Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 212 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77 BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600)

De umbris idearum. -- Ars memoriae.

Paris 1582 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 35,560.00
78 [LODEWIJCKSZ, Willem (fl. 16th century)]

Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam orientalem.

Amsterdam 1598 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
79 ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598)

Theatro del Mondo.

Antwerp 1612 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 60,960.00
80 BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) and Johannes BLAEU (1596-1673)

Theatrum orbis terrarum

Amsterdam 1635 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 60,960.00
81 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673)

Novum ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Foederate-- Regiae.

Amsterdam 1652 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
82 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673)

Theatrum Civitatum et Admirandorum Italiae.

Amsterdam 1663 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 Not Sold
83 BLAEU, Johannes (1596-1673)

Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis

Amsterdam 1682 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
84

AN AZIMUTH COMPASS. FRENCH

CIRCA 1790 GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
85 ALBIN, Eleazar (fl.1713-1559)

A natural history of birds. Illustrated with... copper plates

London 1731-1736-1740 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
86 EDWARDS, George (1694-1773)

A Natural History of Uncommon Birds and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals.

London 1743 but circa 1752-1803 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 8,890.00
87 MEYER, Henry Leonard (1797-1864)

Illustrations of British Birds.

London 1835-1841 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,159.00
88 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

The Birds of America

New York, Philadelphia 1839-1840-1844 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 50,800.00
89 GOULD, John (1804-1881)

A Monograph of the Odontophorinae

London 1844-1850 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
90 GOULD, John (1804-1881)

The Birds of Great Britain.

1862-1873 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 88,900.00
91 BRODRICK, William (1814-1888)

Falconers' Favourites.

London 1865 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
92 SCLATER, Philip Lutley (1829-1913) and Osbert SALVIN (1835-1898)

Exotic ornithology

London 1866-1869 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,080.00
93 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915)

A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants.

New York 1870-1872 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 57,150.00
94 DRESSER, Henry Eeles (1838-1915)

A History of the Birds of Europe

London 1871-1896 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
95 GOULD, John (1804-1881) and Richard Bowdler SHARPE (1847-1909)

The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands

London 1875-1888 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 127,000.00
96 MEYER, Adolf Bernhard (1840-1911)

Unser Auer -

Vienna 1887 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
97 NEWTON, Alfred (1829-1907)

Raptores drawn and coloured by Professor Alfred Newtonthus titled on upper cover.

1854-1859 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,525.00
98 SEEBOHM, Henry (1832-1895)

A Monograph of the Turdidae or Family of Thrushes ... edited and completed ... by R. Bowdler Sharpe.

London 1898-1902 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,715.00
99 THORBURN, Archibald (1860-1935)

Birds of prey.

London 1919 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
100 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Sense and Sensibility.

London 1813 GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 8,890.00
101 [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]

Mansfield Park.

London 1814 GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,795.00
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