Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana | Total Sales (USD) | 7,377,049.00 |
| Auction Date | February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 3,028,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #23758 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 4,631,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 171 | ||
| Sold Lots | 159.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 3,556,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 92.98% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 5,477,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 12 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 134.68% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Johannes Kepler, 1596 | Mysterium cosmographicum |
1596 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 889,000.00 |
| 26 | Isaac Newton, 1687 | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica |
1687 | USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 | USD 762,000.00 |
| 15 | Johannes Kepler, 1609 | Astronomia nova |
1609 | USD 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 | USD 635,000.00 |
| 6 | Nicolaus Copernicus, 1542 | De lateribus et angulis triangulorum tum planorum rectilineorum tum sphaericorum |
1542 | USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 | USD 381,000.00 |
| 118 | Adam Smith, 1776 | The Wealth of Nations |
1776 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 |
| 144 | Jonathan Palmer Webster, 1849-1850 | A correspondence from the California Gold Rush |
29 January 1849 to 29 March 1850. | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 279,400.00 |
| 19 | Johannes Kepler, 1619 | Harmonices mundi, Norman copy |
1619 | USD 120,000.00 - 160,000.00 | USD 190,500.00 |
| 22 | Galileo Galilei, 1632 | Dialogo, the Honeyman copy |
1632 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 165,100.00 |
| 80 | Hartmann Schedel, 12 July 1493 | Liber chronicarum |
for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 165,100.00 |
| 86 | Robert Recorde, 1556 | The Castle of Knowledge |
1556 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 152,400.00 |
| 88 | Peter Martyr, 1577 | The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies |
1577 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 127,000.00 |
| 1 | II Chronicles 3:8-6:3, describing the building of the First Temple, c. 1455 |
c.1455.] | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 | |
| 12 | Tycho Brahe, 1602 | Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata |
1602 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 |
| 73 | Charles Dickens, 1844 | Presentation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit |
1844 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 101,600.00 |
| 110 | Robert Hooke, 1665 | Micrographia |
1665 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 88,900.00 |
| 115 | NEWTON, ISAAC, 1729 | The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
1729 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 82,550.00 |
| 74 | David Roberts and George Croly, 1842--1849 | The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia [With:] Egypt & Nubia |
1842-1849. | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 76,200.00 |
| 23 | Johannes Hevelius, 1647 | Selenographia |
1647 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 69,850.00 |
| 94 | Montaigne, 1603 | The Essayes |
1603 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 69,850.00 |
| 98 | Nicholas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, 1615 | De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu |
1615 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 48 | Johannes Bayer, 1603 | Uranometria |
1603 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 114 | Isaac Newton, 1704 | Opticks |
1704 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 54 | Johann Bode, 1801 | Uranographia |
1801 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 79 | Albumasar, 1489 | Introductorium in astronomiam |
7 February 1489. | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 87 | Sebastian Brant, 1570 | The Ship of Fools |
1570 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. <i>[Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes…</i> Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/ddd3b34c-8abc-4eae-8474-6ea05406ccd0.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. <i>[Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes…</i> Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> TRITHÈME (JEAN). <i>Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.</i> Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cbc8d1a4-d991-48c7-b788-7554a6774b0e.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> TRITHÈME (JEAN). <i>Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique.</i> Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> VONTET (JACQUES). <i>L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits…</i> S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/21ad2e05-5544-44aa-887d-76df423e17af.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> VONTET (JACQUES). <i>L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits…</i> S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc734df9-0811-477f-919a-2563b8452855.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. <i>Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques.</i> Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7e769889-43a5-495e-a931-c511da576c2b.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. <i>Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques.</i> Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). <i>Les Chats de Gachet</i> (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/855dc2c0-17e3-4562-a1cc-2e7265c3769c.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). <i>Les Chats de Gachet</i> (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). <i>Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes…</i> Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b325eb41-450b-4bd6-851c-4125e04dfbe7.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). <i>Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes…</i> Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). <i>Le Café-concert.</i> Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6588f3a0-90f2-464c-8125-a76866eabe85.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). <i>Le Café-concert.</i> Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.")
![<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TERRY (EMILIO)]. <i>Projet de fontaine.</i> Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0840c8e4-4f35-4c95-b2d3-3d5addd6fd51.jpg "<b>ALDE, Mar. 11:</b> [TERRY (EMILIO)]. <i>Projet de fontaine.</i> Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.")
![Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:
HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0372eeb9-97e1-47b2-baca-b3287d4704ee.jpg "Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:
HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000")
![<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8f9ce440-b420-4407-8293-eb8e1b38ca19.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000")
![<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/71bb9667-5d66-4aa8-96a2-9880c74a7a26.jpg "<b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000")
