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Auction Name Early Printed, Medical, Scientific and Travel Books Total Sales (USD) 785,672.00
Auction Date October 18, 2016 - October 18, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 389,900.00
Sale Number #2425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 588,600.00
Total Lots 335
Sold Lots 328 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 398,000.00
% of Lots Sold 97.91% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 601,050.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 130.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
157 [NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir.] Opticks.

19 folding engraved plates.

1704 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 87,500.00
147 EUCLID.

Elementa geometriae.

1482 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 62,500.00
96 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

A Winters Tale.

1623 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 25,000.00
263 [LODEWYCKSZ, WILLEM.] Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem.

Engraved map of Europe, Africa, and Asia on title; 48 half-page engraved illustrations; woodcut charts and coastline views in text; lacks the infrequently found folding plate of the bazaar at Bantam.

1598; 1598 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,000.00
334 ZAMORANO, RODRIGO.

Compendio del Arte de Navegar.

1588 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 17,500.00
207 COLEMAN, EDMUND THOMAS.

Scenes from the Snow-Fields; being, Illustrations of the Upper Ice World of Mont Blanc from Sketches made on the Spot in the Years 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858.

1859 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,250.00
11

The Byble.

1551 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 15,600.00
15

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New.

1617 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 13,000.00
219 DU HALDE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, S.J.

Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise.

1735 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,500.00
234 FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS.

Across Country from Thonon to Trent. Rambles and Scrambles in Switzerland and the Tyrol.

1865 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,350.00
128 LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONY VAN.

[Works, in Dutch.] 3 etched or engraved additional titles, portrait of Leeuwenhoek, and 101 plates.

1684-1718 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,000.00
332 WINDHAM, WILLIAM; and MARTEL, PIERRE.

An Account of the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy, in Two Letters, One from an English Gentleman to his Friend at Geneva; the Other from Peter Martel, Engineer, to the said English Gentleman.

1744 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 10,000.00
59

[Biblia cum Postillis Nicolai de Lyra.] With commentary by Guillelmus Brito, Paulus Burgensis, and Matthias Doering.

1487 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,375.00
84

Illuminated vellum leaf from the Llangattock Breviary with 5 4-line initials in colors and gold depicting the prophets Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, and with 2 vertical bars with floral extensions in colors and gold on each side.

1440s USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,375.00
57

[Biblia.] [453] (of [456]) leaves; lacks a10 (Genesis 20:9-24:9) and initial and final blanks.

1478 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
83

[Psalter with calendar, litany, and miscellaneous texts.] manuscript in latin on vellum, written in small gothic hand in black ink with headings, rubrics, and portions of calendar in red, 34 lines, double columns apart from calendar in single columns, wit

 14th century USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,450.00
2 HESYCHIUS.

Dictionarium.

1514 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,125.00
272 MEDINA, PEDRO DE.

L'Arte del Navegar.

1554 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
102 [SWIFT, JONATHAN.]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

1726 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,500.00
12

The . holie . Bible.

1572 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,280.00
119 DARWIN, CHARLES.

The Descent of Man.

1871 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,280.00
21 BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.

The Decameron.

1620 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,500.00
159 PEUCER, CASPAR.

Elementa doctrinae de circulis coelestibus, et primo motu.

1551 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,500.00
249 HEDIN, SVEN; et al.

Southern Tibet. Discoveries in Former Times compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908.

1916-22 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,500.00
224 FELLOWS, CHARLES, Sir.

Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc.

1827 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,250.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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