Christies: Old Master Prints, 23899, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 07, 2026 - July 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morin Jean (circa 1590-1650); Champaigne Philippe de (1602-1674) | Memento Mori |
circa 1645-50 | GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 48,260.00 | |
| 2 | Goltzius Hendrick (1558-1617); Passe Simon de (1595-1647); Passe Crispijn de II (1564-1637); Bossi Benigno (1727-1792); Chereau Jacques (1688-1776); Coypel Noel Nicolas (1690-1734) | 4 Books, including: Quis Evadet (Allegory of Transience) |
London | circa 1600; 1612-15; 1760; circa 1737 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
| 3 | Swanenburg Willem van (1581/82-1612); Woudanus Jan Cornelis (circa 1570-1615) | The Anatomical Theatre of the University of Leiden |
Leiden | 1610 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 22,860.00 |
| 4 | Hondius Hendrick (1573-1650) | Still Life with Skull, Sandglass, Books, and Artist’s Utensils |
1626 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 4,064.00 | |
| 5 | Hollar Wenceslaus (1607-1677); Vinci Leonardo da (1452-1519); Morgenstern Johann Friedrich (1777-1844) | 4 Books, including: Three Etchings of Skulls |
1645; 1651; 1652; 1797 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,064.00 | |
| 6 | Schenck Pieter (1660-1718/19) | Vanitas Still Life |
circa 1688 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,826.00 | |
| 7 | Monogrammist IEN | Five Still Lifes of Fruit and Vegetables |
late 17th century | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 2,540.00 | |
| 8 | Saenredam Jan (1565-1607); Goltzius Hendrick (1558-1617); Bosse Abraham (1602-1678); Zetter Jakob von | 3 Books, including: Market Scene with erotic Overtones |
Frankfurt | 1615; circa 1632-33; 1624 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,270.00 |
| 9 | Matham Jacob (1571-1631); Aertsen Pieter (1508-1575) | Three Kitchen and Market Scenes with Biblical Scenes in the Background |
1603 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 889.00 | |
| 10 | Collaert Adriaen (circa 1560-1618); Bol Hans (1534-1593) | Three Market Scenes |
1582 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 11 | Van de Velde Esaias (1587-1630) | Square Landscape with Travellers |
Haarlem | circa 1616-19 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,270.00 |
| 12 | Morin Jean (1590-1650); Fouquieres Jacques (1590-1659) | Four large upright Landscapes |
circa 1625-50 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 5,715.00 | |
| 13 | Lens Bernard II (1659-1725); Van Poelenburgh Cornelis (1594-1667) | Landscape with Ruins and bathing Women; Landscape with a formal terraced Garden with Fountains |
circa 1680-1706; circa 1686-1725 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 14 | Hollar Wenceslaus (1607-1677) | Map of London after the Great Fire |
London | 1666 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 15 | Piranesi Giovanni Battista (1710-1778) | Frontispiece with the Statue of Minerva |
circa 1748 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 16 | Canal Antonio (1697-1768) | Mestre |
circa 1735-46 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 17 | Kolbe Carl Wilhelm (1759-1835) | Youth playing a Lyre to a Maiden by a Fountain |
1802-03 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 | |
| 18 | Clerk John (1728-1812) | Dumbarton Castle looking down the River Clyde |
circa 1770-82 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 635.00 | |
| 19 | Goudt Hendrik (1585-1630); Elsheimer Adam (1578-1610) | The Flight into Egypt |
1613 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,810.00 | |
| 20 | Seupel Johann Adam (1662-1717) | A Comet above Strasbourg at Night |
circa 1682 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 31,750.00 | |
| 21 | Van de Velde Jan II (1593-1641) | The Sorceress |
1626 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 4,445.00 | |
| 22 | Duvet Jean (1485-1570) | The Angel of God locking up Satan |
circa 1546-55 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 23 | Matham Jacob (1571-1631); Spranger Bartholomeus (1546-1611) | The Vestal Virgin Tuccia proving her Innocence |
1608 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 | |
| 24 | Bellange Jacques (1575-1616) | The Annunciation |
circa 1613-16 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 8,255.00 | |
| 25 | Callot Jacques (1592-1635) | La tentation de Saint Antoine |
1634 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 33,020.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000