Sothebys: Music, Continental Manuscripts and Printed Books, Science and Medicine including The Autograph Manuscript of Kafka's 'The Trial', FRANZ,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 17, 1988 - November 17, 1988
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ambrosius | Milan | 1475 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,870.00 | |
| 2 | Bible | Nuremberg | 17 February 1483 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 15,400.00 | |
| 3 | BERTHOLDUS | HOROLOGIUM DEVOTIONIS | Basle | 1490 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,500.00 |
| 4 | BIBLE | Strassburg | 1480 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 | |
| 5 | BOOK OF HOURS | Paris | 1494-1520 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 1,100,000.00 | |
| 6 | BOOK OF HOURS | Paris | 17 April 1497 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 7 | BERNARDINUS DE BUSTI | MARIALE DE EXCELLE[N]TIIS REGINE CELI | Milan | 21 May 1493 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 8 | ROBERTUS CARACCIOLUS | SERMONES QUADRAGESIMALES DE POENITENTIA | Cologne | 1473 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 825.00 |
| 9 | MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO | EPISTOLAE AD FAMILIARES | Venice | 18 June 1487 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 990.00 |
| 10 | GUILLELMUS DURANTI | RATIONALE DIVINORUM OFFICIORUM | Lyons | c. 1485-1488 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 11 | GUILLERMUS | Parisiensis | Cologne | c.1480 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 660.00 |
| 12 | FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS DE ANTIQUITATE JUDAICA | DE ANTIQUITATE JUDAICA [translated by Ruffinus Aquilensis] | Venice | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,210.00 | |
| 13 | MARGARITA DAVITICA SEU EXPOSITIO PSALMORUM | 122 leaves (of 124, lacking 2 leaves of index at the end) | Augsburg | c.1475 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | 550.00 |
| 14 | CELSUS MAFFEUS | DISSUASORIA NE CHRISTIANI PRINCIPES ECCLESIASTICOS USURPENT CENSUS | Bologna | 27 June 1494 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 770.00 |
| 15 | METHODIUS | Basel | 5 January 1498 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,820.00 | |
| 16 | ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS-PRIVILEGIA & INDULGENTIE FRATRUM MINORUM ORDINIS SANCTI FRANCISCI | Florence | c.1495 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 495.00 | |
| 17 | PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO | METAMORPHOSEOS libri cum comento [by Raphael Regius] | Venice | 5 June 1493 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | PETRUS LOMBARDUS | LIBER SENTENTIARUM cum conclusionibus Henrici de Gorichen ac titulis questionem S. Thomae | Venice | 16 December 1489 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 902.00 |
| 19 | PSALTER, Latin | PSALTERIUM BEATI BRUNONIS EPISCOPI HERBIPOLENSIS | Nuremberg | 1497 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 858.00 |
| 20 | WERNER ROLEWINCK | FASCICULUS TE[M]P[ORUM] omnes antiquorum cronicas complecte[n]s | Strassburg | 1490 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 21 | STEFAN SCHATZBEHALTER-FRIDOLIN | SCHATZBEHALTER ODER SCHREIN DERWAHREN REICHTUMER DES HEILS UND EWIGER SELIGKEIT | Nuremberg | 8 November 1491 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 22 | HARTMANN SCHEDEL | DAS BUCH DER CHRONIKEN UND GESCHICHTEN | Nuremberg | 23 December 1493 |
GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,280.00 |
| 23 | LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA | CINCO LIBROS DE SENECA [translated by Alonso de Cartagena] | Seville | 28 May 1491 |
GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 9,350.00 |
| 24 | STRABO | Venice | 24 April 1494 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,540.00 | |
| 25 | JOHANNES SERMONETA | QUESTIONES SUPER APHORISMOS HIPPOCRATIS ET LIBROS TEGNI GALENI | Venice | 31 March 1498 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 26 | THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint | SUPER PRIMO LIBRO SENTENTIARUM | Venice | 21 June 1486 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 990.00 |
| 27 | JOHANN TRITHEIM | LIBER LUGUBRIS de statu et ruina monastici ordinis omnibus relligiosis ac devotis viris non minus utilis atque iocundus | Leipzig | 21 April 1493 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 880.00 |
| 28 | VIOLA SANCTORUM | 107 leaves (of 108, lacking bl) | Nuremberg | 1 July 1486 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 770.00 |
| 29 | VOCABULARIUS JURIS UTRIUSQUE | 152 leaves | Nuremberg | 1496 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 220.00 |
| 30 | BARTOLOMEO DA PISA ALBIZZI | OPUS AUREA & INEXPLICABILIS BONITATIS & CONTINENTIE | Milan | 1513 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 990.00 |
| 31 | LODOVICO ARIOSTO | ORLANDO FURIOSO . . . traduzido en romance castellano por el S. Don Hieronimo de Urrea | Venice | 1553 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 32 | BOOK OF HOURS use of Rome | Paris | 1509-1524 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 33 | BOOK OF HOURS use of Rome | Paris | 1549 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,080.00 | |
| 34 | SEBASTIAN BRANT | NAVIS STULTIFERA . . . ab Jacobo Lochero philomuso latinitate donata & demu[m] ab Jodoco Badio Ascensio vario carminu[m] genere no[n] sine eorundem familiari explanatione illustrata | Basel | 15 March 1507 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 35 | FEDERICO BORROMEO, Cardinal | DANTE ALIGHIERI | Venice | August 1515 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,090.00 |
| 36 | JEAN CALVIN | LIBELLUS DE COENA DOMINI [translated by Nicolas des Gallars] | Geneva | 1545 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 418.00 |
| 37 | PEDRO CHACON | DE TRICLINIO ROMANO Fulvi Ursini appendix | Rome | 1588 |
USD 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 38 | ASCANIO CONDIVI | VITA DI MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI | Rome | 16 July 1553 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 880.00 |
| 39 | COUNCIL OF TRENT-CANONES ET DECRETA sacrosancti oecumenici et generalis concilii Tridentini | 1564 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 40 | DANTE ALIGHIERI | Venice | 1536 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 880.00 | |
| 41 | MARTIN DEL RIO | DISQUISITIONUM MAGICARUM LIBRI SEX | Louvain | 1599-1600 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 418.00 |
| 42 | EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI | Bishop of Caesarea | Paris | 1544 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 43 | PRINCIPIO FABRICII | DELLE ALLUSIONI | Rome | 1588 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 770.00 |
| 44 | THEODORUS GAZA | GRAMMATICAE INSTITUTIONS LIBRI QUATUOR . . . Ioanne Vatello cocinnatore | Paris | 1521 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 45 | JOHANNES GEILER VON KAISERSBERG | DAS IRRIG SCHAFE [and 6 other works] | Strassburg | 1514 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 46 | HUBERT GOLTZ | VIVAE OMNIUM FERE IMPERATORUM IMAGINES | Antwerp | 1557 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 47 | BATTISTA GUARINI | FIRST EDITION | Venice | 1598 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 495.00 |
| 48 | HESYCHIUS | Florence | 1520 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 49 | HANS HOLBEIN | IMAGINES MORTIS | Cologne | 1557 |
USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | HANS HOLBEIN | ICONES HISTORIARUM VETERIS TESTAMENTI (French text by Gilles Corrozet) | Lyons | 1547 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,750.00 |
| 51 | JOHANNES HOST VON ROMBERCH | CONGESTORIUM ARTIFICIOSE MEMORIE | Venice | July 1533 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 52 | JOHANNES AB INDAGINE | CHIROMANTIA | Strassburg | 1541 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 715.00 |
| 53 | GUILLAUME DE LORRIS & JEAN DE MEUNG | LE ROMMANT DE LA ROSE nouvellement reveu et corrige oustre les precedentes impressions | Paris | 1538 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,430.00 |
| 54 | PAULUS MANUTIUS | ANTIQUITATUM ROMANORUM | Venice | 1557 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 440.00 |
| 55 | PHILIPPUS MOCENICUS | UNIVERSALES INSTITUTIONES AD HOMINUM PERFECTIONEM | Venice | 1581 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 56 | CLAUDE PARADIN | DEVISES HEROIQUES | Lyons | 1557 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 935.00 |
| 57 | PAUSANIAS | July 1516 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,640.00 | ||
| 58 | BATTISTA PITTONI | IMPRESE DI DIVERSI PRENCIPE | Venice | 1562 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 59 | PLUTARCH | Venice | March 1509 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,080.00 | |
| 60 | PLUTARCH | Venice | August 1519 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 605.00 | |
| 61 | PLUTARCH | Paris | 1575 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 385.00 | |
| 62 | ANTONIUS DE RAMPEGOLLIS | FIGURARUM BIBLIE OPUS EDUCIBILE ET PERUTILE | Cologne | 6 March 1505 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 63 | NICOLAUS REUSNER | EMBLEMATA partim ethica | Frankfurt | 1581 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,595.00 |
| 64 | STEPHANUS | De urbibus | Venice | January 1502 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 65 | GIOVANNI ANTONIO TAGLIENTE | Lo PRESENTE LIBRO INSEGNA LA VERA ARTE DELO EXCELLE[N]TE SCRIVERE de diverse varie sorti de litere lequali se fano p' geometrica ragione . . . | Venice | 1547 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 66 | ROBERTUS VALTURIUS | DE RE MILITARI LIBRIS XII | Paris | 1534 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,045.00 |
| 67 | FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS | DE RE MILITARI LIBRI QUATUOR [with works by Frontinus | Paris | 1535 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO | DE ARCHITECTURA traducto de latino in vulgare | Venice | March 1524 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 990.00 |
| 69 | JOHN WYCLIF | DIALOGORU[M] LIBRI Q[UA]TTUOR, FIRST EDITION | Sotheby | March 1909 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,320.00 |
| 70 | BIBLE | Danzig | 1632 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,750.00 | |
| 71 | BIBLE | Amsterdam | 1697 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 550.00 | |
| 72 | MARCO BOSCHINI | LA CARTA DEL NAVEGAR PITORESCO | Venice | 1660 |
USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 73 | CANDIDO BROGNOLO | MANUALE EXORCISTARUM AC PAROCHORUM | Lyons | 1658 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 74 | DIRK RAFAELZ CAMPHUYSEN | STICHTELYCKE RYMEN om te lesen ofte singhen | Amsterdam | 1647 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 528.00 |
| 75 | PHILIPPE DE COMMINES | LES MEMOIRES, engraved title | Leiden | 1648 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 76 | CATTARINO DOINO | RITRATTI DE SERMI PRINCIPI D'ESTE SIG" DE FERRARA con l'aggionta de loro fatti piu memorabili ridotti in sommario dal SR Antonio Cariola | Ferrara | 1641 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 77 | GABRIELLO FAERNO | CENTUM FABULAE EX ANTIQUIS SCRIPTORIBUS DELECTAE | Brussels | 1682 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 78 | CASPAR GEVARTS | POMPUS INTROITUS . . . FERDINANDI AUSTRIACI . . . A ANTWERP | Antwerp | 1642 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,155.00 |
| 79 | JAKOB GOLE | RENVERSEMENT DE LA MORALE CHRETIENNE par les desordres du monarchisme . . . Omstootinge der Christelycke Zeden | 1685 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 80 | ESIAS VON HULSEN | AIGENTLICHE WAHRHAFFTE DELINEATIO unnd Abbildung aller furstlichen Auffzug und Rutterspilen . . . in Stuetgartt . . . anno 1617 | Stuttgart | 1618 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| 81 | BENEDICT HAEFTEN | SCHOLA CORDIS | Antwerp | 1635 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 715.00 |
| 82 | JAN HERMANSZ KRUL | EERLYCKE TYTKORTING bestaende in verscheyde Rymen | Haarlem | 1634 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 83 | CARLO LABIA | HORTO SIMBOLICO che con gieroglifici di varii alberi e diverse piante rappresenta le virtu singulari d'alcuni santi | Venice | 1700 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 440.00 |
| 84 | CLAUDE MOLINET | LE CABINET DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE STE | Paris | 1692 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 85 | BLAISE PASCAL | LES PROVINCIALES OU les lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte a un provincial de ses amis & aux RR. PP. Jesuites sur le sujet de la morale & de la politique de ces peres | Paris] | 1657 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,540.00 |
| 86 | CESARE RIPA | ICONOLOGIE | Paris | 1644 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 990.00 |
| 87 | BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA | TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS | Hamburg | 1670 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,155.00 |
| 88 | DAVID TENIERS | THEATRUM PICTORIUM . . . picturae archetypae italicae | Antwerp | 1684 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 |
| 89 | JACQUES AUGUSTE DE THOU -JACOB GRETSER | VARIORUM PONTIFICUM ad Petrum Cnapheum Eutychianum epistolae decem | Ingolstadt | 1616 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 90 | JACOBUS TYPOTIUS | SYMBOLA DIVINA & HUMANA PONTIFICUM IMPERATORUM REGUM | Prague | 1601-1603 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 407.00 |
| 91 | NICOLAS VERRIEN | RECUEIL D'EMBLAMES, devises | Paris | 1696 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 92 | ALMANACH ROYAL | Paris | 1788 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 93 | ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT | OORSPRONKELYK EN VERMAARD KONSTRYK TEKENBOEK . . . in een gevoegelyke Ordre geschikt door Bernard Picart | Amsterdam | 1740 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 990.00 |
| 94 | MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS | ASMUS OMNIA SUA SECUM PORTANS | Karlsruhe | 1784-1790 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 95 | FRENCH REVOLUTION-LISTE GENERALE et tres-exacte . . . de tous les conspirateurs qui ont ete condamnes a mort par le tribunal revolutionnaire etabli . . . 17 aout 1792 | Paris, Marchand | 1793-1794 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 96 | HANS BURGKMAIR | KAISER MAXIMILIANS I TRIUMPH. Le triomphe de l'Empereur Maximilien I . . . dessiens de Hans Burgmair | Vienna | 1796 |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 6,050.00 |
| 97 | ULISSE GIUSEPPE GOZZADINI | PAGGUAGLIO DELLE NOZZE DELLE MAESTA DI FILIPPO QUINTO E DI ELISABETTA FARNESE . . . solennemente celebrate in Parma l'anno 1714 | Parma | 1717 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 715.00 |
| 98 | WAHRMUND Jocoserius | WOL-GESCHLIFFENER NARREN-SPIEGEL worinnen hundert und vierzehen Arten allerlay Narren ihr Eben Bild und ungestaltes Wesen ersehen | Freystadt [Berlin] | 1710 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,520.00 |
| 99 | ADAM FRIEDRICH KIRSCHER | NEU VERFERTIGTES UND IN ZWEY THEIL EINGERICHTETES KUNST HAUS ARZNEY UND WUNDER-BUCH | Nuremberg | 1719 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 100 | LONGUS. PASTORALIUM DE DAPHNIDE ET GHLOE . . . cum animadversionibus Johan.-Baptistae Casparis d'Ansse de Villoison | Paris | 1778 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
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