Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music, L25401, London

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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
51 Thomas Raynalde

The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke

 London 1552 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,650.00
52 Werner Rolewinck

Fasciculus temporum.

 Venice 28th May 1484 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
53 Girolamo Ruscelli, [William Ward, translator]

The Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont containyng excellente remedies against diverse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes,

London 1580 -1578 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,301.00
54 Pieter Schenk

Nova totius Asiae tabula.

 Amsterdam , c. 1710. GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
55 Edmund Spenser

[Complaints, containing sundrie small poems of the worlds vanitie...]

 London 1590-1591 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
56 Caspar Stoll

Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen.

Amsterdam 1780--1788 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
57 Matthew Sutcliffe

The Practice, Proceedings, and Lawes of armes

 London 1593 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,286.00
58 Thomas Elyot

The Image of Governaunce compiled of the actes and sentences notable of the most noble Emperor Alexander Severus

 London 1549 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
59 Richard Tracy

A bryef & short declaracyon made, wherbye everye chrysten man maye knowe, what is a sacrament..

 London 10 November 1548 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,301.00
60

Bible. New Testament. English. Tyndale's version

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,969.00
61 Virgil

The whole XII bookes of the Aeneidos... added moreover to this edition Virgils life out of Donatus, and the Argument before every booke

 London 1573 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
62 Virgil---Gavin Douglas (translator)

The xiii bukes of Eneados of the famose poete Virgill translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel

 London 1553 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 25,399.00
63 Jacobus de Voragine

The Legende Named in Latyn Legenda Aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the Golden Legende. Translated by William Caxton.

London 1527 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
64 Geoffrey Whitney

Whitney, Geoffrey. A choice of emblemes, and other devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized.

Leiden 1586 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
65 Antonio de Alcedo and G. A. Thompson

Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or Dictionary of America & West Indies;

London, 1816 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
66 Tsar Alexander II and Catherine Dolgorukova

Correspondence between Tsar Alexander II and his lover Catherine Dolgorukova,

St. Petersburg and elsewhere 1866-1879 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 120,649.00
68 James Bolton

Genera Muscorum An Illustration of the Families of Mosses in Figures taken from Nature & Magnified.

 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
69 Acton Bell [Anne Bronte]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

 London 1848 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
70 Charlotte Bronte

Five pencil sketches by Charlotte Bronte, comprising:

 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
71

Challenger Expedition---Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir John Murray

 1880-95 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,699.00
72 John Churchman

Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
73 Gabriele D'Annunzio

A collection of 9 signed photographic cards and portraits of D'Annunzio, 1900-1922, comprising:

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,524.00
74 Gabriele D'Annunzio

A collection of autograph letters and documents, dating from 1880 to 1921

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
75 Charles Darwin

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

 London 1839 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
76 Darwin, Charles and Alfred Russel Wallace

On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection [1858-59]

 London 1859 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 228,600.00
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