Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 23758, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Venice, 1478 | Mela's Cosmographia |
Venice | 1478 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 22,860.00 |
| 78 | Sphaera mundi and Theorica planetarum. First illustrated edition, 1478 |
Venice | 1478 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 | |
| 79 | Albumasar, 1489 | Introductorium in astronomiam |
Augsburg | 7 February 1489. | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 80 | Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493 | Liber chronicarum |
Nuremberg | for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 165,100.00 |
| 81 | MALHEIRO, PEDRO ALFONSO, 1507 | Gesta Proxime Per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & Aliis Orie[n]talibus Terris. |
Cologne | February 1507. | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 30,480.00 |
| 82 | William Caxton, translator, c.1527 | The myrrour: and Dyscrypcyon of the Worlde with many mervaylles |
London | c.1527.] | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 30,480.00 |
| 83 | Ptolemy, 1528 | The Almagest |
Venice | 1528 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 84 | Sebastian Munster, 1536 | Organum Uranicum |
Basel | 1536 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 85 | Ptolemy -- Sebastian Munster, 1552 | Geographia |
Basel | 1552 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 86 | Robert Recorde, 1556 | The Castle of Knowledge |
London | 1556 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 152,400.00 |
| 87 | Sebastian Brant, 1570 | The Ship of Fools |
London | 1570 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 88 | Peter Martyr, 1577 | The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies |
London | 1577 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 127,000.00 |
| 89 | Fernao Lopes de Castanheda, 1582 | Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias |
London | 1582 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
| 90 | Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius, 1584 | Cosmographia, sive Descritpio universi Orbis |
Antwerp | 1584 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,556.00 |
| 91 | English edition of Pigafetta and Lopez, 1597 | A Report of the Kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa |
London | 1597 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 6,350.00 |
| 92 | Richard Hakluyt, 1599-1600 | The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation |
London | Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 19,050.00 |
| 93 | Ortelius pocket atlas. Accademia dei Lincei copy |
Antwerp | 1502 [i.e. 1602]. | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 | |
| 94 | Montaigne, 1603 | The Essayes |
London | 1603 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 69,850.00 |
| 95 | Jose de Acosta, 1604 | The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies |
London | 1604 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 96 | St. Augustine, 1610 | Of the Citie of God |
[London] | 1610 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 97 | Homer; George Chapman, [c.1616] | The Whole Works of Homer |
London | [c.1616]. | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 98 | Nicholas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, 1615 | De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu |
Augsburg | 1615 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 99 | Jan Huygen Linschoten, 1619 | Histoire de la navigation -- Le grand routier de mer -- Description de l'Amerique |
Amsterdam | 1619 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 100 | Orazio Grassi, 1619 | Libra astronomica |
Perugia | 1619 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,985.00 |
| 101 | Galileo, 1619 | Discorso delle comete di Mario Guiducci |
Florence | 1619 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
