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

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Auction Report
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
26 Pedro Damiano da Odemira

Libro da imparare a giocare a scachi, con bellissimi sartiti, & molte suttilita. Revisto, et corretto... in lingua Spagnola, & Taliana, nuovamente Stampato

Venice ?1564 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
27 Jean Pierre Elme Leduc [Saint-Elme-le-Duc]

Two manuscript volumes, comprising:

N/A GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
28 Benjamin Franklin

Chess made easy: New and comprehensive rules for playing the game of chess.

London 1797 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 16,640.00
29 Benjamin Franklin

Chess made easy. New and comprehensive rules for playing the game of chess.

Philadelphia 1802 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
30 Johannes Gallensis

Communiloquium, sive summa collationum.

Strassburg 25 May 1489 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
31 Jose Carlos Garces y de la Sierra Boil de Arenos

Libro nuevo, juego de damas dividido en tres tratados el primero de peones el segundo, para de dama a dama el tercero, para de dos a dos damas.

Madrid 1684 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
32 Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geissler and Johann Georg Richter

Spiele und Belustigungen der Russen aus den niedern Volks-Klassen. Jeux et divertissements du peuple russe.

Leipzig c.1802–1805 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,152.00
33 Martin Gosky

Arbustum vel Arboretum.

Wolfenbuttel 1650 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 16,640.00
34 Karl Gottlieb von Windisch

(i) Karl Gottlieb von Windisch. Lettres.... sur le joueur d'echecs de M. de Kempelen. Traduction libre de l'Allemand.

Basel 1783 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 17,920.00
35 Gioachino Greco

Trattato gioco de scacchi [...] Diviso in sbaratti & partiti.

12 February 1620 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 115,200.00
36 Gioachino Greco

Trattato del nobilissimo essercicio de’ Scacchi. Nel quale Sicontengono molti et bellissimi tratti e tavera scienza d’esso gioco.

Compose a Paris ... l'an 1624 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 76,800.00
37 Gioachino Greco

The royall game of chesse-play, sometimes the recreation of the late King with many of the nobility, illustrated with almost an hundred gambits, being the study of Biochimo.

London 1656 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 16,640.00
38 Emanuel Lasker

Autograph working manuscript entitled "Ye ancient game of chesse", in a notebook

N/A GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
39 Emanuel Lasker

Three autograph manuscripts

N/A GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 1,536.00
40 Emanuel Lasker

Three autograph manuscripts

N/A GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 2,048.00
41 [Giambattista Lolli]

Two manuscript works on chess, believed to be in the autograph of Giambattista Lolli, with illustrative games

1762 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,400.00
42 Ruy Lopez de Sigura

Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez.

Alcala de Henares 1561 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 12,160.00
43 Ruy Lopez de Sigura

Il giuoco de gli scacchi di Rui Lopez (trans. Giovanni Domenico Tarsia).

Venice 1584 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
44 Ruy Lopez de Sigura

Le Royal jeu des eschets avec son invention, science et practique. Ou par un tres-docte & intelligible discours sont amplement descrits les moyens d'ordonner son jeu, tant pour l'offensive que la defensive.

Paris 1636 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,864.00
45 Ruy Lopez de Sigura

Le jeu des eschecs.

Bruges 1655 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,144.00
46 Johann Jacob Lowenthal

Two autograph manuscripts:

N/A GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,040.00
47 Luis Ramirez de Lucena

Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez.

Salamanca 1497 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 GBP 179,200.00
48 Philip Marinelli

Triple chess.

London 1826 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 640.00
49 Jakob Mennel

Schachtzabel spiel. Desz ritterlichen, kunstlichen Schachtzabel spiels Underweysung, Erclarung und Verstant wo here das kommen were das am ersten erfunden unnd auss was ursach es erdacht sey auch wie man das kunstlich lernen ziehen und spielen solle.

Oppenheim c.1520 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
50 Thomas Middleton

A game at chesse.

London 1628 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 40,960.00