Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana, 22661, New York

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Auction Date
January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025
Page Size: 231 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 REGIOMONTANUS (1436--1476).

De triangulis omnimodis.Edited by Johannes Schoner.

Nuremberg 1533 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 30,240.00
127 ROSLIN, Helisaus (1545--1616).

Theoria nova coelestium meteoron.

Strausburg 1578 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,670.00
128 SCHEINER, Christoph (1573-1650).

Rosa Ursina sive Sol ex admirando facularum & macularum suarum phoenomeno varius.

Bracciano 1626-1630. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 37,800.00
129 SCHONER, Johannes (1477-1547).

Opera Mathematica.

Nuremberg 1551 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,380.00
130 SCHRECKENFUCHS, Erasmus Oswald (1511--1579).

Commentaria in novas theoricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii.

Basel 1556 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,930.00
131 SOMERVILLE, MARY (1780-1872).

Mechanism of the Heavens.

London 1831 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 13,860.00
132 STOEFFLER, Johannes.

Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii.Edited by Georg Simler (before 1480-1535/6).

Oppenheim 1512/13. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
133 BEG, Ulug (1394-1449). ABU ALFID A' (1273-1331). edited by John GREAVES (1602-1652).

Epochae celebriores, astronomis, historicis, chronologis Chataiorum, Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum, usitatae. [Bound after:]Chorasmiae et Mawaralnahrae, hoc est, regionum extra Sluvium Oxum descriptio.

London 1650 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,860.00
134 URSUS, Nicolaus Reimers (1551--1600).

Fundamentum astronomicum.

Strasbourg 1588 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,048.00
135

Astronomical tables for 1349-1386, in Latin with some notes in French, manuscript on vellum

[?Oxford USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,720.00
136 ZACUTO, Abraham (1452--c.1515).

Almanach perpetuum.

[Venice 15 July 1502] USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,120.00
137

The Dressing of a Knight, illuminated miniature on vellum

[Paris early 20th century]. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,930.00
138

Courtiers arriving on a boat, illuminated miniature on vellum

[Paris early 20th century]. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,410.00
139

St Claude, miniature on a leaf from the Hours of Jean Lallemant the Elder, illuminated manuscript on vellum

[Bourges and Tours c.1498] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,080.00
140

The Last Communion and Death of St Jerome, full-page miniature on a leaf from an illuminated manuscript on vellum

[Tours c.1520] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,560.00
141 BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von (c.1440--1497).

Civitas Iherusalem. From Peregrinatio in terram sanctam.

Mainz 24 May 1488. USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,380.00
142 BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von (c. 1440-1497).

Le grant voyage de Hierusalem diuise en deux parties. Translated and edited by Nicolas le Huen.

Paris 20 March 1522. USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
143 HESSE, Johannes de.

Itinerarium per diversas mundi partes. -- Divisiones decem nationum totius Christianitatis. -- Epistola Johannis Soldani ad Pium II papam cum epistola responsoria papae Pii ad Soldanum. JOHANNES PRESBYTER.

[Deventer not before 10 April 1497]. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 30,240.00
144 ROSSLIN, Eucharius (1470-1526).

Der Swangern Frawen und Hebammen Rosengarten.

[Cologne 1518.] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,160.00
145 GEMINUS, Thomas (1510-1562) and Andreas VESALIUS (1514-1564).

Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio aere exarata.

London October 1545. USD 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
146 BENJAMIN OF TUDELA (c.1130?-1173).

Masa'oth shel Rabbi Benyamin [in Hebrew, "The Travels of Rabbi Benjamin."]

Ferrara 5316 [1555/1556]. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,420.00
147 THEVET, Andre (1516--1590).

Cosmographie de Levant.

Lyon 1556 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,560.00
148 BENZONI, Girolamo.

La historia del mondo nuovo.

Venice 1565 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,120.00
149 PALISSY, Bernard (c.1510-c.1589).

Discours admirables, de la nature des eaux et fonteines, tant naturelles qu'artificielles, des metaux, des sels & salines, des pierres, des terres, du feu & des emaux.

Paris 1580 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,420.00
150 After Christiaan van ADRICHEM (1533--1585).

L'antichissima citta di Gierusalemme.

Rome c.1603. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,040.00