Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, 23736, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | LA VACQUERIE, Jean de (d. 1497) | De multiplici haereticorum tentatione |
Paris | 1560 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 52 | SCHMIDEL, Ulrich (1511-c.1570), [STADEN, Hans (1525-1576)] and others | Neuwe Welt: das ist Warhaffttige Beschreibunge aller schoenen Historien von Erfindung viler unbekanten Koenigreichen, Landschaftten, Insulen und Stedten |
GOLDWURM | (1524-1559) | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 |
| 53 | MARITIME LAW -- Ley de como ham de hir armados os Navios que destes Reynos navegaren |
Lisbon | 1574 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 | |
| 54 | ALBUQUERQUE, Afonso de (1501-1581) | Commentarios do Grande Afonso Dalboquerque |
Lisbon | 1576 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 55 | LEAO, Duarte Nunez de (c.1530-1608) | Orthographia da lingoa Portuguesa |
Lisbon | 1576 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,540.00 |
| 56 | BENZONI, Girolamo (c.1520--not before 1572) | Histoire nouvelle du nouveau monde |
[Geneva] | 1579 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 57 | [Jesuit] -- Regras da Companhia de Iesu |
Lisbon | 1582 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 | |
| 58 | CORTE-REAL, Jeronimo (1535--1588) | Naufragio e lastimoso sucesso da perdicam de Manuel de Sousa de Sepulveda |
[Lisbon] | 1594 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 59 | PIMENTA, Nicolao (fl. 16/17th centuries) | Cartas que o padre Nicolao Pimenta da Companhia de Iesv Visitador nas partes do Oriente da mesma companhia, escreveo ao Geral della a 26 |
Lisbon | 1602 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 60 | FERNANDEZ FERREIRA, Diego | Arte da cacada Altaneria |
Lisbon | 1616 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 61 | Historia da muy notavel perda do Galeam Grande S. Joam |
Lisbon | [c.1625/1633] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 62 | SHIPWRECKS -- Three 18th-cenutry Portuguese counterfeit maritime pamphlets |
Lisbon | 1625 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 | |
| 63 | Collection of six Portuguese pamphlets on Brazil, 1625--1757 |
Lisbon | 1625 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 12,065.00 | |
| 64 | SACRO BOSCO, Johannes de (fl. c.1230) | Sphaera mundi |
Venice | 6 July 1482 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 21,590.00 |
| 65 | MORE, Thomas (1478-1535) | Latin document signed ("Tho. More Kt.") |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 33,020.00 | ||
| 66 | ERASMUS, Desiderius (c.1466--1536) | Morie Encomion, in German |
[Ulm] | [1534] | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 67 | PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-178) | La Geographia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino |
Venice | [1547-]1548 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 33,020.00 |
| 68 | PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius (c.100-170) | La Geografia |
Venice | 1561 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 69 | VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (fl. 1st Century B.C.E.) De Architectura | De Architectura |
Venice | 1567 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,890.00 |
| 70 | QUEEN ELIZABETH I (1533-1603) | spr thylym. (Sepher Tehilim). [Books of Psalms] |
Antwerp | 1581 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 |
| 71 | MONARDES, Nicholas (c.1512-1588) | Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found World |
London | 1596 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 72 | [GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)], Georg GALGEMAIR (1564-1619), and Georg BRENTEL the younger (1581-1634) | Kurtzer grundlicher gebesserter unnd vermehrter Underricht, zubereitung und gebrauch, der hochnutzlichen mathematischen Instrumenten, Porportional Schregmass und Circkels |
Ulm | 1615 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,302.00 |
| 73 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) and Matthias BERNEGGER (1582-1640) | Tractatus de proportionum instrumento |
Strasbourg | 1635 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 74 | KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) | Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus Astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae Restauratio continetur |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 | ||
| 75 | STELLUTI, Francesco (1577-1652) | Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuovamente scoperto nel quale brevemente si accenna la varia, & mutabil natura di detto legno |
Rome | 1637 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 5,334.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
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