Continental books
Collection of works, 17th-18th century
£693
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
All in contemporary vellum, and including:
Livy. Historiarum libri ex recensione J. F. Gronovii [volume 4: Joh. Fred. Gronovii ad T. Livii Patavini libros superstites notae]. Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1645. 4 volumes, 12mo, engraved title-page to volume 1, ownership inscriptions of William Gordon of Ushaw dated 1819 to endpapers, volume 4 (Notae) with engraved bookplate of Philip Hardwicke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764; styled in bookplate as Baron of Hardwicke) [Willems 590 & 588];
Valerius Maximus. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri ix. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1671. 24mo, engraved title-page [Willems 1462];
Tasso, Torquato. Il Goffredo, poema eroico. Padua: stamperia del seminario, 1728. 12mo, engraved frontispiece;
Canisio, Petro. Summa doctrinae Christianae. Trento: ex typograph. episcop. Jo. Baptistae Paronii, 1724. 12mo;
Catullus et al. [Opera]. Tradotti dall' ab. Raffaele Pastore. Venice: stamperia coleti, 1776. 12mo, engraved bookplate of Sir James Gordon of Letterfourie (showing Letterfourie in the background), annotations to endpapers;
Bible; French. Le nouveau testament … traduit en françois selon l'Edition Vulgate, avec les differences du Grec. Nouvelle Edition, revue et exactement corrigé. Mons: Gaspard Migeot, 1710. 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plates, worming to early leaves including frontispiece;
and others (14)
Provenance
From the library of the Gordon family at Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland.