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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 3/20 Total Sales (EUR) 13,377.57
Auction Date July 15, 2020 - July 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 5,810.00
Sale Number #71520 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 7,400.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 139 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 8,165.00
% of Lots Sold 92.67% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 10,355.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 129.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
38816641 François Rabelais.

Oeuvres de Maître François Rabelais

1711 EUR 280.00 - 350.00 EUR 708.50
38625645 J.J Rousseau

Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes

1755 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 655.09
38519509 Montesquieu

Défense de l'Esprit des Loix

1750 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 523.20
38271439 Lapeyronie

Mémoires de l académie royale de chirurgie

1789/1769 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 EUR 490.50
38674293 Dom Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdeleine, d'Abbeville

Traitté d'Horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manières de construire...

1691 EUR 330.00 - 400.00 EUR 391.31
38587873 Marquis Boyer d'Argens

Lettres chinoises ou correspondances philosophique, historique et critique entre un chinois voyageur

1740/1739 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 327.00
38690897 Rozier

Cours complet d'Agriculture

1793 Not Available EUR 327.00
38698421 Diderot et D' Alembert

Recueil de Planches de l' Encyclopédie Diderot et D'Alembert

1751 Not Available EUR 284.49
38669341 Pierre Sylvain Regis

Systême de philosophie, contenant la logique, la metaphysique, la physique et la morale.

1690 Not Available EUR 272.50
38329433 Catrou & Rouillé

Histoire Romaine depuis la fondation de Rome .

1726 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 261.60
38698767 Maimbourg

Histoire du schisme des Grecs

1677 Not Available EUR 252.88
38362675 Charles Joseph Panckouke

Charpente

1782 Not Available EUR 245.25
38786921 Grégoire de Rostrenen

Dictionnaire François-Celtique ou François-Breton

1732 EUR 220.00 - 250.00 EUR 218.00
38709135 M. Petis De La Croix

Les Mille et Un Jour. Contes Persans

1729 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 210.37
38325015 Thomas Lediard

Histoire navale d'Angleterre

1751 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 204.92
38519479 Mr David Hume

Discours Politiques de Mr David Hume

1754 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 190.75
38801519 Pierre Dionis

Cours d’Opérations de Chirurgie

1777 Not Available EUR 185.30
38324851 Jean-Paul Bignon

Les avantures d’Abdalla fils d’Hanif

1712 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 179.85
38473655 Académie Française

Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise

1762 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 174.40
38621033 De la Croix

Nouvele metode pour aprendre la geographie universele. Tome V

1717 Not Available EUR 165.68
38289929 Ramsay

Les Voyages de Cyrus, avec un discours sur la Mythologie

1728 Not Available EUR 163.50
38693191 Molière

Oeuvres. Avec 33 gravures d'après Boucher

1760 Not Available EUR 163.50
38567501 Voltaire

Nouveaux Mélanges Philosophiques, Historiques, Critiques etc.

1768/1765 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 152.60
38527871 Dionis

Opérations de Chirurgie

1756 Not Available EUR 147.15
38501823 Jacques Bernardin-Henri De Saint-Pierre

Etudes de la Nature

1792 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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.
    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: 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
    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
    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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