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Auction Info

Auction Name
Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date
12/27/2025 - 12/27/2025
Sale Number
#122725
Total Lots
60
Sold Lots
60.0
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (EUR)
3,359.38
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
5,570.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
7,270.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
5,570.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
7,270.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
46.21%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100129848

The Astronomer from Messahalah's book 'De scientia motus orbis'

1504 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 187.48
100130375

The Nativity by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528),

1502 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 180.94
100015695

Hartmann Schedel - The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) - Folio 182

1493 Not Available EUR 154.78
100104970 Paris, Antoine Verard, 1510

Printed Book of Hours on Vellum with big metal engraving and engraved borders

1510 EUR 375.00 - 450.00 EUR 147.15
100005891 Sebastian Munster

Cosmographia

1590 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 112.27
100013557

Paul van Somers [Francis Willoughby] - Smooth Toadfish, Crayracion - Folio

1686 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 106.82
98351331 Vostre

Leaf from a book of hours, printed on vellum

1502 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 93.74
99984244

Der doppelkopfige Janus (Giano bifronte)

Not Available EUR 90.47
99996317

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - birds: Blackbirds and Starlings

1657 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 85.02
99995066

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio: Bugs, wasps, flies, insects

1657 Not Available EUR 82.84
100096222

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio, Triggerfish, Torpedo Fish, Rays

1657 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 81.75
99994139

Leonhard Fuchs - Large folio with large woodcut, Sea Onion

1543 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 75.21
99995731

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - birds: Hazel Grouse; Bustard; Tern; Plover species

1657 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 75.21
100012298

2 Large folios - Giorgio Liberale; W. Meyerpeck - Botany: Cardamom, Nardus Indica

1565 Not Available EUR 74.12
100095570

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - hand coloured folio, Elephant with Rider, Mammal

1657 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 71.94
100015051

Cristoforo Coriolano (1540-?) - Great White Sharks, folio hand coloured woodcut leaf

1638 Not Available EUR 70.85
99996097

Matthaus Merian (b1593) - hand col. folio: Breeds of Domesticated Dogs

1657 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 69.76
98351287 Vostre

Leaf from a book of hours, printed on vellum

1502 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 64.31
100096793

Giorgio Liberale; W. Meyerpeck - Folio, 2 large woodcuts, Botany, herbs: Couch Grass (Gramen)

1565 Not Available EUR 63.22
100013181

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) handcol. Folio - Birds: Sparrows, Passerines

1657 Not Available EUR 61.04

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  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000