Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music, L25401, London

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 162 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Eleazar Albin

A natural history of birds

London 1731-1737 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
2 Aristotle

Politiques, or Discourses of Government. London

Adam Islip 1598 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
3 Roger Ascham

The Schoolemaster. Or, Playne and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latin Toong

London 1589 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
4 Dame Juliana Berners

The Gentlemans Academie: Or, The Booke of St. Albans. Containing three most exact and excellent Bookes; the first of Hawking,

London 1595 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
5 Bible, Latin

Biblia Latina, a bifolium printed on vellum from the Gutenberg or 42-line Bible.

Mainz c.1454-1455 GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 Unknown
6 Bible, Latin

Biblia Latina, 2 fragments from the Fust and Schoffer 48-line Bible

Mainz 14 August 1462 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
7 Jean Blaeu

Novus Atlas Sinensis Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas oft Tooneel des Aerdrijcx Uytgegeven door Joan Blaeu.

Amsterdam 1655 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
8 Giovanni Boccaccio

The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam,

London ca. 1554-5 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
9 William Bonde

Here begynneth a deuout treatyse in Englysshe, called the Pylgrimage of perfection

London 1526 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
10

Book of Common Prayer. The Forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons

London August 1552 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
11 Sebastian Brant, [Alexander Barclay, translator]

Stultifera navis... The ship of fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men

London 1570 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
12 Antonio da Brescia, Girolamo Savonarola, Bernardus de Lutzenburgo and Guilelmus de Gouda

A volume containing sermons, commentaries on Psalms, an illustrated tract on the Jubilee of 1500, and a short treatise on the Mass, 1485-1503, comprising:

1485-1503 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
13 Gaius Julius Caesar

[The eyght books... conteyning his martiall exploytes... translated... by Arthur Goldinge].

London 1565 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
14 Girolamo Cardano, [Thomas Bedingfield, translator]

Cardanus comforte, translated into Englishe. And published by commaundement of the righte Honourable the Earle of Oxenforde. Newly perused, corrected, and augmented

London 1576 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
15 Geoffrey Chaucer

The Woorkes... Newlie Printed, with Divers Addicions, which were Never in Print Before... [Edited by John Stow]

London 1561 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
16 Geoffrey Chaucer

The workes of our antient and lerned English poet..., newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed.

London 1598 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
17

Chronicles of England [Here begynneth a shorte and a breue table on these cronycles],

ca.1510 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
18

Chronicles [Chronicles of England.] Westminster

1497 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
19 John Dee

Document signed ("Joannes Dee Gardianus") as Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, granting Humphrey Davenport the office of Steward of Newton for an annual fee of forty shillings, in Latin,

1 October 1597 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
20 Gabriel Doppelmayr

Atlas novus coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis, et in eodem tam errantium quam inerrantium stellarum phoenomena notabilia, crica ipsarum lumen.

Nuremberg 1742 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
21 Thomas Elyot

The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author thereof..

London 1541 ?but 1550 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
22 Desiderius Erasmus

[Apophthegmata]. Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentencious Sayinges. Translated from Latin by Nicholas Udall

London 1542 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
23 Desiderius Erasmus

The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testamente

London 1548 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
24 Abraham Flemming

A panoplie of epistles, or, a looking glasse for the unlearned. Conteyning a perfecte plattforme of inditing letters of all sorts, to persons of al estates and degrees,

London 1576 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
25 [Jean Froissart]

Here begynneth the fyrst volum of Syr Iohan Froyssart of the cronycles ... Translated out of frenche into our materall [sic] Englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bouchier

. London c.1535 and 1542 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
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