Swann Galleries: BIBLES and ILLUSTRATED BIBLES, BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS and PRAYER BOOKS, and EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, 1324,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 09, 1984 - February 09, 1984
Page Size: 374 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 CAVENDISH, GEORGE The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey. London

1641

USD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
202 CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Translated by T. Smollett. Numerous engraved plates.

USD 70.00 - 100.00 120.00
203 CLASSICAL LITERATURE. Group of 9 volumes. Vp

1550-1750

USD 100.00 - 150.00 150.00
204 CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION. Group of 4 works in 5 volumes. Vp

USD 120.00 - 180.00 110.00
205 The Last Dying Words and Confession of the Five Malefactors, who Were Executed on Thursday the 2d of April, 1789, on Pennenden-Heath, near Maidstone captiontitle. Np

1789?

USD 70.00 - 100.00 110.00
206 DANET, ABBE PIERRE Nouveau Dictionnaire Francois et Latin ... Compose par l'Ordre du Roy pour Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris

1683

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
207 DANTE Vita Nuova; con xv. Canzoni del Medesimo; e la Vita di esso Dante Scritta da Giovanni Boccaccio, [vii], 116, [iv], 80 pages. Florence

1576

USD 150.00 - 200.00 140.00
208 Caesar, Julius Omnia Quae Extant, ex Bibliotheca olim Fulvii Ursini Romani. Strassburg

1613

USD 150.00 - 250.00 60.00
209 DEFOE, DANIEL The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters. London

1702

USD 250.00 - 350.00 425.00
210 DEFOE, DANIEL Jure Divino: A Satyr. Portrait frontispiece. London

1706

USD 80.00 - 120.00 130.00
211 DEFOE, DANIEL Memoirs of a Cavalier. London

1720

USD 120.00 - 180.00 80.00
212 IL DESIDEROSO, Specchio della Vita Religiosa Large woodcut vignette of angel guiding child, with dog beside them; similar woodcut on colophon. Venice

1543

USD 150.00 - 200.00 70.00
213 DESPAUTERIUS, JOHANNES Collection of his works in black-letter, in 6 parts, evidently published together. Lyon

1530-31

USD 100.00 - 150.00 200.00
214 DIBDIN, T. F. An Introduction to the ... Classics, CIBBER, C. The Character and Conduct of Cicero, PYE, H. J. A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle. London

1804, 1747, 1792

USD 100.00 - 150.00 100.00
215 DU CHOUL, GUILLAUME Discorso sopra la Castrametatione et Disciplina Militare de Romani; con i Bagni & Essercitii de Greci & Romani. Lyon

1556

USD 200.00 - 300.00 250.00
216 EDMONDES, CLEMENT Observations upon Caesars Comentaries. London

1609

USD 200.00 - 300.00 80.00
217 Aulus Gellius ELZEVIER PRESS, Noctes Atticae, Livy. Historiarum quod Extat. Amsterdam

1665, 1678

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
218 Bocchi, Achille EMBLEM BOOK, Symbolicarum Quaestionum, De Universo Genere, quas Serio Ludebat, Libri Quinque. Bologna

1574

USD 300.00 - 400.00 250.00
219 Camilli, Camillo EMBLEM BOOK, Imprese Illustri di Diversi, coi Discorsi. Handsome engraved title, and 59 fine emblematic copperplates in the text, engraved by Girolamo Porro. Venice

1586

USD 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
220 Cats, Jacob EMBLEM BOOK, Spiegel van den Ouden ende Nieuwen Tydt. Amsterdam

1689

USD 100.00 - 150.00 110.00
221 La Vigne, David de. EMBLEM BOOK, Spiegel om wel te Sterven. Amsterdam

1694

USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
222 EURIPIDES Supplices Mulieres, Iphigenia in Aulide et in Tauris; cum Notis Jer. Oxford

1811

USD 100.00 - 150.00 225.00
223 FELL, BISHOP JOHN Grammatica Rationis, sive, Institutiones Logicae. Oxford

1675

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
224 FENTON, ELIJAH Poems on Several Occasions. Engraved frontispiece; Lintot's ads at end. London

1717

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
225 FIALETTI, ODOARDO Habite delle Religioni, con le Armi, e Breve Descrittioni Loro. Paris

1701

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
226 FIELDING, HENRY The Author's Farce, and The Pleasures of the Town. London

1730

USD 200.00 - 300.00 325.00
227 Thomson, James FOULIS PRESS, The Poetical Works. Glasgow

1784

USD 60.00 - 90.00 35.00
228 FRENCH DEVOTIONAL Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les Cerimonies de la Ste. Np

1653

USD 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
229 FRENCH REVOLUTION Almanach des Muses, 1787, 1790z, 1791 and 1794. Paris

1786-1793

USD 80.00 - 120.00 70.00
230 FRENCH REVOLUTION Two titles in 3 volumes. London

1791, 1799

USD 60.00 - 90.00 90.00
231 FRENCH REVOLUTION Group of 10 partly printed Documents and Letters Signed by various Revolutionary officials and some military figures. Paris, etc.

1792-1801

USD 100.00 - 150.00 175.00
232 FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CURRENCY Large group of 35 engraved or printed specimens of paper money, some being an uncut portion of the original uncut block or sheet; each handsomely printed within ornamental borders, and a few bearing a charming vignette of the figure of Justice. Paris, etc.

1792-93

USD 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
233 FROISSART, JEAN Histoire et Chronique Memorable de Messire Jehan Froissart. Paris

1574

USD 300.00 - 400.00 225.00
234 GAISFORD, THOMAS Encheiridon Ephaistionos; Enchiridion Hephaestionis. MANUSCRIPT IN GREEK, in an elegant minuscule script, written on 50 leaves, generally 26 lines to the page.

1800

USD 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
235 GELLIUS, AULUS Noctes Atticae. 20 fine large historiated woodcut initials. Venice

1556

USD 70.00 - 100.00 40.00
236 GOLDSMITH, OLIVER The Vicar of Wakefield: a Tale. Dublin

1766

USD 200.00 - 300.00 110.00
237 GORI, ANTONIUS FRANCISCUS Dactyliotheca Smithiana. Engraved frontis piece with portrait of George III; 2 engraved titles with vignettes; 2 full-page engravings of antique sculpture after P. A. Novelli; and 100 superb copperplates of antique gems. Venice

1767

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
238 GRAPALDI, FRANCESCO MARIO De Partibus Aedium, addita Modo Verborum Explicatione ... Turin

14 December 1516, 1517

USD 200.00 - 300.00 350.00
239 GRAY, THOMAS Poems, ditto, another edition. London, Parma

1768, 1793

USD 150.00 - 250.00 350.00
240 Group of 3 volumes. Vp

USD 80.00 - 120.00 30.00
241 GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO Histoire des Guerres d'ltalie. Geneva

1593

USD 70.00 - 100.00 70.00
242 HAMILTON, ANTOINE Memoires du Comte de Grammont. London

1792

USD 150.00 - 200.00 150.00
243 HANAPUS, NICOLAUS Patriarch of Jerusalem. Virtutum Vitiorumque Exempla. Paris

1560

USD 100.00 - 150.00 70.00
244 HARRISON, WALTER A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. London

1776

USD 200.00 - 300.00 90.00
245 HELMOLDUS, Chronica Slavorum. H. Bangertus recensuit et notis illustravit. Luebeck

1659

USD 100.00 - 150.00 140.00
246 HERALDRY Arme delle Famiglie Nobili di Siena ... gli Onori del Supremo Eccelso Maestrato. Np

1706

USD 70.00 - 100.00 70.00
247 HESIOD Opuscula Inscripta Ega kai Emerai ... Basel

1539

USD 80.00 - 120.00 110.00
248 HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL Chronicles. Incomplete copy of this monumental work, lacking title and last few leaves of index (ending with Winchcombe).

1577

USD 400.00 - 600.00 475.00
249 HORACE Opera, ex Recensione & cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Cambridge

1711

USD 400.00 - 600.00 250.00
250 HORACE Opera, ex Recensione & cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Amsterdam

1713

USD 150.00 - 200.00 80.00
251 Antoninus florentinus Omnis Mortalium Cura [in Italian:] Specchio di Coscienza. Florence

before 24 October 1477

USD 200.00 - 300.00 350.00
252 Bossus, Matthaeus. Recuperationes Faesulanae 112 leaves. Folio, later calf gilt, rehinged. Bologna

20 July 1493

USD 100.00 - 150.00 200.00
253 Gulielmus de Gouda. Expositio Mysteriorum Missae Rubri cated. Gothic type, 27-28 lines. Cologne, circa

1486

USD 200.00 - 300.00 800.00
254 Martinez de Toledo, Alfonso Oratio in Vitam et Merita S. Bonaventurae. Rome

not before 14 April 1482

USD 100.00 - 150.00 175.00
255 IRISH REBELLION. Borlase, Edmund The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion. London

1680

USD 70.00 - 100.00 70.00
256 ISCHYRIUS, CHR1STIANUS In Psalmos Poenitentiales, in Psalmos Horarii sive Cursus de Beate Maria Virgine ... Cologne, circa

1535

USD 150.00 - 250.00 300.00
257 ISOCRATES Orationes et Epistolae Gravitatis & Suavitatis. Paris

1553

USD 60.00 - 90.00 30.00
258 JEWEL, JOHN A Replie unto M. Hardinges Answeare. London

1565

USD 150.00 - 250.00 200.00
259 JOHN OF ANTIOCH Joannis Antiocheni Cognomento Malalae Historia Chronica, e MS. Cod. Oxford

1691

USD 120.00 - 180.00 90.00
260 JOSEPHUS Opera Omnia. Title within splendid woodcut design; a profusion of large, dramatic woodcuts by Jost Amman, Tobias Stimmer, and other masters of the period; and very numerous woodcut initials. Frankfurt

1580

USD 350.00 - 500.00 700.00
261 JOSEPHUS Historico delle Antichita, e Guerre Giudaiche. Venice

1616-14-04

USD 60.00 - 90.00 140.00
262 JOSEPHUS Works ... Newly Translated from the Original Greek by Ebenezer Thompson and William Charles Price. London

1777-78

USD 100.00 - 150.00 250.00
263 JOSEPHUS The Whole Works. Translated by Charles Clarke; with Marginal References, and Notes, by Mr. London

1785

USD 60.00 - 90.00 110.00
264 JOSEPHUS The Whole Genuine and Complete Works. London, circa

1785

USD 100.00 - 150.00 175.00
265 KESSLER VON WETZLER, FRANZ Kurtzer Einfaeltiger und doch Aussfuehrlicher Verstaendlicher Bericht, wie ein Jeglicher der Mathematischen Kunst Liebhaber gantzringfertig das ueberauss Compendios-Scioterische Gnomische, oder Geometrische und Ringkoestige Proportional Instruments ... se Oppenheim

1612, 1613

USD 300.00 - 400.00 500.00
266 KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni, in X. Rome

1650

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 550.00
267 KLAUBER, JOSEPH and JOHANN Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti ... Augsburg, circa

1750

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
268 LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. Amsterdam

1699

USD 300.00 - 400.00 100.00
269 LA ROQUE, GILLES ANDRE DE. Traite de la Noblesse, et de Toutes ses Differentes Especes. Rouen

1735

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
270 LATIN CLASSICS. Group of 5 volumes of scholarly editions. Vp

1702-81

USD 120.00 - 180.00 50.00
271 LEYBOURN, WILLIAM Pleasure with Profit, consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. London

1694

USD 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
272 LIVY Historicus Duobus Libris, Auctus: cum L. Flori Epitome. Venice

1520

USD 150.00 - 200.00 250.00
273 LIVY Historiarum quod Extat, cum Perpetuis C. Sigonii et J. E. Gronovii Notis. Amsterdam

1679

USD 100.00 - 150.00 60.00
274 LUTTERELL, EDWARD Volume comprising portrait of Alfred the Great and coins of his era, and 21 plates of English kings from William the Conqueror to Henry VIII, engraved by Vanderbanck after Lutterell; all within ornamental frames. Np, circa

1710

USD 50.00 - 75.00 40.00
275 LYCOSTHENES WOLFFHART, CONRAD Apophthegmatum ex Optimis Utriusque Linguae Scriptoribus. Lyon

1573

USD 150.00 - 200.00 175.00
276 LYLY, JOHN Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, [Euphues and his England.] London

1613, nd

USD 80.00 - 120.00 50.00
277 MACROBIUS In Somnium Scipionis ... ; Saturnaliorum. Geneva

1597

USD 70.00 - 100.00 50.00
278 Eight texts. COMPOSITE MANUSCRIPT IN ITALIAN AND LATIN, written in italic and cursive scripts by several hands, lines varying, black and brown inks on paper watermarked with a 2-petaled fruit. Italy

early 16th century

USD 200.00 - 300.00 250.00
279 MARILIANIS, HIERONYMUS Observationes et Decisiones Aureae Duorum Jurisconsultorum ... Nunc Primum in Germania cum Indice ... [8], 468 pages, plus Index. Frankfurt

1598

USD 150.00 - 200.00 110.00
280 Cleirac, Estienne MARITIME LAW. Us et Coustume de la Mer, divisees en Trois Parties: Navigations; Commerce Naval; Jurisdiction de la Marine. Bordeaux

1647

USD 70.00 - 100.00 200.00
281 MARTIAL Epigrammatom Libri 14 summa diligentia castigati. Paris

1540

USD 70.00 - 100.00 80.00
282 MAXIMUS, PACIFICUS. Pacifici Magnifici, Poete Asculani De Componendis Hexametris & Penthametris, Opusculum Rarissimum. Wittemberg

1516

USD 80.00 - 120.00 175.00
283 MENESTRIER, FRANCOIS L'Art des Emblemes. Woodcut title vignette; additional engraved title; 9 copperplates; and a series of 12 copperplates by Erunger of over 300 tiny portraits of Roman emperors and their wives. Lyon

1662

USD 80.00 - 120.00 30.00
284 MEXIA, PEDRO De Seven Verscheyden Tsamensprekingen. Np

1607

USD 50.00 - 75.00 60.00
285 MILTON, JOHN Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio, contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii, Defensionem Regiam. London

1651

USD 80.00 - 120.00 120.00
286 MILTON, JOHN The Poetical Works. Portrait by R. White; 12 superb plates by Burghers after Medina. London

1695

USD 80.00 - 120.00 250.00
287 MILTON, JOHN Paradise Lost: a Poem, in Twelve Books. London

1750

USD 50.00 - 75.00 60.00
288 MIRABEAU, HONORE GABRIEL RIQUETTI, COMTE DE. Errotika Biblion. 192 pages. Rome

1783

USD 80.00 - 120.00 110.00
289 MORELL, THOMAS Thesaurus Graecae Poeseos, sive Lexicon Graeco-Prosodiacum, Versus, et Synonyma. Eton

1762

USD 70.00 - 100.00 30.00
290 MUELLER, JACOB Ornatus Ecclesiasticus, hoc est Compendium Praecipuarum Rerum ... a Jacobo Myller. Munich

1591

USD 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
291 MUSIC. Lutherie. Complete set of 34 copperplates from the Diderot & D'Alembert Encyclopedie, with 7-page plate list with notes. Paris, circa

1770

USD 80.00 - 120.00 80.00
292 NANI, BATTISTA The History of the Affairs of Europe in this Present Age, but more particularly of the Republick of Venice. London

1673

USD 60.00 - 90.00 30.00
293 OTTO, Bishop of Freising Rerum ab Origine Mundi ap Ipsius usque Tempora Gestarum; eiusdem De Gestis Friderici Primi Aenobarbi; Radevici Phrisingen Libri Duo. Strassburg

1515

USD 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
294 PALMA, GIACOMO JACOPO Regole per Imparar a Disegnar i Corpi Humani. Venice

1636

USD 100.00 - 150.00 140.00
295 PANVINIO, ONOFRIO Fasti et Triumphi Rom, a Romulo Rege usque ad Carolum V. Venice

1557

USD 50.00 - 75.00 175.00
296 PARABOSCO, GIROLAMO II Viluppi, Comedia Nova. Venice

1560

USD 60.00 - 90.00 70.00
297 PARADIN, GUILLAUME Historiarum Memorabilium ex Genesi Descriptio. Lyon

1558

USD 100.00 - 150.00 100.00
298 PERCY, BISHOP THOMAS Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London

1765

USD 100.00 - 150.00 50.00
299 PETRARCH Opera De Rimedi de l'Una et l'Altra Fortuna, ad Azone. Venice

1549

USD 100.00 - 150.00 90.00
300 PIGNA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA Carminum Lib. Quatuor ... his adiunximus C. Calcagnini Carm. Lib. III; L. Areosti Carm. Lib. II. Venice

1553

USD 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
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