Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections, L26401, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 17, 2026 - April 17, 2026

Page Size: 99 items in 4 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A.D.	Manuscript of Le Piquet, ou Essai sur les Principes Generaux de ce Jeu.	Paris	1772	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,560.00
2	(i) L. D[utens].	Lettres sur un automate, qui joue aux echecs.		1772	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 16,640.00
3	Francesco Barozzi	Il nobilissimo et antiquissimo giuoco pythagoreo nominato Rythmomachia cioe battaglia de consonantie de numeri.	Venice	1572	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
4	Filippo Beroaldo	Ein hupsche subtyliche declamation von dryen bruedern, der erst ist ein drunckner boss, der anden ein hurer, der drytt ein spyler.	Strasbourg	1513	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
5	Claude de Boissiere	Nobilissimus et antiquissimus ludus Pythagoreus (qui Rythmomachia nominatur) in utilitatem & relaxationem studiosorum comparatus.	Paris	1556	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
6	Sebastian Brant	Varia carmina.	Basel	1 May 1498	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
7	Ibn Butlan	Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt. I Erstlich durch bewarung der sechs neben naturlichen Ding. …	Strassburg	1533	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
8	Ivan Butrimov	О шахматной игрѣ [O shakhmatnoy igrye].	St. Petersburg	1821	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
9	Castiglione	Il cortegiano del conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuovamente stampato, et con somma diligentia revisto con la sua tavola di nuovo aggiunta.	Venice	1546	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,304.00
10	Jacobus de Cessolis	De ludo scachorum... Schachzabel... das Buch menschlicher sitten vnnd der Ampt der Edlen.	Strassburg	1 September 1483	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 96,000.00
11	Jacobus de Cessolis	Libro di Givocho di scacchi intitolato de costumi deglhuomini & degli offitii de nobili.	Florence	1 March 1493	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 76,800.00
12	Jacobus de Cessolis	Incipit libellus de ludo scachorum et de dictus factisque nobilius virorus philosophorum et antiquorum prologus libelli.	Toulouse	c.1494	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 19,200.00
13	Jacobus de Cessolis	Tractatus de scachis mistice interpretatus de moribus per singulos hominu status.	Vienna	1505	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 12,160.00
14	Jacobus de Cessolis	Opera nuova nella quale se insegna il vero regimento delli huomini & delle donne di qualunque grado, stato, e condition esser si voglia... Costume delli huomini, & ufficcii delli nobeli, nuovamente Stampata.	Venice	1534	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,840.00
15	Jacobus de Cessolis	Dechado de la vida humana, moralmente sacado del juego del axedrez.	Valladolid	8 April 1549	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 25,600.00
16	Pedro de Cobarrubias	Remedio de jugadores.	Salamanca	1543	GBP 2,400.00 - 3,600.00	GBP 4,864.00
17	Stephanus Costa	De ludo.	Pavia	20 August 1489	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
18	[Charles Cotton]	The compleat gamester.	London	1674	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
19	Carlo Cozio	Autograph working manuscript entitled "Nuova Idea per lo Il Giuoco degli Scacchi",		Originale 1747	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 8,960.00
20	Artemidorus Daldianus	Ἀρτεμιδαώρου Ὀνειροκριτικῶν βιβλία πέντε, Περὶ ἐνυπνίων συνέσιου ὡς λέγουσιν [Oneirokritikon biblia pente - De somnniorum interpretatione, Libri Quinq[ue]. De insomniis, quod Synesii cuiusdam nomine circumfertur].	Venice	August 1518	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,152.00
21	Pedro Damiano da Odemira	Libro da imparare giocare a scachi: & de belitissimi partiti revisti & recorrecti con summa diligentia emendati da molti famosissimi giocatori. In lingua spagnola & italiana. Novamente stampato.	Rome	21 November 1524	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 24,320.00
22	Pedro Damiano da Odemira	Libro da imparare giocare a scachi.	Rome	undated	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 8,960.00
23	Pedro Damiano da Odemira	Libro da imparare giochare a scachi, et de belissimi partiti, revisti & recoretti, & con summa diligentia da molti famosissimi giocatori emendati. In lingua spagnola, & taliana, novamente stampato.	Italy, perhaps Rome,	after 1524	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 11,520.00
24	Pedro Damiano da Odemira	Libro da imparare giocare a scachi.	Rome	c.1535	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 5,760.00
25	Pedro Damiano da Odemira	(i) Pedro Damiano da Odemira. Le plaisant jeu des eschecz renouvelle.	Paris	1560	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 6,144.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000