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
301		PSALTER. LATIN.	PROBABLY FRENCH	13TH CENTURY	GBP -	700.00
302		PROCESSIONALE AD USUM INSIGNIS ECCL'IE SARUM	London	1555	GBP -	18.00
303	M. PARKER	PSALTER.	London	1567	GBP -	20.00
304	Iohn Hopkins and others	PSALTER (THE), OR PSALMES OF DAUID, AFTER THE TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT BIBLE ... with the Morning and Euening prayer	London	1569-70	GBP -	78.00
305	PURCHAS SAMUEL	HAKLVYTVS. POSTHUMUS OR PVCHAS HIS PILGRIMES.	London	1625-26	GBP -	46.00
306	PUTTENHAM G.	THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE.	At London	1589	GBP -	74.00
307		Quebec. Ritual. Ritual du diocese de Quebec, publié par l'ordre de Monseigneur l'Evêque de Quebec	Paris	1703	GBP -	4.10
308	Rastell John	The Exposicions of the termes of the lawes of England, with diuers propre rules and principles of the lawe ...	London	29 April, 1563	GBP -	11.00
309	Rastell William	A Table collocted (sic) of the yeres of our Lorde God, and of the yeres of the Kynges of Englande	London	March, 1563	GBP -	7.00
310	ROLLE OF HAMPOLE RICHARD	THE PRICKE OF CONSCIENCE	ENGLISH.	14TH CENTURY	GBP -	22.00
311	Kalthoeber	ROSARY. HERE BEGYNNETH THE ROSARY OF OUR SAUYOUR JESU GYUENG THANKS AND PRAYSE TO HIS HOLY NAME BY MANER OF MEDITACION AND PRAYER	LONDON	N.D., C. 1520	GBP -	62.00
312	SAVONAROLA G.	An exposicyon after the maner of a contem-placion, vpon the Psalme called Miserere mei deus whiche Hierome of Ferrary made at the latter ende of hys dayes.	London	1540	GBP -	4.00
313	SCHEDEL HARTMANN	CHRONICON NUREMBERGENSE	Nuremberg	12 July 1493	GBP -	82.00
314	SCOTT THOMAS	VOX POPVLI. OR NEWES FROM SPAYNE		Imprinted in the yeare 1620	GBP -	60.00
315	Senault L.	Heures Nouvelles tirées de Sainte Ecriture	Paris	N.D.	GBP -	3.10
316	J. Heywood and others	Seneca. His Tenne Tragedies	London	1581	GBP -	3.10
317	Sherley Sir Anthony	His Relation of his Travels into Persia. The dangers, and distresses, which befell him ... both by sea and land ... his Magnificent Entertainment in Persia ... as Embassadour to the Princes of Christendome ... Also, a True Relation of the great Magnificen	London	1613	GBP -	6.10
318	SMITH CAPTAIN JOHN	THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA, NEW ENGLAND, AND THE SUMMER ISLES : WITH THE NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS, PLANTERS, AND GOVERNOURS	London	1632	GBP -	40.00
319		SPECULUM SINE MACULA.		c. 1750	GBP -	6.00
320	SPENSER E.; W. Pratt	COMPLAINTS.	London	1591	GBP -	46.00
321	SPENSER E.	THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDAR. CONTEINING TWELUE AEGLOGUES PROPORTIONABLE TO THE TWELUE MONETHES	London	1591	GBP -	26.00
322	SPENSER E.	COLIN CLOVTS COME HOME AGAINE	London	1595	GBP -	28.00
323	STAFFORD ANTHONY	STAFFORDS HEAUENLY DOGGE : or the life, and death of that great Cynicke Diogenes, whom Laertius stiles Canem Coelestem, the Heauenly Dogge, by reason of the Heauenly precepts he gaue	London	1615	GBP -	9.00
324	Stafford Th.	Pacata Hibernia. Ireland appeased and redvced. Or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Movnster, vnder the Government of Sir George Carew	London	1633	GBP -	5.10
325	STANBRIDGE JOHN	Accidentia ex Stranbrigiana editione nuper recognita & castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni	London	n.d., 1529	GBP -	3.00
326	Stanley Thomas	Poems		Printed in the Year 1651	GBP -	10.00
327	C. Smith	STATUTA ECCLESIAE COLONIENSIS	COLOGNE	18 APRIL, 1478	GBP -	14.00
328	STUBBS JOHN	THE DISCOVERIE OF A GAPING GVLF		1579	GBP -	42.00
329		SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS. DE VITA XII CAESARUM	ITALIAN	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	55.00
330	Sylvester Jos	Poems.	London	1614-15	GBP -	1.00
331	Tasso Torquato	La Gervsalemme figurata da Bernardo Castello	In Genova	1617	GBP -	15.00
332	TAYLOR JOHN, Water Poet	All the Workes	London	1630	GBP -	12.00
333	TAYLOR JOHN, Water Poet	The Old, Old, very Old Man : or, the Age and long Life of Thomas Par ...	London	1635	GBP -	17.00
334	TERENCE	COMOEDIAE, roman letter	Strassburg	11 Feb. 1499	GBP -	16.00
335	TERENCE	FLOVRES FOR LATINE SPEKYNGE SELECTED AND GATHERED OUTE OF TERENCE	London	1533	GBP -	23.00
336	Richard Bernard	Terence in English ...	London	1629	GBP -	2.00
337	TERENCE	LE GRANT THERECE EN FRANCOYS TAT EN RIME QUEEN PROSE ...	Paris	1539	GBP -	40.00
338	THUCYDIDES	DE BELLO PELOPONNASIACO (graece)	Venice	May 1502	GBP -	14.00
339	THUCYDIDES	THE HYSTORY WRITTONE BY THUCIDIDES THE ATHENYAN of the warre, which was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans	London	25 July 1550	GBP -	9.10
340	TURBERVILE G.	THE NOBLE ARTE OF VENERIE or Hvnting		n.d., 1575	GBP -	16.00
341	Tyndale William	John Frith and Robert Barnes.		1573	GBP -	1.00
342		Valentine and Orson, the two sons of the Emperour of Greece		n.d., c. 1700	GBP -	3.10
343	VALLA L.	De Romani sermonis elegantia		17 Sept. 1471	GBP -	16.00
344	Nie. Voleyre de Seronville	Vegetius. Du fait de guerre : et fleur de cheualerie. quatre liures. Sexte Jule Frontin ...	Paris	1536	GBP -	18.00
345	VIGO JOANNES DE	THE MOST EXCELLENT WORKES OF CHIRURGERYE ...	London	1543	GBP -	58.00
346	F. Bedford	VIRGIL. THE XIII BUKES OF ENEADOS OF THE FAMOUS POET VIRGILL Translatet ... into Scottish metir, bi ... MAYSTER GAWIN DOUGLAS Bishop of Dunkel	London	1553	GBP -	10.00
347	Thomas Phaër Esquier and ... Thomas Twyne Gentleman	VIRGIL. The whole xii. Bookes of the Aeneidos ...	London	1573	GBP -	16.00
348	Thomas Phaer Esquire : and ... Thomas Twyne	VIRGIL. The xiii. Bookes of Aeneidos ...	London	1584	GBP -	4.00
349	A. Fleming	VIRGIL. The Bvcoliks of Pvblius Virgilivs ... otherwise called his Pastoralls, or shepeherds meetings. Together with his Georgiks or Ruralls ...	London	1589	GBP -	8.10
350		VOCABULARY.	ENGLISH.	15TH CENTURY	GBP -	9.00
351	WALTON IZAAK	THE LIVES OF DR JOHN DONNE	London	1670	GBP -	22.00
352	WALTON IZAAK	THE LIFE OF DR SANDERSON	London	1678	GBP -	28.00
353	WHITTINTON Robert	DE SYNTAXI	London	1527	GBP -	11.00
354	WHITTINTON R.	Lucubrationes de synonymis. De epithetis. De variandi formulis etc.	London	1521	GBP -	7.00
355	WHITTINTON ROBERT	Verborum praeterita & supina. Grammaticae primae partis ... liber quintus	London	1533	GBP -	6.00
356	WHITTINTON ROBERT	Vulgaria ... & de institutione grämatieulorü opusculü	London	1527	GBP -	10.00
357	Wierix, Johan	Birth and Passion of Christ. Death and Assumption of the Virgin		1602-3	GBP -	10.00
358	Wierix Hier	[Passio Domini Nostri Iesv Christi]		n.d.	GBP -	6.10
359	Wierix Hier	Passio Domini Nostri Iesv Christi		n.d.	GBP -	4.10
360	Wierix Hier	VII virtutum theologicarum et cardinalium icones artificiosissime a Io. Strad. praeformatas : Philip. Gall. aeneis formis eleganter incidit		n.d.	GBP -	2.10
361	Wierix Hier	Twenty copperplates by Hieronymus Wierix of saints or sacred subjects.		n.d.	GBP -	5.00
362	Wierix Hier	Vita deiparae Virginis Mariae		N.D.	GBP -	5.00
363	Wierix Hier	Iesv Christi Dei Domini Salvatoris Nostri Infantia		N.D.	GBP -	8.00
364	Wierix Hier	Vita S. Ignatii de Loyola fvndatoris Societatis Iesv		n.d.	GBP -	5.10
365	Wilkinson W.	The holie exercise of a true Fast, described out of Gods word	London	1580	GBP -	3.00
366	Wyrley W.	The Trve Vse of Armorie	London	1592	GBP -	3.10

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