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Auction Name Books Total Sales (EUR) 512,650.00
Auction Date October 17, 2020 - October 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 193,640.00
Sale Number #2010c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 270,870.00
Total Lots 514
Sold Lots 434 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 280,320.00
% of Lots Sold 84.44% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 379,020.00
Unsold Lots 80 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 135.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1288 SCHEDEL, Hartmann

Liber chronicarum.

1493 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 65,000.00
1116 DE WIT, Frederick

Atlas maior.

1710-1712 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 35,000.00
1279 [MAUCREUX, Guillaume & Pierre de]

"Exstrait van eene Deels vanden Rechten ghetrocken vute loix (?) ende ghetranslateirt vanden latine In fra[n]coit" [= Ordonnances de plaidoyer de bouche et par escript].

15th c.] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 17,500.00
1074

"Geometrischer Entwurf der gesammten XVII Niederländischen Provintzien".

1672 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
1359 OLEARIUS, Adam

Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer/ worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen/ so theils die Natur/ theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet [...] aus allen vier Theilen der Welt [...]. Welchem zu Ende angefüget ist [...] Holsteinische Chronica [...].

1674 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
1275

Book of Prayers.

early 16th c.] EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
1299

Den Psalter Dauids na dalder correxte copie ouerghesedt. Met die Hymne[n] en[de] Ghebeden so vanden tijt als van die Feestdagen des iaers nu nieuwelicx tot profijt van alle menschen binnen Mechelen ouerghesedt.

1566 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 9,000.00
1135 BRETEZ, Louis; TURGOT, Etienne-François

"Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734. Dessiné et gravé, sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot [...] Achevé de graver en 1739 [...] Levé et dessiné par Louis Bretez, gravé par Claude Lucas et écrit par Aubin".

1739 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
1105

"L'Europe divisée selon l'étendue de ses principales parties, et dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de mesrs de l'Académie royale des sciences".

1730 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
1120 DE LAET, Johannes

Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis libri XVIII.

1633 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
1379 PUTEANUS, Erycius

Tesserarum philotesiarum liber singularis, ad Insubres.

1605 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 5,625.00
1036

"Orbis Terrae compendiosa descriptio".

1587 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
1320 CARDANO, Gerolamo

De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus.

1569 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,250.00
1514

5 médailles en métal.

EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
1050

Leuven: lot of ca. 56 sheets.

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 5,000.00
1142 [WOOD, Robert]

Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite Tedmor, au désert.

1753 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
1226 BARTISCH, Georg

Georg Bartisch [...] Augen-Dienst, oder kurtz und deutlich verfasster Bericht von allen und jeden in- und äusserlichen Mängeln, Schäden, Gebrechen und Zufällen der Augen [...] nunmehr zum andernmal an den Tag gelegt.

1686 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 5,000.00
1037

"Typus Orbis Terrarum".

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
1270

Archief van de Leuvense familie Terby.

2de helft 18de eeuw-eerste helft 19de eeuw EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 4,750.00
1321 GALENUS, Claudius

Methodi medendi, id est, De morbis curandis libri quatuordecim, denuo magna diligentia Martini Gregorii recogniti, Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete [ed. Guillaume Budé].

1538 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 EUR 4,250.00
1324 ARIAS MONTANO, Benito

Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX. in quis, praeter Iudaeae, Hierosolymorum & Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem, praecipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur.

1593 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
1038

"Typus Orbis Terrarum".

1587 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,000.00
1138

Afbeeldingen van de wyd-vermaarde koopstad Amsterdam, benevens des zelus voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten. Alle naar het leeven getekend.Receuil [!] des edifices les plus considerables et des plus belles vues de la fameuse ville d'Amsterdam. Dessinées d'a

not before 1778] EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
1203 DODONAEUS, Rembertus

Cruydt-boeck [...] Met biivoegsels achter elck capittel, uut verscheyden Cruydtbeschrijvers: item in 't laetste een Beschrijvinge vande Indiaensche Gewassen, meest getrocken uut de schriften van Carolus Clusius.

1618 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
1043

"Totius Europae littora novissime edita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de see-custen van Europa".

[1675] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,500.00
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