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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: 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
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [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.