Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 22693, London - King Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 170 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)	Collection of autograph and typescript poems, prose, sketches and signed leaves,	Isla Negra, Caracas, Temuco and other locations	1954-1962 and n.d.	GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	GBP 12,600.00
102	Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)	Collection of printed books, photographs, papers, and medallions commemorating Neruda's Nobel Prize for Literature, c.1937-1973		c.1937-1973	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,528.00
103	HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (ascribed to)	De potestate et sapientia Dei [Pimander], translated by Marsilius Ficinus (1433-1499).	Treviso	18 December 1471	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 44,100.00
104	APPIANUS (c.100-c.170)	De bellis civilibus -- Historia Romana. Translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius (1399-1477).	Venice	1477	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 10,080.00
105	CRASTONUS, Johannes (c. 1420-1497)	Lexicon Graeco-latinum. Edited by Bonus Accursius.	Vicenza	10 November 1483	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 22,680.00
106		Herbarius Latinus (without synonyms).	Vicenza	27 October 1491	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 11,340.00
107	SUIDAS (10th century)	Lexicon graecum, in Greek. Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas.	Milan	15 November 1499	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 11,340.00
108	ORPHEUS	Argonautica. Hymni, in Greek. -PROCLUS (410/12-485), Hymni, in Greek. Edited by Benedictus Ricardinus.	Florence	19 September 1500	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 25,200.00
109	SOPHOCLES (c. 496-406 BCE)	Tragaediae Septem cum commentariis, in Greek.	Venice	August 1502	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 37,800.00
110	HOMER (c. 8th century BCE)	Opera, in Greek. Bound with:]QUINTUS Smyrnaeus (fl. 4th century). Posthomerica:] Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim, in Greek. - TRYPHIODORUS (3rd or 4th century). De Trojae excidio, in Greek. - COLLUTHUS. De raptu Helenae, in Greek.	Venice	1504, c.1505	GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00	GBP 113,400.00
111	PINDAR (c. 518 -- c. 438)	Olympia; Pythia; Nemea; Isthmia; Callimachi hymni qui inveniuntur; Dionysus de situ orbis; Licophronis Alexandra, obscurum poema, in Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1513			GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 9,450.00
112	Homer (c. 8th century BCE)	Commentary on the Iliad:] Homeri interpres pervetustus, in Greek, edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535).	Rome	1517	GBP 50,000.00 - 80,000.00	GBP 50,400.00
113	CHRYSOSTOMUS, Johannes (c. 40 -- c. 115)	In omnes Pauli apostoli epistolas interpretatio, in Greek (volumes 2-4). Edited by Bernardino Donati.	Verona	1529	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 3,780.00
114		BIBLE, in German. Translated by Martin LUTHER (1483-1546). Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch.	Wittenberg	1534	GBP 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	GBP 604,800.00
115		Biblia, Das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft: Deutsch Auffs new zugericht. Translated by Martin Luther ( - Die Propheten alle Deutsch. - Das New Testament.	Wittenberg	1544-1545.	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
116	[COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527)]	La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilio.	Venice	1545	GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	Not Sold
117	ESTIENNE, Charles (1504-1564)	La dissection des parties du corps humain... avec figures et declarations des incisions, composees par Estienne de la Riuiere Chirugien.	Paris	1546	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 8,820.00
118	ESTIENNE, Henri II (1531-1598)	Epistola de suae typographiae statu, nominatimque de suo Thesauro linguae Graecae... Index librorum qui ex officina Henrici Stephani hactenus prodierunt.	Henri Estienne		GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,300.00
119	ESTIENNE, Henri (1528?-1598)	Thesaurus linguae graecae, with the Appendix Libellorum ad Thesaurum Graecae linguae pertinentium, in Greek and Latin.	Geneva	1572	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,930.00
120	NICOLAY, Nicolas de, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583)	Le Navigationi et Viaggi nella Turchia.	Venice	1580	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 15,120.00
121	ALFONSO XI (1311-1350, King of Castile and Leon) -- ARGOTE DE MOLINA, Gonzalo (1548-1596, editor)	Libro, de la Monteria que mando escrevir el muy alto y muy poderoso Rey Don Alonso de Castilla, y de Leon, ultimo deste nombre.	Seville	1582	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
122		Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max...	Rome	1593	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 8,820.00
123	GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642)	Dialogo ... sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano.	Florence	1632	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 88,200.00
124	BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (c. 1570-1630)	The Sea-Mirrour Containing a Briefe Instruction in the Art of Navigation.	Amsterdam & London	1640	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
125	KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)	Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisieme partie, demonstrant les Costes de Grenade, Murcie, Valance, Cathalogne, Languedoc, Provence, Italie, Dalmatie, Grece, Trace, Natholie, Sirie, d'Egipte, & toute la coste septentrionale de Barba	Amsterdam	1699	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 13,860.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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