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	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

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.