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Auction Name: Science Books: rarità bibliografiche tra Geometria e Analisi
Auction Date: 02/18/2026 - 02/18/2026
Sale Number: #1035
Total Lots: 59
Sold Lots: 19.0
Lots Sold: 32.20%
Unsold Lots: 40

Total Sales (EUR): 5,337.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 3,150.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 5,720.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 6,850.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 12,730.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 41.92%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Aristotele / Tommaso d'Aquino	S. Thomae Aquinatis In octo Physicorum Aristotelis libros commentaria - In Libros Aristotelis De Coelo et Mundo Commentaria, 1551	1551	EUR 900.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,419.00
4	Cartesio, Renato	Una delle opere fondanti del pensiero moderno, non solo scientifico-geometrico Geometria, 1659	1659	EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 968.00
3	Pfautz, Christoph	Principi matematici della filosofia naturale di Isaac Newton Acta Eruditorum Anno M DC LXXXVIII, 1688	1688	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 903.00
2	Euclide	Euclidis elementorum libri XV, 1557	1557?	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 490.00
6	Keill, John	Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trigonometria. De viribus centralibus. De legibus attractionis, 1742	1742	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 194.00
21	Valerio, Paul	De la cryptographie. Essai sur les methodes de dechiffrement, 1893	1893-96.	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 142.00
11	Aristotele	Aristotelis opera omnia, 1791	1791-93.	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 129.00
39	Poudra, Noel Germinal	Oeuvres de Desargues, 1864	1864	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 129.00
8	Newton, Isacco	Raccolta di opuscoli sopra le opinioni filosofiche di Newton, 1746	1746	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 129.00
23	Maxwell, James Clerk	Traite d'electricite et de magnetisme, 1885	1885	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 129.00
53	Heath, Thomas Little	A History of Greek Mathematics, 1921	1921	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 120.00
56	Loria, Gino	Manuali Hoepli, 1914	1914, 1921	EUR 30.00 - 80.00	EUR 110.00
12	Canovai, Stanislao	Elementi di fisica matematica, 1788	1788	EUR 80.00 - 150.00	EUR 103.00
44	Santini, Giovanni	Elementi di astronomia, 1819	1819	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 90.00
33	De Morgan, Augustus	Elementary illustrations of the differential and integral calculus, 1899	1899	EUR 60.00 - 150.00	EUR 77.00
9	Priestley, Joseph	Experiences & observations sur differentes branches de la physique, et des Observations sur l'air, 1782	1782-83.	EUR 50.00 - 150.00	EUR 77.00
55	Matematica	L'opera "De corporibus regularibus" di Pietro Franceschi detto Della Francesca usurpata da fra Luca Pacioli, 1915	1915	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
46	Archimede	Les Oeuvres Completes d'Archimede. Traduits du grec en francais avec une introduccion et des notes par Paulo Ver Eeke, 1921	1921	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 39.00
38	Poisson, S.D.	Traite de Mecanique, 1833	1833	EUR 30.00 - 150.00	EUR 39.00
59	Keplero, Giovanni	Johannes Kepler in seinen Briefen, 1930	1930	EUR 30.00 - 90.00	Not Sold

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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.