Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2717, New York

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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
251 John Wing

Ephemerides of the Coelestial Motions for Six Years; beginning Anno 1702, and ending Anno 1707

London 1702 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 444.00
252 Vincent Wing

Astronomia Britannica

London 1669 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,397.00
253 Vincent Wing

An Ephemerides of the Coelestiall Motions for VII Years, Beginning Anno 1652, ending Anno 1658

London 1652 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
254 Sebastianus Theodoricus

Novae Quaestiones Sphaerae

Wittenberg 1564 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,524.00
255 Eugene Atget

Pendant l'Eclipse, 1912

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,032.00
256 Giovanni Aurelio Augurello

[Poemata: Iambicus. Sermonum. Carminum. Iambicus super Additus]

Venice 1505 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,206.00
257 Pierre D'Avity

The Estates, Empires & Principallities of the World

London 1615 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 762.00
258 Sir John Beaumont

Bosworth-field: With a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems

London 1629 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 858.00
259 Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher

Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, with Sisterly Female Provenance

London 1679 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,286.00
260 Edward Benlowes

Theophila, or Loves Sacrifice

London 1652 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
261

Bible in English. Geneva Translation. The Bible. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke

London 1608 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,452.00
262

Bible Leaf in Latin

Italy circa 1460 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 825.00
263

British Heraldry. Printed Album with Alphabetical Index and Hand Drawn Coats of Arms

England 17th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,048.00
264 Charles-Etienne Briseux

Traite du Beau Essentiel dans les Arts

Paris 1752 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.00
265 Buonaccorso Buonaccorsi

Diploma Honoring Cardinal Buonoccorsi

Italy 1657 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,413.00
266 Thomas Cartwright

A Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses and Annotations on the New Testament

Leiden in the yeare 1618 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,056.00
267 Miguel de Cervantes

[Don Quixote in Portuguese]

Lisbon 1794 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 495.00
268 Martin Chemnitz

Examen, das ist, Erorterung dess Trientischen Concilij

Main 1576-1577 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 539.00
269 Angelus de Clavasio

Summa Angelica

Venice 1504 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 539.00
270 John Cotton

A Practicall Commentary or an Exposition with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle Generall of John

London 1658 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,079.00
271 Joseph Cox

A Faithful Narrative of the Most Wicked and Inhuman Transactions of that Bloody-Minded Gang of Thief-takers, alias Thief-makers

London [1756? date trimmed from title] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,397.00
272 Francesco Guicciardini

Piu Consigli et Avvertimenti in Materia di Republica et di Privata, Nuovamente Mandati in Luce

Paris 1576 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
273 Habington, William

The Queene of Arragon

London 1640 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,112.00
274 Ben Jonson

The Workes of Benjamin Jonson

London 1640 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,905.00
275 Philip Melanchthon

Corpus Doctrinae Christianae

Leipzig 1562 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 698.00
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