The Swan: THE AUCTION ROOM LONDON IN ASSOCIATION WITH SWAN FINE ART - A RARE SINGLE OWNER ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY SALE WORKS FROM THE 15TH CENTURY ONWARDS, 12825, Oxfordshire

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025

Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	John Milton.	Paradisus Amissus. Poema A Joannis Miltonni.; Latine Redditum A Guileilmo Dobson, LL.B.	Oxford	1750-1753	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
27	John Dryden.	Poems On Various Occasions And Translations From Several Authors. Now First Published in One Volume.	London	1701	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
28	Eutropius.	Romana historia universa.	Basel	1532	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
29	Philostratus, the Athenian; G Olearius; Callistratus; Eusebius, of Caesarea Bishop of Caesarea; Apollonius, of Tyana.	Ta taon philostrataon leipomena apanta: Philostratorm qae supersunt omnia vita Apollonii libris VIII, vitae sophistarum libris II heroica imagines priores atque posteriores et epistolae accessere Apollonii Tyanensis epistolae liber adversus Hieroclem Call	Leipzig	1709	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
30	Gataker, Thomas.	Opera critica.	Utrecht	1698	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
31	Saumaise / Salmasius	Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI.		N/A	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
32	Athenaeus	Deipnosophistarum libri quindecim. Bound with Casaubon, Isaac. Animadversionum in Athen. Dipnosophistas libri XV	Lyon	1657/1664	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
33	Athenaeus Naucratites; Bedrott, Jakob.	Athenaiou Deipnosophiston Biblia Pentekaideka. Athenaei Dipnosophistarvm, Hoc Est argute sciteque conuiuio disserentum. Lib. XV, quibus nunc quantum operae ac diligentiae adhibitum sit satis fiedei erit.	Basileae	1535	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
34	Senecus (ca. 4 BC - 65 AD).	The moral and mixed works of Senecque, translated from Latin into Francois, by Simon Goulart.	Paris	1598	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
35	Herodotus, Valckenaer Lodewijk Caspar (ed.)	Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX Musarum Nominibus Inscripti"	Amsterdam,	1763	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
36	Tacitus, Cornelius ; Justius Lipsius. [Velleius Paterculus]	C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae exstant, a Lusto Lipsio Postremum Recensita	Antwerp	1668	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
37	Valeriano Giovanni Pierio (O Giampietro)	Hieroglyphica, seu de Sacris Aegyptiorum, aliarumque Gentium Literis Commentarii.	Lugduni	1595	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
38	Photius	Myriobiblon. Bibliotheca.	Rouen	1653	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
39	Robert Bellarmine; Disputationes Controversiis Christianae Fidei, 3 Vols, 1590-93	Disputationes Roberti Bellarmini Politiani, Societatis Iesu, De Controversiis Christianae Fidei, adversus huius temporis haereticos, Tribus Tomis, comprehensae. Tomus I-III.,"	Ingolstadii	1590-1593.	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
40	HIERONYMUS, Eusebius (Saint, 345?-420).	Epistolae. With the tables of Theodorus v 1480 Lelius.	Parma	1480	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
41	THULDEN, Theodor van.	Revelatio ordinis SS.mae Trinitatis Redemptionis Captivorum sub Innocentio Tertio Anno 1198.	Paris	1633	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
42	Flavius Josephus	Flavii Josephi Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri XX	Basileae	1554	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
43	Schmitth, Nicolaus	Imperatores Ottomanici a capta Constantinopoli, cum epitome principum Turcarum.	Tyrnaviae	1760	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
44	Lucani , M. Annaei.	Pharsalia Cum notis Hugonis Grotii, et Richardi Bentleii.	[Twickenham Place] Strawberry Hill	1760	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
45	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.	Opera.	Oxford	1783	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
46	C. Valerius; Volpi	Catullus Veronensis With Albius Tibullus E.R., Sex. Aurelius Propertius.	Patavii (Padua)	1737-1760	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
47	PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius.	(Historia naturalis) ... historia mundi libri XXXVIl. denuo ad vetustos codices collati, et plurimis locis emendati, ut patet ex. adiunctis iterum que auctis Sigismundi Gelenij Annotationibus. In calce operis copiosus Index est additus.	Basileae	1549	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
48	Polybius, Casaubon, Isaac.	Polybiou toy Lykorta Megalopolitou istorion ta sozomena : Polybii Lycortae f. Megalopolitani historiarum libri qui supersunt. Isaacus Casaubonus ex antiquis libris emendavit, latine vertit, & commentariis illustravit. Aineiou Taktikon te kai poliorketikon	Paris	1609	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
49	Ovid.	Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Latin and English.	Amsterdam	1732	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
50	Bartoli, Pietro Santi	Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato e Popolo Romano.	Published by Rome	1704	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.