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Sothebys: The Cottesloe Military Library

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Auction Name The Cottesloe Military Library Total Sales (GBP) 1,481,158.00
Auction Date November 19, 2019 - November 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 589,950.00
Sale Number #L19418 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 843,250.00
Total Lots 471
Sold Lots 367 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 748,750.00
% of Lots Sold 77.92% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,065,850.00
Unsold Lots 104 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 138.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
283 MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLò AND BATTISTA DELLA VALLE

A volume containing the first edition of Machiavelli's Arte della guerra and the contemporary military text Vallo, comprising:

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 150,000.00
82 CHRISTINE DE PISAN

The boke of the fayt of armes and of Chyvalrye

1489 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 137,500.00
242 HEXHAM, HENRY

The Principles of the Art Militarie, 4 parts, comprising:

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 106,250.00
205 GALILEI, GALILEO

Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica & i movimenti locali… con una appendice del centro di gravità d’alcuni solidi.

1638 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
140

ENGLAND. STATUTES. HENRY VIII Whereafter Ensue certayne Statutes and Ordenaunces of Warre made ordeyned enacted & establysshed by the most noble victoryous, and moste Cristen prynce our moste drade soueraygne lorde Kynge Henry the viii

1513 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 35,000.00
149

ENGLISH MILITARY TRACTS An exceptional collection of 18 pamphlets in one volume, comprising:

GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
353 OTTOMAN TURKISH MANUSCRIPT

Ceride-i Fenn-i Mi‘mari-i Harbi [Volume on the Art of Military Architecture].

eighteenth century GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
100 CLAYTON, GILES

A briefe discourse, of martial discipline. Contayning the office and dueties of everie officer... and private soldiours

1587 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 28,750.00
196 FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS

The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre, gathered togyther, by S. Julius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Rycharde Morysine

1539 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
258

ITALIAN MILITARY MANUSCRIPT Sixteenth-century Italian manuscript about war craft, with 60 coloured illustrations, in a fine contemporary binding, gilt-stamped 1581 on the cover

Sixteenth-century GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
335 MONTGOMERY, JOHN

A Short treatice concernyng thinges nedefull for this present State collected by John Mountgomere Londoner in anno Domini 1562

1562 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 21,250.00
211 GERBIER, BALTHAZAR

The Interpreter of the Academie for Forrain Languages, and all Noble Sciences, and Exercises, concerning Military Architecture, or Fortifications

1648 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
144

ENGLISH ARMY An establishment for the new raised forces begun the XXVIth of January 1660

GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
216 GHEYN, JACQUES DE

The Exercise of Armes for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes

1607 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
288 MAHMOUD RAIF

The sea-mans dictionary: or, an exposition and demonstration of all the parts and things belonging to a shippe

1644 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
420 SMYTHE, SIR JOHN

Certain Discourses... concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters Militarie

1590 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
69 CAMBINI, ANDREA

Two very notable Commentaries the one of the originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno... and thother of the warres of the Turcke against George Scanderbeg, Prince of Epiro, and of the great victories obteyned by the sayd George, aswell

1562 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
431 SUN TZU

Art militaire des Chinois, ou recueil d'anciens traites sur la guerre composes... par differents generaux chinois [translated by Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot]

1772 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
462 WILCOX, EDWARD

The New Manual Exercise…

1775 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 11,875.00
154 ERRARD, JEAN

La fortification reduicte en art et demonstree

1600 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
243 HEXHAM, HENRY

The Principles of the Art Militarie, 4 parts, comprising:

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
444 VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS

De re militari. [Erfurt: Hans Knappe, c

1512 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
341 [NICCOLS, RICHARD]

Londons Artillery, briefly containing the noble practise of that wothie Societie: with the moderne and ancient martiall exercises, natures of armes, vertue of Magistrates, Antiquitie, Glorie and Chronography of this honourable Cittie

1616 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
206 GALILEI, GALILEO

Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues [translated by Thomas Weston]

1730 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,750.00
27 BABINGTON, JOHN

Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works: in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe... [A Short Treatise of Geometries]

1635 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
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