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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
76 Salis [Baptista de]

Summa casuum conscientiae. [With:] SIXTUS IV, Pope. Bulla.

Nuremberg, 1488. Bound with GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
77 Plautus

Comediae XX, ex antiquis, recentioribusque exemplaribus invicem collatis, diligentissime re gognitae.

Paris, 1530 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
78 Valentini, Michael Bernhard

Museum museorum, oder Vollstandige Schau-Buhne aller Materialien und Specereyen [...] aus andern Material-Kunst und Naturalien Kammern Oost und West-Indischen Reisbeschreibungen.

 (Francfort, 1714) GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
79 Justin Martyr, Saint.

[Works in Greek] Ex bibliotheca Regia ... Lutetiae, ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi regii, Regiis typis. (with:] Beati Justini Philosophi & Martyris Opera Omnia, quae adhuc invenire potuerunt, id est, quae ex Regis Galliae Bibliotheca prodierunt.

Paris 1554 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
80 Haurisius, Benno Caspar.

Scriptores historiae romanae latini veteres, qui extant omnes, notis variis illustrati, a Carolo Henrico de Klettenberg et Wildeck, e bibliotheca . Bernardi Francisci Liberi Baronis de Hallberg, Dynastae in Gelstorff.

 Heidelberg 1743 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
81 Macrobius

Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii viri consularis & illustris in Somnium Scipionis libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis codicibus recogniti & aucti. (Edited by) Joach. Camerarius.

 Basel (Basileae), 1535 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
82 Arrianus.

De expeditione Alexandri Magni.

[Geneva] 1575 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
83 Caesar

Quae extant... annotationes Samuelis Clarke.

London 1712 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
84

Antiphonal. Graduale Romanum de Tempore, et Sanctis: ad normam Missalis ex decreto sacrosacti Concilii Tridentini restituti, S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu edi, Clementis VIII. ac Urbani VIII. auctoritate recogniti.

Venice 1758 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
85 CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of (1609-1674).

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641.

Oxford 1707 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
86

Publius Cornelius Tacitus P. Cornelii Taciti Equitis Romani annalium ab excessu Augusti sicut ipse uocat.

Basel 1533 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
87 Cicero

De rhetorica volumen primum (-secundum).

Venice 1583 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
88

L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera omnia quae extant omnia a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholis illustrata. Editio quarta atque ab ultima Lipsi manu: aucta Liberti Fromondi Scholii ad quaestione a Naturales & Ludum de morte Claudij Caesaris quibus in hac ed

 Antverpiae, 1652 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
89 Davila (Henrico Caterino)

Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia

 Venetia, 1733 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
90 Barnard, Edward

The New, Comprehensive and Complete History of England: from the earliest period of Authentic Information, to The Middle of the Year, MDCCLXXXII. Containing A full, accurate, comprehensive and impartial Account of all the most remarkable Transactions, mem

 London. MDCC LXXX II [1782]. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
91 Foxe, John.

The New and Complete Book of Martyrs, Or An Universal History of Martydom. Being the Book of Martyrs, Revised and Corrected, (...) The Whole originally Composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox.

 London n.d. (c.1785) GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
92 Galenus.

Opera [Latin].

Basel 1549 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
93 Hubertus Goltzius

Lebendige Bilder garnach alle Keysern.

Antwerp 1557 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
94 Sallust

Caii Crispi Sallustii quae exstant item Epistolae de Republica ordinanda Declamatio in Ciceronem et Pseudo-Ciceronis In Sallustium

 Venice 1737 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
95 Boece, Hector (14657-1536).

Scotorum historiae a prima gentis origine... libri XIX. Duo postremi hujus Historiae libri nune primum emittuntur in lucem... per loannem Ferrerium... edita.

Lausanne, 1575 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
96 Richter

The Mond Collection

 London 1910 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
97 Hesychius of Alexandria Lexikon, in Greek.

Lexikon : Dictionarivm locvpletiss. ea fide ac diligentia excusum, ut hoc uno, ad ueterum autorum fere omnium, ac poetarum in primis lectionem, iusti commentarij uice, uti qui uis possit, & plane nihil sit, quod ad rectam interpretationem desyderari hic q

 Hagenau 1521 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
98 France, Anatole

Vie de Jeanne d'Arc.

Paris 1910 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
99 Dioscorides, Pedanius

Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbaei opera quae extant omnia. Ex noua interpretetatione Jani-Antonii Saraceni Lugdunfi, medici.

[Frankfurt am Main] 1598 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
100 Welser, Marcus

Antiqua monumenta, das ist, Alte Bilder, Gemahlde, unnd Schrifften : so wol deren so zu Augspurg in Vindelicien als ausserhalb auss derselben rantze unnd Bodem / durch den Edlen unnd Ehrnvesten H. Marx Welsern den jungern ...

Franckfort am Mayn 1595 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.