L'Autographe Auctions: A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale from L’Autographe Auction, 8, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 19, 2026 - May 19, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea Lisi | Collection of Papal Political Letters |
N/A | GBP 200.00 - 500.00 | GBP 525.00 | |
| 2 | Tommaso Alghisi | Litotomia Ovvero del Cavar la Pietra |
Venice | 1708 | GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 625.00 |
| 3 | Theodor Mayden | Trattato della natura del vino e del bere caldo e freddo |
Roma | 1608 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,000.00 |
| 4 | Atlante di Botanica |
N/A | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,125.00 | ||
| 6 | Sante Arduino | Opus de venenis |
Basel | 1562 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 7 | Gio. Battista Armenini | De' veri precetti della pittura |
Ravenna | 1587 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 750.00 |
| 8 | Divi Aurelii Augustini | De consensu Evangelistarum, Libri quatuor |
Koln | 1539 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 137.50 |
| 9 | Avogadro; Cauchy; Legendre; Prony; Monge | Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises |
1810–1841 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,000.00 | |
| 10 | Andrea Bacci | De Thermis |
Pavia | 1711 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | Jacques Blondel; Jacques Mesnard | Dissertation physique sur la force de l'imagination des femmes enceintes sur le fetus |
Leyden; Paris | 1737; 1743 | GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Bussi | Istoria della Citta' di Viterbo |
Roma | 1742 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) | Supplimento alla Esposizione ragionata della controversia che sussiste tra la Repubblica di Venezia e quella d'Olanda |
Venice | 1785 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Giovanni Costeo | De igneis medicinae praesidiis libri duo |
Venice | 1595 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Guy De Chauliac | Chirurgia |
Lyon | 1572 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 16 | Rembert Dodoens | Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Sive Libri XXX |
Antwerpen | 1616 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,375.00 |
| 17 | Guillame Dupuytren | Memoire sur une maniere nouvelle de pratiquer l'operation de la pierre |
Paris | 1836 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | Ognibene Ferrari | De arte medica infantium, libri quatuor |
Brescia | 1577 | GBP 2,600.00 - 3,600.00 | GBP 3,750.00 |
| 19 | Girolamo Fracastoro | Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus |
ca. 1530 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,500.00 | |
| 20 | Bartolomeo Frigerio | Arte d'acquistar, e conservar la robba, e la riputatione d'una famiglia, e d'una corte |
Rome | 1650 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 21 | Guilielmi Harveji | Exercitationes anatomicae, De motu Cordis et Sanguinis Circulatione |
Rotterdam | 1654 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,500.00 |
| 22 | Homer | Odyssey; Iliad |
Venezia | 1524 | GBP 2,600.00 - 3,600.00 | GBP 5,250.00 |
| 23 | Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Taurinensis |
Turin | 1759–1773 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 | |
| 24 | Legendre | Essai sur la Theorie des Nombres |
Paris | 1808; 1816 | GBP 300.00 - 600.00 | GBP 200.00 |
| 25 | Ramon Llull | Arbor Scientiae |
Lyon | 1636 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 26 | Andrea Lugiato | Osservazioni sopra l'opuscolo che ha per titolo Arte Magica Dileguata |
Venezia | 1750 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 575.00 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.