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Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Platina (Bartholomeo)

Opus de vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum...

Koln 1562 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
77 Guicciardini (Lodovico)

Commentarii...libri tre

Venice 1565 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
78 Jansen (Cornelius)

Commentaria in Proverbia Salomonis, in quibus vulgata nostra lectio sic tractatur ut...

Leuven 1568 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
79 Camerarius (Joachim)

Emblemata.- Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Tres...

[Heidelberg] 1605 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
80 Bonaventura da Bagnorea (Santo)

Vita del serafico S. Francesco tradotta in volgare et di nuovo aggiuntovi le figure...

1608 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
81

Russia seu Moscovia itemque Tartaria...

Leiden 1630 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
82 Erasmus (Desiderius)

Elzevier.- Colloquia nunc emendatiora

1636 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
83 Grotius (Hugo)

Elzevier.- Gotthorum, Vandalorum, & Langobardorum

1655 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
84 Erasmus (Desiderius)

Colloquia, cum notis...

Leiden 1655 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
85 Mattheus (Antonius)

Notae & Animadversiones in libros IV institutionum Juris imper

Amsterdam 1657 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
86 Scultetus (Johannes)

Surgery.- Armamentarium Chirurgicum

Venice 1665 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
87 Wicquefort (van) (Abraham)

Diplomatic immunity.- L'Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions

The Hague 1681-80 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
88 Broen (Johan)

Bile.- Exercitatio physico-medica de duplici bile veterum

Leiden 1685 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
89 Jaques (Jacque)

Mortality.- Le Faut-mourir et les excuses inutiles qu'on apporte a cette necessite

Lyon 1691 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
90 Spanheim (Friedrich)

Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne fidelement tire'e de la dissentation Latine

Cologne [?but Amsterdam] 1695 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
91 [Le Lorrain de Vallemont (Pierre)]

Dowsing.- Suite de la Physique Occulte

Paris 1696 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
92 Casparo (Joanne Baptista)

Locustae de puteo abyssi exeuntes, sive tragici tum spirituales...

Salzburg 1706 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
93

L'Amour en Fureur, ou les Excez de la Jalousie Italienne

Cologne 1710 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
94 Virgilius Maro (Publius)

Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Aproniano V.C. distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana...

Florence 1741 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
95 Haller (Albrecht von)

Bones.- Deux Memoires sur la Formation des Os

Lausanne 1758 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
96 [Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de)]

Le Temple de Gnide

Paris 1772 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
97

Binding.- Almanach Royal

Paris 1784 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
98

Koran.- Koran ofversatt fran arabiska originalet

Stockholm 1843 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
99 Engels (Friedrich)

Economics.- Held (Friedrich Wilhelm) Held's Volksvertreter

Berlin January-December 1846 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
100 Rimbaud (Arthur, French poet, 1854-1891)

Carte-de-visite portrait ?of the author

West London [?1870s] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
  • 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.