Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern, L26403, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Cellarius Andreas | Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus |
Amsterdam | 1708 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 24,320.00 |
| 28 | Cervantes Saavedra Miguel | Don Quixote |
Madrid | 1780 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 9,600.00 |
| 29 | Flemming Abraham | A Panoplie of Epistles |
London | 1576 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,664.00 |
| 30 | Fuchs Leonhart | De historia stirpium |
Basel | 1542 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 31 | Holinshed Raphael; Harrison William; Hooker John | The Chronicles |
London | 1586-7 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,840.00 |
| 32 | La Croix Antoine Pherotee | Algemeene Weereld-Beschryving |
Amsterdam | 1705 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 15,360.00 |
| 33 | 22 Books, including: The statutes made and established from the time of Kyng Henry the Thirde |
London | 1543; 1564; 1598; 1551; 1552; 1538; 1557; 1539; 1540; 1542; 1544; 1546; 1555 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 16,640.00 | |
| 34 | More Thomas | The Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance |
London | 1533 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,320.00 |
| 35 | More Thomas | The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght |
London | 1557 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 12,160.00 |
| 36 | Palsgrave John | L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse |
London | 1530 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 4,096.00 |
| 37 | Prevost Nicholaus | Dispensarium... ad aromatarios |
Lyon | 1505 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,040.00 |
| 38 | Ptolemaeus Claudius | Geographicae enarrationis libri octo |
Strassburg | 1525 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 30,720.00 |
| 39 | Philosophical transactions |
London | 1667 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 12,160.00 | |
| 40 | Scot Reginald | The discoverie of witchcraft |
London | 1584 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 23,040.00 |
| 41 | Servetus Michael | De trinitatis erroribus |
France | ND | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 7,680.00 |
| 42 | Spenser Edmund | Complaints, containing sundrie small poems of the worlds vanitie |
London | 1590-1591 | GBP 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,072.00 |
| 43 | Stoll Caspar | Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen |
Amsterdam | 1780-1788 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 44 | Thurneisser Leonhard | Historia und Beschreibung, influentischer, elementischer und naturlicher Wirckungen |
Berlin | 1588 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 7,680.00 |
| 45 | Viete Francois | In artem analyticem isagoge. Eiusdem ad logisticem speciosam notae priores |
Paris | 1631 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,400.00 |
| 46 | Virgil | The whole XII bookes of the Aeneidos |
London | 1573 | GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 47 | Voragine Jacobus de | Legenda aurea |
Cologne | 1485 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 15,360.00 |
| 48 | Wood Robert | The Ruins of Palmyra; The Ruins of Balbec |
London | 1753; 1757 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 49 | Austen Jane | Mansfield Park |
London | 1814 | GBP 24,000.00 - 32,000.00 | GBP 28,160.00 |
| 50 | Banville Aymard de | Album photographique de la mission remplie en Egypte par le vte Emmanuel de Rouge |
Paris | 1865 | GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 54 | Du Camp Maxime | Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie. Dessins Photographiques |
Paris | 1852 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | GBP 53,760.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
Forum Auctions
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