Marc van de Wiele Auctions: Spring Auction, 112, Brugge

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 13, 2026 - March 14, 2026
Page Size: 1102 items in 45 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
868 [OFFICE OF ST. STEPHAN]

Cutting from a Missal, with readings for the Office of St. Stephen, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

[Low Countries 13th century] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 254.00
869 [ROBERT GROSSETESTE ON ARISTOTLE]

Small fragment of a leaf from a copy of Robert Grosseteste's Latin translation of Michael of Ephesus' Greek commentary on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, decorated manuscript on vellum

[France late 13th century or c. 1300] EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 635.00
870 [SERMONS ON THE SAINTS]

Cutting from a sermon collection, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

[Italy 13th century] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 381.00
871 [ST. AUGUSTINE]

Large leaf from a gargantuan copy with readings from Augustine's City of God, and the same author's sermon 317, in Latin, manuscript on vellum

[Italy early 12th century] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,270.00
872 [THOMAS AQUINAS]

Leaf from a large copy of Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum

[England (probably Oxford) 14th century] EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 482.60
873 [TWO LEAVES from a BOOK OF HOURS]

Two separate leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum

[Northern France (probably Paris) c. 1500] EUR 180.00 - 260.00 EUR 406.40
874 [ZACHARIAS CHRYSOPOLITANUS]

Two long and thin cuttings from a fine manuscript of Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, In unum ex quatuor, a grammatical and etymological explanation of the Greek, Hebrew and some of the Latin words found in his Gospel Harmony, in Latin, on vellum

[Italy 15th century] EUR 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
875 AUGUSTINUS

Opuscula

Venice 1484, July 23 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,302.00
876 BOETHIUS

De co(n)solatione. Cum tabula [...]

Venice 1523, 9 July EUR 450.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,206.50
877 BOVELLES, Charles de

Que in hoc volumine continentur : Liber de intellectu. Liber de sensu. [...] Liber de sapiente. Liber de duodecim numeris. Epistole complures. Insuper mathematicum opus quadripartitum

Paris 1510, 31 janvier [= 1511] EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,032.00
878 CICERO, Marcus Tullius

Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintu(m) fratrem, summa diligentia castigatae [...] Pauli Manutii in easdem epistolas scholia [...].

Venice 1540, August EUR 280.00 - 360.00 EUR 381.00
879 DIO CHRYSOSTOMUS

[De Troia non capta:] Ilii captivitatem non fuisse. Tr: Franciscus Philelphus. Ed: Nicolaus Lucarus

Cremona 1492, 22 July EUR 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,810.00
880 DURANTI, Guilluame (1230-1296)

Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

Strasbourg 1486 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,159.00
881 GUILELMUS de Gouda

Expositio mysteriorum misse

Deventer 1496 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 2,032.00
882 HESYCHIUS (von Jerusalem)

Isychii presbyteri Hierosolymorum, in leviticum libri septem

(Basel 1527) EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 889.00
883 HIERONYMUS

Vita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi)

Treviso 1478, Nov. 20 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,159.00
884 [INCUNABEL]

Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (with 'Exempla')

Deventer 1494, 16 Dec. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,064.00
885 ISOCRATES

Isocratis Atheniensis, oratoris & Philosophi clarissimi, orationes. eiusdem vita, ex Plutarcho, Philostrato, & Dionysio Halicarnaseo

Basileae 1529 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
886 JUSTINUS, Marcus

Trogi Pompeii externae historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum uitae authore Aemylio Probo.

Venice 1522, January EUR 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
887 JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius

Iuvenalis familiare commentum cum Antonij Mancinelli uiri eruditissimi explanatione

Paris 1505 (on verso title: 1506) EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
888 [KRONIEK]

Die alderexcellentste cronyke van Brabant Hollant Seelant Vlaenderen int generael met vele nieuwe addicien dye in die ander niet gheweest en zijn

(Antwerpen 1512, October) EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 13,970.00
889 LACTANTIUS Firmianus, Lucius Coelius / TERTULLIANUS

Divinarum institutionum libri septem. De ira Dei liber I. [...].

Venice 1515 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 762.00
890 LIVIUS, Titus

Latinae historiae principis (...) cuius copiam nobis fecit celebre Monasterium Lorsense. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani (...)

Basel 1531 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
891 PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius

Ex Plauti comoediis .XX. quarum carmine magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt

Venice 1522, July EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 3,302.00
892 PLINIUS Secundus, Caius

Naturae historiarum libri XXVII. e castigationibus Hermolai Barbari quam emendatissime editi. Additus [...] index Ioannis Camertis Minoritani [...]

Hagenau 1518, November EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,985.00
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.
    Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.
    Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
    Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.