Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 29th May 2025 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
LOT 1
Bonfire of Vanities.- Benivieni (Girolamo) Canzoni e sonetti dell’amore e della bellezza divina,...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 2
Plinius Secundus (Gaius) De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 4
Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum...
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Hammer Price: £36,000
![Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1560](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/fddda43f-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/11919cfc-eaf8-ef11-9346-000d3a7ef93b.webp "Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, Venice, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1560")
LOT 5
Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi,...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £10,000
LOT 6
Novel.- Du Bail (Louis Moreau) L'Olympe, rare first edition, Pierre Rocolet, 1635.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 7
Criminology.- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, first edition, Livorno, Marco...
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: £8,000
LOT 8
Sophocles Quae exstant omnia, 5 parts in 2 vol., edited by R.F.P. Brunck, Strassburg, J. G....
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 9
Verlaine (Paul) Dédicaces, one of 55 copies on Hollande with an autograph poem about Bibi la...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 10
Holocaust.- Kirschbaum (Menachem Mendel.) Takanoth eich LeHithnaheg Ka'Eth Be'Epher HaNisraphim,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, contemporary binding, [Spain], [c.1500]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/779b0a97-c425-f011-9af7-6045bd1069a8/c068a6e7-8726-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, contemporary binding, [Spain], [c.1500]")
LOT 11
Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, contemporary binding, [Spain], [c.1500]
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,200
LOT 12
Banking.- Early cheques.- Clayton & Morris, bankers. Group of 14 early cheques, and 16 other...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 13
Charles II (King) Order to the royal jewellers Francis Sympson and John Sympson to make...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 14
Scottish Genealogy.- Seton family.- Maitland (Sir Richard, of Lethington) The Historical...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 15
Garrick (David) Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington, 1749, relating...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £850
![Miltoniana.- [Addison (Joseph)] A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript, original calf, [18th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/6347e43e-fc0e-f011-9346-6045bdcfc654/5541a265-8726-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Miltoniana.- [Addison (Joseph)] A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript, original calf, [18th century].")
LOT 16
Miltoniana.- [Addison (Joseph)] A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript, original...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 17
Venomous toads.- White (Rev. Gilbert, naturalist, author of the "Natural History of Selborne",...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript,[Edinburgh], [c.1784 and later] bound after a work by William Smellie](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f0eff61e-bd21-f011-9af7-6045bdf1f705/00f35f9c-8626-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript,[Edinburgh], [c.1784 and later] bound after a work by William Smellie")
LOT 18
Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript,[Edinburgh],...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 19
Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,600
LOT 20
Lord Amherst & Lord Byron.- Amherst (William Pitt, first Earl Amherst of Arracan) Collection of...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 21
Literary.- Collection of letters, including: Sir Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Mary Russell Mitford,...
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 22
Commonplace book.- Russell (Berthia) Commonplace Book of manuscript verses, drawings and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 23
France.- French School (1820s) Sketchbook with over 120 original drawings from a tour of...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,700
![Clare (John) [Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston [Lincolnshire] with his presentation inscription, monochrome watercolour fr](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/5517ff4e-130f-f011-9346-002248435119/54ec9c6b-8726-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Clare (John) [Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston [Lincolnshire] with his presentation inscription, monochrome watercolour fr")
LOT 24
Clare (John) [Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 25
India & elsewhere.- Doran & Magrath families.- Extensive correspondence, journals and some...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 26
Hong Kong.- Doran (Robert) 3 Autograph Letters from Hong Kong to Mrs Doran, Miss Doran and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 27
Commonplace Book, manuscripts, drawings, watercolours and ephemera, in several hands, including:...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 28
Creationism.- Nevins (John Birkbeck) On the Evidences of the harmony of Creation, derived from...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Shakespeare.- Roget (John Lewis, son of the originator of the thesaurus) [Journal of an art tour to Holland, Belgium and Paris], manuscript notes, 7 pieces of](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8c555026-5320-f011-9af7-000d3ad4e654/ed23e0a2-8626-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Shakespeare.- Roget (John Lewis, son of the originator of the thesaurus) [Journal of an art tour to Holland, Belgium and Paris], manuscript notes, 7 pieces of")
LOT 29
Shakespeare.- Roget (John Lewis, son of the originator of the thesaurus) [Journal of an art tour...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 30
Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott).- Illuminated address presented by "The Borough of...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 31
Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott).-Illuminated address presented to John Chard R.E.,...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 32
Spender (Sir Stephen) Autograph Letter signed "Stephen" to Clemence, [?1930], as a student at...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £40
LOT 33
Peake (Mervyn) 1911-1968) English writer, artist, poet & illustrator. 2 Autograph Letters signed...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 34
Raleigh (Sir Walter) The History of the World, Printed by William Jaggard for Walter Burre, 1621.
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 35
Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North, 2 parts in...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £800
![Profusely annotated.- New Testament, Greek. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, profusely annotated in English in 17th & 18th century hands, London [but Leiden],](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/1b9965c9-cc21-f011-9af7-6045bdf1f705/11f35f9c-8626-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Profusely annotated.- New Testament, Greek. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, profusely annotated in English in 17th & 18th century hands, London [but Leiden],")
LOT 36
Profusely annotated.- New Testament, Greek. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, profusely annotated in...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 37
Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £4,800
LOT 38
Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), by His Ma:ties Printers, 1669.
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 39
Binding.- Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord) The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 40
Restoration binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments, by...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690 [but 1693]; and another in unif](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/44ce845c-e50e-f011-9346-0022483fa729/c17449ee-8626-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1690 [but 1693]; and another in unif")
LOT 41
Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, by...
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 42
Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Oxford, by the University Printers, 1701.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 43
Bindings.- Collection of the several Statutes (A), and Parts of Statutes, Now if Force, relating...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 44
Bindings.- Almanack.- Rider (Cardanus) Rider's (1735) British Merlin, by R. Nutt, 1735; and 2 others...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 45
Royal binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments ...,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £480
LOT 46
Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), by Thomas Baskett, 1751.
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 47
Binding.- Almanacks.- Remarkable News from the Stars: or, an Ephemeris for 1768, together 12...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 48
Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Cambridge, by John Archdeacon Printer to the University,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,350
![Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783, [1783]' and 5 other miniature almanacks (6)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/bcdbdc7e-9b0f-f011-9346-6045bdcfc654/db7449ee-8626-f011-9af7-6045bdf1d486.webp "Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783, [1783]' and 5 other miniature almanacks (6)")
LOT 49
Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783, [1783]' and 5 other...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £850
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