- Lot 1
Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible
Mainz, c.1455
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 2
De trinitate
Saint Augustine, not after 1474
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 4
Justinian's Digestum vetus
Anton Koberger, 1482
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 5
Tabulae Directionum et Profectionum, [bound with:] Astrolabium planum in Tabulis ascendens
Johannes Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus, 1490 and 1488
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 47,500Closed - Lot 6
Complete works of Statius
Jacobus de Paganinis, 1490
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 7
Nuremberg Chronicle
Anton Koberger, 1493
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 8
Epistolae et Carmina
Sidonius Apollinaris, 1498
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 9
Complete works of Angelo Poliziano
Aldus Manutius, 1498
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 10
Epistolae diversorum philosophorum
Aldus Manutius, 1499
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 11
Cologne Chronicle
Johann Koelhoff, 1499
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 12
Sophocles's Tragaediae septem
Aldus Manutius, 1502
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 13
Herodotus's Historia
Aldus Manutius, 1502
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 18
Dux seu director dubitantium aut perplexorum
Maimonides, 1520
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 21
Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis
Peter Apian, 1534
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 22
First complete edition of Aeschylus
Henri II Estienne, 1557
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 24
First complete Spanish Bible
Basel, 1569
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 26
Astronomia nova
Johannes Kepler, 1609
EstimateUSD 200,000 - 300,000Price realisedUSD 687,500Closed - Lot 29
Original Leaves from Famous Books, Eight Centuries
Otto F. Ege, portfolio
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 30
Fifteen Original Oriental Manuscripts
Otto F. Ege, 12th-18th centuries
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 32
Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook
Andrew Kippis, 1795
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,000Closed - Lot 33
Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus, 1798
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 187,500Closed - Lot 34
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1838 & 1840
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 35
Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859
EstimateUSD 150,000 - 250,000Price realisedUSD 300,000Closed - Lot 37
Offprints on Relativity
Albert Einstein, 1915-1917
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 38
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Crick & Watson, April 1953
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 41
Le Antichità de Ercolano esposte
Naples, 1757-1792
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 42
The Antiquities of Athens
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1762-1830
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 43
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1764
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,750Closed - Lot 44
Monumenti antichi inediti
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1767
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 45
Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. William Hamilton.
Pierre-François d'Hancarville, 1766-7
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Price realisedUSD 212,500Closed - Lot 46
Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, Greca
Giambattista Piranesi, 1769
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 47
Les Ruines des plus beaux Monuments de la Grèce
Julien-David Le Roy, 1770
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 48
Peintures antiques trouvées à Rome
Pietro Bartoli, 1783-1787
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 49
Serie di trecento tavole in rame rappresentanti pitture di vasi degli antichi etrusci
Giovanni Battista Passeri, 1787
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 52
Description de l'Egypte
Second edition, 1820-1830
EstimateUSD 150,000 - 250,000Price realisedUSD 175,000Closed - Lot 53
Grecian Remains in Italy
John Middleton, 1812-1819
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 54
Antiquities of Mexico
Viscount Kingsborough, 1830-1848
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 21,250Closed - Lot 55
Antiquités mexicaines
Guillaume Dupaix, 1834
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 57
The Holy Land
David Roberts, 1842-1849
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 100,000Closed - Lot 58
The Holy Land and Egypt
David Roberts, 1855-1856
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 59
Le case ed i monumenti di Pompeii
Fausto and Felice Niccolini, 1854-1896
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 60
Choix de Peintures de Pompei
Désiré Raoul-Rochette, 1867
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,000Closed - Lot 61
Pintura del gobernador, alcades y regidores de Mexico
Codex Osuna, 1878
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 1,500Closed - Lot 62
The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru
Reiss and Stuebel, 1880-1887
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 63
Biologia Centrali-Americana
Alfred Percival Maudslay, 1889-1902
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 64
Julien Gréau Collection of Ancient Glass
John Pierpont Morgan, 1903
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 67
Atlas of England and Wales
Christopher Saxton, c.1590
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 87,500Closed - Lot 68
Theatrum orbis terrarum
Abraham Ortelius, 1592
EstimateUSD 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedUSD 237,500Closed - Lot 69
Plan de Paris
Michel-Étienne Turgot, 1739
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 70
Huai’an Prefecture
[Ming dynasty, 1537-1619]
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 71
Complete Map of Human Traces and Travel Routes within the Myriad States of the Nine Borders of the Great Ming
Kyoto, 1700-1719
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 72
Ricci world map on a Japanese screen
late 17th or early 18th century.
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 90,000Price realisedUSD 200,000Closed - Lot 73
Survey of the World
Wanli period, 1610
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 74EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed
- Lot 78
All the Countries in Jambudvipa
Japan, 1710
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 79
Verbiest's world map
Korea, restrike from the c.1860 woodblocks
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 17,500Closed - Lot 80
Xing Tu, manuscript star map
After Ferdinand Verbiest, 1712
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 81
Manuscript handscroll of China's east coast
Kangxi period, 1687
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 82
Lu'an Prefecture, Shanxi Province
Qing dynasty
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 1,750Closed - Lot 83EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,000Closed
- Lot 84
Huguan County, Lu’an Prefecture, Shanxi Province
Qing dynasty
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 2,000Closed - Lot 86
Xiangyangfu Tu [Map of Xiangyang Prefecture]
Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 87
Shanxi Pingluxian Yutu [Map of Pinglu County, Shanxi]
[Qing dynasty, 1644-1912]
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 92
Complete Atlas of the Unified Empire
Tongzhi period, 1863
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 93
Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet
J-B. B. d'Anville, 1737
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed