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
299	PERIER, GILBERTE	The Life of Mr. [Blaise] Paschal [sic], with his Letters relating to the Jesuits.	London	1744	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
300	PEROTTUS, NICOLAUS	Cornucopiae, seu Latinae linguae commentarii locupletissimi.	Basel	March 1532	USD 500.00 - 750.00	575.00
301		THE PETITION OF THE LADIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER to the Honourable House for Husbands	London	1693	USD 100.00 - 200.00	575.00
302	PETRONIUS	Satyricon.	Paris	1587	USD 400.00 - 600.00	258.00
303	PETRONIUS	Satyricon, cum fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum poetaram Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris [etc.] ... Omnia commentariis ... illustrata. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide.	Amsterdam	1669	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
304	PETRONIUS	Satyricon: cum fragmentis Albae Graecae recuperatis ann. 1688. Nunc demum integrum.	London	1721	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
305	PHAEDRUS	Fabularum Aesopicarum libri quinque.	Paris	[1797-98]	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
306	PHALARIS	Epistolai.	Oxford	1695	USD 200.00 - 300.00	460.00
307	PHILLIPS, EDWARD	The New World of Words ... Fifth Edition.	London	1696	USD 150.00 - 250.00	402.00
308	PHILOGAMUS, pseudo	The Present State of Matrimony; or, The Real Causes of Conjugal Infidelity and Unhappy Marriages ... With Some Reflections on the State of Matrimony among the Antient Greeks and Romans; and a View of Their Manner of Educating Their Young Ladies, compared	London	[1739?]	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
309	PITTONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Imprese di Diversi Prencipi, Duchi, Si gnori, e d'Altri Personaggi et Huomini Letterati et Illustri.	Venice	1562	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
310	PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI DE	De vita et moribus summorum po[n]tificum historia.	Paris	1530	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
311	PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI DE	The Lives of the Popes, from the Time of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, to the Reign of Sixtus IV.	London	1685	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
312	PLUTARCH	Opuscula moralia.	Lyons	1549	USD 150.00 - 250.00	126.00
313	PLUTARCH	Quae extant opera.	Geneva	1572	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
314	PLUTARCH; et al.	Libelli aliquot formandis turn iuventutibus moribus ... opera & studio Johannis Cherpontii.	Geneva	1581	USD 300.00 - 500.00	747.00
315		Liturgical manuscript in Latin	Dutch-German border region	circa 1450-1500	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	3,910.00
316		PUTESHESTVIE DOBRODETELI; ili, Stranstvovanie po Svetu Junago Kitajskago Tsarevitcha s Filosofom	Moscow	1782	USD 300.00 - 500.00	287.00
317	QUINTINI, ANTONIO	Relatione di quello che trattavano i Moreschi di Spagna.	Milan	1611	USD 250.00 - 350.00	460.00
318	RAMSAY, ANDREW MICHAEL	The Travels of Cyrus ... To which is annex'd, A Discourse upon the Theology and Mythology of the Ancients ... Third Edition.	London	1728	USD 100.00 - 200.00	69.00
319	RAMUS, PETRUS	Praelectiones in Ciceronis orationes octo consulares. Una cum ipsius vita, per Joann. Thomam Freigium collecta.	Basel	1580	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
320		A REMONSTRANCE shewing the Occasion of the Arming of the County of Kent	London	1648	USD 100.00 - 200.00	345.00
321	RICCIUS, BARTHOLOMAEUS	Triumphus Jesu Christi crucifixi. 70 full-page engravings by Adriaen Collaert depicting the martyrdom of various saints.	Antwerp	1608	USD 500.00 - 750.00	862.00
322		RITUALE ROMANUM ... editio novissima, cum accentibus.	Paris	1635	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
323	ROSINUS, JOANNES	Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum ... editio postrema, emendation	Geneva	1632	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
324	ROSSET, PIERRE	Paulus denuo in lucem aeditus, & enucleatius explicatus a R H. Sussanaeus.	Paris	1537	USD 300.00 - 500.00	316.00
325	ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES	A Treatise on the Social Contract; or, The Prin ciples of Political Law.	London	1795	USD 80.00 - 120.00	103.00
326	ROW, JOHN	Kitsur ha-Dikduk. Hebraeae linguae institutiones. [24], 124 pages * Chilias Hebraica.	Glasgow	1644	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
327	ROWLANDS, RICHARD	Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble, and Renowned English Nation.	London	1653	USD 100.00 - 200.00	230.00
328	SAAVEDRA RIVADENEIRAY AGUIAR PARDO DE FIGUEROA, FERNANDO	Memorial ... en que se recopila, adiciona, y representa quanto los Coronistas, y Autores han escrito, y consta por Instrumentos, del Origen, y Antiguedad, Descendencia, y Succession, Lustre, y Servicios de la Casa de Saavedra	Madrid	1679	USD 300.00 - 500.00	345.00
329	SALLUST	La Conjuracion de Catilina y la Guerra de Jugurta.	Madrid	1772	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	1,610.00
330	SAVAGE, RICHARD	The Bastard. A Poem, inscribed with all Due Reverence to Mrs. Bret, once Countess of Macclesfield ... Second Edition.	London	1728	USD 400.00 - 600.00	862.00
330A	SCOTT, THOMAS	The Belgicke Pismire: Stinging the Slothfull Sleeper, and Awaking the Diligent to Fast, Watch, Pray, and Worke Out Their Owne Temporali and Eternali Salvation with Feare and Trembling.	London [i. e., Holland]	1622	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
331	SENECA	Tragoediae.	Amsterdam	1678	USD 100.00 - 200.00	172.00
332		SIBYLLINA ORACULA ex vett. codd. aucta, renovata, et notis illustrata a D. Johanne Opsopaeo Brettano. Cum interpretatione Sebastiani Castalionis et indice.	Paris	1607	USD 200.00 - 300.00	138.00
333	SMITH, ADAM	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... Eighth Edition.	London	1796	USD 100.00 - 200.00	258.00
334	SMOLLETT, TOBIAS	The History and Adventures of an Atom.	London	1749 [i. e., 1769]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	460.00
335	SMOLLETT, TOBIAS	The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom.	London	1753	USD 200.00 - 300.00	230.00
336	SMOLLETT, TOBIAS	The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves.	London	1762	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
337	SOLINUS, CAIUS JULIUS	Polyhistor, a Martino Anton. Delrio emendatus.	Antwerp	1572	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
338	SPON, JACQUES	Recherches Curieuses d'Antiquite.	Lyons	1683	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
339	STERNE, LAURENCE	The Works.	Dublin	1779	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
340	STOW, JOHN	The Abridgement of the English Chronicle ... continued ... unto the End of the Yeare 1610.	London	1611	USD 300.00 - 500.00	517.00
341	STRADA, FAMIANO	De bello Belgico ... editio novissima, emendatior, et accuratior.	Regensburg & Vienna	1756	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
342	STRADA, JACOBUS DE	Epitome thesauri antiquitatum; hoc est, Impp. Rom. orientalium et occidentalium iconum.	Zurich	1557	USD 250.00 - 350.00	258.00
343	SWIFT, JONATHAN	A Tale of a Tub ... To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library ... The Fourth Edition Corrected.	London	1705	USD 80.00 - 120.00	57.00
343A	SWIFT, JONATHAN	A Tale of a Tub ... To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library ... Fifth Edition: with the Author's Apology and Explanatory Notes.	London	1710	USD 250.00 - 350.00	546.00
344	SWIFT, JONATHAN	The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War.	London	1712 [i. e., 1711]	USD 150.00 - 250.00	258.00
345	SWIFT, JONATHAN	The Hibernian Patriot; being, A Collection of the Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland, concerning Mr. Wood's Brass Half-Pence	London	1730	USD 150.00 - 250.00	316.00
346	TACITUS	Historiarum et annalium libri qui exstant, Justi Lipsii studio emendati & illustrati.	Antwerp	1574	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,265.00
347	TACITUS	Opera, quae exstant.	Amsterdam	1672	USD 200.00 - 300.00	258.00
348	TACITUS	The Works ... With Political Discourses upon that Author, by Thomas Gordon, Esq. The Fourth Edition corrected. 5 volumes * PLINY the Younger. The Letters ... With Occasional Remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq.	London	1770; 1777	USD 80.00 - 120.00	201.00
349	TASSO, TORQUATO	Delle Opere non piu stampate ... raccolte, e publicate da Marc'Antonio Poppa.	Rome	1666	USD 250.00 - 350.00	149.00
350	TATE, NAHUM	A Present for the Ladies; being, An Historical Vindica tion of the Female Sex. To which is added, The Character of an Accomplish'd Virgin, Wife, and Widow, in Verse.	London	1692	USD 500.00 - 750.00	488.00
351	TAYLOR, JOHN	All the Workes.	London	1630	USD 500.00 - 750.00	2,070.00
352	TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM	Letters ... published by Jonathan Swift.	London	1700	USD 100.00 - 200.00	126.00
353	TESAURO, EMMANUELE	Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico; o sia, Idea dell'Arguta, et Ingegnosa Elocutione ... Accesciuta dall'Autore di Duo Nuovi Trattati, cioe, De' Concetti Predicabili, et degli Emblemi.	Venice	1702	USD 200.00 - 300.00	161.00
354	THEOCRITUS	Quae extant.	Oxford	1699	USD 150.00 - 250.00	149.00
355	THUCYDIDES	De bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri octo.	Cologne	1543	USD 200.00 - 300.00	201.00
356	TOSCANO, GIOVANNI MATTEO	Peplus Italiae ... Opus, in quo illustres viri ... (quotquot trecentis ab hinc annis tota Italia floruerunt) eorumque pa triae, professiones, & litterarum monumenta turn carmine turn soluta oratione recensentur.	Paris	1578	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,495.00
357	TRISSINO, GIOVANNI GIORGIO	La Poetica.	Vicenza	February 1529	USD 500.00 - 750.00	632.00
358	VALERIUS FLACCUS, CAIUS	Argonautica.	Alcala de Henares	20 November 1524	USD 150.00 - 250.00	201.00
359	VALTRINUS, JOANNES ANTONIUS	De re militari veterum Romanorum libri septem.	Cologne	1597	USD 100.00 - 200.00	103.00
360	VARCHI, BENEDETTO	L'Hercolano. Dialogo ... nel qual si ragiona generalmente delle Lingue, & in particolare della Toscana, e della Fiorentina ... nuovamente stampato.	Florence	1570	USD 150.00 - 250.00	230.00
361	VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS	De re militari libri quatuor	Leiden	1592	USD 250.00 - 350.00	316.00
362	VIRGIL	La Georgica ... Mario Nigresoli Gentilhuomo Ferrarese tradotta in Versi Volgari Sciolti.	Venice	1543	USD 250.00 - 350.00	149.00
363	VIRGIL	L'Opere.	Venice	1568	USD 300.00 - 500.00	201.00
364	VIRGIL	Opera ... ad usum serenissimi Delphini. Secunda editio.	Paris	1682	USD 100.00 - 200.00	201.00
365	VIRGIL	The Works ... translated into English Verse; by Mr. [John] Dryden.	London	1697	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,150.00
366	VOLTAIRE, F.-M.-A. DE	Traite sur la Tolerance	Np	1764	USD 100.00 - 200.00	80.00
367	VOLTAIRE, F.-M.-A. DE	The Ignorant Philosopher. With an Address to the Public upon the Parricides imputed to the Families of Calas and Sirven.	Glasgow	1767	USD 80.00 - 120.00	287.00
368	VOLTAIRE IMITATION	Candide en Dannemarc; ou, L'Optimisme des Honnetes Gens.	Geneva	1767	USD 200.00 - 300.00	126.00
369	VORRIOL, HIERONYMUS	Epos super lapsu et reparatione hominis ex Vergilis ... cui accedit Panegyricon Marianum alterno metro concinnatum ab eodem.	Ghent	21 July 1664	USD 300.00 - 500.00	460.00
370	WHITE, THOMAS	The Grounds of Obedience and Government.	London	1655	USD 400.00 - 600.00	632.00
371	WOLCOT, JOHN	Bound volume containing a series of 20 works of sa tiric verse published under the pseudonym Peter Pindar	London	1788-90	USD 150.00 - 250.00	103.00
372	YORKE, JAMES	The Union of Honour. Containing the Armes, Matches, and Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses, and Earles of Englnad from the Con quest, until this Present Yeere, 1640	London	1640	USD 300.00 - 500.00	431.00

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