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Sothebys: Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII

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Auction Name	Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII	Total Sales (EUR)	3,762,883.00
Auction Date	December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	2,460,180.00
Sale Number	#pf2525	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	3,579,970.00
Total Lots	339
Sold Lots	261.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	3,073,180.00
% of Lots Sold	76.99%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	4,479,470.00
Unsold Lots	78	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	84.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
90	COLONNA, FRANCESCO	Hypnerotomachie, ou Discours du songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme Amour le combat a l'occasion de Polia	20 August 1546	EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	EUR 254,000.00
124	EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS	Eusebiou tou Pamphilou Euangelikes proparaskeues bib. pente kai deka	1544	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 254,000.00
221	PARADIS, PAUL CANOSSA, CALLED	Ce livre contient ung petit traicte de Alkimie tourne de langue hebraique en langue francoyse	[1540]	EUR 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	EUR 254,000.00
172	JANDUN, JEAN DE	Perspicacissimi speculatoris ac summi paripathetici Iohannis de Ianduno Questiones in duodecim libros metaphysice ad intentionem Aristotelis et magni commentatoris Auerrois subtilissime disputate. Solertis artium doctoris Marciantonij Zimara annotationes	8 March 1505	EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	EUR 228,600.00
153	GOHORY, JACQUES	Hystoria Jasonis, Thessaliae principis, de Colchica velleris aurei expeditione, cum figuris aere excusis earumque expositione, versibus priscorum poetarum	1563	EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	EUR 177,800.00
46	BILLON, FRANCOIS DE	[Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur du Sexe Femenin, construit par Francoys de Billon Secretaire]	[1 April 1555]	EUR 120,000.00 - 180,000.00	EUR 152,400.00
109	DIOGENES CYNICUS (PSEUDO)	Diogenis Epistole Bruti Yppocratis medici	[1492]	EUR 100,000.00 - 150,000.00	EUR 114,300.00
145	GIOVIO, PAOLO	Pauli Iovii Novocomensis Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum	1549	EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	EUR 101,600.00
175	JUSTIN MARTYR, SAINT	Les euvres de sainct Justin Philosophe & Martyr, mises de Grec en langage Francois, par Ian De Maumont: Auec table des matieres les plus dignes	July 1559	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 101,600.00
306		THUCYDIDES. L'histoire de Thucydide Athenien, de la guerre qui fut entre les Peloponnesiens et Atheniens	1559	EUR 70,000.00 - 90,000.00	EUR 88,900.00
154	GOHORY, JACQUES AND LEONARD THIRY	Livre de la Conqueste de la Toison d'or, par le Prince Iason de Tessalie: faict par figures avec exposition d'icelles	1563	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 82,550.00
36	BEMBO, PIETRO	Epistolarum Leonis decimi pontificis maximi nomine scriptarum libri XVI	1540	EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	EUR 76,200.00
41	[edited by Justinus Decadyus]	[BIBLE] PSALTERIUM GRAECUM. Psaltirion	[not after 1 October 1498]	EUR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	EUR 76,200.00
170	HUTTICH, JOHANN	Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis	1534	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 76,200.00
38		BIBLE, GREEK. Panta ta kat'eksoxin kaloumena Biblia theias diladi graphis palaias te, kai neas	(February 1518)	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 69,850.00
11	ALCIATI, ANDREA	Viri clarissimi D. Andree Alciati Iurisconsultiss	(6 April 1531)	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 63,500.00
14	ALCIATI, ANDREA	Emblemes d'Alciat, de nouveau Translatez en Francois vers pour vers iouxte les Latins	1549	EUR 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	EUR 63,500.00
114	DU BELLAY, MARTIN	Les Memoires de Mess	1572 (28 November 1571)	EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	EUR 57,150.00
25	edited by Marcus Musurus	ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanous komodiai ennea	15 July 1498	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 53,340.00
10	ALCIATI, ANDREA	Viri clarissimi D. Andree Alciati Iurisconsultiss	(28 February) 1531	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 50,800.00
157	[GROTESQUES, LANDSCAPES AND OTHER PRINTS]	A composite album containing fifty French and Italian engravings from the mid-sixteenth century, connected with the School of Fontainebleau, assembled in Bavaria	ca 1600	EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	EUR 50,800.00
45		BIBLE-ITALIAN. La Biblia la quale in se contiene i sacrosanti libri del Vecchio & Nuouo Testamento, i quali ti apporto, christianissimo lettore, tradotti da la hebraica & greca uerita in lingua toscana, nuouamente corretta & con ogni diligentia stampata	1547	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 40,640.00
133	FULVIO, ANDREA	Illustrium imagines	(15 November 1517)	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 40,640.00
136	GALENUS, CLAUDIUS	De compositione pharmacorum localium, libri decem	1549	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 38,100.00
156	GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS	Orationes XXX (translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with contributions by Desiderius Erasmus and Johannes Straub)	1531	EUR 24,000.00 - 32,000.00	EUR 38,100.00

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.