Fine Books

Updated October 17, 2026

What's in this auction

48 lots, mostly fine art & prints (2). 48 lots have photos. Pre-sale estimates $300–$12,000 across 48 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing October 22, 2026.

Highest-estimated lots

• Aristotle (384-322 BCE) & John Dickenson (circa 1570-1636), trans. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. L — est. $8,000–$12,000
• Hebraica Biblia. Bible in Hebrew & Latin. Basel: Ex Officina Bebeliana, impendiis Michaelis Isingrinii et Henrici Petri, — est. $4,000–$6,000
• Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) Commentariorum Linguae Latinae. Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1536-1538. — est. $4,000–$6,000
• Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels Civil and Morall. London: printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, a — est. $3,000–$5,000
• William Bligh (1754-1817) A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty. London: printed for George Nicol — est. $3,000–$5,000

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In this auction (48 lots)

Categories: Fine Art & Prints (2)

• Lot 1 — 16th Century English Books: Two Defective Examples.
• Lot 2 — 16th century English Imprints: Three Defective Titles
• Lot 3 — François-Hédelin, Abbé d'Aubignac (1604-1676) The Whole Art of the Stage. London: Printed for the Author and sold by William Cadman, Rich. Bentley, Sam. Smith &
• Lot 4 — Aesop (circa 620-564 BCE) & John Ogilby (1600-1676), trans. The Fables Paraphras'd in Verse, and Adorn'd with Sculpture by John Ogilby. London: Printed by Thoma
• Lot 5 — Aesop (circa 620-564 BCE) & John Ogilby (1600-1676), trans. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture. [Bound with] Aesopic's: Or a Secon
• Lot 6 — Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) Of the Vanitie and Uncertentie of Artes and Sciences London: Imprinted by Henry Wikes, 1569.
• Lot 7 — Giuseppe Antonio Alberti (1712-1768) I Giochi Numerici Fatti Arcani. Bologna: Bartolomeo Borghi, 1747.
• Lot 8 — Appianus (circa 100-170 CE) Historia Romana: Part I. Venice: Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477.
• Lot 9 — Aristotle (384-322 BCE) & John Dickenson (circa 1570-1636), trans. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1598.
• Lot 10 — Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels Civil and Morall. London: printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, and Richard Whitaker, 1625.
• Lot 11 — Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. London: Printed [by Nicholas O
• Lot 12 — Hebraica Biblia. Bible in Hebrew & Latin. Basel: Ex Officina Bebeliana, impendiis Michaelis Isingrinii et Henrici Petri, 1534-1535.
• Lot 13 — Bible in Latin. Illustrated Vulgate. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis. Antwerp: Apud Ioannem Baptistam Verdussen, 1715.
• Lot 14 — The Newe Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ. Bible in English, New Testament, Rare Geneva Bible Variant Translation. Geneva: Imprinted by John Crespin, 1568.
• Lot 15 — The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke. Bible in English, Geneva Translation. London: Imprinted by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589. Ne
• Lot 16 — The Bible: That is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Old and New Testament. Bible in English, Geneva or Breeches Bible. London: Imprinted by Robert Barker,
• Lot 17 — The Bible. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke. Bible in English, Geneva or Breeches Bible. London: Imprinted by Robert Barker, 1605.
• Lot 18 — Gutenberg Bible Facsimile. Paris: Editions les Incunables, 1985.
• Lot 19 — Bible in English. Book of Psalmes & Book of Proverbes extracted from the First King James Bible. London: Robert Barker, 1611.
• Lot 20 — Biblij Czeska / to gest wssecka Swata Pijsma Obogiho, Stareho y Noweho Zakona. Bible in Czech, a Bohemian Imprint. Prague: George Melantrych, 1570.
• Lot 21 — William Bligh (1754-1817) A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty. London: printed for George Nicol, 1790.
• Lot 22 — William Bligh (1754-1817) A Voyage to the South Sea. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1792.
• Lot 23 — Thomas Bromhall (fl. circa 1658) A Treatise of Specters. Or, an History of Apparitions, Oracles, Prophecies, and Predictions }{ with Dreames, Visions, and Revel
• Lot 24 — Robert Burton (1577-1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield & James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.
• Lot 25 — Robert Burton (1577-1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: Printed for Henry Cripps & Elisha Wallis, 1660.
• Lot 26 — Caius Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) Commentaria. Venice: Augostino Zanni, de Portesio, 17 August 1511.
• Lot 27 — Jean Calvin (1509-1564) A Commentarie of M. Iohn Calvine upon the Booke of Iosue. London: [By Thomas Dawson] for George Bishop, 1578.
• Lot 28 — Jean Calvin (1509-1564) A Commentarie of John Calvine upon the First Booke of Moses called Genesis. London: Imprinted [by Henry Middleton] for John Harison & Ge
• Lot 29 — William Camden (1551-1623) The Historie of Princesse Elizabeth. London: Printed [by Nicholas Okes, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop & Thomas Fawcet, Thomas Purfoo
• Lot 30 — Canon Law. Compendium Juris Canonici. Strasbourg: Georg Husner [aka printer of the 1483 Quedlinburg], 9 February 1499.
• Lot 31 — William Cartwright (1611-1643) Comedies,Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems. An Unusual Copy. London: Printed for [Thomas Robinson and] Humphrey Moseley, 1651
• Lot 32 — Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) Philosophicorum Librorum Pars Prima. Strasbourg: Impensis Jacobi Dupuys & Josiae Rihelij, 1581.
• Lot 33 — Cicero (106-43 BCE) & Quintus Asconius Pedianus (9 BCE-76 CE), ed. In Omnes Ciceronis Orationes. Venice: Aldus, 1552.
• Lot 34 — Henry Cockeram (fl. circa 1625) The English Dictionarie: Or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words [...] London: Printed by Isaac Ja
• Lot 35 — Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) Mr. Collier's Dissuasive From The Play-House;[...] Occasion'd by the late Calamity of the Tempest. London: Printed for Richard Sare,
• Lot 36 — Thomas Cooper (1517?-1594) Thesaurus Linguae Romanae Britannicae. London: In aedibus Henrici Bynnemani by Henry Denham, 1584.
• Lot 37 — Dante (1265-1321) & Henry Boyd (circa 1750-1832), trans. The Divinia Commedia of Dante Alighieri. London: Printed for T. Cadell un. & W. Davies, 1802.
• Lot 38 — Chevalière d'Éon [aka] Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810) Lettres, Memoires et Negociations Particulieres. And a Collection of Handwritten Receipts. London
• Lot 39 — Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) Commentariorum Linguae Latinae. Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1536-1538.
• Lot 40 — Michael Drayton (1563-1631) Poems. Featuring Female Provenance. London: Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, [1619].
• Lot 41 — English History: Four 17th Century Titles.
• Lot 42 — Ethiopian Manuscripts, Two Examples.
• Lot 43 — Four Incunabula Leaves & One Manuscript Leaf.
• Lot 44 — Thomas Gataker (1574-1654) Of the Nature and Use of Lots: A Treatise Historicall and Theologicall. London: John Haviland, 1627.
• Lot 45 — Richard Grafton (d. circa 1572) A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande and Kinges of the Same. London: Imprinted by Henry Denham for
• Lot 46 — John Greaves (1602-1652) Pyramidographia: Or a Description of the Pyramids in Aegypt London: Printed for George Badger, 1646.
• Lot 47 — Anthony Guevara (d. 1545) The Familiar Epistles. London: Printed by Henry Bynneman for Raufe Newbery, [1575?].
• Lot 48 — John Guillim (1565-1621) A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a More Easie Accesse to the Knowledge Thereof. With Hand-coloring. London: Printed by Richard Badge

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