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Auction Name Books Total Sales (EUR) 1,217,806.25
Auction Date March 25, 2021 - March 27, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 485,725.00
Sale Number #32521 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 673,710.00
Total Lots 1523
Sold Lots 1160 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 606,350.00
% of Lots Sold 76.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 840,760.00
Unsold Lots 363 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 144.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
945 ORTELIUS, Abraham

Theatro de la tierra universal.

 1588 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 67,500.00
524 FABER, Jean-Herman

Portrait of Joseph II of Austria.

 1782 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 40,000.00
953 After Joannes BLAEU. After Pieter MORTIER

Nouveau théâtre d'Italie, ou description exacte de ses villes, palais, églises, principaux édifices &c.

 1724 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 33,750.00
1086 CUSANUS, Nicolaus

Letter of indulgence of one hundred days, granted to support the construction and decoration of the Chapel of Saints Mary Magdalene and Elizabeth, built for the Dominican "Witte Nonnen" in Leiden.

 1451 1452? EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 22,500.00
1145 PALLADIO, Andrea

I quattro libri dell’architettura [...] ne’ quali, dopo un breue trattato de’ cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarij nel fabricare, si tratte delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de’ tempij.

 1570 EUR 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 22,500.00
1048

Charter relating to a donation made to the Ten Duinen Abbey.

 1227 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 15,625.00
1001

Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, ou Descriptions des plantes les plus rares et les plus méritantes, nouvellement introduites sur le continent ou en Angleterre.

 1845 - 1880 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 14,000.00
474 MIRÓ, Joan

Hommage à San Lazzaro. Préface d'Alain Jouffroy.

 1977 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 13,125.00
1084 LIPSIUS, Justus

Autograph letter signed "J. Lipsius" to his nephew Jan de Greve.

 1598 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 12,500.00
1007 THORY, Claude-Antoine; REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph

Les roses.

 1824 -1826 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
262 DELTEIL, Joseph

La jonque de porcelaine. Illustrations de François de Marliave gravées sur bois en plusieurs couleurs par E. Gasperini.

 1927 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 11,250.00
586

Five erotic miniatures.

 Ca. 1780 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
951 DOPPELMAYR, Johann Gabriel

Atlas coelestis [in quo Mundus Spectabilis].

 1742 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,625.00
1291 KIRCHER, Athanasius, S.J.

Romani collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum [ed. G. de Sepibus].

 1678 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,250.00
1163

L'histoire de Maugist Daigremont (sic) et de Vivian son frère [...].

 ca. 1568-1569 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 9,625.00
1063

Two documents relating to an embassy in the Middle East.

 1474, n.s. EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 9,375.00
1222 KHUNRATH, Heinrich

Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae solius verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum, diuino-magicum, nec non physico-chymicum, tertrinum, catholicon [...].

 col.: 1609, "1602" EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
1135 ROLEWINCK, Werner

Dat boek dat men hiet Fasciculus temporum.

 1480 EUR 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
1186

Le premier [- second] volume de la Mer des histoires auquel et le second ensuyua[n]t est contenu tant du vieil testament que du nouveau toutes les hystoires, actes et faictz dignes de memoire, puis la creation du monde jusques en lan mil cinq cens. xxxvi.

 1536 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
1123 Master of the Ango Hours

[Saint Ivo with two praying donators].

 ca. 1520 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,625.00
1116

Student course of "Dialectica" at the Gymnasium SS. Trinitatis ("Drievuldigheidscollege") of Leuven University.

 1701-August 1703 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,500.00
1159

Horae dive Virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum totaliter ad longum cum multis suffragis.

 ca. 1510 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 8,375.00
960 SANDERUS, Antonius

Flandria illustrata. [- Chorographia sacra Brabantiae].

 1735 1726-1727 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
766 [FEUILLET de CONCHES, Félix-Sébastien ; BASCHET, Armand]

Les femmes blondes selon les peintres de l'école de Venise par deux Vénitiens.

 1865 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 7,250.00
528 SCULTORI, Adamo. After Michelangelo

Male nude, seated on a pedestal.

 1585 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 6,875.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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