Sothebys: The Collection of Otto Schafer Part I: Italian Books Sold by order of the Dr. Otto-Schafer-Stiftung e.V., 6649,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 08, 1994 - December 08, 1994
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Abelard & Heloise) | Lettres d'Heloise et d'Abaillard | Paris | (1796) |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 2 | Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II) | Hystoria de duobus amantibus cum multis epistolis amatoriis | Venice | 17 December 1504 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 3 | (Aesopus moralisatus) | Vita | Naples | 13 February 1485 |
USD 200,000.00 - 300.00 | 178,500.00 |
| 4 | (Aesopus moralisatus) | Fabulae (Latin-Italian, tr. & ed. Accio Zucco) | Bologna | 7 March 1487 |
USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | 211,500.00 |
| 5 | (Aesopus moralisatus) | Fabulae (Latin-Italian, tr & ed.: Accio Zucco) | Venice | 31 January 1491 [1492?] |
USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 | 90,500.00 |
| 6 | (Aesopus moralisatus) | Fabule de Esopo hystoriate (Latin-Italian, trans. & ed. Accio Zucco) | Venice | 1528 |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 18,400.00 |
| 7 | Aesopus | Aesopi Phrygii fabulae Graecae Latine conversae | Parma | 1800 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 8 | Alciati, Andrea | Emblematum libellus | Venice | June 1546 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 8,625.00 |
| 9 | Alione, Gian Giorgio | Opera locunda | Asti | 12 March 1521 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 79,500.00 |
| 10 | Amadis de Gaula. Los quatro libros de Amadis d' Gaula nuamente impressos et hystori-ados (ed. Francesco Delicado) | Venice | 7 September 1533 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 12,650.00 | |
| 11 | Antonio (Bettini) da Siena | Monte santo di Dio | Florence | 10 Sepember 1477 |
USD 175,000.00 - 225,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Appianus Historia Romana | Venice | 1477 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 31,050.00 | |
| 13 | Apuleius Madaurensis | Apulegio volgare (tr:Matteo Maria Boiardo) | Venice | 10 September 1518 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 14 | Aretino, Pietro | Stanze | Venice | 23 January 1537 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 178,500.00 |
| 15 | Arrighi, Ludovico degli, Vicentino | La Operina | Rome | 1522 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 107,000.00 |
| 16 | Ars moriendi | L'Arte de lo Ben Morire (Latin and Italian, tr. Junianus Malus) | Naples | ca. 1480 |
USD 250,000.00 - 400,000.00 | 486,500.00 |
| 17 | Ars moriendi (Italian:) | Arte del ben morire | [Venice:] | 1490 |
USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 | 90,500.00 |
| 18 | Ars moriendi (Italian) | Arte del ben morire | Venice | [after 22 March 1503] |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 26,450.00 |
| 19 | Ars moriendi (Italian) | Arte del ben morire | Florence | ca. 1505? (before 1513) |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 31,050.00 |
| 20 | [Barberiis, Philippus de] | Quattuor hic compressa opuscula | Venice | [ca.1505?] |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | Barlezio, Marino | Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi | Rome | [ca. 1516-1522] |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti (Zamberto) | Isolario | Venice | ca. 1485 |
USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | 145,500.00 |
| 23 | Bellincioni, Bernardo | Rime (ed.: Francesco Tanzi; commendatory verse by Antonio Vinci) | Milan | 15 July 1493. |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 19,550.00 |
| 24 | Benivieni, Domenico | Trattato in defensione e probazione della dottrina di Savonarola | Florence | 28 May 1496 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 8,050.00 |
| 25 | Berlinghieri, Francesco | Geographia (Italian; with additions by Marsiglio Ficino) | Florence | [before September 1482] |
USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | 90,500.00 |
| 26 | Bernardinus Senensis (St.) | Delia confessione (with Michael Durazzinus, Sermoni due; Tomasuccio, Visioni due) | Venice | before 9 October 1494 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 27 | (Bestiary) | Savona | 15 April 1524 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 85,000.00 | |
| 28 | Bianchini, Francesco | De tribus generibus instrumentorum music veterum organicae dissertatio | Rome | 1742 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 29 | Bible | Venice | 15 October 1490 |
USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 30 | Bible (Gospels, Arabic) | Rome | 1590 [but 1591] |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 5,175.00 | |
| 31 | Bigus, Ludovicus | Domenicale e sanctuario (with: Sette lezioni sopra el Pater noster) | Modena | [about 1490-95?] |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 16,100.00 |
| 32 | Boccaccio, Giovanni | Decamerone (with; Hieronymus Squarzficus, Vita de Giouan Bocchaccio) | Venice | 20 June 1492 |
USD 200,000.00 - 250,000.00 | 376,500.00 |
| 33 | Bocchi, Achille | Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque | Bologna | 1555 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 34 | Bodoni, Giambattista | [Manuscript title:] Raccolta d'lncisioni in Rame appartenti al Signor Bodoni | [Parma] | 1809 |
USD - | 79,500.00 |
| 35 | Bodoni, Giambattista | Manuale tipografico | Parma | 1818 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 43,125.00 |
| 36 | Boethius | Opera | Venice | (I:) 18 August 1492; (II;) 26 March 1491 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 68,500.00 |
| 37 | Bonamicius, Philipus | De vita et rebus gestis ven | Venice | 1776 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 1,437.00 |
| 38 | Bonarelli, Prospero | Il Solimano | Florence | 1620 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 39 | [Bonaventura (pseudo-)] | Meditationes passionis Christi (Italian:) Devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore | Venice | 1487 |
USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | 255,500.00 |
| 40 | [Bonaventura (pseudo-)] | Meditationes passionis Christi (Italian:) Devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore | Venice | early 1491? (before April 1491) |
USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 41 | [Bonaventura (pseudo-)] | Meditationes passionis Christi (Italian:) Devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore | Florence | [ca. 1493?] |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 31,050.00 |
| 42 | [Bonaventura (pseudo-)] | Meditationes passionis Christi (Italian:) Devote meditarione sopra la passione del nostro signore | Florence | ca. 1496-1498 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 12,650.00 |
| 43 | Bonifacius VIII | Liber sextus Decretalium (comm.: Johannes Andreae, ed.: Alexajraer de Nevo, additions by Marius Parutus) | Ferrara | 1478 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 13,800.00 |
| 44 | Book box | North Italy, perhaps Lombardy | 1465-1485 |
USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 13,800.00 | |
| 45 | Book box | Venice | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 74,000.00 | ||
| 46 | (Breviarium Romanum) | [Das deutsch romisch Brevier (trans. Kristof Frangepan; ed. Jakob Wyck)] | Venice | 31 October 1518 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 17,250.00 |
| 47 | [Breviarium Frisingense.] | Scamnalia secundum ritum ac ordinem ecclesiae et diocesis Frisingensis | Venice | 1520 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 48 | [Buommattei, Benedetto] | Descrizion delle feste fatte in Firenze per la canonizzazione di Santo Andrea Corsini | Florence | 1632 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 5,175.00 |
| 49 | (Cajetan) Vio, Tommaso de, Cardinal | De divina institutione Pontificatus Romani Pontificis super totam ecclesiam | Milan | August 1521 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 575.00 |
| 50 | Calandri, Filippo | Aritmetica | Florence | 1 Januray 1491/92 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 34,500.00 |
| 51 | Camilli, Camillo | Imprese illustri di diversi | Venice | 1586 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,450.00 |
| 52 | Campo, Antonio | Cremona fedelissima citta | Cremona | 1585 |
USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 8,050.00 |
| 53 | (Caraffa) | Prose | Parma | 1784 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 54 | Catharina Senensis (St.) | Libro della divina dottrina (ed. Frate N., Dominican, Milan) | Venice | 17 May 1494M |
USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 55 | Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius | Opera | Parma | 1794 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 51,750.00 |
| 56 | Cellini, Benvenuto | Due trattati uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell' oreficeria | Florence | 1568 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,325.00 |
| 57 | Cessolis, Jacobus de | De ludo scachorum. [Italian:] Libro di giuocho di scacchi | Florence | 1 March 1493/94 |
USD 60,000.00 - 75,000.00 | 101,500.00 |
| 58 | Chiabrera, Gabriello | Poemetti | Florence | 1598 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 5,750.00 |
| 59 | Chiari, Pietro | La Mascherata degli Dei nellTngresso dell'eccellentissimo Signor Girolamo Veniero | Venice | 1759 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,035.00 |
| 60 | Cicero, Marcus Tullius | De oratore | Venice | ca. 1470 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 24,150.00 |
| 61 | Colonna, Fabio | [Greek] sive plantarum aliquot historia . . . accessit etiam piscium aliquot | Naples | 1592 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 9,775.00 |
| 62 | Colonna, Francesco | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (with commendatory matter by Leonardos Crassus, Johann Baptista Scytha & Andreas Maro) | Venice | December 1499 |
USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | 233,500.00 |
| 63 | Congregatio sacrorum rituum | Rome | 1668 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 64 | Coppola, Giovanni Carlo | Le nozze degli Dei | Florence | 1637 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 19,550.00 |
| 65 | [Correggio, Antonio Allegri, known as] | Pitture di Antonio Allegri detto il Correggio (Italian, French and Spanish) | Parma | 1800 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 4,312.00 |
| 66 | Dante Alighieri | La Commedia (comm.: Cristoforo Landino: commendations: Marsiglio Ficino) | Florence | 30 August 1481 |
USD 250,000.00 - 400,000.00 | 244,500.00 |
| 67 | Dante Alighieri | La Commedia (comm.: Cristoforo Landino) | Florence | 30 August 1481 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | Dante Alighieri | La Commedia (comm.: Cristoforo Landino; commendations: Marsiglio Ficino) | Brescia | 31 May 1487 |
USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 | 63,000.00 |
| 69 | Dante Alighieri | La Commedia (comm.: Cristoforo Landino; commendations: Marsiglio Ficino; ed.: Piero da Figino, O.F.M.; with pseudo-Dante, Credo) | Venice | 3 March 1491 |
USD 60,000.00 - 75,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 70 | Dante | Opere | Venice | 1757-1758 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 112,500.00 |
| 71 | (Dogale) | Commission for Marcantonio (?) Contarini | Venice | ca, 1575-1600? |
USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 23,000.00 |
| 72 | Epistolae Diversorum Philosophorum | Venice | (I:) [29] March 1499; (II:) [not before 17 April 1499] |
USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | 90,500.00 | |
| 73 | [Epistole et Evangeli.] | Pistole | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 74 | Eusebius Caesariensis | Chronicon (tr.: Hieronymus, with continuations by Prosper of Aquitaine | Venice | 13 September 1483 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 75 | Fanti, Sigismondo | Theorica et pratica | Venice | 1 December 1514 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 63,000.00 |
| 76 | Fanti, Sigismondo | Triompho di fortuna | Venice | January 1527 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 46,000.00 |
| 77 | Fialetti, Odoardo | De gli habiti delle religioni con le armi | Venice | 1626 |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,300.00 |
| 78 | Franco, Giacomo | Habiti d'huvomeni et donne venetiane con la processione della serenissima signoria et altri particolaricioe trionfi feste et cerimonie publiche della nobilissima citta di Venetia | Venice | [1610] 1614 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 9,200.00 |
| 79 | Frezzi, Federico | Quatriregio | Florence | 26 July 1508 |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 420,500.00 |
| 80 | Fulgosius, Baptista | Anteros (Italian) | Milan | 10 May 1496 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 5,175.00 |
| 81 | Gafurius, Franchinus | De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus | Milan | 27 November 1518 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 12,650.00 |
| 82 | Galli da Bibiena, Ferdinando | L'Architettura civile preparata su la geometria | Parma | 1711 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 10,925.00 |
| 83 | Granollachs, Bernardus de | Lunare cioe la ragione della Luna o uero Tacchuino perfecto | Florence | 21 October 1514 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 2,875.00 |
| 84 | Gualla, Jacobus | Papie Sanctuarium | Pavia | 10 November 1505 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 8,050.00 |
| 85 | Gualterotti, Raffaello | Feste nelle nozze del don Francesco Medici gran duca di Toscana | Florence | 1579 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 20,700.00 |
| 86 | Guarini, Giovanni Battista | II Pastor Fido | Venice | 1590 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 690.00 |
| 87 | [Guevara, Antonio de] | Aviso de Favoriti e Dottrina de Cortegiani (tr. Vicenzo Bondi) | Venice | 1549 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,887.00 |
| 88 | [Guidiccioni, Lelio] | Breve racconto della Trasportatione del Corpo de Papa Paola V dalla Basilica di S. Pietro a'quella di S. Maria Maggiore | Rome | 1623 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 6,900.00 |
| 89 | Hamilton, Sir William | Campi Phlegri | Naples | 1779 |
USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 | 63,000.00 |
| 90 | Heirmans, Samuel | Panegyricus Augustissimo atque potentissimo Principo Ferdinando Frederico invictissimi imperatoris et maximi Csaris Ferdinandi III | Venice | 1654 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 2,875.00 |
| 91 | Herodotus | Historiae (tr.: Laurentius Valla; ed.: Antonius Mancinellus) | Venice | 8 March 1484 [i.e. after 29 March 1494] |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 16,100.00 |
| 92 | Hieronymus (St.) | Epistolae (ed. Theodorus Lelius) | Venice | 22 January 1476 |
USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 21,850.00 |
| 93 | Hieronymus (St.) | Epistolae | Ferrara | 12 October 1497 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 20,700.00 |
| 94 | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus | Opera | Parma | 1791 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 68,500.00 |
| 95 | Hyginus Mythographus | Poeticon astronomicon | Venice | 14 October 1482 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 18,400.00 |
| 96 | Hyginus Mythographus | Poeticon astronomicon | Venice | 14 October 1482 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 25,300.00 |
| 97 | Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo | De plurimis claris selectisque mulieribus | Ferrara | 29 April 1497 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 31,050.00 |
| 98 | Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo | Supplementum chronicarum | Venice | 15 December 1486 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 99 | Jacobus de Voragine | Legenda aurea sanctorum | Venice | 5 December 1499 |
USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | 37,375.00 |
| 100 | Justiniano, Lorenzo | Dottrina della vita monastica | Venice | 20 October 1494 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<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>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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<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.")
