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Auction Date
January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025
Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Wood, Anthony.

Athenae Oxonienses. An exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had all their education in the University of Oxford.

London 1813-20. GBP 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
2 QUINTILIANUS (Marcus Fabius)

De institutione oratoria libri XII ... argumentisque doctissimi viri Petri Gallandielucidati. Eiusdem Declamationum liber..

Paris 1542 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
3 Baskerville Press.

Titi Lucretii Cari de Rerum Natura Libri Sex.

 Birmingham 1772 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
4 WELSER. Marcus (1558-1614).

Rerum Augusta Nar. Vindelicar(um) libri octo.

Venice, 1594 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
5 Bacon (Francis).

Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries.

Published after the authors death, by William Rawley. London 1635 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
6

L. Annaei Senecae, clarissimi stoici philosophi, necnon poetae accutissimi, Opus tragoediarum: aptissimisque figuris excultum, in quo tria millia errata atque inversa loca ... ad veterem lectionem nunc primum reformata. Cum expositoribus luculentissimis,

Venetiis, 1522 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
7

Tertullian: Opera Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginensis. Edited by Beatus Rhenanus.

Basel 1539 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
8 PLATO.

Opera quae extant omnia.

[Geneva] 1578 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
9 Caesar (Caius Julius)

The Commentaries..., translated by Clement Edmonds,

London 1655 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
10 Book of Kells (The);

Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis, 3 vol.

 Berne 1950 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
11 Huetius

Origenis In Sacras Scripturas Commentaria. Quaecunque Graece Reperiri Potuerunt.

Rothomagi 1668 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
12 Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall)

Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp; the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G., to which is Added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana.

 London 1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
13 Hegesippus, (Flavius, Josephus)

Egesippi historiographi inter scriptores ecclesiasticos vetustissimi, de rebus a Iudaeorum principibus in obsidione fortiter gestis, deque excidio Hierosolymorum, aliarumque civitatum adicentium, libri V..

Cologne, s.n. (in fine 1525 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
14 Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Opera. Ex Petri Victorii Codicibus maxima ex parte descripta Rhetorica; .Epistolae . Orationes . Philosophica . Petri Victorii Explicationes suarum in Ciceronem Castigationum.

 Paris 1538-1539. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
15 Joannes Philoponus

Commentaria super libros priorum resolutiorum Aristotelis.

Venice 1560 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
16

Die Bibel in Bildern. (240 Darstellungen, erfunden und auf Holz gezeichnet von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld).

 Leipzig, 1860 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
17 Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy

Oeuvre de Mr de Marcenay de Ghuy, Ecuyer, peintre et graveur...

Paris, c1800 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
18 Themistius.

Orationes XXXIII. E quibus tredecim nunc primum in lucem editae.

Paris 1684 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
19 Occo, Adolf.

Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata to Pompejo Magno ad Heraclium.

 Milan, 1730 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
20 DANET, Pierre.

Magnum Dictionarium Latinum et Gallicum.

Lugduni [Lyon], 1740 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
21 Isocrates.

Orationes et epistolae. Cum latina interpret. H. Wolfii, ab ipso postremum recognita. Henr. Steph. in Isocratem Diatribae VII (...). Gorgiae et Aristidis quaedam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero interprete.

Geneva, 1593 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
22 Dio, Cassius

Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae Libri XLVI, Partem Integri Partim Mutili, Partim Excerpti.

Aubrii, Hanau 1606 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
23 Hippocrate (Cornarius, Janus)

Hippocratis Coi Medicorvm omnivm longe principis, opera quae ad nos extant omnia.

 Basileae, 1558 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
24 Tacitus, Cajus Cornelius; Velleius Paterculus

C. Cornelii Tactiti et C. Velleii Paterculi Scripta Quae Exstant: Recognita, emaculata: Additique Commentarii copiosissimi.

 Paris 1608 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
25 Titus Livius.

Todas las Decadas de Tito Livio Paduano que hasta al presente se hallaron y fueron impressas en latin, traduzidas en romance castellano [por Francisco de Enzinas]. Agora nuevamente reconoscidas y emendadas y anadidas de mas libros sobre la vieja traslacio

 Colonia Agrippina [1553] GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
  • <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 9. Visscher's Superb Double-Hemisphere World Map with Representations of the Elements (1658). Est. $4,750 - $6,000
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    Lot 58. One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1554). Est. $5,000 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 745. A Complete Example of Ortelius' Atlas of Ancient Geography (1624). Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 73. First English Map to Show California as an Island (1625). Est. $16,000 - $19,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 156. Bachmann's Dramatic View of the Mid-Atlantic Region (1861). Est. $1,800 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 741. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776). Est. $9,000 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 695. The First Printed Map Devoted to the Pacific (1589). Est. $8,000 - $9,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 733. Superb Image of the Presentation of Jesus in Hand Color (1502). Est. $700 - $850
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 52. Produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch to Encourage Surrender (1945). Est. $200 - $230
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