Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper incl. Books from Sir William Stirling-Maxwell's Library
Thursday 25th January 2024 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
LOT 1
America.- Sterling (James) Zeal against the Enemies of our Country pathetically recommended: In...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 2
Architecture.- Soane (Sir John) Sketches in Architecture; containing Plans and Elevations of...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £950
![Bartolozzi (Francesco) Twelve Months of the Year, after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), engravings, [1761] (12)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/bfa9746d-d499-ee11-be38-6045bdd0aed4/e1cfac43-37aa-ee11-be38-6045bdf1c108.webp "Bartolozzi (Francesco) Twelve Months of the Year, after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), engravings, [1761] (12)")
LOT 3
Bartolozzi (Francesco) Twelve Months of the Year, after Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767), engravings,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £900
![Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament, [Amsterdam], n.p., 1672](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/883c9206-f39f-ee11-be38-6045bdcfd69d/cf4c0eb3-2da0-ee11-be38-000d3ad5b402.webp "Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament, [Amsterdam], n.p., 1672")
LOT 4
Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament, [Amsterdam], n.p., 1672
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 5
Bookbinding.- Quaritch (Bernard) A Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books remarkable for the beauty...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £500
![Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, Madrid, [c.1792].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/02326fae-919a-ee11-be38-7c1e5202c26a/ccf0c663-25aa-ee11-be38-6045bdf1c108.webp "Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros, Madrid, [c.1792].")
LOT 6
Bullfighting.- Fernandez Noseret (Luis) Coleccion de las principales suertes de una corrida de...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 7
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The River War, 2 vol., first edition, 1899.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £480
LOT 8
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., presentation copy to Caroline Norton,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 9
Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of...
Estimate: £50,000 - £70,000
Hammer Price: £50,000
LOT 10
Falconry.- Huber (Jean) Observations sur le vol des oiseaux de proie, first edition, Geneva,...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 11
Falconry.- Salvin (Francis Henry) and William Broderick. Falconry in the British Isles, second...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 12
Family Tree of the House of Habsburg.- Sadeler II (Aegidius) Ditior Hesperidum ramis defenditur...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 13
Hondius (Henricus) The Four Seasons, the set of 4 engravings, 1601
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 14
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 15
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 16
Horses.- Eisenberg d' (Barone) Description du Manege Moderne dans sa perfection, first edition,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 17
Horses.- Galiberto (Giovanni Battista di) II Cavallo da maneggio, first edition, Vienna, Per...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,000
![Horses.- Ridinger (Johann Elias) Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul [- Anmerkungen von dem Carousel], 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, Augsburg, J. E.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/2d60493b-549b-ee11-be38-7c1e5202c26a/5529c269-25aa-ee11-be38-6045bdf1c108.webp "Horses.- Ridinger (Johann Elias) Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul [- Anmerkungen von dem Carousel], 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, Augsburg, J. E.")
LOT 18
Horses.- Ridinger (Johann Elias) Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul [- Anmerkungen von dem...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 19
Horses.- Solleysel (Jacques de) The Compleat Horseman: Discovering the surest Marks Beauty,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 20
Spanish horsemanship.- Tapia y Salcedo (Gregorio de) Exercicios de la gineta, first edition,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,900
LOT 21
Horses.- Tacquet (Jean) Philippica ou Haras de cheuaux, Antwerp, R. Bruneau, 1614
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £600
![Hunting and falconry.- [Goury de Champgrand (Charles Jean)] Traite de Venerie, et de Chasses, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Her](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/839d4518-cc99-ee11-be38-6045bdd0aed4/c138e1ac-2da0-ee11-be38-000d3ad5b402.webp "Hunting and falconry.- [Goury de Champgrand (Charles Jean)] Traite de Venerie, et de Chasses, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Her")
LOT 22
Hunting and falconry.- [Goury de Champgrand (Charles Jean)] Traite de Venerie, et de Chasses, 2...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,700
LOT 23
Mathematics.- Newton (Sir Isaac).- Stirling (James) Lineae tertii ordinis Neutonianae, first...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £4,500
LOT 24
Mathematics.- Stirling (James) The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £2,600
![Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], Cambridge, 1888.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b29470a7-919a-ee11-be38-7c1e5202c26a/5ceec663-25aa-ee11-be38-6045bdf1c108.webp "Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], Cambridge, 1888.")
LOT 25
Middle East.- Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 26
Nayler (George) The Coronation of his most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth, R. Clay for...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 27
Orlers (Jean) La Généalogie des Illustres Comtes de Nassau, second French edition, Leiden, Jean...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 28
Scotland.- Thomson (John) The Atlas of Scotland, containing Maps of Each County, Edinburgh, 1832
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 29
Stirling (James) Methodus differentialis, sive tractatus de summatione et interpolatione...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £2,200
LOT 30
Stirling (Major William) The Rivers of Paradise and Children of Shem... and a Disquisition...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 31
Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Arms, Devices, Initials, Monograms & Cyphers, one of...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £2,600
LOT 32
Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 33
Stirling-Maxwell (Sir William, publisher).- Coecke van Aelst (Pieter) The Turks in MDXXXIII A...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,600
LOT 34
Textiles.- Gli Universali di tutti e bei dissegni..., first edition, Venezia, Niccolò Zoppino,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £8,500
LOT 35
Thailand.- Bock (Carl) Temples and Elephants, first edition, Sampson Low, 1884
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £750
![Blake (William) Jerusalem, one of 516 copies, France & London, for the William Blake Trust, [1951]; and 2 others, Blake (3)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b9b95b0e-f59f-ee11-be38-6045bdcfd69d/51c8cd98-26aa-ee11-be38-6045bdf1c108.webp "Blake (William) Jerusalem, one of 516 copies, France & London, for the William Blake Trust, [1951]; and 2 others, Blake (3)")
LOT 36
Blake (William) Jerusalem, one of 516 copies, France & London, for the William Blake Trust,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 37
Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The) called by many the Canticle of Canticles, one of 750...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 38
Golden Cockerel Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 4 vol., one of 485 copies on...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
LOT 39
Kelmscott Press.- Voragine (Jacobus de) The Golden Legend, translated by William Caxton, one of...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £4,200
LOT 40
Kelmscott Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, a Monodrama, one of 500 copies on Flower paper,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 41
Rackham (Arthur) .- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first trade edition, 1935; and...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 42
Breydenbach (Bernhard von) Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, first edition of the first...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £4,000
LOT 43
Law.- Henricus de Segusio. Summa super titulis Decretalium, Venice, Thomas de Blavis, de...
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 44
Canon law.- Salzburg.- Statuta provincialia Salisburgensia, Augsburg, rare first bilingual...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 45
Perottus (Nicolaus) Cornucopiæ, sive linguæ latinæ commentarii, rare first Aldine edition,...
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Hammer Price: £15,000
LOT 46
Ars memorandi.- Rosenheim (Petrus von) Hexastichon Sebastiani Brant in memorabiles...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: £6,000
![Euripides. Euripidis tragoediæ septendecim, editio princeps, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1503.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/612e8343-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/f10e4542-2da0-ee11-be38-000d3ad5b402.webp "Euripides. Euripidis tragoediæ septendecim, editio princeps, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1503.")
LOT 47
Euripides. Euripidis tragoediæ septendecim, editio princeps, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius],...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
![Law.- Papa (Guido) Libertates per illustrissimus principes Delphinos Viennenses..., first edition, Grenoble, [Jean Belon for] François Pichat and Barth](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/212e8343-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/c800f235-2da0-ee11-be38-000d3ad5b402.webp "Law.- Papa (Guido) Libertates per illustrissimus principes Delphinos Viennenses..., first edition, Grenoble, [Jean Belon for] François Pichat and Barth")
LOT 48
Law.- Papa (Guido) Libertates per illustrissimus principes Delphinos Viennenses..., first...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
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