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Auction Name Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (EUR) 124,930.00
Auction Date November 29, 2017 - November 29, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 87,895.00
Sale Number #6006 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 162,240.00
Total Lots 433
Sold Lots 190 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 288,655.00
% of Lots Sold 43.88% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 527,540.00
Unsold Lots 243 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 23.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
37 Boscovich Ruggiero Giuseppe.

Dissertatio de Maris Aestu...

1747 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,704.00
260 Tartaglia Niccolò.

La prima [-sesta] parte del general trattato di numeri, et misure...

1556-1560. EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,208.00
289 Ferriol Charles.

Recueil de cent estampes. Representant differentes Nations du Levant...

1714 EUR 3,500.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 4,216.00
6 Aldrovandi Ulisse.

Ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII...

1646-1652. EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,968.00
170 Legati Lorenzo.

Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi E donato alla sua Patria dall'Illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi Patrizio di Bologna e Senatore...

1677 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,720.00
204 Palladio Andrea.

I quattro libri dell'Architettura...

1570, 1768 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,224.00
296 Norden Frederik Ludvig.

Travels in Egypt and Nubia...

1757 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,100.00
68 Chiavelloni Vincenzo.

Discorsi della musica...

1668 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,976.00
159 Bernardus Claraevallensis, santo.

Modus bene vivendi in christianam religionem [Italiano]. Sermoni necessarii al ben vivere.

1495/96. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 2,976.00
299 Ptolomaeus Claudius - Mercator Gerardus.

Orbis Antiqui Tabulae Geographicae Secundum Cl. Ptolemaeum, cum Indice Philologico absolutissimo...

1730 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 2,976.00
232 Salodius Hippolytus.

Tabulae gnomonicae, nunc denuo castigatae...

1626 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,480.00
290 Formaleoni Vincenzo Antonio.

Venezia illustrata con le vedute più cospicue e le fabbriche più notabili rappresentate in XXV. tavole incise in rame.

1791 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,108.00
8 Alighieri Dante.

Dante con l'espositione di M. Bernardino Daniello da Lucca.

1568 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,984.00
69 Chiesa Cattolica.

Kanones kai dogmata tes hieras kai hagias oikoumenikes en Tridento...

1583 EUR 650.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,984.00
136 Gevaerts Jean Gaspard - Hubertus Goltzius.

Icones imperatorum Romanorum, ex priscis numismatibus ad viuum delineatæ, & breui narratione historica illustratæ...

1645 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,984.00
368 Chagall Marc - Gogol Nikolaj Vasilevi?.

Les âmes mortes.

1948 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,984.00
212 Pifferi Francesco.

Monicometro instromento da misurar con la vista stando fermo, del R.P.D. Francesco Pifferi dal Monte S. Sauino, monaco camaldolense...

1595 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,860.00
409 Pomodoro Giò - Pagliarani Elio.

15 acqueforti di Giò Pomodoro e Dalle negazioni di Elio Pagliarani.

1964 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,860.00
227 Rösslin Eucharius.

De partu hominis, et quae circa ipsum accidunt. Libellus D. Eucharii Rhodionis medici.

1536 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,736.00
250 Siena.

Le Amazoni in maschera che mostrano di seguire la buona fortuna degli scolari...

1593 EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,736.00
181 Mancini Cesare.

Ammaestramenti per allevare, pascere, et curare gli uccelli. Li quali s'ingabbiano ad uso di cantare.

1575 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,612.00
229 Saccheri Giovanni Girolamo.

Neo-statica auctore Hieronymo Saccherio e societate Iesu in Ticinensi Universitate matheseos professore excellentissimo senatui mediolanensi dicata.

1708 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,612.00
270 Tommaso d'Aquino <santo>.

Interpretamenta... in libros de celo & mundo Aristotelis annotationibus textuum & commentorum Averrois habentur in marginibus ornata ac cum additionibus Petri Alverniatis.

1516 EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,612.00
72 Ciccarelli Antonio.

Le Vite degli imperatori romani... con le figure intagliate in rame da Giovan Battista de Cavalieri del 1590.

1590 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,550.00
164 Kircher Athanasius.

Itinerarium Exstaticum quo Mundi Opificium id est Coelestis expansi, siderumque tam errantium, quam fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio & structura..

1656 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,488.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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