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

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Auction Date
January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025
Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Marcellinus (Ammianus).

Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI. supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope MSS. codicum emendati ab Henrico Valesio, & auctiobus adnotationibus illustrati. Necnon excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiae,

Paris 1681 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
52 Livius

[Decades] Titus Ex XIIII. T. Livii decadibus [...]. Polybii libri V de rebus Romanis in latinum traducti a Nicolao Perotto, quos in locum secundae decadis subtituimus, quia multa in illis leguntur, quae secunda decade continebantur.

 Venice Aldine Press et A. Soceri October 1521 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
53 Bentley, Richard

Richardi Bentleii Et Doctorum Virorum Epistolae, Partim Mutuae. Accedit Richardi Dawesii Ad Joannem Taylorum Epistola Singularis.

 London 1807 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
54 King, William

Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem Edidit & Notis illustravit F.S. Cantabrigiensis & three others.

London 1738 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
55 Laar, Gijsbert van.

Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maaken zijn. Getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gr

 Amsterdam 1802 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
56 Ryd, Valerius Anshelm (c.1475-1546/47).

Catalogus annorum et principium

 1540 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
57 Giovio, Paolo.

Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium.

Basel 1575 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
58 Euripides

(Euripidou Hippolytos stephanephoros] cum scholiis, versione Latina, variis lectionibus, Valckenari notis integris, ac selectis aliorum VV. DD. Quibus suas adjunxit Frans. Hen.

 Oxonii 1796 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
59 Southey, Robert.

The Curse of Kehama.

 London 1810 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
60 Virgil

Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex editione Petri Burmanni.

 Glasgow 1778 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
61 Segar, Sir William

Honor, military and civill contained in foure bookes.

 London 1602 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
62 Virgil.

The Works ... containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and AEnis, translated by Dryden.

London 1697 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
63 Caesar, Julius (100-44 BCE).

The Commentaries of Caesar. Translated by William Duncan.

London 1753 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
64 Livius

Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri qui exstant XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis Caroli Sigonij scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam explanantur, ab auctore multis in partibus aucta.

 Venice 1572 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
65 Valturio, Roberto

De Re Militari.

Paris 1535 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
66 Pausanias.

Veteris Graeciae descriptio. Romulus Amasaeus vertit.

Florentiae 1551 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
67 Baskerville

Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii opera.

 Birmingham 1772 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
68 Philoponus (Joannes).

Ioannu Grammatikou tou Philoponou Ypomnema eis ta Peri psyches biblia Aristototelus... Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Comentaria in libros de Anima Aristotelis,

Venice 1535 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
69 Plotinus.

Plotini divini illius e platonica familia philosophi, de rebus philosophicis libri LIIII. In Enneades sex distributi, a Marsilio Ficino.

 Solingen, 1540 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
70 Baskerville Press.

Horace. Quinti Horatii Flacci Carminum Libri Ouatol.

 Birmingham. 1770 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
71 Terentius Afer, Publius

Comoediae.

Birmingham 1772 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
72 Salmon (William).

Botanologia. The English Herbal: Or, History of Plants Containing I. Their Names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their Species, or Various Kinds. III. Their Descriptions. IV. Their Places of Growth. V. Their Times of Flowering and Seeding. VI. Their Qual

 London 1710 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
73 Salmasius, Claudius

Plinianae exercitationes in Caji Julii Solini polyhistora . . . ex veteribus libris emendatus. Accesserunt huic editioni de homonymis hyles iatricae exercitationes antehac ineditae, nec non de manna & saccharo.

Utrecht, 1689 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
74 Thucydides.

De bello peloponnesiaco libri octo...

Amstelaedami 1731 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
75 Appianus, Alexandria

Romanorumm... ex Bibliotheca Regia.

Paris 1551 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
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