Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 27th May 2021 | 11:00 am | Lots:
LOT 1
Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, edited by Johannes Andreas de Buxiis, Bishop of...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Attic orators.- Oratores Graeci. Orationes infrascriptorum rhetorum, vol.2 only (of 3), [Venice], [Aldus Manutius & Andrea Torresani], [April, 1513].
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LOT 2
Attic orators.- Oratores Graeci. Orationes infrascriptorum rhetorum, vol.2 only (of 3),...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,500
![Sophocles. Commentarii in septem tragedias, editio princeps, [Rome], [Zacharias Kalliergis] at the press of the Greek Gymnasium, 1518.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/49a43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/fefff93d-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Sophocles. Commentarii in septem tragedias, editio princeps, [Rome], [Zacharias Kalliergis] at the press of the Greek Gymnasium, 1518.")
LOT 3
Sophocles. Commentarii in septem tragedias, editio princeps, [Rome], [Zacharias Kalliergis] at...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £7,000
![Bible, Greek & Latin.- Novum testamentum omne, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, [Basel], [Johann Froben], [March, 1519].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/92a43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/880dbd31-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible, Greek & Latin.- Novum testamentum omne, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, [Basel], [Johann Froben], [March, 1519].")
LOT 4
Bible, Greek & Latin.- Novum testamentum omne, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, [Basel], [Johann...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £13,000
![Sophocles. Tragoediae septem [graece], [Florence], [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1522.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/38a43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/bafff93d-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Sophocles. Tragoediae septem [graece], [Florence], [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1522.")
LOT 5
Sophocles. Tragoediae septem [graece], [Florence], [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1522.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £3,200
![Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke [graece], the first Greek NT printed in France, Paris, Simon de Colines, 1534.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/22a53c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/cffff93d-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke [graece], the first Greek NT printed in France, Paris, Simon de Colines, 1534.")
LOT 6
Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke [graece], the first Greek NT printed in France, Paris, Simon de...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £1,400
![Bible, Hebrew.- Quinque libri legis, bound in 5 vol., [Paris], [Robert Estienne], 1544-1546; and 5 others (10)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/1aa53c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/c4fff93d-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible, Hebrew.- Quinque libri legis, bound in 5 vol., [Paris], [Robert Estienne], 1544-1546; and 5 others (10)")
LOT 7
Bible, Hebrew.- Quinque libri legis, bound in 5 vol., [Paris], [Robert Estienne], 1544-1546; and 5...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
LOT 8
Conrad Peutinger's copy.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta, Novum Testamentum, first...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
![Bible, Greek.- , Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, first edition, second issue (with November in colophon), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/a1a43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/9a0dbd31-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible, Greek.- , Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, first edition, second issue (with November in colophon), Paris, Robert Estienne, 1546")
LOT 9
Bible, Greek.- , Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, first edition, second...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 10
Michael Wodhull's copy.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta. Novum Testamentum, Paris,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 11
Bible, Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, 2 vol.,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £9,500
![Bible Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, [Geneva], Robert Estienne, 1551.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8ba43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/7f0dbd31-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, [Geneva], Robert Estienne, 1551.")
LOT 12
Bible Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, [Geneva],...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 13
Bible, Syriac.- , Kethabha dh-Ewangeliyon Kaddisha... Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Jesu...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £9,000
LOT 14
Lord Grenville's copy.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catullus Tibullus Propertius, Antwerp,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £450
![Thucydides. De Bello Peloponesiaco libri VIII, [Geneva], second Estienne edition, Henri Estienne, 1588.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/72a43c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/d9be9b2b-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Thucydides. De Bello Peloponesiaco libri VIII, [Geneva], second Estienne edition, Henri Estienne, 1588.")
LOT 15
Thucydides. De Bello Peloponesiaco libri VIII, [Geneva], second Estienne edition, Henri...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 16
Bible, Hebrew.- Esrim Ve'arbah, rare at auction, Basel, Konrad Waldkirch, 1611.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 17
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae Deorum, with additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,000
LOT 18
Fürstenberg copy.- Economics.- Platea (Franciscus de) Opus restitutionum, usurarum,...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £4,800
![Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, [Vicenza], Leonardis Achates de Basilea, [c.1482].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/5cbd3c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/4e6d365e-5e91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, [Vicenza], Leonardis Achates de Basilea, [c.1482].")
LOT 18A
Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, [Vicenza], Leonardis Achates de Basilea,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 19
Lincolnshire Abbot's Sermons.- Gilbertus de Hoilandia. Sermones super Cantica canticorum,...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 20
Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius), Pope Pius II. Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 21
Logic.- Tartaret (Pierre) Expositio magistri Petri Tartereti in summulas Petri Hyspani summa...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £480
![Pontanus (Johannes Jovianus) Opera, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1505.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/17a73c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/0fb6df75-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Pontanus (Johannes Jovianus) Opera, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1505.")
LOT 22
Pontanus (Johannes Jovianus) Opera, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1505.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £2,200
![Erasmus (Desiderius) Veterum maxime insignium Paroemiarum. i. adagioru[m] collectanea rursus recognita atque aucta, rare fourth edition, Paris, J. Barbier, 150](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f2dec319-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/9cf86511-6091-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Erasmus (Desiderius) Veterum maxime insignium Paroemiarum. i. adagioru[m] collectanea rursus recognita atque aucta, rare fourth edition, Paris, J. Barbier, 150")
LOT 23
Erasmus (Desiderius) Veterum maxime insignium Paroemiarum. i. adagioru[m] collectanea rursus...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: £7,000
![Aristotle & Domestic economy.- Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques) In Politica Aristotelis introductio [and] Xenophon. Economicus, first edition, [Paris],](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/1678bc15-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/bf7f53c4-5091-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Aristotle & Domestic economy.- Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques) In Politica Aristotelis introductio [and] Xenophon. Economicus, first edition, [Paris],")
LOT 24
Aristotle & Domestic economy.- Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques) In Politica Aristotelis...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £850
![[Mülich (Johann Adolph)], "Joannes Adelphus". Margarita Facetiarum. Alfonsi Aragonum Regis Vafredicta Proverbia Sigismundi & Friderici terti](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/bcdec319-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e82f390b-6091-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "[Mülich (Johann Adolph)], \"Joannes Adelphus\". Margarita Facetiarum. Alfonsi Aragonum Regis Vafredicta Proverbia Sigismundi & Friderici terti")
LOT 25
[Mülich (Johann Adolph)], "Joannes Adelphus". Margarita Facetiarum. Alfonsi Aragonum Regis...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Dante Alighieri. () [Divina Commedia] Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta, [Venice], [House of Aldus Manutius](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/90bb3c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/21cff83f-5e91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Dante Alighieri. () [Divina Commedia] Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta, [Venice], [House of Aldus Manutius")
LOT 26
Dante Alighieri. () [Divina Commedia] Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,600
![Luther (Martin).- Eck (Johannes) & Andeas Karlstadt. Disputatio excellentium. D. doctoru[m] Johannis Eccij & Andre[a]e Carolostadij q[uæ] cepta es](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/c4dec319-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f32f390b-6091-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Luther (Martin).- Eck (Johannes) & Andeas Karlstadt. Disputatio excellentium. D. doctoru[m] Johannis Eccij & Andre[a]e Carolostadij q[uæ] cepta es")
LOT 27
Luther (Martin).- Eck (Johannes) & Andeas Karlstadt. Disputatio excellentium. D. doctoru[m]...
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: £6,000
![Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) [Pharsalia], second Aldine edition, Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andrea Torresani, July 1515.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/82a23c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/2e64bff8-5b91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) [Pharsalia], second Aldine edition, Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andrea Torresani, July 1515.")
LOT 28
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) [Pharsalia], second Aldine edition, Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andrea...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £700
![Chatsworth copy.- Aristophanes. Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis, [Florence], [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1525.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/32a23c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/590ff8fe-5b91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Chatsworth copy.- Aristophanes. Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis, [Florence], [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1525.")
LOT 29
Chatsworth copy.- Aristophanes. Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis, [Florence], [Heirs of...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Erasmus (Desiderius).- Hieronymus (Saint) Opus epistolarum, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, [Lyon], [Jean Crespin], 1528; and a censored of the same work in a co](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/27a73c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/21b6df75-5c91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Erasmus (Desiderius).- Hieronymus (Saint) Opus epistolarum, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, [Lyon], [Jean Crespin], 1528; and a censored of the same work in a co")
LOT 30
Erasmus (Desiderius).- Hieronymus (Saint) Opus epistolarum, edited by Desiderius Erasmus,...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,800
![Britain.- Giovio (Paolo) and George Lily. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, et Orchadum, first edition, [Venice], [Michele Tramezzino], 1548.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/fd77bc15-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f67e53c4-5091-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Britain.- Giovio (Paolo) and George Lily. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, et Orchadum, first edition, [Venice], [Michele Tramezzino], 1548.")
LOT 31
Britain.- Giovio (Paolo) and George Lily. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, et...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 32
Binding.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta; Nouum...Testamentum, magnificent early 17th...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £38,000
![Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, first illustrated edition, with annotations, Paris, Guillaume Cave](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/667843c8-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/3e1e4eaf-3091-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, first illustrated edition, with annotations, Paris, Guillaume Cave")
LOT 33
Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, first...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 34
Emblemata.- Yates-Thompson copy.- Coustau (Pierre) Pegma, cum narrationibus philosophicis, first...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 35
Franco (Pierre) Petit traité, contenant une des parties principales de chirurgie, laquelle les...
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000
Hammer Price: £18,000
![Lady Jane Grey.- [Rosso (Giulio Raviglio)] Historia delle Cose Occorse nel Regno d'Inghliterra in Materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la Morte di Odoardo](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/dde4c319-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/17291ada-6091-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Lady Jane Grey.- [Rosso (Giulio Raviglio)] Historia delle Cose Occorse nel Regno d'Inghliterra in Materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la Morte di Odoardo")
LOT 36
Lady Jane Grey.- [Rosso (Giulio Raviglio)] Historia delle Cose Occorse nel Regno d'Inghliterra...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
![Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque, second edition, Basel, Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna, [1561].
&nbs](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/22b53c18-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ba102b9d-5d91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque, second edition, Basel, Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna, [1561].
&nbs")
LOT 37
Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque, second...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 38
Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) De Concilio Liber, Rome, Paulus Manutius, 1562 bound with Pole...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 39
Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri sex, contemporary limp vellum, Paris, Guillaume...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 40
Scepticism.- Sextus Empiricus. Adversus mathematicos..., 2 parts in 1, contemporary limp vellum,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,600
![Plutarch. Quae extant opera, 7 vol., Ugo Foscolo's copy, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/0932f416-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/051f2260-5891-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Plutarch. Quae extant opera, 7 vol., Ugo Foscolo's copy, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572.")
LOT 41
Plutarch. Quae extant opera, 7 vol., Ugo Foscolo's copy, [Geneva], Henri Estienne,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,000
![Pantaleon (Heinrich) Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, first edition, Basel, [Thomas Guarinus], 1581.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/7077d909-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/1e337dab-5f91-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Pantaleon (Heinrich) Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, first edition, Basel, [Thomas Guarinus], 1581.")
LOT 42
Pantaleon (Heinrich) Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, first...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 43
Jesuits.- Constituciones y reglas comunes a todas las congregaciones de la virgen de nuestra...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,300
LOT 44
Astrology.- Manilius (Marcus) Astronomicon, edited by Joseph Scaliger, second edition, Leiden,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 45
Bolla (Bartolomaeo) Thesaurus proverbiorum italico-bergamasco-urum rarissimorum, Frankfurt,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 46
Curabelle (Jacques) Examen des oeuvres de Sr. Desargues, first edition, Paris, M. & I. Henault,...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 47
Kircher (Athanasius) Ars magna lucis et umbrae, first edition, Rome, Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus,...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £5,000
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