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Auction Info

Sale Name
THE HELMUT N. FRIEDLAENDER LIBRARY
Auction Date
04/23/2001 - 04/23/2001
Year of Sale
2001
Sale Number
#9630
Total Lots
172
Sold Lots
172
Lots Sold
100.0%
Unsold Lots
0
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
8,433,510.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
3,462,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
4,938,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
3,462,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
4,938,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
170.77%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
9,794,530.00

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39 CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De officiis. -Paradoxa stoicorum. - Hexasticha XII sapientum de titulo Ciceronis. -

1465.

 USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 666,000.00
42 COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527). Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat, in Italian.

December 1499

 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 358,000.00
69 JOSEPHUS, Flavius (ca. 37-ca. 100). -De bello Judaico. Translated from De antiquitate Judaica.

28 June-23 August 1470

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 358,000.00
2 BREVIARY, Premonstratensian use, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.

[ca. 1290-1300]

 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 314,000.00
16 ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C.). - ARISTOTELES (pseudo-). Ethica ad Nicomachum. - Politica. - Oeconomica.

[before 10 April 1469].

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 292,000.00
4 GREGORY I (ca. 540-604, Pope 590-604, Saint). Moralia in Job, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM AND PAPER

1397

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 248,000.00
56 HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas (1423-1511). Opera, in Greek.

(C 6061),

 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 226,000.00
172 PFINTZING, Melchior (1481-1535). [Theuerdank]. Die geuerlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen und hochberumbten helds und Ritters herr Tewrdannckhs.

[1517]

 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 215,000.00
21 BARTOLOMMEO DALLI SONETTI. Isolario.

[ca. 1485/86]

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 215,000.00
63 ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (ca. 560-636). Etymologiae.

19 November 1472

 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 204,000.00
24 BESSARION (1395-1472, Cardinal). Adversus calumniatorem Platonis.

[before 28 August 1469].

 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 182,000.00
145 DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784) and Jean le Rond d'ALEMBERT (1717-1783), editors. Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres. [I-VII]

1751 [1752]-1757;1765

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 138,000.00
101 Edited by Justinus Decadius (b. ca. 1472). PSALTER, Septuagint version -- Psalterion, in Greek.

[ca. 1496-98]

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 116,000.00
18 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430, Saint). Epistolae.

[not after 1471]

 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 116,000.00
11 ALLIACO, Petrus de (1350-1420). Imago mundi. -Epilogus mappae mundi. -De legibus et sectis contra superstitiosos astronomos. -Exhortatio super kalendarii correctione. -De vero cycle lunari. ...

[ca. 1480; not after 1483]

 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 105,000.00
3 CICERO (pseudo-). Rhetorica ad Herennium, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.

[1380s]

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 105,000.00
98 PLATEA, Franciscus de (d. 1460). Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum.

1475

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 105,000.00
107 RODERICUS ZAMORENSIS (1404-1470). Speculum vitae humanae.

[not after 22 April 1472]

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 99,500.00
81 MATTHAEUS DE CRACOVIA (ca. 1345-1410). Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu communionis.

ca. 1460

 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 94,000.00
100 Edited by Augustinus Patritius Piccolomini (ca. 1435-1496) and Johannes Burchardus (1420-1506). PONTIFICALE ROMANUM.

23 December 1485

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 88,125.00
114 SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum.

12 July 1493

 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 82,250.00
171 MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI.

1550

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 82,250.00
119 Speculum animae peccatricis.

[ca. 1494]

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 76,375.00
152 GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume the First [-Sixth].

1776-1788

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 76,375.00
166 [LEIBNITZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716)]. Essais de Theodicee sur la bonte de dieu, la liberte de l'homme et l'origine du mal.

1710

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 70,500.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.