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CHRISTIE’S
Valuable Books and Manuscripts
London auction
13 December
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TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695–1769)
Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]
£30,000–40,000Christie’s, Explore now
VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623–88)
Liber Organicus Astronomiae Europaeae apud Sinas restituate. [Beijing: Board of Astronomy, 1674]
£250,000–350,000Christie’s, Explore now
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALICE & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
Master of Jean Rolin (active 1445–65)
Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, [Paris, c.1450–1460]
£120,000–180,000Christie’s, Explore now
A SILVER MICROSCOPE
Probably by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), c.1700
£150,000–250,000Christie’s, Explore now
AN ENGLISH HORARY QUADRANT
C.1311
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Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Roberts (David) & Croly (George). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumae, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. Lond. 1842 - 1843 [-49]. First Edn. €10,000 to €15,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Incunabula: O'Fihily (Maurice). Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp… Venice, 20th November 1497. €8,000 to €12,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: An important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents during Easter Week 1916. €6,000 to €9,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: WILDE (Oscar), 1854-1900, playwright, aesthete and wit. A lock of Wilde’s Hair, presented by his son to the distinguished Irish actor Mícheál MacLiammóir. €6,000 to €8,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Heaney (Seamus). Bog Poems, London, 1975. Special Limited Edition, No. 33 of 150 Copies, Signed by Author. Illus. by Barrie Cooke. €4,000 to €6,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Binding: Burke, Thomas O.P. (de Burgo). Hibernia Dominicana, Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum, ... 1762. First Edition. €4,000 to €6,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: COLLINS, Michael. An important TL, 29 July 1922, addressed to GOVERNMENT on ‘suggested Proclamation warning all concerned that troops have orders to shoot prisoners found sniping, ambushing etc.’. €3,000 to €4,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Scott Fitzgerald (F.) The Great Gatsby, New York (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1925, First Edn. €2,000 to €3,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Limited Edition, No. 46 of 375 Copies Only, Signed by W.B. Yeats. €1,500 to €2,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Russian Empire, Description in English and French, Lg. folio London (S. Gosnell) 1803. First Edn. €1,000 to €1,500.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings. Lg. folio Lond.(T. Bensley) 1802. First Edn. €800 to €1,200.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Mason (Geo. Henry). The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings. Lg. folio London (for W. Miller) 1800. First Edn. €1,400 to €1,800
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Sotheby’s
Fine Books from a Distinguished Private Library
28 November 2023Sotheby’s, Nov. 28: Captain Thomas Brown | Illustrations of the American ornithology. £80000-120000Sotheby’s, Nov. 28: William Hamilton | Campi phlegraei. £40000-60000Sotheby’s, Nov. 28: Nicola Zabaglia and Domenico Fontana | Castelli, e ponti con alcune ingegnose pratiche. £6000-8000Sotheby’s, Nov. 28: Bible, German | Nuremberg: Koberger, 1483. £40000-60000Sotheby’s, Nov. 28: Bible, English | King James version. £8000-12000
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - January - 2005 Issue
Maps, Books, and Manuscripts From Asher Rare Books
For those interested in criminal justice, we recommend Practijcke ende Hantboeck in Criminele Saken...by Joos de Damhouder. This is the second Dutch edition of this popular 16th century work, published in 1561. Along with the text, Asher, from their website, notes that it contains 56 illustrations of crimes, prosecutions and punishments, including, "graphically illustrated...murder, robbery, arson, rape and other sexual crimes, various crimes against the church, suicide, bribery, stealing cattle, loading dice, forging coins, torturing people, waging war, dike breaking and almost any imaginable offence, including emptying chamber pots out the window onto unsuspecting passers-by!" All of those crimes are forgivable except the last. I do not know how people lived in cities in those days. Item 11. €9,500 (US $12,726).
Johannes Kentmann was both a physician and mineralogist, which suited him ideally to author Calculorum qui in Corpore... This is a 1565 book about stones in the human body. It includes both naturally occurring stones and swallowed foreign objects which were never meant to be eaten. Eleven woodcuts show 30 objects found within various people. Asher notes that this book provided the first detailed account of gallstones. Someone had to be first. Item 23. €4,000 (US $5,356).
Item 39 is a small pamphlet printed by Spanish printer Juan de Cabrera Seville in 1624. He was celebrating a victory in Dalmatia (now part of Croatia) in the ongoing wars against the Ottoman Empire that seemed to never end. In the pamphlet, he provides a drawing of a being meant to represent the Ottomans. It has three horns, three eyes, donkey ears and backward feet. One can assume the depiction was not meant to be complimentary. €3,850 (US $5,156).
Item 30 is a most interesting manuscript of exotic alphabets. Headed Variorum Alphabetorum, it was created in the Netherlands around 1680. It includes carefully hand-drawn characters for numerous languages, including Latin, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopic, Armenian, Greek, Bengali, and many more. The writer has even added Utopian and another imaginary alphabet. See the image on this page. €12,500 (US $16,714).
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