Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 31623, London

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Auction Date
03/16/2023 - 03/16/2023
Page Size: 410 items in 17 pages

Lot NumberAuthor NameBook TitlePlace PrintedYear PublishedEstimateActual Price
1Cicero (M. Tullius)

Orazioni scelte… in volgar Toscano, edited by Alessandro Bandiera, 3 vol., occasional spotting, contemporary vellum

Naples1769GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 250.00
2Classics.-

Latin Classics.- Classicorum Latinorum, Nova Editio cum Notis et Commentariis, 8 volumes, leaves uncut, engraved portrait frontispiece of J. B. Sommariva, 2 folding maps and plan, elaborate straight-grained morocco with floral borders, yellow endpapers, f

Brescia-Milan1819GBP 150.00 - 200.00GBP 225.00
3[Estienne (Henri)]

Comicorum Graecorum Sententiae id est Gnonomai,

[Geneva]1569GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00Not Sold
4[Cloppenburgh (Jan Evertszoon, editor)]

Le Miroir de la Cruelle, & Horrible Tyrannie Espagnole perpertree au Pays Pas, par le Tyran Duc de Albe…de les Tyrannies Commises aux Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols

Amsterdam 1620GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00GBP 3,250.00
5Moréri (Louis)

The Great Historical, Geographical and Poetical Dictionary

London1694GBP 250.00 - 350.00GBP 625.00
6Howell (James)

Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish

London1660GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 475.00
7Aesop and Others

Fables of Aesop and Others

1728GBP 300.00 - 400.00GBP 375.00
8Ferrerro de Lavriano (Francesco Mario)

Augustae regiaeque sabaudae domus arbor gentilitia,

Turin 1702GBP 400.00 - 600.00GBP 1,250.00
9Francis (Philip, Revd.)

A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace, with the Original Text, and Critical Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators, 2 vols., third edition of Philip Francis’ complete translation, engraved frontispiece portraits, further plate

1749GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 225.00
10Staël (Madame La Baronne de)

Considérations sur les Principaux Événemens de la Révolution Françoise…, 3 vol., engraved device on title, contemporary boards with a marbled calf look, boards and spine elaborately gilt, slightly bumped,

Paris 1818GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 238.00
11Boileau-Despreaux (Nicolas)

Oeuvres de Boileau Despréaux avec des Éclaircissemen..., 5 vol, 1 engraved frontispiece after Bernard Picart, 5 vignettes and 8 full page engravings, marbled edges, minor staining throughout, mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, rubbed and worn,

Amsterdam1772GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 238.00
12Corneille (Pierre) & [Voltaire, ed.]

Théatre… avec des Commentaires, 12 vol., half titles & errata leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece by Gaucher after Le Brun, frontispiece, 34 etchings after Gravelot [Picot, n ° 640 - Cohen-de Ricci, 255; M. Plantevignes, With Marcel Proust, 1966, p. 3

[Genève 1764GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 350.00
13Grotius (Hugo)

De jure belli ac pacis,

Amsterdam 1631GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00GBP 3,750.00
14History- Pansa (Francesco)

Istoria dell'antica Repubblica d'Amalfi, 2 vol., engraved author’s portrait & impresa of Amalfi city, woodcut ornaments, vol. 1 lacking the index at end, a little water staining, paper flaw to Q3 in vol. 1, contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine,

Naples1724GBP 150.00 - 200.00GBP 162.00
15Homer

Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina versione accuratissima indiceque Graeco locupletissimo rerum ac variantium lection.

Amsterdam1656GBP 300.00 - 400.00GBP 350.00
16Mably (Gabriel Bonnot de)

Oeuvres Completes de L’Abbe de Mably, 12 vol., occasional light spotting, light browning, contemporary speckled calf, gilt floral motifs to spine, gilt spine, floriated borders to upper and lower boards, lightly rubbed, wear to upper board of vol.12, 8vo,

Lyon 1792GBP 100.00 - 200.00GBP 138.00
17Martin (Arthur)

La vie et les mystères de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie, 65 chromolithographic plates by Lemercier including the title and 62 numbered 1-32 and 1-32 bis, some strengthened leaving tape residue to lower joint, browning and offsetting to text pages, morocco,

1859GBP 100.00 - 150.00GBP 212.00
18Medicine.- Riolan (Jean)

Opera Medica: Tam hactenus edita quam postuma, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, some worming (until quire H), paper flaw to K7, 1619; bound with Chirurgia, third edition, woodcut printer’s device on title, small worm trail to a few quires

Paris. 1619GBP 150.00 - 200.00GBP 125.00
19Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

Ouvres, 6 vol., first edition, half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cathelin after Mignaud in vol.1, 32 engraved plates by Moreau Le Jeune, occasional light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with poppies and wheat, boards and spin

Paris 1773GBP 250.00 - 350.00Not Sold
20Peyssonnel (Claude-Charles de).

Traite sur Le Commerce de La Mer Noire,

Paris1787GBP 300.00 - 400.00Not Sold
21Rousseau (J.-J)

Les Confessions,

Paris1881GBP 300.00 - 400.00Not Sold
22Theology.- Tenderini (Francesco)

Sacra Rituum Congregatione…, large woodcut device on title, contemporary vellum boards, marbled edges, folio,

Rome1783GBP 150.00 - 200.00GBP 150.00
23Vico (Giambattista)

Principj di una scienza nuova intorno alla natura delle nazioni per la quale si ritrovano i principj di altro sistema del diritto naturale delle genti...,

Naples1725GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00GBP 1,875.00
24Pico della Mirandola (Giovanni Francesco).

Libro detto Strega, o delle illusioni del Demonio, [trans.by Leandro degli Alberti from the Latin]

Bologna1524GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00GBP 8,125.00
25[Indian Mutiny]

Form of Pray and Thanksgiving to Almighty God…..Synagogues of the United Congregations in Great Britain, On Saturday, the 30th of April, 5619, for the Success granted to our arms in suppressing the Rebellion and Restoring Tranquillity in Her Majesty’s Ind

London 1859GBP 200.00 - 300.00GBP 1,000.00
  • <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Speed (John). <i>The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine...</i> bound with <i>The Prospect of the most Famous parts of the World,</i> Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. £20,000 to £30,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> China. De Jode (Cornelis), <i>China Regnum,</i> Antwerp [1593]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Hondius (Henricus), <i>Nova totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.</i> Auct: Henr. Hondio. Amsterdam, circa 1630. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), <i>Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula</i> auct: Guilelmo Blaeuw, Amsterdam [1635 - 58]. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Acosta (Emanuel). <i>Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum ad annum usque à Deipara Virgine…,</i> 1st edition, Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1571. £3,000 to £5,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Ruggieri (Francesco). <i>Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze…,</i> 4 volumes bound in two, Florence, Appresso l'Editore, 1755. £3,000 to £4,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Parry (William). <i>Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage,</i> 6 vols in 5, 1st editions, 1821-27. £2,000 to £3,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Hunter (John). <i>A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds,</i> 1st edition, 1794. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Furber (Robert). <i>The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers…,</i> 1st quarto edition, London, 1732. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Friedman (Milton). <i>A Theory of the Consumption Function,</i> 1st edition, 1957. £500 to £800.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Clarkson (Thomas). <i>The history of the ... abolition of the African slave-trade,</i> 2 vols., 1808. £800 to £1,200.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Civil War Pamphlets. A sammelband of 19 pamphlets relating to events of the English Civil War, 1640-1661. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • <b><center>Swann Auction Galleries<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana:<br>March 30, 2023</b>
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Motorist Green Book,</i> New York, 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Papers of pianist-composer Lawrence Brown relating to Paul Robeson & more, various places, 1925-54. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Freedom Summer archive of civil rights activist Karen Haberman Trusty, Atlanta & elsewhere, 1963-64. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> E. Simms Campbell, <i>A Night-Club Map of Harlem,</i> New York, 1933. $8,000 to $12,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend, various places, 1966-85. $25,000 to $35,000.
  • <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> CASAS (BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS). <i>La Découverte des Indes occidentales par les Espagnols,</i> Paris, 1697. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del orígen de los Yncas…,</i> Lisbonne, 1609 [1608 au colophon]. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Histoire des Yncas rois du Pérou. On a joint à cette édition l'Histoire de la conquête de la Floride,</i> Amsterdam, 1737. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAET (JOHANNES DE). <i>L'Histoire du nouveau monde, ou description des Indes occidentales,</i> Leyde, 1640. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAFITAU (JOSEPH-FRANÇOIS). <i>Mœurs des sauvages amériquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps,</i> Paris, 1724. €1,200 to €1,500.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> ORRIO (FRANCISCO XAVIER ALEXO DE). <i>Solución del gran problema acerca de la población de las Americas,</i> Mexico, 1763. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE)]. <i>Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l'Amérique,</i> Amsterdam, 1716. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> TURGOT (ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES). <i>Mémoire sur les colonies américaines, sur leurs relations politiques avec leurs métropoles…,</i> Paris, 1791. €1,000 to €1,200.
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