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Lot 2

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Tulli De officis amicitia & senectute. Paradoxa eiusdem, [Venice], [Joannes Tacuinus, de Tridino], [20th February, 1506].

Lot 5

Pantaleon (Heinrich) Prosopographiae herorum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniæ, 3 parts in 1, first edition, Basel, Nicolaus Brylinger, 1565-1566.

 

Lot 7

Astronomy.- Gassendi (Pierre) Tychonis Brahei, equitis dani, astronomorum coryphaei, vita. Accessit Nicolai Copernici, Georgii Peurbachii, & Joannis Regiomontani, astronomorum celebrium, second edition, The Hague, Adrian Vlacq, 1655.

 

Lot 8

Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, first edition, Netherlands, 1720.

 

Lot 9

French Royalty.- Anselme (Pere) Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, 9 vol., third (and best) edition, with various documents inserted signed by Louis XI, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, Paris, Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1726-33.

 

Lot 10

Military.- Lemau de la Jaisse (Pierre) Carte generale de la monarchie francoise, contenant l'histoire militaire depuis Clovis premier Roy Chretien, jusqu'a la quinzieme annee accomplie du Regne de Louis XV, Paris, no printer, 1733.

 

Lot 11

Woman writer.- Diderot.- [Puisieux (Madeleine de)] Zamor et Almanzine, ou L'inutilité de l'esprit et du bon sens, rare first edition, Amsterdam, Hochereau the Elder, 1755.

 

Lot 12

Binding fragment.- Losinga (Herbert de, Bishop of Norwich) [Sermon], rare manuscript fragment, [first half of the 13th century].

Lot 13

Catalan Chirograph.- Geraldus S. Johannis and his wife Arsendis relinquish the manses of Lom, Sabides and Muntpestler to Abbot Roman and the monks of Sant Cugat on condition that their son Arbert be received as a monk without further endowment, Barcelona, 18 December, 1158.

 

Lot 14

Somerset, Wedmore.- [List of Wills and Charters relating to the Bytheputt/Bydeput family of Wedmore 1342-1447], manuscript in Latin, on vellum, latest date 1447.

 

Lot 15

John II (King of Aragon & Navarre) Letter signed verso, absolving Franciscus, of Burgos from any duties to his father and town, so that he may serve the King, 9 August, Barcelona, 1455.

 

Lot 16

Missal, Latin. 2 leaves from a Missal, manuscript in Latin, in a late gothic bookhand, on vellum, ?France], [c. 1500]; and another, 13 leaves, (15).

 

Lot 17

Wales.- Tintern Abbey.- Gloucestershire, Woolaston.- Wyche (Richard, last Abbot of Tintern Abbey) Record that at the court of Richard Wyche, abbot of Tintern, held at Wolaston before Richard Herbert his representative and Sir William Herbert his steward and Thomas Deane cellarer, there came William Gethyn of Tintern, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 13 lines, seal of the chancery of Tintern appended, 1523.

 

 

 

 

Lot 18

Tudor Taxation.- The reasons to prove that the loane is moste discontent full the people than the Subsidie bee, [c. 1553] § Notes for the monnye of the subsidie in the comons house, 1575 § The copie of the commission for the taxing and leviuinge of the second paymt of one intro subsidy graunted Ano Regni... septimo, [docket title], superscribed at foot, "Phelips", [Sir Edward Phelips], 1609/10, manuscripts; and 14 other documents, mostly relating to taxation (17).

Lot 19

Spain.- Sixtus IV (Pope) Este es un traslado bien y fielmente facado de unas letras Apostolicas y Bulla de la creacion y erection del de foelice recordacion de Sixto Papa Quarto en favor de la iglesia mayor y collegial de señor sant Antolin de la villa de Medina del Campo, text in Spanish and Latin, drop-head title, 2 woodcut decorative initials, [?Medina del Camp], [Valladolid], no printer, 1556; and 5 others, similar, 1556-88.

 

Lot 20

Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor.- Hatton (Sir Christopher) & Cecil (Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, courtier and soldier) Release by Sir Thomas Cecil & Christopher Hatton Privy Councillor and Vice Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth for the rectory, lands and living of Campsall, Yorkshire to Robert Freke, D.s. "Thomas Cecil", manuscript in Latin, on vellum, wax seal with fine impression, 1579.

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