- Lot 1
Illuminated Homilies on John
John Chrysostom, 1470
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 2
"Extremely rare" Götz Bible
Cologne, 1477-8
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 12,500Closed - Lot 3
Beautifully illuminated incunable of the Natural History
Pliny the Elder, 1479
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 6
Extremely rare Medieval sermons
Strassburg, c.1486
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 7
Fallacies of traditional sciences
Phillipus Beroaldus, 1497
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 1,625Closed - Lot 8
Ancient astronomy, by Aldus
Aratus et al., 1499
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed - Lot 9
Great humanist exposition of Aristotle
Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, 1501
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 11
Medieval astronomy and meteorology
Duke Leopold of Austria, 1520
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 12
Two major works on twilight
Pedro Nunes & Ibn Mu'adh, 1542
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 13
Prophecies on the Ottoman Empire
Ps.-Antonio Torquato, 1552
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 1,250Closed - Lot 14
First English edition of The Dance of Death
Boccaccio & Lydgate, 1554
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 15
First English edition of the complete works
Thomas More, 1557
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 16
One of the first women listed in the Index
Olympia Fulvia Morata, 1562
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 17
Rabelasian monster book
Ps.-Rabelais, 1565
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 18
Münster's Cosmografia
Sebastian Münster, 1575
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 19
Heron mechanicus
Conrad Dasypodius, 1580
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 21
Le diverse et artificiose machine
Agostino Ramelli, 1588
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 22
First collected edition
Paracelsus, 1589-90
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 24
The Earth a Magnet
William Gilbert, 1600
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 25
Physiognomaniacal treatise on distillation
Giovanni Battista Della Porta, 1608
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 26
Robert Fludd's mystic masterpiece
Oppenheim, 1624
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 27
Miniature dos-à-dos binding
New Testament and Psalms, 1633-5
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 28
The definitive mapping of lunar libration
Johannes Hevelius, 1654
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 29
The wave or pulse theory of light
Christiaan Huygens, 1690
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 22,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 30EstimateUSD 2,000 - 4,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed
- Lot 32
Architettura civile
Guarino Guarini, 1737
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 33
Foundational study on the measurement of light
Johann Lambert, 1760
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 34
Discovery of oxygen
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 1772
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 35
Machines & inventions
Jean-Gaffin Gallon, 1776-78
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 1,375Closed - Lot 36
First Spanish Edition of The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith, 1794
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 37
First American edition of Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith, 1789
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 38
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
Vintage photograph, 1963
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 39
Rare Map of West Africa
Carel Allard, c.1690s
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 40
The Quadrupeds of North America
John James Audubon, 1845
EstimateUSD 120,000 - 180,000Price realisedUSD 300,000Closed - Lot 45
Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Falda, 1665-1669
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 2,500Closed - Lot 46
Himalayan Plants
Magnolias, poppies, etc., 1855
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 49
The History of the Indies
López de Gomara, 1569
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 50
With rare original wrapper and ads
Aboriginal Portfolio, 1835-36
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 51
First edition of "the grandest color plate book"
McKenney & Hall, 1836-44
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 112,500Closed - Lot 52
Hand-Colored Issue of Roberts' Holy Land
David Roberts, 1842-49
EstimateUSD 80,000 - 120,000Price realisedUSD 87,500Closed - Lot 53
The very rare first Latin edition
Ludovico Varthema, 1511
EstimateUSD 60,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed - Lot 55
Visscher's Map of New England and New Amsterdam
Amsterdam, c.1684
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 57
Landmark of navigational science
Edward Wright, 1610
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 58
Ackermann's Costumes of the Indian Army
Rare suite, 1844-1849
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 60
British officers, 1845
Rare suite of lithographs
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,375Closed - Lot 61
Color Portraits of the Madras Army
Published in Chennai, 1841
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 67
Central Europe in the Interwar Years
Autograph album, c.1926-42
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 69
Dali's Alice in Wonderland
Limited edition, 1969
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 70
From the library at Gad's Hill
Candlestick, mid 19th-century
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 71
Charles Dickens's writing desk
Writing table, mid-19th century
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 72
Autograph letter & check
Charles Dickens, 1859
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 3,250Closed - Lot 75
The Kelmscott Chaucer
In original boards, 1896
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 50,000Closed - Lot 76
Mother Goose signed prints
Baum & Parrish, 1897
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 77
The Boy Who Lived
The first Harry Potter, 1997
EstimateUSD 50,000 - 80,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 78
From The Wind in the Willows
E.H. Shepard, 1931
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 80
Mrs Dalloway, signed
Virginia Woolf, 1925
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 82
One of 250 signed copies
Virginia Woolf, 1930
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 83
First editions, two signed
Virginia Woolf, 1915-1958
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 84
Letters to his friend and translator
Emile Zola, 1892-1902
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 85
Signed by John, Paul, George, & Ringo
The Beatles, 1960s
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 87
An unpublished interview
Bob Dylan, [1965]
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 88
The original art for Led Zeppelin's debut LP
George Hardie, 1969
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 325,000Closed - Lot 89
Mouzon's Map of the Carolinas
London, 1794
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 90
A textile handkerchief broadside
On cambric, c. 1820
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,000Closed - Lot 91
The Battle of Long island
Samuel Holland, 1776
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 92
Invoicing Georgia for acting as Parliamentary agent
Benjamin Franklin, 7 October 1776
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 93
Introducing a British volunteer for the Continental Army
Benjamin Franklin, 17 June 1778
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 94
On the victory at Yorktown
George Washington, 15 November 1781
EstimateUSD 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedUSD 137,500Closed - Lot 95
A lock of hair & an invitation to dine
George Washington, 1781 & 1787
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 96
The Society of the Cincinnati
George Washington, 4 July 1786
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 97
The federal Constituion comes into force
Charles Thomson, 13 September 1788
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 98
A rare autograph letter signed
Martha Washington, 15 February 1794
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 101
Ordering his favorite French wines
Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1803
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 22,500Closed - Lot 102
Installing the Great Clock at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson, 28 Janaury 1804
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed - Lot 103
The first dated printing of the Star-Spangled Banner
[Francis Scott Key], 20 September 1814
EstimateUSD 300,000 - 500,000Price realisedUSD 325,000Closed - Lot 104
Plans for the Spanish Reconquest of Mexico
Joaquín de Miranda y Madariaga, 1829
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 21,250Closed - Lot 107
On the death of his wife
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, 24 March 1855
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 109
Offering a pardon for a Confederate diplomat
Abraham Lincoln, 9 January 1865
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 21,250Closed