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Auction Name: Bibioteca Brookeriana VIII
Auction Date: 12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number: #pf2525
Total Lots: 339
Sold Lots: 261.0
Lots Sold: 76.99%
Unsold Lots: 78

Total Sales (EUR): 3,762,880.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 2,460,180.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 3,579,970.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 3,073,180.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 4,479,470.00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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.