Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT LIBRARY. FORMED BY THE LATE H. B. WHEATLEY, ESQ. F.S.A., Author of "Pepysiana," and Editor of "Pepys' Diary." FIRST AND SECOND DAYS' SALE. PART I. AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS, ENG, Apr081918,

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Auction Date: April 08, 1918 - April 08, 1918

Page Size: 1534 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	EUSEBIUS	Chronicon, quod Hieronymus Latinum facere curavit, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
2	Hangesto	Moralia Hieronymi ab Hangesto; Philosophi; Sacreq theologie professori	Impressum in Alma	1515	GBP -	Unknown
3	Raymundus de Pennafort (S.)	Summula, septem Sacramenta complectens, cum Commentariis, etc.	Paris	1516	GBP -	Unknown
4	Cicero	Epistolae Familiares, cum Ascensianis Introductiunculis Recognitis et auctis et Argumentis illustratis	Argentinae	1519	GBP -	Unknown
5	Bonaventura (S.)	Super Primo Libro Sententiarum	Paris	1522	GBP -	Unknown
6	Pentateuchus Moysi	Josue. Liber Judicum	Lugduni	1529	GBP -	Unknown
7		Epitome Historiarum & Chronicorum Mundi (per Achillem P. Gassarum)	Lugduni	s.a. (c. 1537-8)	GBP -	Unknown
8	Boemus (Joannes)	Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges & Ritus, ex multis clarissimis rerum Scriptoribus	Lugduni	1539	GBP -	Unknown
9	ALEXANDER AB ALEXANDRO	Genialium Dierum Libri Sex, Varia ac recondita eruditione referti	Paris	1539	GBP -	Unknown
10	Cicero	De Philosophia, Prima Pars; [et Volumen Secundum]	Paris	1543	GBP -	Unknown
11	Ovidius	Metamorphoses libri XV, cum Commentariis Raphaelis Regii	Basileae	1543	GBP -	Unknown
12		Testamentum (Novum), haud Poenitendis Sacrorum Doctorum Scholiis	Paris	1543	GBP -	Unknown
13	TERENTIUS	Comediae ex Donati Commentariis, etc.	Venetiis	1546	GBP -	Unknown
14	Dio Cassius	Dionis Romanarum Historiarum libri XXIII a XXXVI ad LVIII usque; Graece (cum castigationibus R. * Stephani)	Lutetiae	1548	GBP -	Unknown
15	Celsus (A. C.)	De Re Medici Libri Octo. Item Q. Sereni Liber de Medicina; Q. Rhemnii de Ponderibus, etc.	Lugduni	1549	GBP -	Unknown
16	Homerus	Ilias, Latino Carmine reddita, Helio Eobano Hesso Interprete	Paris	1550	GBP -	Unknown
17	Obsequens (Julius)	Prodigiorum Liber. Polydori Vergilii de Prodigiis	Lugduni	1553	GBP -	Unknown
18	BONIFAOIUS VIII. PAPA	SEXTUS DECRETALIUM LIBER; jam recens. . accuratissime emendatus	Lugduni	1555	GBP -	Unknown
19	Cicero	De Officiis lib. III. Cum Annott. Erasmi Ph. Melanctionis, etc....	Paris	1556	GBP -	Unknown
20	Robertas Aurelius (Joannes)	Sententiarum Juris libri quatuor		1557	GBP -	Unknown
21	Martialis	Epigrammaton lib. XIIII ex castigatione Jo. Boulierii, signature of " Nicholas Saunderson 1577 "		1559	GBP -	Unknown
22	Neander (Michael)	Aristologia Euripidea Graecolatina	Basileae	(1559)	GBP -	Unknown
23	Pictorius (Georgius)	Sermonum Convivialium libri, X . . quibus acced. Ebrietatis in exilium relegatae Threnodia, etc.	Basileae	1559	GBP -	Unknown
24	Gyllius (Petrus)	De Bosporo Thracio Libri III [et de Typographia Constantinopoleos et Antiquitatibus lib. IV]	Lugduni	1561	GBP -	Unknown
25	Euclides	Elementa Geometrica libris XV. . his accessit decimus sextus liber. . authore Fr. Flussate Candalla	Paris	1566	GBP -	Unknown
26	Boccaccio (Giov.)	Il Decameron, Ricorrettio in Roma	In Fiorenza	1573	GBP -	Unknown
27		PETRARCA (Il) Con Nuove Spositioni (et Tavole)	In Lyone	1574	GBP -	Unknown
28	APOLINARIUS	Interpretatio Psalmorum		1580	GBP -	Unknown
29	Cardanus (Hieron.)	Opus Novum Cunctis de Sanitate Tuenda, etc....			GBP -	Unknown
30		Historia Belgica: Hoc est Rerum Meraorabilium quae in Belgio passim aliquando evenerint 1529-83	Francof	1583	GBP -	Unknown
31	Fulgosus (Bapt.)	Factorum Dictorumque Memorabilium libri IX a P. Justo Gaillardo Campano aucti & restituti	Paris	1584	GBP -	Unknown
32	Aristoteles	Ethicorumad Nichomachum lib. X. ab Ant. Riccobono Latine conversi cum commentariis	Francof	1596	GBP -	Unknown
33	Plutarchus	Opuscoli Morali tradotti in Volgare dal Sign. Marc' Antonio Gandino et altri	Venetia	1598	GBP -	Unknown
34		Portulano nel quale si descrive tutto il Costeggio della terra ferma e s'insegnano tutti li Porti		SAEC. XVII	GBP -	Unknown
35		Cantate (XVII) d'Incerto Autore		(16--)	GBP -	Unknown
36	Senault (L.)	Heures Nouvelles, tirees de la Sainte Ecriture, Sorites et gravies par L.Senault	a Paris	s. d.	GBP -	Unknown
37		Koran (The)		(16--)	GBP -	Unknown
38	Hegendorphinus (Chr.)	Libri dialecticae Legalis quinque	Parisiis	1535	GBP -	Unknown
39	Aurogallus (Matthaeus)	De Hebraeis, Urbium, Regionum.populorum, fluminum, montium & aliorum locorum nominibus liber	Basileae	1539	GBP -	Unknown
40		Valerius Maximus	Paris	1543	GBP -	Unknown
41	Bocherius (Nic.)	Caroli Lotharingi Card, et Francisci Ducis Guysii Literae et Anna...			GBP -	Unknown
42	Ariosto (L.)	Orlando Furioso (Canti 51) con le Annotations Avertimenti & dichiarationi di Jeronimo Ruscelli, etc.	Venetia	1584	GBP -	Unknown
43	Aldus Manutius	De Comitis Romanorum (wants title)	Bononiae	1585	GBP -	Unknown
44	Sigonius (Carolus)	De Antiquo Jure Givium Romanorum, Italiae, Provinciarum, ac Romanae Jurisprudence Judiciis, Libri XI, etc.	Francof	1593	GBP -	Unknown
45	Aristoteles	Operum Aristotelis Tomus II. Gr. et Lat. signatures of D. Souchez and W. Berthelet		1597	GBP -	Unknown
46	Zanchius (Hieron.)	In D. Pauli Apostoli Epistolas ad Philippenses, Colossenses, et Thessalonicences		1601	GBP -	Unknown
47	Polyanthea	Hoc est Opus suavissimis Floribus Celebriorum sententiarum, etc.		1604	GBP -	Unknown
48	Dio Cassius	Historiae Romanae libri XLVI	Hanoviae	1606	GBP -	Unknown
49	Du Vair	Recueil des Harangues et Traictz du Sr. du Vair	Paris	1606	GBP -	Unknown
50		OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS, Pii V, Pont. Max. jussu editum. Nunc pluribus quam hactenus umquam figuris aeneis illustratum	Antwerpiae	1609	GBP -	Unknown
51	Bodinus (Jo.)	Methodus ad facilem Historiarum Cognitionem accurate denuo recusa	Genevae	1610	GBP -	Unknown
52	Beka (Joannes de)	Chronicon Ultrajectinae a Christi nato ad Annum 1574...			GBP -	Unknown
53	Justinus	Trogi Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum Epitoma cum Scholus	Argmtorati	1613	GBP -	Unknown
54	Goltzius (Hubert)	Thesaurus Rei Antiquariae Huberrimus ex antiquis tam numismatum quam marmorum inscriptionibus descriptus, etc.	Antwerpiae	1618	GBP -	Unknown
55	Montholon (Jacques de)	Arrests de la Cour prononcez en Robes Rouges. Depuis le Parlement commencant a la Sainct Martin	Paris	1622	GBP -	Unknown
56		Notitia Dignitatum, utriusque Imperii Orientis scilicet et Occidentis ultra Arcadii Honorisque tempora	Genevae	1623	GBP -	Unknown
57	Cappellus (F. M. Ant.)	De Coena Christi Suprema deque praecipuis Vitae eius Capitibus Dissertatio adversus. AEgyptium	Paris	1625	GBP -	Unknown
58	Contarenus (Gasp.)	De Republica Venetorum		1626	GBP -	Unknown
59	Dupleix (Scipion) Cours de Philosophie	Revue, illustre & augments	Paris	1626	GBP -	Unknown
60		Marcus Antoninus Imp. De Vita sua libri XII, Gr. et Lat. accessit Marini Proclus		1626	GBP -	Unknown
61		Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V	Antwerpiae	1631	GBP -	Unknown
62	Gyllius (P.)	De Bosporo Thracio		1632	GBP -	Unknown
63	Simler (Jos.)	Valleriae et Alpium descriptio, Editio Elzeviriana		1633	GBP -	Unknown
64		Testamentum Novum Graecum	Amst	1633	GBP -	Unknown
65	Drexelius (H.)	Rosae Selectarum Virtutum Pars I	Antwerpiae	1636	GBP -	Unknown
66	Ovidius	MetamorphoseΩn libri XV	Paris	1637	GBP -	Unknown
67		L'Office de la Vierge Marie pour tout les Temps de l'annde; Revue et Ordonne de nouveau suyvant la reformation du Concile de Trente; avec plusieurs prieres faictes per le R. P. Coton	a Paris	1638	GBP -	Unknown
68		Biblia. La Sacra Bibbia	Geneva	1641	GBP -	Unknown
69	Coulon (Ludovicus)	Lexicon Homericum	Paris	1643	GBP -	Unknown
70	Claubergius (Jo.)	Defensio Cartesiana	Amst.	1652	GBP -	Unknown
71	Hersent (Chas. Chancellier de l'Eglise de Metz)	Conseils Salutaires pour fortifier une Ame dans le Chemin de la Vertue		(1653)	GBP -	Unknown
72	Voiture (V. de)	Les Lettres de Mr. de Voiture (avec la Suite)	Amst.	1653-9	GBP -	Unknown
73	Magnon (Sieur)	Les Heures du Chrestien divisees en trois Journees, en Vers et en Prose	Paris	1654	GBP -	Unknown
74		L'Office de la Semaine Saincte, corrige de nouveau par le commandement du Roy, etc.	a Paris	1661	GBP -	Unknown
75	Huet (P. D.)	De Interpretatione libri duo	Paris	1661	GBP -	Unknown
76	Caesar (Julius)	Quae extant ex emend. Jo. Scaligeri	Amst	1664	GBP -	Unknown
77	Girardi (P. Felice, S.J.)	Il Mercurio del decimo-settimo secolo, nel quale si contengono I fatti piu illustri succeduti nel Mondo dal 1601	Napoli	1664	GBP -	Unknown
78	Vavassoris (Fr. S.J.)	De Epigrammate liber	Paris	1669	GBP -	Unknown
79	Leycester (Sir Peter)	Historical Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland		1673	GBP -	Unknown
80	Virgilius	Opera, N. Heinsius recensuit	Amst	1676	GBP -	Unknown
81	Dolce (Lodovico)	Didone, Tragedia	in Vinegia	1547	GBP -	Unknown
82	Callimachus	Hymni (cum suis Scholiis Graecis) et Epigrammata, etc.		1577	GBP -	Unknown
83	[Bordelon (Abbe)]	Livre de la Mode [Diversitez Curieuses pour servir de Recreation a l'Esprit]	Amst.	(16--)	GBP -	Unknown
84	Barclaius (Jo.)	Satyricon, cui accessit Pars V. Eine Alitophili Veritatis Lachrymae		1628	GBP -	Unknown
85	La Calprenede (Coste de)	Cleopatre dediee a Monseigneur Le Prince. Sixiesme Partie	Paris	1663	GBP -	Unknown
86	Athenaeus	Les Quinze Livres des Deipnosophistes.. . Traduit pour la premiere fois en Francois (par l'Abbe Marolles)	Paris	1680	GBP -	Unknown
87		Statutes (Les) de l'Ordre du St. Esprit estably par Henri IIIme du Nom Roy de France et de Pologne au mois de Decembre l'an M.D.LXXVIII	Paris	1703	GBP -	Unknown
88		Breviarium Parisiense	Paris	1714	GBP -	Unknown
89	Alvarez de Colmenar (D. Juan)	Les Delices de l'Espagne et de Portugal	Leide	1715	GBP -	Unknown
90	Longeville Harcourt (M. de)	Histoire des Personnes qui ont vecu plusieurs siecles et qui ont rajeuni	Paris	1716	GBP -	Unknown
91	De La Rue (Pere, S.J.)	Sermons pour le Caresme et pour l'Avent	Paris	1719	GBP -	Unknown
92	Quesnel (Le Pere)	Reflexions Morales avec des Notes sur le Nouveau Testament	a Paris	1714-25	GBP -	Unknown
93		Office Paroissial Latin-Francois a l'Usage de Rome et de Paris	Paris	1729	GBP -	Unknown
94	Pulci (Luigi)	Il Morgante Maggiore (publicata da Pier-lsmaela Pedagucci)	In Firenze	1732	GBP -	Unknown
95	Rollin (C.)	De la Maniere d'enseigner et d'etudier les Belles Lettres	Paris	1732	GBP -	Unknown
96	Bourdaloue (Pere Louis)	Pensees sur divers sujets de Religion et de Morale	Paris	1734	GBP -	Unknown
97		Recueil de Prieres et de Pratiques tres-utiles pour se conduire a Dieu dans tous les Exercises de la Vie Chrtienne, etc.	Paris	s. l. et n. 1735	GBP -	Unknown
98		Supplement du Breviaire Romain, ou les Offices des Saints Nouveaux	Paris	1735	GBP -	Unknown
99		L'Office de la Quinzaine de Pasque	a Paris	1739	GBP -	Unknown
100	Fabricius (J. A.)	Theologie de l'Eau, traduit de l'Allemand	La Haye	1741	GBP -	Unknown

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