Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 26th March 2026 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
![Ocular.- [Pierre de Limoges.] De oculo morali, [Augsburg, Anton Sorg], [c.1477].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/24750813-f60b-f111-8405-7c1e522f8cd1/bbd1ff4e-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Ocular.- [Pierre de Limoges.] De oculo morali, [Augsburg, Anton Sorg], [c.1477].")
LOT 1
Ocular.- [Pierre de Limoges.] De oculo morali, [Augsburg, Anton Sorg], [c.1477].
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: £4,000
LOT 2
Petrarca (Francesco) Trionfi, commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena, Venice, Reynaldus de...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,250
LOT 3
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 30 May, 1483.
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £2,000
![Busch (Johannes) Specula Exemplorum, Strassburg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1490](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/c08d1c3d-170c-f111-8405-000d3ad66395/2b74d98c-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Busch (Johannes) Specula Exemplorum, Strassburg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1490")
LOT 4
Busch (Johannes) Specula Exemplorum, Strassburg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,700
![Cassiodorus (Magnus Aurelius) Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita, [Paris], Georg Wolf, [c.1494-95]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/93ef6161-170c-f111-8405-000d3ad66395/3e74d98c-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Cassiodorus (Magnus Aurelius) Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita, [Paris], Georg Wolf, [c.1494-95]")
LOT 5
Cassiodorus (Magnus Aurelius) Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita, [Paris], Georg Wolf, [c.1494-95]
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,400
LOT 6
Johannes de Sancto Geminiano. Liber de exemplis ac similitudinibus rerum, Venice, Johannes and...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,300
LOT 7
Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversus paganos, Venice, Christophorus de Pensis for Octavianus...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,800
![Dante Alighieri. Le Terze Rime, first Aldine edition, second issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1502](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/d1ce0fc6-310b-f111-8405-000d3ad66c34/fda0965f-c313-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Dante Alighieri. Le Terze Rime, first Aldine edition, second issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1502")
LOT 8
Dante Alighieri. Le Terze Rime, first Aldine edition, second issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], 1502
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
![Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8990ff84-380b-f111-8405-000d3ad5af44/abe23b03-4a16-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]")
LOT 10
Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated...
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 11
Jean Racine-Antoine-Augustin Renouard copy.- Aristophanes. Aristophanis facetissimi Comoediae...
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 12
Chess.- Gianutio (Orazio) Libro nel quale si tratta della maniera di giuocar'a' scacchi, first...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £4,200
LOT 13
Chess.- Traité Théorique et Pratique du Jeu des Échecs par une Societé d' Amateurs, first...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 14
Gori (Antonio Francesco) Statuae Antiquae Deorum et Virorum Illustrium, Florence, 1734.
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 15
Piazzetta (Giambattista) Studi di pittura già dissegnati ..., first edition, Venice, G. B....
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 16
Bellarmino (Cardinal Roberto) Dichiarazione piú Copiosa della Dottrina Cristiana, title in...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 17
Embroidered binding.- Königl. Groß-Brittannischer und Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 18
Philosophy.- Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) System der Wissenschaft, first edition, Bamberg and...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 19
Zola (Émile) Lourdes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to André...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £850
![France (Anatole) La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque, eightieth edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Arthur Ransome, Paris, [1911]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/03e13a8a-2d13-f111-8405-7c1e522d04fd/5d332730-2016-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "France (Anatole) La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque, eightieth edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Arthur Ransome, Paris, [1911]")
LOT 20
France (Anatole) La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque, eightieth edition, signed presentation...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 21
Italy.- Bifolium from a grand Romanesque Bible of gargantuan proportions, with Deuteronomy...
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Hammer Price: £2,800
LOT 22
Italy.- Bifolium from a vast Bible, with Exodus 8:17-9:21 and 23:11-24:18, Latin manuscript on...
Estimate: £1,800 - £2,500
Hammer Price: £2,500
LOT 23
Italy.- Single leaf from a Homiliary, with readings for the feast of St. Luke the evangelist,...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 24
Italy.- Bifolium from a Passional, with parts of the lives of SS. Donatus and Lawrence,...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 25
Italy.- Single leaf from a Passional, with readings for the feasts of SS. Agatha and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 26
Burgos, Spain.- Small archive concerning the purchase of a house and an orchard in Burgos, by...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 27
Italy, Malta & elsewhere..- Charters, Bulls, Letters, Petitions, Indulgences, Doctorates etc.,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £13,000
LOT 28
West Africa.- Three Quranic boards, for either ritual or pedagogical use, ink on carved wooden...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 29
England.- Two leaves from a manuscript of the works of Arator, including the whole Epistola ad...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: £1,500
![France.- Leaf from an early Choirbook, Latin manuscript on vellum, France, [thirteenth century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/ce7403da-2d16-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b/f69de60c-4116-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "France.- Leaf from an early Choirbook, Latin manuscript on vellum, France, [thirteenth century].")
LOT 30
France.- Leaf from an early Choirbook, Latin manuscript on vellum, France, [thirteenth century].
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 31
England.- Leaf from a bilingual Psalter, illuminated manuscript on vellum, text in Latin and...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £6,200
LOT 32
England.- Opening leaf from a copy of the Memoriale Presbiterorum Parochialium, an English...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £900
![Ten leaves from illuminated Books of Hours, manuscripts on vellum, text in Latin, French and Dutch, [Fifteenth century] (10)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/38b48ade-2c16-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b/de9de60c-4116-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Ten leaves from illuminated Books of Hours, manuscripts on vellum, text in Latin, French and Dutch, [Fifteenth century] (10)")
LOT 33
Ten leaves from illuminated Books of Hours, manuscripts on vellum, text in Latin, French and...
Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 34
Low Countries.- Five leaves from a collection of the letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux,...
Estimate: £700 - £900
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 35
Naples.- Two leaves from the well-known Psalter with Passion Sequences copied by Pietro Ursuleo...
Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800
Hammer Price: £1,200
![Leaf from a lavishly illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [northern England, c.1260-70]](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/25b72646-c4dc-f011-8542-000d3ad4a2b8/35507500-4116-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Leaf from a lavishly illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [northern England, c.1260-70]")
LOT 36
Leaf from a lavishly illuminated Psalter, in Latin, manuscript on vellum, [northern England,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £3,200
![Flanders.- Leaf from a Dominican Lectionary, decorated Latin manuscript on vellum, Flanders, [first half of the fourteenth century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/cd91bddc-2b16-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b/23507500-4116-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Flanders.- Leaf from a Dominican Lectionary, decorated Latin manuscript on vellum, Flanders, [first half of the fourteenth century].")
LOT 37
Flanders.- Leaf from a Dominican Lectionary, decorated Latin manuscript on vellum, Flanders,...
Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 38
France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen...
Estimate: £15,000 - £20,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 39
Edward IV (King).- Kent, St. Laurence, Thanet.- Charter, grantors William Manston and others...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £4,500
![Heraldry & Genealogy.- Essex.- Families in Essex 1634 [Arms and pedigrees of Essex families from the Visitation of Essex, 1634], manuscript, numerous ink c](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/99f21739-06fa-f011-8405-7c1e5278977c/4761cb39-c313-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Heraldry & Genealogy.- Essex.- Families in Essex 1634 [Arms and pedigrees of Essex families from the Visitation of Essex, 1634], manuscript, numerous ink c")
LOT 40
Heraldry & Genealogy.- Essex.- Families in Essex 1634 [Arms and pedigrees of Essex families from...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £1,300
![Naunton (Sir Robert) A codicell to be annexed to my last will... [Confirmation of a grant of two Suffolk Manor to his brother William Naunton], D.s.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/2d3b4671-d70c-f111-8405-000d3ad66c34/248ea393-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Naunton (Sir Robert) A codicell to be annexed to my last will... [Confirmation of a grant of two Suffolk Manor to his brother William Naunton], D.s.")
LOT 41
Naunton (Sir Robert) A codicell to be annexed to my last will... [Confirmation of a grant of two...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £750
![Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript recipes in several hands, original calf, with centre gilt diamond pattern stamp, [17th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/d0c747cf-820d-f111-8405-000d3ad5af44/328ea393-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript recipes in several hands, original calf, with centre gilt diamond pattern stamp, [17th century].")
LOT 42
Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript recipes in several hands, original calf,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £4,500
![Religious- [Scriptarum] Dominica ida Advent, habita ad S Lambertu, manuscript in Latin, original vellum, 1674.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b613d2b9-ef0b-f111-8405-7c1e522f8cd1/ae55c986-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Religious- [Scriptarum] Dominica ida Advent, habita ad S Lambertu, manuscript in Latin, original vellum, 1674.")
LOT 43
Religious- [Scriptarum] Dominica ida Advent, habita ad S Lambertu, manuscript in Latin, original...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Hampton Court.- An a count of the Royal Staircase at Hampton Court [& Account of 24 rooms in Hampton Court], manuscript, [18th century]; and another](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/e6bb0f4c-6df8-f011-8405-6045bd1365bd/9efc1f59-c313-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Hampton Court.- An a count of the Royal Staircase at Hampton Court [& Account of 24 rooms in Hampton Court], manuscript, [18th century]; and another")
LOT 44
Hampton Court.- An a count of the Royal Staircase at Hampton Court [& Account of 24 rooms in...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Religious.- [Register of ecclesiastical offices in England and Wales], manuscript in Latin, original calf, [18th century].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/ce5ab294-aa10-f111-8405-000d3ad5af44/498ea393-c413-f111-8405-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Religious.- [Register of ecclesiastical offices in England and Wales], manuscript in Latin, original calf, [18th century].")
LOT 45
Religious.- [Register of ecclesiastical offices in England and Wales], manuscript in Latin,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: Unsold
![Chess.- Manuscript compilation of 18th century chess gambits, c.160pp. on 126ff., [?Italy and England], [c. 1780].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/c27a0a31-0afd-f011-8405-7ced8d9c2836/bdf96f06-4116-f111-8340-7c1e5279d86b.webp "Chess.- Manuscript compilation of 18th century chess gambits, c.160pp. on 126ff., [?Italy and England], [c. 1780].")
LOT 46
Chess.- Manuscript compilation of 18th century chess gambits, c.160pp. on 126ff., [?Italy and...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: Unsold
LOT 47
Royal Navy.- Sutton (Samuel) Group of documents relating to Captain Samuel Sutton's service in...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,600
![Curate for a friend of William Wordsworth.- [Clerke (Sir William Henry, curate of Souldern and Rousham for Rev Robert Jones, friend of Wordsworth)] [Account Bo](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/0a29837f-e6f6-f011-8405-0022484051b0/cbfc60b1-a70d-f111-8405-000d3ad5af44.webp "Curate for a friend of William Wordsworth.- [Clerke (Sir William Henry, curate of Souldern and Rousham for Rev Robert Jones, friend of Wordsworth)] [Account Bo")
LOT 48
Curate for a friend of William Wordsworth.- [Clerke (Sir William Henry, curate of Souldern and...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 49
Napoleon I. Cut signature, n.d.; and another, engraved portrait of Napoleon (2).
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,500
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