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Morton Subastas: AUCTION OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO, THE FIRST EMPIRE AND THE FIRST REPUBLIC

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Auction Name AUCTION OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO, THE FIRST EMPIRE AND THE FIRST REPUBLIC Total Sales (MXN) 1,397,640.00
Auction Date September 08, 2020 - September 08, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,140,500.00
Sale Number #986 High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,535,000.00
Total Lots 252
Sold Lots 104 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 3,340,000.00
% of Lots Sold 41.27% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 4,394,000.00
Unsold Lots 148 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 31.81%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
250

Rubens, Pedro Pablo - Nattier, Jean-Marc La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg Peinte.

1710 MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 114,000.00
95 Morelos, José María.

Carta Dirigida al Comandante Juan Antonio Romero sobre la Formación de una Academia Militar.

1814 MXN 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 MXN 96,000.00
43 Castro, C.- Campillo, J.- Auda, L.- Rodríguez, C.

México y sus Alrededores.

1855-1856. MXN 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 MXN 55,200.00
8

Saggio delle Transazioni Filosofiche della Società Regia.

1729-1734. MXN 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 MXN 42,000.00
169 García, Genaro.

Documentos Históricos Mexicanos.

1910 MXN 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 MXN 40,800.00
230 Zamacois, Niceto de.

Historia de Méjico.

1877 - 1879. MXN 22,000.00 - 26,000.00 MXN 40,800.00
94 El Pensador Mexicano (José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi).

Suplemento al Pensador.

1813 MXN 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
114 Herrera, José Manuel.

Acta de Independencia del Imperio.

1821 MXN 35,000.00 - 60,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
145

Bando sobre el Acta Constitutiva de la Federación Mexicana.

1824 MXN 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
124 Torrente, Mariano.

Historia de la Revolución Hispano - Americana.

1829 - 1830. MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 30,000.00
222 Alamán, Lucas.

Historia de Méjico desde los Primeros Movimientos que Prepararon su Independencia...

1849-1852. MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 30,000.00
58 Limborch, Philippi.

Historia Inquisitionis Cui Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanae...

1692 MXN 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
173

Códice Boturini.

1992 MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
6 Cabrera y Quintero, Cayetano de.

Escudo de Armas de México.

1746 MXN 22,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 25,200.00
196 Carlos III/ Bucareli y Urzúa, Antonio/ Marqués de Ciria.

Documentos del Marqués de Ciria.

MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
54 Valentyn, Francois - Adrían Boot.

Haven van Aquapulco...

1724 MXN 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 MXN 20,400.00
9 Gamboa, Francisco Xavier de.

Comentarios a las Ordenanzas de Minas.

1761 MXN 20,000.00 - 24,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
38 Ward, Henry George.

Mexico in 1827.

1828 MXN 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
45 Fer, Nicolás de.

L'Amérique, Méridionale et Septentrionales...

1700 MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
99 Iturbide, Agustín de.

Cartas Dirigidas al Coronel Conde de Casa Rul y al Capitán M. Agustín de Elorza.

MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
231 Adams, Sebastián C. - Álvarez del Castillo, Antonio.

Carta Sincronológica de Historia Universal.

1884 MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
245 Cervantes, Enrique A.

Álbumes de Ciudades Coloniales.

MXN 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
46 Jansson, Jan.

Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.

ca. 1640 MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
121 Negrete, Pedro Celestino.

Proclama de la Independencia en Guadalajara.

1821 MXN 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
175 Rosny, Léon de.

Archives Paléographiques de l'Orient et de l'Amérique, Publiées avec des Notices Historiques...

1869 - 1870. MXN 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
  • 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
  • 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.
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