- Lot 3
Ferrarese illuminator
Two leaves from the Breviary of Lionello d’Este [Ferrara, c.1450]
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 4
Anonymous northern Italian illuminator
St Barbara, on a leaf from a Ferial Psalter [Lombardy, c.1480s]
EstimateGBP 600 - 900Price realisedGBP 875Closed - Lot 5
Littifredi di Corbizzi (1465-c.1515)
Two martyred Saints, historiated initial 'P' [Florence or Siena, c.1495-1500]
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 6
Anonymous northern Italian artist
James the Less, initial 'Q' on a leaf from an Antiphonal [Emilia, c.1480s]
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 7
Anonymous Spanish illuminator
Presentation in the Temple, on a leaf from an Antiphonal [Spain, second half 16th century]
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 875Closed - Lot 8
Anonymous Dutch artists
Genealogical roll, in middle Dutch, decorated manuscript on vellum [Brabant, 2nd half 16th C]
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 9
The Spanish Forger (fl. Paris end of 19th - beginning of 20th C)
The Annunciation, miniature on a choirbook leaf [Paris, c.1900]
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 10
Central European artists and scribes
A collection of medieval manuscript and printed leaves and cuttings
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 15
Workshop of Willem Vrelant (act. Bruges c.1454 onwards)
The Skevington Hours, use of Sarum [Bruges, 3rd quarter 15th C]
EstimateGBP 40,000 - 60,000Price realisedGBP 50,000Closed - Lot 16
Circle of the Master of the Apocalypse of Aymar de Poitiers
Book of Hours, use of Rome [southeastern France, final quarter 15th century]
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 81,250Closed - Lot 17
Anonymous central European author
Prayers to the Virgin [Switzerland or Germany, c.1480s]
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 18
Anonymous German artist
Schembart Book [Nuremberg, c.1540]
EstimateGBP 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 19
Anonymous Flemish illuminator
Offices of the Virgin [Eastern Flanders], 1542
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedGBP 32,500Closed - Lot 20
Marco Antonio Memmo (1556-1615)
Oath of Office [Venice, c.1600]
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 24
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571)
On the fate of Mary Queen of Scots. 31 July 1568
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 25
[Jane Austen (1775-1817)]
A pair of chamber candlesticks. 1779
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 26
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Two autograph fragments. Undated
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 27
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
'Liegt dir Gestern klar und offen'. 1828
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed - Lot 28
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
To Ada Lovelace. c.1847
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 29
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
To Ada Lovelace. 14 June 1847
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 30
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
To Dr John Elliotson. 10 June 1848
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 32
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
‘Oh! quand je dors’. [c.1858-59]
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 33
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
‘Ich möchte hingehn’. [c.1858-59]
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 35
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
To his wife, with four sketches. Undated.
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 37
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
‘Chanson d’autrefois’. [c.1884]
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 38
Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Her personal collection of scores. 19th C-1970s
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedGBP 32,500Closed - Lot 39
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
The Land of Mist. 1924-1925
EstimateGBP 50,000 - 80,000Price realisedGBP 47,500Closed - Lot 41
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
To Paul Epstein. 10 April 1932
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 42
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
To Shanta Patel. 23 April 1938
EstimateGBP 2,600 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 20,000Closed - Lot 43
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
Large photograph signed, [May 1944]
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed - Lot 44
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965), Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) and Joseph Stalin (1878-1953)
Photographs of the Potsdam Conference. 17 July – 2 August 1945
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 45
Lucian Freud (1922-2011)
To Ann Fleming. 1953
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 46
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
To Gilbert Harrison. 1959
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 47
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Signed photograph album, memento of the visit to China by the Soviet delegation. 1954
EstimateGBP 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedGBP 75,000Closed - Lot 49
Johann Schoener (1477-1547)
Globi Stelliferi sive sphaerae stellarum fixarum usus. 1533
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 50
Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-1585)
L'Isole piu famose del Mondo. 1576
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 51
Cornelis de Houtman (1565-99)
Journal du Voyage de l'Inde Orientale. 1598
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 25,000Closed - Lot 52
Willem Nicolai (fl.1573-1613)
Nova et integra orbis descriptio. 1603
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 54
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98)
China, engraved map. 1608
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 57
Matthaeus Greuter (1564-1638)
[Two sets of globe gores for a pair of 19-inch Terrestrial and Celestial Globes.] 1632-1636
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 27,500Closed - Lot 58
Antonius Sanderus (1586-1664)
Flandria Illustrata. 1641
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 59
Paul Fürst (c. 1605-1666)
[Nova et integra orbis descriptio. c.1660]
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 63
João José de Santa Teresa (1658-1733).
Istoria delle guerre del Regno del Brasile. 1698
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 64
Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705)
[Terrestrial and Celestial gores for a pair of 30cm diameter globes. c.1704-]1705
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed - Lot 65
Herman Moll (1654-1732).
['The Beaver Map']. Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain. 1715
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 67
Georg Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757)
Atlas Novus Indicibus Instructus, oder Neuer mit Wort-Registern Versehener Atlas. 1730
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 71
Charles de Brosses (1709-1777)
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. 1756
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 72
Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814)
Voyage à la nouvelle Guinée. 1776
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,600Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 73
Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
[Second Voyage]. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 74
Thomas Forrest (c.1729-c.1802)
Voyage aux Moluques et a la Nouvelle Guinée. 1780
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 77
Jean François Albanis de Beaumont (c.1755-1812)
Travels through the Rhaetian Alps ... from Italy to Germany, through Tyrol. 1792
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 78
Edward Donovan (1768-1837)
An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China – Insects of India – Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern and Pacific Oceans. 1800-1805
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 30,000Closed - Lot 79
J. & W. Cary
English 12-inch Celestial Globe
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 81
James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856)
Views in the Himala Mountains. 1820.
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedGBP 18,750Closed - Lot 83
Edward Quin (1794-1828).
[An historical atlas: in a series of maps of the world known at different periods. 1830]
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,250Closed - Lot 84
Lady Sophia Raffles (1786-1858)
Memoir of ... Thomas Stamford Raffles. 1830
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 85
C. Smith & Son
Pair 12-inch English Library Globes
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 93
Boxer Rebellion
京城各國暂分界址全图 [Full Map of Various Foreign Countries' Temporarily Divided Territory Boundaries within the City of Beijing.] 1900
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 94
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
Handbook of Hejaz. 1917
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 97
Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, Consulting Engineers
Haifa-Baghdad Railway. Survey 1930-1931. [1932].
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 98
Folke Bernadotte (1895-1948)
Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine. 1948
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 100
Israel Defence Forces
Oil in the Middle East. Concessions, Oilfields, Pipelines, Refineries. 1957
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 102
Russia. Science and technology (1857)
Inzhenerniya Zhurnal... No. 1 [Engineering Magazine... No. 1]. 1857
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 110
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Imitatio Christi. 1489
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 111
Johannes Herolt (d. c.1496)
Sermones exquisiti super epistolas per anni circulum. 1489
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 114
Johann Ulrich Surgant (editor, 1449/50-1503)
Homiliarius doctorum de tempore et de sanctis a Paulo Diacono collectus. 1493
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 115
Aristotle (384-322 BCE); Pliny the Elder (23-79); Hermolaus Barbaro (1454-1493)
A Sammelband of three rare editions on the natural sciences. 1493-1507
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 11,250Closed - Lot 116
Jacobus de Gruytrode or Jacobus de Jüterborg
Speculum animae peccatricis. [c.1494]
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 117
Ludolphus de Saxonia (c.1300-1377/78)
Vita Christi. 1495
EstimateGBP 2,200 - 2,800Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 119
Henricus Institoris (c.1430-1505) and Jacobus Sprenger (c.1436/8-1495)
Malleus maleficarum. 1496
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 120
Michael Lochmaier (d.1499)
Parochiale curatorum. 1498
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 121
Raymundus Lullus (c.1235-c.1316)
De laudibus B. V. Mariae. De natali pueri parvuli. Clericus. Phantasticus. 1499
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 122
Book of Hours with original illuminated miniatures
Book of Hours. c.1505
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 21,250Closed - Lot 123
Guillermus Parisiensis (14th century)
Postilla super epistolas et evangelia. c.1506
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 125
Juan Valverde de Hamusco (fl. 1552)
La Anatomia del corpo umano. 1586
EstimateGBP 2,200 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 126
Bible, Gospels in Arabic and Latin (1591)
Evangelium sanctum. 1591
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 7,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 127
John Smith (fl.1684-1704)
The true art of angling. 1696
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 128
Koran, in Arabic and Latin – Ludovico Maracci (1612-1700)
Alcorani textus universus [and] Refutatio Alcorani. 1698
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 129
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Principia Mathematica. 1726
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 37,500Closed