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Sale Name
Old books from the 15th to the 19th century, Sciences & Medicine
Auction Date
03/16/2022 - 03/16/2022
Year of Sale
2022
Sale Number
#31622
Total Lots
167
Sold Lots
116
Lots Sold
69.5%
Unsold Lots
51
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (EUR)
222,821.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
111,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
149,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
160,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
216,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
103.06%
Currency
EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
225,632.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
22 VERCELLIS, ANTONIUS DE. Sermones Quadragesimales.

1504

 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 13,750.00
131 TASSE (Le). La Gierusalemme liberata.

1794

 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 12,500.00
125 ROLLIN (Charles). Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Mèdes et des Perses, des Macédoniens, des Grecs. Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1740. 6 vol. – ROLLIN (Charles) et Jean-B

1752

 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 11,250.00
38 PASTEUR. Mémoire sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère, examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. Extrait des Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 3e série, t. LXIV.

1862

 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 10,625.00
104 [MINUSCULE]. Hore beate marie virginis secundu[m] usum Romanum. S.l.n.d. [XVIe siècle].

XVIe siècle

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 10,375.00
31 CASANOVA (Giacomo). Mémoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, écrits par lui-même. Édition originale, la seule complète.

1833-1837

 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 8,250.00
60 BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA, complectentia textus originales hebraicum cum Pentateucho samaritano, chaldaicum, græcum, versionumque antiquarum samaritanæ, græcæ LXXII interp., chaldaicæ, syriacæ, arabicæ, aethio

1657

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 7,500.00
42 RENOUARD de SAINTE-CROIX (Carloman Louis François Félix, Marquis). Voyage commercial et politique aux Indes orientales, aux îles Philippines, à la Chine, avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807. Contenant des observations et des renseignements, tant sur les pro

1810

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,500.00
40 POTERAT (Abraham-Christophe-Pierre, Marquis de (1773-1839)). Journal D’un Voyage au Cap de Horn, au Chili, au Pérou, aux Iles Philippines, et à la côte de la Nouvelle-Espagne...

1815

 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 6,000.00
167 VIOLLET-LE-DUC (Eugène). Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle.

1854-1868

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 5,750.00
108 MOLIÈRE. Les Œuvres. – Les Œuvres posthumes.

1682

 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 5,000.00
37 OLIVIER (Guillaume Antoine). Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse, fait par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les six premières années de la République - IDEM. Atlas pour servir au voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Egypte et la Perse.

1801-1807

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 4,250.00
44 TOMBE (Charles Francois). Voyage aux Indes orientales, pendant les années 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, contenant la description du Cap de Bonne- Espérance, des Iles de France, Bonaparte, Java, Banca et de la ville de Batavia ; des observations sur le commerce et les productions

1810

 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 4,000.00
93 [JARDIN DE SANTÉ]. [Ortus sanitatis translaté de latin en françois].

1499-1502

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 4,000.00
1 BEAULIEU (Sébastien de PONTAULT, chevalier de BEAULIEU, 1612?-1674). Les Plans et profils des principales villes et lieux considerables... avec les cartes... de chaque gouvernement.

vers 1665

 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 3,750.00
135 VITRUVE. Architecture, ou art de bien bastir, mis de latin en françoys, par Jan Martin.

1547

 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,750.00
88 [HEURES à l'usage de Paris]. [France, vers 1475].

vers 1475

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,750.00
19 PICARD DE LA CANDÉ. Les Epistres choisies de S. Augustin, mises en françois….

1653

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,250.00
139 AUZOUX (Louis). Écorché humain. [France, fin du XIXe siècle].

fin du XIXe siècle

 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,250.00
18 [PERUGIA, BREVET DE NOBLESSE ENLUMINÉ] : Extrait des registres de la chancellerie de Pérouse octroyant à Pierre Paul Beroardo et Nicolas Simon Beroardo le droit de porter le nom de la famille de Pérouse Dragomanno, authentifié le 19 mars 1722.

1722

 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,750.00
26 [ALLOM (Thomas)] et PELLÉ (Clément). L'Empire chinois illustré d'après des dessins pris sur les lieux, avec les descriptions des mœurs, des coutumes, de l'architecture, de l’industrie ... du peuple chinois depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours par Clément Pellé.

s.d

 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 2,750.00
74 COFFRET POUR UN LIVRE DE PRIÈRES. Argent, repoussage. Poinçons : 84, contrôle et l’année (mail lisible). 8 ? 6,5 cm (fermé), 8 ? 14 cm (ouvert). XVIIIe siècle. Avec un fermoir d’origine.

XVIIIe siècle

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 2,500.00
17 [NAPLES]. – Ordinanza di sua Maesta sulla Giurisdizion miltiare, e sopra i delitti, e le pene della gente di guerra.

1789

 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 2,500.00
67 CAMERARIUS (Joachim). Symbolorum et emblematum centuriæ tres. [...] Accessit centuria IV. S.l. [Heidelberg],

1605

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 2,500.00
120 PLUTARQUE. Moralia opuscula, multis mendarum milibus expurgata. ????? ???????????, ?? ??? ????? ???????? ??????????.

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 2,375.00
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.