Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 23879, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Agostino Cesareo (fl. second half 16th century) | L'arte del navigare, in Italian, autograph illustrated dedication copy for Annibale de Grassi, manuscript on paper |
Italy | 1577 | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | Jean Beguin (1550-1620); Andreas Libavius (c.1550-1616); Jacques Besson (c.1530-1572) | Alchimiae Praxis, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper, |
Paris | 1663 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 28 | An album of cuttings from illuminated manuscripts and printed books |
Central Europe | 15th to 19th centuries | GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 | |
| 29 | [Roberto Canonici (1568-1631)] | Extract from the will of Roberto Canonici, in Italian, manuscript on paper |
Ferrara | c.1627-31 | GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
| 30 | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) | Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Captain Thomas Foley, |
HMS Victory | 18 October 1805 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 31 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | Autograph letter signed (with initial 'B') to Joseph Blahetka, |
Vienna | ?1817 / 18 | GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 21,420.00 |
| 32 | Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | Autograph music manuscript, compositional draft for the conclusion of the concert overture Polonia (WWV 39), |
Berlin | c. May-July 1836 | GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 33 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) | Autograph music manuscript of the aria 'e la vita un mar d'affanni', |
Rome | 5 November 1844 | GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 34 | Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) | Autograph manuscript, amendment to the conclusion of Act 3 of Edgar, |
early 1892 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 | |
| 35 | George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1890) | Autograph manuscript, 'Historical Sketch of Philosophy among the Jews', reading notes on Jewish philosophy and the theoretical Kabbalah, |
c.1872 | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 | |
| 36 | Arthur Edward Harbord (1883-1961) | The voyage of the "Nimrod" to the Antarctic, and return. British Antarctic Expedition 1907': five typed transcripts of Harbord's journals and four photograph albums, |
1907-1909 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 37 | Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960) | Autograph manuscript, vocal score of the comic opera Der Tenor, op.34, |
Budapest | 1920-08-02 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 4,788.00 |
| 38 | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | Typed letter signed ('Freud') to Paul Federn, |
Vienna | 1924-11-10 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 39 | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | Portrait photograph signed ('Sigm. Freud'), |
1936 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 40 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to Dr Ludwig [i.e. Ludwik] Silberstein, Haberlandstrasse 5, |
Berlin | 1932-04-23 | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 22,680.00 |
| 41 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his son, Eduard 'Tetel'], Cromer |
Norfolk, England | c. 23 September 1933 | GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 42 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | Portrait photograph signed ('A. Einstein') and inscribed to 'Herrn Dr Martin Meyer', |
n.p. | 1950 | GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 |
| 43 | John Lennon (1940-1980) | Autograph letter signed ('John') to Cynthia Powell (later Lennon), Star Club, |
Hamburg | n.d. 19-24 April 1962 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 69,300.00 |
| 44 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) | Typed letter signed ('J.R.R. Tolkien') to Miss Julie Cape, Oxford, 17 February 1963 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 | ||
| 45 | Quentin Blake (b. 1932) | Man climbing a wooden tower |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 | ||
| 46 | PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (Pliny the Elder, 23-79) | Historia naturalis |
Venice | before 18 September 1469. | GBP 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 | GBP 882,000.00 |
| 47 | TURRECREMATA, Johannes de (1388-1468) | Expositio super toto psalterio. |
Augsburg | not after 1471. | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 48 | DIOGENES LAERTIUS (fl. 200 A.D.) | Vitae et sententiae philosophorum. Translated by Ambrosius Traversarius. Edited by Aelius Franciscus Marchisius. |
Rome | between Feb. and 15 May 1472?. | GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | GBP 20,160.00 |
| 49 | BURLAEUS, Gualtherus (pseudo?, c.1275-1344) | De vita et moribus philosophorum. |
Nuremberg | not after 1473. | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 50 | VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius (1st century A.D.) | Facta et dicta memorabilia |
Venice | 1474 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://pjupgrade-qadev.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
