Swann Galleries: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS. BIBLES, CLASSICS, ENGLISH PLAYS, HISTORY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, INCUNABULA LAW, PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY including WORKS BY PURITAN AUTHORS., 1769,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 1997 - October 23, 1997

Page Size: 376 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABERCROMBY, PATRICK	The Martial Atchievements of the Scottish Nation.	Edinburgh	1711-15	USD 200.00 - 300.00	172.00
2	ADDISON, JOSEPH; STEELE, SIR RICHARD; et al.	The Guardian.	London	1714	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
3	ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Istoria de' Suoi Tempi.	Venice	1587	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
5	AGRIPPA, HENRICUS CORNELIUS	Sur la Noblesse, & Excellence du Sexe Feminin, de sa Preeminence sur l'Autre Sexe, & du Sacrement du Manage. Avec le Traitte sur l'Incertitude, aussi bien que la Vanite des Sciences & des Arts. Ouvrage ... traduit par ... M. de Guedeville.	Leiden	1726	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
6	AIMOIN of Fleury	Historiae Francorum lib. V.	Paris	1567	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
7		Almanach Iconologique.	Paris	vd	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
8		Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1777.	London	1777	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
9	AMADIS DE GAULA	Le Sixieme Livre de Amadis de Gaule.	Lyons	1577	USD 150.00 - 250.00	115.00
10	AMADIS DE GAULA	Le Dixiesme Livre d' Amadis de Gaule.	Paris	1563	USD 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
11	ANACREON; SAPPHO; BION; MOSCHUS	[Oeuvres.] Traduction Nouvelle en Prose.	Paris	1773	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
12	ANQUETIL, LOUIS-PIERRE	L'Esprit de la Ligue; ou, Histoire Politique des Troubles de France, pendant les XVI & XVIIe Siecles ... Seconde Edition, corrigee & augmentee.	Paris	1771	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
13		Historia delle Guerre Esterne de' Romani ... tradotta da Messer Alessandro Braccio, Secretano Fiorentino, nuovamente impressa, et corretta.	Venice	1545	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
14	APULEIUS	Metamorphoseos libri XI, cum nous & amplissimo indice Joannes Pricaei.	Gouda	1650	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
15	ARIOSTO, LODOVICO	Orlando Furioso.	Venice	1556	USD 400.00 - 600.00	690.00
16		Comoediae undecim, Graece et Latine.	Amsterdam	1710	USD 200.00 - 300.00	287.00
17	ARISTOTLE	Poetica.	Basel	1576	USD 200.00 - 300.00	431.00
18	AUBIN, NICOLAS	The Cheats and Illusions of Romish Priests and Exor cists. Discover'd in the History of the Devils of Loudun: Being an Account of the Pretended Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and of the Condemnation and Pun ishment of Urban Grandier.	London	1703	USD 150.00 - 250.00	373.00
19	AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint	Opera contra Pelagianos.	Louvain	1555	USD 300.00 - 500.00	287.00
20	AUSONIUS	Opera.	Venice	November 1517	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
21	AUSONIUS	Opuscula varia.	Lyons	1549	USD 100.00 - 200.00	92.00
22	BACON, SIR FRANCIS	The Essayes or Counsells, Civili and Morali ... Newly enlarged.	London	1625	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	3,450.00
23	BAKER, SIR RICHARD	A Chronicle of the Kings of England ... Fifth Impres sion.	London	1670	USD 150.00 - 250.00	402.00
24	BEATTIE, JAMES	Essays: on Poetry and Music, as they affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning.	Edinburgh	1778	USD 80.00 - 120.00	172.00
25	BEMBO, PIETRO	Rime.	Venice	1530	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	977.00
26	BEMBO, PIETRO	Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. nomine scriptarum libri XVI.	Lyons	1538	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
27	BEMBO, PIETRO	Della Historia Vinitiana ... libri XII.	Venice	1552	USD 600.00 - 900.00	977.00
28	BENNETT, AGNES MARIA	The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors.	Dublin	1797	USD 200.00 - 300.00	345.00
29		The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke.	London	1608	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
30		The Holy Bible.	London	1611-17	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	32,200.00
31		The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New.	London	1618	USD 200.00 - 300.00	920.00
32		The Book of Psalmes: English both in Prose and Metre. With Annotations ... By H[enry] A[insworth].	Amsterdam	1612	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	6,900.00
33	Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins	The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others.	London	1623	USD 200.00 - 300.00	546.00
34	Woodford, Samuel	A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David.	London	1667	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
35	Fabricius, Johann Albert, editor	Codex Apocryphus Novi Testamenti.	Hamburg	1703	USD 150.00 - 250.00	747.00
36		Biblia sacra veteris et novi testamenti, secundum editionem vulgatam.	Basel	1578	USD 300.00 - 500.00	747.00
37		Biblia; thet ar, All then Heliga Skrift pa Swensko.	Abo & Stockholm	1711-28	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
38		Biblia Hebraica; Bibliorum pars quae Hebraice non invenitur; Novum Testamentum Graecum.	Geneva	1609	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
39	Brian Walton	Biblia sacra polyglotta.	London	1655-57	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,830.00
40	BICKNELL, ALEXANDER	The History of Edward Prince of Wales, commonly termed the Black Prince, Eldest Son of King Edward the Third	London	1776	USD 80.00 - 120.00	316.00
41	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	L'Amorosa Fiammetta.	Venice	1585	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
42	BOEHME, JACOB	Jacob Behmen's Theosophick Philosophy Unfolded.	London	1691	USD 100.00 - 200.00	517.00
43	BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, NICOLAS	Oeuvres ... avec des Eclaircissemens Historiques, donnez par Lui-meme.	Geneva	1716	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
44	BOYLE, CHARLES	Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of Aesop, Examin'd ... Second Edition.	London	1698	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
45	BUCHANAN, GEORGE	An Impartial Account of the Affairs of Scotland, from the Death of K. James the Fifth, to the Tragical Exit of the Earl of Murray, Regent of Scotland.	London	1705	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
46	BUTLER, SAMUEL	Hudibras. The First [Second] Part.	London	1663; 1664	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
47	CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS	Quae extant. Ex emendatione Jos. Scaligeri.	Amsterdam	1631	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
48	CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS	Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey ... Made English from the Original Latin, by Martin Bladen, Gent.	London	1705	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
49	CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS	Fifth Edition.	London	1732	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
50	CALMET, AUGUSTIN	Evrejskij ratnik.	St. Petersburg	1795	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
51		Anthologia in regis exanthemata; seu, Gratulado musarum Cantabrigiensium de felicissime conservata regis Caroli valetudine.	Cambridge	1632	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
52	CARTARI, VINCENZO	Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur.	Lyons	1581	USD 300.00 - 500.00	488.00
53	CASA, GIOVANNI DELLA	Rime, et Prose.	Venice	1558	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,092.00
55	CASSIODORUS	Opera omnia quae extant.	Geneva	1609	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
56	CATENA, GIROLAMO	Vita del Gloriosissimo Papa Pio Quinto.	Rome	1586	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
57	CATS, JACOB	Spiegel van den Ouden en Nieuwen Tyd ... den lesten Druck.	Amsterdam	1722	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
58	CATULLUS; TIBULLUS; PROPERTIUS	Carmina.	Antwerp	1569	USD 150.00 - 250.00	172.00
59	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha ... Nueva Edicion.	Antwerp	1673-72	USD 250.00 - 350.00	632.00
60	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha ... Translated into English by Thomas Shelton, and now printed verbatim from the 4to Edition of 1620.	London	1731	USD 250.00 - 350.00	517.00
61	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by T[obias] Smollett.	London	1755	USD 300.00 - 500.00	690.00
62	CHARLES I, King of England	Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings.	Np	1649	USD 80.00 - 120.00	201.00
63	CHARLES I, King of England	The Princely Pellican. Royall Resolves presented in sundry choice Observations, extracted from His Majesties Divine Meditations: With Satisfactory Reasons ... that his Sacred Person was the onely Author of them.	Np	1649	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
64	CHARLES II, King of England	His Majestie's Declaration to His City of Lon don, upon Occasion of the Late Calamity by the Lamentable Fire.	London	1666	USD 250.00 - 350.00	805.00
65	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Workes.	London	1602	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
66	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Works ... To which is adjoyned, The Story of the Siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate, Monk of Bury. Together with the Life of Chaucer.	London	1687	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	920.00
67A	CICERO	Orationum volumen primum[-tertium].	Venice	1579	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
67	CHEVREAU, URBAIN	The Mirror of Fortune; or, The True Characters of Fate & Destiny. Wherein is treated of the Growth and Fall of Empires, the Destruction of Famous Cities, the Misfortunes of Kings ... and the 111 Fate of Virtuous and Handsom Ladies.	Lowndes	1676	USD 300.00 - 500.00	747.00
68	CLAUDIANUS, CLAUDIUS	Opera	Florence	1519	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
69	CLELAND, JOHN	Memoirs of a Coxcomb.	Dublin	1751	USD 300.00 - 500.00	575.00
70	CLENARDUS, NICOLAUS	Institutiones ac meditationes in Graecam linguam ... editio postrema.	Paris	1572	USD 200.00 - 300.00	373.00
71	COMENIUS, JOHN AMOS	Labirynt Sweta a Lusthauss Srdce.	Leszno	1631	USD 300.00 - 500.00	805.00
72	COMINES, PHILIPPE DE, Seigneur d'Argenton	Les Memoires.	Geneva	1593	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
73	CONGREVE, WILLIAM	Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd. A Novel.	London	1713	USD 300.00 - 500.00	805.00
74	CORDIER, GENTIL	Corderii Lepidi ... emblemata.	Langres	1598	USD 250.00 - 350.00	230.00
75	CORDIER, MATHURIN	Les Colloques.	Paris	1613	USD 500.00 - 750.00	316.00
76	CORNEJO, PEDRO	Delia Historia di Fiandra ... libri X ... nuovamente tradotta di Spagnuolo in Lingua Italiana da Camillo Camilli.	Brescia	1582	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
77	CRINITUS, PETRUS	De honesta disciplina, lib. XXV. Poetis Latinis, lib. V. et Poematon, lib. II.	Lyons	1543	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
78	CROY, CHARLES DE; BIE, JACQUES DE	Imperatorum Romanorum numismata aurea.	Antwerp	1627	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
79	CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS	The Historie ... conteining the Actes of the Great Alexander, translated out of Latin into Englishe by John Brende.	London	1584	USD 400.00 - 600.00	747.00
80	DADRE, JEAN	Loci communes similium et dissimilium ... quibus docendiratio perfacilis ... theologiae, caeterarumque artium studiosis omnibus accessura est.	Wiirzburg	1582	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
81	DANTE ALIGHIERI	La Comedia ... con la Nova Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello.	Venice	June 1544	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,495.00
82	DEMOSTHENES	Le Filippiche.	Venice	1715	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
83	DICTYS, Cretensis; DARES, Phrygius	Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio Della Guerra Troiana, tradotti per Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino.	Venice	1570	USD 400.00 - 600.00	747.00
84	DIODATI, GIOVANNI	Pious and Learned Annotations upon the Holy Bible ... third Edition.	London	1651	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
85	DIONYSIUS, Carthusianus	Insigne commentariorum opus, in Psalmos omnes Davidicos.	Paris	1553	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
86	DRYDEN, JOHN	Religio Laici; or, A Laymans Faith. A Poem.	London	1682	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
87	DU MOULIN, PIERRE, the Elder	Heraclitus; oder, Spiegel der weltlichen Eytelkeit und Ellends menschlichen Lebens ... in die teutsche Sprach ubergesetzt, und in viel Weg vermehret, durch Christoph Besolden IC.	Strassburg	1627	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
88	John Selden	Historiae novorum sive saeculi libri VI.	London	1623	USD 150.00 - 250.00	373.00
89	ECK, JOHANN VON	Enchiri / dion / Locorum communiufm] / adversus Lutteranos / IOANNE ECKIO / Autore.	Ingolstadt?	1525?	USD 600.00 - 900.00	977.00
90		THE APPARITION; or, The Sham-Wedding. A Comedy ... By a Gentleman of Christ-Church College in Oxford.	London	1714	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
91	CARLILE, JAMES	The Fortune-Hunters; or, Two Fools well met. A Comedy.	London	1689	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
92		Group of 4 volumes.	London	vd	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
93	COWLEY, HANNAH	The Runaway, A Comedy.	London	1776	USD 80.00 - 120.00	201.00
94	FLETCHER, JOHN	The Coronation. A Comedy.	London	1640	USD 500.00 - 750.00	575.00
95	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Good Natur'd Man: A Comedy	London	1768	USD 200.00 - 300.00	632.00
96	GREVILLE, FULKE, Baron Brooke	Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes.	London	1633	USD 400.00 - 600.00	920.00
97		INJUR'D LOVE; or, The Lady's Satisfaction. A Comedy.	London	1711	USD 80.00 - 120.00	161.00
98	JOHNSON, CHARLES	The Gentleman-Cully. A Comedy.	London	1702	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
99	JOHNSON, CHARLES	The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure. A Comedy.	London	1712	USD 100.00 - 200.00	201.00
100	JOHNSON, CHARLES	Caelia; or, The Perjur'd Lover.	London	1733	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
101	LACY, JOHN	The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Raggou.	London	1672	USD 150.00 - 250.00	287.00

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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