Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana | Total Sales (USD) | 5,403,342.00 |
| Auction Date | October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 3,281,700.00 |
| Sale Number | #23736 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 4,633,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 160 | ||
| Sold Lots | 142.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 3,721,700.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 88.75% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 5,295,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 18 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 102.04% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | COLUMBUS LETTER -- VERARDUS, Carolus (1440-1500) | In Laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispaniae regis Bethicae & regni Granatae obsidio voctoria & triumphus |
1494 | USD 1,500,000.00 - 2,000,000.00 | USD 1,651,000.00 |
| 11 | ARISTOTELES (384--322 B.C.) | De animalibus |
1476 | USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 |
| 32 | POLO, Marco (1254-1324) | De le maraueliose cose del Mondo |
20 December 1500 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | USD 228,600.00 |
| 10 | CATO, Dionysius (c.3rd-4th centuries C.E.) | Cato's Distichs |
[after 23 December 1483] | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 190,500.00 |
| 96 | [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)] | Pride and Prejudice |
1813 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | USD 190,500.00 |
| 1 | CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C) | Epistolae ad familiares |
[before 18 September] 1469 | USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 107,950.00 |
| 30 | [LANGLAND, William (c.1325--c.1390)] | The Vision of Pierce Plowman |
1550 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 95,250.00 |
| 35 | Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, et aliis orientalibus terris |
November 1506 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 95,250.00 | |
| 101 | [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)] | Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion |
1818 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 76,200.00 |
| 28 | [GROLIER BINDING] XENOPHON (c.430--c.355 B.C.) | Opera |
1534 | USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 63,500.00 |
| 79 | Le Pastissier Francois |
1655 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 63,500.00 | |
| 112 | GOULD, John (1804-1881) | The Birds of Europe |
1837 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 63,500.00 |
| 2 | CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106--43 B.C.) | Orationes |
[not after 9 November] 1471 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 110 | LEWIS, James Otto (1799-1858) | The Aboriginal Port Folio; or a Collection of Portraits of the most Celebrated Chiefs of the North American Indians |
[May 1835 - 1838] | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 21 | TACITUS, Gaius Cornelius (c.56--c.117) | Opera |
[c.1487] | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 143 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | Autograph document signed ("Albert Einstein") |
1934-05-18 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 24 | SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440--1514) | Liber chronicarum |
12 July 1493 | USD 28,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 |
| 52 | SCHMIDEL, Ulrich (1511-c.1570), [STADEN, Hans (1525-1576)] and others | Neuwe Welt: das ist Warhaffttige Beschreibunge aller schoenen Historien von Erfindung viler unbekanten Koenigreichen, Landschaftten, Insulen und Stedten |
(1524-1559) | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 |
| 98 | [AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)] | Mansfield Park: A Novel |
1814 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 |
| 140 | DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895) | Life and Times of Frederick Douglass |
1881 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 48,260.00 |
| 137 | FROST, Robert (1874-1963) | Autograph manuscript poem signed ("Robert Frost"), entitled "Nothing New" |
1918 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 44,450.00 |
| 148 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) | Photograph signed and inscribed on the outer mat ("Dir lieben Estella Albert Einstein 1940") |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 44,450.00 | |
| 144 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955); EINSTEIN, Margot (1899-1986) | An archive of letters, notes, signed photographs, and a book |
1937-1951 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 40,640.00 |
| 16 | LANDINUS, Christophoros (1424-1498) | Disputationum Camaldulensium libri IV |
[about 1480] | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
| 25 | LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.) | De rerum natura |
4 September 1495 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
