Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern - online 11/28, L24401, London

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Auction Date
December 12, 2024 - December 12, 2024
Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Richard Blome

Britannia: or, a geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

London 1673 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,040.00
2 Boethius.

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Pseudo-Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (commentary by pseudo- Thomas Aquinas).

Venice 1489 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,400.00
3 James Bolton

Genera Muscorum An Illustration of the Families of Mosses in Figures taken from Nature & Magnified.

Halifax 1787 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
4 Bartolome de las Casas

Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima.

Frankfurt 1598 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,400.00
5 Awnsham and John Churchill (editors)

A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English.

London 1732 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
6 Francesco Colonna

La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, cioe pugna d'amore in sogno. Dov'egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che sogno: et dove narra molt'altre cose degne di cognitione

Venice 1545 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 33,600.00
7 John Dee

Document signed ("Joannes Dee Gardianus") as Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, granting Humphrey Davenport the office of Steward of Newton for an annual fee of forty shillings...

1597 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
8 Theodore Swaine Drage

An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson's Streights to the Western and Southern Ocean of America. Performed in the year 1746 and 1747, in the ship California...

London 1748-1749 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
9 George Edwards

A Natural history of Uncommon Birds.

London 1739-51 but 1802-5 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
10 John Edwards

The British Herbal: Containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants which blow in the open air of Great Britain.

London 1770 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
11 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (the "Winter Queen")

Autograph letter signed ("your Majestie's Most humble and most affectionat Aunt and servant Elizabeth"), to King Charles II ("My dearest Nephew")

the Hague 1651 ? GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 2,640.00
12 Paolo Forlani

La descrittione di tutto il Peru.

[Venice c.1562 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
13 Giacomo Gastaldi and Paolo Forlani

Africa a veteribus... Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1566

1566 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,000.00
14 Louis Hennepin

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico.

London 1698 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,200.00
15 Griffith Hughes

The natural history of Barbados.

London 1750 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
16 Jan Jansson

Novus Atlas sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in quo Magna Britannia seu Angliae & Scotiae nec non Hiberniae Regna exhibentur. Tomus Quartus. [Atlas Novus volume IV. British Isles].

Amsterdam 1646 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
17 Lancelot du Lac

Le premier (-tiers) volume de Lancelot du Lac. Nouvellement imprime a Paris.

Paris 1513 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
18 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

A manuscript volume from his library, containing two items: i) Copies of memoranda, letters, petitions and Imperial Mandates relating to the Canton Debts Crisis, Canton, 32 pages,

1777-1778; 1813 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 20,400.00
19 Niccolo Machiavelli

First edition of The Prince and second edition of the Florentine Histories, in a seventeenth-century Italian binding, comprising:

(Florence 1532 GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 GBP 576,000.00
20 Sir John Narborough, and others

An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries.

London 1711 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,400.00
21

New England---Land Grant. Letters patent, issued by "the Councell established att Plymouth in the Countye of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America"...

1623/4 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 GBP 96,000.00
22 John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus]

America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World.... Collected from the most Authentick Authors... by John Ogilby.

London 1671 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 18,000.00
23 Nathaniel Portlock

A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America.

London 1789 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
24 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Sexta Asie Tabula.

Ulm 1486 GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 16,800.00
25 Samuel Purchas

Purchas his pilgrimes [- Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world... in foure parts. This first contayneth a theological and geographical historie of Asia...

London 1625-1626 GBP 24,000.00 - 32,000.00 Not Sold
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
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