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
102	LEE, NATHANIEL	Lucius Junius Brutus: Father of His Country. A Tragedy.	London	1681	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
103	LEE, NATHANIEL	Constantine the Great: A Tragedy.	London	1684	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
104	MOTTEUX, PIERRE-ANTOINE	The Amorous Miser; or, The Younger the Wiser. A Comedy.	London	1705	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
105	MURPHY, ARTHUR	The Apprentice. A Farce. [10], 46 pages * KELLY, HUGH. False Delicacy: A Comedy.	London	1756; 1768	USD 80.00 - 120.00	92.00
106	PIX, MARY	The Czar of Muscovy. A Tragedy.	London	1701	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
107	RAMSAY, ALLAN	The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy.	Glasgow	1788	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
108	ROWE, NICHOLAS	The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespeare]'s Style.	London	1714	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
109	ROWE, NICHOLAS	The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray.	London	1715	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
110	SCOTT, THOMAS	The Mock-Marriage. A Comedy.	London	1696	USD 150.00 - 250.00	138.00
111	SHADWELL, THOMAS	The Virtuoso. A Comedy.	London	1676	USD 200.00 - 300.00	402.00
112	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; Garrick, David	Catharine and Petruchio. A Comedy ... Alter'd from Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew.	London	1756	USD 100.00 - 200.00	373.00
113	SHIRLEY, JAMES	The Lady of Pleasure. A Comedie.	London	1637	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,265.00
114	WRIGHT, THOMAS	The Female Vertuoso's. A Comedy.	London	1693	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
114A		A Saxon Treatise concerning the Old and New Testament	London	1623	USD 200.00 - 300.00	517.00
115	BARROW, HENRY	A petition directed to her most excellent Majestie, wherein is delivered 1 A Meane howe to compound the civili dissention in the church of England. 2 A Proofe that they who write for Reformation, doe not offend against the stat. of 23.Eliz.c. and therefor	Middelburg	1591	USD 250.00 - 350.00	632.00
116	BAXTER, RICHARD	Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church-Membership and Baptism.	London	1651	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
117	BAXTER, RICHARD	Gildas Salvianus; The Reformed Pastor. Shewing the Nature of Pastoral Work, especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing.	London	1656	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
118	BILSON, THOMAS	The True Difference betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion.	London	1586	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
119	BILSON, THOMAS	The Perpetual Governement of Christes Church.	London	1593	USD 300.00 - 500.00	373.00
120	BILSON, THOMAS	The Effect of Certaine Sermons touching the Full Redemption of Mankind by the Death and Bloud of Christ Jesus.	London	1599	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
121	BISSE, JAMES	Two Sermons preached, the one at Paules Crosse the eight of Januarie 1580, The other, at Christes Church in London the same day in the after noone.	London	1581	USD 200.00 - 300.00	632.00
122		THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER ... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.	Cambridge	1760	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
123	BREDWELL, STEPHEN	The Rasing of the Foundations of Brownisme.	London	1588	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
124	BURNET, GILBERT	The Abridgement of the History of the Reformation.	London	1682	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
125	CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS	A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte. Againste the Admonition to the Parliament.	Np	1573?	USD 500.00 - 750.00	1,150.00
126	CHAUNCY, ISAAC	The Divine Institution of Congregational Churches, Ministry and Ordinances ... asserted and proved from the Word of God.	London	1697	USD 80.00 - 120.00	316.00
127	COTTON, JOHN	The Churches Resurrection; or, The Opening of the Fift[h] and Sixt[h] Verses of the 20th Chap, of the Revelation.	London	1642	USD 400.00 - 600.00	575.00
128	COTTON, JOHN	The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power thereof, according to the Word of God.	London	1644	USD 300.00 - 500.00	632.00
129	COTTON, JOHN	A Briefe Exposition with Practicall Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastes. [8], 277, [2] pages, including longitudinal title at end * A Brief Exposition with Practical Observations upon the Whole Book of Canticles.	London	1654; 1655	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	1,035.00
130	COTTON, JOHN	A Practical Commentary or an Exposition ... upon the First Epistle Generali of John.	London	1656	USD 200.00 - 300.00	402.00
131	DEFOE, DANIEL	The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge.	London	1704	USD 80.00 - 120.00	287.00
132	EDWARDS, JONATHAN	A Preservative against Socinianism. Shewing the Direct and Plain Opposition between It, and the Religion revealed by God in the Holy Scriptures.	Oxford	1693-94-97; 1703	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
133	FENNER, WILLIAM	A Treatise of the Affections; or, The Soules Pulse. Whereby a Christian may know whether he be living or dying.	London	1641	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
134	FISHER, JOHN, Bishop of Rochester, Saint	Defe[n]sio regie assertionis.	Cologne	July 1525	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
135	FOXE, JOHN	De Christo crucifixo concio.	London	1571	USD 400.00 - 600.00	575.00
136	GREENHAM, RICHARD	The Workes ... Fift[h] and Last Edition.	London	1612	USD 250.00 - 350.00	1,035.00
137	HERLE, CHARLES	The Independency on Scriptures of the Independency of Church.	London	1643	USD 300.00 - 500.00	690.00
138	HOOKER, THOMAS	The Saints Dignitie, and Dutie. Together with The Danger of Ignorance and Hardnesse.	London	1651	USD 250.00 - 350.00	862.00
139	HUIT, EPHRAIM	The Whole Prophecie of Daniel Explained.	London	1643	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
140		THE HUMBLE PETITION of the communaltie to their most renowned and gracious Soveraigne, the Ladie Elizabeth.	Middelburg	1587	USD 250.00 - 350.00	575.00
141	HUME, DAVID	Histoire Naturelle de la Religion. Traduit de l'Anglois ... avec un Examen Critique et Philosophique de cet Ouvrage.	Amsterdam	1759	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
142	JACOB, HENRY	To the Right High and Mightie Prince, James by the Grace of God, King of Great Britannie, France, and Irelande, Defender of the Faith, &c. An Humble Supplication for Toleration and Libertie to enjoy and ob serve the Ordinances of Christ Jesus in th'Admini	Middelburg	1609	USD 300.00 - 500.00	690.00
143	JAMES I, King of England	An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance ... To gether, with a Premonition of his Maiesties to all most mightie Monarches, Kings, free Princes and States of Christendome. [4], 133, [11]; [4], 112 [i. e., 102] pages * [BARLOW, WILLIAM, Bishop of Rochester an	London	1609; 1609	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,092.00
144	JEWEL, JOHN	A Replie unto M. Hardinges Answeare: By perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent Reader may easily see, the weake, and unstable groundes of the Romaine Religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique.	London	1566	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,610.00
145	JEWEL, JOHN	Another copy.	London	1566	USD 600.00 - 900.00	805.00
146	LEE, SAMUEL	Ecclesia Gemens; or, Two Discourses on the Mournful State of the Church, with a Prospect of Her Dawning Glory. [4], 92 pages * Eleothriambos; or, The Triumph of Mercy in the Chariot of Praise.	London	1677	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
147	LEVER, CHRISTOPHER	The Historie of the Defendors of the Catholique Faith. Discoursing the State of Religion in England.	London	1627	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
148	MATHER, RICHARD	A Modest & Brotherly Answer to Mr. Charles Herle his Book, against the Independency of Churches.	London	1644	USD 400.00 - 600.00	575.00
149	MAXEY, ANTHONY	The Sermon preached before the King, at Whitehall, on Tuesday the Eight of Januarie. 1604.	London	1605	USD 150.00 - 250.00	431.00
150	MONTAGU, RICHARD	A Gagg for the New Gospell? No: A New Gagg for an Old Goose ... or, An Answere to a Late Abridger of Controversies, and Belyar of the Protestants Doctrine.	London	1614	USD 250.00 - 350.00	575.00
151	MORTON, THOMAS, Bishop	Of the Institution of the Sacrament of the Blessed Bodie and Blood of Christ ... Discovering the Superstitious, Sacrilegious, and Idolatrous Abominations of the Romish Masse ... Second Edition, much enlarged.	London	1635	USD 250.00 - 350.00	201.00
152	NORTON, JOHN	The Orthodox Evangelist.	London	1654	USD 250.00 - 350.00	517.00
153	PARKER, THOMAS	Visions and Prophecies of Daniel Expounded.	London	1646	USD 200.00 - 300.00	632.00
154	PENRY, JOHN	A Briefe Discovery of the Untruthes and Slanders (against the True Govemement of the Church of Christ) contained in a Sermon, preached the 8. of Februarie 1588. by D. Bancroft.	Edinburgh	1590	USD 400.00 - 600.00	632.00
155	PERKINS, WILLIAM	A Commentane, or, Exposition upon the Five First Chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians ... continued with a Supplement upon the Sixt[h] Chapter, by Ralph Cudworth.	London	1617	USD 250.00 - 350.00	345.00
156	PERROT, JOHN	J. P. The Follower of the Lamb, to the Shepeards Flock Salutation	London	1660	USD 150.00 - 250.00	402.00
157	PERROT, JOHN	John, To All Gods Imprisoned People For His Names-Sake, wheresoever upon the Face of the Earth, Salutation.	London	1660	USD 150.00 - 250.00	345.00
158	PILKINGTON, JAMES	The burnynge of Paules church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561.	London	10 March 1563	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
159	PRYNNE, WILLIAM	A Briefe Survay and Censure of Mr Cozens His Couzening Devotions. Proving both the Forme and Matter of Mr Cozens his Booke of Private Devotions ... to be meerely Popish.	London	1628	USD 200.00 - 300.00	316.00
160	PRYNNE, WILLIAM	Romes Master-Peece; or, The Grand Conspiracy of the Pope and His Jesuited Instruments, to extirpate the Protestant Religion, re-establish Popery, subvert Lawes, Liberties, Peace, Parliaments, by kindling a Civili War in Scotland, and All His Majesties Rea	London	1644	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
161	PRYNNE, WILLIAM	Canterburies Doome; or, The First Part of a Compleat History of the Commitment, Charge, Tryall, Condemnation, Execution of William Laud, Late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.	London	1646	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
162		THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGE ... Translated out of Latin into English, by G[eorge] K[eynes] of the Society of Jesus. The Second Edition, in which are added divers Saints, put into the Calendar, since the former Impression.	St. Omer	1667	USD 150.00 - 250.00	546.00
163	SHEPHARD, THOMAS	Theses Sabbaticae; or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath.	London	1650	USD 250.00 - 350.00	373.00
164	SHEPARD, THOMAS	The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion.	Andrew Crooke	1653	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
165	SHEPARD, THOMAS	The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened & Applied; being, The Substance of Divers Sermons on Matth. 25.1,-13.	London	1660	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
166	STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD	Origines Britannicae; or, The Antiquities of British Churches.	London	1685	USD 80.00 - 120.00	287.00
167	STODDARD, SOLOMON	The Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained and Proved from the Word of God.	London	1700	USD 100.00 - 200.00	316.00
168	STRYPE, JOHN	Group of 5 volumes.	London	vd	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00
169	TAYLOR, JEREMY	Theologia Eklektike. A Discourse of the Liberty of Proph esying. Shewing the Unreasonableness of Prescribing to Other Mens Faith, and the Iniquity of Persecuting Differing Opinions.	London	1647	USD 150.00 - 250.00	373.00
170	TRAVERS, WALTER	A full and plaine declaration of Ecclesiasticall Disci pline owt off the word of God, and off the declininge off the churche off England from the same.	Heidelberg	1574	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	1,610.00
171	USHER, JAMES	The Annals of the World. Deduced from the Origin of Time	London	1658	USD 250.00 - 350.00	373.00
172	WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM	A Briefe Discourse of the Troubles begun at Franckeford in Germany, An. Dom. 1554. About the Booke of Common Prayer and Ceremonies, and continued by the English Men there, to the End of Q. Maries Raign ... First published in the Yeare 1575. and now reprin	London	1642	USD 250.00 - 350.00	402.00
173	WOMOCK, LAURENCE	The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers; in order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick Preacher in the Common-wealth of Utopia.	London	1658	USD 300.00 - 500.00	460.00
174	ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS	Colloquia, cum notis selectis variorum, addito indice novo, accurante Corn. Schrevelio.	Amsterdam	1693	USD 150.00 - 250.00	373.00
175	ESTIENNE, HENRI translator and editor	Comicorum Graecorum sententiae.	Geneva	1569	USD 250.00 - 350.00	431.00
176	EURIPIDES	Tragoediae XIX. Accedit nunc recens vigesimae, cui Danae nomen, initium, e vetustis Bibliothecae Palatinae membranis.	Heidelberg	1597	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
177	EUSTATHIUS	Parekbolai eis ten Homerou Iliada [kai Odysseian].	Basel	1559-60	USD 600.00 - 900.00	805.00
178	FENELON, FRANCOIS	Les Avantures de Telemaque, Fils de Ulysse ... Nouvelle Edition.	Amsterdam & Rotterdam	1734	USD 500.00 - 750.00	488.00
179	FENELON, FRANCOIS	Dialogos de los Muertos Antiguos, y Modernos ... traducidos en Espanol ... por D. Miguel Joseph Fernandez.	Madrid	1759	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
180	FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE DE OUINGEY, CHARLES-GEORGES	Le Fabricant de Londres, Drame en Cinq Actes et en Prose.	Paris	1771	USD 150.00 - 250.00	92.00
180A		Trionfo Glorioso de' Frati Minori Osservanti. Martirizati dalli Heretici nella Fiandra, & nella Francia. Nuovamente stampato.	Parma	1584	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
181	FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS	The Stratagems of War ... Now English'd and Enlarged with a New Collection of the Most Noted Stratagems and Brave Exploits of Famous and Modern Generals ... By M. D. A., B. D.	London	1686	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
182	GAY, JOHN	Fables.	London	1792	USD 80.00 - 120.00	69.00
183	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London, to His Friends in the East.	London	1762	USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
184	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq.	London	1762	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
185	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society.	London	1765	USD 300.00 - 500.00	258.00
186		Essays.	London	1765	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
187	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale.	London	1766	USD 500.00 - 750.00	345.00
188	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Miscellaneous Works.	London	1775	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
189	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	Poems and Plays ... to which is prefixed, The Life of the Author.	Dublin	1777	USD 300.00 - 500.00	402.00
190		GRADUALE ROMANUM de tempore, et Sanctis ... editio optimum optima.	Venice	1739	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
191	GRAY, THOMAS	The Poetical Works. [6], xxiii, [1], 116, 20 pages * COLLINS, WILLIAM. The Poetical Works.	Glasgow	1787	USD 80.00 - 120.00	149.00
192	GREGORY of Nyssa, Saint	In psalmorum inscriptiones atq; textus mystica, eminentissimaque explicatio. [12], 108 leaves * De vita in virtute perfectione, & quis veras Christianus sit, ad Olympium tractatus, eiusdem ad harmonium, de Christiano nomine. Eiusdem de canonicis peccatoru	Venice	1586; 1585	USD 250.00 - 350.00	488.00
193	GROSE, FRANCIS	A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.	London	1785	USD 400.00 - 600.00	747.00
194	GROTIUS, HUGO	Historia Gotthorum, Vandalorum, & Langobardorum ... praemissa sunt eiusdem Prolegomena ... accedunt Nomina appellativa & verba Gotthica, Vandalica, Langobardica, cum explicatione.	Amsterdam	1655	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
195	GUAZZO, MARCO	Historie.. di Tutte le Cose degne di Memoria nel Mondo per Terra & per Acqua successe, qual hanno Principio l'Anno M.D.IX. [4], 104 leaves * Historie ... ove se conteneno le Guerre di Mahometto.	Bernardino Bindoni	1545	USD 300.00 - 500.00	230.00
196	GUYON, JEANNE-MARIE	L'Ame Amante de Son Dieu, representee dans les Emblemes de Hermannus Hugo sur ses Pieux Desirs; & dans ceux d'Othon Vaenius sur l'Amour Divin.	Cologne	1717	USD 150.00 - 250.00	488.00
197	HARRINGTON, JAMES, the Elder	The Common-Wealth of Oceana.	London	1656	USD 500.00 - 750.00	690.00
198	HARRINGTON, JAMES, the Elder	The Oceana and Other Works ... With an Account of His Life by John Toland.	London	1771	USD 80.00 - 120.00	230.00
199		Aethiopicorum libri	Heidelberg	1596	USD 150.00 - 250.00	161.00

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