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L'Autographe Auctions: A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale from L’Autographe Auction
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale from L’Autographe Auction | Total Sales (GBP) | 159,862.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 19, 2026 - May 19, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 134,330.00 |
| Sale Number | #8 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 194,650.00 |
| Total Lots | 139 | ||
| Sold Lots | 87.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 268,840.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 62.59% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 374,050.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 52 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 42.74% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | Greek Gospel Lectionary |
N/A | GBP 36,000.00 - 50,000.00 | GBP 30,000.00 | |
| 136 | Viscount Melville | Autograph letter signed |
1815 | GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 9,375.00 |
| 23 | Miscellanea Philosophico-Mathematica Societatis Taurinensis |
1759–1773 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,125.00 | |
| 81 | Francesco del Cossa | Illuminated Leaf From An Italian Antifonal |
N/A | GBP 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | GBP 6,875.00 |
| 22 | Homer | Odyssey; Iliad |
1524 | GBP 2,600.00 - 3,600.00 | GBP 5,250.00 |
| 9 | Avogadro; Cauchy; Legendre; Prony; Monge | Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises |
1810–1841 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,000.00 |
| 106 | Puccini | Edgar |
1892 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,000.00 |
| 44 | Virgilius Publius Maro | Buccolica Virgilii cum commento |
c. 1510 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,250.00 |
| 59 | Historia Alexandri magni regis macedonie de prelijs |
1486 | GBP 1,800.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,000.00 | |
| 18 | Ognibene Ferrari | De arte medica infantium, libri quatuor |
1577 | GBP 2,600.00 - 3,600.00 | GBP 3,750.00 |
| 32 | Morata Olimpia Fulvia | Divinae orationes, dialogi, epistolae, carmina, tam Latina quam Graeca |
1562 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,750.00 |
| 38 | Forme constitutionnelle decretee par acclamation dans la seance du 3 mai |
1791 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 3,750.00 | |
| 21 | Guilielmi Harveji | Exercitationes anatomicae, De motu Cordis et Sanguinis Circulatione |
1654 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,500.00 |
| 27 | Manzini | L'occhiale all'occhio. Dioptrica pratica |
1660 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 3,000.00 |
| 47 | I quattro Evangelii |
1816 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,000.00 | |
| 127 | Barras | Barras |
N/A | GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,000.00 |
| 19 | Girolamo Fracastoro | Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus |
ca. 1530 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,500.00 |
| 55 | Eusebius | Historia ecclesiastica |
1479 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,375.00 |
| 63 | Bruno | Psalterium beati Brunonis episcopi herbipolensis |
1494 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,375.00 |
| 77 | Autograph letter signed |
1831 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,375.00 | |
| 39 | Dello Scalco |
1584 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,250.00 | |
| 60 | Giovanni Simoneta | Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae |
1486 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,250.00 |
| 97 | Liszt | Autograph letter signed |
1842 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 2,000.00 |
| 6 | Sante Arduino | Opus de venenis |
1562 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 31 | Montmort | Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard |
1713 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 | GBP 1,750.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
