Swann Galleries: Early Printed Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Early Printed Books | Total Sales (USD) | 1,042,805.00 |
| Auction Date | May 05, 2022 - May 05, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 652,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #2603 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 937,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 312 | ||
| Sold Lots | 270 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 706,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 86.54% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,016,450.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 42 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 102.59% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 122 | Shakespeare, William | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression. |
1632 | USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 | USD 161,000.00 |
| 74 | Cervantes, Miguel de | El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. |
1605 | USD 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 52,500.00 |
| 36 | Smith, Adam | The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Author's Presentation Copy. |
1790 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 47,500.00 |
| 136 | Virgil trans. Gawin Douglas | The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir. |
1553 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 40,000.00 |
| 123 | Shakespeare, William | Poems. |
1640 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 37,500.00 |
| 309 | Thucydides | De Bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque Libri VIII. Bound for Jean Grolier. |
1527 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 32,500.00 |
| 127 | Spenser, Edmund | Sammelband of Three Works: 1591-1596. |
1591-1596. | USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
| 135 | Virgil | The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. |
1573 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
| 91 | Gower, John | De Confessione Amantis. |
1554 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 67 | Allott, Robert, ed. | Englands Parnassus: Or, the Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons. |
1600 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
| 97 | Lancelot du Lac. | Le Premier Volume de Lancelot du Lac Nouvelleme[n]t Imprimé à Paris. |
1533 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 128 | Spenser, Edmund | Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. |
1591 | USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 17,500.00 |
| 88 | Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de | Primera, Segunda, y Tercera Partes de la Araucana. |
1590 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 16,900.00 |
| 76 | Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Woorkes. |
1561 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
| 83 | Donne, John | Poems, with Elegies on the Author's Death. |
1633 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 198 | Carmelite Breviary. | Manuscript on Parchment. |
first quarter 15th century. | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 66 | Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling | The Monarchicke Tragedies; Croesus, Darius, The Alexandraean, Julius Caesar. Newly enlarged. |
1607 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 11,700.00 |
| 71 | Boccaccio, Giovanni | [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. |
1625 1620. | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 94 | Homer. trans George Chapman | The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts in his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke. |
1634?. | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 129 | Spenser, Edmund | Fowre Hymnes. |
1596 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 82 | Donne, John | Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in my Sicknes. |
1627 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 10,625.00 |
| 138 | Whittington, Robert | [De Syllabarum Quantitate] Secunda Grammatic[a]e Pars de Syllabaru[m] Quantitate. |
1521 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 10,625.00 |
| 109 | Muntaner, Ramon | Chronica, o Descripcio des Fets, e Hazanyes del Inclyt Rey Don Jaume Primer Rey Darago. |
1558 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 130 | Spenser, Edmund | The Faerie Queen: the Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected. |
1611 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
| 55 | Magninus Mediolanensis | Regimen Sanitatis. |
1483/84. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
