Christies: Valuable Printed Books, Manuscripts and Historical Documents of the 13th to 17th Centuries from various sources, which will be sold at Auction by CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS LTD. J. A. FLOYD, A. G. GRIMWADE, GUY HANNEN, M.C., THE HON. PATRICK LINDSAY, JO, Mar101976,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 10, 1976 - March 10, 1976
Page Size: 214 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
199 Hepburn (Patrick, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, Great Admiral of Scotland) Doc. S., Precept of Seisin by Patrick Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell to William Hepburn of the lands of Rowaldstong Edinburgh

14 April, 1529

 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 Unknown
200 Elizabeth I Letters under the Privy Seal concerning disputed lands in Winterton [Lincolnshire or Norfolk] Westminster

30 October, 1567

 GBP 75.00 - 100.00 Unknown
201 HILL (ROGER) INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH LEGAL RECORD 1639-1657

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
202 QUAKERS--AN EARLY MANUSCRIPT: THE ACCOUNT OF THE MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD VULGARLY CALLED QUAKERS

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
203 SPANISH PRAYER BOOK, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Bruges

1545

 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
204 PORTUGUESE CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT Portugal

c. 1640

 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
205 CASTRO (JOAO DE), VICEROY OF THE INDIES (1500-1548) ROTEIRO DA VIAGEM DE GOA, ATE SUEZ, no qual se descrevem todos os portos, alturas, sondas, demarcacoes, diferencas da agulha que ha no mar Roxo Portugal

early 17th Century

 GBP 800.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
206 BIBLIA LATINA, Old Testament, Apocrypha, New Testament and 'Interpretatio Nominum Hebraeorum', MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
207 BIBLE. NEW TESTAMENT. EPISTLES WITH GLOSSES, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM probably North Italy

c. 1150

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
208 BOOK OP HOURS, in Latin with Calendar in French, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Northern France

last quarter of the 15th Century

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
209 Book of Offices, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM Flanders or Northern France

c. 1470

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
210 BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN Central France

third quarter of the 15th Century

 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
211 ISIDORE OF SEVILLE (ST.) Sententiarum Libri Tres, and four other works attributed to St. Augustine and Jean Gerson, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
212 Genealogies of the Kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, MANUSCRIPT VELLUM SCROLL [English]

[c. 1380]

 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.