Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 23758, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
Page Size: 171 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77 Venice, 1478

Mela's Cosmographia

Venice 1478 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
78

Sphaera mundi and Theorica planetarum. First illustrated edition, 1478

Venice 1478 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
79 Albumasar, 1489

Introductorium in astronomiam

Augsburg 7 February 1489. USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
80 Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493

Liber chronicarum

Nuremberg for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 Unknown
81 MALHEIRO, PEDRO ALFONSO, 1507

Gesta Proxime Per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & Aliis Orie[n]talibus Terris.

Cologne February 1507. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
82 William Caxton, translator, c.1527

The myrrour: and Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde with many mervaylles

London c.1527.] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Unknown
83 Ptolemy, 1528

The Almagest

Venice 1528 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
84 Sebastian Munster, 1536

Organum Uranicum

Basel 1536 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
85 Ptolemy -- Sebastian Munster, 1552

Geographia

Basel 1552 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
86 Robert Recorde, 1556

The Castle of Knowledge

London 1556 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
87 Sebastian Brant, 1570

The Ship of Fools

London 1570 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
88 Peter Martyr, 1577

The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies

London 1577 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 Unknown
89 Fernao Lopes de Castanheda, 1582

Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias

London 1582 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Unknown
90 Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius, 1584

Cosmographia, sive Descritpio universi Orbis

Antwerp 1584 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
91 English edition of Pigafetta and Lopez, 1597

A Report of the Kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa

London 1597 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
92 Richard Hakluyt, 1599-1600

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

London Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
93

Ortelius pocket atlas. Accademia dei Lincei copy

Antwerp 1502 [i.e. 1602]. USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
94 Montaigne, 1603

The Essayes

London 1603 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
95 Jose de Acosta, 1604

The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies

London 1604 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
96 St. Augustine, 1610

Of the Citie of God

[London] 1610 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
97 Homer; George Chapman, [c.1616]

The Whole Works of Homer

London [c.1616]. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
98 Nicholas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, 1615

De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu

Augsburg 1615 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
99 Jan Huygen Linschoten, 1619

Histoire de la navigation -- Le grand routier de mer -- Description de l'Amerique

Amsterdam 1619 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
100 Orazio Grassi, 1619

Libra astronomica

Perugia 1619 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 Unknown
101 Galileo, 1619

Discorso delle comete di Mario Guiducci

Florence 1619 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
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