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Sale Name
Sothebys : L02308
Auction Date
01/01/2002 - 01/01/2002
Year of Sale
2002
Sale Number
#L02308
Total Lots
862
Sold Lots
631
Lots Sold
73.2%
Unsold Lots
231
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
1,996,200.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
1,172,260.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
1,564,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
1,872,580.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
2,485,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
80.30%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
3,580,860.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
644 Pacioli, Luca Somma di aritmetica geometria proporzioni e proporzionalita.

10-20 November 1494

 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 151,750.00
281 Euclid. [ELEMENTA. Latin.] [Elementa (in the translation of Adelard of Bath, with commentary by Campanus of Novara)].

25 May 1482

 GBP 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 124,250.00
643 Pacioli, Luca Divina proportione (edited by M.A. Capella).

1509

 GBP 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 91,250.00
469 Jamnitzer, Wenzel Perspectiva corporum regularium. Das ist ein fleyssige Furweysung wie fie funff regulirten Corper... durch einen... weg... gar kunstlich inn die Perspectiva gebracht... werden mugen [etc.].

1568

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 82,450.00
782 Stoer, Lorenz Geometria et Perspectiva. Hierjnn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreiner[n] jn eingelegter Arbait dienstlich. auch vil andern Leibhabern zu sonder[n] gefallen geordnet unnd gestelt.

1567

 GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 69,250.00
158 Cousin, Jean Livre de perspective.

28 June 1560

 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 39,350.00
476 Jordanus de Nemore or Nemorarius (fl. c. 1220), Le Fevre, Jacques d'Etaples (c. 1460-1536), Ibid In hoc opere contenta. Arithmetica decern libris demonstrata Musica libris demonstrata quattuor [by J. Lefevre d'Etaples] Epitome i[n] libros arithmetiucos divi Seuerini Boetij Rirhmimachie ludus q[ui] & pugna nu[m]erorum appellat[ur]., Artificialis intro

22 July 1496, 7 May 1502, 27 June 1503

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 35,900.00
69 Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus [Opera] Hec sunt opera… In porphirii Isagogen… Contra euthichen & Nestorium de duabus naturis: & una persona christi liber unus. (De arithmetica ad Patritium simmachum libri duo. De musica libri quinque. De geometria libri duo. De philosophic consolatione

10 February 1498/99-8 July 1499

 GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 33,600.00
851 Witelo id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, colorum atque formarum, quam vulgo Perspectivam vocant, libri X... Nunc primum opera mathematicorum praestantissimorum dd. Georgii Tanstetter & Petri Apiani in lucem aedita.

1535

 GBP 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 32,450.00
657 Pecham, John Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1292) Prospectiva communis.

1482/83

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 32,450.00
645 Pacioli, Luca Summa de arithmetica geometria. Proportioni: et proportionalita.

December 20 1523

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 32,450.00
97 Bradwardine, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury (1290?-1349) Geometria speculativa (edited by P. Sanchez Ciruelo).

20 May 1495

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 27,850.00
319 Euclid. ELEMENTA. English. The Elements of geometric.. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley… With a very fruitfull preface made by mr. Dee, etc.

1570

 GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 26,700.00
352 Euclid Kitab tahrir aswal liEuclidis min ta 'lif khubat Nasr al-Din al-Tusi. Euclidis elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim, etc.

1594

 GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 24,400.00
614 Newton, Sir Isaac Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflexions, refractions, inflexions and colours of light. Also two treatises of the species and magnitude of curvilinear figures (De quadratura curvarum.)

1704

 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 22,100.00
304 Euclid, Malapert, Charles, Ibid, Euclid [ELEMENTA. Latin.] Euclidis elementorum libri sex priores. Quorum demonstrationes turn alibi sparsim,tum maxime libro quinto ad faciliorem captum accommodavit Carolus Malapertius. S.J (1580-1630) Oratio habita Duaci dum lectionem mathematicam auspicaretur

1620, 1620, 1620, 1633,

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 19,800.00
27 Apollonius Pergaeus (fl. 225 B.C.)

1537

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 17,500.00
263 Euclid. [WORKS. Latin.] Euclidis Megarensis… marhematicarum disciplinaru[m] janitoris: habent in hoc volumine quinu[n]que ad mathematica[m] substantia[m] aspira[n]t: eleme[n]torum libros xiij. cu[m] expositione Theonis, etc. ANOTHER COPY

26 March 1510

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 17,500.00
179 Descartes, Rene Meditationes de prima philosophia. In qua Dei existentia et animae immortalitas demonstratur.

1641

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 17,500.00
265 Euclid. [ELEMENTA. Greek.] Adiecta praefatiuncula in qua de disciplinis mathematicis nonnihil [ed. S. Grynaeus].

September 1533

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,350.00
5 Agricola, Georgius De re metallica libri XII

March 1556

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 16,350.00
26 Apianus, Petrus Instrumentum primi mobilis

1534

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 16,350.00
779 Stevin, Simon Memoires mathematiques... Translate en francois par Jean Tuning.

1608

 GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 15,200.00
463 Ibn al-Haytham. Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi [Kitab al-Manazir in the Latin version of Gerard of Cremona]. Eiusdem [i.e. Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani] liber de crepusculis & nubium ascensionibus [translated by G. of

August, 1572

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 15,200.00
733 Rodler, Hieronymus Eyn schon nutzlich buchlin vnd vnderweisung der kunst des Messens mit dem Zirckel Richtscheidt oder Linial.

24 July 1531

 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 15,200.00
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