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
202	The Architecture of Numbers - Cauchy's Legacy in Number Theory	[Paris	c. 1840].	GBP 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
203	From Light to Limits - Rare Scientific Works by Augustin-Louis Cauchy	Prague	1835	GBP 1,600.00 - 1,900.00	Not Sold
204	Smallpox Unveiled - Anatomy, Contagion, and Early Clinical Insight	xNaples and Bologna	1775	GBP 650.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
205	Inside the Ear - Cotugno's Groundbreaking Anatomy of Hearing and Balance	Naples & Bologna	1775	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
206	Unlocking Persian - The First Printed Grammar of an Ancient Tongue	Leiden	1639	GBP 700.00 - 800.00	GBP 650.00
207	The Birth of Language - Enlightenment Theories of Speech and Universal Grammar	Paris	1776	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
208	RARE FIRST EDITION OF DE L'HOSPITAL'S POSTHUMOUS WORK ON CONIC SECTIONS	Paris	1707	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
209	Humidity and Hypotheses - Foundations of Modern Meteorology	Neuchatel & Geneva	1783--1788.	GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
210	RARE BOTANICAL WORK EARLY 18th CENTURY	Lyon:	1707	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
211	SCARCE EARLY ARITHMETIC MANUAL --- IN ORIGINAL BINDING WITH MANUSCRIPT WASTE	[Venice	1528]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
212	Galen Revived - Medical Classic with Rare Diagram	Venice	1549	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
213	The Foundations of Modern Analysis - Peano's Mathematical Revolution	Rome--Turin--Florence	1884	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,420.00	Not Sold
214	THE BIRTH OF MODERN OPTICS - KEPLER'S FOUNDATIONAL WORK ON REFRACTION AND TELESCOPIC VISION	Augsburg:	1611	GBP 18,000.00 - 24,000.00	Not Sold
215	Swimming for War - The First Military Treatise on Aquatic Training	Paris	1823	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
216	IMPORTANT EARLY GUIDE TO THE LOW COUNTRIES --- ILLUSTRATED 1711 EDITION OF LES DELICES DES PAIS-BAS	Brussels:	1711	GBP 850.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
217	A Young Prodigy's Debut - Libri's First Work in Number Theory	Florence	1820	GBP 750.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
218	EARLY ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF TURKISH CUSTOMS AND COSTUME --- FINE COPY	Antwerp	1577	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
219	The Pope's Pharmacopoeia - Regulating Roman Apothecaries in the Renaissance	Rome	1557	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
220	RARE EARLY COSMOLOGICAL TREATISE BY A RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHER --- VENICE 1561	Venice	1561	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
221	Measure and Mastery - A Practical Geometry Manuscript of 1677		1677	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
222	"FROM THE ARAB WORLD TO EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE - THE VERY FIRST LATIN EDITION OF PTOLEMY'S ALMAGEST"	Venetiis:	1515	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 28,600.00
223	Mastering the Arteries - Scarpa's Surgical Legacy in Ligature Technique	Pavia	1817	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
224	Symbols and Roots - The First Comprehensive French Treatise on Algebra	Paris	1551 [1552].	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	Not Sold
225	From Sea Creatures to Stone - Scilla's Fossil Theory and Colonna's Glossopetrae	Rome	1747	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,300.00	Not Sold
226	Peruvian Bark Debated - 18th-Century Medical Tracts	Mantova	1779	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 260.00

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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