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Catalogue of valuable printed books and atlases of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century: including incunabula, including : Biblia Italica, Venice, 1484 ; Breviarium aquileiense, printed on vellum, Venice, 1481 ; Burtius, Musices opusculum, Bologna, 1487 ; Ernst, Herzon von Bayern, Historie, with 68 woodcuts, Augsburg, c. 1485 ; Petrus de Abano, Conciliator, Mantua, 1472 ; Schedel, Nuremberg chronicle, the first 2 German editions, Nuremberg, 1493 and Augsburg, 1496 ; and a large number of fifteenth-century legal books ; atlases and topography, including : Blaeu, Townbooks of the Netherlands, 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1649 ; Townbooks of Italy, 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1663 ; Braun and Hogenberg, Beschreibung ... der vornembster Stat der welt, 5 vol., Cologne, 1575-1600 ; and the Latin edition, 6 vol., Cologne, 1612-1618 ; Camocio, Isole famose, Venice, 1575-80 ; Dudley, Dell'arcano del mare, 6 parts in 3 vol., Florence, 1646-48 ; Jansson, Novus atlas, Amsterdam, 1644 ; Mercator, Atlas, Amsterdam, 1619 ; Merian, Theatrum Europaeum, vol. I-V & VIII, Frankfurt a.M., 1635-67 ; Munster, Cosmographia, 2 editions, Basle, 1552 & 1628 ; natural history and other subjects, including : Besler, Hortus eystettensis, second edition, Eichstatt, 1640 ; Gesner, Vogelbuch, thierbuch & fischbuch, bound together in contemporary pigskin, Zurich, 1557-63 ; Imperato, Dell'historia naturale, Naples, 1599 ; Leon Pinelo, Epitome de la biblioteca oriental i occidental, Madrid, 1629 ; Les ordonnances de l'Ordre de la Thoyson d'Or, printed on vellum, Antwerp, c. 1566 ; Pfintzing, Teuerdanck, printed on vellum, Nuremberg, 1517 ; Valla, Opera, 2 vol. in one, Venice, Aldus, 1501 ; Winter, Bellerophon, Nuremberg, 1678 ; and numerous books on hunting, cookery, architecture, warfare, medicine and science, including a large collection of works by Kircher

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Corporate Author Sotheby's (Firm)
Title Catalogue of valuable printed books and atlases of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century : including incunabula, including : Biblia Italica, Venice, 1484 ; Breviarium aquileiense, printed on vellum, Venice, 1481 ; Burtius, Musices opusculum, Bologna, 1487 ; Ernst, Herzon von Bayern, Historie, with 68 woodcuts, Augsburg, c. 1485 ; Petrus de Abano, Conciliator, Mantua, 1472 ; Schedel, Nuremberg chronicle, the first 2 German editions, Nuremberg, 1493 and Augsburg, 1496 ; and a large number of fifteenth-century legal books ; atlases and topography, including : Blaeu, Townbooks of the Netherlands, 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1649 ; Townbooks of Italy, 2 vol., Amsterdam, 1663 ; Braun and Hogenberg, Beschreibung ... der vornembster Stat der welt, 5 vol., Cologne, 1575-1600 ; and the Latin edition, 6 vol., Cologne, 1612-1618 ; Camocio, Isole famose, Venice, 1575-80 ; Dudley, Dell'arcano del mare, 6 parts in 3 vol., Florence, 1646-48 ; Jansson, Novus atlas, Amsterdam, 1644 ; Mercator, Atlas, Amsterdam, 1619 ; Merian, Theatrum Europaeum, vol. I-V & VIII, Frankfurt a.M., 1635-67 ; Munster, Cosmographia, 2 editions, Basle, 1552 & 1628 ; natural history and other subjects, including : Besler, Hortus eystettensis, second edition, Eichstatt, 1640 ; Gesner, Vogelbuch, thierbuch & fischbuch, bound together in contemporary pigskin, Zurich, 1557-63 ; Imperato, Dell'historia naturale, Naples, 1599 ; Leon Pinelo, Epitome de la biblioteca oriental i occidental, Madrid, 1629 ; Les ordonnances de l'Ordre de la Thoyson d'Or, printed on vellum, Antwerp, c. 1566 ; Pfintzing, Teuerdanck, printed on vellum, Nuremberg, 1517 ; Valla, Opera, 2 vol. in one, Venice, Aldus, 1501 ; Winter, Bellerophon, Nuremberg, 1678 ; and numerous books on hunting, cookery, architecture, warfare, medicine and science, including a large collection of works by Kircher
Publisher London : Sotheby's, 1982
Physical desc. 104 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note 14/06/1982; 15/06/1982
Cover title: 'Valuable printed books and atlases of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century formed in the seventeenth century by a Continental nobleman and now the property of Senhor German Mailhos and Senhora Johana Auersperg de Mailhos, from Uruguay'.
Includes a loosely inserted list of price estimates and a booklet of price lists for Sotheby's sales held between Monday 14 and Friday 18 June 1982.
Date & place of sale Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 June 1982, London
Subject Rare books -- Catalogs
Atlases -- Catalogs
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