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- Estimate
- £500–£700 hammer ≈ $713–$998
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts , London (South Kensington) · 30 November 2001
- Record ID
- TB-2026-6190467
- Record
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James Gillray, James Gillray (1756-1815). Christie's, 30 Nov 2001, lot 500. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6190467.
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James Gillray, James Gillray (1756-1815). Christie's, 30 Nov 2001, lot 500. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6190467.
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From the same sale Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts · Nov 2001
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963) -- A collection of works, mostly fir… | LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963) -- A collection of works, mostly first editions by or inscribed or annotated by C.S. Lewis, including: | £2,500–£3,500 | |
| AYRES, Philip (1638-1712). Cupids addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata a… | AYRES, Philip (1638-1712). Cupids addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata amatoria. Emblems of love. Embleme d'amore. Emblemes d'amour , London: R. Bently and S. Tidmarch, 1683. | £700–£1,000 | |
| HEYNS, Zacharias. Emblemata, emblemes chrestienes et morales , Rotter… | HEYNS, Zacharias. Emblemata, emblemes chrestienes et morales , Rotterdam: Pieter van Waesberge, 1625. | £700–£1,000 | |
| HOOGSTRATEN, Frans von. Het voorhof der Ziele , Rotterdam: Fransois v… | HOOGSTRATEN, Frans von. Het voorhof der Ziele , Rotterdam: Fransois van Hoogstraeten, 1668. | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| JUNIUS, Hadrianus (1511-75). Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium , Ant… | JUNIUS, Hadrianus (1511-75). Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium , Antwerp: Plantin, 1565. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (169 x 109mm.), printer's device on title, 58 woodcut emblems by G. van Kampen and A. Nicolai after G. Ballain and P. Huys, each page within a lacework border, Aenigmatum Libellus with separate title (very lightly browned, some light thumb-soiling). FIRST EDITION of this celebrated emblem book by the Dutch doctor Hadrianus Junius (Adriaan de Jonge) with emblems after Geoffroy Ballain. It contains a letter to Sambucus, and the emblems have common characters with both Sambucus and Alciatus. Praz describes the engraved borders as 'exquisite.' Adams J444; Landwehr Low Countries 117: "best edition"; Praz p. 88. [ Bound with: ] | £1,500–£2,500 | |
| MAIER, Michael (?1568-1622). Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutiniu… | MAIER, Michael (?1568-1622). Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum , Frankfurt: Johann Philipp Andreus for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1687. Small 4° (199 x 154mm.), half title, 50 engraved illustrations (lacking the final blank, most lower margins lightly waterstained, a few with very neat repairs, some light spotting). A reduced edition of Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617) without the musical scores and German verses, the plates showing allegorical and symbolical pictures of chemical processes. DSB notes that his writings "were highly valued and popular among alchemists ... Maier was a fervent believer in the transmutation of metals, which was for him a synonym of the word 'chymia.'" Ferguson II, 64; Krivatsy 7277; Landwehr German 412; Praz p. 102; Wellcome IV, p. 29. [ Bound with :] | £1,500–£2,500 |
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