RESULTS | Valuable Books & Manuscripts including Cartography, London, 15 July 2015
VALUABLE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING CARTOGRAPHY
London, 15 July 2015, Sale #10455
[All sold prices include buyer’s premium]
134 lots sold | Total: £5,892,000 /$9,220,980 /€8,360,748 | 74% sold by lot | ||||
182 lots offered | £1 = $1.565 / £1 = €1.419 | 87% sold by value | ||||
Lot | Description | Estimate (£) | Price Realized | Buyer | ||
20 | The ‘GOSPELS OF QUEEN THEUTBERGA’ in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Lotharingia, perhaps Metz, c.825–850 (before 835?)]. | 1,000,000-1,500,000 | £1,986,500 $3,108,873 €2,818,844 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||
49 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MEDAL awarded in 1909 to Auguste Beernaert (1829-1912) for his work at the Permanent Court of Arbritration. 23 carat gold, 66mm diameter. | 30,000-50,000 | £422,500 $661,213 €599,528 | Private | ||
179 | NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1643-1727). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743). | 100,000-150,000 | £278,500 $435,853 €395,192 | Private American | ||
24 | MAGNA CARTA AND STATUTES, LAW TRACTS, AND REGISTER OF WRITS, in Latin and Anglo-Norman French, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [England, perhaps London, c.1300]. | 50,000-80,000 | £170,500 $266,833 €241,940 | Private | ||
106 | FRITH, Francis (1822-1898). Egypt, Sinai, and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views. Text by Sophia Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. London, Glasgow and Edinburgh: William Mackenzie [c.1858-1860]. | 80,000-120,000 | £152,500 $238,663 €216,398 | UK Trade | ||
47 | A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED ARAB JAMBIYA DAGGER, presented to T.E. Lawrence after his triumph at Aqaba by Sherif Nasir. Ornately-tooled hilt and scabbard, curved blade. 30cm long. | 60,000-90,000 | £122,500 $191,713 €173,828 | Anonymous | ||
167 | PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). [Opera, an extensive composite set in contemporary editions.] Rome: G.B. Piranesi [and others], 1756-before 1778. | 60,000-90,000 | £110,500 $172,933 €156,800 | Bernard Shapero Rare Books Ltd | ||
26 | BOOK OF HOURS, use of Metz, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, [eastern France, probably Metz or Troyes, c.1465-70]. | 80,000-120,000 | £104,500 $163,543 €148,286 | Sims Reed Ltd | ||
176 | DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1859. | 50,000-80,000 | £92,500 $144,763 €131,258 | Private American | ||
30 | PLUTARCH, Life of Camillus, in the Latin translation of OGNIBENE DA LONIGO for GIANFRANCESCO GONZAGA (c.1395-1444), ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [northern Italy, probably Mantua, c.1470s]. | 25,000-35,000 | £80,500 $125,983 €114,230 | Private | ||
Margaret Ford, International Head of Books and Manuscripts, and Thomas Venning, Head of Books and Manuscripts, London: “A millennium of books in a single sale brought a room full of international buyers to bid on the exceptional 9th-century manuscript Gospels of Queen Theutberga to Darwin's ‘On the Origin of Species’. The strong bidding for Lawrence of Arabia's dagger was a fitting, if coincidental, memorial to Omar Sharif days after his death. This auction brings to an end a highly successful season of sales of Books and Manuscripts at Christie's, characterised by strong sell-through rates and record prices across all categories.” | ||||||
PRESS CONTACT: Katie Carder | +44 (0) 207 389 2283 | kcarder@christies.com Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, third-party financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits. | ||||||