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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.

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
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