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

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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
200 HELVETIUS, CLAUDE-ADRIEN De l'Esprit. Amsterdam & Leipzig

1759

USD 250.00 - 350.00 230.00
201 HERMANN IV, Arbishop of Cologne The Governement of All Estates, wherein is contayned the Perfect Way to an Honest Life. London

1566

USD 400.00 - 600.00 632.00
202 HESIOD Opera quae extant. Lyons

1613

USD 100.00 - 200.00 172.00
203 HOGARTH, WILLIAM; Ireland, Samuel Graphical Illustrations of Hogarth. London

1794-99

USD 300.00 - 500.00 345.00
204 HÜBNER, JOHANN, the Elder Neu-vermehrtes und verbessertes reales Staats-Zeitungs- und Conversations-Lexicon ... allerneueste Auflage. Regensburg & Vienna

1759

USD 200.00 - 300.00 258.00
205 Respublica et status regni Hungariae Amsterdam

1634

USD 80.00 - 120.00 126.00
206 IMBONATI, CARLO GIUSEPPE Shema YisraeL Adventus Messiae a Judaeorum blasphemiis, ac haereticorum clumniis vindicatus. Rome

1694

USD 250.00 - 350.00 546.00
207 AMBROSIUS, Saint De officiis Milan

17 January 1488

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 1,610.00
208 AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint De civitate Dei Venice

18 February 1489/90

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,760.00
209 AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint, attributed to Sermones ad heremitas. Strassburg

not after 1487

USD 600.00 - 900.00 1,265.00
210 CATO, DIONYSIUS Cato: Disticha de moribus Basel

14 June 1486

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,725.00
211 Die Cronica van der hillige Stat van Coellen. Cologne

23 August 1499

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 5,750.00
212 GERSON, JOHANNES De appellatione peccatoris a divina justitia ad divinam misericordiam. Memmingen

circa 1495

USD 500.00 - 750.00 920.00
213 HIERONYMUS, Saint A Leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome, first printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome, c. 1466-1467. With an Historical Essay by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams and a Bibliographical Essay by John L. Sharpe III. Edited by Bennett Gilbert. Los Angeles & London

1981

USD 150.00 - 250.00 201.00
214 INNOCENT VIII, Pope Indulgentia. Nuremberg

1487

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 3,220.00
215 NICOLAUS DE LYRA Postilla super epistolas et evangelia quadragesimalia. Venice

13 December 1494

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 1,495.00
216 PLINY the Elder Historia naturalis. Venice

1472

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,520.00
217 ROLEWINCK, WERNER Fasciculus temporum. Strassburg

not before 1490

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 2,185.00
218 INDAGINE, JOHANNES AB Introductiones apotelesmaticae elegantes, in chyromantiam, physiognomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarum Np

1551

USD 250.00 - 350.00 517.00
219 Indices expurgatorii duo, testes fraudum ac falsationum pontificiarum ... Additus est ... Index librorum prohibitorum. Hanau

1611

USD 400.00 - 600.00 575.00
220 IRENAEUS, Saint, Bishop of Lyons Opus eruditissimum ... in quinque libros digestum, in quibus mire retegit et confutat veterum haereseon impias ac portentosas opiniones. Basel

1560

USD 150.00 - 250.00 316.00
221 Corpus institutorum Societatis Jesu. Antwerp

1702

USD 150.00 - 250.00 149.00
222 Histoire Generale de la Naissance & des Progres de la Compagnie de Jesus, et Analyse de ses Constitutions & Privileges. 5 Np, Paris

1761, 1764

USD 250.00 - 350.00 345.00
223 Selectae orationes panegyricae patrum Societatis Jesu. ap. Bartholomaeum Riviere

1674

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
224 JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS, Saint Commentariorum in acta apostolorum homiliae quinquagintaquinque. Basel

1531

USD 200.00 - 300.00 161.00
225 JOHNSON, SAMUEL; Murphy, Arthur An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London

1793

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
226 JOHNSON, SAMUEL; Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the Last Twenty Years of His Life London

1786

USD 100.00 - 200.00 115.00
227 JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS Trogi Pompei extemae historiae in compendium ab Justino redactae. Venice

1522

USD 300.00 - 500.00 690.00
228 JUVENAL; PERSIUS Satyrarum libri V. ... praeterea A. Flacci Persi satyrarum liber unus. Hanau

1603

USD 100.00 - 200.00 138.00
229 JUVENAL; PERSIUS Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated ... by Barten Holyday, D.D. Oxford

1673

USD 200.00 - 300.00 345.00
230 KELLY, JAMES A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs explained and made Intelligible to the English Reader. London

1721

USD 150.00 - 250.00 230.00
231 LADER, OCTAVIANUS Historia und Wunderzaichen dess ... Sacraments, so in dem ... Gottshauss beym H. Creutz in Augspurg ... verehrt wird Augsburg

1625

USD 300.00 - 500.00 172.00
232 LA FEUILLE, DANIEL DE Livre Nouveau et Utile pour Toutes Sortes d'Artistes, et particulierement pour les Orfevres, les Orlogeurs, les Peintres, les Graveurs, les Brodeurs, &c. 100 engraved plates on 51 leaves, including title * Devises et Emblemes Anciennes et Modernes. Tirees Amsterdam

1691

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,380.00
233 LANGRISHE, JOHN The Fables of Flora. London

1794

USD 500.00 - 750.00 460.00
234 LA PEYRERE, ISAAC DE Praeadamitae. Np [Holland?]

1655

USD 300.00 - 500.00 460.00
235 ALCIATI, ANDREA Judiciarii processus compendium. Lyons

1542

USD 300.00 - 400.00 172.00
236 BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford

1775

USD 300.00 - 500.00 373.00
237 BLOUNT, THOMAS Nomo-Lexikon: A Law-Dictionary ... Second Edition, with Some Corrections, and the Addition of above Six Hundred Words. London

1691

USD 200.00 - 300.00 287.00
238 BURNET, GILBERT The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. London

1682

USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
239 CARE, HENRY English Liberties; or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance, containing, I. The Magna Charta ... II. The Proceedings in Appeals of Murther ... III. the Terms of Liberty of Conscience, confirmed to Protestant Dissenters ... IV. An Abstract of the Penal Laws London

1691

USD 100.00 - 200.00 460.00
240 COKE, SIR EDWARD An Exact Abridgment in English, of the Eleven Books of Reports ... composed by the judicious Sir Thomas Ireland. London

1650

USD 300.00 - 500.00 201.00
241 Illuminated Manuscript Document in Latin Bologna

10 May 1710

USD 500.00 - 750.00 316.00
242 DOMESDAY-BOOK; seu, Liber censualis Willelmi Primi regis Angliae, in ter archivos regni in domo capitulan Westmonasterii asservatus. London

1783-1816

USD 400.00 - 600.00 805.00
243 AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT of All the Tryals ... relating to High Treasons, Piracies, &c. in the Reigns of the Late King William the III. ... and of Our Present Gracious Soveraign Queen Anne. London

1703

USD 80.00 - 120.00 316.00
244 FORRESTER, ALEXANDER Cases in Equity during the Time of the late Lord Chancellor Talbot ... Second Edition, with many References, and large Notes. London

1753

USD 80.00 - 120.00 57.00
245 GROTIUS, HUGO De jure belli ac pacis libri tres ... editio nova. Amsterdam

1646

USD 300.00 - 500.00 287.00
246 HALE, SIR MATTHEW The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England. [8], 264, [12] * The Analysis of the Law; being, A Scheme or Abstract, of the Several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, digested into Method. London

1713

USD 100.00 - 200.00 230.00
247 HARRINGTON, JAMES, the Elder The Art of Law-Giving. London

1659

USD 250.00 - 350.00 373.00
248 HARRIS, BENJAMIN A Short but Just Account of the Tryal of Benjamin Harris ... for Printing and Vending a Late Seditious Book called An Appeal from the Country to the City, for the Preservation of His Majesties Person, Liberty, Property, and the Protestant Religion. London

1679

USD 250.00 - 350.00 575.00
249 KLING, MELCHIOR In quatuor institutionum juris principis Justiniani libros enarrationes. Lyons

1566

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
250 LANCELOTTO, GIOVANNI PAOLO Institutiones juris canonici, quibus jus pontificium singulari methodo libris quatuor comprehenditur ... nunc primum annotatis in margine locis, unde sumptae sunt. 500, [78] pages * NAOGEORGIUS, THOMAS. Rubricae sive summae capitulorum juris canonici. Lyons

1614

USD 150.00 - 250.00 92.00
251 LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON Codex juris gentium diplomaticus. Wolfenbuttel

1747

USD 200.00 - 300.00 373.00
252 PULTON, FERDINAND De pace regis et regni; viz., A Treatise declaring which be the great and generali Offences of the Realme, and the chiefe impedi ments of the peace of the King and the Kingdome. London

1615

USD 300.00 - 500.00 316.00
253 RAYMUNDUS DE PENYAFORT, Saint Summa ... de poenitentia, et matri monio. Cum glossis Joannes de Friburgo. Rome

1603

USD 400.00 - 600.00 805.00
254 RAZZI, SERAFINO Cento Casi di Coscienza. Florence

1579

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
255 REMARKABLE CRIMINALS London

vd

USD 200.00 - 300.00 1,955.00
256 Group of 4 volumes. London

vd

USD 250.00 - 350.00 149.00
256A Churfurstlicher Pfaltz bey Rhein, &c. emewert und verbessertes Land-Recht [Lands-Ordnung]. Weinheim

1700

USD 250.00 - 350.00 172.00
257 VANE, SIR HENRY The Tryal of Sir Henry Vane, K' at the King's Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th. 1662. Np

1662

USD 100.00 - 200.00 230.00
258 VANTIUS, SEBASTIANUS Tractatibus de nullitatibus processuum ac sententiarum. Cologne

1588

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
259 LEAPOR, MARY Poems upon Several Occasions. London

1748

USD 200.00 - 300.00 690.00
260 LE BOSSU, RENE Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem ... for the Right Understanding and Judging of the Excellencies of Homer and Virgil. London

1695

USD 100.00 - 200.00 230.00
261 LELAND, THOMAS The History of the Life and Reign of Philip King of Macedon; the Father of Alexander. London

1758

USD 100.00 - 200.00 126.00
262 LETI, GREGORIO The Life of Pope Sixtus the Fifth ... in which is in cluded The State of England, France, Spain, Italy, the Swiss Cantons, Germany, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the Low Countries, at that Time ... Translated from the Italian ... with Preface, Prolegomena, London

1754

USD 100.00 - 200.00 149.00
263 LILY, WILLIAM A Short Introduction to [Latin] Grammar. [10], 194, [20] pages * Lily's Rules Construed. London

1723; 1724

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
264 LOCKE, JOHN Common Place Book, formed generally upon the Prin ciples recommended and practised by John Locke, Esquire. London

1797

USD 80.00 - 120.00 316.00
265 LUCAN De bello civili. Amsterdam

1669

USD 80.00 - 120.00 138.00
266 LUCRETIUS De rerum natura libri sex. Basel

1531

USD 250.00 - 350.00 1,092.00
267 LUTHER, MARTIN Ain schone Predig von zwayerlay Gerechtigkait. Augsburg

1520

USD 250.00 - 350.00 402.00
268 LUTHER, MARTIN Ain Sermon von dem eelichen Stand. Augsburg

26 April 1520

USD 500.00 - 750.00 345.00
269 LUTHER, MARTIN Eyn Sermon von dem Wucher. Leipzig

1519

USD 500.00 - 750.00 862.00
270 LUTHER, MARTIN Contra Henricum regem Angliae. Wittenberg

1522

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,450.00
271 LUTHER, MARTIN Ain Sermon auf das Evangelion, vonn dem reychen Man[n] un[d] armen Lasaro. Augsburg

1513 [i. e., 1523]

USD 250.00 - 350.00 431.00
272 LUTHER, MARTIN Eyn cristlicher Sermon geprediget am Tag Severi zu Erffordt ... vom Creutz und Leyden. Erfurt

1522

USD 250.00 - 350.00 546.00
273 LUTHER, MARTIN Ein christlich und vast wol gegrundte Beweysung von dem jungsten Tag, und von seinen Zeichen. Basel

1522

USD 250.00 - 350.00 632.00
274 LUTHER, MARTIN In epistolam S. Pauli ad Gaiatas commentarius. Wittenberg

1535

USD 250.00 - 350.00 805.00
275 MABILLON, JEAN; GERMAIN, MICHEL Museum Italicum; seu, Collectio veterani scriptorum ex bibliothecis Italicis. Paris

1687

USD 150.00 - 250.00 345.00
276 M'FARLAN, JOHN Inquiries concerning the Poor Edinburgh

1782

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 805.00
277 MACROBIUS In somnium Scipionis, lib. II. Saturnaliorum, lib. VII. Lyons

1548

USD 250.00 - 350.00 201.00
278 MALVEZZI, VIRGILIO, Marchese Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus. London

1642

USD 150.00 - 250.00 316.00
279 MANUTIUS, ALDUS, the Younger De quaesitis per epistolam libri III. Venice

1576

USD 200.00 - 300.00 345.00
280 MARCELLINUS, AMMIANUS Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt libri XVIII. ... Adjecta sunt Excerpta de gestis Constantini nondum edita. Paris

1636

USD 150.00 - 250.00 103.00
281 MARTIAL Epigrammaton libri XII. Xeniorum lib. I. Apophoretorum lib.I. Antwerp

1652

USD 100.00 - 200.00 69.00
282 MILTON, JOHN Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions. London

1673

USD 500.00 - 750.00 690.00
283 MISSALE ROMANUM Augsburg & Wurzburg

1751

USD 150.00 - 250.00 488.00
284 MOCENIGO, ANDREA La Guerra di Cambrai fatta a Tempi Nostri in Italia, tra gli Illustrissimi Signori Vinitiani, et gl'altri Principi di Christinita ... Tradotta di Latino in Lingua Thoscana. Venice

1544

USD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
285 MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE Les Essais ... Edition Nouvelle. Antwerp(?)

1617

USD 600.00 - 900.00 345.00
286 MOORE, EDWARD; BROOKE, HENRY Fables for the Female Sex. London

1744

USD 150.00 - 250.00 115.00
287 MORE, HENRY The Immortality of the Soul, so farre as it is demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason. London

1659

USD 300.00 - 500.00 632.00
288 MORE, SIR THOMAS Lucubrationes, ab innumeris mendis repurgatae Basel

1563

USD 300.00 - 500.00 690.00
289 MORE, SIR THOMAS Opera omnia [with Thomas Stapleton, Vita et obitus Thomae Mori]. [8], 80, 351 pages, including engraved portrait. Gibson 77 * JAMES I, King of England. Opera. [72], 283 pages, including 5 engraved portraits * (MAGNA CARTA.) Inclytae nationis Anglicanae ma Frankfurt am Main

1689; 1689; 1689; 1709

USD 600.00 - 900.00 862.00
290 MORE, SIR THOMAS Utopia; or, The Happy Republic ... translated into English by Gilbert Burnet D.D. Glasgow

1743

USD 100.00 - 200.00 287.00
291 NEBRIJA, ANTONIO DE Dictionarium. Alcala de Henares

1792

USD 200.00 - 300.00 230.00
292 NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS L'Histoire Ecclesiastique ... traduicte nouvellement du Latin en Francois. Paris

1587

USD 150.00 - 250.00 115.00
293 NICOLSON, WILLIAM The English Historical Library; or, A Short View and Character of Most of the Writers now extant ... which may be serviceable to the Undertakers of a General History of this Kingdom. London

1697

USD 80.00 - 120.00 69.00
294 NIEREMBERG, JUAN EUSEBIO A Treatise of the Difference betwixt the Temporal and Eternal. Np

1672

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
295 OCCO, ADOLF Impp. Romanorum numismata a Pompeio magno ad Heraclium editio altera. Strassburg

1601

USD 150.00 - 250.00 92.00
296 THE OECONOMY OF HUMAN LIFE. Translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an Ancient Bramin. London

1795

USD 300.00 - 500.00 258.00
297 OVID Metamorphoses ... translated by the Most Eminent Hands London

1717

USD 400.00 - 600.00 575.00
298 Numismata antiqua. Np

1746

USD 250.00 - 350.00 172.00
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