Sothebys: Continental Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music comprising Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, ASCENSION,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 28, 1992 - May 28, 1992
Page Size: 702 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BARTOLI (COSIMO) DEL MODO DI MISURARE LE DISTANTIE VENICE

1564

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 880.00
2 BUTEO (JOANNES) OPERA GEOMETRIC A Lyons

1554

 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
3 CANTONE (OBERTO) L'USO PRATTICO DELL'ARTIMETICA. . .nel quale. . . s'insegna in materia di conti NAPLES

1599

 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 825.00
4 DANFRIE (PHILIPPE) DECLARATION DE L'USAGE DU GRAPHOMETRE PARIS

1597

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,200.00
5 DURER (ALBRECHT) DE SYMMETRIA PARTIUM IN RECTIS FORMIS HUMANORUM CORPORUM NUREMBERG

1532

 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 5,720.00
6 MAGAZIN ALLER NEUEN ERFINDUNGEN LEIPZIG

[1797]-1837

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
7 STRUVE (FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM) STELLARUM DUPLICIUM ET MULTIPLICIUM MENSURAE MICROMETRICAE

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
8 MERCADO (TOMAS DE) DE NEGOTII ET CONTRATTI DE MERCANTI ET DE NEGOTIANTI. . .nel quale. . .si tratta di vendite BRESCIA

1591

 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 1,100.00
9 NAUSEA (FRIDERICUS) LIBRI MIRABILIUM SEPTEM

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
10 [NEWTON (Sir ISAAC)] OPTICKS

1704

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 4,950.00
11 PAULUS AEGINETA LA CHIRURGIE. . .Qui est le sixiesme livre de ses oeuvres LYONS

1540

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 1,265.00
12 [PERRAULT (CLAUDE)] MEMOIRS FOR A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS

GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,320.00
13 RODLER (HIERONYMUS) PERSPECTIVA FRANKFURT

1546

 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 2,310.00
14 AUGUSTINUS (AURELIUS, Saint) DE CIVITATE DEI

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,870.00
15 BIRGITTA (Saint) REVELATIONES SANCTAE BRIGITTAE Lubeck

25 November 1492

 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
16 BIBLE BASLE

27 JUNE 1491

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,300.00
17 BOOK-BOX Lombardy

GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 9,900.00
18 CEPOLLA (BARTHOLOMAEUS) [DE SERVITUTIBUS PRAEDIORUM] ROME

1475

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
19 CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) ORATIONES VENICE

[not after 9 November] 1471

 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
20 DIOGENES LAERTIUS VITAE ET SENTENTIAE PHILOSOPHORUM Brescia

23 November 1485

 GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,430.00
21 GUARINUS VERONENSIS REGULAE GRAMMATICES PARMA

C. 1492

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 3,300.00
22 Diomedes DE ARTE GRAMMATICA OPUS UTILISSIMUM Venice

12 June 1495

 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 715.00
23 DUNS SCOTUS (JOHANNES) QUESTIONES QUO[D]LIBETALES VENICE

3 FEBRUARY 1497/8

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
24 GREGORY IX, Pope DECRETALES

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,925.00
25 ISABELLA I OF CASTILE (the Catholic) LETTER SIGNED ("yo la reyna")

2 SEPTEMBER 1483

 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 1,320.00
26 JUVENALIS (DECIMUS JUNIUS) SATYRAE

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 660.00
27 LACTANTIUS (LUCIUS COELIUS FIRMIANUS) OPERA

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
28 PSALTER

USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
29 SCHEDEL (HARTMANN) LIBER CHRONICARUM Nuremberg

12 July 1493

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 17,600.00
30 NICOLAUS DE AUSMO [SUPPLEMENTUM PISANELLAE ET CANONES POENITENTIALES FRATRIS ASTENSIS] [Venice]

[not after 28 July 1473]

 USD 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
31 Vivianus Freiburg im Breisgau

1494?

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
32 URBANUS

GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 6,600.00
33 VERSE ITALY

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 6,380.00
34 BIBLE PARIS

1544-1546

 USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
35 BIBLE BASLE

1569

 GBP 900.00 - 1,000.00 1,320.00
36 BOISSARD (JEAN JACQUES) ICONES. . .VIRORUM ILLUSTRIUM doctrina & eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae FRANKFURT

1597-1599

 USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
37 BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) DE CLARIS MULIERIBUS

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,650.00
38 CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) ORATIONUM volumen secundum Paris

1543

 USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
39 CONSEIL (LE) DES SEPT SAGES DE GRECE PARIS

1548

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
40 DRUSIUS (JOHANNES) QUESTIONUM AC RESPONSIUM LIBER

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
41 EMBROIDERED BINDING MAGDEBURG

1595

 GBP 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,980.00
42 DOLCE (LODOVICO) DIALOGO NEL QUALE SI RAGIONA DEL MODO DI ACCRESCERE E CONSERVAR LA MEMORIA VENICE

1562

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 715.00
43 FLORENCE FLORENCE

1563-1583

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
44 EQUESTRIANISM

[C.1580-1600]

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,300.00
45 GALATINO (PIETRO) OPUS TOTI CHRISTIANAE REIPUBLICAE. . .De arcanis catholicae veritatis contra obstantissimam ludaeorum nostrae tempestatis perfidiam ORTONA

1518

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
46 GEILER VON KAISERSBERG (JOHANNES) DAS IRRIG SCHAF [and six other works] STRASSBURG

[c.1510]

 GBP 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 7,480.00
47 GRISONE (FEDERICO) ORDINI DI CAVALCARE PESARO

1557

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 990.00
48 HUTTEN (ULRICH VON) NEMO, large woodcut on title-page by Hans Weiditz AUGSBURG

[1518]

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 935.00
49 JACOBUS DE VORAGINE LA LEGENDE DOREE en francoys nouvellement imprimee Lyons

1518

 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,860.00
50 KANTZ (CASPAR) DIE HISTORIA DES LEYDENS UNSERS HERRN JESU CHRISTI NUREMBERG

1555 (dated 1558)

 GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 770.00
51 MAXIMUS BASLE

1519

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
52 LlTURGIA SUECANAE ECCLESIAE CATHOLICAE & ORTHODOXAE CONFORMIS

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
53 MEURSIUS (JOANNES) EXERCITATIONUM CRITICARUM PARTES II Leiden

1599

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 550.00
54 MORE (Sir THOMAS) DE OPTIMO REIP BASLE

March 1518

 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 8,800.00
55 PETRARCA (FRANCESCO) [OPERA] VENICE

1503

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,320.00
56 OROSIUS (PAULUS) ADVERSUS PAGANOS HISTORIARUM LIBRI SEPTEM

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
57 PETRARCA (FRANCESCO) DE REBUS MEMORANDI. . .inns Teutsch gebracht durch M. Stephanum Vigilium Pacimontanum und mit schonen Figuren gezieret

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 880.00
58 PHILIP II LETTER SIGNED ("Yo el Rey") MADRID

15 JANUARY 1580

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 2,420.00
59 PETRI (LAURENTIUS) THEN SWENSKA KYRKEORDNINGEN Stockholm

1571

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
60 Pius V, Pope BULLA LECTA IN DIE CŒN/E DOMINI Rome

1566

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,200.00
61 RUDOLF II (Holy Roman Emperor) Two LETTERS SIGNED ("Rudolff") Prague

11 February 1581 and 21 November 1595

 USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
62 SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) FLORES traduizadas de latin en romance castellano por Iuan Martin Cordero ANTWERP

1555

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 770.00
63 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
64 SPAIN---MORISCOS

1572-1575

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
65 Philip II SPAIN

GBP 4,500.00 - 5,000.00 4,950.00
66 ARBUES (PEDRO DE) SPANISH INQUISITION

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,210.00
67 Swiss CONFEDERATION ILANZ

16 MARCH 1563

 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
68 VERONESE (PAOLO CALIARI, known as) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Paolo Caliari pitore") VENICE

8 JUNE 1578

 GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 1,650.00
69 ARISTOPHANES Greek text, contemporary French red morocco gilt, three-line border [LEIDEN]

1600

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 770.00
70 BIBLE

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 825.00
71 BIBLE

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
72 BIBLE AMSTERDAM

1646

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
73 BIBLE

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
74 BIBLE AMSTERDAM

1602

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 770.00
75 Charles II---[WICQUEFORT (ABRAHAM DE)] RELATION EN FORME DE JOURNAL DU VOYAGE ET SEJOUR QUE. . .Charles II. . .a fait en Hollande depuis le 25 May jusques au 2 juin 1660

GBP 500.00 - 600.00 770.00
76 CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) OPERA Leiden

1642

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 880.00
77 Du FOUILLOUX (JACQUES) LA CACCIA. . .Tradotta di lingua francese da Cesare Parona MILAN

1615

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 935.00
78 CORTONA (PIETRO BERRETTINI, known as Pietro da Cortona) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("pietro Berrettini") to Don Giovanni, master of the household to his patron Cardinal Sacchetti ROME

5 SEPTEMBER 1656

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
79 COMMONPLACE BOOK

USD 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
80 EMBROIDERED BINDING STOCKHOLM

1685

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,650.00
81 GUARINI (BATTISTA) IL PASTOR FIDO LEIDEN

1659

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
82 ELZEVIR PRESS Amsterdam & Leiden

USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
83 HERVARAR SAGA OK HEIDREKS UPPSALA

1672

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
84 HERO, of Alexandria

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 1,320.00
85 KRUL (JAN HERMANSZOON) MINNE-SPIEGEL TER DEUGHDEN Amsterdam

1639

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
86 PLINIUS SEGUNDUS (CAIUS) HISTORIA NATURALIS LEIDEN

1635

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 660.00
87 SENAULT (ELISABETH) HEURES NOUVELLES dediees a Monseigneur Dauphin Paris

[c. 1685]

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
88 SENAULT (LOUIS) HEURES NOUVELLES dediees a Madame La Dauphine Paris

[c. 1683-1690]

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
89 SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) OPERA OMNIA [Joh. Fred. Gronovii ad L. & M. Annaeos Senecas notae] LEIDEN

1649

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 550.00
90 SPINOZA (BARUCH) OPERA POSTHUMA

USD 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
91 [SPINOZA (BARUCH)] DE RECHTZINNIGE THEOLOGANT Hamburg, [but Amsterdam]

1693

 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
92 SYNESIUS

USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
93 THULDEN (THEODOR VAN) REVELATIO ORDINIS SSMAE TRINITATIS REDEMPTIONIS CAPTIVORUM SUB INNOCENTIO TERTIO ANNO 1198 PARIS

1633

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
94 TRAVELLING LIBRARY

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,380.00
95 TRIOD TSEVETNAYA [Service Book] Moscow

1604

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
96 XAVIER (HIERONYMUS) HISTORIA CHRISTI PERSICE. . .reddita & animadversiones notata a Ludovico de Dieu Leiden

1639

 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 660.00
97 ALCHEMY

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 2,200.00
98 ALMANACH ROYAL annee commune MDCCLXXXIX PARIS

[1789]

 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
99 BIBLE NUREMBERG

1720

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 5,280.00
100 ARCHIMBAUD (THEODORE) LES SOLILOQUES DU PECHEUR PENITENT avec Jesus souffrant Lyons

1766

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 550.00
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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