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
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

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