Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2683, New York

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Auction Date
October 24, 2024 - October 24, 2024
Page Size: 339 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152 Du Moulin, Pierre (1568-1658)

Defence of the Catholicke Faith: Contained in the Book of the Most Mightie and Most Gracious King James the First.

London 1610 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,000.00
153 Eastern Orthodox Church: Prayerbook in Old Church Slavonic.

Octavo format manuscript written on wove paper in black and red ink, with a large decorated headline on first leaf and large decorated initials; consisting of approximately 40 leaves of text written in a neat professional hand, followed by approximately

Unidentified Slavic Country 19th century. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 406.00
154 Euclid (fl. 300 BCE)

Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi ELementorum Geometricorum Libri XV.

Basel 1558 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,250.00
155 Flemish Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht.

Small format manuscript prayerbook written in the Flemish language consisting of 168 of 186 parchment leaves (lacking 18 leaves; 6 integral blanks present at the end) organized in 24 gatherings all but four in 8's; St. Odulph's name is included in the li

Utrecht, Netherlands, mid-15th century. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
156 Fulgentius Placiades, Fabius (fl. 5-6th century CE)

Enarrationes Allegoricae Fabularum.

Milan 23 April 1498. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,750.00
157 Gospels, Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Translation.

Quatuor D.N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones Perantiquae Duae, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica.

Dordrecht 1665 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
158 Grammont, Antoine-Pierre de (1614-1698) Archbishop of Besancon.

Breviarium Bisuntinum Pars Verna.

Besancon 1673 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 344.00
159 Guicciardini, Francesco (1483-1540)

Piu Consigli et Avvertimenti in Materia di Republica et di Privata, Nuovamente Mandati in Luce.

Paris 1576 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
160 Hartley, David (1705-1757), attributed.

Observations on the Progress to Happiness.

England, 1734/5. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
161 Henry V of England (1386-1422)

Parchment manuscript document issued under the authority of Henry V, text in Latin in brown ink in an English secretarial hand, 23 lines; cuff turned up along the bottom edge, the large wax royal seal attached and suspended by a strip of parchment; chipp

London circa 1420-1422. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,500.00
162 Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron (1583-1648)

The Life & Raigne of King Henry the Eighth.

London 1649 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 688.00
163 Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687)

Selenographia: Sive, Lunae Descriptio; atque Accurata, tam Macularum eius, quam Mottum Diversorum, aliarumque Omnium Vicissitudinum, Phasiumque, Telescopii ope Deprehensarum, Delineatio.

Danzig 1647 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
164 Homer, trans. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

The Iliad

London 1715-1726. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,000.00
165 Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Five large-format folio sheets printed on laid paper, some with decorative woodcuts and borders, printed in Latin and Italian, bearing a variety of admonishments regarding books and publishing including a few that include lists of specific banned books;

Italy circa 1596-1669. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,750.00
166 Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202)

Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae Abbatis Joachimi & Anselmi Episcopi Marsicani. Vaticinii overo Proetie dell'Abbate Gioachino & di Anselmo Vescovo di Marisco.

Venice 1589 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
167 Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)

Scrutinium Physico-Medicum. Contagiosae Luis, quae Pestis Dicitur.

Rome 1658 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,125.00
168 Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801)

The Conjuror's Magazine, or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror. Including a Superb Edition of Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy.

London 1792-1793. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 938.00
169 Manuscript in Latin Illustrated with Engraved Plates.

Philosophia Naturalis: Physica Regia.

Royal College of Douai circa 1757. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
170 Manuscript in Latin.

I Pars Philosophi. I AE Logica.

Tours 1768 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
171 Medieval Manuscript Leaf.

Single folio-format parchment leaf removed from a manuscript consisting of musical notation and lyrics, notes written on a four-line scale, text written in brown ink with initials in alternating red and blue with rubricated capital strokes and line-fill;

France circa 1350-1450. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,625.00
172 Medieval Manuscript Leaf.

Folio-format single parchment leaf with text in black ink in three columns with main text in central column and glosses in a smaller hand flanking; capital strokes and initials in red and blue, ruled in plummet, 53 lines, top line sitting on top of top-m

Continental 12th century. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
173 Middleton, Richard of (fl. 1249-1308)

Commentum super Quarto Libro Sententiarium Petri Lombardi.

Venice [not after 1477]. USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,250.00
174 Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1726)

Optice: Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres.

Lausanne & Geneva 1740 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,063.00
175 Nifo, Agostino (c. 1473-1538 or 1545)

Libellus de Rege Tyranno,

Naples 1526, 1523 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 18,750.00
176 Palm Leaf Manuscripts.

Kammavaca.

19th century. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 390.00
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