Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Theodorus Gaza (c.1400 - c.1475) | Introduction to Grammar |
Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 107,950.00 |
| 27 | Aulus Gellius (125-180 AD) | Noctes atticae (excerpta) |
Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,096.00 |
| 28 | St Bonaventure, St Bernard and Jordanus de Quedlinburg | Speculum de perfecto modo vivendi |
Germany or Netherlands, | 1472 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 29 | Appian (d. c. 165) | Bella civilia (part of the Historiarum Romanarum libri XI) |
Italy, ? Verona | third quarter 15th century | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 30 | A narrative of the Passion | Meditationes super passionem Jesu Christi |
Germany, ? Wurzburg, | final quarter 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,525.00 |
| 31 | Workshop of the First Master of the Cortona Antiphonaries | Christ Blessing |
Tuscany, perhaps Arezzo or Sansepolcro, | circa 1250-75 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 11,430.00 |
| 32 | Umbrian or Tuscan illuminator | Blessing Christ and David playing the harp attended by an angel |
Italy, Umbria or Tuscany | final decade 13th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 7,112.00 |
| 33 | Master of Sant' Agnese di Valdipietra | The Throne of Mercy |
Bologna | circa 1295-1300 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 |
| 34 | Berardo da Teramo (fl. 1325-1350) | The Virgin blessed by the hand of God |
Italy, Teramo | 2nd quarter 14th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 35 | Venetian illuminator | Bishop Saint |
Italy, Venice | circa 1350 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 |
| 36 | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | La Divina Commedia |
Florence | mid-14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 44,450.00 |
| 37 | Dunois Master | Lancelot dining with a knight and his sweetheart |
France, Paris | circa 1440 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 12,700.00 |
| 38 | Circle of the Master of the Franciscan Breviary | God the Father sending forth the Holy Spirit |
Italy, Lombardy | circa 1460 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 39 | Lombard illuminator | St Benedict |
Italy, Lombardy | final quarter 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | North Italian illuminator | St James the Less |
Italy, Emilia, perhaps Ferrara | circa 1480s | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
| 41 | Spanish illuminator | The Nativity |
Spain, possibly Granada, Monastery of Baza? | circa 1510 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 8,255.00 |
| 42 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Christ on the Donkey |
north-eastern Italy, possibly Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 43 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Skull and bone |
north-eastern Italy, probably Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 44 | The Spanish Forger (fl.1890s-1920s) | A Game of Dice |
Paris | early 20th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 |
| 45 | 10th-century Gospels | Gospels |
Germany, ?Essen Abbey | circa 900 | GBP 700,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 | GBP 889,000.00 |
| 46 | The Morgan 183 Group | Psalter-Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Brabant or Hainault | circa 1280 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 44,450.00 |
| 47 | Little Book of Cistercian Statutes of Garendon Abbey | Libellus Statutorum Cisterciensis ordinis |
England, Leicestershire, Garendon Abbey | first half 15th century | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 35,560.00 |
| 48 | Workshop of Willem Vrelant (d.1481) | Book of Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Bruges | circa 1470s | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 57,150.00 |
| 49 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
France, Rouen | circa 1470 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 19,050.00 |
| 50 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
Rouen | circa 1475 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 24,130.00 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7f9e9df2-b83a-40aa-a1b7-a535a02705d5.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/1832c377-f148-4e66-ba22-33bef01d81a7.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df958814-0689-4876-8b73-cfe5c0c6ad24.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9d2762bc-9f26-47ef-96de-1c28070e19f6.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df7dd9ac-f0d0-4cb3-a44d-2731758530e4.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/c40bad29-8cb5-4347-a0fd-5361d39e84a5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b7fdee12-4803-4d32-9330-a5729091cb92.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a06cc0dd-7619-45e9-b155-5ad75ed7b2e5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000")