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New England Book Auctions: 15th-18th Century Printing, Science, & Americana Part 2

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Auction Name	15th-18th Century Printing, Science, & Americana Part 2	Total Sales (USD)	70,362.00
Auction Date	September 17, 2024 - September 17, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	59,005.00
Sale Number	#91724	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	89,345.00
Total Lots	206
Sold Lots	187.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	63,420.00
% of Lots Sold	90.78%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	95,905.00
Unsold Lots	19	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	73.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
78	Neff, Jacob	Manuscript hymnal on paper by Neff. 44 leaves of verse and music in German Kurrentschrift and Fraktur.	1804	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 5,100.00
23		Bible in English. The Holy Bible. Woodcuts. Black letter ruled in red.	1582-83	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 4,800.00
88	Vincent of Beauvais.	Opuscula...		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,300.00
141	Plato	Opera quae extant omnia. Greek and Latin text.	1578	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,280.00
123a	[Moraes Cabral, Francisco de; & Luis Hurtado]	Le Premier [second] livre du preux, vaillant et tres victorieux chevalier Palmerin d'Angleterre, filz du Roy dom Edoard.		USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,040.00
142	Plato	Omnia Opera...commentariis Procli in Timaeum & Politica. Greek text.	March 1534	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,040.00
24		Bible in Latin. Biblia.		USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,920.00
185	Vergilius Maro, Publius	Opera	1532; 1529	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,680.00
2	Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher	The Microcosm of London.	Circa 1830	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,560.00
31	Bude, Guillaume	Commentarii Linguae Graecae. Printer's device on title (Schreiber 10). 1109,	1548	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,200.00
90	Josephus, Flavius	Opera. Greek text. Title in red and black.	1544	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,140.00
39a	(Caxton, William)	An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Czxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an Historical Reminder of Fifteenth Century English by Benjamin P. Kurtz. Printed in reed and black Franciscan ty	1938	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,080.00
101	Legendre, Adrien-Marie	Nouvelles Methodes pour la Determination des Orbites des Cometes.	1805	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,080.00
129		Ely, W. W. Map of the New York Wilderness.	1869	USD 80.00 - 120.00	USD 1,080.00
52	Dante Alighieri	L'Amoroso Conuiuio. Title within woodcut border, device on final leaf verso.	1531	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,020.00
76	Harmony Society	Feurige Kohlen der aufsteigenden Liebesflammen im Lustspiel der Weisheit.	1826	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,020.00
109	Lucretius Carus, Titus	De Rerum Natura, Libri VI.	1570	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,020.00
144	Plutarch	Omnium quae exstant operum. Greek text with Latin translation by Hermann Cruser and Wilhelm Xylander in parallel columns	1624	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,020.00
100a		(Leaf Book). An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 960.00
174	Thucydides	De Bello Peoploponnesiaco Libri Octo. Greek text with Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla; edited by Henri Estienne.	1564	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 960.00
197	Xenophon	Quae extant opera...editio secunda.	1581	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 900.00
43	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	Opera Omnia quae exstant, a Dionysio Lambino...	, 1566	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 840.00
9		Americana. Early 19th-century manuscript ledger.	1830s-50s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 660.00
60		Engravings. Collection of over 400 ornamental and architectural engravings from various editions mounted to leaves.	vd	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 660.00
92	Josephus, Flavius	Historien und Bucher: Von alten Judischen Geschichten	1603)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 660.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.