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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840) and Claude-Antoine THORY (1759-1827) | Les Roses peintes par P.J. Redoute... decrites par C.A. Thorrysic. |
Paris | 1824-1826 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 103 | DE LA BECHE, Henry (1796-1855) | The Light of Science dispelling the Darkness which covered the World'. |
1832 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,620.00 | |
| 104 | WOOD, William (1774-1857) | A Series of Twenty-Eight Panoramic Views of Calcutta |
London | 1833 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 105 | DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) | On the Origin of Species. |
London | 1860 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,795.00 |
| 106 | BROWNE, General Sir Samuel James VC GCB KCSI (1824-1901, compiler) | Papers on Frontier Politics. Russia and Kabul. 1877. 1878' |
Simla and Lahore | 1877-1885 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,350.00 |
| 107 | DOVES PRESS | The English Bible |
Hammersmith | 1903-1905 | GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | GBP 7,620.00 |
| 108 | PLANCK, Max (1858-1947) | 'Das Prinzip der Relativitat und die Grundgleichungen der Mechanik'. Offprint from |
Braunschweig | 1906 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 12,700.00 |
| 109 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | 'Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung.' Offprint from |
Leipzig | 1906 | GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 110 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | A group of 11 offprints |
Leipzig | 1906 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 111 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie. |
Leipzig | 1916 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,080.00 |
| 112 | BOHR, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962) | The Danish Nobel laureate's own collection of his offprints. |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 22,860.00 | ||
| 113 | WHITE, John Claude (1853-1919) | Tibet and Lhasa. Photographs by J. C. White |
Calcutta | 1908 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 11,430.00 |
| 114 | TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973) | [Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Comprising |
London | 1954 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 13,970.00 |
| 115 | MESUE, Johannes, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?) | Opera medicinalia. - Petrus de ABANO. Additiones ad practicam. |
Padua | 9 June 1471 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 15,240.00 |
| 116 | MESUE, Johannes de, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?) | Antidotarium; Quid pro quo; Synonyma |
Pavia | 1478-79 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 48,260.00 |
| 117 | PETRUS de ABANO (1250-?1315) | De physiognomia. |
Padua | 1474 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 15,240.00 |
| 118 | MANFREDIS, Hieronymus de (d.1493) | Liber de homine |
Bologna | 1 July 1474 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 13,970.00 |
| 119 | SIMON GENUENSIS (fl. 1288-1303) | Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis. |
Padua | 20 April 1474 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 |
| 120 | CELSUS, A. Cornelius (c.25 B.C.-c. A.D. 50) | De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius (1445-1513). |
Florence | 1478 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 63,500.00 |
| 121 | MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326) | Anatomia. Edited by Petrus Andreas Morsianus. |
Bologna | 20 January 1482 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 25,400.00 |
| 122 | MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326) | Anatomia. Edited by Martinus Polichius de Mellerstadt. |
Leipzig | circa 1493 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,096.00 |
| 123 | MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326) | De omnibus humani corporis interioribus menbris Anathomiaedited by Joannes Adelphus. |
Strassburg | 1513 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 15,240.00 |
| 124 | BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (fl. 1230--1250) | De proprietatibus rerum. |
Strasbourg | 14 February 1485 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 16,510.00 |
| 125 | FALCUTIUS, Nicolaus (d. c.1412) | Sermones medicinales septem. |
Venice | 24 December 1490 -- 8 October 1491 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 33,020.00 |
| 126 | LEONICENUS, Nicolaus (1428-1524) | De morbo Gallico |
Venice | June 1497 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 11,430.00 |
