Sothebys: Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII, pf2525, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025

Page Size: 339 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	FIASCHI, CESARE	Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare caualli, diuiso in tre parti, con alcuni discorsi sopra la natura di caualli, con disegni di briglie, maneggi, & di caualieri a cauallo, & de ferri d'esso, di m. Cesare Fiaschi gentil huomo ferrarese	Bologna	1556	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 10,795.00
127	FLORUS, LUCIUS ANNAEUS	Lucio Floro De fatti de Romani dal principio della citta per insino ad Augusto Cesare	Venice	1546 (January 1547)	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
128	FONTANUS, JACOBUS	De bello Rhodio, libri tres	Rome	February 1524	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 1,905.00
129	FOURNIER, PIERRE-SIMON	Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres & a ceux qui exercent les differentes parties de l'Art de l'Imprimerie	Paris	1764-1766	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 1,905.00
130	FRACCO, AMBROGIO NOVIDIO	Ambrosii Novidii Fracci Ferentinatis Sacrorum fastorum libri XII cum romanis consuetudinibus per totum annum, suisque causis, ac stellis, et numinum nostrum introductionibus	Rome	18 May 1547	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	Not Sold
131	FRACCO, AMBROGIO NOVIDIO	Ambrosii Novidii Fracci ferentinatis Sacrorum fastorum libri XII	Antwerp	1559	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 508.00
132	FRANCIS I, KING OF FRANCE	Three letters signed ("Francoys"), to Jean de Selve, president of the Parlement de Paris		(1475-1529)	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,302.00
133	FULVIO, ANDREA	Illustrium imagines	(Rome)	(15 November 1517)	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 40,640.00
134	GAIGNY, JEAN DE	Brevissima & facillima in omnes divi Pauli epistolas scholia, ultra priores editiones, ex antiquissimis Graecorum authoribus, abunde locupletata	Paris	1543	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,524.00
135	GALENUS, CLAUDIUS	De alimentorum facultatibus libri tres	Lyon	1549	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
136	GALENUS, CLAUDIUS	De compositione pharmacorum localium, libri decem	Lyon	1549	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 38,100.00
137	GALENUS, CLAUDIUS	Cl. Gal. de usu partium corporis humani, libri XVII	Lyon	1550	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 19,050.00
138	GALLAND, PIERRE	Oratio in funere Francisco Francorum regi a professoribus regiis facto, habita Lutetiae nonis maii, M.D.XLVII	Paris	1547	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
139	GARIMBERTI, GIROLAMO	Della fortuna libri sei	Venice	1547	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 2,032.00
140	GARIMBERTI, GIROLAMO	Concetti di Girolamo Garimberto, et d'altri degni autori	Venice	1571	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,016.00
141	GARNIER, ROBERT	Les tragedies de Robert Garnier conseiller dv roy, Lieutenant general criminel au siege Presidial & Seneschaussee du Maine	Rouen	1599	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
142	GELLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	I Capricci del bottaio di Giouanbatista Gelli accademico fiorentino	Florence	1551	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 2,159.00
143	GELLIUS, AULUS	Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum libri vndeuiginti	Venice	September 1515	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
144	GERARDO, PIETRO	Vita et gesti d'Ezzelino Terzo da Romano, da l'origine al fine di sua famiglia, sotto la cui tirannide mancarono di morte violenta piu di xii millia Padovani. Distinta in nove libri	Venice	1544	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
145	GIOVIO, PAOLO	Pauli Iovii Novocomensis Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum	Paris	1549	EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	EUR 101,600.00
146	GIOVIO, PAOLO	Illustrium virorum vitae	Florence	1549	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 2,032.00
147	GIOVIO, PAOLO	Historiarum sui temporis. Tomus Primus	Florence	1550	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 4,826.00
148	GIOVIO, PAOLO	Historiarum sui temporis [tomus primus]	Florence	August 1550	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 1,905.00
149	GIOVO PAOLO	Pavli Iovii Novocomensis episcopi nvcerini, Historiarum svi temporis tomvs primvs [--secvndvs], xxiiii libros complectens, cvm indice plenissimo	Paris	1558 [--1560]	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 3,810.00
150	GIOVO, PAOLO	Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose di monsignor Giovio vescovo di Nocera, con un ragionamento di Lodovico Domenichi nel medesimo soggetto	Venice	1557	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 254.00

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.