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Lot 1

Printed on vellum.- [Book of Hours, use of Paris], [Paris], [Philippe Pigouchet, for Simon Vostre], [?late 1490s]

Estimate: £800 - 1,200

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Lot 2

Hortulus Animae, Strassburg, Johann Knobloch, 1509.

Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500

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Lot 3

Erasmus (Desiderius) Moriae Encomium. Erasmi Roterodami declamatio, second edition, Strasbourg, in aedibus Matthias Schürer, August 1511.

Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000

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Lot 4

Numismatics.- Fulvio (Andrea) Illustrium imagines, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1517, bound with another, together 2 works in 1.

Estimate: £400 - 600

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5 Sir William Pickering’s copy.- Appianus, Alexandrinus Des guerres des Rommains, Livres XI, scarce edition, later gifted by a 17th century woman, Paris, [

Lot 5

Sir William Pickering’s copy.- Appianus, Alexandrinus Des guerres des Rommains, Livres XI, scarce edition, later gifted by a 17th century woman, Paris, [René Avril for] Guillaume Cavellat, 1552.

Estimate: £600 - 800

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Lot 6

Maraffi (Damiano) Le Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi Toscani, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1554

Estimate: £400 - 600

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Lot 7

Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) De la vie des XII Cesars, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1556

Estimate: £400 - 600

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8 Annotated.- [Melanchthon (Philipp) & Johann Bugenhagen.] Den rette Ordinants som paa Herre dagen i Ottense bleff offuerseet oc beseglet, Efverdt Wiltfang's

Lot 8

Annotated.- [Melanchthon (Philipp) & Johann Bugenhagen.] Den rette Ordinants som paa Herre dagen i Ottense bleff offuerseet oc beseglet, Efverdt Wiltfang's copy with his annotations, Copenhagen, Henrich Waldkirch, 1617.

Estimate: £500 - 700

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9 de Bisschop (Jan) Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum; Signorum Veterm Icones, 2 suites bound in 1, Amsterdam, Nicolaes Visscher II, c.1670 [but possibly

Lot 9

de Bisschop (Jan) Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum; Signorum Veterm Icones, 2 suites bound in 1, Amsterdam, Nicolaes Visscher II, c.1670 [but possibly later]

Estimate: £600 - 800

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10 Law.- Altamitano (Joseph Cerbantes) Iuridico Informe por la Iusticia de el B. D. Rafael Ome, Capitan D. Manuel Sarmiento ... en la causa, q ue de oficio se ha

Lot 10

Law.- Altamitano (Joseph Cerbantes) Iuridico Informe por la Iusticia de el B. D. Rafael Ome, Capitan D. Manuel Sarmiento ... en la causa, q ue de oficio se ha contra ellos seguido, [Manila], [25th November, 1679].

Estimate: £800 - 1,200

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