Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 23758, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026

Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Isaac Newton, 1687	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	London	1687	USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00	USD 762,000.00
27	Edmund Halley, 1715	The Shadow of the Moon over England, in the Total Eclipse of the Sun	[London:]	[before 22 April 1715].	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 27,940.00
28	Edmund Halley, and other members of the Royal Society, 1726	Miscellanea Curiosa	London	1726-1727.	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,397.00
29	Isaac Newton, 1728	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended	London	1728	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 9,525.00
30	Isaac Newton, 1728	A Treatise of the System of the World	London	1728	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 19,050.00
32	1965-2017	Limited and scholarly editions			USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 2,794.00
33	David Gans, 1743	Nehmad ve-Na'im	Jessnitz	503 [1743].	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 5,715.00
34	Edmund Halley, 1749	Tabulae astronomicae	London	1749	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
35	J.H. Lambert, 1765	Eccliptischen Tafel	Berlin	1765	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,270.00
36	Maximilian Hell, 1769-1782	Ephemerides [and] Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum solis	Vienna	1769-1770.	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,524.00
37	William Herschel, 1781	Account of a Comet	London	1781-82.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,270.00
38	Alexandre-Guy Pingre, 1783-1784	Cometographie	Paris	1783-1784.	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,016.00
39	Caroline Herschel, 1798	Catalogue of Stars, taken from Mr. Flamsteed's Observations	London	1798	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 9,525.00
40	Various authors, 1820-1929	Solar eclipses		1820-1929.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,397.00
41	Joseph Fraunhofer, 1817	Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuungs-Vermgens verschiedener Glasarten	Munich	[1817].	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 30,480.00
42	Albert Einstein, 1905	Photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity	Leipzig	1905	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 33,020.00
43	Albert Einstein, 1916	Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie	Leipzig	1916	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,556.00
44	NASA Special Publication, 1975	Apollo Expeditions to the Moon	Washington	1975	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 8,255.00
45	Richard Feynman, 1985	QED	Princeton, N.J.	1985	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	USD 12,065.00
46	Alessandro Piccolomini, 1540	De le stelle fisse	Venice	1540	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,826.00
47		Astronomical maps and atlases		17th-19th century.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,905.00
48	Johannes Bayer, 1603	Uranometria	Augsburg	1603	USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	USD 57,150.00
49	Johannes Hevelius, 1687/1690	Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia	Gdansk	1687 [and/or 1690].	USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	USD 33,020.00
50	John Flamsteed, 1729	Atlas coelestis	London	1729	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 20,320.00
51	John Flamsteed, 1776	Atlas celeste	Paris	1776	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,524.00

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.