Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2717, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 276 | Andrea Palladio | The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books |
London | 1742 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 12,065.00 |
| 277 | Jean La Pautre | Oeuvres D'Architecture |
Paris | 1751 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 278 | Nicolaus Perottus [aka Niccolo Perotti] | Cornu Copiae Linguae Latinae |
Venice | 14 May 1489 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,318.00 |
| 280 | William Henry Pyne | The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle |
London | 1819 | USD 1,800.00 - 2,800.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 281 | Lazare Riviere | The Practice of Physick |
London | 1658 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 539.00 |
| 282 | Charles de Rochefort | Histoire Naturelle des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique |
Rotterdam | 1658 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 283 | Angelo Secchi, ed. | Memorie dell' Osservatorio del Collegio Romano |
Rome [and] Rome | 1859 and 1862-1872 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 284 | Sebastian Serlio | The First [-Fift] Booke of Architecture |
London | 1611 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,048.00 |
| 285 | Johann Sturm | De Amissa Dicendi Ratione Liri Duo |
Lyon | 1542 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 698.00 |
| 286 | John Taylor | All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet |
London | 1630 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 476.00 |
| 287 | Index Librorum Prohibitorum |
Italy | 1592-1666 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 6,350.00 | |
| 288 | Italian Medical Manuscripts |
Italy | 18th and 19th century | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 412.00 | |
| 289 | Latin Responsorial Songbook, Gradual. Graduale de Sanctis |
Rome | 1614 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,016.00 | |
| 290 | Sammelband of Hebrew Texts |
Continental Europe | late 17th-early 18th century | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 297.00 | |
| 291 | Book of Hours. Illuminated Prayerbook Manuscript in Latin |
Rome | mid- to late-15th century | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 | |
| 292 | Bible. New Testament in Latin and Hebrew |
Rome | 1668 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 293 | Patent of Nobility. Ejecutoria de Hidalguia |
Ecija | 1589 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,159.00 | |
| 294 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome |
Paris | [1514] | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,544.00 | |
| 295 | Cook's First, Second & Third Voyages |
London | 1773, 1777 & 1784 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,826.00 | |
| 296 | John Rickman | Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean |
London | 1781 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 297 | Lionel Walter Rothschild | The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighboring Islands: with a Complete History to Date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions |
London | 1893-1900 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 298 | Jean-Baptiste Tavernier | Collections of Travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies |
London | 1684 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,016.00 |
| 299 | Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland; or the Transformation, An American Tale |
New York | 1798 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 300 | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol |
London | 1843 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,366.00 |
| 301 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
Boston | 1850 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,159.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
