Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 32824, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 28, 2024 - March 28, 2024
Page Size: 431 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 John Locke

An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, fourth edition

 1700 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
52 Thomas Hardy

[Works]

 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
53 Sir Thomas Malory

[Le Morte Darthur] The Birth and Life and Acts of King Arthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies

 1893-94. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,071.00
54 Federigo da Venezia

Commentum in Apocalypsim (with title: Apocalypsis cum glosis Nicolai de Lyra),

Rome 1469 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
55 Giovanni Boccaccio

De Claris Mulieribus, second edition,

Strassburg 1474 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
56 Thomas Aquinas

Tractatulus solemnis de arte et vero modo predicandi, rare at auction,

 Strassburg 1479 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 567.00
57 Marcus Junianus Justinus

Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias, [Venice], [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis], rare edition at auction,

[after 1487]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,772.00
58 Benedetto Bordon

Commentaria in Bibliam. Ed: Bernardinus Gadolus., 3 vol., Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de forlivio

 1497 - 1498. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
59 Bible, Czech

Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular,

 Prague August 1488. GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 44,100.00
60

Luciani Scipio romanus. Luciani heroica in amorem. Luciani Asinus aureus. Bruti romani epistole. Diogenes cynici epistole, the first book printed at Avignon,

 Avignon 1497 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
61 Damiano de Odemeira

Libro da imparare giochare a scachi,

Rome c.1524. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
62 Count Moritz of Hesse

Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum, in a stunning contemporary armorial pierced vellum binding, Schmalkalden, [Mic...

Schmalkalden, 1593 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
63

Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi,

 Augsburg 1666-67. GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
64

Seder Haggadah shel Pesach, commentary by Isaac Abrabanel, with the folding map,

Amsterdam 1695 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
65 Jean Francois Champollion

Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, first edition, specially bound for Pope Leo XII,

 Paris, Strasburg & London 1824 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
66 Bernardino Corio

Bernardini Corii viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia, first edition,

Milan 1503 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
67 Francesco Albertino

Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition,

 Rome 1510 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
68 Tommaso de Vio

Questiones rare et religiosis, rare first edition,

Cologne 1515 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
69 Lucian of Samosata

Opuscula Erasmo Roterodamo interprete, first Aldine edition, Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano

 1516 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
70 Dante Alighieri

De la Volgare Eloquenzia, with 3 others by Trissino, together 4 works in 2 vol.,

Vicenza 1529 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
71 Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca Heliodorus

Historiae Aethiopicae libri decem, nunquam antea in lucem editi,

Basel 1534 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,197.00
72 Lodovico Ariosto

Roland Furieux, first edition in French, Lyon, Sulpice Sabon, for Jehan Thell

 1544 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 945.00
73 Gaius Plinius Secundus

De viris illustribus liber, qui vulgo Cornelio Nepoti ascribitur,

Paris 1544 [colophon 1545. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
74

Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, first edition, second issue

Paris 1546 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,016.00
75 Valerius Maximus

Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla,

Lyon 1547 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,008.00
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    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
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  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
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    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
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    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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