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
151 Sir Isaac Newton

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended

London 1728 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,651.00
152 Jofrancus Offusius

Ephemerides Anni Salutis Humanae 1557

Paris 1557 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
153 Thomas Oliver

A New Handling of the Planisphere, Divided into Three Sections

London 1601 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,604.00
154 David Origanus

Astrologia Naturalis

Marseille 1645 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
155 David Origanus

Ephemerides Novae Annorum XXXVI Incipientes ab Anno 1595

Frankfurt 1599 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,428.00
156 Blaise Francois Pagan

Les Tables Astronomiques du Comte de Pagan

Paris 1658 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
157 Blaise Francois Pagan

La Theorie des Planetes

Paris 1657 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
158 Janus Pannonius & Johannes Schoener

Two Quarto Works Bound Together

Basel 1518 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
159 Caspar Peucer

De Dimensione Terrae et Geometrice Numerandis Locorum

Wittenberg 1554 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 698.00
160 Caspar Peucer

Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu

Wittenberg 1553 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 889.00
161 Caspar Peucer

Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu

Wittenberg 1569 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
162 Caspar Peucer

Hypotyposes Orbium Coelestium

Strasbourg [1568] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
163 Caspar Peucer

Hypotheses Astronomicae, seu Theoriae Planetarum

Wittenberg 1571 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
164 Georg von Peurbach

Novae Theoricae Planetarum

Venice 1534 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 924.00
165 Georg von Peuerbach

Novae Theoricae Planetarum

Venice 1545 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 792.00
166 Georg von Peurbach

Theoricae Novae Planetarum

Cologne 1581 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 762.00
167 Georg von Peurbach

Tractatus super Propositiones Ptolemaei de Sinubus & Chordis

Nuremberg 1541 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,016.00
168 Alessandro Piccolomini

Della Sfera del Mondo

Venice 1553 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 698.00
169 Alessandro Piccolomini

De Sphaera Libri Quatuor, ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem Conversi

Basel 1568 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,079.00
170 Alessandro Piccolomini

La Prima Parte delle Theoriche overo Speculationi dei Planeti

Venice 1568 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 603.00
171 Alexandre-Gui Pingre

Etat du Ciel

Paris 1754 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 317.00
172 Petrus Pitatus [aka Pietro Pitati]

Almanach Novum ad Annos Undecim Incipiens ab Anno Christ

Venice 1552 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 285.00
173 Petrus Pitatus [aka Pietro Pitati]

Almanach Novum ab Anno Scilicet 1552 ad Annum 1556 Computatum

Tubingen 1553 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
174 Bartholomaeus Pitiscus

Trigonometriae

Frankfurt 1612 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
175 Pliny the Elder

Liber de Mundi Historia

Leipzig 1573 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 792.00
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