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
51	Thomas Raynalde	The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke	London	1552	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
52	Werner Rolewinck	Fasciculus temporum.	Venice	28th May 1484	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
53	Girolamo Ruscelli, [William Ward, translator]	The Secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont containyng excellente remedies against diverse diseases, woundes, and other accidentes,	London	1580 -1578	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
54	Pieter Schenk	Nova totius Asiae tabula.	Amsterdam	, c. 1710.	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	Unknown
55	Edmund Spenser	[Complaints, containing sundrie small poems of the worlds vanitie...]	London	1590-1591	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
56	Caspar Stoll	Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen.	Amsterdam	1780--1788	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
57	Matthew Sutcliffe	The Practice, Proceedings, and Lawes of armes	London	1593	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
58	Thomas Elyot	The Image of Governaunce compiled of the actes and sentences notable of the most noble Emperor Alexander Severus	London	1549	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
59	Richard Tracy	A bryef & short declaracyon made, wherbye everye chrysten man maye knowe, what is a sacrament..	London	10 November 1548	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Unknown
60		Bible. New Testament. English. Tyndale's version			GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
61	Virgil	The whole XII bookes of the Aeneidos... added moreover to this edition Virgils life out of Donatus, and the Argument before every booke	London	1573	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
62	Virgil---Gavin Douglas (translator)	The xiii bukes of Eneados of the famose poete Virgill translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel	London	1553	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
63	Jacobus de Voragine	The Legende Named in Latyn Legenda Aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the Golden Legende. Translated by William Caxton.	London	1527	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
64	Geoffrey Whitney	Whitney, Geoffrey. A choice of emblemes, and other devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized.	Leiden	1586	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Unknown
65	Antonio de Alcedo and G. A. Thompson	Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or Dictionary of America & West Indies;	London,	1816	GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	Unknown
66	Tsar Alexander II and Catherine Dolgorukova	Correspondence between Tsar Alexander II and his lover Catherine Dolgorukova,	St. Petersburg and elsewhere	1866-1879	GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	Unknown
68	James Bolton	Genera Muscorum An Illustration of the Families of Mosses in Figures taken from Nature & Magnified.			GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
69	Acton Bell [Anne Bronte]	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	London	1848	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Unknown
70	Charlotte Bronte	Five pencil sketches by Charlotte Bronte, comprising:			GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Unknown
71		Challenger Expedition---Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir John Murray		1880-95	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
72	John Churchman	Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart			GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Unknown
73	Gabriele D'Annunzio	A collection of 9 signed photographic cards and portraits of D'Annunzio, 1900-1922, comprising:			GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
74	Gabriele D'Annunzio	A collection of autograph letters and documents, dating from 1880 to 1921			GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
75	Charles Darwin	Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle	London	1839	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Unknown
76	Darwin, Charles and Alfred Russel Wallace	On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection [1858-59]	London	1859	GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	Unknown

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.