Back
Giquello: Antiquarian and Modern Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Antiquarian and Modern Books | Total Sales (EUR) | 180,720.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | March 13, 2026 - March 13, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 105,200.00 |
| Sale Number | #174450 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 140,660.00 |
| Total Lots | 311 | ||
| Sold Lots | 209.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 173,800.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 67.20% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 233,120.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 102 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 77.52% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | MONTAIGNE | Essais |
1580 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 27,803.00 |
| 103 | MONTAIGNE | Les Essais |
1588 | EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,951.00 |
| 128 | GOURNAY (Marie Le Jars de) | MONTAIGNE. - Les Advis, ou les Presens de la Demoiselle de Gournay |
1641 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 6,319.00 |
| 145 | PASCAL (Blaise) | Les Provinciales |
1656-1657 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 5,055.00 |
| 164 | RICARD (Jean-Marie) | Instruction pour dresser les procedures des proces civils |
1684 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 5,055.00 |
| 307 | LACAN (Jacques) | De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalite |
1932 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,423.00 |
| 24 | BRETAGNE. Reformation de la noblesse du pays et duche de Bretagne des annees 1668, 1669, 1670 & 1671 |
n.d. [circa 1700] | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,925.00 | |
| 81 | [LECLERC (Nicolas-Gabriel)] | Letter to Monsieur du Pont |
n.d. [c. 1771] | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 2,780.00 |
| 82 | LEIBNIZ (Gottfried-Wilhelm) | Protogaea |
1749 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,780.00 |
| 198 | BEREZINE (Ilya Nikolaevitch) | Journey to Northern Persia [in Russian] |
1852 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,780.00 |
| 310 | MEXICO. - CODEX MAGLIABECCHIANO XIII |
1904 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 2,780.00 | |
| 244 | BAUDELAIRE (Charles) | Les Fleurs du mal |
1861 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 2,654.00 |
| 32 | HUNTING. - HIERACOSOPHION]. Rei accipitrariae scriptores nunc primum editi |
1612 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,528.00 | |
| 186 | ULLOA (Alfonso) | La Historia dell'Impresa di Tripoli di Barbaria |
1566 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 2,528.00 |
| 234 | ASTRUC (Zacharie) | The 14 stations of the Salon |
1859 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,528.00 |
| 159 | REAUMUR (Rene Antoine Ferchault de) | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes |
1734-1742 | EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,275.00 |
| 175 | SCUDERY (Mademoiselle de) | Les Femmes illustres ou les Harangues heroiques |
1655 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 2,022.00 |
| 255 | ECHENOZ (Jean) | Le Meridien de Greenwich |
1979 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 2,022.00 |
| 289 | SHERLOCK HOLMES. - STRAND MAGAZINE (The) |
1891-1904 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,022.00 | |
| 68 | HERE (Emmanuel) | Plans et elevations de la Place royale de Nancy & des autres Edifices qui l'environnent |
s.d. [1753] | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,769.00 |
| 1 | ACOSTA (Joseph d') | Histoire naturelle et moralle des indes, tant Orientalles qu'Occidentalles |
1606 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 1,643.00 |
| 98 | MOLIERE | OEuvres |
1734 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,517.00 |
| 252 | CUSTINE (Marquis Astolphe de) | Memoires et voyages ou Lettres ecrites a diverses epoques pendant des cours en Suisse, en Calabre, en Angleterre et en Ecosse |
1830 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,517.00 |
| 6 | BAILLY (Mgr Albert, Bishop of Aoste) | AOSTE. - Suite de quelque sermons [...] avec d'utiles instructions pour ceux de ses Ecclesiastiques qui commencent de prescher [...] |
1685 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,264.00 |
| 38 | COUSIN (Jean) | Livre de perspective |
1560 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,264.00 |
-
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 -
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. -
Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.” -
Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935 -
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.