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Auction Name Antiquarian Books from the 15th to the 19th Century Total Sales (EUR) 473,825.00
Auction Date September 27, 2018 - September 27, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 223,570.00
Sale Number #25903 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 292,780.00
Total Lots 441
Sold Lots 280 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 310,780.00
% of Lots Sold 63.49% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 408,780.00
Unsold Lots 161 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 115.91%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
437 TOCQUEVILLE (Alexis de).

De la démocratie en Amérique.

1835-1840. EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 56,250.00
192 MESLIER (Jean).

Extrait d'un manuscrit intitulé Mémoire des pensées et sentimens de J. M., c. de Trep.g... et de Bul…

 n.d. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 31,250.00
58 PINDER (Ulrich).

Speculum passionis domini nostri Jesum Christi.

1519 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
368 NIGNON (Edouard).

L’Heptaméron des Gourmets, ou les délices de la cuisine française.

1919 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 13,125.00
24 BOUCHART (Alain).

Les Croniques annalles des pays d'Angleterre et Bretaigne.

1531 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
57 PAUSANIAS.

Veteris Græciæ descriptio.

1551 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
12 Jacopo Confortini (1602-1672).

Homme drapé assis.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
374

TAUX DES FRUITS DU BAILLIAGE DE NUITS depuis 1622 à 1789 (en réalité 1792) « à M. de Bays ».

EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
1 École romaine, fin seizième siècle.

Étude de draperie (recto) ; Figure agenouillée et études de têtes (verso).

EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
16 Marcantonio Bassetti (1586-1630).

Le Triomphe d'un homme enturbanné assis dans un char accompagné de cavaliers et d'hommes soufflant dans des trompes ; et Triomphe d'un héros tenant un sceptre et couronné de lauriers, accompagné de soldats pillant et foulant les vaincus.

EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
8 Atelier de Toussaint Dubreuil (1561-1602).

L’assemblée des dieux : projet de plafond.

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
52 MILLES DE SOUVIGNY (Jean).

Praxis criminis persequendi.

1541 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
54 MONTAIGNE (Michel de).

Les Essais.

1595 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
133 FABERT (Abraham).

Voyage du roy à Metz, l'occasion d'iceluy : ensemble les signes de resjouyssance faits par ses habitans, pour honorer l'entrée de sa Majesté.

1610 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
13 École française, dix-neuvième siècle.

Lot de quinze dessins de différentes techniques dont plusieurs études de cavaliers et de chevaux.

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 6,250.00
50 MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE.

Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, tres illustre royne de Navarre.

1547 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,000.00
106 CATHALAN (Jacques).

Oraison funèbre de Madame Elisabeth-Charlotte Palatine de Bavière, duchesse douairière d'Orléans, prononcée dans l'église de Laôn, le 18 mars 1723.

1723 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,625.00
354 GILLIERS (Joseph).

Le Cannameliste français, ou nouvelle instruction pour ceux qui désirent d'apprendre l'office, rédigé en forme de dictionnaire.

1751 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
95 BOCCACE.

Le Décaméron.

1757-1761 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
277 BARBAULT (Jean).

[Les Plus beaux édifices de la Rome moderne, ou Recueil des plus belles vues des principales églises, places, palais, fontaines, etc., qui sont dans Rome].

1763 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
36 FROISSART (Jean).

Le Premier [– quart] volume de messire Jehan Froissart, lequel traicte des choses dignes de memoire advenues tant es pays de France, Angleterre, Flandres, Espaigne que Escoce, et autres lieux circonvoisins.

1530 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
62

RECUEIL DES HYSTOIRES ROMMAINES (Le).

1512 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
257 SMITH (Adam).

Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations.

1778-1779. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
282 COUCHÉ (Jacques).

Galerie du Palais-Royal, gravée d'après les tableaux des différentes Écoles qui la composent : avec un abrégé de la vie des Peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau, par l'abbé de Fontenai.

1786-1808. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,750.00
87

BAIL DES FERMES ROYALES UNIES fait à Me Jacques Forceville le 6 septembre 1738 pour 6 années, à commercer pour les Gabelles, Cinq Grosses Fermes, Aydes, Entrées, Tabac, Papier et Parchemins timbrez des provinces...

1739 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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