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Fine Books from a Distinguished Private Library

Name: Fine Books from a Distinguished Private Library | 2023 | Sotheby's
Start: 2023-11-16T12:00:00Z
Location: London

28 November 2023•12:00 GMT

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Fine Books from a Distinguished Private Library

16 November - 28 November 2023 • London

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1. Aeschylus | Tragedies in Greek. Glasgow, 1795, bound with Flaxman’s Compositions, 1795, finely bound by Staggemeier and Welcher

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

2. Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe | Les promenades de Paris. Paris, 1867-1873, showing Parisian gardens and their modernisation

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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3. Jean-Baptiste Audebert | Histoire naturelle des singes. Paris, 1797-[1800], in the original parts, fine illustrations of primates

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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4. John James Audubon | The birds of America. Facsimile of the 1827–1838 edition. New York, 1985

Estimate:

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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5. Aurelius Augustinus | De civitate Dei. Basel, 25 March 1479, contemporary binding

Estimate:

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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6. Bible, German | Nuremberg: Koberger, 1483, contemporary hand-colour and a publisher’s binding

Estimate:

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

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7. Bible, English | Erasmus’ paraphrases of the New Testament, 1551–1549. London, 2 volumes

Estimate:

24,000 - 36,000 GBP

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8. Bible, English | King James version. Cambridge, 1638, fine red morocco by the Geometrical Compartment Binder

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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9. Bible, English, King James Version | Cambridge, 1660, 2 volumes, numerous engraved illustrations

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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10. Bible, Polyglot | Walton’s polyglot Bible. London, 1655-1657, 8 volumes, the Wardington copy

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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11. Bible, English | King James version. Oxford, Baskett, 1717, the Wardington copy of the "Vinegar" Bible, with fore-edge paintings

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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12. Bible, Dutch | Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testamen. The Hague, 1728-1729, 2 volumes

Estimate:

4,000 - 5,000 GBP

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13. Bible, German | Biblia, Nuremberg, 1768, fine contemporary binding, gilt and painted

Estimate:

4,000 - 5,000 GBP

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14. Bible, German | [Weimar Elector’s Bible], 1768, finely bound by Johann Georg Dachau

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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15. Bible, German | Nuremberg, 1788, finely bound by the workshop of Georg Friedrich Lütkemann of Rostock

Estimate:

4,000 - 5,000 GBP

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16. Joan Blaeu | Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae regiae. Amsterdam, 1649

Estimate:

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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17. Giambattista Bodoni, printer | Epithalamia exoticis linguis reddita. Parma, 1775, a typographical tour de force

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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18. Edward Adveno Brooke | The gardens of England. London, 1857. “deluxe” edition, with plates finished by hand

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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19. Captain Thomas Brown | Illustrations of the American ornithology. Edinburgh, [1831]-1835, the dedicatee’s large-paper copy with superior colour

Estimate:

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

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20. Pierre Joseph Buc’hoz | Herbier colorié de l’Amerique. Paris, 1783, 2 volumes, rare colour plates of American flora

Estimate:

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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21. David Burr | An atlas of the state of New York. New York 1829, a landmark in the cartography of American states

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Thomas Cartwright | A confutation of the Rhemists translation, glosses and annotations on the New Testament. Leiden, 1618, a good example of a book from the Pilgrim Press

22. Thomas Cartwright | A confutation of the Rhemists translation, glosses and annotations on the New Testament. Leiden, 1618, a good example of a book from the Pilgrim Press

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Louis François Cassas and Joseph De Lavallée | Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie. Paris, 1802, topographical illustrations of the Neoclassical movement

23. Louis François Cassas and Joseph De Lavallée | Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie. Paris, 1802, topographical illustrations of the Neoclassical movement

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen | Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der Österreichischen Armee, Vienna, 1808

24. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen | Grundsätze der höhern Kriegskunst und Beyspiele ihrer zweckmässigen Anwendung für die Generale der Österreichischen Armee, Vienna, 1808

Estimate:

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Henri Charpentier, publisher and editor | Paris dans sa splendeur: monuments, vues, scènes historiques, escriptions et histoire. Paris, 1861, fine hand-coloured lithographed plates of Paris

25. Henri Charpentier, publisher and editor | Paris dans sa splendeur: monuments, vues, scènes historiques, escriptions et histoire. Paris, 1861, fine hand-coloured lithographed plates of Paris

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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26. Christine de Pisan, and others | Poëmes et ballades du temps passé. Paris, 1902, with original illustration and bound by Meunier

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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27. William Curtis | Flora Londinensis. London, 1777-1828, an important survey of London flora

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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28. Domenicus Custos | Fuggerorum et fuggerarum, Augsburg, 1618, seventeenth-century wealth and fashion depicted

Estimate:

2,600 - 3,200 GBP

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29. Dante Alighieri | La divina commedia. Milan, 1809, 3 volumes, finely bound for the Duke of Saxe-Teschen by Friedrich Kraus

Estimate:

24,000 - 32,000 GBP

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30. Paul Decker | An architectural sammelband. Augsburg, 1711–1727, four works on baroque architecture

Estimate:

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

31. Henry Drummond | Histories of the noble British families. London, 1842-1846

Estimate:

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

32. Daniel Giraud Elliot | A monograph of the bucerotidae, or family of the hornbills. New York, [1876]-1882, fine plates by Keulemans

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

33. William Faden and others | Composite atlas. London, 1743-1788

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

34. Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet | Voyage autour du monde. Paris, 1824-1826, 4 atlas volumes

Estimate:

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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35. Jean Froissart | Cronycles of Englande, France, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flanders. London, c.1535, William Morris’s copy

Estimate:

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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36. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust, Paris, 1880, a “cuir ciselé” binding by Charles Meunier

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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37. Salomon Gessner | Oeuvres. Paris, 1786-1793, finely bound by Bozerian.

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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38. John Gould | A monograph of the trochilidae, or… humming-birds [with supplement]. London, 1849–1887, 6 volumes

Estimate:

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

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39. John Gould | The birds of Great Britain. London, 1862 1873, 5 volumes, one of the greatest works of British ornithology

Estimate:

35,000 - 50,000 GBP

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40. Gregory I, Pope | Moralia, sive expositio in Job, Rome, 1475

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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41. William Hamilton | Campi phlegraei. Paris, [1799-1802], a deluxe copy with plates in two states

Estimate:

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

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42. James Duffield Harding | Sketches at home and abroad. London, 1836, early tinted lithographed plates

Estimate:

2,000 - 4,000 GBP

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43. Alexis Hubert Jaillot and Nicolas Sanson | Atlas nouveau. Amsterdam, 1692-1696, in fine contemporary colour

Estimate:

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

44. George Wilkins Kendall and Carl Nebel | The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated. New York, 1851, early pictorial war reportage

Estimate:

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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45. Rockwell Kent, illustrator | Original maquettes for Candide. New York, 1928, hand-coloured by the artist

Estimate:

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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46. Salomon Kleiner | Residences memorables. Augsburg, 1731-1740; 1734

Estimate:

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

Salomon Kleiner | Residences memorables de… le Duc de Savoye et de Piemont [bound with] representation des animaux de la menagerie. Augsburg, 1731-1740; 1734

47. Salomon Kleiner | Residences memorables de… le Duc de Savoye et de Piemont [bound with] representation des animaux de la menagerie. Augsburg, 1731-1740; 1734

Estimate:

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Bidding is closed

48. Georg Wolfgang Knorr | Deliciae naturae selectae. Dordrecht, 1771, illustrated "cabinets of wonders"

Estimate:

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Bidding is closed