Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23880, London - King Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025

Page Size: 212 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
177	HARVEY, William (1578-1657)	The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ...	London	1673	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
178	FONTEYN, Nicolaas (fl. 1622-1644)	The Womans Doctour. Or	London	1652	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 11,430.00
179	[BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691)]	'An Epistolical Discourse of Philaretus to Empericus	London	1655	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 5,080.00
180	WILLIS, Thomas (1621-1675)	Cerebri anatome	London	1664	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,096.00
181	POWER, Henry (1623-1668)	Experimental philosophy	London	1664	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 889.00
182	LOWER, Richard (1631-1691)	Tractatus de corde. Item De Motu & Colore Sanguinis et Chyli in eum Transitu.	London	1669	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
183	REMMELIN, Johann (1583-1632)	A survey of the microcosme. Or the anatomie of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin	London	1675	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 24,130.00
184	COWPER, William (1666-1709)	The anatomy of humane bodies	Oxford	1698	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
185	[NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727)]	Opticks	London	1704	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 40,640.00
186	[TOFT, Mary (c.1703-1763)]	[The 'Rabbit-Breeder'		circa 1726-1753, and later transcriptions	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 10,795.00
187	BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1707-1758)	A Curious Herbal.	London	1739-1737	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 12,700.00
188	GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques-Fabien (1717-1786)	Five anatomical works.	Paris	1745-1761	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
189	ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770)	Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.	Leiden	1747	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 8,890.00
190	LAFOSSE, Philippe Etienne (1738-1820)	Cours d'hippiatrique	Paris	1772	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
191	JENNER, Edward (1749-1823)	Three first editions on Variolae Vaccinae	London	1798-1800	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 19,050.00
192	Edward Jenner (1749-1823)	Series of 18 autograph letters signed ('E. Jenner'	London, Berkeley, Cheltenham and n.p.	23 February 1803 - 25 March 1817 and nd	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 165,100.00
193	THORNTON, Robert John (1768-1837)	New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus ... and the Temple of Flora	London	1799-1807-1810	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 40,640.00
194	PARKINSON, James (1755-1824)	An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.	London	1817	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 101,600.00
195	TYTLER, Robert (1787-1838)	A concise narrative of facts connected with the disease	Calcutta	1817	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 38,100.00
196	BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858)	Reports of Medical Cases	London	1827-1831	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
197	CARSWELL, Robert (1793-1857)	Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease.	London	1838	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 5,080.00
198	BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890)	'Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.' In	Boston	1846	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 16,510.00
199	MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819-1868)	Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation.	Boston, MA	1847	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 13,970.00
200	AUVERT, Alexander Ivanovich (d.1865)	Selecta Praxis Medico-Chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet ... typis et figuris expressa Parisiis moderante Ambr. Tardieu.	Paris; Moscow	1851	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 17,780.00
201	LISTER, Joseph (1827-1912)	A bound volume of twelve pamphlets	London	1853-1878	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.