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Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 303 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Marcus Tullius Cicero

De finibus bonorum et malorum ad M. Brutum libri quinque

Paris 1544 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
27 Andrea Alciato

Diverse imprese accommodate a diverse moralita...

Lyon 1551 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 952.50
28 Giovanni Battista da Monte

Expectatissimae in Aphorismos Hippocratis lectiones

Venice 1553 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
29 Publius Terentius Afer

Comeodiae

Lyon 1557 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 304.80
30 Gabriel Simeoni

Le sententiose imprese di monsignor Paulo Giouio...

Lyon 1562 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 381.00
31 Andrea Alciatus

Omnia emblemata...

Lyon 1580 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 952.50
32 Aesop

Emblemata.- Aesop. Fabulae...

Paris 1585 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
33 Publius Ovidius Naso

Metamorphoses argumentis brevioribus...

Antwerp 1591 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 635.00
34 Giovanni Battista Della Porta

Della Fisonomia dell'Huomo

Padova 1613 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
35 Natale Conti

Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum libri decem

Padova 1616 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
36 Enea Vico

Augustarum imagines aereis formis expressae

Paris 1619 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
37 Joannes Meursius

Pisistratus, sive de ejus vita & tyrannide, liber singularis

Leiden 1623 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 228.60
38 Maximillian de Bethune, Duc de Sully

Memoires de Sages et Royales Oeconomies d'Estat, Domestiques, Politiques et Militaires de Henry le Grand

Amstelredam [sic] [& Paris] early 19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 533.40
39 Johann Heinrich Hottinger

Thesaurus philologicus, seu clavis scripturae: qua quiquid fere Orientalium, Hebraeorum maxime & Arabum

Zurich, 1659 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 114.30
40 Fajardo Diego de Saavedra

Idea principis christiano-politici, symbolis CI expressa

Paris 1660 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 279.40
41 Johann Kirchmann

De Funeribus Romanorum...

Leiden 1672 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 203.20
42 Leonardo Agostini

Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depictae, second edition

Franeker 1694 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
43 Jacques-Joseph Le Maire

Les Voyages du sieur Le Maire aux isles Canaries, Cap-Verd, Senegal et Gambie sous M. Dancourt

Paris 1695 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 533.40
44

Bible, French & Latin. La Sainte Bible Traduite en Francois, le Latin de la Vulgate a cote...

1701 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
45 Pieter Marin

Groot Nederduitsch en Fransch Woorden-Boek

Dordrecht &Amsterdam 1730 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
46 Nicolas Dutot

Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances, et le Commerce

A la Haye 1740 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
47 Jan Jacob Schultens

Dissertationis academicae de utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam intergritatem codicis Hebraei

Leiden 1742 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
48 Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi

Alphabetum Hebraicum addito Samaritano et Rabbinico...

Rome 1771 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
49 William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Traduit de l'Anglois, Dedie au Roi, 20 vol., translated by Pierre Le Tourneur

Paris 1776-83 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
50 Jean Jacques Rousseau

Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau, suivies a des Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire, 2 vol.

Geneva 1782 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 508.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.