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Auction Info

Auction Name
Old and Rare Books (pre-1700)
Auction Date
02/24/2026 - 02/24/2026
Sale Number
#22426
Total Lots
118
Sold Lots
80.0
Lots Sold
67.80%
Unsold Lots
38
Total Sales (EUR)
70,658.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
92,990.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
168,520.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
159,210.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
282,070.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
25.05%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100816770 Antonino da Firenze

[Early Incunable] Confessionale ... Trattato dell'Excommunicatione

 1472 EUR 8,500.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 5,615.68
100810160 Finely Illuminated Book of Hours - Incunable

Painted on parchment

 1498 EUR 5,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 4,414.50
101437503 Flavio Giuseppe

[Early Incunable] Antiquitate Judaica

 1481 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,414.50
100759328 Ovidio

[Incunable] - Metamorphoseos

 1480 EUR 4,400.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,360.00
100757254 Danthe

Comedia

 1536 EUR 3,800.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 4,033.00
100809542 Grisone / Fayser / Fugger

Kunstlicher Bericht / Hippiatria / Gestuterey, das ist von der Zucht und Haltung der Pferde

 1576/1584 EUR 6,600.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 3,488.00
100757742 Ruxner

Thurniers inn Teutscher Nation

 1532 EUR 2,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 2,452.50
101085980 Arnaldo de Vilanova

[Post Incunable] Herbolario Volgare

 1522 EUR 1,700.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 2,180.00
100813923 Salvadori

La Flora

 1628 EUR 2,500.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 2,180.00
100807645 Seneca

[Incunable] Tragoediae

 1498 EUR 1,600.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,016.50
101240334 Bigne

Sacrae Bibliothecae Sanctorum Patrum

 1589 EUR 3,300.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 1,962.00
100702592 Gregorio Magno

[Incunable] Moralia

 1496 EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,744.00
100816154 Valturio

[Post Incunable] De Re Militari

 1532 EUR 2,100.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,744.00
100821479 Vitruvio

De Architectura

 1586 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,417.00
100694573 Galeno

Second Livre de Galien

 1558 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,308.00
100696753 Cicerone

[Post Incunable] Verrinae

 1515 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,203.36
100808826 Niccolo Mutoni

Luminare Maggiore ... Tesoro di Speziale

 1559 EUR 1,700.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,199.00
100697363 Le Clerc

Architecture

 1724 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,108.53
100692889 Oribasio / Manuzio

Synopseos ad Eustathium

 1554 EUR 1,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,068.20
100759522 Palmieri

Battaglie

 1760 EUR 600.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,046.40
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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.