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Sale Name
Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - internet bidstart 7/19
Auction Date
07/26/2019 - 07/26/2019
Year of Sale
2019
Sale Number
#72619
Total Lots
104
Sold Lots
87
Lots Sold
83.7%
Unsold Lots
17
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (EUR)
11,095.10
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
6,015.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
8,245.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
11,865.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
15,495.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
71.60%
Currency
EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
12,939.20

Top twenty five by sale price

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Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
28118679 Gerard Hoet, Arnold Houbraken, Bernard Picart, Jacques Saurin Taferelen der voornaamste geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament

1728

 EUR - 1,425.72
28197103 Arabisch manuscript Ottomaanse geneaologie

1800

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,035.50
28274797 Pierre Violier L' Usage de la sphère du globe et des cartes pour la géographie + Introduction a la geographie ...

1704

 EUR - 505.76
27569021 Lukas Rotgans Poëzy, van verscheide mengelstoffen; met konstplaaten versiert

1735

 EUR 275.00 - 375.00 403.30
28126791 Gerard Brandt Het Leven en Bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. Lt. Admiraal Generaal...

1746

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 370.60
28227989 Joost van den Vandel, Marcus Gerards Vorstelijcke Warande der Dieren

1730

 EUR 330.00 - 370.00 327.00
28169335 Esiodo Hesiodou tou Askraiou ta Euriskomena. Hesiodi Ascraei opera omnia (Bodoni)

1797

 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 327.00
28163965 [Godefroid Sellius] Description abrégée, géographique et historique du Brabant hollandois

1747

 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 218.00
28250679 J. Winckelmann Histoire de l'art chez les anciens

1766

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 212.55
28173977 Henri van Deventer Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens

1733

 EUR - 207.10
28216099 Paul François Velly, Claude Villaret, Jean-J. Garnier Histoire de France. Depuis l'etablissement de la monarchie jusqu'au regne de Louis XIV. 26/30 vol

1761

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 185.30
28224373 André Du Ryer, Jan Hendrik Glazemaker Mahomets Alkoran

1734

 EUR - 185.30
28174969 citoyen David Campagnes du général Pichegru. Histoire chronologique des opérations de l'Armée du Nord

1795

 EUR - 168.95
28232151 M. G. Pellier De Quensgy Fils Recueil de mémoires et d'observations sur les maladies qui attaquent l'Oeil

1783

 EUR - 164.59
28267737 M. Duplessis Traités de M. Duplessis sur la coutume de Paris. Avec des notes de M. Berroyer et De Laurière

1702

 EUR 180.00 - 200.00 163.50
27813617 Dupuis Planches de l’origine De Tous Les Cultes

1794

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 152.60
28122901 Aristote La rhetorique d'Aristote, traduction en francois par Mr Cassandre

1733

 EUR - 142.79
28231811 Abbé Rozier Cours Complet d'Agriculture

1783

 EUR - 142.79
28225045 J.L. Baudelocque L'art des accouchements

1796

 EUR - 141.70
28260483 Philipp van Limborch Commentarius in acta Apostolorum et in epistolas ad Romanos et ad Hebraeos

1711

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 141.70
28274395 Cornelius Nepos The Lives of Illustrious Men. Done Into English from the Original Latin of Cornelius Nepos.

1712

 EUR - 136.25
28180415 M. Westerman Amsterdamsche burgerfeest, beleg van Naarden

1780

 EUR - 136.25
28165661 Denis Diderot / Jean Baptiste Le Rond D'Alembert (Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux...) Optique, Physique

1767

 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 130.80
28196597 Louis Chambeau Dictionnaire portatif

1760

 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 120.99
28240501 Mariano degli angeli Examen Theologico Morale

1778

 EUR - 119.90
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  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.
    June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works.
  • Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500
    Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000
    Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950