Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music, L25401, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
London | 1859 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Unknown |
| 78 | Charles Darwin | Two works, comprising: |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 79 | Albert Einstein | Autograph letter signed, to Alfred Bucherer, ON HIS CONFIRMATION OF EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY |
Bern | 12 September 1908, former folds and slight creasing, remains of mount | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 80 | Albert Einstein | Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Alfred Bucherer |
Bern, | 25 November 1908, slight splitting at folds, fraying at outer edge, light creasing, remains of mount | GBP 18,000.00 - 26,000.00 | Unknown |
| 81 | Albert Einstein | Autograph postcard signed, to Professor Alfred Bucherer |
Berlin | 24 October 1917, | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 82 | Albert Einstein | Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Alfred Bucherer |
Berlin, | 29 October 1917, splitting at folds, small tear in upper corner, some creasing, remains of mount | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 83 | Albert Einstein. | Autograph letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Margarete Lebach ("Frau Lebach") |
Berlin, | 28 June 1928, framed and glazed 395 x 305, minor nicks and tears neatly repaired, light soiling, second and third pages sunned | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 84 | Albert Einstein | Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatini, |
Berlin | 12 May 1929, with envelope, small nicks at folds | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 85 | Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding---Edward Fitzgerald, translator | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A.C. Benson... |
1911 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 86 | Ian Fleming (and others) | A James Bond collection, comprising: |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 87 | Robert Fortune | Contract signed, also signed in Chinese by nine tea growers from Jiangxi with transliterations of their names into the roman alphabet, |
1855 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 88 | A silver teaspoon owned by Captain F.R.M. Crozier |
GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown | |||
| 89 | William Lewin | The Birds of Great Britain, systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature; |
London | 1795-1801 but c. 1812 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 90 | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace | Autograph letter, in the third person, to Alfred Bunn, |
25 February 1841 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 91 | John Tilton McClintock | Chart of West Coast of North America from Mt. St. Elias to Columbia River. Concord, New Hampshore or Dorchester, Massachusetts |
1889 | GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 92 | Louis Pasteur | Two autograph letters signed ("L. Pasteur"), CONCERNING HIS WORK ON THE RABIES VACCINE |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 93 | Joseph Pennell | An archive of original pen-and-ink drawings used as illustrations in his book Charing Cross to Saint Paul's |
London | circa 1890 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 94 | Photographs of India and the Himalayas titled 'Simla and Kashmir 1879'. [negatives c.1863-1870s] |
1879 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 95 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London |
Bloomsbury | 1997 | GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | Unknown |
| 96 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Unknown |
| 97 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 98 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
London | 1998 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 99 | E.H. Shepard and A.A. Milne | Six Drawings by E.H. Shepard, Illustrating Poems from When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne |
London | 1925 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 100 | E.H. Shepard | Suite of three original illustrations for Now We Are Six, pen and ink drawings on paper, comprising: |
1927 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 101 | Bible, Old Testament, Mongolian. Translated by Edward Stallybrass, William Swan, and Robert Yuille. Siberia (Selenginsk and Khodon) |
1834--1840 | 1834--1840 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
