Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Theodorus Gaza (c.1400 - c.1475) | Introduction to Grammar |
Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 107,950.00 |
| 27 | Aulus Gellius (125-180 AD) | Noctes atticae (excerpta) |
Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,096.00 |
| 28 | St Bonaventure, St Bernard and Jordanus de Quedlinburg | Speculum de perfecto modo vivendi |
Germany or Netherlands, | 1472 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 29 | Appian (d. c. 165) | Bella civilia (part of the Historiarum Romanarum libri XI) |
Italy, ? Verona | third quarter 15th century | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 30 | A narrative of the Passion | Meditationes super passionem Jesu Christi |
Germany, ? Wurzburg, | final quarter 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,525.00 |
| 31 | Workshop of the First Master of the Cortona Antiphonaries | Christ Blessing |
Tuscany, perhaps Arezzo or Sansepolcro, | circa 1250-75 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 11,430.00 |
| 32 | Umbrian or Tuscan illuminator | Blessing Christ and David playing the harp attended by an angel |
Italy, Umbria or Tuscany | final decade 13th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 7,112.00 |
| 33 | Master of Sant' Agnese di Valdipietra | The Throne of Mercy |
Bologna | circa 1295-1300 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 34 | Berardo da Teramo (fl. 1325-1350) | The Virgin blessed by the hand of God |
Italy, Teramo | 2nd quarter 14th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 35 | Venetian illuminator | Bishop Saint |
Italy, Venice | circa 1350 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 |
| 36 | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | La Divina Commedia |
Florence | mid-14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 44,450.00 |
| 37 | Dunois Master | Lancelot dining with a knight and his sweetheart |
France, Paris | circa 1440 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 12,700.00 |
| 38 | Circle of the Master of the Franciscan Breviary | God the Father sending forth the Holy Spirit |
Italy, Lombardy | circa 1460 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 39 | Lombard illuminator | St Benedict |
Italy, Lombardy | final quarter 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | North Italian illuminator | St James the Less |
Italy, Emilia, perhaps Ferrara | circa 1480s | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
| 41 | Spanish illuminator | The Nativity |
Spain, possibly Granada, Monastery of Baza? | circa 1510 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 8,255.00 |
| 42 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Christ on the Donkey |
north-eastern Italy, possibly Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 43 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Skull and bone |
north-eastern Italy, probably Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 44 | The Spanish Forger (fl.1890s-1920s) | A Game of Dice |
Paris | early 20th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 |
| 45 | 10th-century Gospels | Gospels |
Germany, ?Essen Abbey | circa 900 | GBP 700,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 | GBP 889,000.00 |
| 46 | The Morgan 183 Group | Psalter-Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Brabant or Hainault | circa 1280 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 44,450.00 |
| 47 | Little Book of Cistercian Statutes of Garendon Abbey | Libellus Statutorum Cisterciensis ordinis |
England, Leicestershire, Garendon Abbey | first half 15th century | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 35,560.00 |
| 48 | Workshop of Willem Vrelant (d.1481) | Book of Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Bruges | circa 1470s | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 57,150.00 |
| 49 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
France, Rouen | circa 1470 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 19,050.00 |
| 50 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
Rouen | circa 1475 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 24,130.00 |
