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| Auction Name | Antiquarian Books, Manuscripts Online | Total Sales (EUR) | 230,199.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | March 24, 2026 - March 24, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 120,500.00 |
| Sale Number | #IT6463 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 176,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 153 | ||
| Sold Lots | 81.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 353,080.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 52.94% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 517,720.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 72 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 44.46% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | [HOHBERG (Wolfgang H. von)] | Emblematische Psalmen-Lust -- Davidischer Lust-- und Blumengarten. |
[circa 1710]. | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 23,758.00 |
| 127 | REDOUTE (Pierre-Joseph) | Le Choix des plus belles fleurs [...] |
1827 [1833]. | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 16,333.00 |
| 20 | [BREVIAIRE].-- [SARTHE]. [LE MANS]. | Breviaire a l'usage du Mans. |
1450-1470 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 12,849.00 |
| 137 | ROSTAND (Edmond) | Cyrano de Bergerac. |
1898 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 12,206.00 |
| 112 | Matrice gravee sur cuivre pour les Erinyes de Leconte de Lisle. |
1908 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 9,930.00 | |
| 89 | [BUFFET].-- VILMORIN (Louise de) | Herbier. |
1966 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 9,636.00 |
| 45 | [LIVRE TISSE] | Livre de priere tisse d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siecle. |
1886 | EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,709.00 |
| 53 | ROSEL VON ROSENHOF (August Johann) | Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung. Erster [--vierter] Theil. |
1746-[1761] | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 7,424.00 |
| 98 | [DALI].-- MARY (Andre) | Tristan et Iseult. |
1970 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,424.00 |
| 95 | [DALI].-- DANTE (Dante Alighieri, dit) | La Divine Comedie. |
1959 -1963. | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 6,167.00 |
| 29 | SAINT LAURENT (Yves) | Dessins originaux siignes. |
1955 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 5,910.00 |
| 40 | [HEURES IMPRIMEES] | Heures a l'usage de Chartres |
1506 [almanach pour 1506-1520] | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 5,139.00 |
| 94 | [DALI].-- DANTE (Dante Alighieri, dit) | La Divine Comedie. |
1963 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 5,139.00 |
| 126 | [PICASSO].-- - VERNET (Andre) | Griffe de Picasso. |
s. d. [vers1964]. | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 4,882.00 |
| 30 | TZARA (Tristan) | Ensemble de 10 manuscrits autographes pre-Dada. |
1915 ?] | EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 4,634.00 |
| 37 | GRATIANUS | [Decretum]. |
1483 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 4,625.00 |
| 57 | VOUET (Simon) | Important recueil de planches gravees d'apres des tableaux de Simon Vouet. |
1632-1666 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,112.00 |
| 88 | [BUFFET].-- LAUTREAMONT | Les Chants de Maldoror. |
1952 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 4,112.00 |
| 18 | [HEURES] | Heures a l'usage de Rouen. |
XVe siecle (vers 1430-1450 ?) XXe siecle | EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,855.00 |
| 110 | [JORN].-- - DEBORD (Guy-Ernes) | Memoires. |
1959 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,598.00 |
| 118 | MEHEUT (Mathurin) | [Au pays des pardons]. |
1937 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,341.00 |
| 99 | [DALI].-- NERVAL (Gerard de) | Aurelia. |
[1972]. | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,084.00 |
| 107 | [GRAVURE SUR BOIS] | Ensemble de matrices gravees sur bois. |
XIXe s. | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 2,913.00 |
| 5 | DESCAVES (Lucien) | Important ensemble de manuscrits autographes, certains restes inedits. |
1877-1919 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,648.00 |
| 148 | TRACHSEL (Albert) | Le Poeme I. Les fetes reelles. |
1897 | EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,570.00 |
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Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 JulySotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000. -
June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works. -
Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000 -
June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000. -
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950