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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date: 12/19/2025 - 12/19/2025
Sale Number: #121925
Total Lots: 66
Sold Lots: 28.0
Lots Sold: 42.42%
Unsold Lots: 38

Total Sales (EUR): 38,117.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 45,975.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 87,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 115,025.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 205,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 18.56%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
99707727	Ovidio/Cicerone	Metamorphoseos (bound with):// M.T.Ciceronis Opera	1506/1507	EUR 3,900.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 5,076.13
99593587	Ioannes Duns Scoto / Doctor Subtilis	Quotlibeta Doctoris Subtilis [Scoti Incunabolo, Incunable]	1490	EUR 6,500.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 4,889.74
99736065	Paracelsus	(OCCULT & ALCHEMY) Archidoxa (bound with)//:	1570	EUR 4,400.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 3,706.00
99799535	Nicolai Stenonis	Elementorum Myologiae Specimen [Prima edizione completa di 7 tavole]	1667	EUR 2,800.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 2,997.50
99797825	Merian/Jonston	[ERSTAUSGABE] Historiae Naturalis Avibus	1650	EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,180.00
99797818	Jonston/Merian	[ERSTAUSGABE] Historiae Naturalis de Insectis/Serpentibus	1650	EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 1,962.00
99672429	Tensini Francesco (1579-1638)	La fortificatione guardia difesa et espugnatione delle fortezze esperimentata in diverse guerre	1624	EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,744.00
99749936	I	ASTRONOMY MANUSCRIPT	1672	EUR 2,700.00 - 3,300.00	EUR 1,536.90
99805237	Ulisse Aldrovandi	[Zoology] De quadrupedibus solidipedibus volumen integrum	1648/1639	EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,417.00
99605465	Girolamo Savonarola	Fratris Hieronymi Savonarolae orationes expositiones in psalmos	1514	EUR 1,400.00 - 3,900.00	EUR 1,090.00
99604133	Autori vari	Leges longobardorum	1512	EUR 900.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 981.00
99644302	Schoder	Imaginum formis recens exhibita ... Aenea Virgilano [ERSTAUSGABE, 51 Plates]	1688	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 926.50
99729899	Nostradamus (Jaubert, Etienne)	OKKULTISMUS, Nostradamus. -- (Jaubert, Etienne). Eclaircissement des veritables Quatrains de Maistre	1656	EUR 650.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 915.60
99688916	S. Feyerabend	Reyssbuch dess heyligen Lands, Das ist Ein grundtliche beschreibung aller und jeder Meer ...	1609	EUR 1,100.00 - 2,800.00	EUR 872.00
99779005	Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus	Ecclesiasticae historiae libri decem & octo ... opera uero ac studio ... Ioannis Langi ..., e graeco in	1561	EUR 1,100.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 839.30
99778575	Plinius Secundus, C(aius, d. A.).	Historiae mvndi libri XXXVII. maiore, qvam hactenvs vnqvam	1553	EUR 1,100.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 779.35
99740043	Gregor Haloander	Codicis DN. Justiniani Sacratissimi Principis... Libri XII / Institutionum seu Elementorum Domini	1541	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 664.90
99709407	Leonard Schenk / Jacques Callot (1592 -- 1635)	16 etched copper engravings Leonard Schenk after Jacques Callot (1592 -- 1635)	1710/1746	EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 662.72
89416861	Pierfrancesco Giambullari	Del sito, forma, e misure dello Inferno di Dante	1544	EUR 550.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 654.00
99570417	Ariosto	Scolastica. Comedia [Editio Princeps]	1547	EUR 650.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 643.10

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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.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.