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Auction Name Ancient and 19th Century Books Total Sales (EUR) 282,710.00
Auction Date July 21, 2020 - July 21, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 170,980.00
Sale Number #25931 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 221,870.00
Total Lots 354
Sold Lots 202 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 295,360.00
% of Lots Sold 57.06% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 385,580.00
Unsold Lots 152 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
120 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Fables choisies.

1755-1759. EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
31 AUBIGNÉ (Théodore Agrippa d').

Les Tragiques. Donnez au public par le larcin de Promethee.

1616 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 21,250.00
13 [HEURES].

Les presentes heures a lusaige de R?me [...].

1498 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 20,000.00
24 [RONSARD (Pierre de)].

Abbregé de l'Art poëtique françois.

1565 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
29 VIRGILE.

[Opera]. Et in eum Commentationes, & Paralipomena Germani Valentis Guellii. – Appendix.

1575 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
159 VIRGILE.

Opera.

1793 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
38 COËFFETEAU (Nicolas).

Histoire romaine, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable depuis le commencement de l'empire d'Auguste jusques à celuy de Constantin le Grand.

1621 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
84 [BLOCH (Marcus Elieser)].

[Œconomische Naturgeschichte der Fische Deutschlands.

1782-1785]. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
20 POMPONIUS MELA.

Julius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor, de regionibus urbis Romæ.

1518 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
104 [GALIANI (Ferdinando)].

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds.

1770 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,000.00
14 HOMÈRE.

Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni xxxii.

1517 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
150 [SADE (Marquis de)].

Aline et Valcour, ou le roman philosophique. Écrit à la Bastille un an avant la Révolution de France.

1795 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
93 CORNELIUS NEPOS.

Excellentium imperatorum vitæ.

1715 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,500.00
199 GRANDVILLE (Jean-Jacques).

Voyage pour l'éternité.

s.d. [1830]. EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,375.00
25 SALLUSTE.

De conjuratione Catilinæ. De bello Jugurthino. Oratio contra M. T. Ciceronem [...]. Orationes quædam ex libris historiarum.

1509 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 4,000.00
117 LA CAILLE (Jean de).

Description de la ville et des fauxbourgs de Paris en vingt planches.

1714 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
55 MERIAN (Caspar) et Martin ZEILER.

Topographia Galliæ.

1660 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
164 VOLTAIRE.

Œuvres complètes.

1785-1789. EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,375.00
119 LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

Les Amours de Psiché et Cupidon.

1669 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
21 POMPONIUS MELA.

Julius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor, de regionibus urbis Romæ. Dionysius Afer, de situ orbis Prisciano interprete.

1518 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,875.00
196 DAUMIER (Honoré).

Les Cent et un Robert-Macaire.

1839 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,875.00
36 CHARLETON (Walter).

Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium, quibus accedunt mantissa anatomica et quædam de variis fossilium generibus, deque differentiis & nominibus colorum.

1677 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,625.00
8 CICÉRON.

Epistolæ ad Atticum, Brutum, & Q. Fratrem.

1551 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
92 CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de).

Œuvres complètes.

1804 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,500.00
142 PROTAIN (Jean-Constantin).

Plan manuscrit du bâtiment des Menus-Plaisirs.

Vers 1810. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
  • 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
  • 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
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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.
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