Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 17th July 2025 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
LOT 1
Perottus (Nicolaus) Cornucopiae linguae Latinae, Venice, Baptista de Tortis, 19 October, 1490.
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 2
Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci...
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: £11,000
![Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Volgari, first edition, first issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [July 1501].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e63a98c1-3c41-f011-be59-00224801132e/9cbc810b-a551-f011-be59-6045bdfcb709.webp "Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Volgari, first edition, first issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [July 1501].")
LOT 3
Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Volgari, first edition, first issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius],...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £5,000
LOT 4
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoediae Senecae cum duobus commentariis: uidelicet Bernardini...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 5
Albertini (Francesco) Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition, Rome,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 6
Cyprian (Saint, Bishop of Carthage) Opera, Paris, Berthold Rembolt, 1512.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 7
Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 8
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516.
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 9
Against the misuse of excommunication.- Wurm (Matthias) Balaams eselin von dem bann das er umb...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 10
Military.- Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) De re militari libri quatuor, Paris, Christian Wechel, 1532.
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
![Zacharias, Chrysopolitanus In unu[m] ex quatuor sive de concordantia evangelistarum, libri quatuor, [Cologne], Eucharius Cervicornus, 1535.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e2b3191d-9247-f011-be59-00224801132e/593d2a53-284d-f011-be59-00224801132e.webp "Zacharias, Chrysopolitanus In unu[m] ex quatuor sive de concordantia evangelistarum, libri quatuor, [Cologne], Eucharius Cervicornus, 1535.")
LOT 11
Zacharias, Chrysopolitanus In unu[m] ex quatuor sive de concordantia evangelistarum, libri...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 12
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum secundus tomus, Lyon, heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1560; and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 13
Bindings.- Officium beatae Mariae virginis, Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1583; and another (2)
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £480
LOT 14
Natalis (Hieronymus) Evangelicae Historiae Imagines ..., Antwerp, 1593, bound with, Vivaldi...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 15
Mesa (Cristóbal de) La Navas de Tolosa. Poema Heroica, first edition, Madrid, Por la biuda de P....
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 16
Bible, French. Le Nouveau Testament... , Sedan, Pierre Jannon, 1643; and 2 other French 17th century...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £750
![Descartes (René) [Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier, 1654; and 3 others by the same in 1 vol..](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b5ad89bd-b62c-f011-9a4a-6045bdcfc21e/6b30e377-284d-f011-be59-00224801132e.webp "Descartes (René) [Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier, 1654; and 3 others by the same in 1 vol..")
LOT 17
Descartes (René) [Opera philosophica] Principia Philosophiæ, Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevier,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 18
Broadside.- Funeral Procession.- Scherm (Laurens) Waare Afbeeldinge van de Lyk-Staatsie,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 19
Bindings.- Officio della B. Vergine Maria dedicato a S. Anna, Roma, Gio. Maria Salvioni, 1707
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 20
Binding.- Fürstenberg copy.- L'Office de la semaine sainte, a l'usage de la maison du Roy,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 21
Marx (Karl) Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie...Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 22
Medieval Germany.- The Codex Manasse, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1927.
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Medieval Anglo-Burgundian Treaty.- Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy) [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty betwee](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/a0b2be98-201a-f011-9af4-0022483fa729/d08062c5-244c-f011-be59-6045bdfcb709.webp "Medieval Anglo-Burgundian Treaty.- Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy) [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty betwee")
LOT 23
Medieval Anglo-Burgundian Treaty.- Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy)...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £8,000
![German illuminator (probably circa 1540) The Harrowing of Hell, an illuminated leaf after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), bodycolour, [c.1540]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/d677c638-723c-f011-be59-6045bd11195b/c67dd356-254c-f011-be59-6045bdfcb709.webp "German illuminator (probably circa 1540) The Harrowing of Hell, an illuminated leaf after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), bodycolour, [c.1540]")
LOT 24
German illuminator (probably circa 1540) The Harrowing of Hell, an illuminated leaf after...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,900
![Scheuchzer (Johann Jakob) Compendiosa Delineatio Stineris cum Animi tum Utilitatus ergo, manuscript in Latin, original half morocco, [c. 1720].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b2734e9d-8e35-f011-9a4a-7c1e52663916/b95ad70b-254c-f011-be59-6045bdfcb709.webp "Scheuchzer (Johann Jakob) Compendiosa Delineatio Stineris cum Animi tum Utilitatus ergo, manuscript in Latin, original half morocco, [c. 1720].")
LOT 25
Scheuchzer (Johann Jakob) Compendiosa Delineatio Stineris cum Animi tum Utilitatus ergo,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,200
LOT 26
Scotland, Edinburgh.- Cartulary belonging to The Merchant Maiden Hospitall Edinburgh,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 27
Napoleon on St. Helena.- Manuscript and printed material relating to English involvement with...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 28
Ecuadorian War of Independence.- Mar (José de la, Peruvian military leader and third President...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 29
Anti-Slavery Expedition.- Niger Expedition of 1841.- Stanger (William) Autograph Letter signed...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 30
Dickens (Charles) Fanny Trollope, Julia Pardoe, J. E. Millais, Mrs. Henry Wood and others. Album...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 31
Dickens (Charles).- Album of letters, cut signatures and signed inscriptions, letters,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,100
![Miscellany.- Shelley (Sir Percy Florence) Autograph Letter signed to Leigh Hunt, [1846]; Tennyson (Alfred) Autograph Letter signed to](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/54dbf6c5-812a-f011-9af7-6045bd115697/cb1865f8-244c-f011-be59-6045bdfcb709.webp "Miscellany.- Shelley (Sir Percy Florence) Autograph Letter signed to Leigh Hunt, [1846]; Tennyson (Alfred) Autograph Letter signed to")
LOT 32
Miscellany.- Shelley (Sir Percy Florence) Autograph Letter signed to Leigh Hunt, [1846];...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 33
Victoria (Princess Royal, German Empress) Long Autograph Letter signed Victoria to her "Cousin",...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 34
Dobson (Austin) English Poet and Essayist, 1840-1921. 4 Autograph Manuscript Poems, signed or...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 35
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll." Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Tolhurst,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, v.d. [mostly first half of 20th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/0a2c2de8-0046-f011-be59-6045bdc18c90/b66c5ea9-284d-f011-be59-00224801132e.webp "Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, v.d. [mostly first half of 20th century].")
LOT 36
Large collection of c.225 photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to circus acrobats, v.d....
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 37
Chess.- Alekhine (Alexander Aleksandrovich) 2 Typed Letters signed to G. H. Midgley, Honorary...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 38
Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Eleanor Roosevelt & others.- Album of autographs, including Pablo...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,900
![Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed, [Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Wyllyam Bonham] or [Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Re](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/29cacb83-a22d-f011-9a4a-6045bd11195b/42f8314d-284d-f011-be59-00224801132e.webp "Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed, [Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Wyllyam Bonham] or [Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Re")
LOT 39
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed, [Printed by [Richard Grafton...
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: £4,500
LOT 40
Heraldry.- Bossewell (John) Workes of Armorie devided into three bookes, entitled the concordes...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £1,700
LOT 41
Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613.
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £4,500
![Atabey copy.- Zarain (Aga) A Relation of the late seidge and taking of the city of Babylon by the Turke, scarce first edition in English, Printed by I[ohn] Raw](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b8070dfe-d245-f011-be59-00224801132e/afdeac59-284d-f011-be59-00224801132e.webp "Atabey copy.- Zarain (Aga) A Relation of the late seidge and taking of the city of Babylon by the Turke, scarce first edition in English, Printed by I[ohn] Raw")
LOT 42
Atabey copy.- Zarain (Aga) A Relation of the late seidge and taking of the city of Babylon by...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 43
Foxe (John) The Booke of Martyrs, 3 vol., The Company of Stationers, 1641.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,400
LOT 44
Bible, English..- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 45
Charles II (King of England) A Proclamation Against Vicious, Debauch'd, and Prophane Persons. By...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 46
Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The) and Administration of the Sacraments, John Bill and...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £1,750
LOT 47
Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), by His Ma:ties Printers, 1669.
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 48
Robert Browning's copy.- Saint-Réal (César Vichard de) A Conspiracy of the Spaniards against the...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £420
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