Sotheby’s Books & Manuscripts sales feature notable collections and works spanning Americana, literature, historical documents and illustrations, offering a remarkable array for both seasoned collectors and new enthusiasts alike. Browse works across the auctions below or learn more here.
Perotti, Cornucopiae, siue linguae Latinae commentarii, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, July 1499, eighteenth-century mottled vellum with Fortescue blind armorial stamp on front cover
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Capaccio, Delle imprese, Naples, 1592, contemporary vellum
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[Scriptores rei rusticae] Libri de re rustica, Paris, 1533, contemporary vellum
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Alciati, Emblemata, Frankfurt, 1567, calf gilt with arms of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar
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Baif, Annotationes in legem II, Basel, 1537, contemporary Roman morocco for Fernando de Torres
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Pentateuch (Humash), with Targum Onkelos and Rashi’s Commentary, Printed on Parchment
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Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, [Lyon, Lucimborgo da Gabiano, 1523], early nineteenth-century French red long-grained morocco
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Castellesi, De sermone Latino, Cologne, 1524, French brown calf
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Bolzanio, Institutiones graecae grammatices, Venice, Aldus, 1497, navy morocco by Kalthoeber
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De l'Orme, Nouvelles inventions, Paris, 1576; Boillot, Nouveaux pourtraitz, Langres, 1592, later calf
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Diogenes Laertius, Le vite de gli illustri filosofi, Venice, 1545, contemporary Italian dark brown morocco gilt
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Aristotle, Libri physicorum octo, Lyon, 1542, contemporary Venetian chestnut morocco gilt
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Accolti, Lo inganno de gl'occhi, Florence, 1625, armorial red morocco gilt for Núñez de Guzmán, Godolphin copy
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Ostericher, De puerorum morbis; Gabuccini, De lumbricis alvum occupantibus, Lyon, 1549, Parisian morocco interlaced binding for Marcus Fugger
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Vittoria Colonna, Rime, Venice, 1539, Venetian dark blue morocco by the Cicero Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle
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Billon, Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld
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Galenus, De alimentorum facultatibus, Lyon, 1549, brown morocco gilt for Marcus Fugger
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Piles, Abregé de la vie des peintres, Paris, 1699, contemporary red morocco gilt for the Duc d'Orléans
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Pollux, Onomasticon, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1502, eighteenth-century English brown calf
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Piccolomini, De la institutione di tutta la vita de l'homo, Venice, 1545, contemporary brown morocco gilt for A.S.
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Claudianus, Opera, Venice, Aldus, 1523, contemporary Roman brown morocco
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Vergil, Symbolarum libri XVII, Augsburg, 1599, Parisian red morocco gilt for Bartolomeo Cenami
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Petrarca, Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di Alessandro Vellutello, Venice, 1547, russet morocco gilt by the Cicero Binder for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle
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Fiaschi, Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli, Bologna, 1556, French calf for a member of the Gouffier family
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Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, Paris, 1544, Parisian red morocco armorial binding for Jacques-Marie d'Amboise
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Castiglione, Les quatre livres du Courtisan, Lyon, [1537], contemporary French calf tooled in gilt and blind
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Billy, Exhortation au peuple francois, Paris, 1584, contemporary Parisian limp vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps
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Scriptores rei rusticae, Libri de re rustica, Venice, Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, 1514, contemporary French calf with parallel vertical blind rolls
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Galenus, De compositione pharmacorum localium, Lyon, 1549, interlaced morocco by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger with his signature
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Hesychius Alexandrinus, Esychiou Lexikon, Venice, Aldo & Torresano, 1514, eighteenth-century English half morocco
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Bonifacius VIII, Sextus Decretalium Liber, Paris, 1541, contemporary calf gilt
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Gohory, Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, Paris, 1563, Parisian morocco gilt presentation binding for the Cardinal de Lorraine
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Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto
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Cardano, De subtilitate libri XXI, Paris, 1561, contemporary French calf
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Ferreri and Ventimiglia families, copies of notarial acts, [Sicily, 1560s], Venetian olive morocco for a member of the Ferreri family
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Houbraken, De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders, Amsterdam, 1718-21, 3 volumes, vellum
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