A Mystic Collection: Early Books
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A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending all the Branches of Useful Knowledge.
Lot: 1Sold for: $738$600A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending all the Branches of Useful Knowledge. London: for W. Owen, 1763-1764. Second edition, four octavo volumes, illustrated with hundreds more ...
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Acts of the Apostles , Illuminated Manuscript Fragment, Northern France, c. 1250.
Lot: 2Sold for: $11,070$9,000Acts of the Apostles, Illuminated Manuscript Fragment, Northern France, c. 1250. Large octavo-format, fourteen parchment leaves, text in double column throughout, fifty-one lines per page, in a more ...
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Agendbuchlein der Christlichen Kirchen, inn des Heiligen Reichs Freystadt Wormbs .
Lot: 3Sold for: $615$500Agendbuchlein der Christlichen Kirchen, inn des Heiligen Reichs Freystadt Wormbs. Worms: Paulum Rophel, 1560. Small folio, woodcut coat of arms of the city of Worms on title page, bound in full more ...
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Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280) Super Matthei Evangeliare Postilla.
Lot: 4Sold for: $2,214$1,800Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280) Super Matthei Evangeliare Postilla. Hagenau: For Joannis Rynman de Oringaw by Henricus Gran, 16 April 1505. Folio, [bound with] Albertus Magnus's Super Marci more ...
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Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. AD 200) Commentaria in Duodecim Aristotelis Libros de Prima Philosophia.
Lot: 5Sold for: $277$225Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. AD 200) Commentaria in Duodecim Aristotelis Libros de Prima Philosophia. Venice: Hieronymus Scotus, 1551. Folio, large woodcut printer's device showing a celestial more ...
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Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. AD 200) Quaestiones Naturales et Morales et de Fato.
Lot: 6Sold for: $369$300Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. AD 200) Quaestiones Naturales et Morales et de Fato. Venice: Hieronymum Scotum, 1549. Folio, large woodcut printer's device to title incorporating a bee's nest in a more ...
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Andreae, Johannes (c. 1270-1348) Super Arboribus Consanguinitatis.
Lot: 7Sold for: $2,829$2,300Andreae, Johannes (c. 1270-1348) Super Arboribus Consanguinitatis. Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1483. Small folio, ten leaves, printed in a gothic type, single column, illustrated with three more ...
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Angelus de Clavasio [aka Angelo Carletti di Chivasso] (1411-1495) ed. Hieronymus Tornieli (c. 1490) Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscient
Lot: 8Sold for: $1,230$1,000Angelus de Clavasio [aka Angelo Carletti di Chivasso] (1411-1495) ed. Hieronymus Tornieli (c. 1490) Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscientiae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 10 February 1492. Folio, more ...
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Apuleius (c. 124-c. 170 AD); ed. Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1435-1505) Commentarii a Philipo Beroaldo Conditi in Asinu[m] Aureu[m] Luc
Lot: 9Sold for: $1,046$850Apuleius (c. 124-c. 170 AD); ed. Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1435-1505) Commentarii a Philipo Beroaldo Conditi in Asinu[m] Aureu[m] Lucij Apuleij. [Venice: Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Bivilaquam, more ...
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Archbishop of Magdeburg, Document, 20 December 1462.
Lot: 10Sold for: $1,169$950Archbishop of Magdeburg, Document, 20 December 1462. Single leaf of parchment written in brown ink, preserved with the archbishop's seal, a lease from the archbishop to Clawsen Welmersdorff, a more ...
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Aristotle [Analytica Posteriora, Posterior Analytics ] ed. Walter Burley (c. 1275-1344/5); [and] Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175-1253)
Lot: 11Sold for: $1,599$1,300Aristotle [Analytica Posteriora, Posterior Analytics] ed. Walter Burley (c. 1275-1344/5); [and] Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175-1253) Venice: Gregorium de Gregorijs, 15 July 1514. Small folio, black more ...
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Athenaeus of Naucratis (2nd/3rd Century AD) Athenaei Dipnosophistarum sive Coenae Sapientum Libri XV.
Lot: 12Sold for: $246$200Athenaeus of Naucratis (2nd/3rd Century AD) Athenaei Dipnosophistarum sive Coenae Sapientum Libri XV. Basel: Henrich Petrum, Mense Augusto 1556. Octavo, Latin translation of the Greek original, The more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Confessio in Augustiniana in Libros Quatuor Distributa et Certis Capitibus Locorum Theologicorum
Lot: 13Sold for: $861$700Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Confessio in Augustiniana in Libros Quatuor Distributa et Certis Capitibus Locorum Theologicorum. Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1567. Quarto, edited by Dillingen more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei cum Commento.
Lot: 14Sold for: $4,920$4,000Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei cum Commento. Freiburg im Breisgau: [Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], 1494. Folio, with commentary by English Anglo-Norman scholars Thomas Waleys more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei , [bound with] De Trinitate.
Lot: 15Sold for: $11,685$9,500Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei, [bound with] De Trinitate. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1490. Folio, illustrated with large woodcut depicting the Saint at work on verso of title, more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei.
Lot: 16Sold for: $861$700Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Civitate Dei. [Nuremberg: Koberger], 1520. Folio, title page printed in red and black within an elaborate woodcut compartment containing a separate woodcut more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Trinitate.
Lot: 17Sold for: $2,214$1,800Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) De Trinitate. [Freiburg im Breisgau: Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], 1494. Folio, printed in black letter, two columns throughout, capital strokes and initials more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Epistolae. Liber Epistolarum Beati Augustini Episcopi Hipponensis Ecclesie.
Lot: 18Sold for: $4,920$4,000Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Epistolae. Liber Epistolarum Beati Augustini Episcopi Hipponensis Ecclesie. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, [14]93. Folio, second edition of Augustine's letters, more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Of the Citie of God.
Lot: 19UnsoldAugustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Of the Citie of God. London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620. Second edition in English, folio, translated by John Healey (d. 1610), edited by William more ...
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Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Opuscula.
Lot: 20Sold for: $2,091$1,700Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430 AD) Opuscula. Venice: Dionysius Bertochus, 26 March 1491. Quarto, text printed in gothic type throughout, set in two columns, spaces for capitals left empty, more ...
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Baker, Sir Richard (1568-1645) A Chronicle of the Kings of England.
Lot: 21Sold for: $308$250Baker, Sir Richard (1568-1645) A Chronicle of the Kings of England. London: Printed for H. Sawbridge, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1684. Folio, engraved added title bound opposite typographical more ...
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Baptista Trovamala [aka] Baptista de Salis (dates unknown) ed. Ottmar Luscinius [aka] Nachtgall (1478-1537) Summa Roselle de Casius Con
Lot: 22Sold for: $2,829$2,300Baptista Trovamala [aka] Baptista de Salis (dates unknown) ed. Ottmar Luscinius [aka] Nachtgall (1478-1537) Summa Roselle de Casius Conscientie. Strassburg: Joannes Knobloch, 26 February 1516. more ...
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Bartoli, Pietro Santi (1635-1700) Museum Odescalchum , Plates, 18th Century.
Lot: 23Sold for: $1,046$850Bartoli, Pietro Santi (1635-1700) Museum Odescalchum, Plates, 18th Century. Folio, bound volume consisting of an engraved portrait frontispiece of Prince Livio Odescalchi (1653-1713) after Carl more ...
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Bellori, Giovanni Pietro (1613-1696) Veteres Arcus Augustorum Triumphis Insignes.
Lot: 24Sold for: $800$650Bellori, Giovanni Pietro (1613-1696) Veteres Arcus Augustorum Triumphis Insignes. Rome: ad Templum Sanctae Mariae de Pace cum Privilegio Sum. Pontificis [printed by de Rubeis and de Buagnis], 1690. more ...
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Bellori, Giovanni Pietro (1613-1696) Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum, Poetarum, Rhetorum, et Oratorum Imagines.
Lot: 25Sold for: $277$225Bellori, Giovanni Pietro (1613-1696) Veterum Illustrium Philosophorum, Poetarum, Rhetorum, et Oratorum Imagines. Rome: Jacob de Rubeis, 1685. First edition, folio, illustrated with engraved more ...
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Benedict XIV, Pope (1675-1758) Papal Manuscript, 1741.
Lot: 26Sold for: $2,583$2,100Benedict XIV, Pope (1675-1758) Papal Manuscript, 1741. Manuscript on parchment and laid paper, twelve parchment leaves, two paper leaves, text in Latin, in elegant roman and italic hands in brown, more ...
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Bible, Dutch New Testament in Girdle Chain Binding, Het Nieuwe Testament.
Lot: 27Sold for: $1,169$950Bible, Dutch New Testament in Girdle Chain Binding, Het Nieuwe Testament. [Amsterdam: Losel, Brandt, Linden, et al.], 1758. 12mo, engraved title, text in black letter in two columns throughout; more ...
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Bible, English with Split Double Fore-edge Painting, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.
Lot: 28Sold for: $2,091$1,700Bible, English with Split Double Fore-edge Painting, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh: Printed by Mark & Charles Kerr, 1793. Folio, each fore-edge painting occupies more ...
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Bible, English, New Testament, Rheims. The Text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ, Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papist
Lot: 29Sold for: $2,952$2,400Bible, English, New Testament, Rheims. The Text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ, Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes. London: Printed by more ...
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Bible, English, Old and New Testaments. The Holy Bible.
Lot: 30Sold for: $1,722$1,400Bible, English, Old and New Testaments. The Holy Bible. Cambridge: John Field, Printer to the Universitie, 1663. Quarto, engraved general title, illustrated with an additional forty-one full-page more ...