Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duns Scotus (Johannes) | Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, |
[Venice] | 1472. | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 27,895.14 |
| 2 | Capua (Johannes de) | Directorium humanae vitae, |
Strasbourg | [c.1489]. | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 11,332.44 |
| 3 | Columbus (Christopher) | Epistola...de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inventis, |
anonymous facsimile reprint of the Rome | 1493 edition, [?19th century]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,284.73 |
| 4 | Plato. | [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], |
Venice | 1513. | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 13,948.20 |
| 5 | Lucian of Samosata. | Opuscula Erasmo Roterodamo interprete, |
Venice | May 1516. | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,434.62 |
| 6 | Apuleius (Lucius), Madaurensis. | Metamorphoseos, sive Lusus asini libri XI [and other works], |
[Venice] | 1521]. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,493.52 |
| 7 | Boccaccio (Giovanni) | Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola a Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria, |
Florence | 1525. | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | Navagero (Andrea) | Orationes duae, Carmina que Nonnulla, |
Venice | 1530. | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 12,204.36 |
| 9 | Cardanus (Hieronymus) | In Cl. Ptolemaei de astrorum iudiciis ... lib. IIII commentaria, |
Basel | 1578. | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Terentius Afer (Publius) | Las seys comedias de Terentio conforme a la edicion del Faerno, |
Alcala de Henares | 1583. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | Scarabelli (Orazio) | [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine] |
Siena | [not before 1592]. | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 9,588.60 |
| 12 | Cardano (Girolamo) | De Propria vita liber, |
Paris | 1643 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Spinoza (Baruch) | Tractatus theologico-politicus, |
Hamburg [i.e. Amsterdam] | 1670 [i.e. after 1677]. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,493.52 |
| 14 | Vergilius (Polydorus) | De inventoribus rerum libri VIII et de prodigiis libri III., |
Amsterdam | 1671. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 878.84 |
| 15 | Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) | Candide, ou l'Optimisme, |
no place | 1759 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 702.31 |
| 16 | Devon.- Archive of 13 charters, |
1333-1730 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 17 | Monastic Book of Hours and prayerbook, |
[France (probably north-east, most likely region of Champagne or Marne), | fifteenth century] | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,588.60 | |
| 18 | Book of Hours, Use of Rome, |
[Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges) | c.1460] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 13,948.20 | |
| 19 | Two leaves from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 20 | Malta.- Knights of Malta. Statuti et Ordinationi Capitolari della Religione de' Cavalieri Gerosalemitami, |
[Italy] | [c. 1578]. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 13,948.20 | |
| 21 | Charles II (King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1630-85) | Patents Granted for Creations of Honour from Dukes to Baronets since the Restauration of King Charles the Second by the Docquet Books in the Signet Office... Pardons... Privy Seals for payment of Monys at the Exchequer and other places, |
1660-68. | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 10,460.52 | |
| 22 | Molesworth Family, of Brackenstown near Swords, Dublin, Edlington, Yorkshire & elsewhere. | Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, |
London, Edlington, Dublin, Brackenstown and elsewhere | 1690-1783 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 33,125.40 |
| 23 | Molesworth (John) | Correspondence to and from Molesworth as British Ambassador to Savoy, |
Rome, Turin, Milan, Geneva & many no place | n.d. & 1710 & 1721-25 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,717.94 |
| 24 | [Swift (Jonathan, writer and dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1667-1745)] | To Mrs Biddy Floyd, |
[18th century]. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 7,323.12 | |
| 25 | Griffith (Thomas, Irish actor and theatre manager 1680-1744) ?Allen (J.) | A Prologe Spoke by Mr Griffith and Mr Ellington, |
n.d. [not later than 1744]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 878.84 |
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