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Giquello: Ancient and Modern Books

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Auction Name Ancient and Modern Books Total Sales (EUR) 697,348.00
Auction Date May 14, 2019 - May 14, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 452,490.00
Sale Number #96924 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 563,510.00
Total Lots 358
Sold Lots 180 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 699,400.00
% of Lots Sold 50.28% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 876,810.00
Unsold Lots 178 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 79.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
19 BRAUN (Georg) et Frans HOGENBERG.

Theatre des cites du monde.

vers 1575-1618]. EUR 250,000.00 - 300,000.00 EUR 360,654.00
158 SOLVYNS (Frans Balthazar).

A Collection of Two-Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings. Descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos.

1796 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 38,849.00
303

REVUE. - Pan.

avril 1895-avril 1900. EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 24,437.00
279 MANET (Édouard). CROS (Charles).

Le Fleuve.

1874 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,545.00
72 HOUËL (Jean Pierre).

Voyage pittoresque des isles de Sicile, de Malte et de Lipari, Où l'on traite des Antiquités qui s'y trouvent encore; des principaux Phénomènes que la Nature y offre; du Costume des Habitans, & de quelques Usages.

1782-1787. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,292.00
119 MÜNSTER (Sébastien) et François de BELLEFOREST.

Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde.

1575 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,292.00
99 LEOPOLD (Johann Christian).

Accurate Representation, Oder Vorstellung des Herrlichen Festins Welches die Durchleuchtigste Fürstin und Frau Francisca Sibylla Augusta, Marggräffin zu Baaden und Hochberg [...].

s.d. [vers 1730]. EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,524.00
258 GARNIER (Francis).

Atlas du voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission française présidée par M. le capitaine de frégate Doudart de Lagrée.

1873 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,146.00
152 SAINT NON (Jean Claude Richard, abbé de).

Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

1781-1786. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,770.00
318 THOMAS (Antoine Jean Baptiste).

Un An à Rome et dans ses environs.

1823 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,893.00
107 [FAULCONNIER (Pierre-Mathieu)].

Abrégé de l'histoire de Dunkerque. Composée par feuMr Pierre Faulconnier vivant grand Baillÿ hereditaire de ladte ville &c.

S.d. [c. 1735]. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,440.00
356 RABELAIS.

Les Horribles et espouvantables faictz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel roy des Dipsodes, fils du grand géant Gargantua.

1943 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,266.00
138 POSTEL (Guillaume).

Panthenosia [en grec].

c. 1547]. EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,013.00
186 BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE (Jacques Henri).

Paul & Virginie. Précédé d'une étude sur les origines de Paul et Virginie par S. Cambray.

1878 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 4,762.00
235 BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules).

Une Vieille maîtresse.

1851 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,261.00
209 [LASSUS (Marc, baron de)].

Une Ascension manquée. Souvenirs de la vingtième année.

1856 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,136.00
1 AGNELLINI (Timoteo).

Proverbii Utili, E Virtuosi in Lingua Araba, Persiana, E Turca, gran parte in versi con la loro ispiegatione in lingua Latina, & Italiana.

1688 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,760.00
43 DRUMMOND DE MELFORT (Louis Hector).

Traité sur la cavalerie.

1776 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,760.00
194 ECKARD (Jean).

Mémoires historiques sur Louis XVII, roi de France et de Navarre, avec notes et pièces justificatives.

1816 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,509.00
33

CURIOSA. - la Bibliothèque des paillards.

1795 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 3,384.00
57

FÊTES publiques données par la ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Février 1745.

n.d. [1745]. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,258.00
203 HOUSSAYE (Henry).

Napoléon, homme de guerre.

1904 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,133.00
253 DUMONT D'URVILLE (Jules).

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée, exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840.

1841-1853. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,133.00
62 GESNER (Conrad).

Ensemble 3 ouvrages sur l'histoire naturelle des animaux.

1553 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,882.00
9 BARBAULT (Jean).

Les Plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne, ou Recueil des plus beaux morceaux de l'antiquité romaine qui existent encore.

1761 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,757.00
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
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    Part IX
    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
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    Part IX
    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
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    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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