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
151	GIOVIO, PAOLO AND GABRIELE SIMEONI	Tetrastiques faictz sur les devises	Lyon	1560	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,651.00
152	GIOVO, PAOLO	Le sententiose imprese di monsignor Paulo Giovio, et del signor Gabriel Symeoni, ridotte in rima per il detto Symeoni	Lyon	1562	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 381.00
153	GOHORY, JACQUES	Hystoria Jasonis, Thessaliae principis, de Colchica velleris aurei expeditione, cum figuris aere excusis earumque expositione, versibus priscorum poetarum	Paris	1563	EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	EUR 177,800.00
154	GOHORY, JACQUES AND LEONARD THIRY	Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Iason de Tessalie: faict par figures avec exposition d'icelles	Paris	1563	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 82,550.00
155	GRATIANUS	Decretorum collectanea ex varia copiosaque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, tum vetustate, cum eruditione vitaeque sanctimonia maxime insignium, receptorum videlicet, Pontificum item Romanorum, Conciliorum oecumenicorum denique supellectile per DN. Gratianum	Paris	1547	EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
156	GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS	Orationes XXX (translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with contributions by Desiderius Erasmus and Johannes Straub)	Basel	1531	EUR 24,000.00 - 32,000.00	EUR 38,100.00
157	[GROTESQUES, LANDSCAPES AND OTHER PRINTS]	A composite album containing fifty French and Italian engravings from the mid-sixteenth century, connected with the School of Fontainebleau, assembled in Bavaria		ca 1600	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 50,800.00
158	GUARINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Il pastor fido, Tragicommedia pastorale	Venice	1602	EUR 24,000.00 - 32,000.00	EUR 30,480.00
159	GUERRIC D'IGNY	Sermons de Guerricus abbe d'Igny, translatez de latin en langue vulgaire francoise, par Iehan de Gaigny, Docteur, Conseiller, & premier Aulmosnier du Roy, par le commandement dudict seignur	Paris	[1540]	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 22,860.00
160	GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE	Vita, gesti, costumi, discorsi, lettere di Marco Aurelio imperatore, sapientissimo filosofo, & oratore eloquentissimo	Venice	1544	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,080.00
161	HERODOTUS	Herodoto Halicarnassei historiographi Libri VIIII. Musarum nominibus inscripti. Eiusdem De genere vitaque Homeri libellus, Conrado Heresbachio interprete	Lyon	1558	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 3,556.00
162	HESYCHIUS ALEXANDRINUS	Esychiou Lexikon. Hesychii Dictionarium [Greek]	Venice	August 1514	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,620.00
163	HORAE	USE OF ROME. Hore intermate Virginis marie secundum usum Romanum cum pluribus orationibus tam in gallico que in latino	(Paris)	(10 January 1503)	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,985.00
164	HORAE	USE OF AMIENS. Heures Nostre Dame a l'usage d'Amiens toutes au long sans riens requerir	Paris	(1562; 1569)	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,620.00
165	HORAE	USE OF ROME. Horae beatissimae Virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum repurgatissimae	Antwerp	1570	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 12,700.00
166	HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS	Quinti Horatii Flacci poemata, novis scholiis et argumentis ab Henrico Stephano illustrata	[Geneva]	[1574]	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
167	HOUBRAKEN, ARNOLD	De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen	Amsterdam	1718 (widow of the author, 1721)	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 381.00
168	HOUWAERT, JAN BAPTIST	Sommare beschrijvinghe vande triumphelijcke Incomst vanden... Aerts-hertoge Matthias, binnen die Princelijcke stadt van Brussele, in t'iaer ons Heeren M.D.LXXVIII. den xviij dach Januarij	Antwerp	1579	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 19,050.00
169	HURAULT, MICHEL	Le recueil des excellens et libres discours sur l'estat present de la France	[La Rochelle]	1598	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,620.00
170	HUTTICH, JOHANN	Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis	Strassburg	1534	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 76,200.00
171	ISOCRATES	Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus	Venice	July 1534	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 3,810.00
172	JANDUN, JEAN DE	Perspicacissimi speculatoris ac summi paripathetici Iohannis de Ianduno Questiones in duodecim libros metaphysice ad intentionem Aristotelis et magni commentatoris Auerrois subtilissime disputate. Solertis artium doctoris Marciantonij Zimara annotationes	Venice	8 March 1505	EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	EUR 228,600.00
173	JOANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS. D.	Ioannis Chrysostomi episcopi Constantinopolitani in sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Ioannem commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacre pagine tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minori forma edita	Antwerp	1542	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,016.00
174	JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS	Fl. Josephi omnia quae extant opera. Quorum hic tomus continet antiquitatum Judaicarum libros decem priores	Lyon	1539	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 3,556.00
175	JUSTIN MARTYR, SAINT	Les euvres de sainct Justin Philosophe & Martyr, mises de Grec en langage Francois, par Ian De Maumont: Auec table des matieres les plus dignes	Paris	July 1559	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 101,600.00

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.