Swann Galleries: 18th CENTURY LITERATURE. SETS & BINDINGS, CURIOSA., 1693,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 18, 1995 - May 18, 1995
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARIOSTO, LODOVICO | Orlando Furioso. | London | 1783 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 230.00 |
| 2 | BACON, SIR FRANCIS | The Essays | London | 1696 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 230.00 |
| 3 | BARBER, MARY | Poems on Several Occasions | London | 1734 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | BARCLAY, JOHN | Argenis ... cum clave ... editio XVII | Nuremberg | 1769 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | BARCLAY, ROBERT | An Apology for the True Christian Divinity; being, An Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called | Birmingham | 1765 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 80.00 |
| 6 | BECKFORD, WILLIAM | An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript With Notes Critical and Explanatory | London | 1786 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 316.00 |
| 7 | BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, NICOLAS | The Works ... to which is prefix'd His Life ... by Mr. Des Maizeaux. And Some Account of This Translation by N. Rowe, Esq | London | 1712 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 149.00 |
| 8 | BOISARD, J. J. F. M. | Fables | Paris | 1773 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 46.00 |
| 9 | BOSWELL, JAMES | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | London | 1785 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 373.00 |
| 10 | BOSWELL, JAMES | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Dublin | 1785 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 201.00 |
| 11 | BUTLER, JOSEPH | The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | London | 1736 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 103.00 |
| 12 | BUTLER, SAMUEL | Hudibras frey verteutscht ... von D. W. S[oltau]. | Riga | 1787 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 69.00 |
| 13 | CARO, ANNIBALE | Delle Lettere Familiari | Padua | 1763 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL de | The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis, Esq. The Third Edition | London | 1756 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 747.00 |
| 15 | CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE | Letters ... to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. | London | 1774 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 201.00 |
| 16 | CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE | fourth Earl of. Miscellaneous Works | Dublin | 1777 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | COLLIER, JEREMY. A. | Second Defence of the Short View of the Prophaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, &c. Being a Reply to a Book, entituled, The Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed, &c | London | 1700 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 80.00 |
| 18 | COXE, WILLIAM | Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford | London | 1798 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 19 | DALRYMPLE, SIR JOHN | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland ... New Edition | London | 1790 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 431.00 |
| 20 | ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a new plan | Edinburgh | 1771 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 402.00 | |
| 21 | (ENGLISH COMEDIES.) | London | vd |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 22 | (ENGLISH MINOR POETRY.) | London or Cambridge | vd |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 287.00 | |
| 23 | FIELDING, HENRY | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | London | 1742 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 575.00 |
| 24 | FIELDING, HENRY | The History of Tom Jones | London | 1759 |
USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | 977.00 |
| 25 | GAY, JOHN | Fables | London | 1793 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 26 | GIBBON, EDWARD | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | London | 1777-88 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | GODWIN, WILLIAM | Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman | London | 1798 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 977.00 |
| 28 | GOLDSMITH, OLIVER | An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son | London | 1764 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 345.00 |
| 29 | GOODWIN, THOMAS | The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c | London | 1704 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 30 | GUARINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA | Il Pastor Fido con le Rime | Amsterdam | 1663 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 31 | HAWKINS, SIR JOHN | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Dublin | 1787 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 103.00 |
| 32 | HENAULT, CHARLES-JEAN-FRANCOIS | Cornelie Vestale. Tragedie | Strawberry Hill | 1768 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 33 | HOMER | A Burlesque Translation [of The Iliad, by Thomas Bridges] ...Fourth edition. | London | 1797 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 80.00 |
| 34 | HOMER | The Iliad [Odyssey] ... translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, Esq. | Edinburgh | 1778-79 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 201.00 |
| 35 | IRELAND, SAMUEL | Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon. | London | 1795 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 36 | JOHNSON, SAMUE | The Lives of the English Poets; and a Criticism of Their Works. | Dublin | 1779-81 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 37 | JOHNSON, SAMUEL | Prayers and Meditations. | London | 1785 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 316.00 |
| 38 | JONES, DAVID | A Compleat History of the Turks, from their Origin ...to the Year 1718. | London | 1718-19 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 149.00 |
| 39 | JONES, WILLIAM | The Muse Recalled. An Ode occasioned by the Nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bingham, Eldest Daughter of Charles Lord Lucan, March 6, 1781 | Strawberry Hill | 1781 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | JUVENAL; and PERSIUS | [Satyrae.] | Troyes | [early 17th-century] |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 41 | DE KLEINE PRINT-BIBEL | Amsterdam | 1731 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 149.00 | |
| 42 | KORAN | The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic ... To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discourse. By George Sale, Gent | London | 1734 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 43 | LA FEUILLE, DANIEL de, publisher | Devises et Emblemes Anciennes et Modernes, tirees des plus celebres Auteurs | Amsterdam | 1693 [apparently altered in ink from 1691 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 161.00 |
| 44 | LESLIE, CHARLES | A View of the Times, their Principles and Practices: in the ... Rehearsals. By Philalethes | London | 1708-09 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 258.00 |
| 45 | LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE ... to which is prefixed, A Particular Account of their Lives, Amours & Misfortunes by the Late John Hughes, Esq | London | 1785 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 115.00 | |
| 46 | LUCRETIUS | De rerum natura libri sex | Birmingham | 1772 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 201.00 |
| 47 | MILTON, JOHN | Paradise Lost. Engraved frontispiece * Paradise Regain'd. | Birmingham | 1759 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 126.00 |
| 48 | MILTON, JOHN | Paradise Lost * Paradise Regain'd. | London | 1750, 1753 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 230.00 |
| 49 | MORTIMER, THOMAS | Every Man his own Broker; or, A Guide to Exchange-Alley. In which the Nature of the several Funds, vulgarly called the Stocks, is clearly explained ... Sixth Edition, Improved | London | 1765 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 126.00 |
| 50 | NARVAEZ, LUIS PACHECO de | Modo facil y nuevo para Examinarse los Maestros en la Destreza de las Armas. | Madrid | 1659 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 51 | OVID | Les Metamorphoses | Paris | 1768-70 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 431.00 |
| 52 | PARKER'S MERCURIUS ANGLICANUS for the year ... 1720. | London | 1720 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 53 | POPE, ALEXANDER | An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham. | London | 1733 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 54 | POPE, ALEXANDER | The Works. | London | 1735-36 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 488.00 |
| 55 | POPE, ALEXANDER | The Works. | London | 1752 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 56 | QUARLES, FRANCIS | Emblems, Divine and Moral; together with Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man. | London | 1723 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 92.00 |
| 57 | QUEVEDO, FRANCISCO de | The Visions ... Made English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt. The Eleventh Edition, Corrected. | London | 1715 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 58 | ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES | Du Contrat Social; ou, Principes du Droit Politique. | Lyons | 1790 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 126.00 |
| 59 | RUSSELL, WILLIAM | The History of Modern Europe ... in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. A New Edition, carefully corrected | London | 1789 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 60 | JEAN-FRANCOIS de | Les Saisons, Poeme ... Septieme Edition | Amsterdam | 1775 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 62 | SCARRON, PAUL | Le Roman Comique | Paris | An Quatrieme [1796] |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 63 | SECUNDUS, JOANNES | Kisses; being, An English Translation in Verse of the Basia ... accompanied with the Original Latin Text; to which is added, An Essay on the Life and Writings of Secundus | London | 1775 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 64 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | The Works ... With Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: By Mr. Theobald | London | 1733 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 92.00 |
| 65 | SMITH, CHARLOTTE | Desmond. A Novel | London | 1792 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 66 | STERNE, LAURENCE | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | London | 1760-67 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,265.00 |
| 67 | STERNE, LAURENCE | The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. | London | [1760]-69 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 201.00 |
| 68 | SWIFT, JONATHAN | Lemuel Gullivers Reise nach Lilliput. Aufs neue frei verdeutscht von C. H. K ... | Copenhagen | 1786 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 69 | TASSO, TORQUATO | Jerusalem Delivree ... Nouvelle Traduction | Paris | 1774 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 70 | TERENCE | Comoediae | Birmingham | 1772 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 201.00 |
| 71 | THEODORUS, Prodromus | Les Amours de Rhodante et de Dosicles | Np | 1746 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 72 | VIRGIL | Bucolica & Georgica ... Illustrata | London | 1774 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 73 | WALPOLE, HORACE | The Castle of Otranto | London | 1765 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,610.00 |
| 74 | WALPOLE, HORACE | A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, with Lists of their Works | Strawberry Hill | 1758 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 287.00 |
| 75 | WALPOLE, HORACE | Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third | London | 1768 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 161.00 |
| 76 | WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN | Die Grazien | Leipzig | 1770 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 77 | WILLIAMS, JOHN | The Eccentricities of John Edwin, Comedian ... arranged and digested by Anthony Pasquin, Esq. | London | 1791 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 230.00 |
| 78 | A'BECKETT, GILBERT | The Comic History of England. 2 volumes * The Comic History of Rome | London | 1847-48; [1852] |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 287.00 |
| 79 | A'BECKETT, GILBERT | The Comic History of England. 2 volumes * The Comic History of Rome | London | later 19th-century |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 80 | Edward William | ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS | London | 1839-41 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 517.00 |
| 81 | Charles d'Hozier | ARMORIAL GENERAL de FRANCE | Paris | 1875 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | Brewer, R. W. A. | The Art of Aviation, a Handbook upon Aeroplanes and their Engines with notes upon Propellers | New York | 1910 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 92.00 |
| 83 | BAC, FERDINAND | Group of 8 volumes | Paris | circa, 1894 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 161.00 |
| 84 | BALZAC, HONORE de | Le Lys dans la Valee | Anvers | 1926 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 85 | BARTLETT, W. H., Willis, N. P.; and Coyne, J. S. | The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland | London | 1840s? |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 86 | BEARDSLEY, AUBREY | A Second Book of Fifty Drawings | New York | 1899 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 57.00 |
| 87 | BIBLE REMBRANDT | Die Rembrandt-Bibel, altes und neues testament | Munich | 1922 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 172.00 |
| 88 | Schmidt, Erasmus | Novi Testamenti Graeci Ta-meion; aliis Concordantiae | London | 1830 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 46.00 |
| 89 | Casanova de Seingalt, Giacomo Girolamo | Casanova's Escape from the Leads | London | 1925 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 69.00 |
| 90 | La Fontaine, Jean de | Fables | Paris | 1813 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | 287.00 |
| 91 | Louys, Pierre | The Songs of Bilitis | London | 1904 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 80.00 |
| 92 | Ovid | Metamorphosis * Heroides, Amours, and minor works | London | 1896; 1905 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 149.00 |
| 93 | BINDINGS | Godey's Lady's Book | Philadelphia | 1854-56 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 103.00 |
| 94 | BINDINGS | Group of 3 volumes | Vp | vd |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 138.00 |
| 95 | BINDINGS | Group of 4 volumes in 19th-century morocco bindings | New York | vd |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 96 | BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI | Decameron | Berlin | 1924 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | 69.00 |
| 97 | JOHN G. C. | The Literary Remains of John G. C. Brainard with a sketch of his Life by J. G. Whittier | Hartford | 1832 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | ROBERT | Dramatic Idyls, Second Series | London | 1880 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 1,495.00 |
| 99 | Homer | The Iliad ... translated into English blank verse by William Cullen Bryant | Boston | 1870 |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | 172.00 |
| 100 | BUNYAN, JOHN | The Pilgrim's Progress | New York | 1928 |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 101 | BUTLER, SAMUEL | The Way of All Flesh | London | 1903 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
