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 | Unknown |
| 27 | Aulus Gellius (125-180 AD) | Noctes atticae (excerpta) |
Italy | second half 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 30 | A narrative of the Passion | Meditationes super passionem Jesu Christi |
Germany, ? Wurzburg, | final quarter 15th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 33 | Master of Sant' Agnese di Valdipietra | The Throne of Mercy |
Bologna | circa 1295-1300 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 35 | Venetian illuminator | Bishop Saint |
Italy, Venice | circa 1350 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 36 | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | La Divina Commedia |
Florence | mid-14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Unknown |
| 37 | Dunois Master | Lancelot dining with a knight and his sweetheart |
France, Paris | circa 1440 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 39 | Lombard illuminator | St Benedict |
Italy, Lombardy | final quarter 15th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 40 | North Italian illuminator | St James the Less |
Italy, Emilia, perhaps Ferrara | circa 1480s | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 41 | Spanish illuminator | The Nativity |
Spain, possibly Granada, Monastery of Baza? | circa 1510 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 42 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Christ on the Donkey |
north-eastern Italy, possibly Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 43 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone | Skull and bone |
north-eastern Italy, probably Venice | circa 1520-30 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 44 | The Spanish Forger (fl.1890s-1920s) | A Game of Dice |
Paris | early 20th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 45 | 10th-century Gospels | Gospels |
Germany, ?Essen Abbey | circa 900 | GBP 700,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 | Unknown |
| 46 | The Morgan 183 Group | Psalter-Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Brabant or Hainault | circa 1280 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 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 | Unknown |
| 48 | Workshop of Willem Vrelant (d.1481) | Book of Hours |
Southern Netherlands, Bruges | circa 1470s | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 49 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
France, Rouen | circa 1470 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Unknown |
| 50 | Workshop of the Master of the Rouen Echevinage | Book of Hours |
Rouen | circa 1475 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
![<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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
