Books & Manuscripts

Sale 17644 / Lot 1

PACIOLI, Luca (Lucas de Burgo S. Sepulchri; c.1445-1517). Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità. Venice: Paganinus de Paganinis, 10-20 November 1494.

12 June 2019

New York

Price realised:

USD 1,215,000 

Sale 16019 / Lot 220

SMITH, Adam (1723-1790). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776.

12 December 2018

London

Price realised:

GBP 908,750 

Sale 16393 / Lot 1

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed (“A. Einstein”) to Eric Gutkind, Princeton, 3 January 1954.

4 December 2018

New York

Price realised:

USD 2,892,500 

Sale 16423 / Lot 1

John James Audubon (1785-1851). The Birds of America; from Original Drawings.

London: Published by the Author, 1827-1838.

14 June 2018

New York

Price realised:

USD 9,650,000 

Sale 12262 / Lot 167

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727, knighted 1705) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.

Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743) London.

14 December 2016

New York

Price realised:

USD 3,719,500 

Sale 12139 / Lot 129

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Autograph music manuscript, titled and signed, circa 1735-1740.

13 July 2016

London

Price realised:

GBP 2,518,500 

Sale 12139 / Lot 173

Basilius Besler (1561-1629). Hortus Eystettensis. [Nuremberg]: 1613.

13 July 2016

London

Price realised:

GBP 1,930,500 

Sale 10455 / Lot 20

The ‘Gospels of Queen Theutberga’ in Latin, Illuminated manuscript on vellum [Lotharingia, perhaps Metz, c.825–850 (before 835?)].

15 July 2015

London

Price realised:

GBP 1,986,500 

Sale 2819 / Lot 157

The Rothschild Prayerbook.

A Book of Hours, use of Rome, in Latin, Illuminated manuscript on vellum.

29 January 2014

New York

Price realised:

USD 13,605,000 

Sale 1176 / Lot 82

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.). Opera (Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneid, with argumenta). Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470.

12 June 2013

London

Price realised:

GBP 1,181,875 

Sale 2806 / Lot 1

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004).

Autograph Letter Signed ("Daddy") to his son Michael, outlining the revolutionary discovery of the structure of DNA. Cambridge, 19 March 1953.

10 April 2013

New York

Price realised:

USD 6,059,750 

Sale 2761 / Lot 1

President George Washington's personal copy of the Constitution, the bill of rights and other key acts of the first Congress in 1789.

22 June 2012

New York

Price realised:

USD 9,826,500