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
101 Terenzio, Publio Afro

P. Terentii Afri poetae lepidissimi Comoediae,

Venice 1545 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
102 Marino Barlezio.

Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi.

Rome c.1508 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
103 Cowley, Abraham

The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley

 London 1688 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
104 Plutarchus

Ankunfft, Leben und Wesen, Gluck und ungluck, gut und bose, weise und unweise Rathe, Reden, Anschlage, Thaten, Merckliche warhaffte Historien und Geschichten, (...) furtrefflicher Manns und Frawen personen (...). Ins Teutsch gebracht durch Hieronymum Bone

 Colmar, 1547 (at end 2nd part 1541). GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
105 Albertus Magnus

De Apprehensione 1504.

N/A GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
106 Albertus Magnus

Tabula tractatuum parvorum naturalium,

[colophon:] Venice, 1517 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
107 Fazelli, Thomas

Ordinis Praedicatorum De Rebus Siculis.

 Catanae 1751 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
108 Herodotus.

Herodoti Halicarnassei Historia, siue, Historiarum libri IX, qui inscribuntur Musae. Ex vetustis exemplaribus recogniti.

[Geneva] 1570 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
109 Arrianus.

De expeditione Alexandri Magni.

[Geneva] 1575 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
110 Celaya, Juan de (1490-1558).

Expositio in libros posteriorum Aristotelis.

[Paris 1517] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
111 Stobaeus, Johannes:

Sententiae ex thesauris Graecorum delectae . [Graece et] nunc primum a Conrado Gesnero . in Latinum sermonem traductae .

 Zurich 1543 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
112 Gaius Plinius Secundus

Naturalis historiae libri XXXVII e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari, ac codicis in Alemania impressi quam emendatissime editi, addito indice quam copiosissimo, figurisque ad singolorum librorum materiam aptissimis (Prima pars Plyniani indicis editi par Jo

 (Venice 1525) GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
113 Eusebio.

Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV.

Lutetiae 1544 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
114 Livius, Titus and Lucius Florus.

Von Ankunfft unnd Ursprung des Romischen Reichs, der alten Romer herkommen, Sitten, &c... (translated by Zacharias Muntzer).

 Strassburg, 1574 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
115 Politien (Ange).

Angeli Politiani Opera, quae quidem extitere hactenus, omnia, longe emendatius quam usquam hantehac expressa. Quibusaccessit Historia de Conjuratione Pactiana in familiam medicam, elegantissime conscripta : quorum omnium ordinem post Politiani elogia inve

 Basileae, 1553 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
116 Jan de Bisschop (circa 1628-1671)

Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum and Signorum Veterum Icones (1671)

 N/A GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
117 Clementis Alexandrini

Omnia quae quidem extant opera, nunc primum extant opera, nunc primum e tenebris eruta latinitateque donata, Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprete. Clemens Alexandrinus

 Florentiae 1551 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
118 Antoine de Ville

Les fortifications.

Lyon 1640 (1641) GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
119 Tillemont

Histoire des empereurs, et des autres princes qui ont regne durant les six premiers siecles de l'eglise, de leurs guerres contre les Juifs, des ecivains profanes, & des personnes les plus illustres de leur temps.

Venice 1732-1739 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
120 Quintillianus (Marcus Fabius)

De institutione oratoria libri XII ... argumentisque doctissimi viri Petri Gallandi elucidati. Eiusdem Declamationum liber..

Paris, 1549 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
121 Eustathius

Parekbolai eis tou Omerou Oduseian [Iliada].

Basel 1559-1560 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
122 Livius

Chronologia in Titi Livii Historiam

Francofurti ad Moenum 1568 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
123 Tucidide.

Thoukydidou tou Olorou, Peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia octo. Thucydidis Olori filii, De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano nuper recognita, quam Aemilus Portus, Francisci Porti

Frankfurts 1594 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
124 Virgil [Virgilius Maro, Publius]

Antiquissimi Virgiliani Codicis Fragmenta et Picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana.... (Hardback)

 Rome 1742 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
125 Sandrart, Joachim Von

Sculpturae veteris admiranda, sive delineatio vera perfectissimarum eminentissimarumque statuarum, una cum artis hujus nobilissimae theoria.

Nuremberg & Frankfurt 1680 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 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.