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Auction Name: Decorative Editions and Fine Bindings
Auction Date: 04/22/2009 - 04/22/2009
Sale Number: #127
Total Lots: 197
Sold Lots: 176
Lots Sold: 89.34%
Unsold Lots: 21

Total Sales (EUR): 82,737.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 67,670.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 67,670.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 73,030.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 73,030.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 113.29%

Top twenty by sale price

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Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Lyscosthenes, Conrad. Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, Basilea: Henricus Petrus, c. 1557, first edition, folio. $5,000 to $7,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Collection of Ethiopic Religious Texts, in Ge'ez , illuminated manuscripts on vellum, c. 1700-20th c. (5 pcs.) $5,000 to $7,000.

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Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Comte de. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, Paris, J.J. Blaise, 1782-1809-1822, first edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Rufinus, Tyrannius (c. 345-411). Expositio in symbolum apostolorum, [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, c. 1472], first edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

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Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Strabo. Rerum geographicarum libri septemdecim. A Guilielmo Xylandro Augstano magna cura recogniti…, Basel, Henricpetri, (August 1571). $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Riou, Stephen (1720-1780). The Grecian Orders of Architecture. Delineated and Explained from the Antiquities of Athens, London, 1768. $3,000 to $5,000.

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Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Polybius (c. 200-118 B.C.). Historiarum libri priores quinque, Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1549. $1,200 to $1,800.

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