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Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana | Total Sales (USD) | 7,377,049.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 3,028,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #23758 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 4,631,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 171 | ||
| Sold Lots | 159.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 3,556,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 92.98% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 5,477,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 12 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 134.68% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Johannes Kepler, 1596 | Mysterium cosmographicum |
1596 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 889,000.00 |
| 26 | Isaac Newton, 1687 | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica |
1687 | USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 | USD 762,000.00 |
| 15 | Johannes Kepler, 1609 | Astronomia nova |
1609 | USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 | USD 635,000.00 |
| 6 | Nicolaus Copernicus, 1542 | De lateribus et angulis triangulorum tum planorum rectilineorum tum sphaericorum |
1542 | USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 381,000.00 |
| 118 | Adam Smith, 1776 | The Wealth of Nations |
1776 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 |
| 144 | Jonathan Palmer Webster, 1849-1850 | A correspondence from the California Gold Rush |
29 January 1849 to 29 March 1850. | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 |
| 19 | Johannes Kepler, 1619 | Harmonices mundi, Norman copy |
1619 | USD 120,000.00 - 160,000.00 | USD 190,500.00 |
| 22 | Galileo Galilei, 1632 | Dialogo, the Honeyman copy |
1632 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 165,100.00 |
| 80 | Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493 | Liber chronicarum |
for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 165,100.00 |
| 86 | Robert Recorde, 1556 | The Castle of Knowledge |
1556 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 152,400.00 |
| 88 | Peter Martyr, 1577 | The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies |
1577 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 127,000.00 |
| 1 | II Chronicles 3:8-6:3, describing the building of the First Temple, c. 1455 |
c.1455.] | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 | |
| 12 | Tycho Brahe, 1602 | Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata |
1602 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 |
| 73 | Charles Dickens, 1844 | Presentation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit |
1844 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 |
| 110 | Robert Hooke, 1665 | Micrographia |
1665 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 88,900.00 |
| 115 | NEWTON, ISAAC, 1729 | The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
1729 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 82,550.00 |
| 74 | David Roberts and George Croly, 1842--1849 | The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia [With:] Egypt & Nubia |
1842-1849. | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 76,200.00 |
| 23 | Johannes Hevelius, 1647 | Selenographia |
1647 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 69,850.00 |
| 94 | Montaigne, 1603 | The Essayes |
1603 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 69,850.00 |
| 98 | Nicholas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, 1615 | De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu |
1615 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 48 | Johannes Bayer, 1603 | Uranometria |
1603 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 114 | Isaac Newton, 1704 | Opticks |
1704 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 54 | Johann Bode, 1801 | Uranographia |
1801 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 79 | Albumasar, 1489 | Introductorium in astronomiam |
7 February 1489. | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 87 | Sebastian Brant, 1570 | The Ship of Fools |
1570 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
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Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.