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Christies: THE HELMUT N. FRIEDLAENDER LIBRARY

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Auction Name THE HELMUT N. FRIEDLAENDER LIBRARY Total Sales (USD) 8,433,506.00
Auction Date April 23, 2001 - April 23, 2001 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,462,500.00
Sale Number #9630 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,938,500.00
Total Lots 172
Sold Lots 172.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,462,500.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,938,500.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 170.77%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39 CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.).

De officiis. -Paradoxa stoicorum. - Hexasticha XII sapientum de titulo Ciceronis. -

1465 USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 USD 666,000.00
42 COLONNA, Francesco (1433-1527).

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet atque obiter plurima scitu sanequam digna commemorat, in Italian.

1499 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 358,000.00
69 JOSEPHUS, Flavius (ca. 37-ca. 100). -De bello Judaico. Translated from

De antiquitate Judaica.

1470 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 358,000.00
2

BREVIARY, Premonstratensian use, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.

1290 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 314,000.00
16 ARISTOTELES (384-322 B.C.). - ARISTOTELES (pseudo-).

Ethica ad Nicomachum. - Politica. - Oeconomica.

1469 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 292,000.00
4 GREGORY I (ca. 540-604, Pope 590-604, Saint).

Moralia in Job, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM AND PAPER

1397 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 248,000.00
56 HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas (1423-1511).

Opera, in Greek.

6061 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 226,000.00
21 BARTOLOMMEO DALLI SONETTI.

Isolario.

1485 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 215,000.00
172 PFINTZING, Melchior (1481-1535).

[Theuerdank]. Die geuerlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen und hochberumbten helds und Ritters herr Tewrdannckhs.

1517 USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 215,000.00
63 ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (ca. 560-636).

Etymologiae.

1472 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 204,000.00
24 BESSARION (1395-1472, Cardinal).

Adversus calumniatorem Platonis.

1469 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 182,000.00
145 DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784) and Jean le Rond d'ALEMBERT (1717-1783), editors.

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de lettres. [I-VII]

1751 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 138,000.00
18 AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430, Saint).

Epistolae.

1471 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 116,000.00
101 Edited by Justinus Decadius (b. ca. 1472).

PSALTER, Septuagint version -- Psalterion, in Greek.

1496 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 116,000.00
3 CICERO (pseudo-).

Rhetorica ad Herennium, in Latin. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM.

1380 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 105,000.00
11 ALLIACO, Petrus de (1350-1420).

Imago mundi. -Epilogus mappae mundi. -De legibus et sectis contra superstitiosos astronomos. -Exhortatio super kalendarii correctione. -De vero cycle lunari. ...

1480 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 105,000.00
98 PLATEA, Franciscus de (d. 1460).

Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum.

1475 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 105,000.00
107 RODERICUS ZAMORENSIS (1404-1470).

Speculum vitae humanae.

1472 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 99,500.00
81 MATTHAEUS DE CRACOVIA (ca. 1345-1410).

Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu communionis.

1460 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 94,000.00
100 Edited by Augustinus Patritius Piccolomini (ca. 1435-1496) and Johannes Burchardus (1420-1506).

PONTIFICALE ROMANUM.

1485 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 88,125.00
114 SCHEDEL, Hartmann (1440-1514).

Liber chronicarum.

1493 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 82,250.00
171 MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552).

Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI.

1550 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 82,250.00
119

Speculum animae peccatricis.

1494 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 76,375.00
152 GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794).

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume the First [-Sixth].

1776 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 76,375.00
29 BONAVENTURA (pseudo-).

Meditationes vitae Christi.

USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 70,500.00
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