Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 28th September 2023 | 11:00 am | Lots:
LOT 1
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum, Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May, 1484.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £4,800
LOT 2
Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae, edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius and with commentary by...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,200
![Bonaventura (Saint) [Meditationes] Vita Christi, Paris, Pierre le Dru [for Jacques Moraert], 1495.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/2b282442-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/789890ea-1a91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Bonaventura (Saint) [Meditationes] Vita Christi, Paris, Pierre le Dru [for Jacques Moraert], 1495.")
LOT 3
Bonaventura (Saint) [Meditationes] Vita Christi, Paris, Pierre le Dru [for Jacques Moraert],...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 4
Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che...
Estimate: £40,000 - £60,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 5
Brussanus Collumbus. Sidus novum...duos continens tractatus: primus, de peccato...secundus, de...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,000
LOT 6
Alciatus (Andreas) Les Emblemes, Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1540.
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,600
LOT 6A
Hebraica.- Fagius (Paul).- Sententiae vere elegantes, piae, mir(a)eque, cum ad linguam...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 6B
Chess-like Game of Strategy.- Boissiere (Claude de) Le Tres Excellent et Ancien Jeu...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £4,000
LOT 7
Reissner (Adam) Ierusalem vetustissima illa et celeberrima totius mundi civitas, ex sacris...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,000
![Galiatovsky (Ioannikiy) Messia pravdivy [The Truthful Messiah, Jesus Christ Son of God], first edition, Kyiv, Press of the Pecherskaia Lavra, 1669.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/26282442-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/729890ea-1a91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Galiatovsky (Ioannikiy) Messia pravdivy [The Truthful Messiah, Jesus Christ Son of God], first edition, Kyiv, Press of the Pecherskaia Lavra, 1669.")
LOT 8
Galiatovsky (Ioannikiy) Messia pravdivy [The Truthful Messiah, Jesus Christ Son of God], first...
Estimate: £7,000 - £10,000
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 9
Bodoni.- Tasso (Torquato) Aminta, Favola Boschereccia, ora per la prima volta alla sua vera...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £4,800
LOT 10
Printed in 150 languages.- Oratio Dominica CL linguis versa, first edition, edited by J.J....
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: £4,500
LOT 11
Aristotle. Rhetorica Aristotelis cum fundatissimi artium..., Venice, Georgius Arrivabenus,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £10,000
LOT 12
Binding.- Navagero (Andrea) Orationes duae, Carmina que Nonnulla, first edition, in a Venetian...
Estimate: £12,000 - £16,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 13
Bible, Hebrew.- The Old Testament, 4 vol. in 8, rare complete set of Plantin's first Hebrew...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £4,000
![Bible, Greek.- Kainê Diathêkê. Novum Testamentum, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1576.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/352ff4e2-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/8ac0fa6e-0191-ee11-817a-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bible, Greek.- Kainê Diathêkê. Novum Testamentum, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1576.")
LOT 14
Bible, Greek.- Kainê Diathêkê. Novum Testamentum, [Geneva], Henri Estienne,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 15
Sundials.- Pini (Valentino) Fabrica de gl' Horologi Solari, first edition, Venice, Marco...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 16
Malta.- Sovereign Military Order of Malta.- Bosio (Giacomo) Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 17
Annotated.- Saint-Omer.- Coutumes Locales, tant anciennes que nouvelles des Bailliages, Ville et...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 18
Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, 2 vol., first edition, Paris, Michel Lévy...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,100
![Ibn al-Wardi (Zayn al-Din 'Umar) Kharīdat al-ʿajā'ib wa-farīdat al-gharā'ib, [Cairo], Matba'a Castelli, 1289 AH [1872 CE].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/c165be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/2ca91bd0-1491-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Ibn al-Wardi (Zayn al-Din 'Umar) Kharīdat al-ʿajā'ib wa-farīdat al-gharā'ib, [Cairo], Matba'a Castelli, 1289 AH [1872 CE].")
LOT 19
Ibn al-Wardi (Zayn al-Din 'Umar) Kharīdat al-ʿajā'ib wa-farīdat al-gharā'ib, [Cairo],...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 20
Zola (Emile).- Goncourt (Edmond & Jules de) La Femme au Dix-Huitiéme siècle, new edition, signed...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £350
LOT 21
Marx (Karl) Kapital, 3 vol. in 4, first Slovakian edition, Bratislava, 1955-56-58.
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 22
Secret Speech denouncing Stalin.- Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich) O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,100
![Hebraica.- Temurah, ["gift" or "offering,"] Exodus 25, 9 fragments, manuscript on paper, [10th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/9965be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/58b33abd-1491-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Hebraica.- Temurah, [\"gift\" or \"offering,\"] Exodus 25, 9 fragments, manuscript on paper, [10th century].")
LOT 23
Hebraica.- Temurah, ["gift" or "offering,"] Exodus 25, 9 fragments, manuscript on paper, [10th...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,000
![Calendar, probably from a monumental Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript, [Italy (probably Perugia), second half of the 14th century].](https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/lot_images/auction/images.jpg "Calendar, probably from a monumental Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript, [Italy (probably Perugia), second half of the 14th century].")
LOT 24
Calendar, probably from a monumental Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript, [Italy (probably...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 25
Staffordshire, Willenhall.- Power of attorney by William Harpur of Rushall, John Harpur and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 26
Hot Gospeller.- Underhill (Edward) & Throckmorton (Sir John) Grant by Edward Underhill & John...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 27
Shakespeare (William).- Underhill (Hercules, son of William Underhill who sold New Place to...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,600
![Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic on blue paper speckled with gold, Safavid Per](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/31282442-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/113adff0-1a91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic on blue paper speckled with gold, Safavid Per")
LOT 28
Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated...
Estimate: £12,000 - £16,000
Hammer Price: £12,000
LOT 29
Wales.- Mary I (Queen).- Grand Sessions of Wales held in Radnor. Exemplification of Recovery...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 30
Malta [Melite].- Archive of legal papers, including contracts, property, inheritance etc., with...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
![Parliament.- [Journal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685]. Parliamentum inchoat et tent apud Civtatem Westmonaster die Martis 19 Maij anno regni Domini no](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b266be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/03c7232a-1591-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Parliament.- [Journal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685]. Parliamentum inchoat et tent apud Civtatem Westmonaster die Martis 19 Maij anno regni Domini no")
LOT 31
Parliament.- [Journal of the House of Commons, May - Nov 1685]. Parliamentum inchoat et tent...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,400
LOT 32
Pepys (Samuel) & James II. Warrant signed by the king and countersigned by Samuel Pepys to the...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Clandestine atheism.- Freret (Nicolas) Lettre de Thrasybule a Leucipe, manuscript in French on paper, n.p. [France], 1722.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/3c282442-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/233adff0-1a91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Clandestine atheism.- Freret (Nicolas) Lettre de Thrasybule a Leucipe, manuscript in French on paper, n.p. [France], 1722.")
LOT 33
Clandestine atheism.- Freret (Nicolas) Lettre de Thrasybule a Leucipe, manuscript in French on...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,700
![18th century barrister.- [Way (Lewis, Barrister)] Rider's British Merlin... 1748, autograph manuscript diary, handsomely bound in contemporary gilt panelle](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/65dda43f-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/8dfe55ba-0d91-ee11-817a-6045bdfc47ac.webp "18th century barrister.- [Way (Lewis, Barrister)] Rider's British Merlin... 1748, autograph manuscript diary, handsomely bound in contemporary gilt panelle")
LOT 34
18th century barrister.- [Way (Lewis, Barrister)] Rider's British Merlin... 1748, autograph...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £650
![Netherlands.- [Volume of essays on the history, religion and life in the Netherlands], manuscript in Latin, Dutch and French, pen and ink drawings and watercol](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8069be40-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/bd1a01d9-1591-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Netherlands.- [Volume of essays on the history, religion and life in the Netherlands], manuscript in Latin, Dutch and French, pen and ink drawings and watercol")
LOT 35
Netherlands.- [Volume of essays on the history, religion and life in the Netherlands],...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £800
![Bentham (Jeremy) [Juvenilia item], including: Bentham's name, doodles, some ink cartoons, pencil sketches, "Arbor Porphriana". "Coll. Reg.&q](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/1ff0d52e-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f43eba50-0291-ee11-817a-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Bentham (Jeremy) [Juvenilia item], including: Bentham's name, doodles, some ink cartoons, pencil sketches, \"Arbor Porphriana\". \"Coll. Reg.&q")
LOT 36
Bentham (Jeremy) [Juvenilia item], including: Bentham's name, doodles, some ink cartoons, pencil...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 38
Irish Rebellion of 1798.- Letter distributed as propaganda giving an account of the Irish...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 39
Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of) Ephemera relating to the Duke of Wellington,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 40
Scottish scholar.- Bonar (James, solicitor of excise, Greek scholar and writer) Memoirs of James...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 41
Scottish Publisher.- Oliver and Boyd (Scottish publishing and printing firm) Archive of letters...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 42
India to England.- Campbell (Lt. Col., of the Bombay Establishment) Journal, autograph...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 43
Ceylon.- Tennent (Sir James Emerson, first baronet).- Fraser (J., acting principal Colonial...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 44
Scottish Peerage.- The Annandale Peerage.- Archive covering the claims of various members of the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 45
Brunel.- Stevens (E., associate of Brunel) Memoranda of Events connected with the Life of E....
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 46
Ireland.- Anderson (Sir Samuel Lee, lawyer) Diary, autograph manuscript, original half calf,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
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