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
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

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.