Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts

1. Πανοπλια omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens... Frankfurt: (Georg Rab for Sigmund Feyerabend), 1568

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 GBP

Lot Sold:

4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

2. Antoninus Florentinus, Saint

Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. [Milan: Leonhard Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c. 1485]

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

3. A sixteenth-century volume containing three works, comprising:

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

4. Bonaventura, Saint

Speculum beatae Mariae virginis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 29 February 1476

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

5. Le commerce des vins, reformé, rectifié et épuré; ou nouvelle méthode pour tirer un parti sur, prompt et avantageux, des récoltes en vins. Amsterdam: Louis Joseph Berthoud, 1769

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

6. Busti, Bernardinus de

Defensorium montis pietatis [with additions by Hieronymus Tornieli]. [Milan]: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, [after 31 January 1497]

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

7. Chaimis, Bartholomaeus de

Interrogatorium sive confessionale. [Nuremberg]: Friedrich Creussner, 27 March 1477

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

3,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

8. Emiliano, Giovanni Stefano

Encomiastica ad divos Caess. Foedericum imperatorem et Maximilianum regem Ro. (Venice: Aldus, August 1504)

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

50,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

9. Ferdinand V, King of Spain and Isabella, Queen of Spain

Important and substantial document signed by both Ferdinand and Isabella ("Yo el Rey" and "Yo la Reyna"), in a Spanish Renaissance binding

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

23,750 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

10. Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

Important autograph letter about the unrest in the Balkans, to Kaiser Wilhelm II ("Euer Majestät! Hochverehrter Vetter!"), signed ("Franz")

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

8,125 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

11. Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria

Manuscript document signed by the Emperor Franz Joseph ("Franzjoseph"), and his chief minister Prince Schwarzenberg ("F. Schwarzenberg"), comprising a military defence pact between Austria and Prussia in 1851

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

12. Eymerich, Nicolaus

Directorium inquisitorum [with the commentary of Francisco Peña]. Rome: Giorgio Ferrari, 1587

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED