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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Robert Boyvin (active 1487-1536) or associate | Book of Hours |
France, Rouen | circa 1485-90 | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 50,800.00 |
| 52 | Guillaume II Leroy (fl. 1493-1528) | Book of Hours |
France, Lyon | circa 1510 | GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | GBP 139,700.00 |
| 53 | Style of the Master of Dreux Bude; Etienne Colaud | The Cromer Book of Hours |
Paris | circa 1465 and circa 1526 | GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | GBP 127,000.00 |
| 54 | Byzantine musical notation | Papadike |
Ottoman Empire | circa 1700 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,620.00 |
| 55 | [Battle of Lepanto, 1571] | Two scribal manuscripts recording the mobilisation of the Spanish navy |
n.p. Spain | 8 April ny and nd | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 38,100.00 |
| 56 | Ralph Knevet (1600-1671) | Autograph manuscripts of eleven poems from his sequence A Gallery to the Temple |
nd 1640s | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 57 | [India -- Third Anglo-Mysore War and Tipu Sultan]. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Skelly (1751-1793) | Autograph and fair-copy journals |
22 October 1788 - 1 August 179 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 21,590.00 | |
| 58 | Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) | Autograph letter signed ('Bronte Nelson of the Nile') to Sir John Acton |
Palermo | 3 June 1800 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,175.00 |
| 59 | Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, nee Byron, 1815-1852) | Autograph letter signed ('A. Ada Byron') to [Emily] Milner |
Emily Milner | 16 May 1832 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 60 | [Chinese School -- Tea cultivation] | Series of 120 drawings in pen and ink illustrating the cultivation |
Canton | circa 1830-1850 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,350.00 |
| 62 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Autograph letter and typed letter signed ('A' and 'Papa') to his first wife |
Saranac Lake, N.Y. | 14 February 1939 and 14 August 1941 | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,810.00 |
| 63 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his son Hans Albert |
Princeton | 21-Jan 1948 | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 6,985.00 |
| 64 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Autograph letter (a draft |
n.p. | 9 January 1948 | GBP 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 65 | Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) | Autograph letter signed ('OK') to Ludwig Goldscheider |
Villeneuve (Switzerland) | 10 June 1966 | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 66 | BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375) | Decamerone |
Ulm | 1476 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 50,800.00 |
| 67 | URSINIS, Bartholomaeus de (fl. c.1463) | Quadragesimale quod dicitur Gratia Dei. |
Naples | not before 1478 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 16,510.00 |
| 68 | SIMONETA, Johannes (d.1491) | Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae. Edited by Franciscus Puteolanus. |
Milan | 23 September 1486 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,032.00 |
| 69 | VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius (d. 450) [and 6 others] | [Sammelband of 7 Roman incunables. |
Rome | 1481-1487 | GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 |
| 70 | SPRETUS, Desiderius (1414-c.1474) | De amplitudine |
Venice | 4 September 1489 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 71 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) | Liber chronicarum. |
Nuremberg | 12 July 1493 | GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | GBP 38,100.00 |
| 72 | MARULLUS, Michael (1453-1500) | Epigrammatum libri IV. Hymnorum naturalium libri IV. |
Florence | 26 November 1497 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,048.00 |
| 73 | STOFFLER, Johannes (1452-1531) | Elucidatio fabricae ususq[ue astrolabii. |
Oppenheim | 1512-13 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 1,143.00 |
| 74 | SAMMELBAND -- Collection of three classics in German translations. | CAESAR |
Mainz | July 1532 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,794.00 |
| 75 | CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400) | The Workes. Edited by William Thynne (d.1546). |
London | 1542 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 21,590.00 |
| 76 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566) | New Kreuterbuch. |
Basel | 1543 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 19,050.00 |
![<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")
![<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.")