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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 5/21 Total Sales (EUR) 11,198.57
Auction Date June 01, 2021 - June 01, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,370.00
Sale Number #60121 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 7,445.00
Total Lots 41
Sold Lots 31 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 15,040.00
% of Lots Sold 75.61% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 17,355.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.53%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
48319569 Pierre Boaistruau

Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs & Latins, sacrez & prophanes

1597 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,210.00 EUR 1,765.80
48441045 Geuffroy, Antoine

Aulae Turcicae, Othomannicique Imperii, Descriptio, qua Turcarum palatina officia

1573 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,417.00
48379181 Luis de Paramo

De origine et progressu officii Sanctae Inquisitionis

1598 Not Available EUR 1,112.89
47739275 Cyprianus & Erasmus (ed.)

Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthagi

1520 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,100.90
48413819 Heliodorus - Jerome Commelinus

Aethiopicorum. Heliodori Prusensis

1596 EUR 440.00 - 490.00 EUR 599.50
48404213 Paulus Palacios De Salazar

Pauli de Palacio Granatensis, s. th. d. et in inclyta Lusytanorum Conimbricensi academia, S. Scriptu

1571 EUR 450.00 - 600.00 EUR 458.89
48378563 Pierre Debesse

La Sainte Bible contenant le vieil et nouveau testament

1608 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 442.15
48067127 Hugo de Sancta Caro

Postilla. Seu Divina Expositio in Altos Quatuor Evangeliorum

1537 Not Available EUR 392.40
48387739 Philippe Melanchton

Commentarii in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos (Wittemberg, 1532)

1540 EUR 165.00 - 200.00 EUR 381.50
48404747 Torquato Tasso

Gierusalemme liberata [Bound with] Cinque Canti di Camillo Camilli

1593 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 332.45
48345983 Matteo Maria Boiardo

Matteo Maria Boiardo Orlando innamorato

1580 EUR 330.00 - 365.00 EUR 327.00
48523225 Manuscript

Origineel geïllumineerd blad uit de Middeleeuwen op perkament

1420 Not Available EUR 294.30
48371597 Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologiae

1571/1570 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 289.94
48343437 Jean-Rodolphe Perronnet

Description des projets de la construction des ponts de Neuilly,Mantes,Orléans..duCanal de Bourgogne

1782 EUR 165.00 - 200.00 EUR 284.49
48410841 Paolo Manuzio

Epistolarum libri XII

1588 EUR 270.00 - 330.00 EUR 267.05
47805979 Manuscript

Origineel blad uit een handschrift - ca.

1350 Not Available EUR 245.25
48494067 Manuscript

Original bible sheet from the 13th century

1250 Not Available EUR 229.61
48403199 Plutarch; Jacques Amyot

Les Vies Des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains

1587 Not Available EUR 218.00
48529449 Incunabel- & post-incunabelbladen

Lot van 9

1486 Not Available EUR 149.33
48485451 Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566); Albrecht Meyer; Heinrich Füllmaurer

Large folio woodcut in hand colour: Fruit Thorn Apple Tree [Stechapfel, Datura metel]

1543 Not Available EUR 136.25
47468179 Manuscript

blad uit een getijdenboek - ca.

1450 Not Available EUR 131.89
48404589 A. Mureto

Mureti ... Orationes, epistolae, hymnique sacri

1592 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 119.90
48486509 Lot of 2 leaves with 4 large woodcuts by Giorgio Liberale; W. Meyerpeck

Chondrilla (2) & Vegetable Lettuce [Lactuca (2)] - Hand coloured - 1565

1565 Not Available EUR 95.92
48485841 Master of Gruninger Workshop

Virgil Aeneid: The Funeral of Pallas with Knights in Armour - 1502

1502 Not Available EUR 77.39
48490059 Hartmann Schedel / Pleydenwurff / Wolgemut / Dürer

Schedelsche Weltchronik

1493 Not Available EUR 70.85
  • 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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