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Auction Info

Auction Name
December Auction Day 3
Auction Date
12/13/2025 - 12/13/2025
Sale Number
#121325
Total Lots
450
Sold Lots
447.0
Lots Sold
99.33%
Unsold Lots
3
Total Sales (EUR)
827,931.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
524,690.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
674,560.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
530,990.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
682,960.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
121.23%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
945 CAUS, Salomon de

[Manuscript map - Europe] "Les Paiis Bas ou La Basse Alemainge

 En ceste annee 1624. 15eme mars EUR 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 156,000.00
967 Abraham Ortelius

Theatre de l'Univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde. Avec une brieve declaration d'icelles

 1598 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
1030 LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van

[World] Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert [...] naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, inhoudende een corte beschrijvinghe der selver Landen ende Zee-custen [...]

 [1596; 1595] EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 41,600.00
988 MERCATOR, Gerard; HONDIUS, Jodocus

[Atlas - World] Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura

 1619 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 33,800.00
1315 LA FONTAINE, Jean de

Fables choisies, mises en vers [...]

 1755 [- 1759] EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 26,000.00
1125

[Devotion - Book of hours] Illuminated book of hours, in Latin

 [c. 1500/1520] EUR 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 23,400.00
1339 Antonio Cavalli

Antonio Canova. L'invenzione della bellezza

 2009 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 19,500.00
984 SMALLEGANGE, Mattheus

[Netherlands - Zeeland] Nieuwe cronyk van Zeeland, eerste deel, vervattende de voor dezen uitgegeven cronyken van de heeren, Jacobus Eyndius, en Johan Reygersberg, veel vermeerdert ontrent deses landschaps oudheden en herkomsten, wateren en stroomen, eila

 1696 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 13,000.00
986 Joan Blaeu

Negende stuck der aerdrycks-beschryving, welck vervat Asia, en Sina in 't selve gelegen

 1664 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 12,740.00
963

[Atlas - Europe] Atlas assembled to order containing 92 maps of Europe

 17th-18th c EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
1042 GLEUNS, Willem Jr.; DEUTGEN, Hendrik

[Astronomy - Instrument] Mundomotorium

 1854 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
924 LA LANDE, Jerome de

[Globe - Celestial] Globe celeste ou toutes les etoiles observees jusqu'a present sont reduites a l'an[n]ee 1800

 1774 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
913 VAN LANGREN, Hendrik Floris. AITSINGER, Michael (after)

[Belgium] Leo Belgicus

 [1617] EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
970 Romeyn de Hooghe

Les Indes Orientales et Occidentales, et autres lieux; Representes en tres-belles Figures [...] par le Sr Romein de Hooge

 [c. 1700] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 10,660.00
1213 NIDER, Johannes

[Germany - Augsburg] Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi

 about 24 May 1475 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
1212 BERENGARIUS de LANDORA

[Germany - Augsburg] Lumen animae

 3 Sept. 1477 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
989 LEO AFRICANUS, Joannes

[Africa - America] Description de l'Afrique, tierce partie du monde [...]

 1556 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
1256 MERCURIALE, Girolamo

[Sports - Architecture] De arte gymnastica libri sex [...]

 1573 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
965 Covens and Mortier

[Atlas - Low Countries] Atlas assembled to order containing 60 maps, including "Atlas des Pays Bas"

 17th-18th c EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 7,540.00
1029 HAWKESWORTH, John ; COOK, James

[World] Complete collection of the 3 "Voyages" by James Cook (1728-1779)

 1773 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,540.00
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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.