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Auction Name Rare Books Total Sales (EUR) 177,372.08
Auction Date October 27, 2016 - October 27, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 111,765.00
Sale Number #102716 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 111,765.00
Total Lots 405
Sold Lots 350 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 131,325.00
% of Lots Sold 86.42% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 131,325.00
Unsold Lots 55 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 135.06%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
367 Chagall Marc

Marc Chagall. Das graphische Werk. Enleitung und Auswalh Franz Meyer. Dokumentation Hans Bolliger

 1957 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,060.00
62 Classici Italiani

Classici italiani della Società tipografica de' Classici italiani

 1802 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 4,960.00
323 Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

System der Wissenschaft... Erster Theil, die Phanomenologie des Geistes

 1807 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,340.00
221 Zuccagni-Orlandini Attilio

Corografia fisica, storica e statistica dell'Italia e delle sue isole, corredata di un atlante, di mappe geografiche e topografiche, e di altre tavole illustrative

 1835 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,720.00
347 Sismondi Jean Charles Léonard Simonde (de)

De la richesse commerciale, ou principes d’économie politique, appliqués à la législation du commerce..

 1803 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,472.00
395 Neruda Pablo [Reyes Basoalto Neftalí Ricardo]

Canto General

 1950 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,472.00
36 Biancolini Giovanni Battista Giuseppe

Notizie Storiche delle Chiese di Verona.. Libro Primo [-Ottavo]

 1749 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,224.00
72 Del Re Vincenzo

Narrazione delle solenni reali feste fatte celebrare in Napoli da Sua Maestà il re delle Due Sicilie Carlo Infante di Spagna... per la nascita del suo primogenito Filippo Real Principe delle Due Sicilie

 1749 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,224.00
354 Verri Pietro

Meditazioni sulla economia politica

 1771 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,224.00
26 Bardi Luigi

L'Imperiale e Reale Galleria Pitti illustrata..

 1837 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,728.00
343 Riviste e Periodici

Il Conciliatore

 1818 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,728.00
277 Sonzogno Giovanni Battista

Raccolta de' Viaggi più interessanti eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare, dopo quelli del celebre Cook, e non pubblicati fin ora in lingua italiana. Tomo I [-XLVIII]

 1818 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,480.00
366 Camus Albert

L'exil et le royaume. Nouvelles. 14e édition

 1957 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 2,356.00
66 Crastone Giovanni

Dictionum Graecarum thesaurus copiosus quantum nunquam antea. Annotationesque innumerae, tum ad rem graecam, tum latinam pertinentes... Dictionum Latinarum thesaurus nunquam alias impressus cum Graeca interpretatione

 1510 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,108.00
294 Arco Giovanni Battista Gherardo (d’)

Della influenza del ghetto nello stato

 1782 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,984.00
345 Saint-Simon Claude Henri (de)

Du Système industriel

 1821 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,984.00
2 Alexander Trallianus

Alexandrou Trallianou iatrou Biblia duokaideka. Raz? logos peri loimik?s apo t?s sur?n dialektou exell?nistheis [graece]. Alexandri Tralliani medici lib. XII. Rhazae de pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Iacobi Goupyli in eosdem

 1548 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,860.00
78 Dioscorides Pedanius

Pedakiou Dioskoridou Anarzab?os, Peri hyl?s iatrik?s biblia V. Tou autou, peri d?l?t?ri?n pharmak?n [graece]... Pedacii Dioscoridae Anazarbei, De medica materia libri V. De letalibus venenis, eorum'que praecautione & curatione. De cane rabido..

 1529 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,860.00
267 Piccardo Angelo

Breve, e succinta Relatione del Viaggio nel Regno di Congo nell'Africa Meridionale fatto dal P. Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento... Continente variati Clima, Arie, Animali, fiumi, frutti..

 1692 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,860.00
336 Montfaucon de Villars Nicolas Pierre Henri

Il Conte di Gabali' ovvero Ragionamenti sulle scienze segrete tradotti dal francese da una dama italiana a' quali si e aggiunto in fine Il riccio rapito poema del signor Alessandro Pope tradotto d'inglese dal signor Antonio Conti patrizio veneto

 1751 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,860.00
43 Borelli Giovanni Alfonso

Historia et Meteorologia incendii Aetnaei anni 1669..

 1670 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,736.00
322 Grimaldi Domenico

Istruzioni sulla nuova manifattura dell’olio introdotta nella Calabria

 1773 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,736.00
20 Arrianus Flavius

Arrianou Peri Alexandrou anabase?s [graece]. Arriani de ascensu Alexandri

 1535 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,612.00
214 Volpato Giovanni, Ottaviani Giovanni

Les loges de Raphael gravées par Jean Ottaviani et Jean Volpato l’an 1770. Nouvelle edition

 1770 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,612.00
4 Alighieri Dante

Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno

 1527 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,488.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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