Continental books
Collection of works, 17th-18th century
£945
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all in contemporary vellum, including:
Albertus Magnus. De Secretis Mulierum. Amsterdam: apud Jodocum Janssonium, 1641. 12mo, engraved tittle-page;
Grotius, Hugo. De jure belli ac pacis. Amsterdam: Abraham van Someren, 1689. 8vo, engraved portrait and additional title-page, initial blank with inscription in Latin initialled by Anthony Murray;
Schoppe, Caspar. Grammatica Philosophia. [Bound with:] Mariangeli a Fano Benedicti auctariam ad Grammaticam Philosophicam ejusque Rudiemnta [And:] Pascasii Grosippi Paradoxa Literaria. Amsterdam: apud Judocum [sic] Pluymer, 1659. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo, engraved vignette to each title-page, yapp edges;
[Gobelin, Abbé]. Le jardinier royal. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1677. 12mo signed in 4s and 8s, ownership inscription of Anthony Murray to title-page, bookplate (Murray Esqr of Crieff);
Bartholin, Thomas. Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis institutionibus, omniumque recentiorum et propriis observationibus terium ad sanguinis ciruclationem reformata. Leiden: apud Franciscum Hackum, 1651. 8vo, engraved additional title-page, engraved portrait to verso of title-page, 7 folding plates (of 8), full-page anatomical engravings throughout text (counted in register);
and 10 others (not collated), all in contemporary vellum bindings, similar marks of ownership, titles including: Barbier, Principes de la langue latine, Douay, 1782 (12mo, vellum manuscript waste binding); Robert Molesworth, Memoires … dans lesquels on voit l'état du royaume de Danemark, Paris, 1697 (8vo, engraved frontispieces); Arnold Vinnius, Selectarum juris quaestionum, Leiden, 1660 (12mo); Georg Horn, Orbis Politicus, Leiden, 1667 (12mo, engraved allegorical title-page); Strabo, De Situ Orbis, Amsterdam, 1652 (2 volumes, 12mo, engraved additional title-page); Johannes Clüver, Historiarum totius mundi epitome, Leiden, 1637 (4to); Johannes Buxtorf, Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum, Basle, 1663, 4to; and similar, 17th century (16)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.