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
301	PLATO	De Republica, sive de Justo, Libri X.	Cambridge	1713	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
302	PLATT, SIR HUGH	The Jewel-House of Art and Nature.	London	1594	USD 200.00 - 300.00	175.00
303	PLINY THE ELDER	Naturalis Historiae Libri XXXVII ... Title within elaborate woodcut border; hundreds of woodcut initials.	Paris	1516	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
304	PLINY THE YOUNGER	Epistolarum, Libri X. Sumptibus Editoris Excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells.	London	1790	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
305	PLUTARCH	Les Oeuvres Morales et Meslees.	Paris	1574	USD 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
306	POCOCKE, EDWARD, THE ELDER	Commentarius in Prophetiam Joelis.	Leipzig	1695	USD 50.00 - 75.00	30.00
307	POPE, ALEXANDER	The Temple of Fame: A Vision. With the half-title and Proposals.	London	1715	USD 200.00 - 300.00	275.00
308	POPE, ALEXANDER	Of False Taste An Epistle to ... Burlington.	London	1731	USD 150.00 - 250.00	300.00
309	POPE, ALEXANDER	Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men An Epistle to ... Cobham. Halftitle, ads.	London	1733 1734	USD 150.00 - 250.00	200.00
310	POPE, ALEXANDER, Homer	The Iliad, The Odyssey. Engraved frontispieces, folding and double-page maps, plates of Achilles's shield, vignette on first Odyssey title, ornaments and initials; titles in red and black, half-title to Iliad, privilege and errata leaves, subscribers' lis	London	1715-20, 1725-26	USD 400.00 - 600.00	650.00
311	POPE, ALEXANDER	The Works. 2 volumes, Letters. Together, 3 volumes.	London	1717-35, 1737	USD 120.00 - 180.00	130.00
312	POPE, ALEXANDER	Group of 3 Popeana.	London	1727, 1742, 1744	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
313	POPE JOAN. Spanheim, Friedrich	Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne.	Cologne	1695	USD 50.00 - 75.00	275.00
314	POPE JOAN	'T Leven van Johanna, Paus van Rome, onder den Naam van Johannes den Achtsten.	Amsterdam	1722	USD 50.00 - 75.00	70.00
315	PTOLEMAEUS, CLAUDIUS	Almagestum, seu Magnae Constructionis Mathematicae ... per Lucam Gauricum Recognitum Anno Salutis 1528.	Venice	1528	USD 300.00 - 400.00	650.00
316	QUAKERS	A Collection of Acts of Parliament, and Clauses of Acts, relative to ... Quakers, from the Year 1688.	London	1757	USD 50.00 - 75.00	30.00
317	RABELAIS, FRANCOIS	Les Oeuvres. 2 volumes.	Np	1659-69 i.e., 1669	USD 70.00 - 100.00	100.00
318	RAIMONDI, EUGENIO	Le Caccie delle Fiere, Armate, e Disarmate, et de gl'Animali Quadrupedi, Volatile, & Acquatici.	Brescia	1621	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
319	ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF.	Poems on Several Occasions; with Valentinian, a Tragedy.	London	1696	USD 70.00 - 100.00	50.00
320	Donato, Alexandra, S.J.	Roma Vetus ac Recens, utriusque Aedificiis ad Eruditam Cognitionem Expositis.	Rome	1665	USD 100.00 - 150.00	300.00
321	ROSARIO DE VIRTU	Extracta da Multi Philosophi. Theologi, et altri Excellenti Authori.	Naples	20 March 1521	USD 300.00 - 400.00	150.00
322	ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES	Les Confessions, suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire.	Geneve	1782	USD 300.00 - 400.00	850.00
323	SACHEVERELL, HENRY	Two fine collections of altogether 23 books, pam phlets, and broadsides, relating to the impeachment and trial of Sacheverell.	London	1710	USD 500.00 - 750.00	325.00
324	SALLUST	Opera. Pictorial title in red and black and some 50 fine woodcuts, in cluding repeats.	Lyon	1519	USD 100.00 - 150.00	225.00
325	SANDRART, JOACHIM VON	Sculpturae Veteris Admiranda, sive Delineatio Vera Perfectissimarum Eminentissimarumque Statuarum, una cum Artis Hujus Nobilissimae Theoria.	Nuremberg	1680	USD 80.00 - 120.00	150.00
326	SAVONAROLA, GIROLAMO	De Simplicitate Vite Chr[ist]iane.	Venice	12 January 1512	USD 80.00 - 120.00	175.00
327	SCALIGER, JOSEPH	Poemata Omnia, ex Museio Petri Scriverii.	Leiden	1615	USD 40.00 - 60.00	110.00
328	SCOTT, DAVID	The History of Scotland. Frontispiece, EDGAR, WILLIAM.	London, np	1728, 1742	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
329	Otho, Georgius	Palaestra Linguarum Orientalium; hoc est, Quatuor Primorum Capitum Geneseos, i.	Frankfurt a. M.	1702	USD 60.00 - 90.00	100.00
330	SENECA	Seneca's Morals by way of Abstract. Translated by R. L'Estrange.	London	1678	USD 150.00 - 200.00	90.00
331	SERMONES QUADRAGESIMALES	qui Anima Fidelis Inscribuntur) ... [v], 2-150 leaves.	Venice	1505	USD 120.00 - 180.00	150.00
332	Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, First Baron	The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth. With portrait, Cowley, Abraham. The Works. With portrait, Praz, Mario. Secentismo e Marinismo in Inghilterra: John Donne--- Richard Crashaw.	London, Florence	1672, 1678, 1625	USD 120.00 - 180.00	150.00
333	Ramsay, Charles Aloysius	Tacheographia, seu Ars Breviter et Compendiose Scribendi Methodo Brevissima Tradita, ac Pacussimus Regulis Comprehensa ...	Frankfurt & Leipzig	1683	USD 200.00 - 300.00	70.00
334	SIMON, RICHARD	Disquisitiones Criticae de Variis ... Bibliorum Editionibus.	London	1684	USD 60.00 - 90.00	30.00
335	SMITH, SIR THOMAS	The Commonwealth of England, and the Manner of Governement Thereof.	London	1612	USD 70.00 - 100.00	80.00
336	SOUTH SEA BUBBLE	All for the Better; or, the World turn'd up-side down, being the History of the Head-Longs and the Long-Heads.	London	1720	USD 80.00 - 120.00	250.00
337	SPEED, JOHN	The History of Great Britaine ... Second Edition, Revised & En larged.	London	1627	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
338	STEELE, SIR RICHARD	A Letter to the Earl of O---d, Concerning the Bill of Peerage.	London	1719	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
339	STERNE, LAURENCE	The Works ... in Seven Volumes.	Dublin	1780	USD 80.00 - 120.00	30.00
340	STOCK, CHRISTIAN	Clavis Linguae Sanctae Novi Testamenti.	Jena	1730	USD 50.00 - 75.00	50.00
341	STRADA, FAMIANO	De Bello Belgica, Decas Prima, Decas Secunda.	Rome	1640, 1647	USD 150.00 - 200.00	450.00
342	SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE, DUC DE.	Memoires. Over 60 copperplate portraits; titles in red and black, with small vignette.	Londres Paris	1745	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
343	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.	London	1711	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
344	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Some Remarks upon a Pamphlet.	London	1711	USD 200.00 - 300.00	110.00
345	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty.	London	1712	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
346	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Letters to and from Dr. J. Swift, D.S.P.D., from the Year 1714 to 1738; to which are Added, Several Notes and Translations not in the London Edition.	Dublin	1741	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
347	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.	London	1726	USD 350.00 - 500.00	225.00
348		The Annales ... ; The Description of Germanic.	London	1604, 1605	USD 200.00 - 300.00	110.00
349		The Annales... ; The Description of Germanic.	London	1640, 1642	USD 150.00 - 250.00	50.00
350	Malvezzi, Virgilio	Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus.	London	1642	USD 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
351	TASSO, TORQUATO	Aminta: Favola Boscareccia.	Glasgow	1753	USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
352	THE TATLER	The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., numbers 1-271 (lacking only number 227, which is supplied in superb facsimile).	London	1709-1711	USD 350.00 - 500.00	375.00
353	THE TATLER	The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.,	London	1710-11	USD 200.00 - 300.00	100.00
354	TERENCE	Comoediae; Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et Aliorum Veterum Sententiae, ex Recensione et cum Notis Richardi Bentleii.	Cambridge	1726	USD 150.00 - 200.00	80.00
355	TERENCE	Comoediae. Recensuit, Notasque Suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius.	Amsterdam	1727	USD 200.00 - 300.00	100.00
356	TERTULLIAN	Opera ... per Beatum Rhenaun Seletstadiensem ... Title within crowded border; another border on first page of text.	Basel	July 1521	USD 100.00 - 150.00	450.00
357	THOMSON, JAMES	The Castle of Indolence. With the ad leaf bound after the title.	London	1748	USD 150.00 - 250.00	130.00
358	THUCYDIDES	Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre.	London	1634	USD 100.00 - 150.00	110.00
359	TORRIANO, GIOVANNI	The Italian Reviv'd: or, the Introduction to the Italian Tongue ... also a new Store-House of Proper and Choice Dialogues.	London	1689	USD 70.00 - 100.00	120.00
360	THE TRINKET	A Novel. By a Lady. [4], 271, [1] pages.	London	1774	USD 40.00 - 60.00	225.00
361	UBALDINI, PETRUCCIO	Le Vite delle Donne Illustri del Regno d'Inghilterra & del Regno di Scotia.	London	1591	USD 400.00 - 600.00	200.00
362	USSIEUX, LOUIS D'.	Les Nouvelles Francoises.	Paris	1783	USD 70.00 - 100.00	100.00
363	VAENIUS, OTTO	Theatro Moral de la Vida Humana, en Cien Emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, &c. y la Tabla de Cebes, Philosofo Platonico.	Brussels	1672	USD 300.00 - 400.00	150.00
364	VASARI, GIORGIO	Vita del Gran Michelagnolo Buonarroti.	Florence	1568	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
365	VASARI, GIORGIO	Le Vite de' piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori et Architetti.	Bologna	1647	USD 70.00 - 100.00	30.00
366	VERGIL	Opera, emendabat et Notulis Illustrabat Gilbertus Wakefield.	London	1796	USD 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
367	VERGIL	The Works. Translated by John Ogilby.	London	1654	USD 80.00 - 120.00	200.00
368	VICO, GIAMBATTISTA	Principj di Scienza Nuova, d'Intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni.	Naples	1744	USD 150.00 - 200.00	175.00
369	VRED, OLIVARIUS	Genealogia Comitum Flandriae a Balduino Ferreo usque ad Philippum IV, Sigilla Comitum Flandriae et Inscriptiones Diplomatum, Historiae Flandriae Christianae, 500-767.	Bruges	1642, 1639, nd	USD 100.00 - 150.00	175.00
370		WARS OF FLANDERS. Premiere Partie des Guerres de Flandres, Seconde Partie, Troisieme Partie.	Np, circa	1680?	USD 200.00 - 300.00	550.00
371		THE WHOLE DUTY OF A WOMAN; or, A Guide to the Female Sex, from the Age of Sixteen to Sixty.	London	1695	USD 200.00 - 300.00	425.00
372	WOLLASTON, WILLIAM	The Religion of Nature Delineated.	London	1725	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
373	WOOD, ROBERT	An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer.	London	1775	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
374	WOTTON, WILLIAM	Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning.	London	1697	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00

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