Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 20th November 2025 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
LOT 1
Brant (Sebastian) Hortulus anime, rare, Strasbourg, Johann Wähinger, 1503.
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £4,500
![Anti-semitism.- Porchetus Salvagus. Victoria adversus impios Hebr[a]eos, in qua tum ex sacris litteris tum ex dictis Talmud ac cabbalistaru[m], et alioru[m] om](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/ef1620a1-beb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4/5d076e81-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "Anti-semitism.- Porchetus Salvagus. Victoria adversus impios Hebr[a]eos, in qua tum ex sacris litteris tum ex dictis Talmud ac cabbalistaru[m], et alioru[m] om")
LOT 2
Anti-semitism.- Porchetus Salvagus. Victoria adversus impios Hebr[a]eos, in qua tum ex sacris...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,500
![Anti-semitism.- Margaritha (Antonius) Der Gantz Jüdisch Glaub, first edition, [Augspurg], [Heinrich Steiner], [7 April, 1530].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/48b443af-beb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4/62076e81-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "Anti-semitism.- Margaritha (Antonius) Der Gantz Jüdisch Glaub, first edition, [Augspurg], [Heinrich Steiner], [7 April, 1530].")
LOT 3
Anti-semitism.- Margaritha (Antonius) Der Gantz Jüdisch Glaub, first edition, [Augspurg],...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 4
Bible, Latin. Biblia, breves in eadem annotationes, ex doctiss. interpretationibus, & Hebraeorum...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 5
Macchiavelli (Niccolo) Historie, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1540.
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Hammer Price: £3,200
LOT 6
Josephus (Flavius) Opera, editio princeps, Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 7
Dance of Death.- Holbein (Hans) Les Images de la Mort, Lyon, chez Jehan Frellon, 1547.
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
LOT 8
Ariosto (Lodovico) Orlando Furioso, 2 vol. in 1, Venice, Vicenzo Valgrisi, 1556.
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 9
Early European account of coffee.- Rauwolf (Leonhard) Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 10
Montaigne (Michel de) Les Essais..., Paris, Michel Nivelle, 1611.
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 11
Papal interregnum binding.- Muret (Marc Antoine) Epistolæ, hymni sacri et poemata omnia...editio...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 12
Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata, Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni for Bernardo Castello,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 13
Emblemata.- Predestination.- Drexel (Jeremias) Zodiacus Christianus, seu signa XII. divinae...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 14
Bindings.- Saincts devoirs (Les) de l’ame devote, handsome contemporary brown morocco, richly...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 15
Koran.- Koran öfversatt från arabiska originalet, first edition in Swedish, translated by...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 16
Economics.- Engels (Friedrich).- Held (Friedrich Wilhelm) Held's Volksvertreter, 12 issues in 1...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Записки из Мёртвого дома [Memoirs from the House of the Dead] 2 vol. in 1, fourth edition, St Petersburg,](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/ad1b17bc-5faf-f011-bbd0-7c1e527998d1/10a74f96-ceb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Записки из Мёртвого дома [Memoirs from the House of the Dead] 2 vol. in 1, fourth edition, St Petersburg,")
LOT 17
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Записки из Мёртвого дома [Memoirs from the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £500
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov], 2 vol., first edition in book form, Brothers Panteleev, St. Peters](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/9364d92c-93ae-f011-bbd0-6045bd127a11/7a93f7dc-c4b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov], 2 vol., first edition in book form, Brothers Panteleev, St. Peters")
LOT 18
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov], 2...
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: £26,000
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Преступление и наказание [Crime and Punishment], fifth edition, St Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 18](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f6cdbe73-5daf-f011-bbd0-7c1e527998d1/8a93f7dc-c4b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Преступление и наказание [Crime and Punishment], fifth edition, St Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 18")
LOT 19
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Преступление и наказание [Crime and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £750
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Бесы [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons], St. Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 1882](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e30ae728-fdaf-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/03ac4f96-ceb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Бесы [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons], St. Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 1882")
LOT 20
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Бесы [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons], St....
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Идіотъ [The Idiot], 4 parts in 1, third edition, St. Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 1882](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/4c38c303-05b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/65ac4f96-ceb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Идіотъ [The Idiot], 4 parts in 1, third edition, St. Petersburg, brothers Panteleevykh, 1882")
LOT 21
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Идіотъ [The Idiot], 4 parts in 1, third edition, St....
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £650
![Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Униженные и оскорблённые [Humiliated and Insulted, sometimes The Insulted and Injured], ninth edition, S](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/9b39c303-05b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/c66f5d9c-ceb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Униженные и оскорблённые [Humiliated and Insulted, sometimes The Insulted and Injured], ninth edition, S")
LOT 22
Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) Униженные и оскорблённые [Humiliated and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 23
Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo") Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina], 3 vol., first...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £9,500
![[Melnikov (Pavel Ivanovich)],](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/2ffb49f2-cbb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4/a1c0cb68-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "[Melnikov (Pavel Ivanovich)],")
LOT 24
[Melnikov (Pavel Ivanovich)], "Andrey Pechersky". На горах [On the Hills], 4 vol., first...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Boccaccio (Giovanni) [Декамерон] The Decameron, translated by Alexander Veselovsky, 2 vol., , Moscow, Kushnerev, 1891](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/504bf946-cbb0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4/32c0cb68-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "Boccaccio (Giovanni) [Декамерон] The Decameron, translated by Alexander Veselovsky, 2 vol., , Moscow, Kushnerev, 1891")
LOT 25
Boccaccio (Giovanni) [Декамерон] The Decameron, translated by Alexander Veselovsky, 2...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 26
Large initial ‘D’ on a cutting from an illuminated Breviary, Germany, 13th century.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 27
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, manuscript in Latin, formal gothic script, substantial fragment of...
Estimate: £7,000 - £10,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 28
Bartolomeo da San Concordio (Dominican canonist) Summa de casibus conscientiae, manuscript in...
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 29
City of London.- Saint Katharine Cree Church & Saint Katherine Coleman. Charter, release of...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £800
![Poetry & Ballads.- [Collection of Poetry & Ballads], manuscript, original vellum, n.d. [18th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/47a11e7e-8cae-f011-bbd0-6045bd127a11/7438f087-c3b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Poetry & Ballads.- [Collection of Poetry & Ballads], manuscript, original vellum, n.d. [18th century].")
LOT 31
Poetry & Ballads.- [Collection of Poetry & Ballads], manuscript, original vellum, n.d. [18th...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £480
![Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript in several hands, original vellum, 1721, 1741 & [early 19th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/491ab14d-87ae-f011-bbd0-6045bd127a11/7f47ab3c-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript in several hands, original vellum, 1721, 1741 & [early 19th century].")
LOT 32
Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript in several hands, original vellum, 1721, 1741 &...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,300
LOT 33
Dorset chemist.- Bridport.- Roberts (Giles Lawrence) A Short Narrative of the Life of Giles...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 34
Irish & English politicians.- Pole (William Wellesley-, third earl of Mornington) 2 copy letters...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 35
Alpine Mountaineering.- Three Weeks in Switzerland, manuscript, original half morocco, gilt,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £800
![Spying on Fenians.- Agent's pocket book with list of suspects and detailed observations, manuscript, [?London], 1886-1891.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/5615214f-b3a9-f011-bbd0-7c1e5204ac94/cfee1bad-c3b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Spying on Fenians.- Agent's pocket book with list of suspects and detailed observations, manuscript, [?London], 1886-1891.")
LOT 36
Spying on Fenians.- Agent's pocket book with list of suspects and detailed observations,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 37
Verdi (Giuseppe) Musical Quotation, of a passage in ?E-flat major, from the opera Otello, "Ora e...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 38
Stevenson (Robert Louis) Autograph Letter signed to Harold Sewall ("My dear Suaese"), Vailima, 1894.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £750
![American feminist poet.- Millay (Edna St. Vincent, American poet, playwright and feminist, 1892-1950) Prayer to Persephone, autograph poem, no place, [c.1918].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/0bc0b0e9-90aa-f011-bbd0-7c1e5203c882/8c184bb3-c3b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "American feminist poet.- Millay (Edna St. Vincent, American poet, playwright and feminist, 1892-1950) Prayer to Persephone, autograph poem, no place, [c.1918].")
LOT 39
American feminist poet.- Millay (Edna St. Vincent, American poet, playwright and feminist,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 40
Betjeman (Sir John) Betjeman's first talk on radio, containing texts of two of his poems,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Ellis (Ruth, nightclub hostess and convicted murderer, 1926-55) Autograph Letter signed to Mr [George] Rogers, Labour MP for Kensington North, 1p. wi](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/6f1f9f30-11a8-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/5b93359c-c4b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Ellis (Ruth, nightclub hostess and convicted murderer, 1926-55) Autograph Letter signed to Mr [George] Rogers, Labour MP for Kensington North, 1p. wi")
LOT 41
Ellis (Ruth, nightclub hostess and convicted murderer, 1926-55) Autograph Letter signed to Mr...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 42
Crisp (Quentin, born Denis Charles Pratt, raconteur and gay icon, 1908-99) Small archive of...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,600
LOT 43
Illuminated Manuscripts.- Millar (Eric George) The Library of A. Chester Beatty. A Descriptive...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Ethnography.- [Boemus (Johannes)] The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and Lawes...Affrike and Asie, first English edition, contem](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/828ba0b3-39a8-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/1fe8adf0-c3b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "Ethnography.- [Boemus (Johannes)] The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and Lawes...Affrike and Asie, first English edition, contem")
LOT 44
Ethnography.- [Boemus (Johannes)] The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners,...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £3,800
![[Brant (Sebastian)] Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States...Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barcl](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8587e8a6-1024-f011-9af7-002248074187/0a65083b-2e2b-f011-9af7-6045bd11195b.webp "[Brant (Sebastian)] Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States...Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barcl")
LOT 45
[Brant (Sebastian)] Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £11,000
![Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia...Now the fourth time published, Imprinted [by George Eld and Humphrey Lownes] for Simon Waterson, 1605.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/55a999d9-faa8-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1/92da0e43-e2b0-f011-bbd0-0022483f80c1.webp "Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia...Now the fourth time published, Imprinted [by George Eld and Humphrey Lownes] for Simon Waterson, 1605.")
LOT 46
Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia...Now the fourth time published,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £850
![[Spenser (Edmund)] The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/db5019e2-4fa4-f011-bbd0-7c1e521d57f6/6bf4003c-c3b0-f011-bbd0-00224840f0e4.webp "[Spenser (Edmund)] The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.")
LOT 47
[Spenser (Edmund)] The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 48
Raleigh (Sir Walter).- Stucley (Sir Lewis) To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie....
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £550
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