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Auction Info

Sale Name
THE NAKLES COLLECTION OF INCUNABULA.
Auction Date
04/17/2000 - 04/17/2000
Year of Sale
2000
Sale Number
#9342
Total Lots
207
Sold Lots
207
Lots Sold
100.0%
Unsold Lots
0
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
4,031,970.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
937,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,322,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
937,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,322,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
304.90%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
4,685,270.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (23-79) Historia naturalis, in Italian, Translated from Latin by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1492).

1476

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 270,000.00
5 THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint) Summa theologiae.

ca. 1225-1274, before Advent 1463

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 215,000.00
140 HOMER Opera, in Greek. Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas (Athens 1423-Milan 1511).

? 8th century B.C. C 6061

USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 204,000.00
180 TOSTADO, Alphonsus, de Madrigal Floretum sancti Matthaei, I-II. Edited by Petrus Ximenez de Prexano assisted by Johannes de Arellano and Johannes de Revenga.

1400-1455, 1491, 30 September 1491

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 99,500.00
155 BIBLE, Latin

not after 1474

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 83,425.00
40 AURBACH, Johannes de Summa de auditione confessionis et de sacramentis

fl. 15th century, 1469

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 70,500.00
152 OPPIANUS Halieutica, sive de piscatu. Translated from Greek into Latin and with additions by Laurentius Lippius.

fl. 2nd century, 12 September 1478

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 70,500.00
8 BIBLE, Latin. With the Glossa ordinaria attributed to Walafrid Strabo and others, and the interlinear gloss of Anselm of Laon.

not after 1480

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 70,500.00
43 CASSIODORUS, Magnus Aurelius Historia ecclesiastica tripartita

ca. 480-ca. 583, 5 February 1472

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 64,625.00
1 A. Edward Newton BIBLE, Latin.

1455, 1921

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 64,625.00
162 VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius Facta et dicta memorabilia. -- TITIUS PROBUS, Caius. De praenomine epitome. -- De dignitatibus, magistratibus et officiis Romanorum compendium.

1st century A.D. 1475

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 58,750.00
26 AUGUSTINUS (pseudo-) De vita Christiana, De singularitate clericorum.

1467

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 58,750.00
159 BRANT, Sebastian Stultifera navis. Translated from German into Latin by Jacobus Locher (1471-1528) in collaboration with the author. With additions by Thomas Beccadelli.

1458-1521, 1 March 1498

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 56,400.00
94 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni, Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius Genealogiae deorum gentilium

1313-1375, 1472

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 56,400.00
156 BIBLE, Latin

1481

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 52,875.00
53 ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS Summa Theologica. Pars III (of four).

1389-1459, 26 January 1478

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 49,350.00
181 HIGDEN, Ranulphus Polycronicon. Translated by John Trevisa (1326-1412). With the continuation for 1357-1460 by William Caxton (ca. 1420-1491).

d. 1364, 13 April 1495

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 47,000.00
113 THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, ). Summa theologiae

ca. 1225-1274, 1483

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 47,000.00
54 Menardus Monachus BIBLE, Latin.

6 August 1479

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 44,650.00
88 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (Saint, 354-430) De civitate Dei

1468

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 44,650.00
179 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (pseudo-) Soliloquia (Text beginning Agnoscam te).

1484

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 41,125.00
7 BALBUS, Johannes Catholicon

d. 1298, not after 1475

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 41,125.00
56 SCHEDEL, Hartmann Liber Chronicarum cumjtguris et ymaginibus

1440-1514, 12 July 1493

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 41,125.00
51 EYB, Albertus de Margarita poetica

1420-1475, 2 December 1472

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 41,125.00
166 HORAE Use of Salisbury (Latin and English)-- Hore presentes ad usum Sarum.

16 May 1498

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 41,125.00

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