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

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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
202		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	n.d., ALMANAC 1513-1530	GBP -	175.00
203		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	10 Sept. 1522	GBP -	80.00
204	Riviere	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	n.d. Almanac, 1534-46	GBP -	20.00
205	GEOFROY TORY	HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Paris	1543	GBP -	135.00
206	F. Bedford	Hours of the Virgin. Use of Rome.	Paris	1546	GBP -	5.00
207		HOUES OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF ROME.	Antwerp	1570	GBP -	75.00
208		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OP ROME.	Paris	1509	GBP -	45.00
209		HOURS OP THE VIRGIN. (IN SPANISH). USE OP ROME.	Lyons	1551	GBP -	13.00
210		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF SARUM.	Paris	20 Oct. 1501	GBP -	9.00
211		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. USE OF SARUM.	Paris	25 May, 1536. Date on title 1535	GBP -	140.00
212		Hours of the Virgin. Augustinian Use.	Venice	1541	GBP -	7.00
213		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. DOMINICAN USE.	Paris	1542	GBP -	4.10
213A		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN. IN FLEMISH.	Paris	1500	GBP -	12.00
214	HUNNIS WILLIAM	A HYVE FVLL OF HUNNYE	London	1578	GBP -	22.00
215	Jac. Sentinus and J. L. Santritter	Hyginus. Poetica astronomica	Venice	7 June, 1488	GBP -	5.00
216	W. Pratt	Institvtion (The) of a Christen man, conteynynge the exposition or interpretation of the Cömune Crede, of the seven sacraments, of the x. eömandementes, and of the Pater noster, black letter	London	Oct. 1537	GBP -	3.00
217	Jerome St.	Libro de las Epistolas ... traduzidas de latin en lengua Castellana ... por el Bachiller Iuan de Molina ... tratan de las costumbres y virtudes que para ordenar la conuersaciö Christiana, son necessarias	Valencia	1515	GBP -	5.10
218	LANGLANDE W.	THE VISION OF PIERCE PLOWMAN, newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy ...	London	21 Feb. 1561	GBP -	26.00
219	LITANY	THE LETANYE, VSED IN THE QUENES MAJESTIES CHAPPEL, ACCORDING TO THE TENOR OF THE PROCLAMATION. Anno Christi. 1559.	London	1559	GBP -	78.00
220	Livy	The Romane Historie ...	London	1600	GBP -	7.00
221	LIVY	LAS QUATORZE DECADES ... TRASLADADAS ... EN NUESTRA LEGUA CASTELLANA	Saragossa	24 May 1520	GBP -	52.00
222	LUCRETIUS	DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX	FLORENTINE	LATE 15TH CENTURY	GBP -	360.00
223	F. Bedford	MANUALE ad usum per Celebris ecclesie Sarisburiensis	London	1554	GBP -	2.00
224	MARKHAM G.	THE PLEASVRES OF PRINCES, OR GOOD MENS RECREATIONS; CONTAINING A DISCOURSE OF THE GENERALL ART OF FISHING WITH THE ANGLE OR OTHERWISE: and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto.	London	1614	GBP -	25.00
225	MARKHAM G.	Hungers Preuention: or, the Whole Arte of Fowling by Water and Land ...	London	1621	GBP -	6.00
226	MAZOT F.	Le Tableau de la Croix representé dans les ceremonie [s] de la Ste. messe	Paris	1651	GBP -	9.00
227	MILTON JOHN	COMUS. A MASKE PRESENTED AT LUDLOW CASTLE, 1634 : ON MICHAELMASSE NIGHT, BEFORE THE RIGHT HONORABLE, IOHN EARLE OF BRIDGEWATER, VICOUNT BRACKLY, LORD PRAESIDENT OF WALES, AND ONE OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONORABLE PRIVIE COUNSELL	London	1637	GBP -	1,050.00
228	MILTON JOHN	LYCIDAS JUSTA EDOVARDO KING NAUFRAGO, AB AMICIS MOERENTIBUS [Sig. F1 : OBSEQUIES TO THE MEMORIE OF MR. EDWARD KING, ANNO DOM. 1638].	Cambridge	1638	GBP -	700.00
229	MILTON JOHN	PARADISE LOST. A POEM	London	1669	GBP -	15.00
230	MILTON JOHN	PARADISE LOST. A POEM	London	1669	GBP -	14.00
231	MILTON JOHN	Paradise Regain'd ... to which is added Samson Agonistes	London	1671	GBP -	8.00
232	MINIATURES	NINETEEN LEAVES FROM AN ILLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS.	FRENCH	C. 1500	GBP -	110.00
233		MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. A MYRROVRE FOR MAGISTRATES.	London	1559	GBP -	21.00
234		MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. A MYRROVR FOR MAGISTRATES.	London	1571	GBP -	26.00
235	John Higgins	Mirror for Magistrates. The first parte of the Mirour for Magistrates	London	1575	GBP -	9.00
236	THOMAS BLENER-HASSET	MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES. THE SECONDE PART OF THE MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES	London	1578	GBP -	8.00
237	NICCOLO DA BOLOGNA	MISSAL WITH MINIATURES	ITALIAN	SECOND HALF OF 16TH CENTURY	GBP -	2,000.00
238		MISSALE LATINUM. CARTHUSIAN USE.	FLORENCE	c. 1500	GBP -	2,300.00
239		MISSAL. USE OF BÂLE		c. 1480	GBP -	26.00
240		MISSAL. USE OF BAMBERG.	BAMBERG	29 MAY 1499	GBP -	100.00
241		Missal. Use of Rome.	Venice	July, 1540	GBP -	5.00
242	F. Bedford	MISSAL. USE OF SALZBURG.	Venice	15 Oct. 1515	GBP -	17.00
243		MISSAL. USE OF SARUM.	Paris	27 Feb. 1527	GBP -	38.00
244		MISSAL. USE OF SARUM	Paris	1555	GBP -	13.00
245	MOLINET JEAN	TRAICTES DIVERS	FRENCH.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	46.00
246	MORE SIE THOMAS	WORKES ... IN THE ENGLYSH TONGE	London	1557	GBP -	110.00
247	Morgan Sylvanus	The Sphere of Gentry : deduced from the Principles of Nature, an historical and genealogical work, of Arms and Blazon	London	1661-62	GBP -	7.00
248	Morgan Sylvanus	Armilogia sive Ars Chromocritica, the Language of Arms by the Colours and Metals	London	1666	GBP -	3.00
249	Moryson Fynes	An Itinerary ...	London	1617	GBP -	7.00
250		NAPLES. UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN LATIN on the Model of Martinus Polonus.	ITALIAN.	C. 1500	GBP -	360.00
251		NEW TESTAMENT. LATIN.		12TH CENTURY	GBP -	90.00
252		NEW TESTAMENT. LATIN	DUTCH.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	360.00
253		NEW TESTAMENT.	London	1550	GBP -	13.00
254		NEW TESTAMENT. Tyndale's version.	London	1553	GBP -	13.00
255		New Testament. Epistles and Gospels.	London	1555	GBP -	3.00
256		New Testament. English.	Geneva	1557	GBP -	5.00
257	Holloway	NEW TESTAMENT.	London	1571	GBP -	21.00
258		NEW TESTAMENT. ENGLISH.	Rhemes	1582	GBP -	3.10
259	Norden John	Specvlvm Britanniae.	N.P.	1593	GBP -	9.10
260	Norden John	Specvli Britaniae pars.		1598	GBP -	5.10
261		OFFICE DE LA SEMAINE selon le Breviaire et Missel de Paris, en Latin et en François	Paris	1674	GBP -	10.00
262		OFFICIUM PRO DEFUNCTIS.	EAST FLANDERS [? LIEGE]	14TH CENTURY	GBP -	410.00
263	F. Bedford	ORDER (THE) OF THE COMMUNION	London	8 March, 1548	GBP -	80.00
264		ORDINAL. THE FORME AND MANER OF MAKYNG AND CONSECRATYNG OF ARCHEBISHOPPES, BISHOPPES, PRIESTES AND DEACONS	London	March, 1549	GBP -	350.00
265	W. S altonstall	OVID., De Ponto.	London	1639	GBP -	5.00
266	John Gower Master of Arts	Ovid., Ovids Festivalls, or Romane Calendar	Cambridge	1640	GBP -	3.10
267	GEORGE TURBERUILE GENT	OVID., THE HEROYCALL EPISTLES ...	London	1567	GBP -	19.00
268	W. Saltonstall	Ovid., Heroicall Epistles.	London	1639	GBP -	5.10
269	THOMAS UNDERDOWNE	OVID. OUID HIS INUECTIUE AGAINST IBIS.	London	1577	GBP -	19.00
270	Zaehnsdorf	Ovid. Loues schoole. Publii Ovidii Nasonis de arte amandi.	Amsterdam	n.d., not after 1637	GBP -	0.10
271	ARTHUR GOLDING GENT	OVID. THE FYRST FOWER BOOKES ...	London	1565	GBP -	68.00
272		OVID. THE. xv. BOOKES ... ENTYTULED METAMORPHOSIS, GOLDING GENTLEMAN, Mack letter	London	1567	GBP -	35.00
273	G. Sandys	Ovid.	London	1628	GBP -	4.00
274	W. Saltonstall	Ovid.	London	1672	GBP -	1.00
275	PAINTER WILLIAM	THE PALACE OF PLEASURE Beautified adorned and well furnished with Pleasaunt Histories and excellent Nouelles	Imprinted at London	1566	GBP -	120.00
276	PARRY WILLIAM	A NEW AND LARGE DISCOURSE OF THE TRAUELS OF SIR ANTHONY SHERLEY KNIGHT, by Sea, and ouer Land, to the Persian Empire	London	1601	GBP -	21.00
277	PASSE CRISPIN DE	REGIAE ANGLICAE MAIESTATIS PICTURA	Coloniae	1604	GBP -	10.00
278	PEUCER GASPAR	LES DEVINS, or Commentaire des principales sortes de devinations ... esquels les ruses & impostures de Satan sont descouuertes ... tourné en François par S, G. S.	Antwerp	1584	GBP -	17.00
279	Peyton Robert	Of the Holy Eucharist		First half of 17th century	GBP -	1.10
280	PINDER U.	SPECULUM PASSIONIS DOMINI NOSTRI IHESU CHRISTI	Nuremberg	30 Aug. 1507	GBP -	29.00
281	Plautus	Comoediae XX	Venice	14 Aug. 1511	GBP -	20.00
282	PLINY SECUNDUS GAIUS	HISTORIA NATURALIS	PARMA	1476	GBP -	85.00
283	POLEMON JOHN	ALL THE FAMOUS BATTELS THAT HAUE BENE FOUGHT IN OUR AGE	London	1578	GBP -	22.00
284		PONTIFICALE.	ITALIAN.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	44.00
285		PONTIFICALE.	FRENCH.	16TH CENTURY	GBP -	98.00
286	Jacobus de Lutiis and Johannes Burchardus	PONTIFICALE ROMANUM.	ROME	16 AUG. 1497	GBP -	13.00
287		Pontificale. Use of Rome	Venice	15 Sept. 1520	GBP -	16.00
288	Power Henry, Dr of Physic	Experimental Philosophy	London	1664	GBP -	1.05
289	Holloway	PRIMER. HERE AFTER FOLOWETH THE PRYMER IN ENGLYSSHE SETT OUT ALONGE AFTER THE vse OF SARUM	Rouen	1538	GBP -	7.00
290		PRIMER. USE OF SARUM		1538	GBP -	2.10
291	F. Bedford	Primer (A.) or boke of Prayers ...	London	1540	GBP -	4.10
292	Birdsall	PRIMER.	No place	date Between 1540-43	GBP -	3.00
293		PRIMER.	London	1543	GBP -	16.00
294	W. Pratt	PRIMER (THE) IN ENGLISHE AND LATYN	London	6 Sept. 1545	GBP -	4.00
295	F. Bedford	PRIMER. THE PRIMER, AND CATHECHISME	London	1552	GBP -	4.10
296		PRIMER. THE PRIMER IN ENGLISHE AND LATINE set out along, after the vse of Sarum :	London	1557	GBP -	5.00
297		PRIMER. The Prymer in Englishe and Latine, after Salisbury vse	London	1557	GBP -	7.00
298		PRIMER.	No place	date 1558-9	GBP -	4.00
299		PRIMER. The Prymer in English and Latine, after Salisbury vse	London	1558 Bought of Ellis in. 1865.	GBP -	6.00
300		PRIMER.	No place	date, c. 1559	GBP -	3.10

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