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Giquello: Ancient and Modern Books

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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 229,407.00
Auction Date October 25, 2017 - October 25, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 131,790.00
Sale Number #86486 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 174,290.00
Total Lots 395
Sold Lots 218 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 248,580.00
% of Lots Sold 55.19% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 326,160.00
Unsold Lots 177 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10 [BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc de) et François-Nicolas MARTINET]

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.

1770-1786. EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 40,215.00
122 CERVANTES (Miguel de)

Vida y hechos Del Ingenioso Cavalero Don Quixote de La Mancha.

1662 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 17,323.00
262 RIMBAUD (Arthur)

Une saison en enfer.

1873 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,755.00
97 SAINT-EVREMONT

Oeuvres meslées.

1692 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,806.00
98 SAINTE-MARTHE (Scévole et Louis de)

Histoire généalogique de la maison de France.

1619 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,806.00
24 DOUNOT (Didier)

Confutation de l'invention des longitudes ou de la Mecometrie de l'eymant [sic].

1611 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,950.00
287 TOUR DU MONDE (Le)

Nouveau journal des voyages publiés sous la direction de M.

1860-1914. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,712.00
226 LA FONTAINE. - MOLIÈRE. - RACINE

Oeuvres complètes.

1833-1835. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,341.00
48

LA PLACE.

1788 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,093.00
126 COLMENAR (Juan Alvarez de)

Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus important dans ces deux Royaumes & dans les autres parties de l'Europe, de même que dans les Indes Orientales & Occidentales, depuis l'établissement de ces deux monarchies jusqu'à

1741 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,093.00
141 LA PENA MONTENEGRO (Alonso de)

Itinerario para parochos de Indios, en que se tratan las materias mas particulares, tocandes a ellos, para su buena Administracion [...].

1678 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,093.00
39 JANSENIUS (Cornelius)

Oratio De Interioris hominis Reformatione.

1628 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,970.00
146 PAREDES (Ignacio de)

Promptuario manual Mexicano.

1759 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,970.00
288 VILLERMÉ (Louis-René)

Tableau de l'état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie.

1840 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,722.00
355 LARBAUD (Valéry)

Enfantines.

1926 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,722.00
154 SNOUCKAERT VAN SCHAUWENBURG (Willem)

De vita Caroli Quinti Imperatoris, Caesaris vere Augusti.

1596 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,598.00
89 RÖSSLIN (Euchaire)

Des divers travaulx et enfanteme[n]s des femmes, et par q[ue]l moyen lon doibt survenir aux accidens qui peuvent escheoir devant et apres iceulx travaulx.

1540 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,475.00
120 [BRUNEL (Antoine de)]

Voyage d'Espagne, contenant entre plusieurs particularitez de ce royaume, trois Discours Politiques sur les affaires du Protecteur d'Angleterre, de la Reine de Suède, & du Duc de Lorraine.

1667 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,475.00
257 PETITOT et MONMERQUÉ

Collection complète des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France, depuis le règne de Philippe-Auguste jusqu'au commencement du dix-septième siècle.

1824-1829. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,475.00
395 ZWEIG (Stefan)

Marie-Antoinette.

1933 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 2,475.00
26 EULER (Leonhard)

Introductio in analysin infinitorum.

1748 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,351.00
96 ROUSSET (FRANÇOIS)

Traitté nouveau de l'Hysterotomotokie, ou Enfantement caesarien.

1581 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,227.00
99 SALLUSTE

Opera Sallustiana.

1517 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,227.00
119 BRETON DE LA MARTINIERE

L'Espagne et le Portugal, ou Moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans de ces royaumes.

1815 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,104.00
192

CURIOSA Album In-4, bradel percaline bleue moderne.

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,905.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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