Sothebys: The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose, 1971yr,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 07, 1971 - June 07, 1971
Page Size: 365 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
BEDA HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA GENTIS ANGLORUM, EDITIO PRINCEPS, [Strassburg]

[1475--1478]

USD - 4,080.00
BRANT (SEBASTIAN) STULTIFERA NAVIS Basel

1 March 1498

USD - 960.00
Broughton (Hugh) A concent of scripture, engraved title, double-page engraved world map, 5 engraved plates, and the large folding circular polar-projection map, all by Jodocus Hondius, with the first and final blanks, the folding printed leaf which accompanies the pola

USD - 672.00
[CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND],

[1486]

USD - 3,600.00
COLONNA (FRANCESCO) HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIFILI, Venice

December 1499

USD - 7,200.00
COLUMNA (AEGIDIUS), <i>Aegidius Romanus</i> REGIMIENTO DE LOS PRINCIPES, Seville

20 October 1494

USD - 2,280.00
CONESTAGGIO (GERONIMO DE FRANCHI) THE HISTORIE OF THE VNITING OF THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGALL TO THE CROWNE OF CASTILL: CONTAINING . . . THE DESCRIPTION OF PORTUGALL, their principall townes, castles, places, reuers, bridges, passages, forces, weaknesses, reuenues, and expences. Of the East I Arn.

1600

USD - 528.00
DIGGES (LEONARD) A BOKE NAMED TECTONICON. Briefly shewinge the exacte measuring, and spedye reckonynge all maner of lande, squares, tymber, stone, steaples, pyllers, globes, &c.,

1570

USD - 1,008.00
DU BELLAY (GUILLAUME) INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WARRES. Amply, learnedly, and politiquely, discoursing the method of militarie discipline . . . translated by Paule Ive,

1589

USD - 528.00
EDMONDES (<i>Sir</i> CLEMENT) Observations, vpon the five first bookes of Caesars commentaries, setting fovrth the practise of the art military, in the time of the Roman empire,

1600

USD - 115.20
Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme . . . also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie,

1606

USD - 288.00
[FRIDOLIN (STEPHAN)] SCHATZBEHALTER ODER SCHREIN DER WAHREN REICHTUMER DES HEILES UND EWIGER SELIGKEIT, Nurnberg

8 November 1491

USD - 6,720.00
G. (C.) [? Charles Gibbon] A watch-worde for warre . . . wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the enemie, and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble, Cambridge

1596

USD - 312.00
GESNER (CONRAD) THE TREASURE OF EVONYMVS, CONTEYNINGE THE VVONDERFULL HID SECRETES OF NATURE, TOUCHINGE THE MOST APTE FORMES TO PREPARE AND DESTYL MEDICINES . . . Wherunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art. Translated (with g

[1559]

USD - 912.00
GILBERT (WILLIAM) DE MAGNETE, MAGNETISQUE CORPORIBUS, ET DE MAGNO MAGNETE TELLURE,

1600

USD - 1,200.00
HERESBACH (CONRAD) FOVRE BOOKES OF HUSBANDRY . . . Newely Englished, and increased, by Barnabe Googe,

1578

USD - 672.00
Heresbach (Conrad) The whole art and trade of hvsbandry . . .Enlarged by Barnaby Googe,

1614

USD - 264.00
HERODIAN. [<i>colophon</i>] HERODIANI LIBRORVM OCTO DE IMPERIO POST MARCVM VEL DE SVIS TEMPORIBVS ANGELO POLITIANO INTERPRETE, Bologna

31 August 1493

USD - 672.00
[Hill (Thomas)] The gardeners labyrinth,

1594

USD - 48.00
Hill (Thomas) The profitable art of gardening,

1579

USD - 432.00
HORACE OPERA, cu[m] quibusdam annotationib[us] [Jacobi Locher], Strassburg

12 March, 1498

USD - 1,440.00
H[OWELL] (J[AMES]) ENPOOIA DODONA'S GROVE, OR, THE VOCALL FORREST,

1640

USD - 312.00
INNOCENT VIII BULLA CANONIZATIONIS SANCTI LEOPOLDI, Vienna

Printer of the 1482 ‘Vocabalista’ (? Stefan Koblinger), after 6 January 1485

USD - 132.00
JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO DE CLARIS MULIERIBUS, Ferrara

29 April 1497

USD - 5,280.00
JACOBUS DE VORAGINE LEGENDA AUREA Nurnberg

5 December, 1488

USD - 2,400.00
Jones (John) The bathes of Bathes ayde: wonderfull and most excellent agaynst many sicknesses; The benefit of the auncient bathes of Buckstones;

1572

USD - 52.80
LATHAM (SIMON) LATHAMS FALCONRY OR THE FAULCONS LURE, AND CURE,

1615--1618

USD - 576.00
Lawson (William) A new orchard and garden; or the best way for planting, grafting [&c.] . . . With the country housewifes garden for herbes of common vse . . . As also the husbandry of bees . . . Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants,

1623

USD - 360.00
LICHTENBERGER (JOHANNES, <i>Astrologer to Emperor Frederic III</i>) PROGNOSTICATIO /book_records/155023 Mainz

8 June, 1492

USD - 1,440.00
LOMAZZZO (GIOVANNI PAOLO) A TRACTE CONTAINING THE ARTES OF CURIOUS PAINTINGE CARUINGE & BUILDINGE . . . Englished by R[ichard] H[aydock] student in physik, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, Oxford

1598

USD - 1,680.00
MACCHIAVELLI (NICCOLO) THE ARTE OF WARRE, translated by Peter Withorne, 2 parts, second edition, black letter, part I with title within fine woodcut border, double-page woodcut illustration of a fortified camp, and 6 double-page battle formations set up in type, one s

USD - 2,280.00
MANWOOD (JOHN) A TREATISE AND DISCOVRSE OF THE LAWES OF THE FORREST,

1598

USD - 360.00
M[ARKHAM] (G[ERVASE]) THE ENGLISH HVSBANDMAN, 3 parts,

1613

USD - 960.00
MARKHAM (GERVASE) HUNGERS PREUENTION: or, the whole arte of fowling by water and land . . . exceeding necessary for all such as trauell by sea, and come into vninhabited places: especially, all those that haue any thing to doe with new plantations,

1621

USD - 576.00
Markham (Gervase) The inrichment of the VVeald of Kent,

1636

USD - 8,400.00
MASCALL (LEONARD) A BOOKE OF THE ARTE AND MANER HOW TO PLANT AND GRAFFE ALL SORTS OF TREES,

1590

USD - 168.00
Monro (Robert) Monro his expedition with the vvorthy Scots regiment (called Mac-Keyes Regiment),

1637

USD - 62.40
MORE (JOHN) A TABLE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THIS DAY. Wherein is declared in what yeere of the world every thing was done, Cambridge

1593

USD - 72.00
NORTON (ROBERT) THE GVNNER SHEWING THE WHOLE PRACTISE OF ARTILLERY: WITH ALL THE APPURTENANCES THEREUNTO BELONGING. TOGETHER WITH THE MAKING OF EXTRAORDINARIE ARTIFICIALL FIRE-WORKES, as well for pleasure and triumphes, as for warre and seruice,

1628

USD - 768.00
OCHSENBRUNNER (THOMAS) PRISCORUM HEROUM STEMMATA, Rome

18 February 1494

USD - 456.00
PARKINSON (JOHN) PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp,

1629

USD - 528.00
PEACHAM (HENRY) THE COMPLEAT GENTLEMAN,

1622

USD - 168.00
PENA (PIERRE) AND MATHIAS DE LOBEL STIRPIUM ADVERSARIA NOVA,

1570--1571

USD - 120.00
PLATT (<i>Sir</i> HUGH) THE JEWELL HOUSE OF ART AND NATURE,

1594

USD - 312.00
P[LATT](<i>Sir</i> H[UGH]) SUNDRIE NEW AND ARTIFICIALL REMEDIES AGAINST FAMINE,

1596

USD - 456.00
PLINY <i>the Elder</i> NATURALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI XXXVII, Venice

1472

USD - 6,720.00
POLEMON (JOHN) ALL THE FAMOUS BATTLES THAT HAUE BENE FOUGHT IN OUR AGE THROUGHOUTE THE WORLDE,

[1578]

USD - 1,200.00
PROLIANO (CRISTIANO) ASTROLOGIA, Naples

25 August 1477

USD - 180.00
RATHBORNE (AARON) THE SURVEYOR,

1616

USD - 360.00
RECORDE (ROBERT) THE CASTLE OF KNOWLEDGE,

1556

USD - 3,600.00
SALLUST. OPERA, Venice

23 March 1474

USD - 1,560.00
SALT A theologicall and philosophical treatise of the nature and goodnesse of salt,

1612

USD - 192.00
SERLIO (SEBASTIANO) THE FIRST [-FIFT] BOOKE OF ARCHITECTURE,

1611

USD - 2,400.00
SERRES (OLIVIER DE) THE PERFECT VSE OF SILK-WORMES, and their benefit,

1607

USD - 960.00
SHEPHERDS' KALENDAR Here begynneth the kalendar of shepardes,

1559

USD - 228.00
[SOMERSET, &C.]. 1607 A TRUE REPORT OF CERTAINE WONDERFULL OUERFLOWINGS OF WATERS, now lately in Summerset-shire, Norfolke, and other places of England,

1607

USD - 228.00
SONGE DU VERGIER (LE), [Lyon]

20 March 1491

USD - 3,120.00
Standish (Arthur) New directions of experience avthorized by the kings most excellent maiesty, as may appeare, for the increasing of timber and fire-wood, [London]

1615

USD - 264.00
STOW (JOHN) A SVRVAY OF LONDON,

1598

USD - 480.00
TAYLOR (JOHN, <i>The Water Poet</i>) ALL THE WORKES,

1630

USD - 456.00
TURBERVILLE (GEORGE) THE BOOKE OF FALCONRIE OR HAVVKING Thomas Purfoot, 1611 [STC 24325]; THE NOBLE ART OF VENERIE OR HVNTING, ibid., 1611

USD - 1,248.00
TUSSER (THOMAS) FIUE HUNDRETH POINTES OF GOOD HUSBANDRIE,

1590

USD - 864.00
WARD (ROBERT) ANIMADVERSIONS OF WARRE; or, a militarie magazine of the trvest rvles, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre,

1639

USD - 60.00
Wilkins (John, <i>Bishop of Chester</i>) THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD. Or, a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moone,

1640

USD - 192.00
WOTTON (<i>Sir</i> HENRY) THE ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTVRE,

1624

USD - 576.00
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