Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2717, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 384 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Alfonso X of Castile

Astronomicae Tabulae in Propriam Integritatem Restitutae

Paris 1545 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
2 Alfonso X of Castile

Tabule Astronomice Divi Alfonsi Regis Romanoru[m] et Castelle

Venice 1521 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 627.00
3 Magister Anianus

Compotus Manualis

Paris 1526 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,302.00
4 Petrus Apianus

Cosmographiae Introductio

Venice 1533 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
5 Petrus Apianus

La Cosmographia

Antwerp 1575 USD 2,400.00 - 3,400.00 USD 2,794.00
6 Petrus Apianus

Instrument Buch-durch Petrum Apianum erst von New Beschriben

Ingolstadt 1533 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,620.00
7 Andrea Argoli

De Diebus Criticis et de Aegrorum Decubitu Libri Duo

Padua 1639 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
8 Andrea Argoli

Ephemerides

Leiden 1659 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,524.00
9 Andrea Argoli

Pandosion Sphaericum

Padua 1644 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
10 Francisco Suarez de Arguello

Ephemerides Generales de los Movimientos de los Cielos

Madrid 1608 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
11 Aristarchus of Samos

De Magnitudinibus et Distantiis Solis et Lunae Liber

Pesaro 1572 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,525.00
12

Astronomy Manuscript. Astronomia, hoc est, Coelorum, Sideriemque Scientia

France circa 1675 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
13 Mashallah ibn Athari

Tractatus de Compositione Astrolabii Messehalath, A Section from a Larger Work

Strasbourg 1512 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,320.00
14 Charles Babbage

The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Author's Presentation Copy to Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871)

London 1838 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,255.00
15 Francesco Barozzi

Cosmographia in Quatuor Libros Distributa

Venice 1585 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,206.00
16 James Bassantin [or Bassendyne]

Astronomia I. Bassantini Scoti

Paris 1599 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,556.00
17 James Bassantin [or Bassendyne]

Astronomia I. Bassantini Scoti

Paris 1599 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,794.00
18 Gabriele Beati

Sphaera Triplex: Artificialis, Elementaris, ac Caelestis

Rome 1662 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
19 Tobias Beutel

Nun folget Eine aussfuhrliche Beschreibung des erschienenen Cometen

Leipzig 1665 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,270.00
20 Hartmann Beyer

Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera

Frankfurt 1549 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
21 Hartmann Beyer

Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera

Frankfurt 1549 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
22 Hartmann Beyer

Quaestiones Novae in Libellum de Sphaera

Wittenberg 1550 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.00
23 Giuseppe Biancani

Sphaera Mundi, seu Cosmographia, Demonstrativa, ac Facili Methodo Tradita

Bologna 1620 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,794.00
24 Giovanni Bianchini

Tabule

Venice 1526 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,397.00
25

Bible in Latin. Old and New Testament. Biblia Sacra

Nuremberg 1527 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,397.00
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