Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 29th January 2026 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
![Duns Scotus (Johannes) Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, edited by Brother Rufinus, editio princeps, [Venice], Vindelinus de Spira, 147](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/6b173f7c-2fdc-f011-8542-0022484323cf/bcd48053-51ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Duns Scotus (Johannes) Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, edited by Brother Rufinus, editio princeps, [Venice], Vindelinus de Spira, 147")
LOT 1
Duns Scotus (Johannes) Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, edited by...
Estimate: £7,000 - £10,000
Hammer Price: £16,000
![Indian fables.- Capua (Johannes da) Directorium humane vite, first edition of this translation, woodcut illustrations, Strasbourg, Johann Pruess, [c.1489].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8d19f416-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/a51263ae-0191-ee11-817a-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Indian fables.- Capua (Johannes da) Directorium humane vite, first edition of this translation, woodcut illustrations, Strasbourg, Johann Pruess, [c.1489].")
LOT 2
Indian fables.- Capua (Johannes da) Directorium humane vite, first edition of this translation,...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 3
America.- Columbus (Christopher) Epistola...de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inventis,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus &](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/befa7ea2-2fdc-f011-8542-0022484323cf/f412b1fa-47ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus &")
LOT 4
Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £8,000
LOT 5
Binding.- Lucian of Samosata Opuscula Erasmo Roterodamo interprete , first Aldine edition,...
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: £10,000
![Apuleius (Lucius), Madaurensis. Metamorphoseos, sive Lusus asini libri XI [and other works], Macclesfield copy, [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresan](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/002363c4-f6d0-f011-8542-6045bdf23270/bf4581cf-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Apuleius (Lucius), Madaurensis. Metamorphoseos, sive Lusus asini libri XI [and other works], Macclesfield copy, [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresan")
LOT 6
Apuleius (Lucius), Madaurensis. Metamorphoseos, sive Lusus asini libri XI [and other works],...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £850
![Boccaccio (Giovanni) Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola á Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria, Florence, [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1525.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e319f416-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/ff93fdb4-6609-ef11-9f8a-6045bdd1255e.webp "Boccaccio (Giovanni) Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola á Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria, Florence, [Heirs of Filippo Giunta], 1525.")
LOT 7
Boccaccio (Giovanni) Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola á Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria,...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 8
Binding.- Navagero (Andrea) Orationes duae, Carmina que Nonnulla, first edition, in a Venetian...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: £7,000
LOT 9
Cardanus (Hieronymus) In Cl. Ptolemaei de astrorum iudiciis ... lib. IIII commentaria, first...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 10
Plays.- Terentius Afer (Publius) Las seys comedias de Terentio conforme a la edicion del Faerno,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine],](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/df8fbc15-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/1f00cda7-e1d7-ee11-904e-6045bd12bb70.webp "Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici to Princess Christine de Lorraine],")
LOT 11
Festival Book.- Scarabelli (Orazio) [A Suite of Engravings relating to the Wedding of the Grand...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
LOT 12
Cardano (Girolamo) De Propria vita liber, first edition, Paris, Jacques Villery, 1643.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Spinoza (Baruch) Tractatus theologico-politicus, first edition, fifth issue, Hamburg [i.e. Amsterdam], 'Henricus Künraht', 1670 [i.e. after 1677].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/7e684b6d-fed0-f011-8542-6045bdf23270/d14781cf-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Spinoza (Baruch) Tractatus theologico-politicus, first edition, fifth issue, Hamburg [i.e. Amsterdam], 'Henricus Künraht', 1670 [i.e. after 1677].")
LOT 13
Spinoza (Baruch) Tractatus theologico-politicus, first edition, fifth issue, Hamburg [i.e....
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 14
White Knights copy.- Vergilius (Polydorus) De inventoribus rerum libri VIII et de prodigiis...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 15
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Traduit de l'allemand par Mr. le...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 16
Devon.- Archive of 13 charters, indentures and documents, relating to the de Pyn, Godfray,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 17
Monastic Book of Hours and prayerbook, in Latin with occasional rubrics in French, decorated...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
![Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b521ecdf-a9d5-f011-8542-7ced8d9b722a/467ce498-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460].")
LOT 18
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: £8,000
![Two leaves from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum, glazed and framed, [France, second half of the fifteenth century]; and another, s](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/1322ecdf-a9d5-f011-8542-7ced8d9b722a/e67de498-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Two leaves from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum, glazed and framed, [France, second half of the fifteenth century]; and another, s")
LOT 19
Two leaves from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum, glazed and framed,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 20
Malta.- Knights of Malta. Statuti et Ordinationi Capitolari della Religione de' Cavalieri...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £8,000
LOT 21
Charles II’s Restoration Government.- Charles II. Patents Granted for Creations of Honour from...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
Hammer Price: £6,000
LOT 22
Anglo-Irish family.- Molesworth Family, of Brackenstown near Swords, Dublin, Edlington,...
Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000
Hammer Price: £19,000
LOT 23
British Ambassador to Turin.- Molesworth (John, second Viscount Molesworth) Correspondence to...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £5,000
![18 century poetry.- [Swift (Jonathan)] To Mrs Biddy Floyd, 1708; [?Molesworth (Robert, first Viscount Molesworth)] Wanting Poetick Stream (thoh it sound silly)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/340a78e2-c8a9-f011-bbd0-7c1e52789ef9/2a4dc3e9-54ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "18 century poetry.- [Swift (Jonathan)] To Mrs Biddy Floyd, 1708; [?Molesworth (Robert, first Viscount Molesworth)] Wanting Poetick Stream (thoh it sound silly)")
LOT 24
18 century poetry.- [Swift (Jonathan)] To Mrs Biddy Floyd, 1708; [?Molesworth (Robert, first...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £4,200
LOT 25
Irish Theatre.- Griffith (Thomas, Irish actor).- ?Allen (J.) A Prologe Spoke by Mr Griffith and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
![Poetry.- [Tickell (Thomas)] Lucy and Colin, a Song. Written in Imitation of William and Margaret, printed broadside poem, Dublin, 1725.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f20978e2-c8a9-f011-bbd0-7c1e52789ef9/054dc3e9-54ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Poetry.- [Tickell (Thomas)] Lucy and Colin, a Song. Written in Imitation of William and Margaret, printed broadside poem, Dublin, 1725.")
LOT 26
Poetry.- [Tickell (Thomas)] Lucy and Colin, a Song. Written in Imitation of William and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
![Shropshire.- [Owen (Hugh, Church of England clergyman and antiquary)] [Antiquarian notes on people and places in Shropshire], autograph manuscript notes, with](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b0803c97-d4d2-f011-8542-7ced8d3b1b47/800c8e86-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Shropshire.- [Owen (Hugh, Church of England clergyman and antiquary)] [Antiquarian notes on people and places in Shropshire], autograph manuscript notes, with")
LOT 27
Shropshire.- [Owen (Hugh, Church of England clergyman and antiquary)] [Antiquarian notes on...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 28
Collins (Wilkie) Autograph Letter signed to Fred Gould, actor, 1882, "At its time when you were...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 29
Dickens (Charles).- Wright (Thomas) Archive relating to The Life of Charles Dickens, 1900s-1930s
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 30
South America.- Dario (Ruben) Autograph manuscript poem, Buenos Aires, 1912; and other autograph...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £750
![Illuminated Manuscript.- Wilberforce (Basil).- Ingrey (Mabel) [Some of Rector's thoughts on Easter], finely illuminated manuscript in gold, blue red and other](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/58284e75-d2ca-f011-8542-7c1e52043384/107ce498-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Illuminated Manuscript.- Wilberforce (Basil).- Ingrey (Mabel) [Some of Rector's thoughts on Easter], finely illuminated manuscript in gold, blue red and other")
LOT 31
Illuminated Manuscript.- Wilberforce (Basil).- Ingrey (Mabel) [Some of Rector's thoughts on...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 32
Burra (Edward, English painter, draughtsman and printmaker, 1905-76).- A substantial archive of...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 33
Military.- Hasell-Miller (A.E.) Uniforms of the Scots Guards, volume of 10 original watercolours...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,000
![Law.- Brooke (Sir Robert) La graunde abridgement, collecte [-La secounde part du Grande abridgement], 2 parts in 1, Richard Tottel, 1576.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/655d4c21-cdd1-f011-8542-7ced8d9b722a/691083d5-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Law.- Brooke (Sir Robert) La graunde abridgement, collecte [-La secounde part du Grande abridgement], 2 parts in 1, Richard Tottel, 1576.")
LOT 34
Law.- Brooke (Sir Robert) La graunde abridgement, collecte [-La secounde part du Grande...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 35
Recusant printing, Mendham copy.- Allen (William) A true sincere and modest defence of English...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £800
![Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de) Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, Printed by Edm Bollifant, impensis G[eorge] B[ishop],](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/3ba479ba-f80e-f011-9346-6045bdcfc654/ab253185-2e2b-f011-9af7-6045bd11195b.webp "Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de) Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, Printed by Edm Bollifant, impensis G[eorge] B[ishop],")
LOT 36
Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de) Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £6,200
LOT 37
France.- Serres (Jean de) An historical collection, of the most memorable accidents, and...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 38
Fletcher (Phineas) The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man: together with piscatorie eclogs and...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 39
Fasciculus florum: or, a Nosegay of Flowers, translated out of the Gardens of severall...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
Hammer Price: Unsold
![[Chapman (George), attributed to] Sir Gyles Goose-cappe Knight. A Comedy lately Acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court, second editi](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/26331575-a7d6-f011-8542-7c1e5203c561/319016dc-47ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "[Chapman (George), attributed to] Sir Gyles Goose-cappe Knight. A Comedy lately Acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court, second editi")
LOT 40
[Chapman (George), attributed to] Sir Gyles Goose-cappe Knight. A Comedy lately Acted with great...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £4,500
![Donne (John) Poems, &c....With Elegies on the Authors Death..., fifth edition, T[homas]. N[ewcomb], for Henry Herringman, 1669.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/7f9bb15a-cdbf-f011-bbd1-002248407003/60ace8b6-46ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Donne (John) Poems, &c....With Elegies on the Authors Death..., fifth edition, T[homas]. N[ewcomb], for Henry Herringman, 1669.")
LOT 41
Donne (John) Poems, &c....With Elegies on the Authors Death..., fifth edition, T[homas]....
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £2,200
![Sundials.- Leybourn (William) The Art of Dialling, first edition, S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. G[riffin]. for Benjamin Tooke and Thomas Sawbridge, [1669].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/fcda886e-04bf-f011-bbd1-6045bdd24ade/927fa240-51ea-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8.webp "Sundials.- Leybourn (William) The Art of Dialling, first edition, S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. G[riffin]. for Benjamin Tooke and Thomas Sawbridge, [1669].")
LOT 42
Sundials.- Leybourn (William) The Art of Dialling, first edition, S[arah]. G[riffin]. and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 43
Fanshawe (Sir Richard, translator).- Hurtado de Mendoza (Antonio) Querer por solo querer: to...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £900
![[Winstanley (William)] Poor Robins Perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London, first edition, T.E. and are to be Sold by the General Assembly of Hawkers, 1678](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e400b091-ad1a-f011-9af4-002248074187/6ea856fb-2d2b-f011-9af7-6045bd11195b.webp "[Winstanley (William)] Poor Robins Perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London, first edition, T.E. and are to be Sold by the General Assembly of Hawkers, 1678")
LOT 44
[Winstanley (William)] Poor Robins Perambulation from Saffron-Walden to London, first edition,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 45
Stukeley (William).- Bible, English. The Holy Bible Containing the old Testament and the New, 1...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 46
Duelling.- Comber (Thomas) A Discourse of Duels, shewing the Sinful Nature and Mischievous...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 47
Locke (John) An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second...
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 48
Herodotus. The History of Herodotus. Translated from the Greek, translated by Isaac Littlebury,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £2,400
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