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
51 Thomas Raynalde

The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke

London 1552 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,650.00
52 Werner Rolewinck

Fasciculus temporum.

Venice 28th May 1484 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
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 GBP 3,301.00
54 Pieter Schenk

Nova totius Asiae tabula.

Amsterdam , c. 1710. GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
55 Edmund Spenser

[Complaints, containing sundrie small poems of the worlds vanitie...]

London 1590-1591 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
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 Not Sold
57 Matthew Sutcliffe

The Practice, Proceedings, and Lawes of armes

London 1593 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,286.00
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 GBP 8,255.00
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 GBP 3,301.00
60

Bible. New Testament. English. Tyndale's version

GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,969.00
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 Not Sold
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 GBP 25,399.00
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 GBP 8,255.00
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 GBP 19,050.00
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 Not Sold
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 GBP 120,649.00
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 GBP 8,889.00
69 Acton Bell [Anne Bronte]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

London 1848 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,889.00
70 Charlotte Bronte

Five pencil sketches by Charlotte Bronte, comprising:

GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
71

Challenger Expedition---Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and Sir John Murray

1880-95 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,699.00
72 John Churchman

Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
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 GBP 1,524.00
74 Gabriele D'Annunzio

A collection of autograph letters and documents, dating from 1880 to 1921

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,984.00
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 GBP 8,255.00
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 GBP 228,600.00
  • 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