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
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

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.