Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music, L25401, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 162 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 John Gower

De Confessione Amantis

 London 1532 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 13,969.00
27 John Gower

De Confessione Amantis

 London 12 March 1554 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
28 John Heywood

The Spider and the Flie. A Parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood

 London 1556 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
29 Ranulph Higden

[Polychronicon

 London 13 April 1495 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
30

Plants and gardening. Two volumes of works on plants and gardening, comprising:

 1574, 1595 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,301.00
31 Hans Holbein the Younger

The Images of the Old Testament, Lately Expressed, Set Forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche, with a playn and brief exposition.

Lyons 1549 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
32 Raphael Holinshed

The first and second-[Third] volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1. The description and historie of England, 2. The description and historie of Ireland, 3. The description and historie of Scotland: ...

 London 1586-7. GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
33

Instructional texts for princes and aristocrats, comprising:

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
34 Anthonie Jacobsz

Pascaarte van alle de Zee-custen van Europa. Nieulijcx beschreven door Anthony Jacobszen.

Amsterdam 1655 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
35 William Langham

The Garden of Health, Conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and Plantes,

London 1579 i.e. 1597 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,555.00
36 William Langland

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authors olde copy

 London February 1561 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
37

Law and Legal History. A collection of four works in three volumes, comprising:

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,445.00
38 Legal history

A group of printed English Statutes, 22 volumes in all, comprising:

 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
39 Sir Thomas Littleton

Lyttilton Tenures truely translated into Englysh. An. M.D.XXXVIII

 London 1538 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 16,509.00
40 Nicolaus de Lyra, Thomas a Kempis, Gerard de Zutphania and Bertholdus

A volume of devotional works in a contemporary binding, comprising:

 Cologne 1496 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
41 Niccolo Machiavelli (Thomas Bedingfeld, translator)

The Florentine History

 London 1595 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
42 Moliere

OEuvres de J.-B. P. Moliere, Tome premier

 Paris 1664 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
43 Thomas More

Two works in one volume i) The co[n]futacyon of Tyndales answere

 London 1532 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
44 Thomas More

The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance ii) The second parte of the co[n]futacion of Tyndals answere

 London 1533 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
45 Thomas More

The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the englysh tonge.

 1557 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
46 Abraham Munting

Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, waar in de veelerley Aart en byzondere Eigenschappen der Boomen, Heesters, Kruyden, Bloemen...

Leiden and Utrecht 1696 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
47 John Palsgrave

L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse

 London 18 July 1530 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
48 Petrarch [Thomas Twyne, translator]

Phisicke against Fortune, aswell prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes... now first Englished by Thomas Twyne

 London 1579 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,286.00
49 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemaeus.

Zurich & New York 1983 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
50 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete, annotationes Joannis de Regiomonte in errores commissos a Jacobo Angelo in translatione sua.

Strassburg 3 April 1525 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000. <b><center>Case Antiques<br>2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques<br>January 31 and February 1, 2026</center><b> <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800. <b>Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1:</b> Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.