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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (c. 480-524) | De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary ascribed to Thomas Aquinas |
Nuremberg | 12 November 1476. | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 52 | THOMAS AQUINAS (pseudo, c.1225-1274) -- [BERNARDUS DE PARENTINIS (fl. 1340)] | De periculis contingentibus circa sacramentum eucharistiae. -De regimine Judaeorum. Bound with:] HEROLT, Johannes (d.1468). Sermones super epistolas dominicales. And:] HUMBERTUS DE ROMANIS (c.1200-1277). Sermones ad diversos status. |
Ulm; Strasbourg; Augsburg and Hagenau | c1476. c. 1479. 1508 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 53 | [WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH, attributed to - ALBRECHT (fl. c.1270)] | Jungerer Titurel. |
Strasbourg | 1477 | GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | GBP 63,000.00 |
| 54 | VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.) | Opera [Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis, with argumenta]. |
Milan | c. 1480. | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 55 | Dialogus -- | Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus, in Dutch: Twijspraeck der creaturen. Translated from the Latin. |
Gouda | 4 April 1481. | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | GBP 27,720.00 |
| 56 | JUSTINIANUS (483-565) | Institutiones. With the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius |
Basel | 30 Nov. 1481. | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 13,230.00 |
| 57 | JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (fl. c.1230) | Sphaera mundi. -- GEORG PEUERBACH (1423--1461). Theoricae novae planetarum. -- REGIOMONTANUS (1436--1476). Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta |
Venice | 6 July 1482. | GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 58 | VALTURIUS, Robertus (1413-84) | De re militari, in Italian: Opera dell' arte militare. Translated by Paolo Ramusio. |
Verona | 17 February 1483. | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
| 59 | ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-1472) | De re aedificatoria |
Florence | 29 December 1485. | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 22,680.00 |
| 60 | THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274) | Summa theologiae |
Basel | 1485 | GBP 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 22,680.00 |
| 61 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514) | Liber chronicarum |
Nuremberg | 12 July 1493. | GBP 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 | GBP 44,100.00 |
| 62 | BRANT, Sebastian (1457--1521) | Das Narrenschiff, in Latin: Stultifera navis. Translated from German by Jacobus Locher Philomusus. -- JACOBUS LOCHER PHILOMUSUS (1471--1528). Carmina varia |
Basel | 1 March 1497. | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
| 63 | CRASTONUS, Johannes (c. 1420-1497) | Lexicon Latino-Graecum [Vocabulista]. |
Reggio Emilia | 1497 | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 11,340.00 |
| 64 | Hortus sanitatis. |
Strasbourg | not after 21 October 1497. | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 44,100.00 | |
| 65 | POLITIANUS, Angelus (1454-94) | Opera. Edited by Alexander Sartius |
Venice | July 1498 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 66 | COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527) | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili |
Venice | December 1499. | GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 67 | Petrus von ROSENHEIM (1380?-1433) | [Memorabiles Evangelistarum figurae.] Hexastichon Sebastiani Brant in memorabiles evangelistarum figuras. |
Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm | 1503 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 68 | PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-74) | [Canzonieri:] Le cose volgari. |
[Lyons | c.1508. | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 69,300.00 |
| 69 | BIBLE -- New Testament | Novum Instrumentum omne, in Gree |
GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 37,800.00 | ||
| 70 | BIBLE - New Testament | Novum Testamentum omne, in Greek and Latin, translated and edited by Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536) |
Basel | March 1519. | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 21,420.00 |
| 71 | PANTHEUS, Johannes Augustinus (d.1535) | Ars transmutationis metallicae |
Venice | 1519, 1518. | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 |
| 72 | DURER, Albrecht (1471-1528) | Hierinn sind begriffen vier bucher von menschlicher Proportion. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer |
Nuremberg | 31 October 1528. | GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | GBP 25,200.00 |
| 73 | CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400) | The Workes. Edited by William Thynne (d.1546). |
London | 1542 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 25,200.00 |
| 74 | FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566) | New Kreuterbuch |
Basel | 1543 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 75 | PIGHIUS, Albertus (1490-1542) | De Moscovia ad Clementem 7. pont. max. Albertus Campensis |
Venice | 1543 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
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