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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | PINTOR, Petrus (1423-1503) | Aggregator sententiarum de pestilentia. |
Rome | 20 February 1499 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 128 | BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus, (c.1450-c.1512) | Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus. |
Strassburg | 8 May 1500 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 129 | VALLA, Giorgio (1447-1500) | De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus. |
Venice | December 1501 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 130 | ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445--1505), and others | A sammelband of nine rare medical and scientific works |
Italy | early 16th-century | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 131 | HORTUS SANITATIS | Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus. |
Venice | 1511 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 132 | ROSSLIN, Eucharius (1470-1526) | Der swangern Frawen und Hebammen Roszgarten. |
Hagenau | circa 1515 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 133 | KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470) | Fasciculus medicine. |
Venice | 1513 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 134 | BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus (c.1450-c.1512) | Das Buch zu Destilliren die zusamen gethonen Ding. |
Strasburg | 1519 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 135 | [GALENUS, Claudius (129-c. 216)] | Methodus medendi |
Paris | 1519 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 136 | BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530) | Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis. |
Bologna | 15 July 1523 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 137 | HALY ABBAS ('Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, d.994) | Liber totius medicine necessaria... |
Lyon | 1523 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 138 | HIPPOCRATES (c.460--c.370 B.C.) | [Opera Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis |
Rome | 1525 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 139 | PAULUS AEGINETA (c.625-c.690). | Medici optimi |
Venice | August, 1528 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 140 | BRUNFELS, Otto (c. 1489-1534) | Herbarum vivae eiconebsic ad naturae imitationem... -- Novi Herbarii tomus II. -- Tomus herbaria III. |
Strasbourg | 1530-1532-1536 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown |
| 141 | EDWARDES [or EDGUARD], David (c.1502-c.1542) | De indiciis et praecognitionibus. |
London | 1532 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 142 | AETIUS AMIDENUS (fl. mid-5th - mid-6th century) | Librorum medicinalium tomus primusall |
Venice | September, 1534 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 143 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566) | Apologia. |
Hagenau | 1534 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 144 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566) | New Kreuterbuch. |
Basel | 1543 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 145 | VIGO, Joannes de (fl. 1500) | The most excellent workes of chirurgerye |
London | 1543 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 146 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64) | De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. |
Basel | June 1543 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | Unknown |
| 147 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64) | Epistola rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti |
Basel | October 1546 | GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Unknown |
| 148 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564) | De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. |
Basel | August 1555 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | Unknown |
| 149 | VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64) | De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. |
Paris | 1560 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 150 | RAZI, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya (c.854-925) | Ob usum experientiamque multiplicem |
Basel | March 1544 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 151 | ESTIENNE, Charles (1504-c.1564) | De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres |
Paris | 1545 | 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.")
