Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern, L25404, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025

Page Size: 161 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
77	Yiannis Makryjannis	Yiannis Makryjannis \| Histoire picturale de la guerre de l'independence Hellenique. Geneva, [1926], large folio, portfolio	Geneva	1926	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 1,270.00
78	John Frederick Miller and George Shaw	John Frederick Miller and George Shaw \| Cimelia physica, 1796 but later, fine zoological and botanical plates		1796 but later	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
79		Neptune Francois..., Paris, 1693 [but Amsterdam, 1700], bound with Cartes Marines..., Amsterdam, 1693 [but 1694], 2 parts in one volume	Paris [but Amsterdam	1693, 1700	GBP 18,000.00 - 26,000.00	GBP 19,050.00
80	Joseph Pennell	Joseph Pennell \| An archive of original pen-and-ink drawings used for Charing Cross to Saint Paul's, circa 1890		circa 1890	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
81	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Giovanni Battista Piranesi \| Della magnificenza ed architettura de' Romani, 1761-1765		1761-1765	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 8,255.00
82	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Giovanni Battista Piranesi \| Le antichita Romane, [before 1784]		[before 1784	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 21,590.00
83	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Giovanni Battista Piranesi \| Vasi, candelabri, cippi... [Rome], 1778, 2 volumes	[Rome]	1778	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	GBP 16,510.00
84	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	Giovanni Battista Piranesi \| Vedute di Roma, before 1778, 2 volumes		before 1778	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
85	Max Planck	Max Planck \| Four autograph cards signed, to Hermine and Lucie Beetz, 1930-37		1930-37	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
86	Alexander Ivanovich Pluchart	Alexander Ivanovich Pluchart \| Nouvelle collection de quarante-deux vues de Saint-Petersbourg, 1826, splendid lithographs of imperial St Petersburg		1826	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
87	Lake Price and Joseph Nash	Lake Price and Joseph Nash \| Interiors and Exteriors in Venice, 1843, fine hand colour		1843	GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
88	Samuel Purchas	Samuel Purchas \| Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1625 [and] Purchas His Pilgrimage. 1626, 5 volumes in all		1625 [and	GBP 26,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 27,940.00
89	George Philip Reinagle	George Philip Reinagle \| Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin, 1828, dramatic naval lithographs		1828	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
90	Joseph Antoine Risso and Pierre Antoine Poiteau	Joseph Antoine Risso and Pierre Antoine Poiteau \| Histoire naturelle des orangers. Paris, 1818--[1820]	Paris	1818--[1820	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
91	Ferdinand Stademann	Ferdinand Stademann \| Panorama von Athen, Munich, 1841, original boards	Munich	1841	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 6,096.00
92	Robert Sweet	Robert Sweet \| Cistineae. The natural order of cistus, or rock-rose, 1825--1830		1825--1830	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
93	Francis Willughby and John Ray	Francis Willughby and John Ray \| The ornithology of Francis Willughby, 1678		1678	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
94	[Aldus Manutius--Antoine-Augustin Renouard]	[Aldus Manutius--Antoine-Augustin Renouard] \| Printer's oval ornament, portrait head of Aldus Manutius used by Renouard in 1834			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,397.00
95	Aristotle	Aristotle \| Opera, Venice, Aldus, 1496--1499, 4 volumes (of 5), nineteenth-century calf gilt	Venice	1496--1499	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 69,850.00
96	[Aristotle] Theophrastus	[Aristotle] Theophrastus \| De historia plantarum, [Venice, Aldus, 1497], the Parrhasius copy	Venice	1497	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
97	Aristotle	Aristotle \| Problemata, [Venice, Aldus, 1497], later vellum	Venice	1497	GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 7,620.00
98	Aristotle	Aristotle \| Problemata, Venice, Aldus, 1497, later vellum	Venice	1497	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
99		Bavaria--Legal \| Gerichtsordnung im Furstenthumb Obern und Nidern Bayern, [Munich, 1535], later half vellum	[Munich	1535	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,143.00
100		Bavaria--Legal \| Bairische Landtsordnung, Ingolstadt, 1553, contemporary blind-stamped Augsburg pigskin	Ingolstadt	1553	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,540.00
101		[Binding] \| Armorial binding, empty, white silk with coloured embroidery, c. 1690?		c. 1690?	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 508.00

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