Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, 23736, New York

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Auction Date
October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025
Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C)

Epistolae ad familiares

 Venice [before 18 September] 1469 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 107,950.00
2 CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C.)

Orationes

 Venice [not after 9 November] 1471 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 60,960.00
3 CICERO, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]

Rhetorica ad C. Herennium and De inventione

 Venice 8 July 1496 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,715.00
4 Compiled by Guillelmus Gallici, Guillelmus Horborch and Bonaguida Cremonensis

ROTA ROMANA -- Decisiones Rotae Romanae

 Rome 20 November 1472 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,510.00
5 Gaius Caecilius (61--c.113)

Epistolae

 [Rome] [not after 1 June 1474] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 19,050.00
6 JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230--1298)

The Golden Legend, sive Lombardica historia

 [Basel] [not after 1472] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,780.00
7 JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c. 1230-1298)

The Golden Legend

 Cologne 1485 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,940.00
8 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354--430)

De civitate Dei

 Venice 2 October 1475 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 24,130.00
9 PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (d. c.1380)

[CATO, pseudo-]. Disticha de moribus

 Augsburg 2 November 1475 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 24,130.00
10 CATO, Dionysius (c.3rd-4th centuries C.E.)

Cato's Distichs

 [Westminster] [after 23 December 1483] USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 190,500.00
11 ARISTOTELES (384--322 B.C.)

De animalibus

 Venice 1476 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 279,400.00
12 DIODORUS SICULUS (fl. 1st century B.C.)

Bibliothecae historicae libri VI

 Venice 31 January 1476/77 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,400.00
13 DIODORUS SICULUS (fl. 1st century B.C.)

Bibliothecae historicae libri VI

 Venice 25 November 1481 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 17,780.00
14 PLUTARCHUS (c.45--c.120)

Problemata

 [Venice] [c.1477] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,890.00
15 QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (c.35--c.100)

Institutiones oratoriae

 [Venice] [c.1480] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,810.00
16 LANDINUS, Christophoros (1424-1498)

Disputationum Camaldulensium libri IV

 [Florence] [about 1480] USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 38,100.00
17 BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (fl. 1230--1250)

De proprietatibus rerum

 Cologne 1481 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 17,780.00
18 PIUS II, Pont. Max. (1405--1464) [as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini]

Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi

 [Rome] 1481 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,065.00
19 MELA, Pomponius (fl. 37-42 A.D.)

Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis

 Venice 18 July 1482 USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 27,940.00
20

Gesta Romanorum -- Gesta Romanorum

 [Strasbourg] [c.1484] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
21 TACITUS, Gaius Cornelius (c.56--c.117)

Opera

 [Milan] [c.1487] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 57,150.00
22 PROPERTIUS, Sextus Aurelius (c.55/43--after 15 B.C.)

Elegiae

 Venice 1 February 1488 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,160.00
23 JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO (1434--1520)

Supplementum chronicarum

 Venice 15 May 1490 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,860.00
24 SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440--1514)

Liber chronicarum

 Nuremberg 12 July 1493 USD 28,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 48,260.00
25 LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.)

De rerum natura

 Venice 4 September 1495 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 38,100.00
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.