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Important Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper
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Important Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper

Auction dates
13 Nov 2014 13:00 GMT
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10 Nov 2014 09:30 - 17:30 GMT
12 Nov 2014 09:30 - 17:30 GMT
13 Nov 2014 09:30 - 09:30 GMT
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[Cheny & Thomas Butler, publishers. ] [Horses & Their Pedigrees]  [Cheny (John)  &  Thomas Butler,
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Aviation.- Montu (Carlo) - Important archive of material relating to this early Italian pioneer of
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Harris (Walter) - De Morbis Acutis Infantum,  first edition ,  initial imprimatur f., final
750 - 1,000 GBP
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Harvey (William) - Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium,  first edition ,  engraved additional
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Principles of Geology, being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of...  ( Sir   Charles)
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, - De Laudibus Beate Marie Virgiinis,  decorated manuscript on vellum, , 49
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Saint ) Epistolarum pars prima, edited by Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria  Saint  )  Epistolarum
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Marchesinus (Joannes) - Mammotrectus super Bibliam,  double column, 223 ff. (of 228, lacking
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) - Opera,  228 ff., the first blank, 37 lines, Roman and some
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Nicolaus de Lyra. - Postilla super totam Bibliam, vol. 2 only (of 3),   354 ff., 2A1 blank, 59
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Greek printing.- - Thesaurus Cornu Copiae,  280 ff., 38 lines of Latin, 30 lines of Greek, Roman
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Plinius Secundus (Gaius) - Historia naturalis, edited by Hermolaus Barbarus and revised by Jo.
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Aristotle. - [Opera], vol.3 only (of 5),  466 ff. (of 467, lacking blank E9`, in fact 458, but with
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Gratianus. - Decretum, commentary by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis,  printed in red and black, double
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Book of Hours.- - Hore Intenerate Virginis Marie secundum Usum Romanum,  printed on vellum,     120
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Missal.- - Missale ad Usum Sarum,  lacks title, g 7  &  8, and last f. with colophon, gothic type,
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Book of Hours.- - Ces Presentes Heures a Lusaige de Cambray,  printed on vellum  ,   144 ff,,
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Book of Hours.- - [Hore]  printed on vellum,   107 ff, on ly, of 108, lacks title, Almanac from
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Opera?item Opera Maxentii Johannis, 2 parts in 1  ( Saint, Bishop of Ruspe  )   Opera item Opera
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Book of Hours.- - Hore Beate Marie Virginia secundum Usum Ecclesiae Romane,  printed on vellum,
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) - De re Militari, libri quatuor [& other works],  third Wechel edition,
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Album Amicorum.- [Alciati (Andrea) - Emblemata],  220 woodcut emblems in borders, only, of 226,
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Agricola (Georgius) - De re metallica libri XII,  first edition ,  woodcut printer`s device to
15,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Barbaro (Daniello) - La Pratica della Perspettiva,  first edition ,  first two words of of title
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Ariosto (Lodovico) - Orlando Furioso, commentary by Alberto Lavezuola, 3 parts in 1,  The
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Le Relationi universal? divise in sette parti? In oltre vi s`aggiunge nell  Le Relationi universal
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Locke (John) - [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding],  Extrait d`un Livre Anglois qui n`est
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Hebrew manuscript.- - Megillah Esther,  on 6 sewn membranes, text columns of 21 lines in Hebrew
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Longus. - Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé...,  title printed in red  &  black  with
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
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Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) - Candide, ou l`Optimisme,  first edition ,  woodcut ornament
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Hoogvliet (Arnold) - Abraham, de Aartsvader. In XII Boeken,  hand-coloured additional engraved
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Straet (Jan van der) - Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium,  engraved title with zoological border,
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Griboyedov (Aleksandr Sergeyevich) - Gore ot uma [Woe from Wit],  first edition  ,   half-title,
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich) - Detstvo i otrochestvo [Childhood and Adolescence],  first edition thus
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) - Dnevnik pisatelia [A Writer`s Diary],  first edition  ,
600 - 800 GBP
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artist ).- Gogol Sto chetyre risunka k poema N.V  artist  ).- Gogol (Nikolai Vasil evich)     Sto
400 - 600 GBP
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Chekhov (Anton Pavlovich) - Povesti i razskazy [Stories and tales],  first edition  ,   age-toning
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Kieffer (René).- Samain (Albert) - Hyalis: Le petit Faune aux yeux bleus,   number 52 of 100 de
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Kafka (Franz) - Das Schloss,  first edition,  original cloth, spine slightly faded, fading along
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Neruda (Pablo) - Canto General,  number 205 of 500 copies signed by the author and contributing
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich) - O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach, [On the Cult of
800 - 1,200 GBP
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],
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Bulgakov (Mikhail) - Master i Margarita [The Master and Margarita],  first published edition  , in
2,200 - 2,800 GBP
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Erasmus (Desiderius) - The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase...upon the Newe Testamente,
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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