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Zwiggelaar Auctions: Books and Prints - Session 1

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Auction Name Books and Prints - Session 1 Total Sales (EUR) 139,656.25
Auction Date December 02, 2019 - December 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 63,250.00
Sale Number #22a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 119,250.00
Total Lots 571
Sold Lots 428 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 118,660.00
% of Lots Sold 74.96% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 214,185.00
Unsold Lots 143 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
287

[Manuscripts] Noble family archive Van Coeverden-Van Raesfelt

 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 8,500.00
359

[Old books before 1600] [Herbal in first edition with lovely provenance. Acosta] Tractado de las drogas,

 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
734

[Dutch topography] [Merian] M.Z. [Martin Zeiller] Topographia Germaniae-Inferioris vel Circuli-Burgundici

 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
502

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Hymn book/ emblemata] D. R. Camphuysens Stichtelyke Rymen

 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
718

[Dutch topography] [Extremely rare copy on "Médian grand-papier"] Arcadie Hollandaise,

EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
432

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Copy from the Bibliotheca Colbertina] Swammerdam

 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,375.00
689

[Amsterdam] Philips von Zesen Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam (...).

 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 2,375.00
419

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Caricature. Splendid copy] Eccentric excursions or, Literary & pictorial sketches

 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,125.00
451

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Leo Belgicus] De Bello Belgico decades duae

 EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,000.00
500

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Domselaar, vol. I and II; Brandt, vol. III] Het ontroerde Nederlandt,

 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 2,000.00
160

[Literature & fine printing] W.F. Hermans

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,875.00
168

[Literature & fine printing] Anne Frank

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,500.00
560

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Botany] Plantes Usuelles, Indigènes et Exotiques,

EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,375.00
434

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Beautiful 'Bauerneinband' c. 1750] Binding of very profusely gilt and coloured vellum,

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,250.00
711

[Dutch topography] [Tirion] Hedendaagsche Historie, of Tegenwoordige Staat van alle volkeren, vols. XIV-XVIII

 EUR 750.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,187.50
440

[Old books 17th-19th century] [With 60 splendid engravings] Tafereel, of Beschryving van den prachtigen Tempel

 EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,125.00
704

[Dutch topography] [The Hague] Beschryving van 's Graven-Hage,

 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,125.00
527

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Natural history. Guérin] Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle

 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,000.00
581

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Bookbindings] Statenbijbel 1791 with large golden lock

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,000.00
732

[Dutch topography] [Egmond aan Zee] "Platte Gront van Egmont op Zee, met desselfs rys-werken,

 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,000.00
563

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Anatomy. Albinus] Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum

 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 950.00
446

[Old books 17th-19th century] [Very rare printer's proof songbook] Johannes Pauwelsen (2nd half 18th century)

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 937.50
751

[European topography] [Switzerland] Album

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 900.00
280

[Manuscripts] [Many well-known names] Album amicorum of pianist Fanny de Bas (The Hague, b. c. 1837)

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 875.00
729

[Dutch topography] Le Grand Theatre profane du Duché de Brabant

 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 875.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • 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.
  • 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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