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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | GUIDI, Guido (1508-1569) | Chirurgia. Translated from Greek into Latin by the author |
Paris | 1544 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 77 | [COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)] | La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio |
Venice | 1545 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 25,200.00 |
| 78 | BIBLE, in German | Biblia, Das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft: Deutsch Auffs new zugericht. Translated by Martin Luther ( - Die Propheten alle Deutsch. - Das New Testament. |
Wittenberg | 1544-1545. | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 79 | PARACELSUS, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (c.1493-1541) | Baderbuchlin. Sechs kostliche Tractat, armen und reychen nutzlich und notwendig von Wasserbadern. Edited by Adam von Bodenstein (1528-77). |
Mulhouse | 1562 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,300.00 |
| 80 | VASARI, Giorgio (1511-1574) | Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori |
Florence | 1568 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 81 | PARE, Ambroise (1509?-1590) | Traicte de la peste, de la petite verolle & rougeolle Bound with:] FACIO, Silvestro (fl.1550-1596). Paradoxes de la peste, ou il est monstre clairement comme on peut viure & demeurer dans les villes invectees, sans crainte de la contagion |
Paris. Paris | 1568; 1620 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | VIGENERE, Blaise de (1523-1596) | La somptueuse et magnifique entree du tres-chrestien Roy Henry III. En la Cite de Mantoue |
Paris | 1576 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 83 | BRUNO, Giordano (1548-1600) | De umbris idearum. -- Ars memoriae |
Paris | 1582 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 84 | RAMELLI, Agostino (c.1531-1608) | Le diverse et artificiose machine ... nelle quali si contengono uarij et artificiosi mouimenti, degni di grandissima speculatione, per cauarne beneficio in ogni sorte d'operatione. Composte in lingua italiana et francese |
Paris | 1588 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 85 | FROIS, Luis (1532-1597) | Lettera annua del Giappone del'anno M.D.XCVI... , translated by Francesco Mercati. |
Rome | 1599 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 86 | MONTAIGNE, Michel de (1533-1592) | The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses. Translated by John Florio |
London | 1603 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 87 | [GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) and Girolamo SPINELLI (c.1580-1647)] | Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. In perpuosito de la stella nuova. |
Padua | 1605 | GBP 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 | GBP 1,129,000.00 |
| 88 | GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) | Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti. |
Rome | 1613 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 16,380.00 |
| 89 | CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616) | El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. |
Milan | 1610 | GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 90 | ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) | De piscibus libri V et de cetis lib unus. |
Bologna | 1613 colophon 1612. | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 91 | D'ABBEVILLE, Claude (fl.1612-1614) | Histoire de la mission des peres capucins en l'isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitants de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este enuoyez de nouveau |
Paris | 1614 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 92 | SCHEINER, Christoph (ca 1579-1650) | Disquisitiones mathematicae, de controversiis et novitatibus astronomicis. Quas publice disputandas posuit, propugnavit. |
Ingolstadt | 1614 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 16,380.00 |
| 93 | DONNE, John (1572-1631) | Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes |
London | 1624 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 94 | DONNE, John (1572-1631) | Poems |
London | 1633 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 95 | BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (c. 1570-1630) | The Sea-Mirrour Containing a Briefe Instruction in the Art of Navigation |
Amsterdam & London | 1640 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 96 | RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640) -- GEVARTIUS, Casparius (1593-1666) | Pompa introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum infantis S.R.E. Card. Belgarum et Burgundionum gubernatoris etc... |
Antwerp | 1642 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 97 | HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679) | Leviathan; or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill |
London | 1651 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 30,240.00 |
| 98 | CASSINI, Gian Domenico (1625-1712) | De cometa anni MDCLII et MDCLIII. |
Modena | 1653 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 16,380.00 |
| 99 | SPRAT, Thomas (1635-1713) | The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge |
London | 1667 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 21,420.00 |
| 100 | DODART, Dionys (1634-1707) | Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Plantes |
Paris | 1675-1676. | GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.")
