Auction 06 Auction 06 - A Legacy in Ink: A Rare Book & Autograph Sale from L’Autographe Auction

L’Autographe Auction — Inaugural Rare Book Auction

7 July 2025 at 2pm (BST)

This is an online auto-clerked auction, with bidding progressing in 45-second intervals.

We are proud to announce our inaugural Rare Book Auction, presenting a curated selection of antiquarian treasures, scientific milestones, and bibliophilic curiosities.

Auction Highlights

Johannes Kepler, Dioptrice (1611) — first edition of the groundbreaking work that laid the foundation for modern optics.

Claudius Ptolemy, Almagestum (1515) — rare first edition of the Latin translation of antiquity’s greatest astronomical treatise.

A rich selection of early printed books and scientific rarities spanning the 15th–18th centuries.

Autograph Letters & Manuscripts

An exceptional group of letters and manuscripts from luminaries of science, literature, and the arts, including:

Albert Einstein · Enrico Fermi · Samuel Morse · Ugo Foscolo · Richard Wagner · Franz Liszt · Giuseppe Verdi · and many others.

Featured lot — A poignant letter from Stefan Zweig to Arturo Toscanini, in which Zweig hails Sigmund Freud as “one of the immortals of our time, ” capturing the spirit of an extraordinary intellectual era.

A unique opportunity to acquire works that changed the way we see the universe — and the hands that shaped it.