pratt	Bible. English. Matthew's version. D. and M. 48.	London	1549.	GBP -	9.10
34	Mayst. Thomas Mathewe	BIBLE. ENGLISH. COVERDALE'S VERSION: D. & M. 55.	ZURICH	1550	GBP -	34.00
35		BIBLE. ENGLISH. GREAT BIBLE VERSION. D. & M. 72.	London	1553	GBP -	7.10
36		BIBLE. ENGLISH. FIRST EDITION OF THE GENEVA VERSION. D. & M. 77	Geneva	1560	GBP -	88.00
37		BIBLE. ENGLISH.	London	1568	GBP -	11.00
38	F. Bedford	BIBLE. ENGLISH. GENEVA VERSION.	Edinburgh	1576-79	GBP -	27.00
39		BIBLE. ENGLISH. GENEVA VERSION. [D. & M. 130]	London	1582	GBP -	6.00
40	F. Bedford	Bible. English. Geneva Version with Tonson's revised New Testament. D. & M. 181	London	1602	GBP -	5.00
41	C. BOEL	BIBLE. ENGLISH. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHORISED VERSION.	London	1611	GBP -	620.00
42		Bible. English.	London	1631	GBP -	7.10
43		BIBLE. GERMAN. DIE BIBEL, NIEDERDEUTSCH	Cologne	c. 1478	GBP -	350.00
44	BOCCACCIO G.	A TREATISE EXCELLENT AND COMPEDIOUS, SHEWING AND DECLARING, IN MANER OF TRAGEDYE, THE FALLES OF SONDRY MOST NOTABLE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES WITH OTHER NOBLES ...	London	10 Sept. 1554	GBP -	18.00
45	BONAVENTURA ST.	THE MIBROUR OF THE BLESSED LYF OF JHU CRIST, ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		c. 1430	GBP -	46.00
46	BONAVENTURA ST.	MIRROR OF THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST, ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		C. 1450	GBP -	7.00
47	BONAVENTURA ST.	VIE DE SAINT FRANCOIS, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	FRENCH	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	570.00
48		BONAVENTURA. VITA CHRISTI [IN ENGLISH].	LONDON	8 FEB. 1530	GBP -	70.00
49	BONDE WILLIAM	A DEUOUTE TREATYSE IN ENGLYSSHE CALLED THE PILGRYMAGE OF PERFECCYON	London	23 Feb. 1531	GBP -	30.00
50	BONHAM THOMAS, Doctor of Physic	THE CHYRVRGIANS CLOSET : OR, AN ANTIDOTARIE CHYRURGICALL ...	London	1630	GBP -	32.00
51		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1549	GBP -	44.00
52		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	16 June 1549	GBP -	60.00
53		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. THE BOKE OF THE COMMON PRAIER AND ADMINISTRATIS OF THEE SACRAMENTES, AND OTHER RYTES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCHE, AFTER THE VSE OF THE CHURCHE OF ENGLANDE	WORCESTER	24 MAY, 1549	GBP -	380.00
54	JOHN MERBECKE	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1550	GBP -	150.00
55		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. THE BOKE OF COMMON PRAIER, AND ADMINISTRACION OF THE SACRAMENTES	London	1552	GBP -	70.00
56	Whitchurch	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1552	GBP -	21.00
57		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1559	GBP -	220.00
58		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, ETC.	London	1566	GBP -	165.00
59	Zaehnsdorf	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER		c. 1580	GBP -	2.00
60		Book of Common Prayer.	London	n.d.	GBP -	3.00
61		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1603 1604	GBP -	32.00
62		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1604	GBP -	6.00
63	F. Bedford	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	London	1604	GBP -	5.10
64		Booke (The) of Common Prayer.	London	1605	GBP -	2.00
65		Booke (The) of Common Prayer.	London	1631	GBP -	14.00
66	Morrell	Booke (The) of Common Prayer.	London	1636	GBP -	1.00
67	King James	Booke (The) of Common Prayer.	Edinburgh	1637-36	GBP -	3.10
68		Book of Common Prayer.		1637	GBP -	2.00
69		BOOK (THE) OF COMMON PRAYER [WITH THE PSALTER, THE ORDINAL AND ARTICLES OF 1562]	London	1661	GBP -	95.00
70	D. Loggan	Book (The) of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, LARGE PAPER	London	1662	GBP -	5.00
71		BOOK (THE) OF COMMON PRAYER	Oxford	1701	GBP -	30.00
72		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER	London	1704, 1703-4	GBP -	16.00
73		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER	London	1707	GBP -	34.00
74		Book of Common Prayer.	à Londres	1616	GBP -	2.10
75		BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.		1553	GBP -	5.00
76	ALEXANDER ALES	BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.	Leipzig	1551	GBP -	4.00
77	W. Haddon	Book of Common Prayer.	London	1560	GBP -	4.00
78		Book of Common Prayer.	London	1634	GBP -	3.00
79	BORDE ANDREW	HEREAFTER FOLOWETH A COMPENDYOUS REGYMENT OR A DYETARY OF HELTH, MADE IN MOUTPYLLIER, COMPYLED BY ANDREW BOORDE OF PHYSYCKE DOCTOUR		n.d. 1542	GBP -	100.00
80	Bossewell John	Workes of Armorie, deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor, and of Coates and Creastes	London	1572	GBP -	3.10
81	BRANT SEB	STULTIFERA NAVIS [translated by Jacob Locher]	Basle	1 March, 1497	GBP -	11.00
82	BRANDT SEB	THE SHIP OF FOOLES, WHEREIN IS SHEWED THE FOLLY OF ALL STATES ... TRANSLATED ... BY ALEXANDER BARCLAY	London	1570	GBP -	38.00
83		BREVIARY. ROMAN. OF THE USE OF THE FRIARS OF THE ORDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	ITALIAN	C. 1480	GBP -	460.00
84		BREVIARY. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	FRENCH	XVTH CENTURY	GBP -	26.00
85		Breviarium Romanum	Venice	20 Aug. 1508	GBP -	1.00
86		BREVIARIUM ROMANUM	Lugduni	1546	GBP -	29.00
87		Broadside. Queen Elizabeth.		27 Dec. 1558	GBP -	25.00
88	BUCER MARTIN	A briefe examination for the tyme, of a certaine declaration ...	London	1559	GBP -	15.00
89	Butler Charles	The Feminine Monarchie : or the Historie of Bees	London	1623	GBP -	5.00
90	Butler Charles	The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's. Shewing their admirable Natur' and Propertis'; Their Generation and Colonis; Their Government, Loyalti, Art, Industri; Enimi's, Wars, Magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right Ordering of them from tim' to	Oxford		GBP -	4.00
91	Butler Charles	The Principles of Musik, in singing and setting: with the two-fold Use therof [Ecclesiasticall and Civil]	London		GBP -	5.00
92	C. R.	A True Historicall discourse of Muley Hamets rising to the three Kingdomes of Moruecos, Fes, and Sus....	London	1609	GBP -	7.10
93	CAESAR C. J.	JULIUS CESARS COMMENTARYES, NEWLY TRANSLATYD OWTE OF LATEN IN TO ENGLYSHE AS MUCH AS COCERNYTH THYS REALM OF ENGLAND SUMTYME CALLED BRYTAYNE : which is the eldyst hystoryer of all other that can be found that euer wrote of thys realme of England. 1530.	London: W. Rastell	1530	GBP -	205.00
94	CAESAR C. J.	THE EYGHT BOOKES OF CAIUS IULIUS CAESAR conteyning his martiall exploytes in the Realme of Gallia ...	London	1565	GBP -	11.00
95	Camden W.	Annales. The True and Royall History of the famous Empresse Elizabeth Queene of England ...	London	1625	GBP -	16.00
96	CAMUS J. P.	ADMIRABLE EVENTS ...	London	1639	GBP -	22.00
97		CATHERINE of Alexandria (SAINT) LYF AND MARTIRDOM OF SEYNT KATERYNE VIRGYNE AND MARTIR, ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, IN THE VERNACULAR		C. 1400	GBP -	42.00
98	CASTIGLIONE BALDASSARE	The Covrtyer ... done into English by Thomas Hobby	London	1577	GBP -	10.00
99		Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. Opera ... in usum serenissimi Delphini	Paris	1685	GBP -	7.00
100	CHAPMAN GEORGE	OVID'S BANQUET OF SENCE.	London	1639	GBP -	15.00

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