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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
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Addison, Joseph.

The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.

Birmingham 1761 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
127 Josephus, Flavius

Histoire de la guerre des Juifs contre les Romains. Traduit du Grec par Arnauld d'Andilly. Troisieme edition.

Paris 1670 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
128 Philostratus the Athenian.

Tade enestin en tode to biblio. Philostratou Eikones. Philostratou neoterou Eikones. Tou autou Heroika. Kallistratou Ekphraseis. Tou autou Bioi sophiston. = : Quae hoc volumine continentur. Icones Philostrati. Philostrati iunioris Icones. Eiusdem Heroica.

Florentiae 1517 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
129 Montanus, Arnoldus.

Atlas Japannensis. Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. Collected out of their several Writings and Journals. English'd by J. Ogilby.

London 1670 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
130 Guillaume Bude

Commentarii linguae Graecae.

Paris 1529 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
131 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
132 Lysons, Daniel

Magna Britannia

London 1806 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
133 Bryan, Michael.

A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

London 1816 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
134 Shakespeare.

Selection of nineteenth century works, to include;

1886 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
135 Dulaure.

Histoire De Paris. WITH Atlas.

Paris 1837 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
136 Spenser, Edmund

The Faerie Queene

London 1897 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
137 Robert Louis Stevenson

Works. Vailima edition.

London 1922 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
138 Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

1903 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
139 Juvenalis / Persius Flaccus

Decii Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae Decem et sex Auli Persii Flacci satirae sex.

Londini, 1845 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
140 Johnson, Samuel

Dictionary of English Language

London 1805 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
141 Granger

A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution [4 vols]

London 1804 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
142 Walter Scott

Poetical Works

Edinburgh 1822-1830 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
143 A Series of magnificent engravings

To illustrate the various folio or quarto editions of the Works of Shakespeare and Milton.

London 1818 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
144 Budge, E. A. Wallis

The Book of the Dead Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer. Anhai. Kerasher and Netchemet.

London 1899 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
145 18th/19th Century Bindings, Zaehnsdorf.

An attractive set of bindings, to include;

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
146 Casanova

Memoires De Casanova De Seingalt.

Paris 1931-1932 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
147 Horace

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

London 1733 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
148 Tolkien, Christopher.

History of Middle Earth. 1983-1996

1983-1996 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
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