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
101		Charles I; A True Relation and Iovrnall, of the Manner of the Arrivall, and Magnificent Entertainment	London	1623	GBP -	1.10
102		Charles I; The bloody Game at Cards.		n.d., 164-?	GBP -	2.00
103	Michael Du Val	Charles I & Princess Maria of Spain.	London	1623	GBP -	16.00
104	CHASTELAIN GEORGE	HYMPNES, LOUANGES ET CANTICQUES DITZ GEORGINES (in verse)	N. FRANCE	1497	GBP -	155.00
105	CHAUCER G.	THE WORKES OF GEFFRAY CHAUCER NEWLY PRINTED WITH DYUERS WORKES WHICH WERE NEUER IN PRINT BEFORE	London	1532	GBP -	360.00
106	CHAUCER G.	WORKES ... WITH DIUERS ADDITIONS.		1561	GBP -	22.00
107	Miss K. Adams	CHRONICLE OF BRUTE. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. BEGINS : In the noble lande of Surrey there was a noble kynge and a myghti man and of grete renowne, that men callede Dioclitian.		EARLY 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	36.00
108		CHRONICLE OF BRUTE, ETC. A SHORTENED FORM OF THE CHRONICLE OF BRUTE [IN ENGLISH] ending 6 Henry V (1419) with a Geographical Introduction (folios 1-75)		15TH CENTURY	GBP -	26.00
109	CICERO M. T.	THE THRE BOKES OF TULLIUS OFFYCE	London	1540	GBP -	22.00
110	Cicero M. T.	Thre bookes of duties, to Marcus his sonne, turned out of latine into english	London	14 Apryll, 1558	GBP -	7.00
111	CICERO M. T.	THOSE FYUE QVESTIONS, WHICH MARKE TULLYE CICERO, DISPUTED IN HIS MANOR OF TUSCULANUM : Written afterwardes ...	London	1561	GBP -	12.00
112	COCKAINE SIR THOMAS	A SHORT TREATISE OF HUNTING : COMPYLED FOR THE DELIGHT OF NOBLE MEN AND GENTLEMEN	London	1591	GBP -	4.00
113	COCKER EDWARD	COCKERS ARITHMETICK ... PERUSED AND PUBLISHED	London	1678	GBP -	32.00
114	COLONNA FRANCESCO	HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI	VENICE	DEC. 1499	GBP -	235.00
115	COPE SIR ANTHONY	A GODLY MEDITACION vpon xx. select and chosen Psalmes of the Prophet David	London	1547	GBP -	11.00
116	CORYAT THOMAS	CORYATS CRUDITIES, HASTILY GOBLED VP IN FIVE MONETHS TRAUELLS in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia ... some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands	London	1611	GBP -	29.00
117	Cotgrave Randle	A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongves	London	1611	GBP -	15.00
118		COUNCIL OF TRENT. Canones et Decreta sacrosancti Oecumenici et generalis Concilii Tridentini	Romae	1564	GBP -	21.00
119	CRANMER THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury	CATECHISMUS. THAT IS TO SAY A SHORT INSTRUCTION INTO CHRISTIAN RELIGION for the synguler commoditie and profyte of childrë and yong people.	London	1548	GBP -	18.00
120	DANIEL SAMUEL	POETICALL ESSAYES ... newly corrected and augmented	London	1599	GBP -	29.00
121	DANIEL SAMUEL	Certaine Small Poems lately printed : with the Tragedie of Philotas	London	1605	GBP -	10.00
122	DANTE INFERNO IN SPANISH	TRADUCIO DEL DANTE POR DON PERO FERNADEZ DE VILLEGAS	Burgos	1515	GBP -	40.00
123	DE GUILEVILLE GUILLAUME DE	LE PELERINAGE DE LA VIE HUMAINE [FOLIO 153. LE PELERINAGE DE LAME]	FRENCH	SECOND HALF OF XVTH CENTURY	GBP -	1,120.00
124	THOMAS WYLSON	DEMOSTHENES. THE THREE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES ...	London	1570	GBP -	8.00
125	Donne John	Poems ... with Elegies on the authors death	London	1633	GBP -	9.00
126	Donne John	Poems ... with Elegies on the authors death	London	1635	GBP -	11.00
127	Drayton Michael	Poly-Olbion. Or, a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine	[Part I] London, [Part II] London	1613, 1622	GBP -	9.00
128	DRUMMOND WILLIAM, of Hawthornden	POEMS : THE SECOND IMPRESSION	Edinburgh	1616	GBP -	24.00
129	DURER A.	THE COPPER-PLATE PASSION			GBP -	180.00
130	Elyot Sir Thomas	The Boke named the Gouernour	London	1546	GBP -	4.10
131	ELYOT SIR THOMAS	The Image of Gouernaunce compiled of the actes and sentences notable	London	1549	GBP -	4.10
132	ERASMUS D.	THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. MORIAE ENCOMIVM a booke made in latine ...	London	1549	GBP -	40.00
133		EUCLID. EUCLIDIS ELEMENTA MATHEMATICA IN LIBROS XV DISTREBUTA E GRECO IN LATINUM A HlERONYMO CAMPANO VERSA	ITALIAN	MIDDLE OF XVTH CENTURY	GBP -	155.00
134	NICOLAS HAWARD	Eutropius. A briefe Chronicle, where in are described shortlye the Originall	London	1564	GBP -	4.10
135	FELICIUS CONSTANTIUS	The Conspiracie of Lvcius Catiline translated into englishe	London	1541	GBP -	4.10
136	FELICIUS CONSTANTIUS	THE CONSPIRACIE OF CATALINE ...	London	1557	GBP -	13.00
137	Ferne John	The Blazon of Gentrie : deuided into two parts.	London	1586	GBP -	4.00
138	FLETCHER PHINEAS	THE PURPLE ISLAND, OR THE ISLE OF MAN: together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies		1633	GBP -	7.00
139	Florio John	Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues ...	London	1611	GBP -	6.10
140	FLORIO JOHN	FLORIOS SECOND FRVTES	London	1591	GBP -	13.00
141	Foxe John	Rervm in ecclesia gestarum, quae postremis & periculosis his temporibus euenerunt, maximarumque per Europam persecutionum ... Commentarii. Pars Prima		1559-1563	GBP -	8.10
142	FOXE JOHN	BOOK OF MARTYRS.	London	1570	GBP -	30.00
143	FROISSART JEHAN	CHRONIQUES	Paris	2 Sept. 1530	GBP -	10.00
144	FROISSART J.	THE CRONYCLES OF ENGLANDE, FRAUNCE, SPAYNE, PORTYNGALE, SCOTLANDE, BRETAINE, FLAUNDERS : AND OTHER PLACES ADIOYNYNGE.	London, London	n.d., 31 Aug. 1525	GBP -	46.00
145	GABELHOVER OSWALDUS	THE BOOCK OF PHYSICHE ...		1599	GBP -	20.00
146	Gardiner Stephen, Bishop of Winchester	De vera obedientia. An oration made in Latine ...	London, II	1553	GBP -	1.10
147	GASCOIGNE GEORGE	THE WHOLE WOORKES OF GEORGE GASCOIGNE ESQUYRE ...	London	1587	GBP -	105.00
148	GAZA TH.	INTRODUCTIVAE GRAMMATICES libri quatuor	Venice	25 Dec. 1495	GBP -	13.00
149	GEILER VON KEISESSPERG JO.	Navicula sive speculum fatuorum	Argentorati	16 Jan. 1511	GBP -	9.10
150	Gerarde John	The Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes ...	London	etc. 1633	GBP -	6.00
151	Gesner Conrad & Edward Topsell	The History of four-footed Beasts and Serpents ... whereunto is now Added, the Theater of Insects ...	London	1658	GBP -	16.00
152	GLANVILLE BART. DE	BATMAN VPPON BARTHOLOME, his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum ...	London	1582	GBP -	21.00
153	Greco Gioacchino, i.e. Biochimo	The Royall Game of Chesse Play.	London	1656	GBP -	6.10
154	GRINGORE PIERRE	HEURES DE NOSTRE DAME TRANSLATEES DE LATIN EN FRANCOYS ET MISES EN RYME.	Paris	n.d., c. 1527	GBP -	40.00
155	Guicciardini Lud	The Description of the Low Countreys and of the Prouinces thereof	London	1593	GBP -	2.10
156	GUIDO DE CAULIACO	GUYDOS QVESTIONS, NEWLY CORRECTED.	London	1579	GBP -	32.00
157	HAKLUYT RICHARD	The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Trafiques and Discoveries of the English Nation		1599-1600	GBP -	21.00
158	HAY ROMANUS	Astrum inextinctvm sive Ivs agendi antiquorum religiosorum ordinum, pro recipiendis suis monasteriis	Cologne	1636	GBP -	14.00
159	Henry VIII	A Necessary Doctrine and erudition for any Christen man, sette forthe by the Kynges maieste of England, black letter	London	1543	GBP -	15.00
160	HEEODIAN	THE HISTORY OF HERODIAN, a Greeke Authour, treating of the Romayne Emperors, after Marcus, translated ...	London	1550	GBP -	19.00
161	HESIOD	THE GEORGICKS OF HESIOD	London	1618	GBP -	40.00
162	Heywood Thos	The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells.	London	1635	GBP -	5.00
163	Holinshed Ralph	Chronicles		1586-87	GBP -	13.00
164	Holland H.	Herwologia Anglica. Hoc est ... aliquot Anglorum ...		N.D.	GBP -	12.00
165	HOMER	THE CROWNE OF ALL HOMERS WORCKES BATRACHOMYOMACHIA or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise.	London	1624	GBP -	42.00
166	HORACE	OPERA	Florence	5 Aug. 1482	GBP -	38.00
167	HORACE	OPERA cum quibusdam annotationibus	Strasburg	12 March, 1498	GBP -	22.00
168	Horace	Carmina	Argentorati	1788	GBP -	28.00
169	HORACE	A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres, Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of saint Hierome...	London	1566	GBP -	40.00
170	HORACE	HORACE HIS ARTE OF POETRIE, pistles, and Satyrs Englished ...	London	1567	GBP -	34.00
171	HORACE	CERTAIN SELECTED ODES OF HORACE, Englished; and their Arguments annexed. With Poems (Antient and Modern) of divers Subiects, Translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes. Anagramms.	London	1621	GBP -	42.00
172	HORTUS SANITATIS	ORTUS SANITATIS. DE HERBIS ET PLANTIS. DE ANIMALIBUS & REPTILIBUS. DE AVIBUS ET VOLATILIBUS. DE PISCIBUS & NATATILIBUS. DE LAPIDIBUS & in terre venis nascëtibus.	Strasburg	NOT AFTER 21 OCT. 1497	GBP -	72.00
173		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF PARIS.	FRENCH, PARIS	LATE 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	200.00
174		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.		15TH CENTURY	GBP -	330.00
175		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.		END OF 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	315.00
176		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	FRENCH.	LATE 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	180.00
177		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	FRENCH.	LATE 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	245.00
178		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.		END OF 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	280.00
179		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	ITALIAN	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	21.00
180	Hayday	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROUEN.	FRENCH.	END OF 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	165.00
181		HOURS OP THE VIRGIN. USE OP SARUM.	FRENCH.	MID.-15TH CENTURY	GBP -	780.00
182		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF SARUM.	ENGLISH.	MID-15TH CENTURY	GBP -	31.00
183		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN.	ENGLISH.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	23.00
184		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF SARUM.		C. 1500	GBP -	180.00
185		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. IN FLEMISH.		15TH CENTURY	GBP -	205.00
186	J. Clarke	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. IN FLEMISH.	FLEMISH.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	8.00
188		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN.		C. 1500	GBP -	105.00
189		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF CAMBRAI.	Paris	n.d., Almanac 1513-30	GBP -	10.00
190		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF LIMOGES.	Paris	n.d., Almanac 1508-28	GBP -	90.00
191		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF NANTES.	Paris	n.d., Almanac 1502-1520	GBP -	12.00
192		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF PARIS.	PARIS	22 OCT. 1527	GBP -	175.00
193		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF POITIERS.	Paris	n.d., Almanac 1506-1520	GBP -	11.00
194		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Rome	19 April, 1494	GBP -	21.00
195		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	PARIS	10 AUG. 1498	GBP -	46.00
196		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	22 Aug. 1498	GBP -	32.00
197		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.		22 Oct. 1498	GBP -	62.00
198		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Rome	5 Jan. 1500	GBP -	20.00
199	Lortic	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	15 March, 1500	GBP -	36.00
200		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	n.d. ALMANAC 1510-1530	GBP -	21.00
201		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	n.d., Almanac, 1510-30	GBP -	20.00

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