Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 31226, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 12, 2026 - March 12, 2026

Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Blackwell (Thomas)	Memoirs of the Court of Augustus	Edinburgh	1753	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 25.00
2	Amaduzzi (G. C.)	Bodoni: Bodoni press. Iohannis Christophori Amadutii epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere ejusque bibliotheca	Typis Bodonianis	1791	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.00
3	Foulis	Classics: Sophocles Tragoediae quae extant septem	Glasgow	1745	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 428.00
4	Facciolati, Jacopo & Egidio Forcellini, Giuseppe Furlanetto	Totius Latinitatis Lexicon & others	Florence	1827	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 38.00
5	Griselini (Francesco)	Dizionario Delle Arti De'Mestieri	Venezia	1768- 1765	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 113.00
6	Pausanias & Loescher (Abraham) translator	History: Pausanias & Gerbel	Basileae	1550	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 353.00
7		Penus sacra pietatis	Monachii	1700	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 164.00
8	Rabelais (Francois)	The First [and Second] Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, And his Sonne Pantagruel...		1653	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
9	Scaliger (Julius Caesar)	Exotericarum Exercitationum Liber XV		1634	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 63.00
10	Seiz, (J.C.)	Annus tertius saecularis inventae artis typographicae, sive Brevis Historica Enarratio de Inventione Nobilissimae artis typograficae, In qua ostenditur...	Haarlem	[1742]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 378.00
11	Flaxman (John) Illustrator	Atlante Dantesco Da Poter servire ad ogni edizione della Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy]		1822	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 756.00
12		Single leaf from Dante's 'La Commedia'	[Venice]	[1477]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
13	Vignole (Jacques Barozzio de)	Regles des cinq ordres d'architecture de Jacques Barozzio de Vignole, avec plusieurs augmentations de Michel Ange Buonaroti; nouvellement revues, corrigees & augmentees par Mr. Dury de Champdore	Leide	1712	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 164.00
14		Xenophon. Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, quae exstant opera, in duos tomos divisa ... opera Ioannis Leunclavii Amelburni		1625	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.00
15		[Bible, English] Four works bound in one: The booke of common prayer and administration of the sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England		1628	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 4,788.00
16		Bible [English] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments...	[Amsterdam?]	1715	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 239.00
17		Bible. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, 1764		1764	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 328.00
18	Clark (Samuel)	The Holy Bible......Family Bible with Annotations and parallel Scriptyres...		1760	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 378.00
19	Clarke (Samuel) and others	Biography, A collection of 12 volumes, including: Clarke (Samuel) The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age		1683	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 693.00
20	Booth (General [William])	In Darkest England and the Way Out		1890	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 139.00
21	Heylyn (Peter)	Theologia veterum: or, The summe of Christian theologie...	S[eile]	1673	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 277.00
22		Inscribed title page from Schedel's Nuremburg Chronicle		1493	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 101.00
23	Schedel (Hartmann)	Judaica: Leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle		1493	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 101.00
24	Abdullah Yusuf Ali	The Holy Qur-an: 1938		[1938]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.00
25	Rice (D.S.)	Koran. The Unique Ibn Al-Bawwab Manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library	Dublin	1955	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 302.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.