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Marc van de Wiele Auctions: March Auction 2024

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Auction Name	March Auction 2024	Total Sales (EUR)	748,904.00
Auction Date	March 08, 2024 - March 09, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	403,750.00
Sale Number	#272	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	572,920.00
Total Lots	1218
Sold Lots	854.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	577,910.00
% of Lots Sold	70.11%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	813,540.00
Unsold Lots	364	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	92.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
860		Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French, illuminated by an associate of the artist Robert Boyvin, manuscript on vellum	c. 1500]	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 59,800.00
685	TEMMINCK, D.J. et LAUGIER de CHARTROUSE	Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complement aux planches enluminees de Buffon	1820/39	EUR 14,000.00 - 18,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
856		Biblia dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture/ Bybelsche Figuren vertonende de Voonaemste Historien	1686	EUR 10,000.00 - 13,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
893	CASSIODORUS, Magnus Aurelius	Historia ecclesiastica	about 5 February 1472	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
1093		Belagerung von Ostende : Journal. Oder eigentlich Taglichs Register von alle ghedenckwurdigste Sachen	1604	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
949		Constitutiones Ordinis Velleris Aurei, e Gallico in Latinum conversae	1626]	EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 11,700.00
950		Les ordonnances de l'ordre de la Thoyson d'Or	1560?]	EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 11,700.00
306	[LIVRE D'OR ABEL BERNARD]	"Livre d'or du restaurant la ""Cravache d'Or"" a Bruxelles"		EUR 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 10,400.00
861		Prayerbook in Middle Dutch, with the Hours of St. Anne, the Hours of St. Catherine and the Hours of St. Barbara, of Franciscan Use, manuscript on paper, in its original Flemish panel-stamped binding	c. 1480]	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 9,750.00
1028	GUICCARDINI, Francesco	La Historia di Italia	1561	EUR 2,200.00 - 3,400.00	EUR 8,580.00
1135	DE DAMHOUDER, Joost	Praxis rerum criminalium iconibus ... pulchrius quam unquam hactenus recognita atque illustrata...	1562	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 8,450.00
899	HOMEROS	Homeri poetae clarissimi ilias per Laurentium vallensem Romanu Latina facta	1522	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 6,760.00
822	MONTANUS, A.	De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuidland, Vervaetende d'Oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuidlanders, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds, ...	1671	EUR 2,400.00 - 3,600.00	EUR 6,500.00
881		Ten leaves, each with a delicately painted flower on each side, attributable to Cornelia van Wulfschkercke or her immediate workshop, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum	c. 1510-20]	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
699	MERCANTI, Michele	Metallotheca. Opus Posthumum, auctoritate, & Munificentia Clementis	1719	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,600.00	EUR 6,110.00
307	[LIVRES D'OR ABEL BERNARD]	"Deux livres d'or du restaurant le ""Petit bedon"" a Paris"		EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 5,850.00
619		Heilige Agnes met lam		EUR 2,800.00 - 3,600.00	EUR 5,720.00
347	RODENBACH, Georges	Bruges-la-Morte	-1930	EUR 2,200.00 - 2,600.00	EUR 5,460.00
406		Lot of 4 prints		EUR 450.00 - 600.00	EUR 5,200.00
806	SANDERUS, Anthoni	Verheerlykt Vlaandre	1735	EUR 2,900.00 - 3,200.00	EUR 4,940.00
383	[SPILLIAERT, Leon]	Dossier		EUR 380.00 - 600.00	EUR 4,680.00
892	BOUTILLIER, Jean	La somme rurale	1488	EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 4,680.00
959	MARTIN, Corneille - BALTHASAR, Pierre	Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des forestiers et comtes de Flandres avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies ...	[ca. 1578]	EUR 3,800.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 4,550.00
909	OVIDIUS NASO, Publius	De arte amandi et De remedio amoris, cum commento (by Bartholomaeus Merula)	1497	EUR 3,400.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 4,420.00
1046	[PRAGUE] - VERHOEVEN, A.	Extraict de Prage, au Royaume de Boheme, Vraye pourtraicture comment & en quelle maniere l'on at par Ordonnance & commandement de sa Majeste. Imprimee de Nouveau en Anvers	1621	EUR 700.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 4,420.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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