Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS., 26Jun1961,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 26, 1991 - June 26, 1991

Page Size: 560 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Aldine Press	Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Constantinopoli	Venice	1545	GBP -	16.00
2	Bellin	Description Géographique du Golfe de Venise et de la Morée	Paris	1771	GBP -	32.00
3	Blount, Sir Henry	A Voyage into the Levant		1636	GBP -	14.00
4	Borchardus	Descriptio Terrae Sanctae [etc.]	Magdeburg	1587	GBP -	18.00
5	BREYDENBACH, BERNHARD VON; Nicole le' Huen	LE GRANT VOYAGE DE JHERUSALEM divise en deux parties [adapted and translated	Paris	12th Oct., 1517	GBP -	140.00
6	Bruyn, Cornelius de	Voyage au Levant	Paris	1725	GBP -	115.00
7	Catrou, François	Histoire Générale de l'Empire du Mogol	Paris	1715	GBP -	48.00
8	Ceporinus, Jacobus	Compendium Grammaticae Graecae. Hesiodi Georgicon, etc.	Zurich, Tübingen	1526, Aug., 1525	GBP -	30.00
9	Chardin, Chevalier Jean	Voyages en Perse et autres Lieux de l'Orient	Amsterdam	1711	GBP -	30.00
10	Coligny, Gaspar de	La Vie de Messire Gaspar de Coligny, Seigneur de Chastillon, Amiral de France	Amsterdam	1643	GBP -	22.00
11	Danet, Petrus, Abbé	Dictionarium Antiquitatum Romanarum et Græcarum	Paris	1698	GBP -	25.00
12	Dapper, O.	Naukeurige Beschryving van Morea	Venice	1715	GBP -	28.00
13	Dio Cassius	Romanarum Historiarum Libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII usque [Greek]	Paris	1548	GBP -	24.00
14	Dio, Cassius	Rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexa[n]drum Mamææ, Epitome authore Ioanne Xiphilino [Greek and Latin]	n.p.	n.d.	GBP -	20.00
15	Dionysius Alexandrinus	De Situ Orbis Libellus, Eustathii Thessalonicensis Archiepiscopi Commentarius illustratus	Paris	1547	GBP -	42.00
16		Etat Général de l'Empire Ottoman ... par un Solitaire Turc, traduit par M. de la Croix	Paris	1695	GBP -	50.00
17	Festus, Sextus Pompeius	De Verborum Significatione	Brescia	18th June, 1483	GBP -	45.00
18	Flachat, Jean Claude	Observations sur le Commerce et sur les Arts	Lyons	1766	GBP -	6.00
19	Gilles, Nicole	Annales et Croniques de France ... imprimées. nouvellement sur la correction du Signeur Denis Sauvage ... et additionnées ... iusques à cest an mil cinq cens cinquante et trois	Paris	1553	GBP -	40.00
20	Georgius de Hungaria	De Ritu et Moribus Turcorum	Cologne	c. 1488	GBP -	50.00
21	Geuffroy, Antoine	Briefue Description de la Court du Grant Turc	Paris	1546	GBP -	28.00
22	Gregory of Nyssa, Saint	De Virginitate Liber: Graece et Latine nunc primum editus, interprete Johanne Livineio Gandensi	Antwerp	1674	GBP -	17.00
23	HAYTHON	LHYSTORE MERVEILLEUSE PLAISANTE ET RECREATIVE DU GRA[N]D EMPEREUR DE TART ARTE SEIGNEUR DES TARTRES NO[M] ME LE GRA[N]D CAN co[n]tena[n]t Six Livres ou Parties	Paris	15th April, 1529	GBP -	520.00
24	Jörg von Nürnberg	Antzeygung kurtzlichen von Volfurung den Ursprung dess Thurckyschen unnd Hundtyschen Volcks	Nuremberg	1500	GBP -	50.00
25	Labat, Jean Baptiste	Mémoires du Chevalier d'Arvieux, Envoyé Extraordinaire du Roy à la Porte [etc.]	Paris	1735	GBP -	16.00
26	Laugier Abbé	Histoire de la République de Venise	Paris	1759-68	GBP -	14.00
27		Liturgie de la Messe Arménienne traduite en Français par Monseigneur Lapostolest	Paris	1850	GBP -	18.00
28	Livy	Decades duobus Libris auct[ae]	Venice	3rd May, 1520	GBP -	16.00
29	Longinus	Dionysii Longini quae supersunt Greece et Latine	Oxford	1778	GBP -	10.00
30	Maimbourg, Louis, Les Voyages de M.	Histoire des Croisades	Paris	1684-85, 1664	GBP -	12.00
31	MAMEROT, SEBASTIEN	LES PASSAIGES DOULTREMER FAITZ PAR LES FRANCOYS. Nouvellement imprime, second edition, lettres hatardes	Paris	27th Nov., 1518	GBP -	190.00
32	Marcus Aurelius, Crusius, M.	Le Livre Doré, Grammaticæ Græcæ ... Pars Prima [Altera]	Lyons, Basle	1550, 1585	GBP -	28.00
33	Marullus, Michael	Hymni et Epigrammata	Florence	26th Nov. 1497	GBP -	35.00
34	Maximus, Beatus, Monachus	Capitum Theologicorum Centuriae Quinque [Greek], bound with Marci Eremitae, Nicolai, Hesychii Presbyteri, Opera quae extant [Greek]	Paris	1560, 1563	GBP -	32.00
35	Methodius, St.; Sebastian Brandt	De Revelatione facta ab Angelo Beato Methodio in Carcere detento	Basle	12th March, 1504	GBP -	90.00
36	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de	Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de leur Décadence	Amsterdam	1735	GBP -	10.00
37	Niebuhr, C.	Voyage en Arabie	Amsterdam	1776-80	GBP -	26.00
38		Orationes duæ, altera habita a Legatis summi Pontificis coram Imperatore Maximiliano, pro colligendis Decimis, in Expeditione [m] in Turcas. Altera Viri cuiusdam doctissimi adhortantis, ne Principes in Decimæ Præsentationem consentiant	Emprime en che paijs neuu trouue nomme Utopya	15th March, 1519	GBP -	75.00
39	Pibrac, Guy du Faur, Seigneur de, Cato, Dionysius	Tetrastichi Græcis et Latinis Versibus expressa, Authore Florente Christiano stained	Paris, Venice, Paris	1584, 1566, 1528	GBP -	40.00
40	Placentinius, Gregorius	Epitome Graecae Palaeographiae et de Recta Graeci Sermonis Pronunciatione	Rome	1735	GBP -	17.00
41	Pliny the Younger	Epistolarum Lib. X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictis. Cum Commentariis Ioannis Mariæ Catanæi	Paris	Jan., 1533	GBP -	65.00
42	Pliny the Younger	Panégyrique de Traian, LARGE PAPER	Paris	1638	GBP -	5.00
43	Pliny the Younger	Lettres, en Latin et en Français, suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan, traduites par M. de Sacy	Clermont, Landriot; and Paris, Belin	1809	GBP -	5.00
44	Randolph, Bernard	The Present State of the Morea	Oxford	1687	GBP -	30.00
45	Rannusio, Paolo	Delia Guerra di Constantinopoli per la Restitutione de gl'Imperatori Comneni fatta da' Sig. Venetiani, et Francesi	Venice	1604	GBP -	25.00
46		Recueil de diverses Histoires touchant les Situations de toutes Regions et Pays, contenuz es trois Parties du Mo[n]de	Paris	1547	GBP -	85.00
47	Schmidt, Nicolaus	Warhafftige Beschreibung seiner fünff jährigen harten Gefängnüss, welche er unter den Türcken ... alss ein Sclav ... in Eisen und Banden aussgestanden, gothic letter	Dresden	1638	GBP -	10.00
48	Schwallarten, Johan	Delicise Hierosolomytanse et totius Palæstinæ. Das ist, Bilgerfahrt in das Heilige Land ... verteutscht durch G.E.L., gothic letter	Cologne	1606	GBP -	19.00
49	Scylax Caryandensis	Periplus, cum Tralatione, et Castigationibus Isaaci Vossii. Accedit Anonymi Periplus Ponti Euxini		1639	GBP -	55.00
50	Seder Olam Rabba	Chronologia Hebræorum Maior, quae Seder Olam Rabba inscribitur. Interprete G. Genebrardo	Paris, Leyden, Antwerp	1578, 1640, 1555	GBP -	24.00
51	Sophocles	Tragoediae Septem. Cum Interpretationibus Vetustis	Florence	27th Oct. 1522	GBP -	58.00
52	Struys, Jan	Voyages en Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes	Amsterdam	1720	GBP -	10.00
53	Tavernier, J. B., Spon, J. and G. Wheler., Dandini, J.	Nouvelle Relation de l'Interieur du Serail du Grand Seigneur, Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant	Paris, Lyons, Paris	1680, 1678, 1684	GBP -	18.00
54	Thevet, André	Cosmographie de Levant	Lyons	1554	GBP -	80.00
55		Thucydides De Bello Peloponnesiaco, Greek	Florence	2nd Nov., 1526	GBP -	20.00
56	Tott, Baron de; Craven, Elizabeth, Lady	Mèmoires sur les Turcs et les Tartares	Amsterdam	1785	GBP -	26.00
57	Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de	Relation d'un Voyage du Levant	Paris	1717	GBP -	70.00
58	Turks	Auss Rathschlage Herren Erasmi von Roterdam, die Türcken zubekriegen, der Ursprung unnd alle Geschichten der selbigen gegen Römische Keyser unnd gemeyne Christenheyt [etc.], gothic letter	n.p.	n.d.	GBP -	26.00
59	Vertot, René Aubert de, Abbé	Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem	Paris	1726	GBP -	110.00
60	Volney, C. F.; Newton, C. T.	Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte	Paris	1787	GBP -	11.00
61	Vulcano, Frate Luigi	Vera, et Nuova Descrittione di tutta Terra Santa, et Peregrinaggio del sacro Monte Sinai	Naples	1563	GBP -	32.00
62	Zuallardo, Giovanni	Il Devotissimo Viaggio de Gerusalemme	Rome	1587	GBP -	50.00
63	Lopez de Gomara, Francesco	Historia delle Nuove Indie Occidentali ... Parte Seconda, tradotta nella Italiana da Agostino di Cravaliz	Venice	1560	GBP -	12.00
64	DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, BERNAL	HISTORIA VERDADERA DE LA CONQUISTA DE LA NUEVA ESPAÑA	Madrid	1632	GBP -	20.00
65	Tamariz de Carmona, Antonio	Relacion y descripcion del templo real de la cividad de la Puebla de los Angeles en la Nueva Espana y su Catedral	Puebla de los Angeles Mexico	1649	GBP -	220.00
66	MACHONI, ANTONIO	DESCRIPCION CHOROGRAPHICA DEL TERRENO, rios, arboles, y animales de la provincias del gran Chaco, Gualamba y de los ritos y costumbres de las naciones que le habitan	Cordoba in Tucuman	1733	GBP -	160.00
67	TAPIA ZENTENO, CARLOS DE	ARTE NOVISSIMA DE LENGUA MEXICANA		1753-9	GBP -	80.00
68	Charlevoix, P. F. X. de	The History of Paraguay	Dublin	1769	GBP -	6.00
69	Vigne, G. T.	Travels in Mexico, South America, etc.		1863	GBP -	6.00
70	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM	Antwerp	1570	GBP -	420.00
71	ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM	THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM	Antwerp	1603	GBP -	420.00
72	MERCATOR, GERARDUS AND J. HONDIUS	APPENDIX ATLANTIS	Amsterdam	1637	GBP -	100.00
73	DE WIT, FREDERICK	ATLAS	Amsterdam	c 1671	GBP -	190.00
74	HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST	Atlas Germaniae specialis	Nuremberg	1735-1749	GBP -	65.00
75	Blome, Richard	Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland	T. Roycroft for R. Blome	1673	GBP -	65.00
76	Camden, William; Edmund Gibson	Britannia		1695	GBP -	38.00
77	Postellus, Guilelmus	Linguarum duodecim characteribus differentium alphabetum introductio ac legendi modus facilimus; De originibus seu de Hebraicae linguae et gentis antiquitate	Paris	1538	GBP -	70.00
78	Olearius, Adam; John Davies	The voyages and travels of the Ambassadors sent to the Great Duke of Muscovy, rendred into English		1669	GBP -	13.00
79	Peruschi, Gio. Batt, S. J.	Informatione del regno et stato del gran re di Mogor, della sua persona, qualita & costumi	Rome	1597	GBP -	22.00
80	Violet, Thomas, of London, Goldsmith	A True Narrative of som Remarkable Proceedings concerning the Ships Samson, Salvador, and George, and several other Prize-ships depending in the High Court of Admiraltie: most humbly presented to the Parlament of the Commonwealth of* England, Mysteries an		1653, 1653	GBP -	70.00
81	Pinto, Fernando Mendez; H. Cogan	The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal: during his Travels ... in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria [etc.], done into English		1653	GBP -	34.00
82	Herbert, Sir Thomas	Some Yeares Travels, into Africa and Asia the Great		1677	GBP -	12.00
83	Knox, Robert	A historical relation of the island of Ceylon		1681	GBP -	18.00
84	Fryer, John	A New Account of East-India and Persia		1698	GBP -	13.00
85	Barrow, John	A Voyage to Cochinchina		1806	GBP -	10.00
86	Adanson, M.	A Voyage to Senegal, the Island of Goree, and the River Gambia, translated from the French		1759	GBP -	12.00
87	Humboldt, A. de; Warden, D. B.; Puigblanch, A.	Researches concerning ... the ancient inhabitants of America, Account of the United States of America, The Inquisition unmasked		1814, 1819, 1816	GBP -	5.00
88	Cochran, J. D.; Kinneir, J. M.	Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia and Koordistan		1824, 1818	GBP -	9.00
89	Jackson, J. G.; Pearce, Nathaniel; J. J. Halls	An account of Timbuctoo and Housa, Life and adventures in Abyssinia		1820	GBP -	11.00
90	Cadalhalso, Joseph	Cartas Marruecas		1796	GBP -	3.00
91	Portlock, Capt. Nathaniel	A Voyage round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America		1789	GBP -	28.00
92	Franklin, John	Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-1822		1823	GBP -	18.00
93	Wells, William Henry	A Geographical Dictionary: or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies		1848	GBP -	15.00
94	Ligon, Richard	A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes		1673	GBP -	28.00
95	Beckford, William, of Jamaica	A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica		1790	GBP -	18.00
96	Edwards, Bryan	An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo		1797	GBP -	8.00
97	Cathcart	Journal of the Expedition to La Guira and Porto Cavallos in the West-Indies, under the Command of Commodore Knowles. In a Letter from an Officer on board the Burford [Sabin, 36722], Original Papers relating to the Expedition to the Island of Cuba [under A		1744, 1744, 1744, 1744	GBP -	38.00
98	Ellis, Henry	Voyage à la Baye de Hudson		1750	GBP -	12.00
99	Mitchell, John	The Contest in America between Great Britain and France		1757	GBP -	38.00
100	Bossu, Nicolas	Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale	Amsterdam	1777	GBP -	11.00

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