| 91 |
Lactantius |
Opera. [Subiaco: Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, 29th October 1465] |
N/A |
GBP 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 |
GBP 332,800.00 |
| 92 |
[Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun] |
Le Roman de la Rose. |
Gaspard Ortuin and Pierre Bouttlier |
GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 |
GBP 332,800.00 |
| 89 |
Castiglione |
Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione. |
, April 1528 |
GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 |
GBP 307,200.00 |
| 90 |
Cesare Delfini |
Matris Virginis Mariados libri tres. |
12 October 1537 |
GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 |
GBP 217,600.00 |
| 47 |
Luis Ramirez de Lucena |
Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez. |
1497 |
GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 |
GBP 179,200.00 |
| 67 |
|
World Championship, 1972 Partially printed scoresheets, used in round 17 of the competition, completed by Boris Spassky |
22-23 August 1972 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 |
GBP 140,800.00 |
| 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 |
| 10 |
Jacobus de Cessolis |
De ludo scachorum... Schachzabel... das Buch menschlicher sitten vnnd der Ampt der Edlen. |
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. |
1 March 1493 |
GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 |
GBP 76,800.00 |
| 36 |
Gioachino Greco |
Trattato del nobilissimo essercicio de’ Scacchi. Nel quale Sicontengono molti et bellissimi tratti e tavera scienza d’esso gioco. |
l'an 1624 |
GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 |
GBP 76,800.00 |
| 94 |
Charles Darwin |
Letter signed, with autograph postscript, to St George Mivart, defending the theory of Natural Selection |
23 January 1871 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 |
GBP 76,800.00 |
| 50 |
Thomas Middleton |
A game at chesse. |
1628 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 |
GBP 40,960.00 |
| 66 |
Stefan Zweig |
Schachnovelle. |
1942 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 |
GBP 35,840.00 |
| 109 |
Oscar Wilde |
Ravenna Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. |
1878 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 |
GBP 33,280.00 |
| 57 |
Publicius |
Artes orandi, epistolandi, memorandi. |
N/A |
GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 |
GBP 28,160.00 |
| 15 |
Jacobus de Cessolis |
Dechado de la vida humana, moralmente sacado del juego del axedrez. |
8 April 1549 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 |
GBP 25,600.00 |
| 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. |
21 November 1524 |
GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 |
GBP 24,320.00 |
| 52 |
Thomas Murner |
Logica memorativa. |
1509 |
GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 |
GBP 23,040.00 |
| 112 |
Oscar Wilde—Lord Alfred Douglas |
Autograph letter signed, to W.T. Stead, an exceptional and revealing letter thanking Stead for his support in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde’s trial |
15 November 1895 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 |
GBP 23,040.00 |
| 100 |
Ben Franklin |
Autograph letter signed (“B. Franklin”), to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, as American Peace Commissioner |
26 November 1782 |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 |
GBP 21,760.00 |
| 12 |
Jacobus de Cessolis |
Incipit libellus de ludo scachorum et de dictus factisque nobilius virorus philosophorum et antiquorum prologus libelli. |
c.1494 |
GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 |
GBP 19,200.00 |
| 104 |
Napoleon |
Letter signed, as First Consul (“Bonaparte”), to an unnamed Bishop (“Monsieur l’Eveque”), justifying the resumption of war, which he blames on the bad faith of the British over the fate of Malta, and asking his blessing, with two countersignatures includi |
7 June 1803 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 |
GBP 19,200.00 |
| 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. |
1783 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 |
GBP 17,920.00 |
| 101 |
M.K. Gandhi |
Letter signed (“M.K. Gandhi”), to William Winstanley Pearson, praising the work of a fellow satyagrahi, reflecting on Pearson's recent arrest for his work in support of swaraj and celebrating its ultimate benign consequences |
30 October ?1918 |
GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 |
GBP 17,920.00 |
| 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 |
