Swann Galleries: Early Printed Books
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Early Printed Books | Total Sales (USD) | 1,160,717.00 |
Auction Date | October 13, 2022 - October 13, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 607,350.00 |
Sale Number | #2617 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 884,400.00 |
Total Lots | 278 | ||
Sold Lots | 229 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 740,750.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 82.37% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,074,100.00 |
Unsold Lots | 49 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 108.06% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
173 | Chaucer, Geoffrey | Britwell Handlist |
1542 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 106,250.00 |
256 | Shakespeare, William | Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays Never before Printed in Folio. |
1685 | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 87,500.00 |
124 | Shakespeare, William | King Lear |
1655 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 57,500.00 |
168 | Cervantes, Miguel de | The History of Don-Quichote [Quixote]. The First [and Second] Part. |
1620 | USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 55,000.00 |
161 | Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
1607; 1616 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 42,500.00 |
258 | Spenser, Edmund | The Faerie Queene, Second Part. |
1590-[1596]. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 37,500.00 |
162 | Cervantes, Miguel de | El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. |
1605 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 32,500.00 |
216 | Meliadus de Leonnoys. | Tristan & Iseult |
1528 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 27,500.00 |
200 | Gower, John | Decameron. |
1532 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 23,750.00 |
205 | Homer trans. George Chapman | The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truely Translated. |
circa 1611 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 23,750.00 |
170 | Cervantes, Miguel de | The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. |
1612 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
227 | Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego & Pedro de la Sierra. | Castilian Romances of Chivalry in the Sixteenth Century |
1585-1586 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
149 | Berners, Juliana | The Boke of Saint Albans |
1496 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
261 | Velleius Paterculus's Animadversionibus. | Libri Ethicorum |
1591 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 17,500.00 |
171 | Cervantes, Miguel de | Persiles |
1619 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 16,250.00 |
220 | Milton, John | Arguments |
1668 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,250.00 |
228 | Ovid trans. Christopher Marlowe | All Ovids Elegies: 3. Bookes. By C.M. Epigrams by J[ohn] D[avies]. |
circa 1640. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
247 | Rabelais, François trans. | Hippocratis ac Galeni Libri Aliquot, ex Recognitione Francisci Rabelaesi, Medici. |
1532 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
187 | Donne, John | Deaths Duell. |
1632 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
214 | Marvell, Andrew | Miscellaneous Poems. |
1681 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
167 | Cervantes, Miguel de | The History of Don-Quichote [Quixote]. The First [and Second] Part. |
1620 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
201 | Guevara, Antonio de | Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio. |
1529 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
150 | Bourne, William | The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times |
1578 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 10,400.00 |
197 | English Incunabula Leaves, Four Examples, 1482-1498. | The Golden Legende |
1482-1498. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
221 | Milton, John | Poems both English and Latin. |
1645 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,000.00 |