Auction Reports

Tabula Auctions Ltd

Auction Info

Auction Name
Antique Maps and Books
Auction Date
12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number
#221
Total Lots
120
Sold Lots
23.0
Lots Sold
19.17%
Unsold Lots
97
Total Sales (GBP)
3,162.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
4,205.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
5,750.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
30,785.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
42,770.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
7.39%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
71

Cypri Insulae Nova Descript. 1573

1573 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 506.00
18

Indie Orientali di Qua e di la Dal Gange col Loro Arcipelago

18th century GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 368.00
29

Sumatrae et Insularum Locorumque nonnullorum Circumiacentium Tabula Nova

17th century GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 322.00
44

Lot of 12 Medieval woodcut illustrations on Virgil's works

16th century GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 322.00
70

Lot of 5 Animal Prints from A Collection of Voyages and Travels into Brasil and the East-Indies

N/A GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 230.00
118

A New Map of the Netherlands or Low Countries, with the South Part of the Provinces of Holland, Utrecht, & Gelders, and the whole of Zeeland

N/A GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 230.00
60

De Laaste Lyckplicht Van Zyn Hoogheit

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 230.00
21

Plan of St. Paul's Bay, In the Island of Malta

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 103.50
15

The Continuation of the Road from York to West-Chester

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 103.50
59

The Road from Oxford to Bristol

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 92.00
94

Lot of 5 Engravings about Vishnu's transformations

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 92.00
74

Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 92.00
65

Cheffins's Map of the English & Scotch Railways

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 80.50
17

Loxa

16th century GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 80.50
79

A Modern Map of the Post Roads in England and Wales with Part of Scotland

Late 18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 57.50
36

The appearance of the Total Solar Eclipse from Haradon hill May 11, 1724

c.1724 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 46.00
106

Lot of 3 Engravings about Yoga practices in India

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 46.00
20

Sluys

16th century GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 46.00
10

Veduta della Fortezza Vecchia di Corfu verso Tramontana

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 34.50
5

Insulae Antilles

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 34.50

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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.