Early Printing and English Books to 1640

Auction 20412
2 Oct 2012, starting at 14:00 BST.
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GREGORY I, Saint and Pope. Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum.II: BONAVENTURA:Legenda Minor and Legenda Maior of ...
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HERODOTUS. Libri novem, EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE GREEK TEXT, Aldus, 1502; bound with 2 others
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BALDUS de Perusio, also known as 'Baldus de Ubaldis'. Lectura super usibus Feudorum; LAPI de Florencia, better known as LAPO ...
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PROMPTUARIUM CLERICORUM. Manuscript on vellum, [England, c.1230-1250]

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186 NAZARI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre, 1519 £2,500
€2,923
US$ 3,767
187 NICOLAUS de Ausmo. Supplementum Summae Pisanellae et Canones poenitentiales fratris Astensis, 1476 £5,625
€6,577
US$ 8,477
188 NICOLAUS de Lyra. Postilla super Epistolas Pauli, Mantua, 1478 £4,375
€5,116
US$ 6,593
189 NIDER (JOHANNES) De morali lepra, not after 1475 £3,250
€3,800
US$ 4,898
190 NONIUS MARCELLUS. De proprietate latini sermonis, Venice, 1498 £1,625
€1,900
US$ 2,449
191 OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Fasti [Commentary by Paulus Marsus], Milan, 1483 £5,250
€6,139
US$ 7,912
192 OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Libri de arte amandi et de remedio amoris, Venice, 1518 £2,125
€2,484
US$ 3,202
193 PANEGYRICI. Panegyrici veteres Latini, edited by Franciscus Puteolanus, [Milan, Antonius Zarotus, c.1482] £2,250
€2,631
US$ 3,390
194 PANORMITANUS DE TUDESCHIS (NICOLAUS) Lectura super V libris Decretalium, vol. 6 (of 6), Venice, 1477 £4,750
€5,554
US$ 7,158
195 PELBARTUS de Themeswar. Sermones Pomerii quadragesimales, Hagenau, 1499 £1,375
€1,607
US$ 2,072
196 PLATEA (FRANCISCUS DE) Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum, Venice, 1474 £1,062
€1,242
US$ 1,601
197 POLITIANUS (ANGELUS) Miscellaneorum centuria prima, Florence, 1489 £10,000
€11,693
US$ 15,071
198 PRISCIANUS. Opera [edited by Benedictus Brognolus], Venice, 1492 £812
€950
US$ 1,224
199 PROPERTIUS (SEXTUS AURELIUS) Elegiae [with commentary by Philippus Beroaldus], Bologna, 1487 £2,750
€3,215
US$ 4,144
200 PROSPER AQUITANUS. De vita contemplativa. De vita actuali, Speyer, 1487 £875
€1,023
US$ 1,318
201 PROSPER AQUITANUS. De vita contemplativa. De vita actuali, 1487 £1,875
€2,192
US$ 2,825
202 QU'RAN. De Arabische Alkoran, door de Zarazijinsche en de Turcksche Prophete Mahometh, 1641 £1,875
€2,192
US$ 2,825
205 RHAZES, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya Al-Razi Liber nonus ad Almansorem, 1497 £9,375
€10,962
US$ 14,129
206 RICHARDUS de Sancto Victore. De arca mystica; De duodecim patriarchis, Basle, 1494 £1,625
€1,900
US$ 2,449
207 RODERICUS Zamorensis. Compendiosa historia Hispanica, [Rome, c.1470] £10,625
€12,424
US$ 16,012
208 ROLEWINCK (WERNER) Fasciculus temporum, 1484 £3,500
€4,092
US$ 5,274
209 ROSENHAYM (PETRUS DE) Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum, 1499 £5,750
€6,723
US$ 8,665
210 SACROBOSCO (JOHANNES) Sphaera mundi, Venice, 1482 £3,125
€3,654
US$ 4,709
211 SALICETO (GUILLEMUS DE) De salute corporis. Daran: Johannes de Turrecremata: Tractatus de salute animae, Leipzig, 1495 £8,750
€10,232
US$ 13,187
212 SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS) Opera, 1481 £3,500
€4,092
US$ 5,274
213 SCHOONHOVIUS (FLORENTIUS) Emblemata... partim moralia, partim etiam civilia, 1618, bound with Burgundia, 1639 £625
€730
US$ 941
214 SCOTUS (MICHAEL) Liber physiognomiae, 1477 £1,250
€1,461
US$ 1,883
215 SIMONETA (JOHANNES) Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae [edited by Franciscus Puteolanus], Milan, between 1481 and 1482 £3,500
€4,092
US$ 5,274
216 SOCINUS (MARIANUS) Repetitio super titulo de litis contestatione, Siena, 1492 £5,250
€6,139
US$ 7,912
217 SOLINUS (GAIUS JULIUS) Polyhistor, sive De mirilibus mundi, Brescia, J. Britannicus, 1490 [but Venice, after 1500] £1,250
€1,461
US$ 1,883
218 SPINOLA (JACOBUS) Oratio gratulatoria ad Alexandrum VI nomine Genuensium habita, [Rome, Eucharius Silber, after 12 Dec. 1492] £937
€1,096
US$ 1,412
219 STATIUS (PUBLIUS PAPINIUS) Opera, Venice, 1483 £4,750
€5,554
US$ 7,158
220 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (GAIUS) Vitae XII Caesarum [Commentary by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus], Venice, 1490 £2,750
€3,215
US$ 4,144
221 SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (GAIUS) Vitae XII Caesarum [commentary and additions by Philippus Beroaldus], Bologna, 1493 £1,000
€1,169
US$ 1,507
222 SULPITIUS VERULANUS (JOHANNES) De versuum scansione, [Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio, about 1481] £1,625
€1,900
US$ 2,449
223 SYBILLA (BARTHOLOMEUS) Speculum peregrinarum questionum, 1516 £1,187
€1,388
US$ 1,789
225 THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint Ennarationes, quas catenam vere auream dicunt, in quatuor Evangelia, pigskin binding, 1577 £875
€1,023
US$ 1,318
226 TREBELLIUS POLLIO and others [Opera], Paris, Estienne, 1544 £4,250
€4,969
US$ 6,405
228 VEEN (OTTO) Amorum emblemata, figuris Aeneis incisa, 1608 £1,375
€1,607
US$ 2,072
229 VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, 1486 £1,125
€1,315
US$ 1,695
230 VORAGINE (JACOBUS DE) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, Strassburg, 1490 £5,000
€5,846
US$ 7,535
231 BANCROFT (RICHARD) A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie, Being the First Sunday in the Parlement, Anno. 1588, 1588 £750
€877
US$ 1,130
232 BANISTER (JOHN) The Historie of Man, Sucked from the Sappe of the Most Approved Anathomistes, in this Present Age, 1578 £8,750
€10,232
US$ 13,187
233 BECON (THOMAS) The Worckes... Now Finished this Present of Our Lord, 1564, 3 vol. bound in 2, 1564 £6,000
€7,016
US$ 9,042
234 BIBLE, 1538, in English and Latin, Coverdale's version [The Newe Testament both Latine and Englyshe] £12,500
€14,617
US$ 18,838
235 BIBLE, 1541, in English, Great Bible version [The Byble in Englysh] £6,875
€8,039
US$ 10,361
236 BIBLE, 1549, in English, Matthew's version [The Byble, Whych is All the Holy Scripture: In Whych are Contayned the Olde and Newe Testament], [1549] £2,000
€2,338
US$ 3,014
237 BIBLE, 1549, in English, Matthew version, 1549 £3,000
€3,508
US$ 4,521
238 BIBLE, 1551, in English, Taverner's and Tyndale's version The Byble, That is to Say, al the Holy Scripture Conteined in the Olde & New Testament, Faythfully Set Forth According to a Coppy of Thoams Matthewes £4,750
€5,554
US$ 7,158
239 BIBLE, 1551, in English, Tyndale version [The New Testame[n]t of Our Saviour Christ] £16,250
€19,002
US$ 24,490
240 BIBLE, 1574, in English, Bishops' version £2,250
€2,631
US$ 3,390
241 BIBLE, 1601, in English, Bishops' and Rheims versions. The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes, 1601 £1,375
€1,607
US$ 2,072
242 BIBLE, 1613-1611, in English, Authorised version [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE" BIBLE, [1613-1611] £4,750
€5,554
US$ 7,158
243 BIBLE, 1639, in English, Authorised version. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New, fine binding, 1639[-1613] £1,500
€1,754
US$ 2,260
244 BIBLE, in English FRY (FRANCIS) A Description of the Great Bible, 1539, and the Six Editions of Cranmer's Bible, 1540 and 1541, Printed by Grafton and Whitchurch... 1865 £3,750
€4,385
US$ 5,651
245 BLUNDEVILLE (THOMAS) The Foure Chiefest Offices Belonging to Horsemanship, 4 parts in one, 1597 £3,750
€4,385
US$ 5,651
246 BODLEIAN LIBRARY Catalogus librorum. Bibliothecae publicae quam vir ornatissimus Thomas Bodleius eques auratus in Academia Oxoniensi, 1605 £23,750
€27,772
US$ 35,793
247 BRADFORD (JOHN) The Hurt of Hearyng Masse: Sette Forthe by the Faithfull Servant of God, and Constant Martire of Christ Jhon [sic] Bradford, When He Was Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1580 £1,625
€1,900
US$ 2,449
248 BROUGHTON (HENRY) Daniel His Chaldie Visions and His Ebrew, 1596 £1,125
€1,315
US$ 1,695
249 CECIL (WILLIAM, 1st Baron Burghley)] The Copie of a Letter Sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza Ambassadour in France for the King of Spaine, 1588 £6,875
€8,039
US$ 10,361
250 COVERDALE (MILES) Certain most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable Letters of Such True and Holy Martyrs of God, 1654 £4,000
€4,677
US$ 6,028
251 DRAYTON (MICHAEL) [Poly-Olbion] A Chorographicall Description of All the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, 2 parts in one vol., 1622 £8,125
€9,501
US$ 12,245
252 EDGAR (THOMAS) The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Women, 1632 £5,625
€6,577
US$ 8,477
253 FOXE (JOHN) [The First [-Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History, Contayning the Actes [and] Monumentes of Thinges Passed in Every Kinges Time], 2 vol. in one, 1576 £1,125
€1,315
US$ 1,695
254 GARDINER (STEPHEN, Bishop of Winchester) A Traictise Declaryng and Plainly Provying, that the Pretensed Marriage of Priestes, and Professed Persones, is No Mariage, but Altogether Unlawful... by Thomas Martin, 1554 £2,250
€2,631
US$ 3,390
255 GWALTHER (RUDOLF) A Hundred, Threescore and Fiftene Homelyes or Sermons, Uppon the Actes of the Apostles, Written by Saint Luke, 1572 £1,375
€1,607
US$ 2,072
257 HALL (JOSEPH)] The Honor of the Married Clergie, Maintayned Against the Malicious Challenges of C.E. Masse-priest, 1620 £937
€1,096
US$ 1,412
258 HEALE (WILLIAM)] An Apologie for Women. Or an Opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his Assertion... That it is Lawfull for Husbands to Beate their Wives, Oxford, 1609 £3,750
€4,385
US$ 5,651
259 HENRY VIII, King of England. A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for Any Christian Man Set Furthe by the Kynges Maiestie of Englande &c., 1543 £2,375
€2,777
US$ 3,579
260 HIC-MULIER; OR THE MAN-WOMAN Hic Mulier: or, the Man-Woman: Being a Medicine to Cure the Coltish Disease of the Coltish Disease of the Staggers in the Masculine-Feminines, 1620 £1,875
€2,192
US$ 2,825
261 HOWARD (HENRY, Earl of Northampton)] A Defensative Against the Poyson of Supposed Prophesies: Not Hitherto Confuted by the Penne of Any Man, Which Being Grounded, Eyther Uppon the Warrant and Authority of Olde Paynted Bookes, Expositions of Dreames, Oracles, Revelations, Invocations of Damned Spirites, Judicalles of Astrologie, or any Other Kinde of Pretended Knowledge, 1583 £1,875
€2,192
US$ 2,825
262 KNEWSTUB (JOHN) The Lectures... Upon the Twentieth Chapter of Exodus, and Certaine Other Places of Scripture. Seene and Allowed According to the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions £812
€950
US$ 1,224
263 LATHAM (SIMON) Falconry: or, the Faulcon's Lure, and Cure, 2 parts in one, 1633 £812
€950
US$ 1,224
264 LOMAZZO (GIOVANNI PAOLO) A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge, illus. after Durer, Oxford, 1598 £6,875
€8,039
US$ 10,361
265 LUTHER (MARTIN) A Right Comfortable Treatise Containing Sundrie Pointes of Consolation for Them that Labor and Are Laden, 1549 £9,375
€10,962
US$ 14,129
266 LUTHER (MARTIN] A Watch-word for Wilfull Women. An Excellent Pithie Dialogue betweene Two Sisters, of Contrary Dispositio[n]s: the One a Vertuous Matrone: Fearing God, the Other a Wilfull Huswife: of Disordered Behavioure, 2 parts in one, 1581 £6,875
€8,039
US$ 10,361
267 MASON (HENRY) The New Art of Lying, Covered by Jesuites Under the Vaile of Equivicotion, Discovered and Disproved, 1624 £2,250
€2,631
US$ 3,390
268 MORE (GEORGE) The Principles for Yo[u]]ng Princes: Collected Out of Sundry Authors, 1611 £3,250
€3,800
US$ 4,898
269 MORYSON (FYNES) An Itinerary... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy. Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, 3 parts in one vol., 1617 £1,875
€2,192
US$ 2,825
270 PALFREYMAN (THOMAS)] The Treatise of Heavenly Philosophie, 1578 £1,500
€1,754
US$ 2,260
271 PARKER (MATTHEW) Monachi Albanensis, Angli, historia major, à Guilielmo Conquaestore, ad ultimum annum Henrici tertii, FIRST EDITION, second issue, 1571 £2,625
€3,069
US$ 3,956
272 PARKER (MATTHEW, editor)] A Defence of Priestes Mariages, Stablysshed by the Imperiall Lawes of the Realme of Englande, 1567 £1,375
€1,607
US$ 2,072
273 POTTER (CHRISTOPHER) Want of Charitie Justly Charged, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, 1634 £750
€877
US$ 1,130
274 PRYNNE (WILLIAM) The Unlovelinesse, of Love-Lockes. Or, a Summarie Discourse, Prooving: the Wearing, and Nourishing of a Locke, or Love-Locke, to Be altogether Unseemly, FIRST EDITION, 1628 £500
€584
US$ 753
276 PURCHAS (SAMUEL) Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in all Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present. Contayning a Theologicall and Geographicall Historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the Ilands Ajiacent, 1626 £1,500
€1,754
US$ 2,260
277 RYCKEWAERT (C.) A Tragicall Historie of the Troubles and Civile Warres of the Lowe Countries, [1583] £2,750
€3,215
US$ 4,144
278 SCOTLAND, LAWS. The XXIII Parliament of Our Most High and Dread Soveraine James Bee [sic] the Grace of God... Halden at Edinburgh, the 4. day of August, 1621 £625
€730
US$ 941
279 STANDISH (ARTHUR) The Commons Complaint, Wherein is Contained Two Speciall Grievances: The First, the Generall Destruction and Waste of Woods in this Kingdome, with a Remedy for the Same... the Second Grievance is the Extreme Dearth of Victuals. Foure Remedies for the Same, 1611 £2,750
€3,215
US$ 4,144
280 TYNDALE (WILLIAM) The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, 1573 £11,875
€13,886
US$ 17,896
281 WHITGIFT (JOHN) An Answere to a Certen Libell Intituled, An Admonition to the Parliament... Newly Augmented by the Authoure, as by Conference Shall Appeare, 1573 £1,250
€1,461
US$ 1,883
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