L'Autographe Auctions: A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale, 6, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 07, 2025 - July 07, 2025

Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
177	Who Wrote the Best Epic? Homer vs. Tasso, 1607	Padova	1607	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
178	The Humanist's Dictionary - Calepino's Monumental Lexicon of Latin and Greek	Venice	1520	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
179	Memory Theatre - Camillo's Visionary Treatises	Venice	1560	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 195.00
180	Academic Spite - Caro's Polemic Against Castelvetro	Parma	november 1558.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
181	Bound in Time - Cicero in Gothic Print & Manuscript	Venice	1579	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
182	The Language of Rhyme - The First Italian Dictionary for Poets	Naples	1535	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
183	Banished Bacchus - Rome's Prohibition Edict, 1729	Napoli	1729	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
184	The Feast of Folengo - Woodcut-Filled Macaronic Classic	. Venice	1585	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
185	RARE BAROQUE ECONOMIC AND MORAL TREATISE ON FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD WEALTH --- ROME 1650	Rome	1650	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	GBP 416.00
186	The Renaissance Poet's Craft - Minturno's Classical Guide to Poetic Theory	Venice	1559	GBP 800.00 - 1,100.00	Not Sold
187	Sourcebook for Shakespeare - Montemayor's Diana, 1568	Venice (colophon: En Venecia	1568	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 260.00
188	Before Erasmus - The First Latin Treasury of Proverbs and Popular Wisdom	Strasbourg	1511	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
189	Chess Masters Translated - Sarratt's 1813 Classic	London	1813	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
190	Signs of Judgment and Songs of Saints --- The First Book Printed in Fano by Girolamo Soncino (1502)	Soncino	10 April 1502	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
191	The Greek Tragedies in Full - All Seven Sophoclean Plays in Original Language	Frankfurt	1555	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
192	Ottoman Letters Revealed - Toderini's First-Hand Chronicle of Turkish Civilization (1787)	Venice:	1787	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 650.00
193	Imperial Women in Medals - A Renaissance Tribute to Roman Matrons	Venice	1557	GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
194	Voltaire's Veiled Critique of the Church - Rare Edition of 'Il Maometto' (1751)	Florence	1751	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
195	How to Play the Flute - A Rare 18th-Century Italian Treatise	Vicenza	1779	GBP 2,200.00 - 2,600.00	Not Sold
196	Io - Bap-tistae Portae Neapolitani. De Hum. Physiognomonia. Libri IIII. Ad Aloysium Car. Estensem		1586	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
197	Warfare and Geometry - A Baroque Manual of Military Surveying	Florence	1630	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
198	Neapolitan Arithmetic - Rare 'Abaco' Pamphlet	Naples	n.d. (circa 1700-1720).	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
199	Sailing Theory - Rare Nautical Manual with Plates	In Livorno	1780	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
200	Flies and Fish - A Collector's Copy of Two Angling First Editions	Liverpool	1816	GBP 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
201	EARLY AND ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF MAGNETISM --- FIRST EDITION OF CABEO'S PHILOSOPHIA MAGNETICA (1629)	Cologne	1629	GBP 2,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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