
Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
28 November - 12 December 2024 • London

1. Richard Blome | Britannia: or, a geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1673

2. Boethius | De consolatione philosophiae, Venice, 1489, Paduan half morocco over wooden boards

3. James Bolton | Genera Muscorum, illustrated manuscript, 1787

4. Bartolomé de las Casas | Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum verissima. Frankfurt, 1598

5. A. and J. Churchill | A collection of Voyages and Travels. 1732, 6 vols

6. Colonna | La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, Venice, 1545, second edition, the Syston Park copy

7. John Dee | Document signed (“Joannes Dee Gardianus”) as Warden of Christ's College, Manchester, 1597
![[Theodore Swaine Drage] | An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, 1748-79, 2 volumes](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1c44735/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4146x6996+0+0/resize/150x253!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Faa%2F89%2Fb8826e534b4687107b63424b7874%2Fl24404-bhct7-t2-04.jpg)
8. [Theodore Swaine Drage] | An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage, 1748-79, 2 volumes
![George Edwards | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1739-51 [but 1802-5] [with] Gleanings of Natural History, 1758-64, 7 vols in all, contemporary armorial red morocco bound for Sir Richard Borough](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/01589bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1611x2000+0+0/resize/150x186!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F73%2F59%2Fa95034564644947930c49503d8f7%2Fl24401-d647b-t2-02.jpg)
9. George Edwards | A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1739-51 [but 1802-5] [with] Gleanings of Natural History, 1758-64, 7 vols in all, contemporary armorial red morocco bound for Sir Richard Borough

10. John Edwards | The British Herbal, 1770, attractive hand-coloured botanical engravings

11. Elizabeth of Bohemia, the "Winter Queen" | Autograph letter signed to King Charles II, and a related document
![Paolo Forlani | La descrittione di tutto il Peru. [Venice: Paolo Forlani, c.1562]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f241aa7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1534x2000+0+0/resize/150x196!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F89%2F74%2F86ee8bd847cfbc086d641696d680%2Fl24401-d5hwx-t2-01.jpg)
12. Paolo Forlani | La descrittione di tutto il Peru. [Venice: Paolo Forlani, c.1562]

13. Giacomo Gastaldi and Paolo Forlani | Africa a veteribus… Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1566

14. Louis Hennepin | A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, 1698, first English edition

15. Griffith Hughes | The natural history of Barbados, 1750, first edition, large paper copy

16. Jansson | Atlas Novus volume IV. British Isles. Amsterdam, 1646, contemporary Dutch vellum gilt

17. Lancelot du Lac | Paris, 1513, three volumes in two, half green calf, Edward Gage's copy

18. George, Earl Macartney | Manuscript copy letters on China and library catalogue, 1813
![Machiavelli | Il principe, Rome, 1532, first edition, [bound with] Historie fiorentine, Florence, 1532, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/af33764/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fec%2Fe8%2F8f5920044cba9e6bbf6ea744e95e%2Fl24401-d52by-t1-01.jpg)
19. Machiavelli | Il principe, Rome, 1532, first edition, [bound with] Historie fiorentine, Florence, 1532, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began

20. Sir John Narbrough, and others | An Account of several late voyages and discoveries, 1711

21. New England—Exceptionally early land grant by the Council of New England, 1624
![John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/127e586/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5089x7511+0+0/resize/150x221!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Ff0%2Fef%2F56907df24a87a0c4810329cdfad8%2Fl24404-bhcvr-t1-04.jpg)
22. John Ogilby [Arnoldus Montanus] | America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, 1671

23. Nathaniel Portlock | A voyage round the world, 1789
![Claudius Ptolemaeus | Sexta Asie Tabula, [Ulm], 1486, hand-colouring, a highly important early map of the Arabian Peninsula](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/618fd1a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7239x5244+0+0/resize/150x109!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fa0%2Fa5%2F2ec1f1a3438ab04b7f717fe07c7b%2Fl24401-d5mjm-t1-01.jpg)
24. Claudius Ptolemaeus | Sexta Asie Tabula, [Ulm], 1486, hand-colouring, a highly important early map of the Arabian Peninsula

25. Samuel Purchas | Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625-26, 5 volumes
![Humphry Repton | Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, [1794]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/98b343b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x947+0+0/resize/150x71!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc4%2Ff3%2F49ccfede4e429fbddc0fc99e4018%2Fl24401-d55my-t2-01.jpg)
26. Humphry Repton | Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening, [1794]

27. Humphry Repton | Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 1803

28. Rheticus | Opus palatinum de triangulis, Neudstadt, 1596, contemporary vellum, volume 1 only

29. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett | The Antiquities of Athens, 1762-1816, first edition, 4 volumes

30. Henry Timberlake | The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake..., 1765, first edition
![Trew and Vogel | Plantae selectae, [Nuremberg]: 1750-73, 10 parts in one vol., contemporary half sheep](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6e27a85/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1439x2000+0+0/resize/150x208!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F5c%2Fdc%2F91ddeab54b499bb99b5566a87b57%2Fl24401-d5678-t1-01.jpg)
31. Trew and Vogel | Plantae selectae, [Nuremberg]: 1750-73, 10 parts in one vol., contemporary half sheep

32. Dierick Vijt | A portolan chart of northern and western Europe. Probably Amsterdam, c.1575–1580
![Martin Waldseemuller | Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7c0b59a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1548+0+0/resize/150x116!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fea%2F1e%2Fc8db975e42278cbfe32360735229%2Fl24401-d5hwz-t1-01.jpg)
33. Martin Waldseemuller | Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513]

34. Australia—Henry Callander | Manuscript Map of Sydney, hand-coloured, 1849

35. Frederick Marshman Bailey | His collection of natural history pamphlets and related letters, 1881-1958

36. Dorothy and Janie Bussy | Correspondence of the Strachey family, Bloomsbury Group, and other writers and artists, 1880s-1960

37. Challenger Expedition—Thomson and Murray | Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage... during the years 1873-76..., 1880-95, first edition, 41 volumes bound in 50

38. Lord Curzon | Series of c.70 autograph letters signed, to Lady Violet Cecil, on political and personal affairs, 1902-22

39. Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol, 1843, first edition, original cloth

40. Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities, 1859, first edition in book form, original cloth

41. Engravings by Eric Gill: A Selection, 1929

42. Eric Gill (illustrator) | The Four Gospels, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931, one of 500 copies

43. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Leipzig, 1774, first edition

44. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Autograph poem, 'Liegt dir Gestern klar und offen', signed, 1831

45. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Autograph letter signed, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt, 11 March 1813

46. Album | Autograph album of Anita Daniel, with entries by artists, writers and musicians, including Frida Kahlo, 1934-1957

47. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Why We Can't Wait, 1964, inscribed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to the parapsychologist Peter Underwood

48. Karl Kraus | Collection of three autograph manuscripts and four autograph letters, c.1899-1922