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Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 41. Rare First State of the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1595) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 63. The Largest of the Strada "Leo Belgicus" Editions (1632) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 71. Blaeu's Stunning Carte-a-Figures Map of the Americas (1640) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 8. Mariette's Rare and Decorative Map of the World Based on the Work of Hondius (1642) Est. $4,750 - $6,000Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 172. 1775 Edition of the Landmark Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland (1775) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 46. Doppelmayr's Fine Celestial Chart (1742) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 212. First Edition Ski Country Map by Pioneer Hal Shelton (1965) Est. $500 - $700Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 732. Ruscelli's Complete Atlas with 69 Maps and Updated Maps of the Continents (1599) Est. $8,000 - $9,500Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 329. Ortelius' Map of Iceland Surrounded by Sea Monsters (1585) Est. $11,000 - $13,000Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 600. Heinrich Bunting's Rare Map of Asia in the Form of a Pegasus (1581) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (Nov 11): Lot 716. Bible Leaf with Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Magi (1490) Est. $2,000 - $2,300 -
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 23Ketterer, Nov. 23: L. Feininger, Collection of autograph letters to Alois J. Schardt, 1920-1955. Est: € 150,000-250,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: Flemish book of hours, Ghent-Bruges School around 1480-1500. Est: € 40,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: F. de Wit, Atlas maior, around 1700. Est: € 50,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 23Ketterer, Nov. 23: A. Stieglitz, Camera Work, 48 volumes, 1903-1914. Est: € 60,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. Merian & M. Zeiller, Sämtliche Topographien, 21 volumes, 1642-1736. Est: € 50,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: R. Indiana and R. Creely, Numbers, 1968. Est: € 4,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 23Ketterer, Nov. 23: Salerno Breviarium, Latin manuscript on vellum, North Italy around 1470-1476. Est: € 40,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. S. Merian, Surinaamsche (&) europische Insecten, 1730. Est: € 30,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: M. Beckmann, Jahrmarkt, Portfolio of 10 signed etchings, 1922. Est: € 25,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 23Ketterer, Nov. 23: Justinianus, Infortiatum, 1475. Est: € 10,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: B. Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, around 1750. Est: € 28,000Ketterer, Nov. 23: J. Gris and P. Reverdy, Au soleil du plafond, 1955. Est: € 3,000 -
Heritage, Nov. 18: Orson Welles. Signed Third Revised Final Draft for Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941). July 16, 1940.Heritage, Nov. 18: Bob Dylan. Autograph manuscript working lyrics to "Man on the Street."Heritage, Nov. 18: Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador.Heritage, Nov. 18: Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Inscribed by the author.Heritage, Nov. 18: John Steinbeck. East of Eden. Inscribed by 27 members of the movie cast and crew, including James Dean and Elia Kazan. -
Sotheby’s
Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
November 18, 2026Sotheby’s
Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
November 18, 2026Sotheby’s
Nelson, His Life and His Navy:
The Clive Richards Collection of Letters and Manuscripts
November 18, 2026
Christies: Rare Books and Manuscripts, 24833, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 05, 2026 - November 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 1 | Apianus Petrus (1495-1552); Frisius Gemma (1508-1555) | La Cosmographie |
Paris | 1551 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 28,160.00 |
| 2 | Biblia Hebraica sine punctis |
Amsterdam; Utrecht | 1701 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 896.00 | |
| 3 | Boileau-Despreaux Nicolas (1636-1711) | Oeuvres diverses, avec le Traite du Sublime, ou du Merveilleux dans le discours |
Paris | 1701 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,560.00 |
| 4 | Callot Jacques (1592-1635) | Vita beatae Mariae Virginis; Lux Claustri |
Paris | 1646 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,480.00 |
| 5 | Chappe d’Auteroche Jean (1728-1769);Pauly | Memoire historique du voiage de Californie |
1772 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6 | Coignet Michiel (1549-1623) | Astrolabii sive Ptolemaei Alexandrini planisphaerii descriptio et usus |
Pays-Bas espagnols | after 1610 | EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Colonna Francesco (1433-1527) | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili |
Venise | 1499 | EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | EUR 40,960.00 |
| 8 | Borron Robert de | C’est l’hystoire du sainct Greaal |
Paris | 1523 | EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | EUR 76,800.00 |
| 9 | La Treselegante Delicieuse Melliflue et tresplaisante Hystoire du tres noble victorieux & excellentisime roy Perceforest |
Paris | 1531-1532 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 10 | Descartes Rene (1596-1650) | Lettre autographe signee a Constantijn Huygens |
N/A | EUR 175,000.00 - 250,000.00 | EUR 192,000.00 | |
| 11 | Descartes Rene (1596-1650) | Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la verite dans les sciences |
Leyde | 1637 | EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | EUR 30,720.00 |
| 12 | Diderot Denis (1713-1784);D'Alembert Jean le Rond (1717-1783) | Prospectus de l'Encyclopedie |
Paris | 1750 | EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | EUR 23,040.00 |
| 13 | Diderot Denis (1713-1784);D'Alembert Jean le Rond (1717-1783) | Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des metiers |
Paris;Neufchatel | 1751-1772 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Diderot Denis (1713-1784);Gessner Salomon (1730-1788) | Contes moraux et nouvelles idylles |
Zurich | 1773 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Durer Albrecht (1471-1528) | La Vie de la Vierge |
Nuremberg | 1511 | EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | EUR 179,200.00 |
| 16 | Estienne Robert (1503-1559) | Dictionarium, seu Latinae linguae Thesaurus |
Paris | 1531 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 5,760.00 |
| 17 | Hancarville Pierre-Francois Hugues d’ (1719-1805);David Francois-Anne (1741-1824) | Antiquites etrusques grecques et romaines |
Paris | 1785-1788 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 1,152.00 |
| 18 | Heures a l'usage de Saint-Malo |
Rouen | 1498 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 38,400.00 | |
| 19 | Hore Beate Marie secundum usum Romanum |
Paris | 1507 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 20,480.00 | |
| 20 | Ces presentes heures a l'usaige de Romme |
Paris | [vers 1509] | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 21,760.00 | |
| 21 | Hardouyn Germain | Horae B.M.V. |
Paris | 1541 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Houel Jean-Pierre (1735-1813) | Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari |
Paris | 1782-1787 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,680.00 |
| 23 | Hunter William (1718-1783) | Anatomia uteri humani gravidi |
Birmingham | 1774 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 4,480.00 |
| 24 | Ibn Sina (980-1037) | Kitab Al Qanun fi Al-Tibb |
Rome | 1593 | EUR 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | EUR 115,200.00 |
| 25 | La Condamine Charles Marie de (1701-1774) | Observations sur l’insulaire de Polynesie amene de l’Isle de Tayti par M. de Bougainville |
Paris | 1769 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,376.00 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 19th NovemberForum, Nov. 19: The ‘Saxe-Meiningen Psalter’, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [northern France or adjacent southern Netherlands, second half of the thirteenth century]. £30,000 - £50,000Forum, Nov. 19: Crescenzi (Bartolomeo). Nautica mediterranea, 2 parts in 1, second edition, with rare engraved folding map, Rome, Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1607. £15,000 - £20,000Forum, Nov. 19: Aristotle. [The Works], 10 vol.,, translated by Thomas Taylor, Printed for the Translator... by Robert Wilks, 1807-12. £6,000-8,000Forum
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 19th NovemberForum, Nov. 19: Turing (Alan).- Alan Turing's Slide Rule, engraved initials "A.M.T. Noli Hoc Furari", alongside other ephemera, housed in early 20th-century letter box, [mid.1920s-40s]. £6,000-8,000Forum, Nov. 19: Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus). I Dieci Libri dell'Architettura, translated by Daniele Barbaro, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1556. £7,000-10,000Forum, Nov. 19: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, hardback issue, first printing, Bloomsbury, 1997. £50,000-70,000Forum
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 19th NovemberForum, Nov. 19: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, later impressions, each vol. signed by the author, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1957-58. £15,000-20,000Forum, Nov. 19: Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, [1862]-73; plus a presentation copy of Gould's Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain (6). £35,000-45,000Forum, Nov. 19: Galilei (Galileo). Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari e loro accidenti, comprese in tre lettere scritte all’illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri Linceo, first edition, Rome, 1613. £15,000-20,000Forum
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 19th NovemberForum, Nov. 19: Gersdorff (Hans von). Feldtbuch der Wund-Arzney, enlarged edition, Strassburg, Hans Schotten, 1540. £20,000-30,000Forum, Nov. 19: Kitchin (Thomas). A New Universal Atlas, first edition with maps in full original hand-colouring, Printed and Published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1796. £8,000-12,000Forum, Nov. 19: Cassas (Louis François). Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte, 2 vol., first edition, [Paris], 1799. £10,000-15,000 -
Heritage, Dec. 9: Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? First edition, author Brian Aldiss’ copy.Heritage, Dec. 9: Robert A. Heinlein. Assignment in Eternity. First edition, inscribed by Heinlein to author “Doc” Smith.Heritage, Dec. 9: Frank Herbert. Dune. First edition, inscribed by Herbert to his literary agent.Heritage, Dec. 9: J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. First edition, first impression, in an unrestored dust jacket.Heritage, Dec. 9: Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Exceedingly rare, perhaps unique variant, English sheets bound in an American Osgood binding.Heritage, Dec. 9: Isaac Asimov. The Naked Sun. First edition, inscribed by Asimov to Alex Berman, founder of Phantasia Press.