Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1197, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Pierre de Limoges] | Ocular.- De oculo morali |
[Augsburg] | [c.1477] | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 5,080.00 |
| 2 | Petrarca (Francesco) | Trionfi, commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena |
Venice | 6 February, 1478 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,587.50 |
| 3 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus | De proprietatibus rerum |
Nuremberg | 30 May, 1483 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 |
| 4 | [Busch (Johannes)] | Specula Exemplorum |
Strasbourg | 1490 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,159.00 |
| 5 | (Magnus Aurelius) | Cassiodorus Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita |
[Paris] | [c.1494-95] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,778.00 |
| 6 | Johannes de Sancto Geminiano | Liber de exemplis ac similitudinibus rerum |
Venice | 12 July, 1499 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
| 7 | Orosius (Paulus) | Historiae adversus paganos |
Venice | 1499 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | Le Terze Rime |
[Venice] | [August, 1502] | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 10 | Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme |
Paris | [c.1521] | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Aristophanes | Jean Racine-Antoine-Augustin Renouard copy.- Aristophanis facetissimi Comoediae undecim |
Paris | 1557 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Gianutio (Orazio) | Chess.- Libro nel quale si tratta della maniera di giuocar'a' scacchi |
Turin | 1597 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 13 | Chess.- Traite Theorique et Pratique du Jeu des Echecs par une Societe d' Amateurs |
Paris | 1775 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 14 | Antonio Francesco) | Gori ( Statuae Antiquae Deorum et Virorum Illustrium |
Florence | 1734 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Piazzetta (Giambattista) | Studi di pittura gia dissegnati ... |
Venice | 1760 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 16 | Bellarmino (Cardinal Roberto) | Dichiarazione piu Copiosa della Dottrina Cristiana |
Rome | 1770 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Embroidered binding.- Konigl. Gross-Brittannischer und Churfurstl |
Lauenburg | 1798 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 952.50 | |
| 18 | Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) | Philosophy.- System der Wissenschaft |
Bamberg and Wurzburg | 1807 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,079.50 |
| 19 | Zola (Emile) | Lourdes |
Paris | 1894 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,079.50 |
| 20 | France (Anatole) | La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque |
Paris | [1911] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 21 | Italy.- Bifolium from a grand Romanesque Bible of gargantuan proportions, with Deuteronomy 20:5-23:24 and Joshua 4:23-7:26 |
Italy | [late eleventh or early twelfth century] | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,556.00 | |
| 22 | Italy.- Bifolium from a vast Bible, with Exodus 8:17-9:21 and 23:11-24:18 |
Italy | [second half of the eleventh century, or opening of twelfth century] | GBP 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 3,175.00 | |
| 23 | Italy.- Single leaf from a Homiliary |
Italy | [first half of the twelfth century] | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,397.00 | |
| 24 | Italy.- Bifolium from a Passional, with parts of the lives of SS. Donatus and Lawrence |
Italy (probably Tuscany) | [second half of the twelfth century] | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 25 | Italy.- Single leaf from a Passional, with readings for the feasts of SS. Agatha and Scholastica |
Italy | [first half of the thirteenth century] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 26 | Diego de Breviesca | Burgos, Spain.- Small archive concerning the purchase of a house and an orchard in Burgos |
Burgos, Spain | [dated 1473 (but perhaps a couple of decades later) and 9 June 1490] | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 889.00 |
