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Auction Name Books, Autographs, and Prints Total Sales (EUR) 373,064.40
Auction Date December 06, 2022 - December 07, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 184,770.00
Sale Number #164 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 256,360.00
Total Lots 594
Sold Lots 296 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 417,710.00
% of Lots Sold 49.83% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 563,710.00
Unsold Lots 298 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 66.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5 Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus

Opera, 1468

 1468 EUR 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 EUR 77,100.00
34 Tolomeo, Claudio

Geographia universalis, vetus et nova complectens... Succedunt tabulae Ptolemaicae, 1540

 1540 EUR 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 18,860.00
2 Alighieri, Dante

The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]., 1487

 1487 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
278 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Antiquities of Albano and Castel Gandolfo described and engraved by Giovambattista Piranesi, 1700

 1700 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 12,660.00
24 Bandello, Matteo

Songs XI composed by Bandello de le lodi de la s. Lucretia Gonzaga di Gazuolo, is of true love, with the temple of modesty, is with other things poetically described inside. The III parcels by Bandello sung in the natiuità of the s. Janus firstborn of the

 1545 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 9,510.00
130 Visscher , Nicolaus

Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea ex conatibus, 1690

 1690 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 8,880.00
294 Venezia

Vües des Palais, Batimens fames, Places, Mascarades, et Autres Beautés Singulieres de la Ville de Vénise, 1762

 1762 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 8,250.00
3 Foresti, Giacomo Filippo

Supplementum Chronicarum, 1490

 1490 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 6,360.00
380 Napoli

Description and drawings of the masquerade that took place at the Real Teatro di S. Carlo on the Carnival of the year 1827. On the evening of February 25th on the occasion of the Grand dance party, 1827

 1827 EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,360.00
289 Tasso, Torquato

Jerusalem Delivered, 1745

 1745 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,108.00
124 Boschini, Marco

The whole kingdom of Candia outlined from side to side and engraved, 1651

 1651 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 5,100.00
393 Leopardi, Giacomo

Songs of Count Giacomo Leopardi, 1831

 1831 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 4,848.00
63 Ulloa alfonso ,

The History of the Tripoli di Barbary enterprise, after the taking of the Pegnon di Velez della Gomera in Africa, and of the success of the very powerful Turkish army which came upon the island of Malta in the year 1565. The description of the island of M

 1566 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,470.00
69 Arcolano, Giovanni

Practice, 1519

 1519 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 4,344.00
117 Mantegna, Andrea

Galeriae farnesianae Icones Romae in Aedibus Sereniss. Ducis Parmensis ab Annibale Carraccio, 1674

 1674 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 4,344.00
343 Bodoni

Oratio Dominica in 155. linguas versa et exoticis characteribus plerumque expressa, 1806

 1806 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 4,092.00
13 Oppiano di Anazarbo

Oppianou Hlieutikon biblia pente. Tou autou Kynegetikon biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V, 1517

 1517 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,584.00
6 Ovidio Nasone, Publio

fastorum. Interpretationem Paulum Marsum pool poetem., 1485

 1485 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,200.00
58

The description of the apparatus made in Florence in the baptism of the most serene prince of Tuscany, 1577

 1577 EUR 180.00 - 280.00 EUR 3,072.00
14 Alighieri, Dante

Dante with the exhibition of Christoforo Landino and d'Alessandro Vellutello, 1578

 1578 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,816.00
214 Galilei, Galileo

Works of Galileo Galilei Florentine noble academic lincean ... First volume [-third], 1718

 1718 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,816.00
16 Alighieri, Dante

Dante Aligieri's comedy with the new exhibition by Alessandro Vellutello, 1544

 1544 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
72 Tronconi , Iacopo

De custodianda puerorum sanitate. Ante partum, in partu, and post partum. De curandis eorumdem morbis ex Hippocrates, quousque caninos dentes ..., 1593

 1593 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,560.00
102 Seneca, Lucio Anneo

Omnia Opera, 1503

 1503 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,560.00
378 Dionigi, Marianna

Travels in some cities of Lazio which are said to have been founded by King Saturn, 1809

 1809 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    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
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    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.
  • 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
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    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
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    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.
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