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Fine Books & Manuscripts

Auction 20940
San Francisco
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17 Feb 2013, starting at 9:00 PST.
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MERCATOR, GERARD, AND JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: I. Hondius, [1619].
Sold for US$ 27,500 inc. premium
MERCATOR, GERARD, AND JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: I. Hondius, [1619].
SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 3-tiered, 8-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 16 1/2 x 23 1/2 (sight), dated October 16, [1983],
Sold for US$ 25,000 inc. premium
SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 3-tiered, 8-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 419 x 596 mm (sight), dated October ...
(Book of Hours) HORAE BEATAE VIRGINS. XV Century. 210 leaves. Hand illuminated on vellum. 10 minatures, plus 4 full illuminated pages with floral borders. Small illuminated capitals in gold. Later leather, damaged and waterstained. Pages are a bit wavy, from dampness, some mold to a couple of the first leaves, but paintings still nice. Spine cracked.
Sold for US$ 21,250 inc. premium
BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mainly in Latin, Book of Hours, [France, late 15th or early 16th century].
MILTON. Paradise Lost. London: 1669.
Sold for US$ 16,250 inc. premium
MILTON, JOHN. 1608-1674. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: S. Simmons, 1669.

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WRIGHT, JOHN MICHAEL. Account... 1688.
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WRIGHT, JOHN MICHAEL. c.1617-c.1694. An account of His Excellence, Roger Earl of Castlemaine's embassy from His Sacred Majesty James IId ... to His Holiness Innocent ...
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US$ 1,500 - 2,000
£980 - 1,300
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ALTENSTEIG, JOANNES. Vocabularius. Vocum quae in opere grammatico plurimorum continentur, brevis et vera interpretatio. Hagenau: Henric Gran for Joannes Rynman, 1515.
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ALTENSTEIG, JOANNES. Vocabularius. Vocum quae in opere grammatico plurimorum continentur, brevis et vera interpretatio. Hagenau: Henric Gran for Joannes Rynman, 1515.
Sold for US$ 562 inc. premium
ALUNNO, FRANCESCO. c.1480-1556. Le Ricchezze della lingua volgare.... Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1551.<BR />
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ALUNNO, FRANCESCO. c.1480-1556. Le Ricchezze della lingua volgare.... Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1551..
Sold for US$ 1,375 inc. premium
[ARMENIAN.] Manuscript Armenian dictionary
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ARMENIAN-TURKISH GLOSSARY. Manuscript Turkish glossary of chiefly Armenian terms, written in Armenian characters. [Venice, Island of St. Lazare? 19th century.]
Sold for US$ 1,187 inc. premium
[BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. D.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Henry Laurentz, 1622. <BR />
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[BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. D.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Henry Laurentz, 1622. .
Sold for US$ 475 inc. premium
[BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. d.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Everard Cloppenburg, 1631.<BR />
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[BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. D.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Everard Cloppenburg, 1631..
Sold for US$ 375 inc. premium
BAYLE, PIERRE, 1647-1706. An Historical and Critical Dictionary. London: for C. Harper et al, 1710.
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BAYLE, PIERRE, 1647-1706. An Historical and Critical Dictionary. London: for C. Harper et al, 1710.
Sold for US$ 1,500 inc. premium
BIONDELLI, BERNARDINI. 1804-1886. Glossarium Azteco-Latinum et Latino-Aztecum. Mediolani: Valentiner et Mues, 1869.<BR />
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BIONDELLI, BERNARDINI. 1804-1886. Glossarium Azteco-Latinum et Latino-Aztecum. Milan: Valentiner et Mues, 1869..
Sold for US$ 750 inc. premium
Calepino. 1509
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CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509..
Sold for US$ 812 inc. premium
CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. Dictionarium copiosissimum: ex variis lingue utriusque auctoribus. Strassburg: Matthias Schurer, December 1516.
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CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. Dictionarium copiosissimum: ex variis lingue utriusque auctoribus. Strassburg: Matthias Schurer, December 1516.
Sold for US$ 750 inc. premium
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