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Auction Name Manuscripts, archives, atlas, rare books Total Sales (EUR) 957,812.50
Auction Date October 09, 2021 - October 09, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 391,480.00
Sale Number #2110c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 518,760.00
Total Lots 503
Sold Lots 405 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 473,900.00
% of Lots Sold 80.52% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 633,270.00
Unsold Lots 98 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 151.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1136

Getijdenboek. Use of Utrecht.

 ca. 1470 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 262,500.00
1249 VESALIUS, Andreas

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

 1543 EUR 65,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR 72,500.00
1068 BLAEU, Joan

Nieuw vermeerderd en verbeterd groot stedeboek van geheel Italië. [And: van Piemont en van Savoye].

 1724 1725 EUR 35,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 40,000.00
1075

Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Seconde édition [...].

 1820-1826 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 38,750.00
1211

Four publications of the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing Arabic typeface.

 1592-1595 EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 37,500.00
1069 BLAEU, Joan

Toonneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen [- Toonneel der Steden van 's Konings Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen].

 1652 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
1114 MELLING, Antoine Ignace

Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore.

 1819 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 25,000.00
1061 KAERIUS, Petrus

Germania inferior id est, XVII Provinciarum eius novae et exactae Tabulae Geographicae, cum luculentis singularum descriptionibus additis a Petro Montano.

 1622 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
1064 MARTINI, Martino

Novus Atlas Sinensis.

 1655 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,250.00
1078 MONTANUS, Arnold

De nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-land, vervaetende d'Oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuid-landers, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds [...] verciert met Af-beeldsels na 't leven in America gemaekt, en beschreeven.

 1671 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
1314

Theatre d’amour.

 17th c. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,875.00
1341

Missale Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilij Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. [...] iussu editum, et Clementis VIII. auctoritate recognitum.

 1607 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,875.00
1138 MORIAN, I.B.

Essay sur les cinq ordres darchitecture = Regel ofte preue vande vijf ordens der architecture, alle vijf bestaende in twaelf modullen.

 1750 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,750.00
1110

Collection of views of Italy.

 19th c EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 10,625.00
1115 PREZIOSI, Amadeo

Stamboul. Souvenir d'Orient.

 1861 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
1105 [CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguse de]

Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce.

 1782-1822 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
1333 KIRCHER, Athanasius, S.J.

Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque exstructio, confusio linguarum & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde erratorum idiomat

 1679 EUR 6,500.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
1067 BLAEU, Joannes

Novus Atlas, das ist, Weltbeschreibung, mit schönen newen aussführlichen Land-taffeln in Kupffer gestochen, und an den Tag gegeben.

 1649 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
1273 MAIER, Michaël (ed.)

Tripus aureus, hoc est Tres tractatus chymici selectissimi, nempe I. Basilii Valentini, Benedictini Ordinis monachi, Germani, Practica una cum 12. clauibus & appendice, ex Germanico; II. Thomae Nortoni, Angli philisophi, Crede mihi seu Ordinale [...] nunc

 1618 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
1236 FERNANDEZ de PALENCIA, Diego

Primera, y segunda parte, de la historia del Peru [...]. Co[n]tiene la primera, la succedido en la Nueva España y en el Peru, sobre la execucion de las nueuas leyes; y el allanamiento, y castigo, que hizo el Presidente Gasca, de Gonçalo Piçaroo y sus sequ

 1571 EUR 5,500.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 7,000.00
1095 [SAUMERY, Pierre-Lambert; CRASSIER, G. de]

Les Délices du Païs de Liége, ou Description géographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacrés et profanes [...].

 1738 - 1744. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
1271 BESSON, Jacques

Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques […]. Avec l'interpretation des figures d'iceluy, par François Beroald [de Verville].

 1579 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
1093

Album de Gand.

 s.d EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 5,000.00
1155

Collection of 20 deeds.

 End of 13th c.-14th c EUR 1,600.00 - 200.00 EUR 5,000.00
1008 TANNER, Henry Schenck

Map of the United States.

 1834 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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