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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 306,355.00
Auction Date June 19, 2019 - June 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 137,200.00
Sale Number #3935 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 196,200.00
Total Lots 214
Sold Lots 115 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 381,100.00
% of Lots Sold 53.74% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 543,050.00
Unsold Lots 99 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
14 Johannes von CUBA, attribué à XVe-XVIe siècle

Le Jardin de santé

1539 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 20,220.00
187 Léonard-Tsuguharu FOUJITA 1886-1968

Petits métiers & gagne-petit

1960 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,429.00
188 Léonard-Tsuguharu FOUJITA 1886-1968

Petits métiers & gagne-petit

1960 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 16,429.00
4 Yahya Abu Zakariya IBN MASAWAYH ?-857

Opus quibus libet aromatariis

vers 1500 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 12,385.00
193 René MAGRITTE et Gui ROSEY 1898-1967 1896-1981

Signes de survie aux temps d'amour

1968 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 12,006.00
70 Jacques et Paul CONTANT ?-1620? - 1562?-1629

Les OEuvres de Jacques et Paul Contant père et fils

1628 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 11,627.00
189 Léonard-Tsuguharu FOUJITA et Jean COCTEAU 1886-1968 1889-1963

La Mésangère

1963 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 11,374.00
3 Maynus de MAYNIS ?-1368?

Regimen sanitatis

1483 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 10,742.00
190 Pablo PICASSO 1881-1973

Affiches Posters PLAKATE

1963 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 10,110.00
112 Jean-Martin WEIS 1711-1751

Représentations des fêtes données par la ville de

[1747] EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,846.00
2 Halaf ibn .Abbas Abu al-Qasim AL-ZAHRAWI Xe - XIe siècle

Liber servitoris de preparacionibus medicinarum

s.d. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,214.00
15 Theodor DORSTEN 1492-1552

Botanicon

1540 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,583.00
44 Pierandrea MATTIOLI 1500-1577

Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anarzabei de medica materia

1583 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,572.00
88

Diplôme d'herboriste enluminé

1696 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 6,500.00
138 Alexandre DUMAS père 1802-1870

Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine

1873 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,308.00
5 Giovanni Giacomo MANLIO XVe-XVIe siècle

Luminare maius

1513 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
18 Yahya Abu Zakariya IBN MASAWAYH suivi de : Jacques DUBOIS ?-857 1478-1555

De re medica, libri tres suivi de : De medicamentorum simplicium delectu, praeparationibus, mistionis modo, libri tres

1544 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
53 Nikolaus BASSE ?-1601

Catalogus oder register aller apoteckischen simplicien und compositen

1582 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
115 Ottavio Antonio BAYARDI et al. 1694-1764

Le antichità di Ercolano esposte

1755-1792 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
209 Réunion de 51

titres des éditions Orange export dont 10

1974-1984 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,055.00
20

Le Grant Herbier en francoys

s.d. EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,791.00
50

Pharmacopoea bergomensium

1580 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,791.00
124 Nicolas-Edme RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE 1734-1806

Ingénue Saxancour

1789 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,791.00
79 Jean RIVIERE

Secrets de medecine recueillis par moy Iean Riviere des experiances de divers auteurs. Lesquels iay en partye esprouvés, et qui nont iamais esté mis au iour soubs la presse par le passé : manuscrit inédit

1662 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,250.00
10 Claude GALIEN 0131?-0201?

De compositione medicamentorum suivi de : De simplicium medicamentorum suivi de : De antidotis libri duo

1530-1533 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 3,033.00
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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