Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music, L25401, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
26 John Gower

De Confessione Amantis

London 1532 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 13,969.00
27 John Gower

De Confessione Amantis

London 12 March 1554 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
28 John Heywood

The Spider and the Flie. A Parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood

London 1556 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
29 Ranulph Higden

[Polychronicon

London 13 April 1495 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
30

Plants and gardening. Two volumes of works on plants and gardening, comprising:

1574, 1595 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,301.00
31 Hans Holbein the Younger

The Images of the Old Testament, Lately Expressed, Set Forthe in Ynglishe and Frenche, with a playn and brief exposition.

Lyons 1549 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
32 Raphael Holinshed

The first and second-[Third] volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1. The description and historie of England, 2. The description and historie of Ireland, 3. The description and historie of Scotland: ...

London 1586-7. GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
33

Instructional texts for princes and aristocrats, comprising:

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
34 Anthonie Jacobsz

Pascaarte van alle de Zee-custen van Europa. Nieulijcx beschreven door Anthony Jacobszen.

Amsterdam 1655 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
35 William Langham

The Garden of Health, Conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and Plantes,

London 1579 i.e. 1597 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,555.00
36 William Langland

The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authors olde copy

London February 1561 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
37

Law and Legal History. A collection of four works in three volumes, comprising:

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,445.00
38 Legal history

A group of printed English Statutes, 22 volumes in all, comprising:

GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
39 Sir Thomas Littleton

Lyttilton Tenures truely translated into Englysh. An. M.D.XXXVIII

London 1538 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 16,509.00
40 Nicolaus de Lyra, Thomas a Kempis, Gerard de Zutphania and Bertholdus

A volume of devotional works in a contemporary binding, comprising:

Cologne 1496 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
41 Niccolo Machiavelli (Thomas Bedingfeld, translator)

The Florentine History

London 1595 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
42 Moliere

OEuvres de J.-B. P. Moliere, Tome premier

Paris 1664 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
43 Thomas More

Two works in one volume i) The co[n]futacyon of Tyndales answere

London 1532 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
44 Thomas More

The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance ii) The second parte of the co[n]futacion of Tyndals answere

London 1533 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
45 Thomas More

The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the englysh tonge.

1557 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
46 Abraham Munting

Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, waar in de veelerley Aart en byzondere Eigenschappen der Boomen, Heesters, Kruyden, Bloemen...

Leiden and Utrecht 1696 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,349.00
47 John Palsgrave

L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse

London 18 July 1530 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
48 Petrarch [Thomas Twyne, translator]

Phisicke against Fortune, aswell prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes... now first Englished by Thomas Twyne

London 1579 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,286.00
49 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemaeus.

Zurich & New York 1983 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
50 Claudius Ptolemaeus

Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete, annotationes Joannis de Regiomonte in errores commissos a Jacobo Angelo in translatione sua.

Strassburg 3 April 1525 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • 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