Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 52826, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balbus Johannes | Catholicon |
Mainz | c.1460-69 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,442.40 |
| 2 | Alexander of Aphrodisias | De anima ex Aristotelis institutione |
Brescia | 1495 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,986.00 |
| 3 | Pierre de Limoges | De oculo morali |
Venice | 1496 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,972.00 |
| 4 | Foresti da Bergamo Jacobus | De claris mulieribus |
Ferrara | 1497 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 18,536.00 |
| 5 | Aristotle | Opera |
Venice | 1497 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 9,930.00 |
| 6 | Euripides | Tragoediae |
Venice | 1503 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme |
Paris | 1504 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 13,240.00 | |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | L'Amoroso Convivio |
Venice | 1529 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 926.80 |
| 9 | Purstinger Berthold | Onus ecclesiae |
Cologne | 1531 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 794.40 |
| 10 | Gobler Justin | Gerichtlicher process ausz grund der rechten und gemeyner uebung zum fleissigsten in drei theyl verfasset |
Frankfurt | 1536 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | Colonna Francesco | La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo |
Venice | 1545 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 19,860.00 |
| 12 | Kimchi David | Sefer ha-shorashim |
Venice | 1546 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 662.00 |
| 13 | Cardano Girolamo | De Rerum Varietate Libri XVII |
Basel | 1557 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,853.60 |
| 14 | Trubar Primus | Der catechismus mit kurtzen ausslegungen symbolum Athanasij |
Tubingen; Bad Urach | 1561 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 22,508.00 |
| 15 | Camerarius Joachim | Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria |
Nuremberg | 1590 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,986.00 |
| 16 | Botero Giovanni | Le Relationi Universali |
Venice | 1618-17 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,177.60 |
| 17 | Sciadrensis Isaac | Grammatica Linguae Syriacae |
Rome | 1636 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,986.00 |
| 18 | Abrabanel Isaac | Peirush al Nevi'im Acharonim |
Amsterdam | 1641-42 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 993.00 |
| 19 | Gassendi Pierre | De vita et moribus Epicuri libri octo |
Lyon | 1647 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,588.80 |
| 20 | Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de | Vida y Hechos Del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha |
Brussels | 1662 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir |
Shuwayr | 1776 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,118.40 | |
| 22 | Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir |
Shuwayr | 1818 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,588.80 | |
| 23 | Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir |
Shuwayr | 1861 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,324.00 | |
| 24 | Hymnologia Damulica |
Tranquebar | 1723 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 26,480.00 | |
| 25 | Garcia Cuesta Miguel | Catecismo para uso del pueblo acerca del protestantismo |
Ponce | 1869 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,257.80 |
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Freeman’s
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Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
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